In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"
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Not unless China decides to play good guy. Nazis lost because Europe fought back and America finally silenced the Nazis in our government long enough to fight back.
Our Dem pols have given up already. They’re more concerned with not losing Nazi votes than fighting Nazis.
Elon is mistaken. The Department of Education does still exist but in our government UNTIL the elected representatives and senators vote on its dissolution.
Maybe immigrant musk should read our constitution and familiarize himself with our laws, which clearly state that only Congress has the power to get rid of a department.
Musk is more of a dictator than Trump ever dreamed of. Trump doesn't give a shit about the Department of Education but Musk wants these departments under his complete control so he can utterly destroy them. And we're letting him destroy whatever he hates.
Elon Musk eliminated the Department of Education? America is gonna be the greatest #ShitholeCountry in the world ... with uneducated, mediocre white men being in charge of everything ... it's DEI for ignorant, know-it-all bigots, racists, sexists, and mansplainers. #TrumpIsAFascist #MuskIsAFascist
Well, I guess I live in the same fantasy land he does and I’ve just forgiven myself of the over $100,000 in student loans I have from 1 undergrad and 2 masters. 🤷🏻♀️
When this guy has his inevitable fall, I'll be curious to hear from his former sycophants spilling the dirt as to which/how much drugs he is on. The "I can do anything, I'm invincible!" & desperate trolling looks very familiar if you've known anyone hooked on uppers.
A quick perusal of drug forums on Reddit or other parts of the internet will attest to the fact that abusing disassociatives like ketamine can easily lead to disastrous states of grandiosity. If he’s also doing something like adderall then, oh man… I just hope he has his “fall” before killing us all
Yeah, I know he famously does ketamine, but his demeanor is absolutely classic "Tech dweeb who snorts adderal 4x daily and is starting to lose his handle on it". Extremely common type of guy.
Exactly my guess would be that adderall is the Daily and he “takes the edge off” with micro dose K and weed. This. Was an extremely common club kid combo in the early 90s lotta overlap there
We have to all remember & maintain that they can’t kill these departments on a whim. It’s a lot harder than that. Their strategy is to pretend it’s dead & hope we don’t push back. It’s a bluff that only becomes real if we accept it as true
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I don’t understand what’s going on. Why is there such casual, pedestrian response that something as much as this is happening? I feel like we’re sleep walking into disaster
But it seems like all Musk needs to do is stop payments to it and the department will stop functioning and while good folks sue to get payments reinstated the DoE will become a gutted shell of what it once was.
They want us too poor to buy food, shot up by each other's guns, sick from disease, etc. Gone. He wants everyone gone except himself and the richest of the rich.
President musk doesn't understand how our government works.
Or he does but says fuckit because he's got immunity.
Meanwhile, the GOP is on board and happy to give FOTUS their power for some strange reason
Maybe they really didn't mean it when they took the oath to protect and defend the Constitution
They ha January 6th, I think it's our turn. Let's determine where these assholes are going next, and storm it as "peacefully " as they did. If not, once they gut ANYTHING of the veterans, this shit will resolve itself.
Asshole is doubling down. He does not give a shit about anyone but himself. Just trolling everyone while he digs around in democracy and dismantles it.
He is making a mockery out of every single one of those bitch ass GOP Senators and congress members who want to sit back quietly and do the biding of a criminal while aiding and abetting the criminal.
Anyone on x is serving elon by either keeping your followers on his platform, or, worse, by giving him fodder to respond to. This is driving his actions. He wants to be engage and win. I beg you @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, get off x and lead your followers off x too. Drown them out by ignoring them.
I say/ask the same thing just about every hour all day. Who in the fuck is this Afrikaner to think he can step in & tear down 🇺🇸 & the fed system? Who gave this MF power?
For Americans who claim that they don’t like 2b told what to do and/or are soooo independent, they are taking this 💩 with ease.
Congressman...I'm certainly curious to know...Why on Earth don't you folks call the police, U.S. Marshals, 1 of the few remaining FBI Agents, someone... On acct. they're restricting Congress, trespassing, & technically break & enter (NOT Gov't emp)?!?
U.S. Marshals, FBI Agents, & Capitol Police also have big guns & bullet proof vests!! They are Congress members & have a right to access bldg.!! Also, it's a PUBLIC BLDG OUR TAX DOLLARS PAID FOR meaning ANY citizen ESPECIALLY Congress can enter!! And... They're the wallet!! No entry = No paycheck!!
Marshals and FBI are under command of Executive. I don't know if Capitol Police or DC Metro have jurisdiction. Capitol are under command of Sgt at Arms. Metro🤷♀️. Anyway, somebody's got to dispatch them. So somebody's got to ask the responsible party to.
