A private citizen who holds no office effectively stealing the U.S. government's checkbook is the kind of thing that's so audacious it doesn't even compute that's what is happening.
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If Musk can stop all government payments then he can also redirect them to wherever he wants. Before breakfast he could wipeout the US Treasury and cause a global catastrophe of biblical proportions. But the media is distracted by 2 plane crashes and also congress took a long weekend.
Well, if Dem leaders got out there and framed it that “a billionaire and his sycophants are rummaging around your personal & banking data” it might perk some ears up. But no. We can’t do that. I want to scream!!
Just like in 30’s Germany, they’ll make the US population so miserable that going to war against Greenland, Panama, Canada, NATO, will seem like the only option. It’s the exact same playbook, find a bad guy(immigrants), deplete the treasury, destroy the economy, make the rest of the world hate you.
He didn't STEAL anything.. it was HANDED to him by a Treasury Secretary confirmed by the US Senate AND nominated by a Party & President elected by less than 50% of the American people (who actually voted). We did this all to ourselves!! Either knowingly (MAGA) or unwittingly (Opting out)
You should know history. If you want to compare him with artifacts from the past, you should call him Goebbels. Gestapo is a completely different thing.
Carper tone? It’s just a statement, that’s all. It’s criticism. And it’s an important one if we want to fight Muskolini. The Gestapo was an organization, it was the state police of Germany. Goebbels was responsible for the propaganda and that is exactly what Musk is doing right now, even in Germany.
He’s Goebbels on a much larger scale and that’s why he is so dangerous.
If we want to understand what is going on right now, it’s important not to use comparisons lightly. That’s exactly what is in the sentence: know your history. So we can make a better future.
And talking about the Gestapo: with Trump attacking and taking over the biggest and most powerful police organization (the FBI), the US is in an imminent danger of having their own Gestapo.
It should be all hands on deck but the Democrats are sleep walking.
I happened to see @msnbc.com cover this just now, and it’s was beyond irresponsible. The only adjective they used to describe it was “dumb,” making light of it and in no way communicating just how dangerous this is. Even the most “informed” voters would have no idea of the stakes and consequences.
This is how it starts. This is a Worldwide concern that must be resisted by all legitimate means possible, in as coordinated a manner as possible, to stop the dangerous authoritarian anti- democratic trend from spreading further.
Amazing that this isn't the boldfaced headline in every publication in the US. It's in the NYT, but of course the story downplays the insanity and crisis of having Musk and his cronies in control of every dime to government disburses. Incredible
A combination of cowardice, corruption, and normalcy bias seems to have completely neutralized American society’s willingness to defend our system of government and our basic rights enshrined in the Constitution.
And it appears that our news gathering and reporting infrastructure is so degraded that the biggest heist every to happen is getting page six coverage.
I am definitely calling my Congressman!! This is NOT NORMAL ACCEPTABLE OR LEGAL! Our hard work for someone NOT even born on this soil to just take our money and personal information! HELL NO!
There is zero reporting about what’s going on in right wing media. None. Please talk to family and friends AND go to right wing media to post there about what Trump and Musk are doing, because the right is in the middle of a media blackout and they will not know what’s happening unless we tell them.
American capitalism. We have almost no publicly-funded media, it's almost all owned by a few large publicly-traded corporations, all of which view news as a legacy side business.
I think it's time for the Democrats to hire consultants from democracies with recent struggles against dictatorships on how to fight this. For long, USAID has guided foreigners on how to 'do democracy'. It's time for some return favor.
The only actual power/ability Musk arguably has is a high risk tolerance. This is what I find most concerning because I believe he just bet the farm. He wins and rules the US, he loses by being detained physically and never seeing freedom again. Those are go for broke odds.
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Cables today not even covering. Missing the story.
Ps. Less of the carper tone in you replies would be nice.
Have a nice day 👍
If we want to understand what is going on right now, it’s important not to use comparisons lightly. That’s exactly what is in the sentence: know your history. So we can make a better future.
I’m suggesting the stealing of data is more Gestapo. But I guess he can kind of be both here. No?
It should be all hands on deck but the Democrats are sleep walking.
But then again, too few to mention.
They did what Trump asked
And saw it through without exemption
Project 2025 planned each charted course Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
they did it Leon’s way
What they plan next is not benevolent