Donald Trump donor and multibillionaire Elon Musk gave an interview on Monday to Larry Kudlow of Fox Enterprise and promoted conspiracy theories, advocated chopping the social security web, and whined about being criticized.
Musk instructed Kudlow that “entitlement spending” (referring to very important applications like Social Safety and Medicare) wanted to be eradicated and used that as his springboard to advertise the racist “great replacement” conspiracy concept.
“That is the mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters,” Musk mentioned.
Racist teams have promoted this false notion for years and the thought has been used as motivation for a number of racist mass shootings over the past decade. The Southern Poverty Regulation Heart notes, “It depends on stoking fears that a non-white population, which the theory’s proponents characterize as ‘inferior,’ will displace a white majority.”
Musk has promoted dozens of racist concepts and memes on social media and since his buy of X, the location has turn out to be a hub of bigoted content material.
Musk’s name to “eliminate” applications like Social Safety promoted an instantaneous response.
“Musk said the quiet part out loud: he’s going after your Social Security and Medicare. Period,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) wrote on X.
The billionaire justified his opposition to security web applications with the false declare that they’re a major supply of fraud. However a latest report from the Social Safety inspector common revealed that from 2015 to 2022 that lower than 1% of funds despatched out by the company had been thought-about improper.
Musk additionally reiterated a lie that Trump utilized in his latest tackle to a joint session of Congress alleging that tens of millions of useless persons are receiving Social Safety funds.
At one level Musk appeared to be close to tears as he mentioned criticism he has acquired for his management of the Division of Authorities Effectivity, the group empowered by Trump to assault and lower funding to a number of authorities businesses. He mentioned he was operating his different companies like SpaceX and Tesla “with great difficulty” however “I’m just here trying to make government more efficient.”
Musk is getting public backlash as a result of he, Trump, and DOGE are firing lots of of federal staff, invading non-public information, and disrupting businesses offering very important lifesaving companies. Their actions have led to protests at Tesla dealerships and at congressional city halls as a result of Musk is an unaccountable bureaucrat empowered by huge marketing campaign donations.
He made a option to become involved in these points and that has penalties.
