Elon Musk Says He And Trump Have Discussed Creating ‘Efficiency Commission’ To Deregulate But Warns: ‘The Matrix Will Fight Back’

“The matrix.” Dude, you are a billionaire. You hang out with billionaires, and the most powerful public officials in the world. You are the matrix. Fuck off with this gaslighting fake-populist bullshit.

When assholes like Musk and Friedman say garbage like this, they are advocating for taking away people’s power. People as collective wield power through government. They want to, instead, concentrate power in a small ruling elite class of oligarchs. It’s fundamentally un-democratic, and un-American.

I'm still baffled by how 'deregulation' isn't an extremely alarming word, not just in the current year or era, but overall.
\ Not to mention that in the current context only rich people want deregulation & it's clear why (to pollute more, hurt workers through wages and work conditions more, pay less taxes, and to be able to deal with competitors as they wish with monopoly being the actively pursued goal).

The chances of over-regulation hurting the people are really small.

Over- or under- regulation isn't the same as good or bad regulation. You can have good and bad regulations both in the sense of standards and methodology, as well as in the sense of bad implementation.

LOL, motherfucker still thinks he's Neo! 🤣

Deregulation? We hardly regulate our megacorps at all. That not good enough?

Sounds like something a terminally online incel would come up with.

I wonder how he squares the circle of the fact that The Matrix was written by two trans women.

This fucker would look at the DMV and fire 90% of the staff to improve efficiency. Also it's now called DMX.

"We deregulated. The economy went down. The Matrix meddled, yet again!"

You can't win with these idiots. They could put their dick in a blender and still blame a feminist activist they'd never met.

I've been saying for a while that the giant covid bailouts for businesses are exactly what will happen if trump is re-elected. He's so afraid of not being able to say "best economy ever" he'll drive up inflation to make failing megacorps slightly more profitable to shareholders insatiable greed.

If you think house prices are unaffordable now, consider how much extra money rich people will throw around after another round of tax cuts for themselves.

Conservative policies in any dimension of society are hostile to great swaths of the population affected by them.

The only reason people support conservatives is because of culture war bullshit, which is used to brainwash them by constantly making them afraid of each other.

No one sensible should be voting conservative under a late-stage capitalism scenario, which is where we are

When he says 'the matrix', he means 'the interests of the average worker'.

Remember, this is the same guy trying to sue to the National Labor Relations Board out of existence, because things like workplace safety and overtime pay and not having racist workplaces are inefficient.

Also... fucking what, he talked with Trump about how to reduce the national debt?

Ok 1, thats almost certainly just going to translate into auesterity, ie, dovetailing with Project 2025 to gut a whole bunch of government agencies...

2... Trump has expanded the national debt more than any other President in history, and is so astoundingly economically incompetent he wants to remove all (?) taxes and replace this with a 20% across the board import tariff, which would basically detonate the economy.

Sigh, an efficiency commission sounds like a way to to form a group of loyalists who has the power to arbitrarily decide on policy for any government agency based on a loose definition of "efficiency".

A group like that could simply decide that a private company is allways more efficient than a government agency, or that a deregulated market is more efficient than a regulated market.

The goal of "efficiency" is increadibly vauge, while sounding positive.

That these cretins are still clinging to their fucking Matrix / red pill metaphor like a decade after the Wachowskis came out as trans should tell you everything you need to know about how much internal sense any of their ideas make.

Because if there's one thing Elon is really good at, it's being efficient.

Look how efficient he is at sitting around tweeting stupid shit all day.

Ugh, this guy…

@jeffw They’re both dangerously 🦇💩 crazy

Look at this MF, he was weird before Vance made it even more uncomfortable

Ohhh the matrix...shut the fuck up, edgelord.

The matrix is a trans allegory, keep that shit out of your mouth.

Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou.

Sounds like Elon took a little too much ketamine today.

This won't actually happen, and if it did, I wouldn't trust either of these weird, hateful, incompetent grifter fucks to execute it.

Walking brainrot.

I don’t understand the power of trump over this guy. Isn’t he richer than trump? Didn’t trump posted a derogatory tweet about him saying something like “he’ll kneel if I’ve asked”

Also lol at MaTRiX

“I wish you could go into Washington for a week and be the head of the committee for making government smaller,” Fridman said.

Ah a small government guy, I see.

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