Recently there has been a lot of media coverage about the meetings between Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Elon Musk. Musk has used his Twitter (X) account to promote the image of PM Meloni as a strong leader for her nation. Now this….
(REUTERS) – Italy is in advanced talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX over a 1.5 billion euro ($1.55 billion) deal for the company to provide secure telecommunications to the government, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday.
Discussions are ongoing and a final agreement on the five-year contract has not been reached, but the project has already been approved by Italy’s Intelligence Services and Defence Ministry, the report said, citing unnamed sources.
SpaceX and Italy’s Defence Ministry did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment outside regular business hours.
The report said the deal involves SpaceX supplying Italy with a full range of encryption for telephone and Internet services used by the government.
It also includes communications services for Italy’s military in the Mediterranean area and the rollout of satellite services in Italy for use in emergencies such as terrorist attacks or natural disasters, it said. (read more)
She’s a grade 1 flirt 🙂
Find someone who looks at you as she does at Elon 😎
(God bless, John, you and your fellow Brits..
Praying you’ll be able to rid yourselves of the execrable Starmer and his atrocious fellow Labourites on government.)
I am 78 Betsy and I found her 19 years ago and count myself very lucky.
Thank you for your blessing and may God be good to you too.
As to Starmer legally we might have him for another 4 1/2 years, I suspect that he and others in the Labour Party may not be able to take the pressure.
You know, John…
I knew if you answered, this would be what you would say 😌💕
Long life and good health to you and your lady.
(I fervently hope that you are wrong about Starmer; and that Lord Macmillan’s famous “Events” will put an end to your misery much sooner than that.
I’ll certainly be praying for it, dear sir 🙏🏻 B
Excuse my French, but in this country, grown women look at you like this only when they are in the process of polishing your knob—maybe some Amish chicks too.
She’s Italian.
She wants to have Elon’s 14 th baby.
Elon wants HER to have his 14th baby!
Well… I hope she’s on board with weird ass kids names… plan on something like “Progetto 17”… ‘cuz Giacomo ain’t in the cards, lady…
Lol, was just thinking same. I grew up with lots of Italians in New York. The women knew instinctively how to get exactly what they wanted. Brings me back…
Pic reminds me of the Tracy Flick character from the movie Election flirting with her teacher. “Lots and lots of time together.”
So is Elon.
.
Or thrilled to be flattered… and Elon is the flirt. She’s 47, single, no great beauty, and he’s after getting contract money.
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I think she’s pretty.
They are both excellent actors.
Each playing their roles to con the other.
The way she’s looking at him, it’s likely they have “consummated” the deal. She’s hot.
Maybe she used her sex appeal to get the deal she wanted.
No, I think he used his sex appeal to get the deal HE wanted. He’s the one getting the money.
Sex appeal? Elon?
Not even close.
Money, lots & lots of it, appears to act like a pheromone.
Eau de Billions
theres a lot of crazy going on behind those eyes.
Coming from both of them.
Bet a woman like this will be Elon’s downfall. Understand, God gave man a brain and a p3nis but only enough blood to operate them one at a time. As my dear mom said, all men are alike, they just put different faces on them so you can tell them apart.
And, given the opportunity, one is generally more dominant than the other. jmho(bservation)
If men weren’t like that, there wouldn’t be many babies.
The way she’s looking at him,
The way she’s looking at
himhis wallet……….She’s totally smitten.
He appears to be captivated too.
Meloni is over the moon with Musk.
The WEF…..Its a Big Club
And we’re not in it…
But we pay dues on many, many levels to those who are.
I saw a video where she looked like she wanted to spit on him
Not any more. Pretty soon it’s going to be Klaus and George in a room by themselves.
Cool, lemme know when…tick tock.
November 5, 2024.
If Trump manages to make the necessary election reforms needed to ensure real election results, then we win. If not, November 5, 2024 will remain just another example of pretending not to notice election fraud results.
She likes men in drag as well.
You referring to the military genius (Zelensky) who with no standing army and armed only with AI has held back the “Russian invasion” for several years now?
No standing army? Who are all those people dying? Thought they called those men Ukrainian soldiers.
