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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[–] 138 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Isn't he a big drug user? Does he really mean "war on poor people?"

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Guy on drugs wants war on drugs.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    JFC, what an asshole. This is the guy that uses ketamine, shrooms, ecstasy and who knows what else?

    I love how the rules don't apply to any of these assholes, but the full force of the law should come down like a ton of bricks of anyone that's not at least a centimillionaire...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think you mean hecto millionaire. (Centi sounds wrong to me for 100 million, more like centimeter)

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is this moron still alive? We had been blessed with not hearing about him for some time.... I guess the ket is wearing off.

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Rich coming from the drug addict

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because DOGE was such a roaring success under his watch, I'm sure they're all still listening to him.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not when they're having to rehire a bunch of people at presumably great expense, never mind all the incoming lawsuits.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Please just kill him already

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Goddamn, it was a nice couple of months there where he just shut the fuck up and laid low for a while.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The war on drugs has gone so well so far.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I don't think anyone should listen to this Ketamine fueld cunt.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Are you trying to be daddy's favourite again Elon?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Is it just me or does he look like the Grinch plotting how to deport all the Whos from Whoville.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    TIL we have to deploy troops and shoot drugs to end the "War on drugs"

    Should we shoot up Big Opiod as well?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Where will he get his drugs from then...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    San Francisco was fine until the tech bros came in and priced everyone out. Poverty creates mental illness and that fuels addiction. Might get better if these tech bros paid taxes at a 90% rate like they would have in the 1950’s and we used that to fund universal healthcare but they seem to be pushing for a genocide instead. Who would have guessed that giving hundreds of billions of dollars to racist/sexist apartheid South Africans would be bad for America? /s

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Wait so billionaire piece of shit who is constantly tripping all day demands war on drugs… against the people who stopped buying his trash vehicles is somehow correct?

    I guess the regime isn’t imprisoning enough minorities fast enough for his puppeteers.

    Daily reminder:

    During a news conference with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in March 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump said, "They rigged the election, and I became president."

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    "We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Just had dinner in North Beach. Out on the side walk. Had a lovely time as always. What the fuck are these people on? There are seedy streets in the city. Sure. But overall San Francisco is peaceful.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Stick to cars buddy. Leave the sociology to those who at least care about humanity.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Boot out the neo-Nazi sack of shit drug addict back to South Africa.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I hope I'm wrong but I fully believe a crackdown on cannabis is coming.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Look at the "medical cannabis" industry in Florida... That's where it's going. They will eliminate the farm bill and introduce more shitty moldy corporate weed that costs an arm and a leg with no taxes.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Does the guard have suboxone bullets now?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Oh look, it's America's Most Wanted.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is a law enforcement issue, not a military issue.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Then you’ll have no programmers. They need their Adderall and caffeine pills.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    shut the fuck up, wannabe hitler

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    ITZ ZEE FINAL SOLUTION -Elon musk

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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