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Ex-Labor secretary Robert Reich claims Elon Musk 'out of control,' says regulators should 'threaten arrest'

2024-09-02

[FoxNews] Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who served during Bill Clinton

...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
's presidency, wrote in a column published Friday that Elon Musk was "out of control," and argued he needed to be reined in.
If you don't control him, he's out of control by definition.
"He may be the richest man in the world. He may own one of the world's most influential social media platforms. But that doesn't mean we're powerless to stop him," Reich wrote, including a list of six things people could do to rein in Musk.
Under our Constitutional system, being out of government control is exactly the point of the Constitution.
After Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, now known as X, Reich deemed the purchase "dangerous nonsense." He argued Musk's purchase was "just about power," rather than free speech.
By its very existence, government is solely about power. Musk acquiring Twitter is about Free Speech in the face of overwhelming government power.
Reich called on people to boycott Tesla and X and added, "Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn't stop disseminating lies and hate on X."

Posted by:Fred

#15 ^ His ego would clog it

Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-02 18:52

#14 Isn't there a toilet he could be flushed down?

Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-09-02 18:38

#13 And we all know how important "Control" is to [The Fourth] Reich types.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2024-09-02 18:25

#12 When I was blogging as The Angry Cyclist, I'd fisk the hell out of this piece of communist $hit's Boston Globe columns. After a few dozen of them, I got bored with it.

Posted by: Raj 2024-09-02 16:01

#11 When has the former secretary ever worked a business. Not to be confused with 'worked over'.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-09-02 13:29

#10 Robert Reich was one of my half-a-dozen or so Professors at the K school. He's actually quite a very short person and full of himself. Almost makes one think he's an actual dwarf. Maybe he is? At the time I thought his oversized character and cartoon like antics while lecturing us during the twice weekly seminars to all be a put-on show. An exaggerated act designed solely to keep our attention focused on what normal folks might consider to be rather boring topics. "Public policy, Government obligations, When to intervene in public policy?, When to modify public administrations? etc. etc." Looking back on those days, it was distraction simply to make his proposals and ideas appear to be insightful. To make them seem more valuable than they would be in day-to-day practice. That was all a year or so before he was asked to be Sec of Labor. Later afterwards some of our Class could see through his ideas and most of his policies were simply unworkable piles of verbal garbage. What a Marxist. Masquerading as an enlightened optimist. Much like the matched pair of Harris and her "man-on-a-leash VP" side kick candidate "imposed by edict" from behind the curtain folks onto the Ballot for this November. Coddswallop. What a collective bunch idiots.

Posted by: Jumbo Grease7837 2024-09-02 12:26

#9 Elon Musk slams New York Times writer for calling the Constitution 'dangerous'

...and that's why.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-09-02 10:28

#8 I envision a meme of Fauci as Dr. Evil and Reich as Mini Me. Perhaps AI can fashion one for us..

Posted by: Warthog 2024-09-02 08:58

#7 Dr Reich, I understand there's positions on the Brazilian Supeme Court you could go for.

Posted by: ed in texas 2024-09-02 08:49

#6 In the olden days the West was committed to free speech.

Censorship was so odious that even those who desired it wouldn't dare open advocacy. Ironically there was some self-censorship among the advocates of censorship.

That a former US cabinet secretary, i.e. not a fringe kook, would openly call for criminal prosecution, like Robert ~~Yezhov~~ Reich did shows the dangerous extent to which Western values in the traditional West have detriorated.

Free speech is not a luxury but a superior error detection and correction mechanism.

Without freedom the West will turn itself into a collection of Third World Sh**h**s no different from the rest of the world.

But apparently a large part of the Western elite class finds it desirable to absolutely rule decaying and failing nations.

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-09-02 07:29

#5 Visualize if you will, the results of an "out of control" entity.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-02 06:49

#4 So now he's an enemy. They need to be very careful about him. He is probably one of the most dangerous businessmen in the world. He builds rocket that shamed NASA, electric cars, owns X, and starlink. If you step back, he is a haircut and a cat away from Dr evil... Go ahead, piss him off...

Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-09-02 03:55

#3 They really hate people they can't control.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-02 00:33

#2 Big talk for a midget.

Posted by: Glavinter Peacock7962 2024-09-02 00:32

#1 Hang the ex-secretary for starters

Posted by: DarthVader 2024-09-02 00:08

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