WNBA player asks why Elon Musk isn't told to 'go back to Africa' after spending bill flop

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Natasha Cloud, a guard for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, asked Sunday "when y’all gone tell Elon to go back to Africa?" after a government funding bill supported by the businessman, who is from South Africa, failed in the House of Representatives.

“Im so glad ALL these billionaires have no idea how the 3 branches of government work.or how a bill gets passed into law,” Cloud wrote on the social media platform X.

Last week, Musk posted that a temporary funding bill he credited to President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson is better than an omnibus “masquerading” as one.

“This is a MUCH better bill that is closer to being a real continuing resolution (not an omnibus masquerading as a CR), but with support for hurricane victims & farmers, as well as a reasonable extension to the debt ceiling,” Musk wrote. “Clean & simple.”




https://news4sanantonio.com/news/nation-world/wnba-player-asks-why-elon-musk-isnt-told-to-go-back-to-africa-after-spending-bill-flop-continuing-resolution-basketball-athlete-president-donald-trump-doge-government-efficiency

[2naSalit]

1. Maybe we should start...

Telling him to go back to where he's from, he and his friends are so fond of saying that to others.

[jimfields33]

5. Does he take the jobs with him?

It’d be a lot of people leaving America to work at his companies in Africa if this were to happen.

[2naSalit]

6. Doubt it.

I think he's going to fizzle in the near future so I don't think he'll have that impact. I think mos employees will have left him by then, he's not a very good boss.

[jimfields33]

7. I decided to do a search. He has 140,000 employees.

If half go with him, it would have some sort of impact.

[2naSalit]

8. With all the...

Other havoc and economic devastation that will be going on, I don't see where he'll matter by then.

[jimfields33]

9. That's true. Scary times ahead.

[2naSalit]

10. I figure that...

He's at the point in his Icarus flight where he'll be getting the pitchfork treatment sometime next year.

[Polybius]

12. And SpaceX, which has over 13,000

We definitely don't want SpaceX to leave. There are lots of government contracts with them, probably due to an under-funded NASA.

[nilram]

14. Unpopular opinion: SpaceX a boondoggle. If we don't deal with global warming

we're all dead, the planet will be a wasteland, and anything you like about this place will be gone. Maybe not everything if you like cockroaches, but you won't be around to appreciate them. Mothball NASA except for weather and climate science.

[live love laugh]

25. Spacex is a security risk. America is better off without them

[Polybius]

26. SpaceX launched the rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts

If NASA can't do the job, SpaceX is needed at this time.

[live love laugh]

27. I disagree. Rescuing 2 astronauts is not worth the country's security.

[Polybius]

35. Ok, so leave them up there n/t

[live love laugh]

37. 😂😂😂

Merry Christmas 🎁

[Polybius]

38. Same to you, as I sip my Christmas Coquito (Eggnog-type drink popular in NY and PR)

[MadameButterfly]

29. We should be funding NASA to be able to do this

instead of funding SpaceX so they can do it. if we pay for it we should own it, not Elon. This is how he gets rich and then tells everybody else not to rely on government funding when they need for, say, food, or retirement.

[Polybius]

36. Can't argue with that

The NASA budget should be $50 billion a year or more.

[Hugin]

43. The so-called SpaceX rescue mission was delayed until at least March.

Due to mission control redundancy concerns.

You are probably thinking of the vanity mission to irradiate a billionaire (nominated to be the head of NASA by the acting co-president-elect whatizname) in the Van Allen belts.

[Polybius]

44. Yes, I worded it horribly

I was talking about this one:

https://apnews.com/article/spacex-launch-boeing-nasa-stuck-astronauts-e179d0dc6c77d224278fd0430148ff8b


Of course, I'm sure NASA would have stepped in had there been no SpaceX.

[MadameButterfly]

28. Certainly a securtiy risk in Elon's hands

It was very helpful to Ukraine until he withheld it for some critical battles. If this technology has that kind of power someone will be developing it so I don't see us just leaving it to others. It just shouldn't be used at the whims of a private citizen.

Of course, now it's dangerous in government hands. To your point, I guess. But one could extrapolate that to, our whole CIA/FBI/military is a securtiy risk to America. As is Trump and his cabinet.

[live love laugh]

30. At least CIA/FBI/military are American governmental institutions. .

Spacex is not.

[MadameButterfly]

31. That is my point. The technology needs to be developed

but should be in government hands. Theoretically. Except when the government is just as bad (or the same) as the private citizen who is playing with our money.

[live love laugh]

34. The government is not just as bad imho.

[MadameButterfly]

41. The current government is not as bad.

I'm not anit-government. But what will it look like after Jan. 20? It appears it will be Trump and Elon's playground.

[nilram]

13. That's 0.0834% of US employment. Negligible impact, even if ALL went.

https://www.bls.gov/emp/graphics/total-employment.htm

My field overlaps with some of what his companies do, and it wouldn't matter a whit in terms of salary impact to me.

So much the better if those jobs went to Africa, South Africa, or to any other country in the global south. People need well-paying jobs everywhere.

[Wiz Imp]

18. That is already down to 120,000. They made significant layoffs earlier in 2024

[bottomofthehill]

19. How many do you think would actually go

My guess is not many. Call the bluff

[live love laugh]

24. 140000 is a tiny fraction out of more than 100 million working Americans.

[arthritisR_US]

39. I think there would be another fecking billionaire to fill the

gap, greed never escapes them.

[J-9]

11. And?

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. He should be

denaturalized and deported, as far as I'm concerned. Yesterday isn't soon enough. I' sure South Africa would welcome the $$$, no?

[lonely bird]

22. Agree

But only after seizing his assets.

[ck4829]

3. K&R

[Marthe48]

4. Info on Wikipedia says

he probably worked in the U.S. illegally in the 90s. So another that got in the door and slammed it shut after he made it.

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. He's white and rich. Next question please.

Sorry to be blunt.

[totodeinhere]

16. We do not deport billionaires.

We only deport poor people. So the answer to the question is obvious.

[Celerity]

17. Musk didn't fail, he got most of what he wanted in the bill (and most of he didn't want removed) Trump was the big loser

as he did not get his debt ceiling longer term raise (for Trump's shitfuck tax cuts for the rich and his attempt to deport millions of undocumented people)

[MadameButterfly]

33. Yeah, he got the wasteful Pediatric Cancer spending removed

and he's very happy about that

[Blue_Tires]

20. South Africa won't take him back

Neither will Canada

[ShazzieB]

21. Shut up, Elon!

Stop Afrikaner-splaining to Americans how our government should be run. Even if you ARE a naturalized citizen, that doesn't mean you know more than the rest of us do about our own fucking country!

[The Madcap]

23. Looks to me

Like he's a potential cardiac risk....overweight, pasty, and hard-driving. Also, probably very stressed. And the rumored drugs can't be helping.

[MadameButterfly]

32. I wish it were true

but look what Trump has survived

[Kingofalldems]

40. I see Musk fans jumped in to defend their boy in this thread.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Recommend

The first defense is ridiculous.
Around 60% of his net worth is Tesla. He moves all the jobs, the enormous capital cost & the disruption in production would devalue the stock.
He's trying to become the first trillionaire. Doing something to lower stock value is not on his agenda.