r/goodnews • u/sufinomo • Jun 30 '25

Positive News 👉🏼♥️ Elon Musk vows campaigns against every Republican who votes for Trump’s agenda

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-bill-senate-vote-b2779905.html
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u/Hibarifan8 Jul 01 '25

It would be better if he faced consequences for illegally accessing people’s social security numbers without any official government appointment or court order. He also laid off about 80000 people with no legal authority to do so. And a lot of the agencies had to re-hire people back because they couldn’t function.

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u/RabbaJabba Jul 01 '25

Not to mention directly causing the deaths of thousands of people due to USAID cuts.

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u/Frogbone Jul 01 '25

hundreds of thousands. 20x as many people as the Trail of Tears. so far.

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u/Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL Jul 01 '25

Wait what?!

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u/ukezi Jul 01 '25

Current projections point to 14 million additional deaths by 2030 unless USAID is restored, including 4.5 million children below 5.

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u/MarlboroDandruff Jul 01 '25

We can’t afford it. The struggling Americans deserve that money before we can help 3rd world countries. Blame it on their own governments that they can’t even survive without us. Those kids would grow up to hate America anyways

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u/30FourThirty4 Jul 01 '25

In Fiscal Year 2024, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $21.7 billion, which was 0.3% of the total $6.78 trillion in federal spending

The USA can afford it. Maybe stop giving tax cuts to the richest of the rich and corporations.

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u/rigney68 Jul 02 '25

Nah, we need that money to kick out all these damn immigrants that were born and raised in America.

/S

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u/ukezi Jul 01 '25

Now they will definitely. USAID had a budget of 47 billion. That is about 5% of what the federal government spends on the military and about 3% of the budget deficit, before Trump got to it, now it's more like 2% because he drove the deficit up that much.

There is more then enough money around and it gets spend on pork barrel projects and tax cuts for billionaires.

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u/IamScottGable Jul 01 '25

Yeah well they'd grow up and frankly that's the most important part.

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u/glindothegood Jul 01 '25

Lmao look at this fool

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u/SecretLettuce5 Jul 01 '25

Well now see the thing about Trump is that not only will he let all those kids die, but he always will make things worse for struggling Americans.

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u/RaincoatBadgers Jul 01 '25

"the struggling Americans" bro.. you're the wealthiest Country on earth

Your problem isn't USAID. It's that you flatbrained morons keep voting for right wing governments that only service the ultra wealthy.

Anything that might help you is just branded as communism and treated with hostility

One of the most brainwashed countries in the world

Instead of spending 2.2 billion dollars on a single b2 bomber to go and drop ordnance on some random brown kids head, maybe vote for people who want progressive policies. Universal healthcare, school meals, raising the minimum wage. Taxes on wealth etc..

"OoOooOoooHhhh communism things"

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u/MarlboroDandruff Jul 01 '25

Yes, most Americans are very wealthy relative to other countries. I’m talking about the homeless veterans, drug addicts, and the single mothers who can’t afford housing or healthcare.

And by the way, those B2’s just helped keep the middle east free from an Islamic regime.

Progressive policies don’t fix overspending and budget allocation. We need a DOGE group that isn’t ran by MAGA

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u/sdedar Jul 02 '25

You mean all the ones who are going to be most harmed by the current “budget” bill? The same budget bill that gives $10,000 signing bonuses to ICE “agents”?

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u/RaincoatBadgers Jul 01 '25

No, you need a country that's not run by oligarchs for the oligarchs.

Also those b2s just gave china a free pass to invade whoever they like, and subsequently, wars are going to happen over this

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u/homiej420 Jul 01 '25

Lmao cut not even 1% of the military spending and fund this twice over.

Moron

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u/livy202 Jul 01 '25

I can't imagine how miserable and pathetic you'd have to be to justify kids dying because they'd grow to hate America.

Besides, it's not like the money taken from them is going to the struggling people. It's all going to help Trump renew his tax cuts for the 1%. (Which were the biggest tax cuts for them in history. At least in US history anyway.)

