Elon Musk Suggests Getting Rid Of All Regulations In Midnight Call
Source: HuffPost
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The public call was hosted on his website X, formerly Twitter, and included two senators and the Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy.
Regulations, basically, should be default gone, Musk said. Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.
These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So weve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done, Musk said, adding later: If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, its not freedom. Weve got to restore freedom.
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Musk replied, If its not possible now, itll never be possible. This is our shot. This is the best hand of cards were ever going to have. And if we dont take advantage of this best hand of cards, its never going to happen, so were going to do it.
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sinkingfeeling
(53,894 posts)Docreed2003
(18,036 posts)Without pesky interference from government regulations meant to protect the freedoms, lives, and livelihoods of average people.
This dude is drunk off his own wealth and farts and he's been given unfettered access to the reigns of government.
highplainsdem
(53,684 posts)DENVERPOPS
(10,659 posts)............."and get the government off the backs of"............CORPORATIONS, POLITICIANS, AND OLIGARCHS......and give them free reign to completely and legally fuck over the common man..
bronxiteforever
(9,845 posts)The worlds richest man wants all of your lives and money.
Harker
(15,474 posts)I'd like it much better if the laws and regulations meant to prevent the utter destruction of the government by Trumpsky, his remoras, and the republicans were enforced.
yellow dahlia
(1,108 posts)Harker
(15,474 posts)only because they take the protections for granted, and they never thought it through.
I expect a lot of squealing will be heard as it dawns on them that Trumpsky wasn't kidding when he told them, "I don't care about you - I just want your vote."
durablend
(8,184 posts)Harker
(15,474 posts)GB_RN
(3,296 posts)Unfortunately, (In)Justices Clarence Uncle Slappy Thomas, Scammy Alito, Goresuck, The Handmaiden, Brett Beerbong Boy Kavanaugh and John fuckin Roberts decided to turn Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent into Louis LEtat, cest moi the XIV.
Harker
(15,474 posts)I'm writing a letter to my Senator suggesting ripping up the train tracks would be a better approach than lying down upon them.
Give me a Labiche every time.
James48
(4,692 posts)And airline flights.
Yeh, Id like to see how zero regs works out that way in aviation.
Turbineguy
(38,703 posts)If you kill all your customers they will buy from you again and again.
IronLionZion
(47,402 posts)since regulations are clearly ruining the lives of people who like to violate regulations for profit.
durablend
(8,184 posts)StarryNite
(11,206 posts)IronLionZion
(47,402 posts)nature-lover
(1,747 posts)Ponietz
(3,393 posts)
BlueKota
(3,816 posts)wouldn't Congress have to approve deregulation? Of course President Muskrat has been allowed to do whatever he wants so far. So I guess the old rules don't apply anymore.
Klarkashton
(2,813 posts)All the good stuff.
GB_RN
(3,296 posts)After all, they got rich with gem mines in South Africa during Apartheid. No way they paid decent (non-slave) wages or kept any toxic mine tailings where they wouldnt pollute everything around them.
BootinUp
(49,292 posts)Hitorque
(254 posts)And he probably really does believe he's the smartest man on the planet...
Hekate
(95,999 posts)Irish_Dem
(63,199 posts)It is about what the billionaires and politicians want.
Javaman
(63,315 posts)this is the end goal of the asshole billionaires
Aristus
(68,996 posts)and children in the factories, losing fingers and toes.
All of those things are acceptable to billionaires who want tax cuts.
GB_RN
(3,296 posts)Yeah. Apparently no one requires reading Upton Sinclairs The Jungle anymore. Should be a mandatory reading assignment in order to pass American History in high school as it was for me. Made me a huge fan of the FDA and the USDA.
But yeah, them meat spectors is keepin Tyson and Smithfield from makin all thuh profits theys entitled tuh. All them profits theys gonna share with their wurkers. (Gotta say it with a bad, bad southern accent)
Aristus
(68,996 posts)meat packing plants faced. But his attention to detail led to the stomach-turning revelation that America's sausages contained whatever meats they were supposed to, plus rats and rat-parts, insects, insecticide, and whatever got swept up off the factory floor. That led to public outcry and the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Sinclair remarked "I aimed for American's heart, and got it in the stomach, instead."
sakabatou
(43,867 posts)GB_RN
(3,296 posts)Great way to stay in business.
