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Miles Archer

(19,491 posts)
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 10:53 AM Monday

Reporter to Musk: "What is your thought on the ban of foreign students, you were one of those kids, right?"

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Musk’s interview went great: Reporter: What is your thought on the ban of foreign students, you were one of those kids, right? Musk: “I think we want to stick to talking about spaceships.” Reporter: I was told that any topic is good. Musk: “Well no.”


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Reporter to Musk: "What is your thought on the ban of foreign students, you were one of those kids, right?" (Original Post) Miles Archer Monday OP
God doesn't have to talk about anything if he doesn't want to Walleye Monday #1
A swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood. Blue Full Moon Monday #3
SpaceX shouldn't be hauling garbage... Shipwack Monday #6
Nice 😎 and quite true! benfranklin1776 Monday #9
With all his space rockets DENVERPOPS Monday #11
That describes the cybertrucks Blue Full Moon Monday #17
Yes. Hauled away as garbage. Walleye Monday #14
Musk can't take the heat. He cops out too, just like the big taco. brush Monday #2
Why does musk look like Hornedfrog2000 Monday #4
Probably the drugs D_Master81 Monday #5
Elon. What a hack D_Master81 Monday #7
He should be subpoenaed and hauled before a Senate committee Walleye Monday #15
Spoiled brat Iamscrewed Monday #8
People in glass houses.... ffr Monday #10
The next question should have been... Ohioboy Monday #12
Allow me to translate. ShazzieB Monday #13
If Elon was as smart as he was reputed to be, he would've answered that question Walleye Monday #16
Here's some prophetic wisdom from a former manager that actually came true Miles Archer Monday #19
Great question! pattyloutwo Monday #18

Blue Full Moon

(2,206 posts)
3. A swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 11:03 AM
Monday

Musk is no James Kirk. But that Klingon saying fits him to a tee. I guess that means that SpaceX should be thrown out as trash.

benfranklin1776

(6,880 posts)
9. Nice 😎 and quite true!
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 01:24 PM
Monday

Further, it is self-evident that Musk is a Denebian slime devil 👿

🖖🏼

DENVERPOPS

(12,426 posts)
11. With all his space rockets
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 01:45 PM
Monday

exploding, we may not have to worry about him........LOL

He has some very benign wording for what is happening to his spaceships that are............. "EXPLODING"

"Unplanned dis-assembly" or some totally bullshit terminology like that......

Anyone know????????

Hornedfrog2000

(222 posts)
4. Why does musk look like
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 12:55 PM
Monday

He smokes human growth hormone...? He looks like a freak. His organs are growing making him look weird af.

D_Master81

(2,091 posts)
5. Probably the drugs
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 12:57 PM
Monday

If he’s really doing the amount of drugs alleged it can’t be good for the body or one’s appearance

D_Master81

(2,091 posts)
7. Elon. What a hack
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 01:10 PM
Monday

He gets into the White House and given unilateral authority to make budget decisions for the federal government and then can’t seem to want to answer any government or policy questions and just wants to be “rocket guy” again.

Ohioboy

(3,661 posts)
12. The next question should have been...
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 01:46 PM
Monday

How does getting rid of foreign students affect your spaceship development?

ShazzieB

(20,786 posts)
13. Allow me to translate.
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 02:05 PM
Monday

Last edited Mon Jun 2, 2025, 08:49 PM - Edit history (1)

Reporter: What is your thought on the ban of foreign students, you were one of those kids, right?
Musk: “I think we want to stick to talking about spaceships.”
Reporter: I was told that any topic is good.
Musk: “Well no.”

Translation of what Musk said: I do not agree with the ban of foreign students, but I decline to say anything about it, because that might get me in trouble with Trump."

I think he wants to avoid getting put on Trump’s enemies just, because he knows very bad things can come of that. Which I kind of understand, but the fact that he did not recognize the danger of getting so deeply involved with Trump in the first place proves he is nowhere near as smart as some people think he is. (I'm sure the drugs didn't help, either.)

People who are obscenely rich can start to think they're invulnerable and can get away with anything, because their money will always protect them. I think Eloon may be realizing that is not necessarily the case for people who get on Trump's bad side, and he wants to avoid that fate. I hope he does not succeed.

Miles Archer

(19,491 posts)
19. Here's some prophetic wisdom from a former manager that actually came true
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 07:55 PM
Monday

I worked in a Silicon Valley company where I reported to a director. She had 3 managers who had worked for her in other companies that followed her to this company. One pearl of wisdom that one of these managers shared with me was that "There IS a "LIST," if she puts you on it, you will never get off of it, and YOU WON'T KNOW THE SECOND SHE PUTS YOU ON IT."

And he was right as rain on all counts.

She basically ended up firing me, giving me an end date (which was VERBOTEN in this company without the customary verbal and written warnings), and she WENT DOWN TO HR TO HAVE THEM DOCUMENT THESE NON-EXISTENT WARNINGS I never got and BACK-DATE them to make my firing look "legit."

And this, basically, is how Trump operates. Once Trump makes the decision to drive the stake into Count Musk's black heart, MUSK WON'T SEE IT COMING so he will be UNABLE TO STOP IT.

And I think he knows it, which is why he's being an evasive wimp in interviews.

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