Musk has rejected Congress's powers and appointed himself illegally as the sole arbiter of federal spending. What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following. www.salon.com/2025/02/04/h... - ThreadSky

amandamarcotte.bsky.social • 96 days ago

Musk has rejected Congress's powers and appointed himself illegally as the sole arbiter of federal spending.

What makes it even scarier: He's crowdsourcing his ideas of what to cut to the Hitler fanboys and QAnoners that make up his Twitter following.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/hitler-actually-had-some-good-ideas-musks-covert-coup-is-guided-by-internet/

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elliosenor.bsky.social•96 days ago

If you have a list of good ideas Hitler had, and that list didn’t begin and end with “killed himself,” maybe you shouldn’t be let near an even barely functioning democracy.

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

Read the article! It offers context

piratesandpoets.bsky.social•96 days ago

This Nazi is the President while the functional illiterate plays one for TV.

d3rrick.bsky.social•96 days ago

I'm old enough to remember when US government spending was controlled by Congress and not by a South African billionaire.

carcarhenline.bsky.social•95 days ago

He’s not just a billionaire. He’s a villianaire.

vallahha.bsky.social•96 days ago

Some people forget that Hitler had his own cabinet, and one, Joseph Goebbels, was the one who came up with the master plan to destroy the Jews, Communists and Gypsy's, by the use of crematoriums, and he wrote everything down in what was known as The Goebbels Diaries. He died in Hitlers Bunker.

woollahra.bsky.social•96 days ago

"Hitler had some good ideas". Sure - but you know what the problem was? his worst ideas totally undid any benefit they may have brought. AND FAR MORE.

zoopaul.bsky.social•96 days ago

Hitler's best idea was the last one he had.

woollahra.bsky.social•96 days ago

9x19mm parabellum is very good medication for deranged minds.

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

Toss a read on it! Knowing the context just really helps make your comments more interesting and well informed, rather than simply reacting to a headline.

woollahra.bsky.social•96 days ago

I'm reading it and it pushes little new that I haven't been piecing together over the past weekend, although the revelation that actual neo-Nazis are guiding the world's dumbest actual billionaire (sorry, Trump, you don't count) in wrecking shit is chilling.

woollahra.bsky.social•96 days ago

also: Kids should not be teaching their elders to suck eggs. Those employees were taught by their forebears to do the job the way they do it for a reason, and why the job was done. if the kids want to learn the ropes, fine, but they don't get to judge.

woollahra.bsky.social•96 days ago

And the most important part of all this: they are destroying several major cornerstones that guarantee the reputation of the US government. It may no longer have that same level of respect and trust after these hijinks even if full repairs are possible and made.

elcapitanbrown.bsky.social•96 days ago

He has goals

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=achOpfxZPThl0GZ2

xlarsxvaderx.bsky.social•96 days ago

His best idea was committing suicide.

missfannyt.bsky.social•96 days ago

Musk needs to be in a prison cell — soon.

ruthstone.bsky.social•96 days ago

I thought Steve Bannon was going to get rid of him.

travelingthrulife.bsky.social•96 days ago

He is in the country illegally. ICE could slap the cuffs on him and deport him.

moderndaybartleby.bsky.social•96 days ago

📌

fantasos.bsky.social•96 days ago

@eerolasami.bsky.social tämä on vähän kuin Tynkkynen kyselemässä Twitterissä että mitä YLE:n ohjelmia perutaan.
Paitsi steroideilla.

scottyd89.bsky.social•96 days ago

What’s the likelihood of someone having him arrested for trespassing in a federal building?
Would it stick if it happened?

wyvu.bsky.social•96 days ago

I swear that they're going to start deifying Hitler soon in schools just like they do with Columbus

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

Why read past headlines: Musk and his team of 6 barely-legal dweebs cannot singlehandedly find every "woke" program in what are millions of grants and loans.

So they're letting random white nationalists pick stuff, because YOLO.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/hitler-actually-had-some-good-ideas-musks-covert-coup-is-guided-by-internet/

sharonpalmerhamm.bsky.social•96 days ago

The only optics that I want to see is this guy taken away in handcuffs. Stop this monster now.

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

"Musk doesn't care about the law or the disastrous effects.

"He's too busy trying to please his minions on X, especially the ones with nice things to say about Adolph Hitler."

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/hitler-actually-had-some-good-ideas-musks-covert-coup-is-guided-by-internet/

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

Another reason to read past headlines: I have the details on how Musk's obsession with USAID seems fueled in large part by his bromance with a MAGA influencer who praised "Mein Kampf."