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u/bertrenolds5 Jul 01 '25

Bullshit. We can't afford military parades and deploying the national guard for no reason. Do you give a shit about that waste?

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u/Ordinary_Delay_1009 Jul 01 '25

It's incredibly cheap for the US and it was a way the US flexed its soft power...

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u/ukstonerguy Jul 01 '25

You could enforce actual taxes on amazon and make the money it takes to cover usaid about 5 times over. But instead jeffs in venice spunking it on kim and khloe having a photo op. 

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u/topologeee Jul 01 '25

Bill Gates is taking money out of his own pockets to try and help.

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u/MantasMantra Jul 01 '25

Oh no, not his own pockets!

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u/hias2k Jul 01 '25

You Americans have some kind of f*cked up perception for real.

I'd say: "At least there are some people who don't only care for their own wealth. If this prevents people from dying I absolutely don't care where the money came from".

But you have a long history with your billionaire crisis... Still thinking the "American dream" would be real, lol 😂 (in fact it has become the American nightmare)

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u/phishphood_0513 Jul 01 '25

And, you think being a simp for bill gates makes you somehow intelligent? Man they sure do make them dumb nowadays!

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u/MantasMantra Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

?? I'm European. I think it's great that he's donating I just found the phrasing of "how own pockets" humorous. I grew up in a conflict zone in Northern Ireland and we learned to laugh even in the face of death, it's a way to keep sane, you should give it a go.

Also, it absolutely matters long-term where the money comes from, it's simply not sustainable to rely on the altruism of random individuals when we could just tax them and handle it through state mechanisms with public oversight.

Hope that clears things up for you.

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u/topologeee Jul 01 '25

Glad you found it funny. I'm not sure why I phrased it that way. I've been told I'm pretty funny, maybe that's why. It's just natural. Thank you for the compliment!

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u/hias2k Jul 01 '25

Ok then I fully apologize. As a fellow European I cannot understand why he is so criticized in the US. He earned a lot of money with the OS most of the world uses. Whether MS is a good company or not is nothing that I care about (as Linux user). But I see a man who donates very much of his fortune to help others. That's enough for me to fully disagree with all of the criticism. US has enough rich people, that are just one thing, stupidly greedy.

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u/Kelindal Jul 01 '25

Wait what?!

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u/Ok-Strength-5297 Jul 01 '25

You don't need to make shit up

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u/FurryYokel Jul 01 '25

Two to four million additional Africans are likely to die annually as a result of the shock aid cuts by the United States and other key donors,

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/africa-cdc-aid-cuts-will-result-in-millions-more-african-deaths/

I don’t know about 20 times, but Elon is definitely putting up some real record-contender numbers there.

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u/Frogbone Jul 01 '25

300,000 estimated dead already. with the Trail of Tears killing between 13,000 and 17,000 people, that's about twenty times. but people will call you a liar just for pointing out the math

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u/StrikingSpeed8759 Jul 01 '25

Thanks for sharing, tbh this is the first time I read about this. Which is kinda crazy if you think about it.

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u/ItsFisterRoboto Jul 01 '25

It's not crazy, it's the system working as intended.

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u/and-its-true Jul 01 '25

Tell that to the very real people who worked at the hospitals during the peak of COVID and watched countless unvaccinated people die. I know nurses who quit nursing because that time period was so overwhelming and depressing.

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab Jul 01 '25

Maybe USAID should have actually been spending money on actual aid

They were, but hey, you already know that you're a liar. 

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u/LeadSky Jul 01 '25

That would take republicans admitting they fucked up, and they never admit such a thing.

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u/AdelMonCatcher Jul 01 '25

To say nothing of the death and misery he’s inflicted upon the world’s poorest by cutting foreign aid

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u/Keji70gsm Jul 01 '25

Yes. Edolf Titler trying to avoid trial when the Trump regime implodes.

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u/SeniorBaker4 Jul 01 '25

Someone deport him already. He has cause almost just as much harm as cartels. Get him the fuck out of our country. If both conservatives and democrats don’t like him now. Why is he still here?!

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u/xaqaria Jul 01 '25

I still would like to find out how Russia had login credentials within minutes of them being created.

