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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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amazingamazing wrote: post #93
Trasmatta wrote: post #75

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Comments like this remind me that many Americans genuinely want a dictator It's baffling

How did you come to that conclusion from their comment?

Consolidating power in the executive branch is about creating a dictatorship. How could it be anything else? They're trying to neuter the other branches of government. Trump has explicitly and repeatedly expressed a desire to be a dictator.

Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by meowkit »

Trasmatta wrote: post #49
monero-xmr wrote: post #21

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Laws are being broken, Congress is being bypassed, and power is being consolidated by the executive branch and a private unelected citizen. The next part of the playbook is to ignore orders by the court. The goal is to dismantle democracy. The playbook is so obvious - Trump himself even said nobody would have to worry about voting for him again because they would "fix it".

Which law is being broken?

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Post by spdgg »

apsec112 wrote: post #12
chris_wot wrote: post #5

How did you Americans allow any of this?

People who read "a great deal of" political news, from any source, went for Harris by 8%. People who never read any political news went for Trump by 20%.

Much of Trump's voter base derives from people who distrust the "news". I don't blame them, and those folks would be just as quick to point out the ignorance of DNC voters, a party repeatedly shooting their supporters in the foot every election.

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Post by ctrlp »

agildehaus wrote: post #73
monero-xmr wrote: post #21

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Something like USAID is established by statute (The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). It cannot be eliminated or gutted by executive order. Sidestepping this, which is happening left and right currently, is democracy failing.

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Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

root_axis wrote: post #31
chris_wot wrote: post #5

How did you Americans allow any of this?

The voters chose it. Those that voted against it lost. The courts have superpowered the executive and he is taking full advantage of it. The system is working as designed.

You had me until "The system is working as designed."

The system is most definitely not working as designed, primarily because Congress has completely abdicated their congressional duty as a co-equal branch of government. Their are good congressional reasons why high-level advisors to the president need to be approved by the Senate. The fact that Musk and his cabal are doing an end run around this congressional requirement by posing as some sort of "special government employee" or whatever is laughable.

Never mind that funding can't just be cancelled because the executive branch doesn't want to spend it, and that is completely contrary to the "power of the purse" that is the purview of Congress.

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