“Move fast and break things” may work for a tech startup, but it is no way to run our government. It will take decades for America to recover from this mindless mess.
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I will lose my health insurance, housing, doctors, & meds. The $800 billion budget is on the chopping block. Hospitals, nursing homes, disability services, & caregivers will lose funding. Call your Congressional reps: 202-224-3121
No protection of the work force, no health security, no home/rent protection. Why? Why leave so many to themselves and not use legislation to protect humans?
Just wondering...Does anyone know how Musk chose his post-pubescent whiz kids? Did they have to prove their tech prowess by, say, hacking into electronic voting systems in November? Not accusing; just pondering.
A couple months ago, he put out a call on xtwitter for young coders to send him their best stuff as their resume. Also, several are engineers from tesla. The @Altnps account has a thread with names and others went to work finding out who they are.
We ALL want change. but it must be done thoughtfully, orderly and with educated decision making. Not haphazardly and chaotically like everything else Trump touches.
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Keeping a positive attitude...the more damage they do right now, the better the chance that we get the house and senate in 2026 and add the presidency to that in 2028. Then, put massive protections in to stop an authoritarian coup in the future. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻
Perhaps sadly, citizens will need a cycle of mess and chaos, to appreciate the freedoms, rights, and sensible governance that they voted away in their ignorance. Let's not forget that Mother Nature is now active, has other ideas. (H1N1, eradicated diseases making a comeback, serious climate events).
Re funding, their new tack is itself fraud & abuse (not sure about waste. The strategy is mass bad faith; the motive itself is very public now. Their method is outright lying.
Anyone wanna speculate on why this judge did a 180 between Friday and yesterday, and issued a circular ruling requiring the plaintiffs to prove they've already had their info breached & misused before they can get an order enjoining DOGE from doing that?
I think the phrase is "Fail Fast", meaning move through failures into better solutions. The current administration SHOULD Fail Fast if we all pitch in to help "test" it. choose love
They don't want the USA to recover, according to Project 2025 & Curtis Yarvin. They want to destroy the government from within, and institute a new world order based on "kings".
They've said so, laid it out in Project 2025, and are now enacting it. Actively.
But putting a businessman in charge of the country was supposed to be the best way forward. A clean break from the past. What could go wrong?
First off, pick a good businessman, you know someone like Mark Cuban, someone truly successful. Not a 6+bankruptcy riddled, entitled fool, rapist.
Precisely... no rhyme or reason other than chaos and making shit up. No ROI, no impact, only taking a sledgehammer to large institutions and claiming victory. There needs to be a "definition of winning" for the Admin that is in best interest of the citizenry. Today, winning = destruction + chaos
I said back in 16, how we got here was years in the making. Now that we are allowing it to continue...it will take many generations to repair. I don't think we will recognize it. But, then who's we? Not me and you. We must protect morals, character, empathy and respect for all.
It's not mindless. This is exactly what they planned. As of January 20, the U.S. is no longer a democracy. The Trump party controls the government. And only a few Democrats in Congress seem to mind.
It’s like walking through a hospital and pulling plugs on the equipment to see what it does. Except they’re not waiting to see what happens. They’re just pulling plugs.
I don't think your country will recover Ms. McQuade. People smarter than me have already reached this conclusion. The rest of the world is watching the car crash and will move on. 🇨🇦
I’m worried that we won’t have the opportunity to fix the mess. If Musk is a parasite inside the host that is the federal government, I’m not sure how we get him out. I suspect his next big effort will be to ensure the 2026 and 28 elections are a sham to keep them in power.
Feels irreversible.
The more reason you should protest, march, strike and resist your butt off. Don’t count on the midterms, because you will have never again free elections if you count on others to fix this.
He’s using the same recipe he did when he royally fucked-up twitter! Now he’s using it on our government trying to create a new apartheid here for himself!
Stop minimizing it. It’s not a mindless mess, it’s a fascist autocoup, a takeover. WAKE THE FUCK UP! If you continue to believe it’s just a mess, you will have absolutely no more democracy left in a few months.
“So bye, bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry..
Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned..”👑🤴
The trickle down layoffs in state and local governments and the private sector are only just beginning.
