Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Elon Musk is “one of the only people in the world” who could build Houston’s much-needed tunnel system for flood water mitigation. But Musk's Boring Company has never completed a major public project in Texas.
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Dumbass still praising the psychopath scamlord. Try harder.
sep 1, 2025, 3:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Great graphic.
sep 1, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
the Boring Company has never completed "a major project" *anywhere*
sep 1, 2025, 3:16 pm • 21 1 • view
Certainly not a useful one, anyway
sep 1, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, nice of the cartoonist yo draw him so slender
sep 1, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
(...or anywhere else, is my understanding)
sep 1, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Next year Musk promised to send an unmanned rocket to Mars and land people on the moon. Drilling humongous holes into the earth will be a breeze. If Musk wants to go the hell, there are other options.
sep 2, 2025, 3:44 am • 0 0 • view
Sounds like a $$$$ funneling project. 🙄 Is Musk & his College Flunky hackers going to fix the TX election again in exchange? There was Federal Funding given to TX by the Biden Administration last year. What happened to that $$$$, that conveniently disappeared?
sep 1, 2025, 3:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, that's a scam company.
sep 1, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Patrick is, of course, lying. Look at Chicago's very successful Deep Tunnel project. Zero Musk involvement.
sep 1, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
When all their groundwater disappears and Houston is a vast wasteland...I wonder if Musk will pay up? Just kidding. Only the people who live there will pay.
sep 1, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
How about flood sirens first?
sep 1, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Houston and Kerr County are quite far apart.
sep 1, 2025, 5:23 pm • 0 0 • view
This city floods every time a mild shower comes. Dan is scum
sep 1, 2025, 3:03 pm • 6 0 • view
From Wikipedia: Accomplishments of the boring co: The Boring test tunnel, or Hawthorne test tunnel is a 1.14 miles (1.83 km) tunnel in Hawthorne, California, for testing hyperloop and "loop-based transportation".[3] It was completed by The Boring Company in late 2018.
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The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop (LVCC Loop) is an underground car tunnel system that serves the Las Vegas Convention Center. Operating since 2021, the system uses Tesla Model Y vehicles to shuttle passengers among eight stations.
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In February 2024,[11] following investigation, the Boring Company was issued eight violations and fined $112,000 by OSHA, which the company is contesting.[12] Subsequently, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) has assumed an active safety monitoring role in the project. [13]
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That April, the Boring Company was named among the "Dirty Dozen" workplace safety offenders by the National Council of Occupational Safety and Health.[12]
sep 1, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Patrick is a fucking moron
sep 1, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
he's got the boring part down pat.
sep 1, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Didnt Texas just have a flood? Do they need a engineered one too?
sep 1, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s all a grift!
sep 1, 2025, 7:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are bought and paid for by Musk's money.
sep 1, 2025, 3:03 pm • 3 0 • view
FYI #FollowTheMoney en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Veg.... Public money was used to build the tunnels and stations, and the system does not generate revenue from riders. In fact, the LVCVA is reported to be paying The Boring Company an additional $4.5 million annually for operational expenses.
sep 1, 2025, 3:42 pm • 1 0 • view
$53000000.00 in "public funds" for the 1.7 mile tunnel
sep 1, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
One more thing. Don't come to Nevada for ANY reason. The governor is allowing ice and the military to disappear people not yt from the streets, in the United States of America.
sep 1, 2025, 3:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Musks boring company has only successfully completed a very short line in Vegas. But plenty of municipalities have legal action going for his tunnel boring contracts that he never fulfilled.
sep 1, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
$53000000.00 paid to boring with "public funds" for 1.7 miles, with an additional $4.500000.00 due annually
sep 1, 2025, 3:49 pm • 1 0 • view
And in exchange for the tunnel contract at taxpayer expense, Musk will fund their reelection campaigns to make sure the taxpayers keep paying their axes and have fewer rights every day….
sep 2, 2025, 12:42 am • 1 0 • view
Sounds like the usual stupidity from that guy. Every city of any size in the country has water and sewer tunnels, many that are much bigger, built by numerous construction firms.
sep 1, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The should check his companies track record for completing jobs....
sep 1, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
No, it’s a grift! The taxpayers will be lining their pockets with nothing to show for it.
sep 1, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably at least the engineers & contractors who designed and built the Dallas Stormwater tunnel.
sep 1, 2025, 3:05 pm • 5 0 • view
There’s a bribe somewhere in this story.
sep 1, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
If you want to mitigate floodwater, wouldn't you go and ask for advice from a country that's famous for it rather than a billionaire pillock?
sep 1, 2025, 3:14 pm • 8 0 • view
Exactly, the Dutch.
sep 1, 2025, 4:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Musk must feel sweet knowing he has the support of the 3'rd most corrupt politician in Texas!
sep 1, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Why the qualifier "in Texas"? Have they ever completed a major public project anywhere? (Do the short tunnels in Las Vegas and Los Angeles count as "major"?)
