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BumRushDaShow

(147,998 posts)
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 05:03 AM Nov 2024

Elon Musk Threatening 'Consequences' Sparks Backlash

Source: Newsweek

Published Nov 16, 2024 at 4:34 PM EST | Updated Nov 16, 2024 at 5:04 PM EST


Following this year's presidential election, billionaire Elon Musk has said there will be "consequences" for those who "pushed foreign interference hoaxes" in a post on his social media platform, which sparked backlash on Saturday. President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the founder of Tesla and SpaceX would lead what he called the "Department of Government Efficiency" or (DOGE), along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, to "dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies."

No such department exists and the president-elect didn't offer many details about how it would operate or how it would be staffed, if at all. Trump's statement said DOGE "will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget."

However, the appointment of Musk has raised concerns as the billionaire, who frequently posts his political opinions on X, formerly Twitter, which he bought in October 2022, has continued to speak on what he aims to do given his recent appointment. In a post on X, Musk who seemingly pointed towards concerns over foreign interference in the 2024 election, warned that there will be "consequences" for those who pushed "foreign interference hoaxes."

"There will be consequences for those who pushed foreign interference hoaxes. The Hammer of Justice is coming," he wrote on Saturday. Newsweek has reached out to Musk via X's email for comment. While Musk did not specify who he is referring to, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a stark warning about foreign interference in the U.S. elections a day before Election Day, singling out Russia and Iran as the biggest threats

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-threatening-consequences-sparks-backlash-1986950

