ELON MUSK

[Barney]

Later .... im busy making a sherry trifle which takes precedence over a president.

Link as requested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fbqy_OObXQ
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Thanks DM

You have bought back memories from a great influence on my life.
While I doubt Elon drinks Sherry, I'm sure he would love a sherry trifle.
My former mother-in-law prepared and served a great sherry trifle; her masterpiece was always on the table for very special occasions like my birthday etc.

She was of very strong British stock, serving in the WREN forces around the war, and at every chance always belittling the Welsh and also Catholics and the way they followed the labor party in Australia and of course her strict afternoon tradition of a Sherry tipple with a hint, just a hint, of soda, it was her compulsory afternoon action at 4pm, never before but always very close afterwards.
She trained her 3 daughters, one of which according to her was very lucky to marry myself, in the art of homemade sherry trifle.
If I could get the recipe, I'd be happy to pass it on, so you don't have to rely on youtube.
Your youtube sourced recipe most likely has less sherry than she would pour. No measuring cups required.
I'm certain she only made the trifles so she could make and excuse to walk up the shops to get new bottle of dry Sherry.
Miss my favorite Pom Audrey. Doubt she would allow any time for conversations about Elon.

[glalt]

US politicians are quite comfortable with business as usual and they will fight to keep their obscene profits. Musk had great ideas but he never considered that even the courts would turn against him. He is now convinced that eliminating wasteful spending steps on too many toes. Trump can only chip away little by little to control the corruption. Even some citizens fight to keep business as usual knowing that some of their benefits may be cut.

[Kenr6583]

Welcome to a Republic and not an absolute monarchy.

[tamada]

When the world's richest man and successful businessman critiques your performance as a self-proclaimed "successful businessman".

Musk brands Trump’s flagship bill ‘a disgusting abomination’

Tech billionaire says president’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will labour country with ‘crushingly unsustainable debt’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics ... tion-musk/

[AlexO]

Welcome to a Republic and not an absolute monarchy.

What's the difference in the USA under The Trump.
Please provide an example from any Western Democracy except the US under The Trump.

[anefarious1]

US politicians are quite comfortable with business as usual and they will fight to keep their obscene profits. Musk had great ideas but he never considered that even the courts would turn against him. He is now convinced that eliminating wasteful spending steps on too many toes. Trump can only chip away little by little to control the corruption. Even some citizens fight to keep business as usual knowing that some of their benefits may be cut.

Thinks the conman is chipping away at corruption. You are almost as entertaining as the cult leader himself!

G L A L T = Gullible, Led Astray, Ludicrously Trusting

[tamada]

Huge dummy spit in progress... stay tuned.

Kremlin orders popcorn.

[jackspratt]

Common sense - I use the phrase in relative terms in this case - and even more so, self-interest will prevail, and the 2 dirtbags will have kissed and made up (publicly at least) by the end of the weekend.

[Kenr6583]

Welcome to a Republic and not an absolute monarchy.

What's the difference in the USA under The Trump.
Please provide an example from any Western Democracy except the US under The Trump.

Well that would be pretty time consuming, so because this thread is about Musk, I will stick with what Trump/Musk/DOGE has done differently and try to keep it as brief as possible. And I can only go back as far as Reagan, because that is all I have first hand knowledge of.

Starting off, back in the 1990's the U.S. government implemented a RIF, just as the current administration has done. During the 90's, the government reduced the number of Federal workforce by over 370,000 employees. By the time that administration was done in 2001, it had reduced the workforce by over 420,000. Now it didn't have all the fanfare or drama as the current RIF, you know, it didn't have someone like Musk running around onstage with a chainsaw, it didn't have Trump/Musk/DOGE telling these fired employees how worthless they were, it was done methodically with respect and within the procedures and laws that are set forth. The only thing done within procedure and law by Trump/Musk/DOGE in this case was implementing the RIF through an executive order, but everything done after that has been one screw up after another, thus all the lawsuits.

Trump/Musk/DOGE has withheld large amounts of monies that were already earmarked by Congress. They cannot lawfully do that on their own, which they have found out. They found no fraud, they found no corruption, they only found monies that they considered to be waste. Only Congress can rescind those monies.

Trump/Musk/DOGE believe they can eliminate agencies that were created by Congress. They are wrong. See above paragraph.

These are just three (3) that stick out as different. Now, even if one agrees with what Trump/Musk/DOGE are doing, they still have to follow the Constitution and the laws set forth in doing it.

The U.S. is a Constitutional Federal Republic, and it is set up that there are three (3) branches of the government that share the power, all equal. Trump wants to rule, not govern, with impunity. and that has proven with his repeated threats and intimidation tactics towards GOP members in Congress that go against any of his policies or anything he does. He uses these same tactics on judges who rule against him, even those that were appointed by hime. Those are clear attributes of a wannabe monarch, a wannabe dictator.

When it's all said and done with I'm sure it will be up to the Supreme Court to decide all these issues. But the current POTUS had made it clear that he has no problem in defying a courts ruling, as he has already done a few times with no repercussions. So maybe he does hold all the power and will be able to do whatever he wants.

Now on to the second part on what you would like me to respond to. To be honest with you, I'm not quite sure what you are asking me to comment on as far as an example of any Western democracy. But even if I did understand that I probably still would not be able to respond because I don't have a clue on other Western countries governments inner workings or how they are supposed to function. I don't really follow other countries politics enough to understand on how they are supposed to function.