Utopia Talk / Politics / Elon Musk vs Marco Rubio

Rugian Member	Sat Mar 08 07:18:56 Marco Rubio blew up at Elon Musk at a closed-door Cabinet meeting after the DOGE head accused the secretary of state of failing to slash his staff, according to a report. Musk, the world’s richest man, told the secretary of state, who was seated next to Donald Trump at the meeting on Thursday, that he had fired “nobody,” The New York Times reported. He sarcastically added that the one person Rubio had perhaps fired was an employee of Musk’s DOGE. Rubio, the Times reported, has been privately livid at Musk since he tore apart an agency supposedly under the secretary’s control: the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Musk has effectively eliminated in his bid to take a chainsaw to federal spending. The top foreign affairs official fired back that Musk was wrong. Rubio pointed to the more than 1,500 State Department staff who had taken the early retirement offer. Didn’t that count? he asked. Matching Musk’s own sarcasm, Rubio reportedly asked whether the DOGE head wanted to rehire those employees so that he could fire them again and take credit. Later in the fiery exchange, Musk remarked that Rubio was “good on TV,” the implication being that he wasn’t good at much else, according to the Times. The president watched the back-and-forth in silence, sitting back with his arms crossed. It dragged on for an uncomfortably long time. Finally, Trump stepped in to play peacemaker. He said that Rubio was doing “a great job.” Everyone needed to work together, he added. Before turning his attention to Rubio in the meeting, Musk, an unelected tech billionaire hand-picked by Trump, had taken shots at other top members of the president’s Cabinet. Musk and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy got into their own quarrel over how the latter was managing the Federal Aviation Administration, the Times reported. Duffy complained that DOGE’s youngsters were trying to fire air traffic controllers, which Musk responded was a “lie.” The tussle ended with Trump intervening to tell Duffy to hire “geniuses” from MIT as air traffic controllers. The Cabinet meeting laid bare the tensions among Trump’s inner circle. While the president’s team of officials largely approve of Musk’s goal to reduce federal government spending, some don’t appreciate his chaotic approach to doing so, according to the Times. After the meeting, Trump publicly announced his intention to rein Musk in. He wrote in a Truth Social post Thursday evening that the next phase of DOGE’s cuts would be made with a “scalpel” rather than a “hatchet.” He added that DOGE was, nevertheless, an “incredible success.” http://www...ious-cabinet-meeting-meltdown/
murder Member	Sat Mar 08 08:01:08 It was just a matter of time. All of Trump's cabinet picks thought they were going to get to run their own departments ... and then here comes Musk deciding budgets and staffing and policy.
murder Member	Sat Mar 08 08:02:18 "The tussle ended with Trump intervening to tell Duffy to hire “geniuses” from MIT as air traffic controllers." Trump is so fucking retarded that it can't be put into words. Yes, those geniuses from MIT are dying to be air traffic controllers. lol :o)
TheChildren Member	Sat Mar 08 08:16:58 broke country, son ya dunt got no luxury 2 run it as sees fit. da trustfund is dry
murder Member	Sat Mar 08 08:25:47 Not anymore. We're investing in crypto! :o)
tumbleweed the wanderer	Sat Mar 08 17:51:46 " ELON AND MARCO HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP. ANY STATEMENT OTHER THAN THAT IS FAKE NEWS!!! DJT " ~ the door guard who always lies
Dukhat Member	Sun Mar 09 00:44:17 Dementia Don watches but the only thing going on his 80-year old brain is his next taxpayer-funded golf trip
murder Member	Sun Mar 09 07:15:19 Nah, he's thinking "Stop talking about yourselves and get back to kissing my ass!"
williamthebastard Member	Sun Mar 09 08:32:38 "Carlos Slim cuts ties with Elon Musk’s Starlink, invests $22 billion in independent network Further escalating the fallout, Slim announced that his company would redirect its five-year investment—originally earmarked for Starlink—to rival firms based in China and Europe. This move not only represents a significant financial setback for Musk but also signals a shift in global commercial influence, with the United States losing a critical business foothold" Lol. Meanwhile France is readying Eutelsat to take over everything from Starlink in Europe.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Sun Mar 09 13:43:36 Ontario canceled a big Starlink contract too (over the nonsensical tariffs that nobody can explain)
williamthebastard Member	Sun Mar 09 13:47:04 Also, Tesla has dropped 50% or more in sales all over the West. Dropped in Asia too, more due to local production, but in the democracies of the world its directly linked to the active decoupling of democracies from the USA which the world sees as having become a full-on fascist state that isnt going to change any time soon or even after Trump is gone. All the democracies view the USA with at least as much distaste and distrust as Canadians now do.
williamthebastard Member	Sun Mar 09 13:48:42 Dropped 80% in Australia. Almost eradicated from the map there.
williamthebastard Member	Sun Mar 09 14:43:53 Beautiful, Elon continues to destroy his businesses because he thinks he's Iron Man "US billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday branded Poland’s foreign minister a “small man” after he claimed Warsaw would seek an alternative to Ukraine’s Starlink internet services if Musk’s firm proves to be “unreliable.” On X, Musk replied to Radoslaw Sikorski: "Be quiet, little man. You're paying a tiny fraction of the cost (for Starlink). And there are no substitutes.”
williamthebastard Member	Sun Mar 09 14:46:56 "Talks between Eutelsat and the EU are reportedly intensifying, and the Franco-British satellite operator could eventually replace the network of American communication terminals in Ukraine. Shares in Eutelsat soared 650% during the week ending March 7."
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