(Hat tip to @beyerstein.bsky.social for her invaluable research help.)

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/hitler-actually-had-some-good-ideas-musks-covert-coup-is-guided-by-internet/

mettilda.bsky.social•96 days ago

Plus usaid helped end apartheid.

billypilgrim65.bsky.social•96 days ago

A fascist, Nazi, treasonous attack against the People And Government Of the United States.

padremiguel.bsky.social•96 days ago

Trump and his fragile ego are not capable of absorbing the blowback Elon Musk is causing. When enough of the public anger trickles up, he will decide to become the hero that saves America from Musk. There is no amount of money that can compensate for Trump’s black hole of need for accolades.

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

"Musk's baby-faced boy army is just an especially galling example of how the billionaire believes random know-nothing right-wingers should usurp the authority of elected representatives."

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/hitler-actually-had-some-good-ideas-musks-covert-coup-is-guided-by-internet/

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

"As for people who say the foreign-born Musk wasn't elected, well, he's decided that he was!"

Read further to see the pretzel logic that Musk is using to claim he has more authority than the Constitution of the United States.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/hitler-actually-had-some-good-ideas-musks-covert-coup-is-guided-by-internet/

mudsludge.bsky.social•96 days ago

We need to bring back public hanging

unrapporteur1.bsky.social•96 days ago

Republicans are the enemy.

#NeverAgain #ItsHere #Again

oldcoastie54.bsky.social•96 days ago

Surprised how weak Bannon is in his efforts to purge Musk.

void0reason.bsky.social•96 days ago

Send the bastard to Mars.

littlewashita.bsky.social•96 days ago

I suspect Musk might also have something in common with a group of South Africans known as “Boer Separatists.”

https://watchdocumentaries.com/boer-separatists/

marijocook.bsky.social•96 days ago

Gleefully sending millions to their deaths.

annecw.bsky.social•96 days ago

Is there anyone who cares about the legality of what DOGE and Musk are doing?

jailander.bsky.social•96 days ago

Deformelon.

psychicdee.bsky.social•96 days ago

Let's throw this guy and his mother into a gas oven and light the pilot

bunkerhunter.bsky.social•96 days ago

Perhaps you should put up this picture on the wall in every federal building, instead of Trump. 🤨

At least it would show, who really is in power right now, without beeing elected or even born in the USA.

chickenlady.bsky.social•96 days ago

Half of his twitter following are bots, the other half is himself and his dumb mother

blazesboylan.bsky.social•96 days ago

What must be remembered about Hitler is that he was "the answer" to the Weimar Republic economy, which had 29,500% inflation at one point. Much of the German middle class was bankrupted.
Biden has left Trump an excellent economy. As these guys mess with things, the reaction will be swift, I think.

boshyboo.bsky.social•96 days ago

Imo seems bad

magenta-blu.bsky.social•96 days ago

He needs to be assassinated, along with trump! 😐

kjmiller.bsky.social•96 days ago

Literally un-American. Ungodly. Monstrous

zenlen.bsky.social•96 days ago

When I read this, along with plenty else, I really do pray congress can do something to stop or stem Musk’s infiltration. If this continues unchecked, I don’t see how this will not lead to a civil war.

I don’t want to be hyperbolic. I simply do not see Americans accepting this or letting it go.

zenlike.bsky.social•96 days ago

Not the central point of the otherwise excellent piece, but i don’t believe Trump actually wants to reduce immigration, which is why there seems to be a disconnect between stated goals and actual things that are being enacted.

amandamarcotte.bsky.social•96 days ago

True. The more migrants there are, the more he gets to deport.

zenlike.bsky.social•96 days ago

Trump needs massive immigration as justification for his fascist domestic apparatus being put in place, as well as for his foreign policy goals, which will first be economic warfare through sanctions and tariffs, and probably in the future outright military invasion.

thegeoffey.bsky.social•96 days ago

The right spent much of the 90s and 00s turning as many social services as they could to religious organizations - specifically Christian and preferably Protestant ones

I tend to agree that tax dollars shouldn't go to religious orgs, but these fools are attacking the systems their own people set up

nicolaasstulting.bsky.social•96 days ago

"If successful, this effort would functionally make Musk a dictator using the elected official, Trump, as his figurehead." This is a sensible observation. It has seemed clear for some time, that this was the purpose of donating a quarter of a billion dollars, to buy a political party outright.

mypdt.bsky.social•96 days ago

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