Musk Is Cancelling Multi-Billion Verizon Contract and Giving it to... Himself

...trying to get xfinity to fix a downed line on my proprerty...

Shocking

And that is saying something. Rojo on a good day can give Khamis a run for his money in regards to irrationality in his posts.

Probably like Elon level retarded.

Musk has repeatedly denied or threatened to deny Ukraine access to parts of the Starlink network depending on his mood. Now he's threatening to cut them off again unless they let Trump take all their minerals. You really want to give this guy the power to shut down our entire air traffic control system on a whim?

Verizon is a blue-chip all-American company whose origins date back 150 years. They have a responsible CEO and a responsible board and a responsible government division that's been doing this a fair while and know what the government needs. That's what you want, not the mercurial guy who's going to move fast and break things and use unproven technology.

Besides, why would you use expensive, slow satellite communications that could be subject to interference when every single airport has high-speed wired broadband access? This system is going to be around for decades, will Starlink be around that long?

The muskie stinking guy's eloquent speech about how the USA's citizens are getting what they voted for tells it all. He's making millions more than the bottom 170 million people. Most of us will die before age 70!

Do not call him musk. Call him stinky.

This is very interesting! The so called socialist countries care more about free competition than the so called capitalistic country US.

In the so called socialist countries they want hard work to pay, and a government that doesn't control it all. In the US the government now rules it all

If it's such a "major safety hazard" and will only take "10 minutes," why not do it yourself?

Hi rojo

Correct me if i'm wrong, Republicans were against 20,000 IRS agents having all your personal information? Yes and well documented.

Republicans are now OK for 1 man (President Muck) to have all the personnel info of ~350million people? Yes, and well documented.

Sounds like a North Korea\Russia\ Iran ect type government USA is now.

There is zero chance that starlink won't be far better than Verizon for this.

He is probably right that this is the best course of action, but also there is a clear conflict of interest where the right thing is to recuse oneself from the decision making process not loudly proclaim that your company is better.

Also, I think Musk is less interested in money than some people think. Money just represents power to people like him. With twitter, he knew was a bad deal moneteraily, but the power he gained through controlling twitter was more valuable to him than the money it cost.

This isn't a power play, imo. Nobody will even remember or think about it 1 year from now. starlink is just better. Companies like verizon fail over and over and over again with stuff like this.

I don't completely disagree with that, but I think this is an objectively easy decision.

Can you please share some technical details about why you think that?

We all know Musk is completely owned by the Chinese. His largest Tesla factory is there and surprise! The actual factory is owned by China. China could shut down his factory with one phone call. He has to keep them happy. That's one of the reasons he shut down USAID. That one action did more to weaken American, and strengthen Chinese infuence around the world since Mao's heyday. Musk and Trump are not cutting waste, they are cutting programs they don't like ideologically, and acting on issues that will enrich them, personally. They are both great con men/salesmen and do an amazing job of convincing (some) people this is all being done for America. If you look at the tax cut they are both pushing for themselves, that will add $5 TRILLION to America's debt. They are both in government to help... Trump and Musk. I know, Musk was never elected to anything but Trump voted him in as America's first oligarch.

USAID is dumb and woke. $2 million for transgenderism in Guatemala? $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma? $3 million for "girl-centered climate action" in Brazil? $25k for "Vegan Local Climate Action Innovation" in Zambia? $3 million for gay Caribbean groups?

You complete misrepresent the point of those grants. Those comments are all right-wing cherry picking. The goal of USAID is of course to save thousands of lives - children who need food to survive; AIDS victims who need medicine, etc. But the main point is for the US to use "soft power" to gain influence and allies around the globe. Trump and Musk froze $500 million in food aid - bought from US farmers - to Africa. It is now rotting on the docks. You know who is moving it to replace it? China. And in return China will get more access to the people and governments of those countries. Those countries will look to China for investment in their mines, their factories, their ports, etc. Those countries will look to China as allies for new reciprocal trade deals. Those people's best and brightest will go to China for graduate school instead of the US. Google, and yes Tesla and Space X and thousands of other US companies were started by immigrants who came to America to study, and stayed. Now China will get the next Google. And finally this money supplements our influence WITHOUT spending money for troops or bombs or putting troops on the ground. You can make a legitmate arguement that USAID does more to exert US influence around the world than the US Military. We NEED that influence unless Trump and Musk want to further cede power to Russia and China and make the US a backwater country uninterested in the rest of the world.

Musk is the ultimate swamp monster.