A righteous neighbor here in Abacoa (not everyone in Florida is Deplorable, especially here in Palm Beach County, though it is rare even for the Righteous to have a political/social justice bumper sticker), this afternoon:
I asked Grok to redo it to read “I bought this before Elon had four commas” rather than “I bought this before Elon went crazy”:
The updated sticker is perfect for adorning any Tesla, of course, but it also makes sense for those of us with non-Tesla cars. We can proudly proclaim that we didn’t help Elon get to his envy-stoking level of wealth.
How are others dealing with their grief? New York Times front page:
The Native American community:
Not sure who this guy is:
Some folks who probably didn’t work too hard to get IPO shares:
An old lady from Maskachusetts:
(What evidence does Ms. Markey have that Elon ever “traded stocks”?
Bernie:
A reasonable suggestion regarding Bernie:
Another candidate for a wellness check:
An envious California progressive at the peasant level of wealth for Palm Beach County (at least $30 million for Mx. Newsom and the female companion he/she/ze/they plucked from Harvey Weinstein’s hotel rooms):
(If California could confiscate 100% of Elon’s $1 trillion would that be sufficient to realize at least part of their high-speed rail dream?)
The grandson of Muhammad Kenyatta:
The pro-Hamas next U.S. Senator from the Islamic Republic of Michigan:
I find it fascinating that Elon is routinely called a freeloader, tax dodger, incompetent, thief, liar, criminal, and the list goes on.
Yet somehow, the anger is directed at one person who built multiple companies, while millions of able-bodied adults [1] have been freeloading on government assistance for decades, contributing nothing to society, and yet are not criticized.
Elon being a trillion, doesn’t come close to how much US spends on welfare, year over year [2].
[1] From AI: Approximately 52 million people (or 21% of the U.S. population) participate in major means-tested government assistance programs each month. Across all social safety net programs, including universal ones, nearly 100 million Americans (about one in three) rely on at least one government assistance program.
[2] From AI: The U.S. government spends approximately $1.2 trillion to $1.3 trillion annually on federal means-tested welfare programs. If state and local government contributions are included, total government anti-poverty spending reaches roughly $1.8 trillion per year.
Scary power – hungry Democrats want to kill engines of wealth creation, successful entrepreneurs. Someone can argue that people like Elon are the most selfless individuals, they work to benefit the world which does not like them instead spending time in seeking personal pleasure. Compare Elon to a former great painter Hunter Biden.
Pretty much the official bumper sticker of the democratic party. Regardless of how amerikans deal with it, eventually a system beyond a certain level of wealth concentration is doomed to fail. Elon & The Greenspun only made it because the dot com boom was so widely distributed by today’s standards. Ars digita & Zip2 wouldn’t have a chance in hell today.