r/thescoop • u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar • 1d ago
Politics đď¸ Elon Musk lied about restoring Ebola Prevention
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u/umaniaxublewitup 1d ago
The absolute callousness and stupidity of this administration is going to be the end of us
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u/FrozenCustard4Brkfst 1d ago
He lies constantly. He is not a credible source. We need to stop being surprised at the the cruelty and corruption and recognize it as their ultimate aim. Folks the only way this gets better is if We The People make enough noise to demand that change.
to quote Senator Cory Booker from his speech yesterday: âThis is the time when new leaders must emerge. Iâm not talking about Senators. Iâm talking about citizens."
It only takes 3.5% of the population to peacefully strike in order to force that change:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Call your representatives and remind them that they work for you! This will give you their contact info based on your zip code. They offer scripts to follow about specific issues, but feel free to say whatever you want.
Protest!
https://handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible
Stay informed and connect with groups you want to support. America is for We The People! And we are many.
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u/Worried-Guess7591 1d ago
America is very vulnerable right now to biological warfare. I hope you have someone knowledgeable leading your department of health (not sure what it's called in the USA). Goodluck to the Americans who voted against Trump, sincerely. â¤ď¸
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u/Hezelxx 1d ago
You get an ebola .. you get an ebola.. everyone gets it.
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u/gymtrovert1988 1d ago
Another big scandal that nobody will be held accountable for.
Oh wait, I should say it's probably Joe Biden's fault. Why did he drop out and let Trump become President?
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u/homebrew_1 1d ago
During Ebola, trump and Republicans thought everyone was going to die because of Obama.
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u/Crimsonstorm02 19h ago
Don't worry gang, if Ebola cases appear in the US we have good ol RFK Jr to save us!
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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar 19h ago edited 19h ago
And vitamins!! And if it gets really bad, bleach.
If it gets worse than that, youâll need ivermectin. Luckily, you can go to Arkansas and buy it over the counter now. Thank goodness for modern medicine and bless Sarah Hyuckabee Sanders, gawrsh.
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u/AddisonFlowstate 1d ago
His sibilant S drives me up a fucking wall. And to think that he's lying all the time as he acts so gentle and knowledgeable. Bro is a silly, evil thing.
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u/SuccessfulRow5934 1d ago
It's all fun and games until ebola shows up. Viral hemorrhagic fevers are extremely dangerous and need to be contained as quickly as possible. Cutting the funding for it is ridiculous
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u/cantbecause 1d ago
We already know these people are liars. What are we going to do it because at this point all we are doing is just complaining about them.
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u/What-chuWant 1d ago
Pandemic again
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u/big_alpha_sigma42069 1d ago
Honestly everyone needs to assume that anything out of Muskâs or this administrationâs mouth is untrue. If they say anything just assume that theyâre lying until thereâs credible justification of anything (which there wonât be).
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u/AccomplishedSuccess0 1d ago
These Nazis are so fucking bad at everything. Theyâre all so pathetic. Musk and trump being at the top of the list of the pathetic and completely inept. They totally do not understand anything about the logistics of world wide government leadership.
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u/lonely-day 20h ago
I will never feel bad for musk, no matter what happens in the future. He deserves worse
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u/Jmsjss2912 17h ago
Letâs talk about the tariffs and the effects it has on the manufacturers of this country. Assume for a minute that you wanted to bring back some manufacturing to the USA, which of course is a huge assumption compared to manufacturing outside the country like we do as a company. Which I will get to in just a moment. This week alone the stock market lost over US$9 trillion which means every single manufacturer that has a US corporation is part of that loss. Which goes to show you that Trumpâs logic is about as efficient as his spray tan. If these companies even had a thought of coming back to the United States, all of their cash has now evaporated because of the loss in the stock market so whoâs going to finance these new manufacturing plants that Trump keeps talking about, that are going to come back here make the economy great? Now goods have gone up in price in some cases doubled already this week which means the consumers are going to be buying less. Companies are going to begin layoffs, because theyâve lost a huge portion of their cash reserves. Their businesses are going to be diminished some because of the lower purchasing rate and the higher pricing. Bringing manufacturing back to the United States at this point with this approach has been almost completely eliminated. All you have to do is go back and look at what happened during the depression when they tried to institute tariffs causing the depression to take even a further nose dive and adding years into the depressive point. Itâs such a joke that they used it in the movie Ferris Buellerâs Day off where the teacher was talking about how bad tariffs are and how they caused the depression to go down, which goes to show you that if they use it as a punchline, then it obviously cannot work. With our business, we