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Elon Musk Threatening 'Consequences' Sparks Backlash (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 OP
Hey garland? Think. Again. Nov 2024 #1
Garland will take care of this. Orrex Nov 2024 #15
Yes, and he will do it sooooooo secretly that no one will ever know it was taken care of. Think. Again. Nov 2024 #28
Possibly a little to 'political' for Merrick the Meek. republianmushroom Nov 2024 #35
I already miss your countdown (up?) nt intrepidity Nov 2024 #49
It is still going on. republianmushroom Nov 2024 #50
It's going to be one hell of a long "enemies list" NotHardly Nov 2024 #56
While the economy go down..... Lovie777 Nov 2024 #2
there will nto be much popcorn DonCoquixote Nov 2024 #51
"The hammer of justice?" Musk and his people are high on their own supply. Walleye Nov 2024 #3
Agreed. Mr. Apartheid should not be at the head of our government. He was not elected by anyone. ratchiweenie Nov 2024 #5
He shouldnt be here BigMin28 Nov 2024 #7
Literally high on his own supply DBoon Nov 2024 #31
It's not a department. It's a bag on the side of the machine Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2024 #4
Good book! reACTIONary Nov 2024 #65
Okay.. jfz9580m Nov 2024 #6
Evidently, free speech is to be the first casualty of the Trump rule as a dictator. Lonestarblue Nov 2024 #8
But thank goodness the guns are safe! Nt Hope22 Nov 2024 #57
I would think this department would also include conflicts of interest as they pertain to government contracts... EarthFirst Nov 2024 #9
Shouldn't investigation of monopolies be high on the efficiency search ? Bigerhalf Nov 2024 #58
Jeebus... GB_RN Nov 2024 #10
Yes. We CAN and should deport him. travelingthrulife Nov 2024 #16
We should start with Melania Trump Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #19
That makes Barron an anchor baby jmbar2 Nov 2024 #26
Elon Musk DENVERPOPS Nov 2024 #30
Even if you ask nicely? rubbersole Nov 2024 #41
LOL DENVERPOPS Nov 2024 #42
".......Student Visa to come to school here, never went a day to school" Sounds like he did EX500rider Nov 2024 #60
Read down further in Wiki DENVERPOPS Nov 2024 #61
Yes & I was responding to post that said he never did a day of school in the US, sounds like he did a few years EX500rider Nov 2024 #62
Well, there was heavy inteference, both foreign and domestic. ananda Nov 2024 #11
Some folks are staying on X so they can #ResistTrump (trending hashtag) & express their anti-Trump & anti-Musk feelings. red dog 1 Nov 2024 #55
It's cute that he thinks he has power. nt Gore1FL Nov 2024 #12
You know what happens to Oligarchs serving Putin, Eloon? Eventually they fall out of windows of skyscrapers. NNadir Nov 2024 #13
It's actually DODGE as their hoping to dodge oversight from Congress. cstanleytech Nov 2024 #14
Muskrat has turned X into a tool of domestic terror, hasn't he? Do what I say, or else. Believe me, or else. Hekate Nov 2024 #17
Elon is a "moran" giddy with power azureblue Nov 2024 #18
I guess there is room for 2 on the Threat Podium. louis-t Nov 2024 #20
There should be consequences for people like Elon Musk, who aid the dissemination of misinformation and foreign Martin68 Nov 2024 #21
"Backlash?" Does that imply consequences? I rather doubt it. Martin68 Nov 2024 #22
People fleeing his businesses? BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #23
If it hasn't happened so far, I doubt it will now. Musk has been publicly espousing white supremacist and fascist ideas Martin68 Nov 2024 #24
Well this was posted recently BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #25
I doesn't think Musk even wants to have liberal members on X. The site is his personal amplifier which allows him to Martin68 Nov 2024 #36
There were other platforms out there BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #43
He's totally immature and unhinged, a dangerous mix for someone with so much power. Dave Bowman Nov 2024 #27
Mister Apartheid speaks. usonian Nov 2024 #29
Be careful Elon Joe_Gadway Nov 2024 #32
Elon is the second person who is above the law. republianmushroom Nov 2024 #37
Prove them wrong Joe_Gadway Nov 2024 #38
After watching our DOJ, our championing of justice and law, after the last 8 years republianmushroom Nov 2024 #40
We are not stopping now Joe_Gadway Nov 2024 #48
S. African Elon Musk is the very definition of foreign interference Bluetus Nov 2024 #33
Gonna be amusing when Peter Thiel wants Trump diposed so HE can be pretend POTUS via JD Vance Attilatheblond Nov 2024 #47
And let's be clear, Thiel cannot Constitutionally be president either Bluetus Nov 2024 #66
Let's be clear.... I figured everybody here on DU knew that and it went without saying. Attilatheblond Nov 2024 #67
Don't assume too much. Bluetus Nov 2024 #69
He wants to be called a russian asshat, not a russian asset. nt yaesu Nov 2024 #34
Hey Leon! tonekat Nov 2024 #39
F Elmo. CaptainTruth Nov 2024 #44
Every day, it becomes more clear why his kids hate him Attilatheblond Nov 2024 #45
Tell me ReRe Nov 2024 #54
Says someone who is one of the worst foreign influences ever. Sneederbunk Nov 2024 #46
Troubling, indeed... ultralite001 Nov 2024 #52
We need to start laughing at these clowns... BrianTheEVGuy Nov 2024 #53
He is the next threat to democracy, Vance second, Johnson third? Evolve Dammit Nov 2024 #59
Musk is sounding more and more unhinged every day dlk Nov 2024 #63
Hey Eloon Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2024 #64
How is it efficient to have 2 people leading the Government efficiency department? GinaMaria Nov 2024 #68

Think. Again.

(21,388 posts)
28. Yes, and he will do it sooooooo secretly that no one will ever know it was taken care of.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 11:17 AM
Nov 2024

Lovie777

(17,022 posts)
2. While the economy go down.....
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 05:43 AM
Nov 2024

The revenge tour circulates and USA must endure horrible times while the world with popcorn watches. Again we have become dumb and dumber with nuclear weapons.

Nostradamus re: end days equal to musk/vance.

DonCoquixote

(13,788 posts)
51. there will nto be much popcorn
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 03:21 PM
Nov 2024

especially as the fascists have already hatched their eggs into europe and asia

Walleye

(38,287 posts)
3. "The hammer of justice?" Musk and his people are high on their own supply.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 06:30 AM
Nov 2024

He himself is the proof that there has been foreign interference in our elections

ratchiweenie

(8,080 posts)
5. Agreed. Mr. Apartheid should not be at the head of our government. He was not elected by anyone.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 06:58 AM
Nov 2024

Bernardo de La Paz

(52,773 posts)
4. It's not a department. It's a bag on the side of the machine
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 06:42 AM
Nov 2024

-- a phrase I read in Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine"

EarthFirst

(3,475 posts)
9. I would think this department would also include conflicts of interest as they pertain to government contracts...
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 07:54 AM
Nov 2024

…and national security.

Efficiency in my mind would ensure that a contract vendor with the federal government would not require a secondary government agency to ensure that no national security conflicts exist.