Armed with only AI? 😆 And BILLIONS of donated military gear, bombs, intel, and “advisers”.
Military genius. 🤣🤣🤣
Did you see the “War on Covid” and “all those people dying” . Well, that was a hoax as well….
I believe however, there are average citizens being held hostage in Ukraine and are being used as props as needed to fuel the fake war and any who try to escape will be removed.
He isn’t holding them back. The Russians already have most of what they really want
Knowing that the majority of the general populace believe or have accepted the foundation of their lies, being “invasion of Ukraine” they can then do crap like this in Congress. Without an audience scenes like this would not be possible
Who says money can’t buy happiness.
I kinda like watching her animated faces. And she is tiny, ball of fire. She definitely was flirty with elon. Right up his alley…along with all the other women.
That is a huge contract. He plans to take over the world by way of satellite.
I like her hair do.
Money talks.
Any guesses as to who Elon’s master is? Bannon insists he’s controlled by the CCP. And, Loomer has reportedly been told by a (cowardly) Senator that s/he and other Senators are afraid to go public with this info.
Enjoying the way some people feel whamboozled at understanding basic and traditional M/F behavior. Maybe she gets Rearden Steel and he gets Taggert Transcontinental. . .
7,000 or so current SL satellites in orbit. Most working. He needs 10,000 to cover the globe. Yet, says his goal is 42,000.
Big Space (Boeing, Lockheed, etc) could provide the same stuff for $10 billion.
Boeing?
Boeing is gonna bounce back from DIE!
Long after someone rescues the still-not-stranded astronauts they left on the ISS.
DIE is only a minor problem for Boeing. Since the late 1990’s Boeing has spent over $ 60 billion on stock buybacks, not R&D nor product development/improvement. The CEO of Boeing since 2010 has been an accountant or finance person not an engineer. With CEO bonuses being given in stock options and the major investors being BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, the buybacks reek of self dealing.
This is happening, and has happened, to the majority of American industries, stock buybacks instead of investing in companies’ future. Wall Street is a parasite as bad as big government, via stock buybacks they suck the life out of companies, then send them overseas or allow them to shrink.
Sounds like a job for Trump.
Not Johnny Deere….
BHAG
That is an acronym for Big Hairy Audacious Goal – discussed in the book “Built to Last” –
based on a study of businesses in various industries, such as aerospace – then the men who did the study wrote their book –
they used the BHAG as one of the features of the companies that were “built to last” – because they did not become complacent, they were challenging themselves to be able to take on the projects that demanded adroitness –
Boeing was presented as one of the companies built to last and it really WAS a great company!
Hoping they can remember what made them so great and tend to their knitting.
GM looks to be the King in this field.
Same thing happening with health care.
Maybe they should rename the company BOING!
“bounce” like a big ball of bread dough.
The technique needs work, but they are obviously practicing a lot.
Which would have costs overruns to $20 Billion, covered in the contract,…and then the satelites wouldn’t work, as the doors kept falling off, or maybe the solar panels….
Who due we sue the chaps off of when that garbage overhead is comes crashing into our living rooms?
If the big old-line defense contractors got the contract all their blueprints and software would be stolen and reverse engineered by the Chinese 5 years before the company ever delivered a product.
It appears that Musk has been able to tear himself away from Maralago long enough to solidify this deal with Meloni. Wonder if he brought his young son, always riding on Musk’s shoulders, along for the signing. Soon, if he is not already the richest man in the world, he will be. Maybe if he makes enough money he will stop bothering Americans about H1B visas and leave our country alone.
Someone once said “You never have enough money if all you have is money”.
Luke 12:15-21 KJV
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [16] And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: [17] And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? [18] And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. [19] And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. [20] But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? [21] So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
So very true… AMEN. The true Riches cannot be bought with digits, paper, digits on paper or just a screen, silver or gold. Following Christ and helping others is where we find the true riches in life.