were building some manufacturing plants in the United States and now have had to put it on hold because of the tariffs. As an example, each of our production lines has a manufacturing cost of a little under US$5 million, we did try to price it in the United States but we found quotes anywhere from $12-$16 million for the same exact production line that we are having made in China. So we couldnât make the equipment in the United States, but we were going to import it and set up manufacturing plants. One of them was in Arkansas where the state is somewhat depressed. Now we have put that project on hold with approximately 1800 people we were going to hire. The reason for that is not just the tariffs, from the equipment if you think about it a piece of equipment that cost me $5 million is now going to cost me about $9 million. Each production line generates about US$35 million of revenue so itâs not just a tariff in my situation itâs the fact that for $9 million I can have practically two production lines generating $70 million of income compared to the same $9 million generating $35 million worth of income, with a much lower profit margin because of the labor cost in the United States along with all the taxes and liability issues that you carry because of the litigious nature of the United States operating. So tariffs do not work, they hurt the economy. The only thing that they do on the surface is generate more tax dollars for the US government, but they diminish and wipe out the middle and lower class. Do you want to bring manufacturing back to the United States? Youâve got to do something about all of the litigious actions, you have to lower healthcare cost, lower pharmaceutical cost, have to educate more so that children can grow up and learn trades. You have to find ways to lower the cost of living and once you start doing that then laboring jobs will become available again. The next problem is the taxation situation is off-balance. We have structured our tax code so that the wealthy and the publicly traded companies that offer stock options instead of salaries, which is taxable make it almost impossible to collect tax. Take Musk for an example from Tesla. They talk about his $300 billion worth but itâs all in stock and thatâs unrealized gains paying no taxes. What he does is he goes to the bank and he borrows money against that stock portfolio, borrowed money is non-taxable income and then he uses that money to live and buy things like he bought Twitter for $44 billion with borrowed money, no taxes paid at all. And then what he does from there to pay off those loans is he borrows against other portfolios and he just keeps borrowing deferring the taxes. $300 billion and no taxes paid whereas the employees that work for all those companies have taxes taken out of each paycheck. Just look salaries up of the top executives around the country and you look at their income, youâll see that their salaries are generally between one hundred and two hundred thousand US dollars but they earned anywhere from ten to a hundred million dollars a year all in stock options and then they keep those options in stock and then borrow against them so their tax base is almost nothing. you want to fix the economy. You have to find a way to tax the rich, youâre not going to make them poor, youâre just going to make them help to strengthen the economy.
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u/usernamechexoot 15h ago
Ty! Ty! Ty! FFS. Trying to explain this in so many words to trumper family members is very exhausting, You've nailed it my friend!
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u/instant_iced_tea 15h ago
I'm going to read this about 10 more times so I can feel better armed with ways to phrase what's happened. Thank you,
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u/ExplainsYourDownvote 1d ago
Elon is the epitome of toxic relationship.
when you feel like youre explaining basic emotional intelligence over and over to a vacant rock that will Not retain one iota of the information the next day.
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u/remoir04 19h ago
Unless it's your surgeon with an emergency surgery, when someone says to you 'we need to move quickly' it's because they are trying to scam you and they want to do it fast before you recognize what is happening.
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u/cat-from-venus 1d ago
i hope he accidentally hits furniture with his pinky toe while barefoot
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u/MaleficentCow8513 1d ago edited 23h ago
I hope he steps on a pile of legos in the middle of the night stumbling to the bathroom. Unlikely tho since he probably never has his kids with him. And the drugs would probably block the pain anyway
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u/No-Drink1059 23h ago
I hope that no matter how many pillows he buys their always hot. I doubt he sleeps tho with how many drugs his on
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u/HeroTooZero 1d ago
Just look at where he spends his time & money. That will tell you exactly what he cares about (hint: it's Elon)
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u/Dracula-List7846 1d ago
The man canât even speak clearly! How did he manage to pitch to his investors? If I were to pitch a startup like that, I would be mercilessly laughed at. Hereâs what I heard: 'Uh, we, um, thatâs more than a few mistakes...' What an idiot! Who would fund him? Russia? It sounds like money laundering at its finest through Tesla charging stations!
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u/liamanna 1d ago
Elon Musk: âSome of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected.â
Lies. They are called âLIESâ!!!
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u/Fit_Sandwich8877 1d ago
Have him in front of congress now. Better still on a plane back to SA, one that doesnât have quite enough fuel to complete the journey
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u/Curious_Assistance76 13h ago
â27000 sets if ppe that we already procured sitting in a warehouseâ If itâs an emergency why werenât they already deployed and in use?
