Elon Musk has backed the deployment of federal troops to San Francisco, claiming in a gung-ho post that it is “the only solution” to the city’s drug problem.

Musk, who spearheaded mass layoffs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency before he exited the White House in May, said downtown San Francisco is “a drug zombie apocalypse.”

His remarks follow his departure from the Trump administration following a public feud with Donald Trump and allegations that Musk himself was using drugs when he was funneling millions into the Republican’s 2024 presidential campaign. He denied the allegations and said they were “lies.”

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      Back in the nineties… D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs! Scruff McCruff Chicago Illinois 60612?

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        My daughter always complained that no one had ever offered her free drugs to try to get her hooked. I spent a day walking around a farmers market with a pocket full of canamels handing them out to anyone who wanted them. On the way home I said, “Honey, I’m the guy they warned you about.” She said, “Cannabis it’s not addictive.”

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      It’s always been this way.

      The war on drugs never affected rich people or their children, only poor people who struggle to buy the drugs and find a private space to use them.

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    What are they going to do shoot dying homeless people in the streets?

    1/3 of those vagrants die every winter from the cold. They just keep flooding in so you’d never notice.

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    He wants all the ketamine for himself. DOGE will confiscate it all and then mysteriously disappear from a storage warehouse.

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    Bitch can end world hunger and US poverty over 3 times with his money but wants a military invasion and more federal funding for his own companies to get even richer.

    Elon, you can go fuck yourself. It’s the only way.

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      We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

      Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

      ~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

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      That’s pretty much what the “war on (some) drugs” always was. Well, that and anyone else they wanted to go after - gays, Blacks, liberals, etc…with things like the cocaine vs. crack treatment really highlighting the hypocrisy. Not to mention statements made by key people like Ehrlichman…

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        I wish he would start the war on X: the world would be a better place.

        Hell, he’s already started the war on Tesla…

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      When you think of Elon panting for Trump’s attention, who in turn is acting out of unresolved need for his daddy’s attention, it could be argued our entire democracy is being dismantled to please the dead Fred Trump.