I have yet to understand why Teslas board hasnt done something to sideline him. Teslas sales declines can be traced right back to Eloon.
Justice matters.
(7,808 posts)And Putin's also, since decades actually.
To think the f**king moronic extortionist in chief gave him the keys to all the citizens personal data and, why not, classified documents up to the nuclear codes themselves after just two weeks... injecting bleach was nothing compared to this absolute abomination.
mpcamb
(3,026 posts)Regulations are for protection for the rest of us from way-too-rich people who think only about themselves.
elleng
(137,903 posts)Government agencies create/draft/propose regulations EVERY DAY, for the myriad tasks they undertake, and thereafter, regulations are accepted and published, in the Federal Register, or declined.
'The Federal Register (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices.[1] It is published every weekday, except on federal holidays. The final rules promulgated by a federal agency and published in the Federal Register are ultimately reorganized by topic or subject matter and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which is updated quarterly.[2]
The Federal Register is compiled by the Office of the Federal Register (within the National Archives and Records Administration) and is printed by the Government Publishing Office. There are no copyright restrictions on the Federal Register; as a work of the U.S. government, it is in the public domain.[3]'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Register
ReRe
(11,132 posts)You definitely are in the running for "Best Teacher". I love learning, and you teach me almost daily! Now, back to the subject at hand.
elleng
(137,903 posts)Seems pretty clear that musk really doesn't understand how the U.S. government works.
Now on to 'important' things!
chowder66
(10,093 posts)MLWR
(88 posts)Evolve Dammit
(19,787 posts)Blues Heron
(6,322 posts)bucolic_frolic
(48,429 posts)Pollution will continue until it invades areas where the GOP reside.
Baitball Blogger
(49,059 posts)Mark my words. Sanity will return to America and Musk will spend time in jail. Maybe not an American jail, but a jail, just the same.
eppur_se_muova
(38,201 posts)Subject X, Tesla, SpaceX, and StarLink to massive DOS attacks -- but make it all perfectly legal.
mwooldri
(10,504 posts)then ill consider getting a private army then.
whats going to stop me?
Ilsa
(62,451 posts)feeding Elon sundried mayonnaise and pork chops tartare.
Midnight Writer
(23,394 posts)Last edited Tue Feb 4, 2025, 09:48 AM - Edit history (1)
of regulations? That if not for the regulation of cell phone airwaves the system would not work at all?
How about his Starlink signals? It is federal regulations that keep other users from impinging on his unique signal.
This guy is delusional. He's simultaneously on an acid trip and a power trip, and he has 400 billion plus to fulfil his delusions.
I saw this situation compared to being tied to a chair in a locked room full of toddlers with loaded pistols. It fits.
slightlv
(4,704 posts)But if he wants to do it, give me my marijuana in Kansas RIGHT FREAKING NOW!!!!
And all tax exemptions on churches are GONE NOW!
Rocknation
(44,894 posts)equals facism -- or hasn't he noticed?
Rocknation
Hitorque
(254 posts)YoshidaYui
(43,146 posts)THE US TREASURY?? ,.. SURE AND SELL OFF THE ORIGINAL US CONSTITUTION too while you are at it, no one will notice,. if its gone
jmowreader
(51,804 posts)He makes a lot of very heavily regulated things - rockets, cars, communication equipment... Life would be a whole lot cheaper for him if he could make cars with no front impact protection, could launch rockets without filing temporary flight restrictions along their line of travel, or build communication receivers that didn't have to adhere to regulations about spurious emanation.
YoshidaYui
(43,146 posts)of this century ...
jmowreader
(51,804 posts)Kablooie
(18,828 posts)Then start putting things back in.
He did it with Space X. He did it with Tesla.
For his tech companies it worked because it wasn't playing with people's lives, just a piece of machinery.
This time, for it to break will mean people will get hurt.
pfitz59
(11,251 posts)if they live downwind or downstream of a polluter. Not the company's." Just move. Oh, can't move? SOL.
GreenWave
(10,004 posts)NotHardly
(1,570 posts)stillcool
(33,133 posts)how big is the pot, and how much to ante?
Karasu
(508 posts)Aussie105
(6,668 posts)that says that if you see a face that really, really requires a serious punch, you shouldn't do it?