I wish dems would leave Elon’s app. I understand why, but it still doesn’t make it right. You give him reasons to post lies, taunt you and have his supporters send the worst replies.
I have tried deleting my acct on that shit site. It doesn’t happen. They e something in their system keeping it from deleting the acct. I’m trying to go through and delete all comments except sorry for your loss, happy birthday, etc. it’s a fucking nightmare.
Honestly, idk. I don’t even know if deleting the account is worthwhile as my understanding is they download all of it anyway. I just changed my privacy settings this far. Going to try the desktop removal.
That happened to us, although it was last fall. I couldn't delete it while using my Iphone and I couldn't delete my mom's from her Ipad. It just wouldn't let us. However, I got on a desktop and was able to do it.
That's the thing though. He tweets and suddenly doors are locked and people are getting fired, even though everyone says its illegal. Is that really all it took to push the US over the edge? A couple of rich guys signing bits of paper and suddenly magical thinking manifests reality?
Meanwhile, The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented," says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. "They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day."https://spaceweather.com/
This cruelty is intentional. The cruelty is the point. It’s about power, consolidation of wealth and power, and the oligarchs and religious fascist nationalists taking over our country
, quite similar to how the oligarchs took over Russia after USSR
I know this sounds ridiculous but he takes credit for wining the election and has this supposed power to liquidate departments. How long until he just says it’s all his for real?
It’s the gleefulness of his campaign of destruction that really makes me sick. The cadre of racist preppies, the constant trolling, the ignorance of what government even does, is such a fucking slap in the face.
Because it's true. Elon is trolling DC dems who are doing performative stunts because the base demands it. That's the downside that was entirely predictable.
Protests should be regular people not DC dems.
As a career K-12 teacher, I can confirm that the Dept. of Education does exist. They may be under a Harry Potter cloak of invisibility hiding from DOGE but they are pretty key to a functioning education system. Small department in the grand scheme of things but their reach is mighty.
Countdown to: "Look at me, I'm the captain now."
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Musk is pushing the narrative that his non-existent "Department" of Government Efficiency -- named after a joke/meme crypto/grifto "currency" (DOGE) -- has replaced the three branch government with an unelected unitary executive (a dictatorship).
... so powerful and so much of his own creation that Trump only gets mentioned in the second post of what would otherwise not even have been a threaded response.
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And, hey, Elon: Barkhad Abdi wore it better, way better.
Just imagine being the richest person in the world, with all the possibilities such a position grants you. All the good you could do. And what does Musk do with it? Being the world's biggest drug-addicted lying shitposter, revelling in making ordinary people's lives miserable. Fucking prick.
But isn't being "the world's biggest drug-addicted lying shitposter, revelling in making ordinary people's lives miserable. Fucking prick." how he got to be the richest person in the world in the first place???
Ooh, bad news for Elon, actually. No more student loans?? That over $1 trillion he can’t cut from the budget for his tax cuts! Now it’s gone. According to the holders, they can now claim it’s been “altered,” and refuse to pay. Not to mention there’s no one to talk to!
What I find disturbing: if the media and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social do not identify who this guy is and who placed him there and what security organization is he part.
Elon is saying it's been erased from the ledger. Officially speaking, it doesn't exist. Elon is a reckless fool, but he is also extremely powerful now that he's reached into the guts of the government and installed god knows what.
That would indeed de facto dissove the department. Just wonder how Elmo and his minions can repool funds that have already been appropriated and allocated to that department by congress? Cal Elmo and his little brownshirts act as congress? Or even shove congress aside?
So now the abolishment of any Department can be done with a statement from President Musk? Congress is not involved any longer? Good to know. 😡 WTAF is happening??
Musk is definitely no genius - if there is no such department then why does this building exist, why is there a skinhead blocking the entrance, and why were DOGE stooges adamant about gaining access?
Independent journalists are streaming it on YouTube. I did find one US channel that's showing the rallies at the buildings he has infiltrated (LiveNOW from FOX, surprisingly). Local newspapers here and there. I believe it will become too big to ignore soon.
Our media is compromised, so they aren’t showing the protests there have been, and they’re also downplaying all of this so a lot of folks are out there living their lives with nary a clue that we’re all walking into a buzzsaw. 🤬
There have been a bunch of protests all over, people are at these government buildings and LA students have been having massive walk-outs all week, there as a bunch yesterday in the capitols…the media just isn’t reporting it. They are capitulating to trump.
Because a large group of people here have no idea what is happening because mainstream media doesn’t report it and many don’t care to know. If this doesn’t turn around, it will be a cruel spring and summer.
