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Musk’s Rats
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Shitler Youth
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AI doesn’t get physically ill.
AI doesn’t get hungry.
Well damn…
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Robert Reich on why Congressional Republicans are so spineless (and also I think, a big reason most Dems are too).
Friends,
Musk and his associates have not only burrowed into the Treasury’s payments system; they are now burrowing into the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration.
They are gaining access to the most sensitive personal information about Americans available anywhere, along with computer code capable of altering that information and those systems. The Muskrats have been able to turn off government funding without Congress’s consent, even in the face of federal court orders to turn the funding back on.
This is blatantly illegal, yet Congress remains silent.
Congress is supine because Republicans are in charge, and Musk has also become Trump’s hatchet man — threatening Republican members of Congress if they deviate from Trump.
Iowa’s Republican Senator Joni Ernst was firmly set against Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense until Musk hinted that he’d finance a primary challenger to Ernst, who’s up for reelection next year. Presto: Ernst supported Hegseth.
Indiana’s Republican Senator Todd Young expressed concern about the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence until Musk tweeted against him. A besieged Young spoke with JD Vance, who arranged a call with Musk. Presto: Young announced he would back Gabbard.
Musk warned Republican lawmakers in December that he was compiling a “naughty list” of members who buck Trump’s agenda. He also pledged shortly after Election Day that his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries” next year.
A Republican senator told The Hill that Musk’s wealth makes primary threats “a bigger deal.”
Musk’s financial and political power have been enough to intimidate even the mainstream media. An advertisement set to run in The Washington Post yesterday calling for Musk to be fired from his role in government was abruptly canceled, according to Common Cause, one of the groups that had ordered the ad. When asked why the Post had pulled the ad, the Post said it was not at liberty to give a reason.
When and if America ever wrests back control of our government, we must remember this: The combination of great wealth and great power — epitomized by Elon Musk — is destroying American democracy.
Oligarchy is the enemy of democracy.
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Musk’s Goon(ie) Squad
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We’ll see if the Pentagon takes it lying down or if they resist it.
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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/pentagon-layoffs-expected-to-begin-soon-report/3486182
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I can’t understand how Mr. Musk and his thounsand youngs became this irresistible, unstoppable force. I, like the rest of the world, grew up seeing how Americans love a courtroom, so much so that they make hundreds and hundreds of movies and TV shows about heroic judges, lawyers, and police officers. How can a culture that loves litigation accept this kind of thing without complaining?
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Some percentage of us agree with what they’re doing (though not a majority) and many of us do not trust the courts (for rather good reasons, such as favoring rich white men), and many of us do not really understand how our own political and legal systems work. It’s kind of a perfect storm of ignorance, malice, and those of us screaming for the courts to do something being ignored.
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Americans used to love a courtroom.
Americans used to love a courtroom on tv and some people still make movies and shows for that little demographic wherever they are.
Americans since I was 18 have loved a tough army guy who hunts down evil people lurking among us and tortures and kills them, sometimes rescuing woman and children and sometimes simply using their deaths as sexual/emotional/moral fodder and a chance to see some fan service.
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Courts are slow and deliberate. Nothing Trump and Musk is doing is slow or deliberate. They also don’t care what the courts say.
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Dude only owns 9.3% now after buying more and everyone was calling him the owner of the company for years.
They should accept the buyout. But it probably just a new bullshit Wharton deal where he only owns 5% and says he owns the company.
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“The initial accounting was overstated by billions of dollars, a review by CBS News found.
Among the errors were contracts that DOGE identified for cuts, saying the move could save billions for taxpayers. But they were actually standard government funding vehicles called “indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity” contracts. The DOGE team misread these specialized contracts, experts told CBS News, and as a result overstated their push for savings by as much as $1.96 billion.
A closer inspection of another big so-called savings: the cancellation of a contract DOGE identified as worth $8 billion was in fact worth only $8 million. This single mistake slashed the receipts of savings DOGE said it had identified in half — to $8.4 billion. ”
Fucking buffoons.
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Yeah, this is a cluster fuck of epic proportions. Idiots leading idiots pandering to idiots.
The more I think of it, the more this strikes me as a group of people who never progressed developmentally past high school or college. They maybe became class president, or team captain, possibly an RA or TA, but that is the limit of their understanding of governance. They think they are geniuses who kept the school running smoothly, without ever understanding what the dean did, or facilities management, or accounting and payroll, or HR, or recruiting, or any of a hundred positions, contracts, and tasks operating quietly and efficiently in the background ensuring their pampered experience.
Or of libertarians taking over a city in New Hampshire only to wonder whose job it is to take care of the bears.
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I’m thinking that they were never successful at anything that required thinking about people.
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