Great summary of what's happened. To date, at least...
This quote rang my bell:
"But MAGA Americans keep making excuses for Musk because that is the way that racism survives. It’s never the police overly abusing authority in Black and brown communities, it’s always “why didn’t the person comply with the unlawful order.”"
The whole revolting "Blue LIves Matter" reaction, for example. Black and blue flags hoisted by people who would be so-o-o indignant if you told them they were racists and would immediately start listing their 2 Black acquaintances as evidence that they were not racists, not them, no way.
It still makes me grind my teeth. And I am not Black.
Every agency that he has targeted has been one that has investigated or brought charges against his businesses or has some oversight of. Elon wants to do, what he wants to do, when he wants to do it ans however he wants to, regulations, guidelines, laws or protections be damned. MAGA wasn't worried about government corruption and waste until their right-wing talking heads told them to be. Much in the same fashion that they all turned into experts in virology and epidemiology during the pandemic, maritime engineers when the ship hit the bridge in Maryland, aviation engineers here recently with all the airline mishaps that have taken place since the inauguration. I hope they all get everything they voted for and support, just hate that the adults and sane people are getting caught up and will suffer as collateral damage.
I’ve been calling him Apartheid Bro. But I like yours better: Apartheid Clyde, yes! And even as your words brought a smile, the pain inside and all around from his sick actions is so massive.
I think Musk has something on Trump, not that we can do much about it.
I thought it was all silly conspiracy theory BS right after the election, but now that I've seen how Trump is behaving in the same submissive way he does with Putin, I'm really getting suspicious.
Keep saying what needs to be said. Racism and white supremacy enabled Trump, Musk, and is MAGA. We only need to look back 125 years to America’s Coup in Wilmington and New Bern, NC in 1898 and the rise of Jim Crow apartheid - which was the goal of the Coup. We are living with its aftermath today and we enter its 21st C incarnation.
Democrats screaming, crying, and whining the most about DOGE need to be investigated first because when all the crooks are mad, you know something is going right. https://tinyurl.com/tnvy436u
So, who's going to fight this fight with the most passion, strategy and determination this go-round? ('Cause if these fools think we're like our parents and grandparents, with all the grit and grace of those generations, they're even dumber than we thought.) What're the NAACP, SCLC, CORE, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Equal Justice Under Law and every other civil rights organization worth their membership fees doing? Have they no attorneys on staff to actively challenge MFers? And what TF are their leaders going to instruct US to do to actively resist this ish as it unfolds?
That buzz you're hearing, Stephen, is well-earned applause. Sheer excellence, bae. (Apartheid Clyde? Sold.)
These kinds of clear-eyed observances should be more the rule than the exception in today's political media. So, thanks for it. Appetites are whetted.
Great summary of what's happened. To date, at least...
This quote rang my bell:
"But MAGA Americans keep making excuses for Musk because that is the way that racism survives. It’s never the police overly abusing authority in Black and brown communities, it’s always “why didn’t the person comply with the unlawful order.”"
The whole revolting "Blue LIves Matter" reaction, for example. Black and blue flags hoisted by people who would be so-o-o indignant if you told them they were racists and would immediately start listing their 2 Black acquaintances as evidence that they were not racists, not them, no way.
It still makes me grind my teeth. And I am not Black.
Every agency that he has targeted has been one that has investigated or brought charges against his businesses or has some oversight of. Elon wants to do, what he wants to do, when he wants to do it ans however he wants to, regulations, guidelines, laws or protections be damned. MAGA wasn't worried about government corruption and waste until their right-wing talking heads told them to be. Much in the same fashion that they all turned into experts in virology and epidemiology during the pandemic, maritime engineers when the ship hit the bridge in Maryland, aviation engineers here recently with all the airline mishaps that have taken place since the inauguration. I hope they all get everything they voted for and support, just hate that the adults and sane people are getting caught up and will suffer as collateral damage.
I’ve been calling him Apartheid Bro. But I like yours better: Apartheid Clyde, yes! And even as your words brought a smile, the pain inside and all around from his sick actions is so massive.
I think Musk has something on Trump, not that we can do much about it.
I thought it was all silly conspiracy theory BS right after the election, but now that I've seen how Trump is behaving in the same submissive way he does with Putin, I'm really getting suspicious.
Keep saying what needs to be said. Racism and white supremacy enabled Trump, Musk, and is MAGA. We only need to look back 125 years to America’s Coup in Wilmington and New Bern, NC in 1898 and the rise of Jim Crow apartheid - which was the goal of the Coup. We are living with its aftermath today and we enter its 21st C incarnation.
Democrats screaming, crying, and whining the most about DOGE need to be investigated first because when all the crooks are mad, you know something is going right. https://tinyurl.com/tnvy436u
So, who's going to fight this fight with the most passion, strategy and determination this go-round? ('Cause if these fools think we're like our parents and grandparents, with all the grit and grace of those generations, they're even dumber than we thought.) What're the NAACP, SCLC, CORE, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Equal Justice Under Law and every other civil rights organization worth their membership fees doing? Have they no attorneys on staff to actively challenge MFers? And what TF are their leaders going to instruct US to do to actively resist this ish as it unfolds?
Genuinely curious: where did he say black people have low IQs? …closest to it I could find was this Yahoo news article https://www.yahoo.com/news/civil-rights-groups-horrified-elon-193230017.html : “Musk also claimed that a United Airlines program that allows students at three HBCUs to interview to become a pilot meant that the airline had "prioritized DEI hiring" over "safety," here was the tweet they linked to: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1745158868676546609