Elon Musk has been going all-in to stump for former President Donald Trump.

He was in Pennsylvania this weekend doing a town hall in Harrisburg. He covered a lot of topics including one not touched upon enough: that there's too much focus on a college education as a path to success. //

I think the value of a college education is somewhat overweighted. Too many people spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt and often don't have useful skills that they can apply afterwards.

I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands and we need electricians and plumbers and carpenters and that's a lot more important than having incremental political science majors.

I think we should not have this idea that in order to be successful you need a four year college degree.//

He also spoke about the problems presented by "the Machine" that we must defeat.

Kamala is just a puppet, if the teleprompter breaks, she doesn't know what to say. I just call it "The Machine'" When the Biden puppet was not working out, they got a new puppet. It's all the same machine. It's undemocratic what was done to Biden. It's bizarre to claim Trump is a danger to democracy when what happened to Biden was entirely undemocratic. Yeah, so, it doesn't make sense. //

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Tomorrow, I will tell the story of how SpaceX was forced by the government to kidnap seals, put earphones on them and play sonic boom sounds to see if they seemed upset

Colin Wright @SwipeWright
This story of strangulation by over-regulation from @elonmusk about the government requiring @SpaceX to asses whether their rockets could potentially hit SHARKS and WHALES is side-splittingly hilarious. 🤣
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GreenLanternMD
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This isn’t at all about enforcing regulations, it’s about using them to control and obstruct whatever government employees don’t want to happen based on their personal and political beliefs. The government is the bad neighbor who’s been elected president of your HOA. //

EMCM(SS)
an hour ago
A “Department of Government Efficiency” will fix nothing. It will become another layer in the bureaucracy preventing anything from getting done. The system is the problem.
We don’t need government efficiency, we need government elimination. //

CaptainCall EMCM(SS)
an hour ago
It will create a thousand jobs for attorneys who will be lined up to sue every time a job is cut or an agency impacted. The only way it works is if the Rs win both houses and commit to cutting funding on the recommendations of the DGE, and that ain't gonna happen. //

mopani EMCM(SS)
2 minutes ago edited
First, every government entity needs to have a sunset clause.

Second, Trump has got to remove "baseline budgeting" (where next year's budget is based on whether the agency spent all of last year's budget, then adds a percentage increase) and go back to zero based budgeting, where every agency budget is zeroed and they have to itemize and justify their budget needs every year.

Additionally, those budgets then have to be adjusted government-wide to fit projected revenue for the coming fiscal year. And if the projection is too high and revenue is lower, then every department gets their budgets cut proportionally to fit revenue.

That will keep them busy fighting among themselves and free up the rest of us to get on with our lives.

It will keep them fighting among themselves and free up the rest of us to get on with our lives.