Posted on 12/18/2023 7:21:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
When Joe Biden told reporters that Elon Musk "is worth being looked at," it's too bad Kamala Harris wasn't there to supply the cackle.
Shortly after that ominous statement, Biden dispatched his federal flying monkeys against Musk, suing him on big and little matters, all of which were on utterly spurious grounds. His real "crime," of course, was displeasing Biden and his Democrat political machine. Musk's exposure of federal collusion in the censoring of political speech during the 2020 election enraged this crew most of all, so Biden opened the cages.
Now they've flooded the zone with federal lawsuits against Musk and issued some incredible regulatory orders. It's as if the entire weight of the federal government is on him. The flying monkeys are filling the sky.
According to Liz Peek, writing at The Hill:
Biden is throwing everything it can find at Musk, hoping that the endless barrage of regulatory, reputational and legal attacks will cause the world’s wealthiest man to kneel before its authority. The viciousness of the investigations being conducted by the Department of Justice, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service against a successful American business leader is unprecedented. It says much more about the vindictive nature of Joe Biden than it does about the founder of Tesla, SpaceX and the Boring Company.
She cites two examples of outrageous behavior in her column, that of a recall ordered on Musk's self-driving cars, on a matter that could be fixed with a simple software adjustment, and that of disqualifying Musk's Starlink from supplying rural areas with broadband connections, on ridiculous claims that it doesn't know how to do...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Musk needs to beef up his protection detail to prepare for the SWAT raid.
As a little kid, those flying monkeys scared the bejeezus out of me. Amazing how well late 1930s effects tech still holds up.
I live in a rural are with no services , we barely have electricity. We also have No Cell service where I live, spotty at best in certain locations. I bought a Starlink a year ago, and let me tell you, this thing is GREAT, never a hitch, never a problem it’s just on and always works flawlessly.
Flying monkeys are very fitting for the Biden administration
When Trump is president again, I hope he just rounds up the people he doesn’t like and ships them to Guantanamo. He can schedule trials for 2030 or something.
If government is to be a weapon, then use the weapon. If there are no rules, then there are no rules.
It’s certainly not about his lack of “know how”.
It’s about his lack, or more accurately unwillingness, to bribe the right politicians!
Which I guess says a whole lot more than the service one gets from the Biden administration.
I don’t want to hear any Zeepers criticizing Putin or Xi for suppressing their domestic political opponents or wealthy oligarchs - when the exact same stuff is going on here in the good-old USA.
I remember Trump era prices, like millions of other American voters.
Which I guess says a whole lot more than the service one gets from the Biden administration. I guess that service one gets from Biden could be classified as something completely different.
No one is safe from vindictive lawfare, including the richest man in the world...
I think the ‘flying monkeys’ were what inspired the Hollywood portrayal of those flying hawkmen in Flash Gordon (1980)
Musk is one of the richest people in the world, but if FedGov is determined to take him down, he doesn’t stand much of a chance. Really frightening times we are living in.
WIKI
Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress and educator. She was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz.
A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image.
In 1939, Hamilton played the role of the Wicked Witch of the West, opposite Judy Garland’s Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, creating not only her most famous role, but also one of the screen’s most memorable villains. Hamilton was cast after Gale Sondergaard, who was first considered for the role, albeit as a more glamorous witch with a musical scene, declined the role when the decision was made that the witch should appear ugly.
On December 23, 1938, Hamilton suffered a second-degree burn on her face and a third-degree burn on her hand during a second take of her fiery exit from Munchkinland in which the trap door’s drop was delayed to eliminate the brief glimpse of it seen in the final edit. Hamilton had to recuperate in a hospital and at home for six weeks after the accident before returning to the set to complete her work on the film and refused to have anything further to do with fire for the rest of the filming. After she recuperated, she said, “I won’t sue, because I know how this business works, and I would never work again. I will return to work on one condition – no more fireworks!” Garland visited Hamilton while the latter recuperated at home looking after her son. Studio executives cut some of Hamilton’s more frightening scenes, worrying they would frighten children too much. Later in life, she would comment on the role of the witch in a light-hearted fashion. During one interview, she joked:
I was in need of money at the time, I had done about six pictures for MGM at the time, and my agent called. I said, ‘Yes?’ and he said ‘Maggie, they want you to play a part on the Wizard.’ I said to myself, ‘Oh, boy, The Wizard of Oz! That has been my favorite book since I was four.’ And I asked him what part, and he said, ‘The Witch’, and I said, ‘The Witch?!’ and he said, ‘What else?’
Hamilton’s stand-in and stunt double for the Witch, Betty Danko, also suffered an on-set accident, on February 11, 1939. Danko made the fiery entrance to Munchkinland, not Hamilton. She was severely burned during the “Surrender Dorothy!” skywriting sequence at the Emerald City. Danko sat on a smoking pipe configured to look like the Witch’s broomstick. The pipe exploded on the third take of the scene. She spent 11 days in hospital and her legs were permanently scarred. The studio hired a new stunt double, Aline Goodwin, to finish the broomstick-riding scene for Danko.
When asked about her experiences on the set of The Wizard of Oz, Hamilton said her biggest fear was that her monstrous film role would give children the wrong idea of who she really was. In reality, she cared deeply about children, frequently giving to charitable organizations. She often remarked about children coming up to her and asking her why she had been so mean to Dorothy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(actress)
Good to know. What kind of bandwidth (up/down) can one normally expect?
The Republican-run House of Representatives needs to carefully consider the DoJ budget.
Republicans should not fund evil ‘flying monkeys’.
Perhaps toss a bill into a hopper to make unjust political prosecutions with federal scope a criminal offense.
I haven’t looked in a while, but I was getting 50ish MBS last I looked.
It’ll take longer, but the US government will still outspend him in court.
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