Elon Musk has backed the deployment of federal troops to San Francisco, claiming in a gung-ho post that it is “the only solution” to the city’s drug problem.
Musk, who spearheaded mass layoffs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency before he exited the White House in May, said downtown San Francisco is “a drug zombie apocalypse.”
His remarks follow his departure from the Trump administration following a public feud with Donald Trump and allegations that Musk himself was using drugs when he was funneling millions into the Republican’s 2024 presidential campaign. He denied the allegations and said they were “lies.”
64 Comments
graycube@lemmy.world · 139 pts · 300d
Isn't he a big drug user? Does he really mean "war on poor people?"
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 300d
That's pretty much what the "war on (some) drugs" always was. Well, that and anyone else they wanted to go after - gays, Blacks, liberals, etc...with things like the cocaine vs. crack treatment really highlighting the hypocrisy. Not to mention statements made by key people like Ehrlichman...
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 300d
"The war on X" has always meant "The war on the new not rich."
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 8 pts · 300d
I wish he would start the war on X: the world would be a better place.
Hell, he's already started the war on Tesla...
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 299d
~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 299d
Guy on drugs wants war on drugs.
frog_meister@lemmings.world · 15 pts · 299d
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 299d
Maybe he misunderstood the phrase. He wants a war while on drugs
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 300d
JFC, what an asshole. This is the guy that uses ketamine, shrooms, ecstasy and who knows what else?
I love how the rules don't apply to any of these assholes, but the full force of the law should come down like a ton of bricks of anyone that's not at least a centimillionaire...
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 299d
I think you mean hecto millionaire. (Centi sounds wrong to me for 100 million, more like centimeter)
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
They are synonyms. Centimillionaire and hectomillionaire mean the same thing.
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 299d
That might be, but my brain thought it was 10,000 dollars, or 0.01 million. I blame the language
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 43 pts · 300d
Is this moron still alive? We had been blessed with not hearing about him for some time.... I guess the ket is wearing off.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 22 pts · 300d
He was just lurking in the shadows practicing his Nazi salute in the bathroom. He never went away.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 300d
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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 6 pts · 300d
He must wear a lifejacket in the hot tub.
8H2k2139@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 299d
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 299d
The war on drugs has gone so well so far.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 299d
Back in the nineties.... D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs! Scruff McCruff Chicago Illinois 60612?
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
My daughter always complained that no one had ever offered her free drugs to try to get her hooked. I spent a day walking around a farmers market with a pocket full of canamels handing them out to anyone who wanted them. On the way home I said, "Honey, I'm the guy they warned you about." She said, "Cannabis it's not addictive."
abaddon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
ameancow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
The important thing is it's making the investors in police and military equipment and the people who run private professions wealthy and disproportionately harming minorities
BetaBlake@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 299d
Rich coming from the drug addict
bmarbe@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 299d
He needs a resupply
foggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 299d
I'm willing to believe that Elon Musk is addicted to snorting the ashes of homeless people.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 300d
Almacca@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 300d
Because DOGE was such a roaring success under his watch, I'm sure they're all still listening to him.
RaoulDuke@fedia.io · 13 pts · 300d
Almacca@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 300d
Not when they're having to rehire a bunch of people at presumably great expense, never mind all the incoming lawsuits.
gdog05@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 299d
They don't care, it's not their money since they don't pay their fair share of taxes.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 299d
That’s the point, to cripple the system.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 299d
Bitch can end world hunger and US poverty over 3 times with his money but wants a military invasion and more federal funding for his own companies to get even richer.
Elon, you can go fuck yourself. It's the only way.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 19 pts · 299d
Please just kill him already
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
Maybe if he spends more time in his Cybertrucks.
st3ph3n@midwest.social · 17 pts · 300d
Goddamn, it was a nice couple of months there where he just shut the fuck up and laid low for a while.
Heikki2@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 299d
I don't think anyone should listen to this Ketamine fueld cunt.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 299d
Are you trying to be daddy's favourite again Elon?
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 299d
When you think of Elon panting for Trump's attention, who in turn is acting out of unresolved need for his daddy's attention, it could be argued our entire democracy is being dismantled to please the dead Fred Trump.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 299d
He wants all the ketamine for himself. DOGE will confiscate it all and then mysteriously disappear from a storage warehouse.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 299d
He's more ketamine than man now.
hectocotylus@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 300d
Is it just me or does he look like the Grinch plotting how to deport all the Whos from Whoville.
joker125@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 299d
Wait so billionaire piece of shit who is constantly tripping all day demands war on drugs… against the people who stopped buying his trash vehicles is somehow correct?
I guess the regime isn’t imprisoning enough minorities fast enough for his puppeteers.
Daily reminder:
During a news conference with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in March 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump said, "They rigged the election, and I became president."
Garbagio@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 300d
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 299d
TIL we have to deploy troops and shoot drugs to end the "War on drugs"
Should we shoot up Big Opiod as well?
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 299d
E.g. send them to Stamford, Connecticut and go after Purdue Pharma?
MoonRaven@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 299d
Where will he get his drugs from then...
Taleya@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 299d
Plot twist, it was a san franciscan that stiffed him once with some bad k
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 299d
San Francisco was fine until the tech bros came in and priced everyone out. Poverty creates mental illness and that fuels addiction. Might get better if these tech bros paid taxes at a 90% rate like they would have in the 1950’s and we used that to fund universal healthcare but they seem to be pushing for a genocide instead. Who would have guessed that giving hundreds of billions of dollars to racist/sexist apartheid South Africans would be bad for America? /s
Vraylle@fedia.io · 8 pts · 300d
"We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 299d
Stick to cars buddy. Leave the sociology to those who at least care about humanity.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 299d
He's also not very good at cars
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 299d
He’s a nepo baby who’s good at failing upward, in a society that caters to such people
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 299d
Too cheap to put lidars and as a result people are dead.
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 299d
Just had dinner in North Beach. Out on the side walk. Had a lovely time as always. What the fuck are these people on? There are seedy streets in the city. Sure. But overall San Francisco is peaceful.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 299d
Boot out the neo-Nazi sack of shit drug addict back to South Africa.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 300d
Does the guard have suboxone bullets now?
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 299d
I hope I'm wrong but I fully believe a crackdown on cannabis is coming.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 299d
3abas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
Look at the "medical cannabis" industry in Florida... That's where it's going. They will eliminate the farm bill and introduce more shitty moldy corporate weed that costs an arm and a leg with no taxes.
mhague@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 299d
Oh look, it's America's Most Wanted.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 299d
This is a law enforcement issue, not a military issue.
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 299d
The streets of San Francisco are fine. There’s no need for any of this shit. If billionaires are scared. Maybe use their money to better the neighborhoods they are scared of.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
No it's a public health issue.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 299d
Then you’ll have no programmers. They need their Adderall and caffeine pills.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
And weed, and shrooms, and the occasional bit of LSD and extacy.....
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
ITZ ZEE FINAL SOLUTION -Elon musk
pyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
shut the fuck up, wannabe hitler
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
What are they going to do shoot dying homeless people in the streets?
1/3 of those vagrants die every winter from the cold. They just keep flooding in so you’d never notice.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
dickalan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 299d
That's a weird way to say you hate poor people Jesus fucking Christ