I am willing to bet that Elon Musk, the human (and Vivek, as well!) don’t really want to fill out all the intrusive disclosures required by 26 USC § 1604, et seq., on pain of felony charges — to lobby the United States government — specifically, the office of the preznit. See — if you are not an “agent” or head of a US federal government department, and you decide to even advise the Tangerine Dotard, that is… yep, being a lobbyist (since literally every single thing these two jamokes propose requires an Act of Congress, at a minimum).
An activity we the people are allowed to have quarterly disclosures about, under the Lobby Disclosure Act, at the office of Public Disclosure, inside the US Senate.
The whole goal here, by Elon, is trying to avoid any Senate “advice and consent” hearings, should Tangerine try to make him the head of a some new (or old) federal agency. He fears being questioned in public — about how little he understands of our system of ordered liberty. [This is so, because all he’s ever “learned” about it… is retweeting teenagers’ memes — on his X-itter platform.] You see, Elon’s SpaceX holds one of the largest federal contracts for space hauling, and receives (through Tesla federal electric vehicle tax subsidies) billions in aid, from federal and state governments. So he must… disclose.
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Yet and still, maybe John Hinderaker would like to encourage both Vivek and Elon to… first take the scalpel to Trump’s golf trips.
He traveled with a cast of hundreds, when he was preznit (and will do so, when he is agin’ preznit) — and he absolutely charges the very top rate, for every room at his dumps of clubs in Scotland and Ireland and Florida and New Jersey.
That was over $142 million dollars of federal cash spent AT TRUMP RESORTS, in just the first three years of his preznit-cy (and over $184 million, overall, for the four years).
Even John, hisself — as a purported leader of the frothy MAGA crowd, cannot resist a tongue in cheek flavor, in talking about a “federal department” — that is (purportedly) actually… outside of all government.
And, we call that…. per 26 USC § 1604 “lobbying”, out here, in the adult world — and these two billionaires will need to register with the Senate offices of disclosure to do ANY such work.]
An “outside of government” — independent overseer, of any competence — would say the first thing to get the axe should be… Tangerine’s federal “department” of… golf grifting.
Out.
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