The various federal programs that Musk is illegally sabotaging have been intentionally selected, IMO, because they are programs where the negative effects of the cuts will be much delayed, and often invisible. That cancer drug that NIH or NSF researchers were working on? Welp, it just won't exist. - ThreadSky

sethcotlar.bsky.social • 144 days ago

The various federal programs that Musk is illegally sabotaging have been intentionally selected, IMO, because they are programs where the negative effects of the cuts will be much delayed, and often invisible. That cancer drug that NIH or NSF researchers were working on? Welp, it just won't exist.

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allisontroy.bsky.social•144 days ago

Or hear me out… Grimes’s Ex-Boyfriend suddenly starts a company with all this medical research so he can profit from it.

parkerkosticak.bsky.social•144 days ago

The FAA and NOAA seem a lot less so

roldie.bsky.social•144 days ago

Some very immediate consequences to USAID fuckery as well.

ffffuchs.bsky.social•144 days ago

It's also clearly a not a good faith effort to make the govt slimmer. These idiots just search for select keywords that trigger them and cut the programmes out.

brooklynkid53bskys.bsky.social•144 days ago

True or false

most Americans
- dislike foreign aid, and have truly insane ideas about FA, such as how much we spend , so attacks on FA are in fact popular
- think Fraud, waste, abuse are a large % of Fed Budget, and will approve of efforts to cut FWA

so what Trump is doing is popular ??

drhspoliticalcafe.bsky.social•144 days ago

I think domestically at first, but things like humanitarian aid for Sudan, TB in the Philippines, etc. are going to be felt fairly quickly and cost lives quickly. Here in the US, more delayed on some of it, but not for long I think.

diffusedwavelength.bsky.social•144 days ago

Ebola decided nows the time for a comeback (in Uganda)

caelanaegana.bsky.social•144 days ago

Talk to a woman or a trans person whose doctor can't access treatment research now. That's immediate.

lunatic546.bsky.social•144 days ago

📌

mitchsolomon.bsky.social•144 days ago

The destruction is joy for them. The only break through their psyches could come in numbers-both are obsessed, whether crowd size or likes, money of course. Should masses show and dwarf their numbers, even negative attention loses its power. It’s also the only way to ensure future fair elections

hellsworth406.bsky.social•144 days ago

I was just pondering, 10 minutes ago on my drive home, how long it will take for this wrecking ball to actually impact the checked-out folks. Those coworkers who just seem amazingly clueless & carefree, the trump loving family members who suddenly realize “hey i lost access to my XYZ, what the heck!

okiest.bsky.social•144 days ago

I think that's what happened with voting in swing states. Trump was impressed by Elon's computer skills, but the reality was that MAGAts got elected to key voting districts and they just let him walk in and do what he wants.

okiest.bsky.social•144 days ago

That's why they're caught off guard that the same strategy is getting a lot of bad press.

okiest.bsky.social•144 days ago

Thank you Ron Wyden btw.

hutchingsmusic.bsky.social•144 days ago

Here's an obvious example: https://bsky.app/profile/jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social/post/3lhhytlujqk2o

sethcotlar.bsky.social•144 days ago

That rare viral disease that USAID was helping a country somewhere in the world contain? Well, when it comes to our shores (but didn't have to) we'll never know that it could have been contained by that $10 million program that Musk cut so he and his billionaire pals could pay slightly less taxes.

kat1813.bsky.social•144 days ago

joelhanes.bsky.social•144 days ago

We will not like Marburg

sethcotlar.bsky.social•144 days ago

Musk and Trump are so profoundly ignorant about how the world works, that it's likely that they will smash something along the way that will have much more visible, traceable, and immediate consequences for American citizens. Like more plane crashes, or tornado warnings not delivered on time....

peter-butler.bsky.social•144 days ago

Head Start, but since it's mostly low-income people affected, it won't be covered much

https://apnews.com/article/head-start-blackouts-trump-6e7655e56c0b451092411e7fdd1def2e

Food production/prices will be the big one

grossandnegligent.bsky.social•144 days ago

This was my hope for tariffs. Not that I want people to be hurt but if they are anyway at least it would be something immediate and traceable.

