“People will die because of this,” he said, implying that Mamdani’s pick was a DEI hire.

Elon Musk took to his social media site on Friday to decry New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s fire department, claiming that she couldn’t do the job.

The commissioner-to-be, Lillian Bonsignore, is a 31-year FDNY veteran who led the department’s emergency medical services during the Covid-19 pandemic. She will be the second woman to hold the position and the first openly gay person to lead the department.

That was enough for Musk to weigh in. “People will die because of this,” he wrote, adding, “Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.”

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        How is he not an American. He has citizenship. Or because he wasn’t born there?

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          He admitted himself he’s here illegally. If the government can use their hamfisted fascism to demonize innocent brown people for how they entered the country decades ago, I can certainly do it for one of the most reprehensible human beings currently living.

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    No, they won’t. Just like they didn’t the other 22 times a non-firefighter headed the organization. She’s also an EMT vet of 30+ years, and has been the FDNY EMS Chief for quite some time. She’s well regarded in the FDNY, and considering the previous Commissioner resigned the day after Mamdani won because he refused to serve under a Muslim.

    Just because she’s a Gay Woman does not make the FDNY work any differently. Hell, something like 90% of ALL FDNY responses are from EMS. It’s an umbrella organization, not just for fighting fires.

    Eat shit, Elon.

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    Elon couldn’t tell his ass from a hole in the ground.

    The guy knows less than nothing about anything. Why anyone, anywhere, listens to Elon’s “thoughts” is a real mystery to me.

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    So anyone who isnt a straight white christian male is obviously a DEI hire right?

    But hey dont say he is racist or sexist because that means you dont want free speech.

    Seriously fuck this nazi pos

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    Ass loads of people died when Trump was in charge during the pandemic but there you are standing right next to him in the next election. The bigots love shouting their bigotry from rooftops to an American populace too stupid to get it, they even join in.

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      Remember Elon Musk knows more about production than probably anybody else on this planet. /s

      Which is probably the reason that in Denmark 30% of his cars fail their first mandatory security check at 4 years. And in Germany 17% fail their first check at 2 years. Previously unheard of bad results in both countries, even the cheapest cars are doing better!
      And his rockets keep failing. And his FSD is nowhere near working yet, and his demonstrations of his fully automated robots are shown again and again to actually be remote controlled.

      The guy is a megalomaniac, which some people confuse with being a genius because they are stupid.

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    Proven experience matters when lives are at stake?

    So when are you stepping down from SpaceX, Tesla, and Starlink?

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    Possibly the most glowing endorsement she ever could have asked for. It convinced me that she is smart, qualified, and absolutely the best person for the job.

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    The guy who said social security was a ponzi scheme.

    This dude is very willfully ignorant and apparently can’t even use Google.