MAGA~~ Make America Godly Again 🇺🇸
Scooby: thank you for your comment. Finally, at long last, I have an answer to my question of “just exactly how much money do these people need?” There will never, ever be enough. Never. Ever. How pitiful. I thank God I have no debt and buy my wine in boxes. I am truly blessed. 🙏❤️🇺🇲
I too am debt free, but I splurge on the good stuff. When I drink wine it must be an experience that bears repeating. Even if I can’t fit it into the budget on an everyday basis I treat myself whenever I can.
Honestly, Lorraine, I have not been blessed with a discerning palate. This can be both a blessing & a curse, I suppose, but that’s my excuse & I’m sticking with it! ☺️❤️. When you & I get together for Happy Hour, I guess it will be BYOB? 👍
Must have been a politic; throwing your money at a problem they created!
It would be great if Musk would fix his home country while he’s at it….
South Africa?
Being a relatively new immigrant himself, H1bs are close to his heart. No wonder he identifies so strongly with them, over America’s native stock.
Musk & Vivek:
Make America Goofy Again
🙃🙃
Musk doesn’t have a country just a base to operate from and since the USA is still the freest (barely) country he’s staying here for now.
Will his next illegitimate child be Italian?
Only part Italian if the mother has Italian heritage.
He is now the richest man in the world
She met President Trump at MAL, she’s now single.
MAL has been Musk’s recent defacto home.
Do the math.
So they are the parents of Baron Trump?
Fail.
I (stupidly) put aside my doubts about Musk and look where we are.
I am so OVER Elon Musk.
As always, it is ALWAYS about the money. ALWAYS.
Now we just need to make sure that Musk is not able to harm President Trump.
Musk is being exposed – I’ll vouch for that. (I know someone is going to play off the word “exposed”:) I just know it.
Where is Wordman? ( I’ll not bite)😃
To criticize Elon Musk, one must pretend not to know a lot of things…
The twitter/X files rocked the world…
Trust God.
Fear not
Think Elon’s tweets on X re Starmer ignoring the Muslim grooming gangs is just a dig at the lefty UK?
Think again. Remember last year in the run up to the US elections? When UK Labour colluded with lefty scum in Biden’s govt and sent 100 or so “emissaries” to swing the US elections in Kamala’s favour? This is Musks REVENGE for that election interference from the UK. Make no mistake this is Musk standing up to them (maybe it was even Pres Trumps idea!!). To get the UK govt to fall.
That’s what I think. Tit for tat. FAFO.
I hope that Starmers govt falls because of this and the massive industrial rape scandal now brought into the open by Musk.
I think Musk is doing stellar work and I think he and Pres Trump have an agenda to screw the globalists totally. Remember Musk has access to the old Twitter files.
He’s not done yet. And I support his mission
There was nothing in there that we didn’t know already. X still excludes some voices and viewpoints. To support Elon Musk, one must pretend to know a lot of things. Just ask SD…
Right there w/ya. What happens when you cave to be a team player against your will and better instincts.
“Elon Musk’s SpaceX over a 1.5 billion euro ($1.55 billion) deal for the company to provide secure telecommunications to the government”
At what point is this deal a national security issue if/when we go to war with Italy…way down the road. Who’s side would Elon take?
Go to war with Italy? Really?
Way way down in the future there is no telling what will happen. You do remember Mussolini..right?
Musk seems not to have any focused allegiance with the US…I believe he has three passports – SA, Canada and USA.
Didn’t realize he had a CAN passport.
Yeah, crazy.
https://provscons.com/why-does-elon-musk-have-3-citizenships/
Thanks for the article. He’s a citizen of the world.
“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Ruin comes when the trader, lifted up by wealth, becomes ruler.” —Plato, 367 BC
Good one, Horace
… aka globalist WEF proponent. Definitely not MAGA.
Excerpt: “this science fiction motivated him to build clean energy and build rockets to extend the human species reach into the future.”
He should stick to his passion and stay away from politics accept to get contracts for his innovations. He’s a genius. Do what he does best.
Agreed.
The intellect of Musk just can’t miss the Movement for Change and sheer quantity of excitement, anticipation and respect Trump has created in the World. Change will definitely occur and somebody like Musk wants some of that change to come his way! Great change almost always causes a lot of shifting wealth. I suspect he dislikes politics.