sep 1, 2025, 10:53 pm • 1 0 • view
That's the thing about Dan Patrick. He never lets actual facts keep him from saying something stupid. And he never met an authoritarian plutocrat he couldn't worship. He apparently thinks that if he can hang in the muskman circle long enough, he'll get musk-level rich by osmosis.
sep 1, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
"Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says..." Who gives a flying fuck what he says...
sep 1, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Harris County must reject the project in its entirety if Musk is going to be imposed on it.
sep 1, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Elon’s going to crash their already fragile energy grid.
sep 1, 2025, 3:02 pm • 9 0 • view
Better than what's happening right now, which is: nothing. 8 years since the $3 billion study, and zero progress. Nobody, apparently, is doing major public projects. If Boring can build part of it - way below budgeted estimates - everyone wins.
sep 1, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Musk could reasonably be expected to take that amount in place of a contractor offering to do it for a third. Subsequently, he might well be assumed to half-ass the job, and instead funnel the money into Space-X.
sep 1, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I think they should have him do it. Just him. Give him a shovel and a hard hat and get him started. He's the only one who can do it, right? Then only he can do it.
sep 1, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
I would pay good money to watch Musk slave away underderground each day of the rest of his life.
sep 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
This is also the same ass that said, during Covid, the elderly should be ready to die for young people since they’ve already lived a full life!
sep 1, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Have they thought about possible side effects of undermining Houston w/tunnels drilled in the porous limestone substrate? Will it matter if it is filled with water from the Gulf of Mexico penetrating it? What will happen as the water level of the Gulf rises? Is this a 1/2 ass idea or well studied?
sep 1, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
So Texas is about to literally get screwed. A whole bunch of money will be allocated to this project. It’ll die after millions are spent on feasibility/exploratory studies, or turn into a billion$ boondoggle, and it’ll never get completed. Elon will make $$$$$ Meanwhile, the Texas power grid fails
sep 1, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Remember the Big Dig in Boston? The cost overruns, the delays. And you're gonna try the same shit in Houston where it floods and there are hurricanes? That's some bold shit to try to pull off that massive a grift, because any idiot knows it ain't gonna work.
sep 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
But, Musk has never completed a major public project. There fixed it.
sep 1, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol. Texas is so dumb. "building in a swamp has caused Flooding, let's just keep doing that and build massive tunnels underneath"
sep 1, 2025, 3:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey, Texans, where do you think Elon and Patrick are going to dump that excess flood water? Isn't that area of TX rather flat? Who are they going to flood to save the city? Dumping in the bay only works if you include backflow protection, otherwise high tides are a problem, yes?
sep 1, 2025, 3:08 pm • 2 1 • view
Still not buying a Tesla.
sep 1, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Musk flops on infrastructure projects like this. He will take your government contract and abandon the project. He is a con man that only a fool would fall for now.
sep 1, 2025, 3:02 pm • 25 2 • view
He says that because men love being financially scammed by rich men. It's gender-affirming care for capitalists.
sep 1, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
In truth the Dutch are the masters of water management. musk is just a Nazi con man loved by Texass Nazis. He's never done any water management and he's no genius.
sep 1, 2025, 4:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Has the Boring Company completed any major projects?
sep 1, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Is it really called the Boring Company?
sep 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
this is the dude that walked a sink into twitter headquarters for a moldy pun. this is absolutely definitely the name and he thinks it's clever and funny but maybe we should be glad he didn't name it "x marks the spot"
sep 1, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Dan Patrick is about to learn the hard way that Elon cannot, in fact, build a tunnel system for flood water mitigation.
sep 1, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 1 • view
Has that company ever completed a project?
sep 1, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is not wrong that there's no one who can dig himself a bigger hole than Elon Musk.
sep 1, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I am sure texas is going to make me the us taxpayer pay for this they are as bad as Israel
sep 1, 2025, 8:19 pm • 0 0 • view
For trafficking. 🧐
sep 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I would be the Corps of Engineers could do this, and that they would do it right.
sep 1, 2025, 3:05 pm • 8 0 • view
They're involved, but as oversight. See article.
sep 1, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Let alone the rest of the US. #Musk once tried to build a massive hyperloop project in #California that would reduce travel times from LA to SF by a lot, but it all fell through.
sep 1, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Dan Patrick is an evil SOB. His death will be celebrated
sep 1, 2025, 3:03 pm • 10 0 • view
I hear he's good at scattering rocket debris.
sep 1, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The Vegas Hyperloop should be the proverbial canary in the coal mine, but cronyism is a hell of a drug
sep 1, 2025, 3:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Bingo.
sep 1, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Dumbfuqs can't destroy Texas fast enough.
sep 1, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
It's just another way for politicians to give Musk money The project will be touted as "the biggest most beautiful blah blah" with multiple pressers about it, vids of equipment coming in with great fan fair..then shoddy work never completed
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