“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” - James Baldwin
- Brave New World - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:38 am:
“From the South Africa-born trillionaire”
Yeah, that kind of explains why he loves it here so much. No where else is that going to happen.
- Jack in Chatham - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:57 am:
Last week a Twitter account was created to follow President Trump’s stock trades from public documents available quarterly. This account was Suspended the same day for not adhering to Twitter rules and standards. Twitter or X is not a Free Speech forum but something else. Elon Musk has a dozen children mostly from different women and travelled with anticipated excitement to Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean Island more than once that we know about. I am not sure most of our founding fathers would invite Elon Musk to their house for Dinner. I think they would shun him as a degenerate rather than showering his companies with tax credits, grants, loans and no bid contracts. I do enjoy watching videos of SpaceX rockets landing upright; very cool.
Some have suggested that he’s done more, individually, to reduce climate change than any human being. It wasn’t just making an electric vehicle, but building out charging stations across the nation.
Love does not ignore faults with the beloved. It asks the beloved to become better.
Musk’s idea of love is slavery to the powerful, with no reciprocation. It demands ‘tough love’/destruction against those it hates, but eternal forgiveness and no shaming of the faults flaunted.
I love the values upon which the United States of America was founded and those who seek to uphold them. I don’t love the people and political movements who have betrayed those values for the sake of power and money. Musk is benefitting financially from the betrayers and doesn’t possess or understand positive values.
- Demoralized - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:32 am:
These people confuse dislike of Donald Trump and the Republicans with hating America.
- Hmmmm - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:33 am:
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” - James Baldwin
- Brave New World - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:38 am:
“From the South Africa-born trillionaire”
Yeah, that kind of explains why he loves it here so much. No where else is that going to happen.
- Friendly Bob Adams - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:39 am:
The whole 250th celebration did not seem to inject these guys with a positive vibe.
- Paying Attention - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:41 am:
Yes, everyone knows Mark Twain was a traitor and beneath contempt…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/mark-twain-america-anniversary-critique/687718/
- Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:45 am:
Born into conflict gem mining, Elon Musk has yet to come within thirty percent of meeting one Tesla production goal.
If it wasn’t for the four billion plus NASA contracts, SpaceX couldn’t launch a bottle rocket.
He is everything wrong with the American dream.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:49 am:
Musk is simply reflecting the fact that a lot of immigrants feel a deep love for this country.
- Brave New World - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:57 am:
==He is everything wrong with the American dream.==
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/technology/spacex-ipo-employee-millionaires.html
- Jack in Chatham - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:57 am:
Last week a Twitter account was created to follow President Trump’s stock trades from public documents available quarterly. This account was Suspended the same day for not adhering to Twitter rules and standards. Twitter or X is not a Free Speech forum but something else. Elon Musk has a dozen children mostly from different women and travelled with anticipated excitement to Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean Island more than once that we know about. I am not sure most of our founding fathers would invite Elon Musk to their house for Dinner. I think they would shun him as a degenerate rather than showering his companies with tax credits, grants, loans and no bid contracts. I do enjoy watching videos of SpaceX rockets landing upright; very cool.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 10:57 am:
“If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.”
Dorothy Parker
- Downstate - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 11:03 am:
—He is everything wrong with the American dream.
Some have suggested that he’s done more, individually, to reduce climate change than any human being. It wasn’t just making an electric vehicle, but building out charging stations across the nation.
- BE - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 11:05 am:
Love does not ignore faults with the beloved. It asks the beloved to become better.
Musk’s idea of love is slavery to the powerful, with no reciprocation. It demands ‘tough love’/destruction against those it hates, but eternal forgiveness and no shaming of the faults flaunted.
- The Dude Abides - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 11:11 am:
=It demands ‘tough love’/destruction against those it hates, but eternal forgiveness and no shaming of the faults flaunted.=
I prefer “capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich”
- Flyin' Elvis'-Utah Chapter - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 11:17 am:
Brave New World-
There were a lot of “millionaires” employed by Enron.
- Norseman - Tuesday, Jul 7, 26 @ 11:20 am:
I love the values upon which the United States of America was founded and those who seek to uphold them. I don’t love the people and political movements who have betrayed those values for the sake of power and money. Musk is benefitting financially from the betrayers and doesn’t possess or understand positive values.