Why does 1/2 of Congress?
I do not understand how it is that anyone who identifies as an American citizen can claim dual or even triple citizenship.
When did this become okay?
I go on ancestry.com a lot, looking up generations of family members going back to at least 1613 born in England (that guy came to America as a young man and lived to 1713) – quite fascinating to read the things that are the milestones in their journeys here –
those that came after our country was founded and went through the naturalization process, you see their papers filled out and part of the process was stating one’s allegiance to only the United States of America – no King or Kaiser or any other head of state of any other nation had your allegiance – it seems they had naturalization papers that had the pertinent information as to your “old country” and so they would have the verbiage for the particular head of state and the country.
Sure but SA is unsafe to visit and Canada will soon become the 51st state. So it only amounts to one and a half passports total.
LOLOL!!!! Yes, unless we annex SA. Or import all farmers.
Import SA’s farmers, someone needs to colonize our newly acquired territories.
Italy has been an ally for …80 years now? And they’ve never threaten us. Why would they suddenly become an enemy?
Are they going to fling intercontinental ballistic pasta at us???
And if anything, Space X could spy on Italian communications. It’s more of a risk for them, not us.
I think countries worldwide are being turned upside down. In 10 yrs we might not recognize our country or even who our allies are. I believe major changes are happening and I am not believing much will stay the same. I don’t know what will happen with Italy. My point is that can easily flip.
Whose side would Elon take?
Why Elon’s of course!
In the event he had to choose, Musk’s response would be, “It’s nothing personal, it’s just business.”
Yes.
Yep! It’s just business!!!
“Bidness”
I first heard that slang back in the late 1970s.
What nationality is the vast majority of H1B applicants? Primarily in high-tech companies? Already in the BRICS+ coalition.
Keep asking the right questions!
This way Pres Trump gets access to EU intel and plots from the globalists. Don’t diss Musk
He’s not stupid. Think the US intel community will play straight with Pres Trump? They wont. They withheld crucial intel from his last time and plotted so I think Musk is an asset who can get this intel for Pres Trump
Musk is an asset and a liability simultaneously. Not going to pretend otherwise.
I for one have no problem with Musk making money off of his political contacts as a result of his support of Trump. If it helps the country and he can make some coin at the same time, then bravo. It is kind of the epitome of capitalism and the American Way. And if he is able to hook up with an attractive, single conservative leader of a nation friendly to the US, I really don’t see the downside.
Lighten up, folks. It is all good.
Amen. 🙏
There is a REASON that they are billionaires and we are LUCKY that they are on OUR TEAM…..There are LOTS of very smart people on opposing teams….especially China’s……
Palantir is NOT our team.
🙄 Palantir is THE problem like GUNS are The Problem…WHO is using them and HOW….? is what is pertinent….
Palantir was used to find verify OSB.
Oooops came back to peruse &caught up…..and saw typo…..
Palantir was used to connect dots to Osama Bin Laden OBL…..
The Bin Laden narrative you were fed is bullcrap. Your government lied to you yet again.
Oh, puh-leeze!
Making money off your political contacts isn’t capitalism.
Prostitution?
There are many fuzzy lines. But those who seek righteousness, justice, and good leave consistent tracks.
There are many fuzzy tracks as well. And wouldn’t you know many of the biographies leaving fuzzy tracks are in the scriptures.
But God . . .
Providing a service or a product to someone for money is capitalism.
And providing a service/product to someone for money IS prostitution, lol.
Capitalism is a deal made between a willing buyer and a willing seller.
And from the looks of those photos there is a very willing buyer and willing seller making a deal.
Meloni’s not the one paying for it. What did the Italian people have to say? Are they in love with Musk?
Exactly. These kinds of deals are examples of corporate fascism.
Or cronyism.
This is different from the free market where competition determines market success.
This is taking people’s tax money and gifting it to politically connected parties.
This is corruption.
Not the free market system.
But of course . . . the free market is almost dead in the United States, so I’m not really surprised that people think this Musk deal is an example of the American way.
