Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall gets what most Big Journalism organizations refuse to consider, much less acknowledge:
"Musk Is In Charge of the US Government"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/not-hyperbole-anymore-musk-is-in-charge-of-the-us-government
Our "news" orgs have barely begun to spot brush fires, much less the reality: Everything is burning.
"Musk Is In Charge of the US Government"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/not-hyperbole-anymore-musk-is-in-charge-of-the-us-government
Our "news" orgs have barely begun to spot brush fires, much less the reality: Everything is burning.
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For Musk, the US govt is just a node in the larger roadmap of a specific goal he has (getting to Mars? "Network States"? I don't know w it is)
If he can gain control of it, he can config it to his needs
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That's not it at all.
He wants to break it down & reconfig it so it serves his needs.
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How could someone even think that way?
If he breaks it, he won't just hurt hundreds of thousands of fed workers. He'll destroy the lives of millions of Americans.
It's totally inconceivable to someone who doesn't get how some of these tech lords think.
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None of us are real to him.
He has a plan. This is a node along the plan. If he can capture it and reconfig it, and then achieve his goal (Mars? N.States? Something else?) that's all that matters.
And again, yes, I know how bananas this sounds.
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Did he get Trump to issue this DOGE/Fed Workforce EO today bc he cares abt making govt work better?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-works-to-remake-americas-federal-workforce/
No, he got it bc it allows him to strip the whole thing down...
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“If you read any Peter Thiel, any of their stuff, this is what they talk about: The destruction of a liberal democracy and then starting from scratch with a unified CEO theory, which is essentially a dictatorship….
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