musk is a fucking POS and you should never give him any of your hard earned money.

Make sure we officially cancel all the government contracts first. That way they collapse in value, so we can buy them cheap in the nationalization deal.

Plus imagine a world where Cybercabs are just left in random parking lots, on sidewalks, in alleys and in other people’s driveways when not in use. Like the whole electric scooter sharing craze – with scooters left laying on lawns and sidewalks – only lots more of them gumming up more important arteries. I’d give it a…

I sooo want this to cost him his security clearance. And his citzenship too.

So, he went from:

You don't. You formulate an exit strategy. 

I don’t think that NOT paying these voters should get him off.

I think not paying a hitman is a civil case, not criminal.

Here’s an option for you, stay the fuck away from Jalopnik if you can’t bear the way it is.

I feel like the illegal part wasn’t the paying, but the promise to pay (in exchange for registering to vote for “someone” *wink*).

It’s funny how quickly we went from joking about this exact thing to finding out it’s true.

My friend’s neighbor has a yard sign that says something like “I’d rather vote for a felon than a jackass”. It’s shit like that that makes you just want to give up sometimes. How can you help people who are working so hard against their own interests?

I’ve been saying for years Musk is just Trump with a different education. Did not see them teaming up as I figured the Muskrat was too ‘silicone valley’. Wow, was I wrong.

People generally don’t like it when other people owe them money without paying up

I mean, this is the same person whose charitable organization had to pay a fine for not spending the minimum amount of money required for it to be considered a charitable organization. These people handed over their contact information and were actually expecting to be paid?

He should immediately lose his security clearance and the SpaceX offices should be swept for bugs to make sure Putin doesn’t have any other ears in the company.  Then he should be given an ultimatum: completely divest from SpaceX, or else all their government contracts will be canceled.

Especially Space X, it ought to have everything grounded permanently unless he agrees to hand it over to the Government. He could still moan on twitter that he built it [he didn’t] every time he wanted to feel like he was still relevant.

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk said the businessman traveled to Moscow in 2002 to negotiate the purchase of rockets for his fledgling space program, but passed out during a vodka-heavy lunch

A thousand percent agreed. It is insane to me that our government has helped this man weasel his way into “too big to fail” status for several of his companies, but particularly SpaceX.

Call me crazy but you shouldn’t NEED to be able to trace specific security leaks back to Musk to take action. Regular communication with a hostile foreign power should be enough to forfeit government contracts.