Is control under the guise of convenience ‘good’?? How about surveillance under the guise of security?
He’s not an American much less a US citizen and just sold that puppet the system of the Beast. The whole world will regret Palantir.
Musk is a transhumanist like Bill Gates. That’s the purpose of Neuralink brain chip development. He’s dangerous.
I do not understand very much at all about Neuralink – if something can be done to help a person not have epileptic seizures and live a normal life, that would be beautiful –
my little brother got pushed off from the top of a slide when he was four years old (in 1958) by a pushy little kid – he seemed to be all right but he had quite a knot on the left side of his head just behind the ear – two weeks later he started having seizures and they plagued him until he was 25 years old when he passed away after a series of grand mal seizures – Steve had been telling me he wanted to get someone to design a pacemaker for the brain waves like they were able to create pacemakers for the heart beat – couldn’t some sort of thing be made to prevent the furious brain waves?
My little brother was a perfectly normal, healthy child – my Mom’s third, born in 1954 (my older brother born in 1949 and I was born in 1952) – not a lot of vaccines at that time – Steve was totally sharp and had very good motor skills – very keen and mechanical-minded like our Dad – liked to take things apart and put them back together – the epileptic seizures were a very cruel thing that were just devastating to our entire family –
Could Neuralink help someone to have their vision or speech restored? Could it create a new wiring for the brain following damage from a stroke or accident?
It all sounds wonderful to be able to help people but if it is to control people and snoop around in their brains or basically the next horrible level of things like lobotomies and shock therapy then I say to Elon, “apres vous . . . let us know how that works out for ya”
That’s the claim that hides the potential for mind control. The idea is to promote a possible cure for blindness, paralysis, dementia, migraines or whatever seems incurable. The trade off would be surrendering your unique brain with its ability to use critical thought and God given gift of free will to regain lost function. If indeed that could happen in the first place.
I won’t volunteer myself under any circumstances.
It’s akin to selling your soul. You have no control of the outcome except to hope the devil is magnanimous and has your best interest at heart,not his own.
It’s all good until it isn’t. It’s safe until it’s not.
This most recent election seems to have been a proxy war of billionaires.
The new “Tech” billionaires vs. the Old School billionaires.
The Techies seem to be Team Trump, but I wonder if they are truly MAGA?
Some developments seem to indicate otherwise…
They massively helped President Trump win and we got rid of Kamala Harris. That was a win we had to have as discussed here many times. The country would not have survived Kamala Harris for the next eight years!
Trump has the qualities of a leader of a nation, the techies have the qualities to be leaders of their business sector. Big difference, that’s why it’s a mutually symbiotic relationship: techies help Trump shape the cultural battle space and advance his agenda, Trump creates an environment that helps their business model.
A question we will never be able to answer; if Musk had given no help to PDJT, beyond the changes he made to twitter, would PDJT have been declared the winner?
I felt, back before PDJT announced Vance as his running mate, which I THINK is before Musk began helping the campaign, that it was inevitable that PDJT would be declared the winner, but that was a felling, as much as anything.
I do think that while we can aknowledge Musk definetly helped PDJT to win, saying that Musk saved the campaign is a stretch.
The fire dept. puts out the fire, and then a neighbor runs over and pours a glass of water on some glowing embers, that go “Ssssss”.
Did the neighbor “save the day”? No. Did they “put out the fire”? Well, technically yes.
Granted, Musk brought more than a glass of water, but the question remains,…DID he “Save us from a Karmalla Presidency”?
Scott Pressner did a lot of earth moving in PA.
Trump was going to win without X. The momentum was already there. Not everyone in the country uses X. Trump putting himself out their in many locations no one else had ever gone to and being on many alternative platforms giving interviews to relative newcomers is what really made the difference. X really played a small part. Remember he won last time and the momentum was huge then and it was way more this time there was no way he was going to lose as long as there wasn’t cheating and the momentum was just too massive to steal it again and too many people were watching.
They are not MAGA, they are only in it for themselves, they all want to own the world, believe me all of them. And THEY are in the same club and it’s not MAGA.