There will be no 'recovery'. There will be collapse, chaos, and massive internal destruction. Canada and Mexico will have to close their borders to protect themselves. From us.
I don't think they have much interest in running our government rather they want to make sure it can't function properly. The Republican fantasy has always been to shrink the size of government so you can drown it in the bathtub. Their very words. See Grover Norquist.
Nobody in the world ever thought that the american people were so weak, soft, easy to manipulate, and are willingly submissive with their freedoms, liberty, personal lives, financial and health data, earning benefits, food and money assistance, be taken away in 2 weeks and doing NOTHING about it.
Will we ever recover?
Lots of peoples lives being upended by all the layoffs. People will die bc of all $$ withheld. If we ever try to recover, it will be without many people hurt or killed bc of it.
And I think that's what they're counting on. Make it so we don't have a functioning (literally) govt. Trump and musk can claim anything to stay in power. Musk pillages our information for his AI and uses his deepstate control of the govt to cement his position. This plot would be
Those people are going to go through the courts, and either get their jobs back or receive generous compensation. In the end, it’s going to have been the most expensive way to reduce government bureaucracy.
I wish I could imagine a scenario where that happens in my lifetime, but I’m sad to say I can’t. T made a deal with the devil, and the devil is insane. Once they finish rpng Ukr, he’ll look towards the EU. 🦊 could help turn this around. Not sure why we’re not all hammering that point regularly.
Recovery is not their goal. Think about their end game. Republicans cannot be planning to get re-elected. They cannot be planning for a thriving economy. The goal must be to cripple America. The principal beneficiary has to be Putin. (I never believed I would think, much less write, like this.)
The limitation of that strategy is that they have to maintain the productivity, or at least the buying power, of their serfs. But I could be missing something.
They are doing anything and everything at this point, without impunity, and the entire country watches in horror. Thats how it works? Military coup!!!!!!!
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I will lose my health insurance, housing, doctors, & meds. The $800 billion budget is on the chopping block. Hospitals, nursing homes, disability services, & caregivers will lose funding. Call your Congressional reps: 202-224-3121
Think of how much money I'll save if:
I don't buy toothpaste!
I don't change my HVAC filter.
I don't put anti-freeze in my car.
Keep it going!
Can this be challenged in a single petition for declaratory judgment & writ of prohibition?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/trump-foreign-ai1d-freeze.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Startling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/doge-education-department-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x04.Z-Xr.paI5gTOu7sxc
They want tech startups to succeed.
They want the government to fail.
They've said so, laid it out in Project 2025, and are now enacting it. Actively.
It is one thing for a Tech company to flame out when they move too fast and break too many things. It is their (or their investors) money.
As a Canadian, I am so sorry so many people who did not vote for this will be hurt by this for many, many years to come...
First off, pick a good businessman, you know someone like Mark Cuban, someone truly successful. Not a 6+bankruptcy riddled, entitled fool, rapist.
IS
THE
GOAL
The current decisions being made under the guise of efficiency benefit billionaires and corporations at our expense.
Them destroying it is a win win
Feels irreversible.
In a best case scenario, recovering from this viscous domination project will prove to be a painful and long journey.
There is no escape from negligent actions:
The hangover from Nov 5th will be historic.
Letter from hundreds of former federal prosecutors warns of alarming decisions inside DOJ.
"We knew these values were more than just requirements in a manual—they were foundational..."
https://www.thejusticeconnection.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Open_Letter_to_Federal_Prosecutors__2-18-2025_.pdf
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry..
Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned..”👑🤴
Constitutional crisis.
Keep 🥊🇺🇸
Thank you SCOTUS!👏
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_TFkut1PM
There will be no 'recovery'. There will be collapse, chaos, and massive internal destruction. Canada and Mexico will have to close their borders to protect themselves. From us.
SO much of what is driving what they are doing is simple hatred
Lots of peoples lives being upended by all the layoffs. People will die bc of all $$ withheld. If we ever try to recover, it will be without many people hurt or killed bc of it.
But, that won't work when people's lives and welfare are on the line.
YOU FUCKED UP AMERICA....
AND. NOW YOU ARE FINDING OUT!
Move fast and break things…don’t get caught, let someone else clean it up and pay for it. Collect the profits.