Certainly the head of such department would agree; no?

SpaceX and StarLink come to mind…

Bigerhalf

(23 posts)
58. Shouldn't investigation of monopolies be high on the efficiency search ?
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 06:21 PM
Nov 2024

Doesn't fair competition result in better product and correct pricing?

Sometimes it needs to be forced as with Standard Oil.

GB_RN

(3,306 posts)
10. Jeebus...
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 08:12 AM
Nov 2024

The immigrant, who was here illegally, and calls himself a “free speech absolutist,” threatens people who exercised their rights to (fact-based) free speech.

Can we deport him, yet? (Rhetorical question)

Farmer-Rick

(11,667 posts)
19. We should start with Melania Trump
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 09:37 AM
Nov 2024

She's here under false pretenses.

Giving a Slovanian Sex Worker a genius visa is a scam, a con and a lie. Then she had an anchor baby while using chain migration to bring in her mother and father.

She's everything Trump hates in immigrants. But since she's willing to touch him, it's apparently ok. How disgusting do you have to be to be intimate with a stinking, diaper wearing, orange skinned, demented Nazi.

jmbar2

(6,648 posts)
26. That makes Barron an anchor baby
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 10:56 AM
Nov 2024

If they get rid of birthright citizenship, he should be high on the list.

DENVERPOPS

(11,056 posts)
30. Elon Musk
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 11:28 AM
Nov 2024

was also an illegal immigrant !!!!!!!!!! He got a Student Visa to come to school here, never went a day to school, and went to work instead.....

As far as Melania, there are whores on E. Colfax here in Denver that have more morals and principles than she does.....Unlike Melania, the whores have things they absolutely will NOT do for ANY amount of money....

EX500rider

(11,749 posts)
60. ".......Student Visa to come to school here, never went a day to school" Sounds like he did
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 06:39 PM
Nov 2024

"In 1990, he entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied until 1995."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Early_life_and_education

DENVERPOPS

(11,056 posts)
61. Read down further in Wiki
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 06:52 PM
Nov 2024

"The Washington Post reported that Musk lacked legal authorization to remain and work in the United States after failing to enroll at Stanford.[53] In response, Musk claimed he was allowed to work at that time and that his student visa transitioned to an H1-B. According to numerous former business associates and shareholders, Musk claimed he was on a student visa at the time.[55]"

EX500rider

(11,749 posts)
62. Yes & I was responding to post that said he never did a day of school in the US, sounds like he did a few years
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 07:15 PM
Nov 2024

ananda

(31,263 posts)
11. Well, there was heavy inteference, both foreign and domestic.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 08:15 AM
Nov 2024

Period

Why anyone but magats are still on X is beyond me.

red dog 1

(30,195 posts)
55. Some folks are staying on X so they can #ResistTrump (trending hashtag) & express their anti-Trump & anti-Musk feelings.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 04:23 PM
Nov 2024

NNadir

(35,211 posts)
13. You know what happens to Oligarchs serving Putin, Eloon? Eventually they fall out of windows of skyscrapers.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 08:39 AM
Nov 2024

Be sure not to slip while looking at the view.

Hekate

(96,415 posts)
17. Muskrat has turned X into a tool of domestic terror, hasn't he? Do what I say, or else. Believe me, or else.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 09:06 AM
Nov 2024

Christ on a trailer hitch.

azureblue

(2,357 posts)
18. Elon is a "moran" giddy with power
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 09:33 AM
Nov 2024

And it won't be long before he gets it in his head that he is "better" than Trump, and tries to steal some of Trump's glory..

louis-t

(24,005 posts)
20. I guess there is room for 2 on the Threat Podium.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 10:07 AM
Nov 2024

Non-elected, coattail-riding, silver spoon asshole now has the power to threaten Americans. Fuck him. Not sure he will stay until inaug day. He's rattling some cages.

Martin68

(25,040 posts)
21. There should be consequences for people like Elon Musk, who aid the dissemination of misinformation and foreign
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 10:13 AM
Nov 2024

interference in US elections to support his own fascist business agenda. He is protected by freedom of speech, but wants to remove that protection from those who criticize him and his allies.