Trump is just making them ante up a token to play in the Trump Casino! Just wondering what billionaires have anted up that is NOT getting publicized? Ones like Soros, MBS, Biden, Obama, Clinton’s, Pritzker, Russian Oligarchs, and Far East billionaires.
>> This most recent election seems to have been a proxy war of billionaires.
So was the previous election; one difference is that a number of billionaires switched sides.
Good for him.
She loves him lol
…for long time….
LOL!
loves his money maybe
So, Elon got $1.5 billion and a few rounds of the horizontal mombo?
Exactly!
Sounds…. FEELS…. like a story….But I guess we’ve been conditioned to think these kind of things/deals/conveniences are to be kept hush hush…..
maybe we get used to SUNLIGHT now……?🤔
Sunglasses needed… I can only take so much.
Soooo….like tired of winning….?
We’ve been the proverbial “mushrooms” for DECADES…..that SEEMS…. destined for CHANGE. 🤞🏻
I’d rather see a deal where love? will benefit than that from a back room political deal where you know everybody except the principals get screwed.
What love? Do you think this could be a deal of “love”? Seriously, come on. This is as much a back room deal as anything else. And how do you know it’s benefitting anyone but Musk at this point?
That sounds like a good deal. I could see the USA paying $50 Billion for such a system. This is like how the US govt. pays $100K per person to provide rural internet in an era of Space-X.
Whatever happened to the billions Kamala had for 5G?
She spent it all on a couple of Tesla charging stations……
Maybe it’s too good of a deal.
Good Grief, we can see why Elon is part of the “Pronatalist” movement..
It looks to me like Musk is working very hard to bring down the houses of cards that are the EU and NATO. Orban started the rebellion. What’s needed is for others, particularly Italy, to start inching toward the exits. Meloni has always been eyeing the door, even as she sent antiquated armaments to Ukraine to satisfy her keepers in Brussels. The US has a big military presence in Italy, and the US/Italian relationship has been exceedingly close for most of the past hundred years.
This fits in perfectly with the Trump, anti-European globalist playbook.
As you say, both the EU and NATO are “Houses of cards” meaning ready to fall over with a stiff breeze, or if one card is removed.
So, like PDJT’S campaign, he waits until the outcome is inevitable, and then comes in to give the final nudge and take credit when what was inevitably going to happen,…happens.
That seems to be Elons playbook.
Just because I WANTED PDJT to win, and WANT to see the EU and NATO both ended, does NOT mean I “love” Elon,…not at all.
The most I can say is that I “love” or approve of certain actions he has taken.
Ditto.
She looks like a love sick school girl. Not a good look for a political leader. Good grief!
I have been to Italy many times. They are very dramatic in their mannerisms. I saw this type of behavior all over Italy. To me, her mannerisms are endearing.
La Dolce Vita
No more
Italians – Drama queens…and so good at it!
I’ve been there too on my way to Greece. Very dramatic mannerisms while 2 men cheated me out of my sleeper birth on a train. I wasn’t impressed with Italy at all. Rome smelled like cigarette buts and piss. I calmed down after the ferry ride to Greece which is very welcoming.
Sometimes when Trump looks at Elon he looks the same way, jus’ sayin’.
Money is a first class aphrodisiac. It also hides a multitude of imperfections.
I always find amusing how the homeliest professional male athletes end up with drop dead gorgeous wives.
gag…
Double gag!
Connect Dots. She didnt show up at Mara Lago for nothing, whose there? Elon and the Worlds Future.
So they did play “hide the salami” after all!
Foolish Italians Beast system Expansion
Well Elon will impose standards or guidelines of being nice or else they will get told to get F**cked in the face
Reminds me of Greene and McCarthy
Yep..
Ah, so Musk’s ‘tentacles’ are now slowly reaching out toward other ‘populist’ leaders, under the guise of security and communications. This is troubling. By the way, Meloni has been somewhat of a disappointment, considering the hopes that the populist movement in Italy (and the EU) had for her.
Looks like she has some intentions for Elon. Bet his wife might not like this picture.
Which one?