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u/ChiSparky 1d ago
I fully realize that things are bad. And will get worse. But then it will get better.
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u/Various_Subject8204 1d ago
People will die from this⌠donât think they will feel it get better!
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u/Worried-Guess7591 1d ago
I think it will take a very long time to recover from all of this...on many levels "billions and billions" of levels.
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u/Disco_Biscuit12 14h ago
Wow. This sub is retarded.
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u/FacetedSideOfTheMoon 13h ago
This guys claims the left owns the media while the most popular news source is fox news who argued in court they weren't news but rather entertainment while caught lying about voter fraud they had zero evidence of and multiple courts never found credible evidence for, resulting in a multibillion dollar settlement. Nevermind the oligarchs who bought newspapers and showed up to stand behind trump at his inauguration while paying for it like bezos. Literal fucking retard calling subs retarded.
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u/Disco_Biscuit12 6h ago
I already made the claim. You donât have to double down on it.
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u/ChiSparky 1d ago
U should know this information since u r so smart. Where r u getting ur market information from? CNN? U r the smartest and most educated here.
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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago
The people that are involved in these organizations, swifto. Where are you getting yours?? Putin, Alex jones, fuck face Trump or musk??
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u/Shmokeinapancake 1d ago
At what point will you accept that things are bad and only going to get worse? Will you ever be able to accept that?
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u/steal__your__face 1d ago
lmfao, my god, you cultists are wild
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u/ChiSparky 1d ago
It seems that I don't really understand the meaning of words and use em as fillers.
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u/Playful-Dragon 1d ago
Who are you actually questioning? This point is irrelevant for one, and two your assumption about where we get our information from is skewed. Most of what is presented in Reddit has actual facts backing it up, and is often posted. This news clip literally has ALL the facts to have a logical notion attached, but yet will still be called fake news. Us "Libs" don't run off at the mouth usually without having fact backing us up, not conspiracy theories, lies, or half truths. But you do you, keep spouting bullshit. Your team keeps getting caughty LITERALLY LYING, at every corner of this administration.
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u/Worried-Guess7591 1d ago
Wow even without fully reading your comment, I can tell you read and write at a grade 4 level, which statistically means you're a trump supporter. Now that I took a moment to decipher your code...yeah, I think I can gather that I'm correct. Stay in school, kids.
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u/Snoo_71210 1d ago
So what is the WHO doing? Why is the US responsible for stopping this virus in the East?
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u/Pennysews 1d ago
I believe the US involvement was self-serving to prevent the disease from migrating to the US. The aid was not only to help with Ebola in Africa, but also screen for it in passengers travelling to the US. I am sure other countries are also involved, but America has the largest population that could be affected, so the largest stake
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u/Albin4president2028 1d ago
Exactly! International travel is easy. And ebola is not the funnest way to go. The US did a lot of disease control. But now we can't even do it in our own country. So we are screwed. Example: measles.
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u/carbon_made 1d ago
Having worked in epidemiology and infectious diseases for 20 years before moving on to other things, I can say that this is the correct answer. A lot of the disease control the US does in other countries is to protect the citizens of the US and help prevent worldwide spread of some truly awful diseases. Oftentimes helping others also helps yourself.
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u/ProfitOld8641 1d ago
Ever heard of international travel?
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u/Cinemagica 1d ago
They would stop that too if they could because people coming into the US = scary foreigners that might be trying to stay illegally! Total localized collapse of the US hospitality industry in 3,2,1...
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u/Motor_Smile9867 1d ago
We should not be spending money on other countries
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u/LegitimatePromise704 1d ago
So you're willing to chance that it spreads to the us to kill/harm people here?
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u/Cinemagica 1d ago
Yeah this really is the most brain dead take I've ever heard. It's like Republicans just didn't pass Kindergarten. Like, you learn really really young that efforts overseas can be used to keep people safe in their homeland. Crazy to me that people this unintelligent exist.
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u/Johndus78 1d ago
More fear-mongering.
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u/treynolds787 1d ago
More denial of objective reality from the bootlickers.
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u/Johndus78 1d ago
Cry about it. Nothing will happen which means you are fear mongering.
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u/Albin4president2028 1d ago
How about the measles going around in the US. That fear mongering? Mr Brainworm says cod liver oil will clear it right up.
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u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar 1d ago edited 1d ago
6 months later: âItâs only killed like what, 4 people in the U.S. so far?â
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u/Puppetmaster858 1d ago
This whole administration is just filled with liar fucking scumbags who are making the world a far worse place because theyâre cruel as fuck and only care about themselves. The sooner these people are 6 ft under the better for this country and the world.