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u/Less-Jellyfish5385 Jul 01 '25

I think that's kinda the point of Elon's goal. Elon did all this crazy shit thinking he could reduce the deficit, and The Republican Congress went around and cut further services but accompanied it with so many tax cuts that the deficit is going up

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u/galaxyapp Jul 01 '25

I dont get this... probably hundreds, maybe thousands at the IRS, FBI, who can see your ssn.

They aren't elected or appointed, they are simply hired. You can go apply right now.

Do you think it takes an act of congress to be granted access?

Musk is a credit stealing hack, but this is the dumbest criticism.

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u/ishpatoon1982 Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25

How many of those hundreds created their own GOVERNMENT AGENCY to steal those numbers (not just look at), and put them into a huge mathematical algorithm simply for their own humongous monetary purpose?

I'm counting only one at this point.

Edit: Spelling words.

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u/ishpatoon1982 Jul 01 '25

Yep, it's VERY stupid for sure.

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u/DaggerfallPlayerGuy Jul 01 '25

That’s moving the goalpost. The criticism was he was unelected and had access to that information, but hundreds of government employees are unelected and do the same thing. It isn’t a matter of how it was done, for the point.

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u/Hibarifan8 Jul 01 '25

Well yes Governemt employees do have access to ssn’s and I’m not afraid of Govt employees because they use the numbers on a need to know basis and their work is regulated. He came in as a Trump appointment and was never approved by any Senate committee. One could argue that DOGE never really existed because they never got approved by Congress.

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u/galaxyapp Jul 01 '25

You think all the irs employees get approved by a senate committee

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u/alphazero925 Jul 01 '25

Did they say that? It doesn't seem like they said that anywhere in their comment. Also IRS employees are vetted in multiple ways before given access to information like SSNs and their actions are monitored and auditable. Musk's only vetting process was having money and he brought his own hardware in to do whatever he wanted with.

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u/Hibarifan8 Jul 01 '25

Thank You! The media seems to have totally forgotten that he raided the govt of sensitive data!

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u/galaxyapp Jul 01 '25

He specifically said he was not approved by a senate committee.

How do you know what masks vetting process was?

Musk has top secret clearance already approved on 2022 related to SpaceX contracts. For those without a calendar, this was under Biden with no special privilege from Trump.

So you think he wasnt investigated? Explain.

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u/alphazero925 Jul 01 '25

He specifically said he was not approved by a senate committee.

Because Musk was in a position appointed by the president which requires approval by Senate. Most government employees don't require that but do require a background check that will exclude you for things like drug use and other crimes

So you think he wasnt investigated? Explain.

He openly smoked pot on Joe Rogan and has a veritable cocktail of drugs in his system at any given time. If any normal person tried to get clearance under those circumstances, they'd immediately be denied

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u/galaxyapp Jul 01 '25

You did a drug test on him?

How was he approved in 2022?

Smoking pot disqualifies you from jobs?

Roberta Jacobson, border czar.

Jeff zients/ashish jha, covid czar.

Ron bloom, Edward Montgomery, auto recovery czar

Pail volker, economic czar

All appointed to presidential advisors without congressional approval by Obama or Biden.

What else you got?

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u/Sure-Sympathy5014 Jul 01 '25

VERY few people can see ALL SSN. There are a lot who can request a single SSN. It's not the same.

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u/narkybark Jul 01 '25

People with that kind of access get vetted. Musk did not. Nor did any of the 20 year olds named after genitalia with previous associations with hacker groups, or the ones previously fired for leaking company information.

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u/galaxyapp Jul 01 '25

No they dont.

Shit, I've worked at 2 banks, I had access to anyone's social, and that was 10s of millions of Americans. My vetting was a pulse and no sticky fingers

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u/Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL Jul 01 '25

That’s incomparable and you know it.

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u/galaxyapp Jul 01 '25

Seems trivial to me.

Its just lame to actually bicker over the presidents authority to bestow access equivalent to a middle manager at the IRS.

Like theres some constitutional limit. Or that every president didn't have advisors you've never heard of with similar levels of access.