Elon’s wife? Wives and GF’s don’t last long in his orbit.
well… she was a loser immediately upon taking office. So the political shoeshine and quid pro is blatant here.
Which also gives more insight into the Trump support and UK goings-on.
The more I see and hear of Elon Musk, the more he reminds me of a Bond villain.
There’s a certain type of woman that is attracted to Bond villains and Meloni appears to be of that type.
Get a room kids!
Elon Musk considers $1.5 billion to be a rounding error.
Positive coverage in exchange for government contracts. Modern day robber barons.
Sales at the Enterprise level to foreign governments is a GD nightmare. I guarantee you there are teams on both sides working this thing for months.
That said, it’s not uncommon for the decision makers to have a meeting before the final deal was struck and that’s probably where the personal relationship/ face to face between Musk and Meloni come in.
And why would she not want to be in the center of the global power base?
Let it play out. Lots of hard work went into getting to this point.
I know, Max. But, we all had to vent.
it’s not the contract per se that bothers anyone. He is allowed to make money.
What bothers us/me is that, in return, Musk is using X to glorify her and pretend it’s geniune while we all know she is a globalist sell out.
He could have quietly made the deal and had it shown up in the financial headlines. But no, he had to parade around Melons like she was a nationalist hero. Meanwhile in Italy they tried to throw Salvini in jail for being what Musk is pretending Melons is.
The guys are going to be putting politicians on the blockchain and monetizing them based on expected business benefit. “Selling 100 shrs of Meloni. Valuation based on business return of $250k per shr to Elon with upside of a potential satellite launch.”
That’s another, “Find someone who looks at you like……….looks at ………….!” text book example!
I wonder if there aren’t lots of times when two people are interacting, and say,…one tells a joke and you snap a still shot, and it clearly LOOKS like they are flirting and enamoured of each other, but only in the still shot?
Just sayin,…
Well this is no surprise, eh?
Italian girls want cars.
Its A Big Club
The eyes, always the eyes!
Looks like a casting call photo for ‘The Shining’
The Lithuanian, whoah, not so much. Fiends.
That was my gut feeling when we spoke of Grok the other day… it is all to say he has a safe platform and to get $$$ advertising $$$ and contracts… it smelled like something was cooking.
I am not sure it is possible to have civilisation, without a hierarchy, and a cabal “at the top”.
It is possible in a moral society. The cabal is evil and very widespread. Do you really want to believe that we have to have an evil cabal in order to have “civilisation”? When the cabal has all the power there will be no “civil” civilization. The “hierarchy” should serve the people. That’s the way the construct was to be in the USA. The people were to have the majority of the power to rule themselves, the elected were servants to carry out the functions only designated to them to serve us.
Let’s give it a whirl, shall we?
It appears that the technocrat billionaires will be enriched by the US surveillance state that I call the SS and now will join the Italian intelligence services.
Today’s SS is reminiscent of 1930s Germany which was also an intelligence and security that actively policed and managed public opinion. Elon’s censorship, Larry Ellison’s ‘they will be on their best behavior’, Peter Thiel of Palantir.
In history, the SS of Germany were aligned with that Italian leader…… funny how history can rhyme.
New Emperor of the Universe baby mama candidate?!
Musk to Meloni, “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”… or something to that effect.
She’s looking at Elon Musk the way Jill Biden looked at Donald Trump.
she’s probably faking the look the same way she faked being a nationalist
I’m sorry. I didn’t see your comment before I posted the exact same thing. My apologies.
Don’t forget about Jill and Kamala’s husband and the very familiar kiss they shared. I’m thinking a lot of that goes on in DC. I think Jill is on the prowl.
Maybe Italy needs their own DOGE committee of concerned citizens.
Musk would probably do that!
Meloni is looking at Musk a lot like Jill Biden was looking at President Trump.
Unintentional copy of comment from Sie Hassan Dich. My apologies.
Meloni flys to the US to visit Trump in Florida and three days from now (Jan 9th) Biden is scheduled to fly to Italy to go meet with her.
Why? It’s more of Biden setting fire to piles of the taxpayer’s money on his way out the door.
Elon: Would you like to have my baby?
A new baby momma?