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•144 days ago

They are smashing NOAA, FAA and CIA . This has already happened. We are just waiting for the catastrophe to manifest in a plane crash, tornado or tsunami missed, or terror attack on the country.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•144 days ago

So perhaps Musk's rapid, semi-planned disassembly of the federal government (except, of course, for the military budget and the contracts he profits from personally) will politically backfire...but even if it does, so much unnecessary damage will have already been done for no good reason.

clioe21.bsky.social•144 days ago

yeah I think/hope it will; interestingly Musk seems to be leaning pretty hard on the “big govt is the reason your personal buying power is shit” narrative that the right tends to hold tightly… but there are signs of that hold loosening

tkarnos.bsky.social•144 days ago

My gov't fear is he will crash FDIC. He'll still be a rich @ss even if he lost 90% of his wealth, so what does he care?

algi.bsky.social•144 days ago

It won't even matter. A thousand plane crashes after 3 years of Trump are still all because of DEI and a million tornadoes still won't be a change in the climate because that's what their voters believe. They believe the opposite of everything even if the events are direct and obvious.

notproperty.bsky.social•144 days ago

Because they LOVE THE UNEDUCATED

bookstorememoir.bsky.social•144 days ago

Like the US Treasury breach?

sethcotlar.bsky.social•144 days ago

Exactly...though the impact of that has yet to be felt.

bookstorememoir.bsky.social•144 days ago

Yes, it seems that people haven't grasped it yet?

There's been so much hyperbole & conspiracy theory in the past 9 years, people don't able to believe warnings before things happen.

bookstorememoir.bsky.social•144 days ago

*don't seem able

dawnalene.bsky.social•144 days ago

I can’t stop thinking about Ebola since it was mentioned on a program earlier today.

alloue.bsky.social•144 days ago

Marburg

keithy.bsky.social•144 days ago

They already don't pay any taxes to speak of.

There's some sociopathic defect in people who become billionaires. They never stop grabbing up wealth they don't remotely need.

blitzthedragon.bsky.social•144 days ago

I noticed he's also targeting a lot of departments that were investigating or otherwise regulating his businesses.

clioe21.bsky.social•144 days ago

imagining how things might change should Musk himself somehow develop ALS.

joekatz45.bsky.social•144 days ago

...huh

renegadesci.bsky.social•144 days ago

Early stage drugs will be in a "valley of death" with knowledge, but no path to patent or early development. No clear patentability is no path to development.

After 1 yr of knowledge of an invention, it becomes unpatentable. It becomes non-developable with the $500,000,000 cost tag.

lucastosborne.bsky.social•144 days ago

I mean...not the Treasury or CMS payments.

sethcotlar.bsky.social•144 days ago

Yes, it'll be interesting to see if those changes begin to ripple into large numbers of citizens lives and if the disruptions we've seen already will continue and get worse.

lucastosborne.bsky.social•144 days ago

Or access to BLS data for DOL

manysoulswithin.bsky.social•144 days ago

It was to abuse people (not "punish", as they didn't do anything wrong except exist or speak up against Trump.& Musk) and attempt to threaten them into obedience. Musk is a classist and Nazi. With that access he was literally threatening and abusing everyone on his hate list.

freetomeow.bsky.social•144 days ago

I don't see how they could stay safe from the increase in communicable diseases they caused

sethcotlar.bsky.social•144 days ago

Have you heard what these people believe about Covid? Something tells me that widespread disease outbreaks are LESS likely to provoke a backlash than many other things, unfortunately.

dawnalene.bsky.social•144 days ago

Rip

jalixe.bsky.social•144 days ago

they'll blame the consequences of diseases on demons, conspiracy theories, or DEI lol

freetomeow.bsky.social•144 days ago

Sorry, when I said "they" I meant Trump and Elon and other oligarchs. I've always assumed the oligarchs in charge only used the antivaxer movement to gain power/sew chaos/kill "undesirables" and didn't believe in it. Maybe Trump is enough of a narcissist to hate vaccines after he lost

marsrover.bsky.social•144 days ago

"Can't quantify that on the next quarterly earnings call therefore it's worthless" is how our entire society prays to Mammon. It's morally reprehensible, but not at all surprising someone steered the ship of state to that compass.

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