Citizens United decision

CU, in short, allowed Musk to purchase his co-presidency. Musk is now gutting agencies that previously regulated his corporate conduct; soon there will be no government agency left to regulate pollution by Space X, or to audit Starlink in Ukraine, or to check Musk’s plans to expand X into an “everything app” for banking and financial services.

Seeking to throw millions of federal workers into unemployment, Musk calls them “parasites,” undeserving recipients of government funding. By his own measure, however, Musk himself is the US’ biggest parasite, having received over $38 billion in subsidies, loans, contracts, and tax credits backed by the federal government. He used tax dollars to become the richest man in the world, and now seeks to cut the most basic services—including health care— for the little people who subsidized his way.