Martin68

(25,040 posts)
24. If it hasn't happened so far, I doubt it will now. Musk has been publicly espousing white supremacist and fascist ideas
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 10:44 AM
Nov 2024

for some time now. However, if Trump eliminates tax credit for electric cars, that might change.

Martin68

(25,040 posts)
36. I doesn't think Musk even wants to have liberal members on X. The site is his personal amplifier which allows him to
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 12:45 PM
Nov 2024

communicate and influence the deplorables that share his warped ideals, including Trump. Those people are not leaving X. I don't think Musk views the p[latform as a financial investment. He sees it as an investment into his ability to influence others.

BumRushDaShow

(147,998 posts)
43. There were other platforms out there
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 01:41 PM
Nov 2024

that the hardcore loons and alt-right were on like Gab and Telegram. All he did was make sure that he could idiotically depopulate what was a mainstream social media service, used not just by the general public, but by most governmental entities as a rapid communications tool, and have it devolve into the same kind of low-life nonsense as those other services were already covering.

Joe_Gadway

(49 posts)
32. Be careful Elon
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 11:59 AM
Nov 2024

Elon should be careful not to break the law.
Not to violate the Constitution.
Not to ignore people's rights.
Not to harm America.
.
The bad guys are in charge right now.
Like in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
But the bad guys lost power in 1945.
.
And then there were severe consequences for those who had committed evil deeds.
.
Be careful Elon.
The bad guys will not be in charge forever!

republianmushroom

(18,827 posts)
40. After watching our DOJ, our championing of justice and law, after the last 8 years
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 01:15 PM
Nov 2024

proving them wrong is not going to happen. What it has proven to me is they are correct. They are above the law.

Joe_Gadway

(49 posts)
48. We are not stopping now
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 02:39 PM
Nov 2024

This seems too defeatist.
People have been fighting for freedom in the United States for 250 years.
The Revolution.
Abolition.
Freeing the slaves.
Freedom of Speech in WWI.
Women's rights.
The Civil Rights movement.
Gay rights.
On and on.
.
100,000 Japanese people were locked up in camps in WWII.
That must have seemed like the end of the world, but it was over in a couple of years.
And then freedom advanced again.
.
I don't see any reason for us to give up now!

Bluetus

(686 posts)
33. S. African Elon Musk is the very definition of foreign interference
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 12:29 PM
Nov 2024

Please remember that he cannot Constitutionally be elected President, so he aims to accomplish the same thing through his money and power.

Attilatheblond

(5,258 posts)
47. Gonna be amusing when Peter Thiel wants Trump diposed so HE can be pretend POTUS via JD Vance
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 02:30 PM
Nov 2024

and Elon wants HIS puppet, TCF, to stay so Elon can be the pretend POTUS.

If Trump dies, and he looks very capable of doing that, will Elon do the Weekend At Bernie's shtick via AI and no live Trump appearances? Elon doesn't seem all that bright.

Gonna be a Narcissist cage fight at some point.

I notice ol JD has been pretty quiet of late. Something's up in his vile lil mind.

Bluetus

(686 posts)
66. And let's be clear, Thiel cannot Constitutionally be president either
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 10:34 PM
Nov 2024

for the same reason Musk cannot -- not a natural-born US citizen. So they both are trying to be President vicariously through others -- Musk through Turmp and Thiel through Vance.

Attilatheblond

(5,258 posts)
67. Let's be clear.... I figured everybody here on DU knew that and it went without saying.
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 11:57 PM
Nov 2024

But, I reckon there might be some 'mansplain' opportunity.

Have a good week. Adios

BrianTheEVGuy

(607 posts)
53. We need to start laughing at these clowns...
Sun Nov 17, 2024, 03:38 PM
Nov 2024

…rather than fearing them.

Elon Musk is a drug-addled malignant narcissist. He is not capable of delivering any “consequences” to anyone, and his massive ego is too large to share space with Donald Trump’s own enormous ego.

Within 12 months, Elon and Trump will be raging at each other and promising “consequences” for each other.

Meanwhile, if you’re still on X or using X, stop complaining about the horrible climate. You’re choosing to stay there and give Musk advertising revenue and engagement. If everyone who dislikes Musk quit X, it would disappear.

GinaMaria

(6,240 posts)
68. How is it efficient to have 2 people leading the Government efficiency department?
Mon Nov 18, 2024, 01:00 AM
Nov 2024

Isn’t that the very definition of inefficiency?

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