by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Neither Elon Musk nor his babbling sidekick, Donald Trump, like being talked back to by mere mortals, especially if the people challenging them are something other than privileged white males. That's why it was especially satisfying to many when a pair of successful women punctured a pair of world class windbags this week.
Popular music icon Sheryl Crow took a jab at Elon Musk earlier in the week when she announced that she was selling her Tesla and would donate the proceeds to National Public Radio (NPR). Musk, who has controlling interest of Tesla, has had a troubled history with NPR, and Crow's statement hit him twice, as a shot at Tesla and as support for NPR, an organization which has been a target of Musk's ire on multiple occasions.
I'm proud to say that Sheryl Crow is a fellow native of southern Missouri, having grown up in Kennett, the largest city (pop. 10,500) in the Missouri bootheel, to parents who were school teachers. She comes by her good sense and altruism naturally.
The rural Missouri translation of "I'm selling my Tesla and giving the money to NPR" is "Blow it out your tailpipe, Elon!"
The state of Maine is not currently in compliance with a Trump executive order that bans transgender athletes from playing on girl's teams because the order conflicts with a state law. Yesterday at an event for state governors at the White House, Trump was speaking to the group on that topic when he asked if Governor Janet Mills of Maine was present. Yes, she spoke up, she was there. Trump then asked if the state of Maine was going to comply with his order. She replied that Maine would follow state and federal law, to which Trump responded, "Well, we are the federal law. You'd better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding if you don't."
"See you in court," the governor of Maine, a tenacious woman, snapped back at the gaseous politician in front of a room filled with her peers.
That had to hurt, but Trump will undoubtedly take comfort in the fact that the woman is obviously a DEI hire. How else could she have become a governor?
Thank you Sheryl Crow and Governor Janet Mills for speaking truth to power and standing up against the bullies. You are inspirations to us all!
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