Saturday, February 22, 2025

This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It's the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

Posted by Corky at 01:31 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

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This is the way Block all government Tesla and SpaceX contracts

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-- Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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"Pushing legislative strategies to attack or block Musk's wealth isn't just healthy for our democracy, it also makes for smart politics."

It's a good read from The Intercept, and one way to fight back.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-20 11:13 AM

Unfortunately the Dems are absolutely spineless and will never do it.

#2 | Posted by qcp at 2025-02-20 11:34 AM

Unfortunately the Dems are absolutely spineless and will never do it.

Posted by qcp at 2025-02-20 11:34 AM | Reply

They are too beholden to their rich donors to be of ANY good. Sadly.

#3 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-02-20 11:37 AM

#2

Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone!

We have a few heroes in the bunch, but prolly not enough to use the Filibuster against Musk's contracts.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-20 11:38 AM

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#5 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-02-20 02:18 PM

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Hilarious.... the guy we are paying out 8 million dollars a day to in Gov contracts and loans, who is not an Auditor, is Auditing US.

And he's doing what VC Venture Capitalist companies do in the Silicon Valley all the time; going in and breaking ----, and worrying about the damage he causes later. If ever.

He could have been vetted by Trump's own freaking Killer Klown Kongress in a couple of days, but NOOOOO... he has to be made an unvetted Spec Assist to the Liar in Chief, and who does all his dirty werk while the actual appointed Agency Managers... GOV EMPLOYEES report to him

And dumbass Republicans keep repeating the same stupid Red Herring..."But we need reform!".

Probably so, but not like this, and not by this Oligarch.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-20 04:56 PM

Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It's the path to pushing Musk out of politics.

They should do it! Just get those astronauts home from the ISS first.

#7 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-02-22 04:04 PM

Then when it's empty, bring it home where it'll do the most good.....

#8 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-02-22 04:48 PM

The dems, especially those in the senate, like to claim that they're doing all that they can to stop Trump/Musk. They are putting on a show but that's all their actions amount to. So far, only one dem, Brian Schatz, has said that he will pull a Tuberville and hold up some of Trump's State Department nominees. Trump has recently decapitated the military leadership of the Pentagon and will have to nominate replacements. More democrat(s) need to step up and pull a Tuberville and prevent those nominations from moving forward.

#9 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-02-23 05:34 PM

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