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Aha! Trump uncovers corruption within DOGE itself!
Oh, that seems fine. Just removing a 15 year, 2+ Billion dollar contract Verizon just won in 2023, with a no-bid contract from the guy in the officially unofficial roll of gutting the US government.
Drain the swamp! /s
This is NOT at all Corruption and in fact the United States Of American has NO Corruption at all and is the CLEANEST country in the World.
Musk doesn't care anymore if he tanks Tesla, as long as he's getting government handouts.
Tesla’s shareholders might though.
Good. Then the shareholders can sue and make things more difficult for everyone involved.
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He doesn't need the shares to be sky high if he can get the board to give him his giant payout.
Tesla’s law firm drafts Delaware bill that could salvage Musk pay package
The proposed legislation, drafted by Richards, Layton & Finger, or RLF, would amend Delaware General Corporation Law, and if adopted, could pave the way for the reinstatement of Musk’s 2018 CEO pay package at Tesla, worth tens of billions of dollars in options.
Aaaannddd there it is… Certainly no conflicts of interest /s
The concept of a conflict of interest only matters if American voters care , and they don't.
Some might think this is corruption, but I assure you, this was the best offer we could find, because all the others got lost somehow?
Sounds like a real lack of efficiency
It's super efficient to lose the papers of all but one applicant. Really speeds up those decision times.
Nonono, Musk has already helped us with that. We are saving hundreds of dollars on wages, and only very few planes have crashed.
So
- replace wires with satellite
- which can fail or be slow
- just so musk can shut it off at a whim
This is gonna be great, you guys.
I came here to say this. This doesn't look like replacing the air controller work, it's about the comm network. And it's making it dependent on fucking micro satellites, holy dumb shovel buckets.
Yeah, it is in fact a terrible idea.
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I hope Verizon sues Musk, Starlink, and the DOGE into oblivion. Even if they don’t have a chance of winning, they should be able to make it more difficult to do anything. Airlines should sue too due to the preventable crashes that occurred recently. In fact, I hope every company affected by DOGE’s policies sues.
They might not be able to get a fair trial, but they could potentially bog the system down in red tape.
Give ‘em Hell!
Hoisted by their own petard, it seems. I'm with you. I hope they fight, but they also helped create this situation (like many corporations).
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/verizon-communications/summary?id=D000000079
I don’t doubt it at all, but as the passage goes, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Or as I like to say: baby steps.
Nah, the enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy, nothing more, nothing less.
But as a great man once said, "Let them fight."
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Im in my 30s and often wonder, has the world always been this infuriating? Were we going apeshit watching representatives openly steal our future in 2005? 1995?
Were dudes in 1955 Paris tearing their hair our how the president's third cousin is getting a contract to rebuild the entire railway system on the merit of fuck all?
Yep. Never flying again.
This is handing the button that controls your life over to elon... He had them strategically turn off Ukraine's internet at a critical moment to benefit putin... What do you think he's going to do when Jasmine Crockett's plane in on final approach to land back in her district after having the "fuck off, elon" press conference?
Oh, THERE it is. This is why Elump has allowed so many air traffic control issues recently. To set the stage for this bullshit.
Sorry, I’m kinda slow sometimes.
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Musk is a walking ethics violation.
I have no love for Verizon but using starlink is the definition of a conflict of interest. I mean so has everything else he's been doing but this one is especially egregious.
An overhaul from the man who sells “full self driving”. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
We call this a conflict of interest. Fuck Musk. Guess whose planes will never show up in flight logs so he, Trump, and all of Putin's other stooges can fly around and make deals with no bother.
If the US does not accurately report flights, then the only solution is to cut it off from all international air travel. Any planes that would leave the US air space should be immediately forced to land or turn around by military aircraft in whichever airspace they enter.
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Um, I'd like to choose whatever the fuck might be behind door number 3. Even if it's murder hornets. As long as they are the data transmission sort of murder hornets.
Creating problems to justify enriching themselves with private contracts... America, to the highest bidder
I would sure love to see the proof that "FAA assessment is single digit months to catastrophic failure, putting air traveler safety at serious risk." from a wholly independent authority.
A note written on a paper napkin won't do.
Totally no conflict of interest with Musk getting all these contracts while being in the current administration.
Time to start shorting US airline stocks
"This is your captain speaking. I'm afraid we're going to be a little bit delayed here because we've lost connection to the Starlink satellites that provide our communication. We'll be pushing back from the gate just as soon as the weather clears a bit."
“We’ll be cleared to land just as soon as our check clears.”
I think he's still salty over the ElonJet account that still posts the publicly available ADS-B flight plans for his plane on Bluesky and Mastodon.
I'd say it's a good thing we have antitrust laws, but we all know how much laws mean to the group of mobsters currently in control.
Man for a bunch of rich assholes the GoP sure likes to shoot themselves in the foot.
Hats off to the people that still care enough to document this corruption. Hopefully someday (while Musk is still alive) the general public will care enough as well, so that there will be consequences.
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I'm about to start demanding hazard pay from work when they need me to travel.
Of course 🙄
Today thousands of planes lost critical communications while in the US airspace after a SpaceX test flight exploded in low earth orbit. The explosion destroyed a significant portion of the Starlink satellite constellation, and international space tracking organizations are monitoring the situation closely. They are reporting a Kessler Syndrome cascade has not been ruled out.
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