{"id":24809,"date":"2022-04-12T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24809"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T18:25:00","slug":"i-guess-donated-means-something-different-to-elon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24809","title":{"rendered":"I guess &#8220;donated&#8221; means something different to Elon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;at the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, mad a big deal about &#8220;donating&#8221; some of his starlink internet receivers to Ukraine so they could continue to access the internet even if the hardwires were destroyed&#8230;well&#8230;I guess &#8220;donated&#8221; means something different to ole Elon than it does to you or me&#8230;.just today, it was reported that you and I paid our tax dollars at the market price of 1500 bucks per receiver for the 1333 terminals that Elon said he &#8220;donated&#8221;&#8230;and the government also paid 800K to transport them to Ukraine&#8230;.so, I guess Elon couldn&#8217;t afford to donate 3 million bucks like he says he can&#8217;t afford to pay taxes even though he made hundreds of billions of dollars during the pandemic&#8230;.that is the problem with depending on the largess of billionaires instead of taxing them and then letting the government put the money to best use&#8230;most of these guys are just greedy as hell and to have them give up a penny for the greater good is just too much to ask it appears&#8230;.so, while you see Elon patting himself on the back for a lie, just remember he was a regular at the trump WH and is just another maga asshole who cares about nothing but himself&#8230;.geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;at the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, mad a big deal about &#8220;donating&#8221; some of his starlink internet receivers to Ukraine so they could continue to access the internet even if the hardwires were destroyed&#8230;well&#8230;I guess &#8220;donated&#8221; means something different to ole Elon than it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=24809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I guess &#8220;donated&#8221; means something different to Elon&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1546,3287],"class_list":["post-24809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-elon-musk","tag-starlink-donations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24810,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions\/24810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}