I'm disabled (and I know he's coming after my SSD), I'm right beside you. Even if I were still able-bodied I'd be right beside you. Those are the first programs states would cut if they were 100% funding education.
IF, you are legally allowed to entered the building - push your way in.
They will all scurry like rats.
They are using your polite allegiance to social norms against you. Musk has gotten this far because nobody is fighting back at an equal level. He’s probably amazed himself at how far he’s gone.
The level of thuggery and vandalism is off the scale. How long will the country put up with this? Do people not realise how much they need the institutions? They voted for and released a catastrophe on their own families and friends. The utter stupidity of it all is beyond comprehension.
Pathetic attempt at a troll, or Musk is so drugged out of his mind this afternoon he actually thought the DoE doesn't exist because a moron declared it? Only you can decide!
Someone has to put Elon Musk in his place. Where are the republicans? This man was not elected. He is destroying your country. Dems are trying to fight back. Republicans are turtling. Pathetic cowards.
Our loan information has been compromised by someone we never elected. The amount looks fraudulent, over inflated, and I did not agree to these terms. Get a lot of citizens on a civil case.
You just know he's walking around, showing the tweet on his phone screen to all of the teenagers he's recruited to vandalize the federal government, and holding it in front of them until they laugh
That's the fantasist's technique: imagining something is true makes it true. It's worked for this billionaire asshole before. He's going to find out that other people's ideas also carry weight.
Someone should write back to Elon Musk and say: Are you claiming Donald Trump is senile? Why did he nominate a secretary for a dept that doesn’t exist?
Don’t listen to frat boy! It exists and they’re just trying to create chaos.
This is a weak man’s attempt at governing.
A real president and his administration would never do anything like this.
Don’t obey in advance!!!
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There will be a Nuremberg Trial for Musk and Trump and their cronies, one day.
Our Dem pols have given up already. They’re more concerned with not losing Nazi votes than fighting Nazis.
Musk is lying (or as the hip edgelords called it in 2007, "trolling").
No point in being on there.
The
Fuck
Up
where are its offices located?
what is its charter?
who are its officers?
where can i find its bylaws, policies, and procedures?
by what authority does it act?
to whom is it accountable?
to what oversight is it subject?
just asking questions"
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But it seems like all Musk needs to do is stop payments to it and the department will stop functioning and while good folks sue to get payments reinstated the DoE will become a gutted shell of what it once was.
Or he does but says fuckit because he's got immunity.
Meanwhile, the GOP is on board and happy to give FOTUS their power for some strange reason
Maybe they really didn't mean it when they took the oath to protect and defend the Constitution
Enough bad things can't happen to Musk.
For Americans who claim that they don’t like 2b told what to do and/or are soooo independent, they are taking this 💩 with ease.
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Congressman...I'm certainly curious to know...Why on Earth don't you folks call the police, U.S. Marshals, 1 of the few remaining FBI Agents, someone... On acct. they're restricting Congress, trespassing, & technically break & enter (NOT Gov't emp)?!?
I agree. It's reprehensible they were stopped.
anger is a gift
This cruelty is intentional. The cruelty is the point. It’s about power, consolidation of wealth and power, and the oligarchs and religious fascist nationalists taking over our country
, quite similar to how the oligarchs took over Russia after USSR
Protests should be regular people not DC dems.
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Musk is pushing the narrative that his non-existent "Department" of Government Efficiency -- named after a joke/meme crypto/grifto "currency" (DOGE) -- has replaced the three branch government with an unelected unitary executive (a dictatorship).
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And, hey, Elon: Barkhad Abdi wore it better, way better.
Dude has a void within himself, he cannot satisfy.
Cool
Call your republicans and fire Elon
It’s shocking to watch the USA government be ripped to bits in a matter of days. Shocking, but not surprising.
I just don't think that "patiently waiting" and "decorum" are really an effective strategy here.
Somebody needs to start putting these damn fires out.
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
He is violation of Federal Law.
They will all scurry like rats.
They are using your polite allegiance to social norms against you. Musk has gotten this far because nobody is fighting back at an equal level. He’s probably amazed himself at how far he’s gone.
He is on a power trip.
Republicans are complicit in the coup against our federal government.
America? Strongest country in the world? Can't even deal with an orange dementia patient and someone with the brain capacity of my cat
that his DOGE does NOT EXIST!
Feel like it's a chance to wipe out a lot of poor and middle class debt.
https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/education-sec-nominee-linda-mcmahon-testifies-at-confirmation-hearing/655487
This is a weak man’s attempt at governing.
A real president and his administration would never do anything like this.
Don’t obey in advance!!!