Or the one that says you can't assassinate someone, even if it is for the collective good of humanity?
LudwigPastorius
(11,530 posts)woven
(7 posts)Is he supplying to his coterie of kiddie "engineers"?
tulipsandroses
(6,669 posts)catastrophe because of trump and Eloon.
Will this incompetent congress hold them accountable?
trump may be immune, but eloon is not.
They dragged HRC into the BS hearings, same for Hunter.
There will be blood spilled because of Eloon and the orange wannabe dictator. What all congress do when that happens?
SunSeeker
(54,475 posts)Regulations published in the Federal Register cannot be willy nilly erased. Any changes in regulations must go through a public hearing process. What Musk is proposing is blatantly illegal.
Karch
(7 posts)Who were they?
Wingus Dingus
(8,560 posts)This is plunging America into a third world hellhole--all so Nazi Muskrat and Trump the other billionaires running our lives now can sit back and laugh at the misfortunes that befall us stupid peasants while the top few get even richer.
DallasNE
(7,659 posts)So, how could a guy with so little common sense become the richest person in the world? So, go ahead and remove banking regulation - what do you suppose would happen? Another Great Depression is too late for reregulation.And all done with a series of Executive Orders. Where does the Constitution allow for this? Hint, it doesn't.
jmowreader
(51,804 posts)So, what you're saying Elon, is I should be able to use a really big microwave transmitter to jam your Starlink system? Maybe fly huge drones over Boca Chica on the days you decide to launch your self-exploding rockets?
Sober Retiree
(14 posts)Never mind the regulation around Amphetamine aspartate monohydrate A.K.A. Adderall. How does this guy get where he is? This piece of crap needs a good whippin. Where the democrats? Fund raising ? Were screwed what do we do? You call your congress people and their not available. Saw Trump clip on Jon Stewart looks like he's going to stroke out any minute now. Give him lots and lots of Adderall. I feel good Karma coming my way.
AKwannabe
(6,550 posts)The ilk of musk do.
For a reason.
1000s of reasons.
They wouldrape and pillage all the resources and maybe more. Maybe even the common person
Fuck them. Regulate THEM!
DetlefK
(16,546 posts)Should we also get rid of these?
Justice matters.
(7,808 posts)Skittles
(161,545 posts)they don't abide by them anyways
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(13,070 posts)When he screams, "You can't do this!" tell him he got rid of all FAA oversight of launches.
Bon voyage, motherfucker. Oh, and your truck sucks rotten eggs.
stage left
(3,038 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,810 posts)and see the number of deaths in airliner crashes balloon. Sure, we can trust Boeing to build safe airplanes without any regulations 🤦🏻
Ray Bruns
(4,921 posts)Thats a lie. Usually someone has died requiring a regulation to be made.
neohippie
(1,181 posts)or regulation... no food safety no drug testing or approvals. no seatbelts, airbags, no fuel standards, no controls on what chemicals we mix together, no gun regulations, no restrictions on materials that make explosives, no air traffic controls, no regulations on AI or even traffic signal impeding the freedom to travel, no license plates, drivers or pilot licenses. No more professional licenses for doctors or lawyers heck all of these laws restricting my freedoms either Burn it all down, no border control abortion regulations, no government at all if it impedes our freedoms. No banking regulations, no building or fire codes, pesky ordinances about building fires on our own property, using BBQ grills inside our houses, no regulations on or need for courts, no law enforcement at all, we can all be free to create our own manifest destinies no regulation of campaign finance, no election rules no pesky speed limits, no rules about having to have emission controls, air quality or pollution caps, safety controls, crosswalks or stop lights I mean none of this is necessary
Cheezoholic
(2,691 posts)milestogo
(19,111 posts)and shut the fuck up.
RussBLib
(9,783 posts)....or food safety, or clean water, or a billion other onerous things that just impede freedom?
https://russblib.blogspot.com/
Linda ladeewolf
(617 posts)On him and beat the shit out of him?
NickB79
(19,753 posts)Trust me, if we go fully unregulated, I'm going to try my damnedest to live off of what I can grow, catch, forage and hunt myself. You do NOT want to know what kind of corners will be cut if you give corporations the ability to ship food without quality and safety checks.