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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by throwworhtthrow »

monero-xmr wrote: post #21
Trasmatta wrote: post #9

> On his personal Substack, he wrote an essay titled “Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America,” according to press reports, and described failed U.S. attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from Congress amid allegations of sexual misconduct, as a “victim” of the deep state. The fact that nobody is stopping these people is the clearest evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as "the dee…

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Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign and his voters believed him. If democracy worked, he would be held accountable for this enormous bait-and-switch.

> root out corruption and waste, fraud, and abuse

That is not what they are doing by most accounts.

Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by adamtaylor_13 »

Trasmatta wrote: post #22
adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of us don’t agree with the rampant waste in our government. Some of us also don’t have faith that the system can fix itself without drastic measures like this. I’ll admit I’m wrong if and when it turns out that I am. Until then, I’m cheering it on.

If you think this is actually about "rampant waste in our government" then you are incredibly naive.

I’ve heard lots of people say that, and you’re entitled to that opinion. But I have yet to hear a single coherent argument explaining why that’s the case.

I’m open minded but so far all I’ve heard is Musk/Trump haters clanging the alarm that somehow they’re going to take over the government or ruin America or whatever. With no explanation and no facts to back it up.

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Post by rdtsc »

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%.

Only if political news media is somehow a neutral, purely unbiased source that just tells plain facts, sure. "They are just not informed", "they are stupid", etc. If the media is partisan or biased, the situation reverses, and now the Harris voters are living in some media bubble with their own cnns, reddits and other friendly outposts, and then scratching their heads at the outcome in the end -- "How could this possibly be? All our polls were predicting a win. Maybe if we had 35 indictments instead of 34, that would have tipped the balance, for sure".

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Post by sour-taste »

DOGE is what you get when you take the performance management culture of big tech and apply it to government. Make big changes with 0 testing then no matter the outcome brag loudly about it. Move fast and break things indeed

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Post by Trasmatta »

monero-xmr wrote: post #21
Trasmatta wrote: post #9

> On his personal Substack, he wrote an essay titled “Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America,” according to press reports, and described failed U.S. attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from Congress amid allegations of sexual misconduct, as a “victim” of the deep state. The fact that nobody is stopping these people is the clearest evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as "the dee…

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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".

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Post by ClarityGuy »

Trasmatta wrote: post #9

> On his personal Substack, he wrote an essay titled “Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America,” according to press reports, and described failed U.S. attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from Congress amid allegations of sexual misconduct, as a “victim” of the deep state. The fact that nobody is stopping these people is the clearest evidence anyone needs that there's no such thing as "the dee…

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