A small sample poll (done by me in my free time) of Americans reveals an interesting fact about the $48billion dollar Elon Musk payday: no one cares. NO ONE. At least that I have found in person. Some long distance friends are interested but since I couldn’t prove their identity with face to face communication, their votes were not included in my poll. Seriously. With AI you never know anymore who’s on the other end of you conversation unless you see them. (Sorry, Dennis.)

There is a certain segment of our American population, hereinafter known as the Flock, who view Musk as a hero, a righteous culture warrior not just winning big at capitalism and fleecing the Flock, but possibly a future power who can gobble up Anti-Trump media and shut them down. Or convert them to X.

Not one person asked had any idea how much of the $48billion might be taxpayer money, sent by the US Government to Musk subsidiaries for defense and intelligence work.

The problem is there are now about 5 to 10 people in the US alone, who have enough wealth and power to do what they want, anytime, anywhere. It appears the historical Republican effort to reduce regulations will be having an identity crisis, soon: the billionaires won’t pay any attention to regulations and laws anyway. The Billionaires can gut enforcement like the SEC by hiring all the SEC’s employees away. And for real good example of what money can do, look at all the lawyers protecting Trump (and his associates) from judicial justice. And Clarence Thomas. How many judges at state and federal levels are already influenced not by the law but by(buy) money? In Thomas’s case, he doesn’t care how it looks. Screw you, Flock,

In ten years we won’t have political countries we recognize. We’ll be back to the middle ages with fiefdoms with their own armies and governments. We’ll have a New Civil War on the American Continent between Amazonia and Muskovoy. And the European billionaires will take on the winner.

The saddest part of this poll? Even if EVERYONE cared, there probably isn’t anything we can do about it.

But for a start, we should all stop the GMGA attitude mentioned in an earlier article. Got Mine Go Away, if it is eradicated, won’t slow the Musks and Bezos of the world, but make what’s left for us, The Flock, a little easier to swallow.