A guy who makes sh*t cars wants less regulation. What?

[OddBeMe]

[Gold618]

Muskie! :D I knew this question was about him as soon as I saw it on the right of my screen. You're surprised that a snake-oil billionaire who creates cars that kill his customers wants even less regulation? He probably thinks that because Tesla drivers are being incinerated and dying they can't sue him (if they were just injured by his product that would be a problem).

[JesseP1nk]

Did you guys read the actual article or what Elon Musk actually said?

"Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies," Musk said, opens new tab in a post on social media platform X.

Left tries to push the narrative like Elon Musk wanna get rid of entire consumer protection agency so he could sell his bullshit cars. But what is happening is there are already regulations for that. Some of them are duplicating each other which takes money.

[OddBeMe]

And?

[JesseP1nk]

and what? You wanna pay extra money for same thing you already have?

[OddBeMe]

It's not duplicate. Since 2010ish credit cards had to post current and future apr's on statements. Dealerships had to line item hidden fees. And so on

[goaded]

"$21 billion+: Amount of monetary compensation, principal reductions, canceled debts, and other consumer relief resulting from CFPB enforcement ($19 billion) and supervisory ($1.7 billion) work."
www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/the-bureau/

[OddBeMe]

@goaded if anything... rename Treasury Secretary office Goldman Sachs Annex.

[jshm2]

To be fair, He and Trump want America to go back to the 1770's

Back when there were no protections for people, no institutions other than the Church, and barons could do what they liked.

[OddBeMe]

There is an interesting argument that the American revolution was against the best interest of ordinary colonists.

[Anonymous]

It's amazing how once Elon was the darling of Liberals and hailed as a genius for Tesla and space x but once he started talking about free speech and buying twitter all of a sudden he was racist, sexist etc. Not unsimilar to Trump, Gabbard and Kennedy

[OddBeMe]

It was. And he was even a liberal. He just wasn't a diehard maga.

[OddBeMe]

*wasn't a liberal

[Opinion Owner]

He stopped being a liberal when he advocate for free speech

[OddBeMe]

No. That makes zero sense. To you are all liberals the enemy?

[Opinion Owner]

Exactly. It makes zero sense

[OddBeMe]

People of your ilk get strangely bad at grammar when your logic is used up

[Opinion Owner]

People like you lack integrity. You lauded Musk, trump, gabbard and Kennedy up until they dared come out in favour of free speech

[OddBeMe]

Me? Nope. None of them were my heroes. Tho I have few. And I would go on to say liberals don't really have many people they all agree are good. Maybe Bernie, Liz Warren and AOC. But even then some contention

[Opinion Owner]

And if bernie started speaking for free speech? Or if AOC started asking why trump won and changed tac? Or if Liz Warren decided she was transracial?

[OddBeMe]

When did any of these people not call for free speech? Wtf are you talking about?

[Opinion Owner]

They want free speech censored

[NathanDavis]

if it works so well for Boeing and planes... then, why not?

[OddBeMe]

Yiure saying its not working in the Boeing case?

[NathanDavis]

I'm saying that Boeing regulates and audits themselves...

so they do give each other free passes all the time...

a whistleblower said, that they often "approve as ready to go" an entire fuselage with over 1000 defects... and still passes as "cleared" to become a plane... imagine that

[OddBeMe]

Sure... but they're mired in legal issues. Isn't that "working"

[exitseven]

It is hysterical that all of a sudden liberals hate Teslas. It seems like just the other day that they were the best.
The CFPB was really just a way to give General Petraeus's wife a nice 6 figure government job.

[OddBeMe]

It is, quite funny. We should love them. But they are shit and sos eleon

[msc545]

Of course, that's what he wants. He doesn't want to get in trouble for all the laws he's breaking presently.

[Anonymous]

modern liberals are only a step away from hating on Bernie Sanders too

that's how unhinged they've become so hating on former Democrats like Elon Musk, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump himself isn't a surprise

[seeyounexttuesday]

Bahahaha You chumps loved Elon until he started disagreeing with you.

[OddBeMe]

He never agreed with liberals. He just wasn't a maga asshole

[seeyounexttuesday]

When the smartest person on the planet thinks your political philosophy is shit, you might want to do some self reflection.

[OddBeMe]

Bahahaha

Let's just agree: smartest maga on the planet

[seeyounexttuesday]

How many companies do you run, again? How are they benefitting humanity?

[OddBeMe]

My company is paying 10x the taxes for sure

[seeyounexttuesday]

Lying on the internet isn’t a good look for you.

[OddBeMe]

You should do your own research rather than believing a tweet

[seeyounexttuesday]

you don’t pay 10x the taxes Elon does, dipshit.

[OddBeMe]

Since he pays none... might want to verify

[seeyounexttuesday]

He’s the single largest taxpayer in the US. You may want to do a bit of research. He paid 11 billion in income taxes in 2021.

[OddBeMe]

you're relying on his self reporting. Probably still think trumps a billionaire
www.propublica.org/.../the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

finance.yahoo.com/.../...five-years-154529907.html

[seeyounexttuesday]

Ah, so absolutely nothing about Elon in either of those articles. Just conjecture.

[OddBeMe]

So you'll believe a tweet but demand tax docs from those who disagree

[seeyounexttuesday]

Let’s try this again. Tesla is a company, Elon Musk is a person. They are two different things.

[OddBeMe]

You think that's separate but it's not shit for brains.

Elons house, groceries, cars, travel, vacations... are all financed as business expense. We got a real good look at how it works during the Theranos criminal trial. Try reading about it.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Prove it.

[NewWaves]

What qualifies his cars as ish to you?

[goaded]

They drive into motorcycles, pedestrians and walls.

[OddBeMe]

And constsnt maintenance requires shipping cars out

[dustybiker2]

@goaded In odd defense. As a rider of motorcycles I have actually been saved by more teslas from their drivers pulling into me without looking. It noticeably pulls them back into their lane. Until they aim for me and I'm personally pissed that's my stance. ... it also dives better than my brother in law. It's so much better when he uses the auto drive feature.

[OddBeMe]

@dustybiker2 i will say tesla drivers have to be able to afford them. So they prob motorcycle themselves. If that's a verb

[NewWaves]

😂 it's a verb now

[dustybiker2]

@OddBeMe A lot of people rent them to use as lyft/uber. Enterprise had package deals for a while.

[OddBeMe]

@dustybiker2 that's how I drove one. Enterprise. Wasn't impressed.

[dustybiker2]

Not many people were. The deal fell apart

[OddBeMe]

@dustybiker2 eleon shoulda stuck to perfecting his cars rather than shooting trash out into space

[dustybiker2]

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