the extent to which elon musk has simply bought dictatorial control of the united states government is incredible - ThreadSky

theophite.bsky.social • 2 days ago

the extent to which elon musk has simply bought dictatorial control of the united states government is incredible

Reposted from Chris Geidner

I … cannot deal with this one tonight, but y’all should see it.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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stevebanfield.bsky.social•2 days ago

It was cheaper and faster than building rockets to make himself king of Mars

ennui.org•2 days ago

It's less that he's brought it and more that Johnson and Thune are letting it happen.

flahawkfan.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, we heard him say his position is that regulations should be "default gone, not default here, default gone." He'll get rid of all of them except the ones affecting competitors and companies he doesn't like. Goodbye, clean air and water. We're going to take down the world's environment. For $$.

level5railgun.bsky.social•2 days ago

Americans are still waking up to it!! It’s so disgusting

thebrett.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's almost ironic that conservatives killed Chevron deference, since that means just about any judge can second-guess this and strike it down with greater odds of a higher court upholding them.

roland00.bsky.social•2 days ago

love the spelling error right next to the word order

feels official (the love I feel is the other thing)

theophite.bsky.social•2 days ago

this is so ludicrously corrupt that i literally cannot think of another example of anything even vaguely similar ever having happened

hrtraulsen.bsky.social•2 days ago

point well taken but my history nerd brain is racking itself,,, uhhh Carol II (romania) or ludwig II (bavaria)? (neither is perfect but)

shuchancellor.online•2 days ago

*chuckles in Dong Zhuo*

peterhowitt.bsky.social•2 days ago

"to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget" (1984)

psychopompgecko.bsky.social•2 days ago

Historians owe Ulysses S. Grant an apology

spudman.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤣

celticdragon1.bsky.social•2 days ago

They have owed an apology for decades. A lot of the antipathy towards Grant was driven by Dunning School southern apologists

paringpro.bsky.social•2 days ago

If we mean "a small clique destroying state capacity while misleading everyone about what's going on", there is one analogue:

The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

paringpro.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Lavrov Sejm is in session...

celticdragon1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Deep cut

apogean.bsky.social•2 days ago

Teapot Dome and Watergate are baby shit compared to this

rin.artificesoft.com•2 days ago

The collapse of Weimar Germany, as usual, unfortunately comes to mind

theophite.bsky.social•2 days ago

the nazi party had, like, tons of goons. it had a whole parallel party infrastructure. there's no constituency for any of this shit! it's wildly unpopular! the reason trump himself isn't wildly unpopular is that no one believes he's doing it

urbfuturistdem.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think part of it is even government employees are systematically cowed by two generations of demonization of the concept of government

huwupy.kawaii.social•2 days ago

It’s so unpopular that they’re all basically wearing hoods. They’re scared and they should be

mavwreck.bsky.social•2 days ago

I would say this is probably popular with the majority of Republicans. Many of the rest can probably be convinced that “getting rid of regulations is good” as long as the consequences are ignored.

conjurial.bsky.social•2 days ago

The SA had about 2 million members in early 1933, which adjusted for the difference in population, would be about 10 million in America

Trump doesn’t have anywhere close 10 million uniformed brownshirts

mamadeb.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's only been in officed a month.

shompson.bsky.social•2 days ago

plus four years

crzwdjk.bsky.social•2 days ago

The brownshirts were how the NSDAP got into office in the first place. And Trump had already been in pffice for 4 years!

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•2 days ago

The SA was before Hitler was in power. After, he got rid of them - Night of the Long Knives

jenonymous.bsky.social•2 days ago

Musk has a considerable cult and a large online influence operation.

celticdragon1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wait until they get the 40% cut to the military that Hegseth is ordering.

I'm still having trouble even writing that.

anarchism.is•2 days ago

35%. The base of the 8% lowers each year. Still mad.

aubreygilleran.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's unprecedented because I don't think there has ever been a modern figure with Musk's supervillain-level wealth, right?

onetruestephen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Someone inflation-adjusted Rockefeller’s net worth to $400B

mezentine.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s the comparison Incant get out of my head. Did Rockefeller and Carnegie not realize they could do this? Did they not want to? Were they unable to?

rin.artificesoft.com•2 days ago

Yeah, true
That’s the part that makes this even more wild tbh

monarchdiaries.bsky.social•2 days ago

well: a substantial number of those who DO understand what trump's doing are cowed into silence by fear of a tiny, impotent rabble. All the dumb 'weimar America' claptrap absurdly multiplies the perceived danger Trump's bumbling kooks pose.

Threatening phone calls =/= Sturmabteilung torture gangs

jacobreespawg.bsky.social•2 days ago

mainline republicans tearing the country apart having long lost any perspective on what purpose government serves, while those best situated for opposition have lost sense of what real risk looks like

monarchdiaries.bsky.social•2 days ago

what even is a mainline republican. there is no Republican Party anymore.

somanymonkeys.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Nazis also had the advantage of a government bureaucracy that was relatively conservative & nationalist compared to the rest of the population. They may not have cared for the "Jew stuff", but restoring Germany's place in the world was a hook.

somanymonkeys.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nazis also had the sense to expand govt ranks & bribe them to go along with the program. Musk is making multiple enemies with every firing.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•2 days ago

Right, yeah. It genuinely is astonishing that he was just able to waltz in and do this, when the possibility wasn't even on anyone's RADAR six months ago. (This is why predictions are stupid. And I predict I will make many more of them.) But it's not, like, going to WORK, long term. It's insane!

fartschoolgraduate.bsky.social•2 days ago

1990s Russia.

polyparadigm.bsky.social•2 days ago

British East India Company?

indar13.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not really. Just hidden made visible.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

jonhegglund.bsky.social•2 days ago

fuck you, hire a proofreader at least, you dumb fucks

xanadian.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh, thank you, that distracts me from the excessively skinny header font they've chosen, which has been annoying me all week!

scabadooo.bsky.social•2 days ago

ECEXUTIVE ORDER

themadge.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/patrickwyman.bsky.social/post/3lhhz2ycowk2w

fraustian.bsky.social•2 days ago

tbh this smells like a joint doge/vought/p2025 thing and i don't think it's clear who is using whom

jmteo.bsky.social•2 days ago

he simply has to go to prison for the rest of his life. Also a 100% wealth tax is a generous concession to the current wealthy class.

cassius1213.bsky.social•2 days ago

Prison is insufficient for the crimes we're witnessing.

grungehamster.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't know if that was the point or just a happy accident of it being slop, but that this bans both:

- Any Congressionally passed regulations that DOGE feels they have no business doing.
- Executive departments doing anything beyond a faithful reading of statutory language.

Seems at odds.

mojarbs.bsky.social•2 days ago

In 2000 years some Martian Mike Duncan is going to be writing about Musk like he's Crassus (or maybe Julianus but that could be too hopeful)

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well, we already have Mike Duncan in the 25th century (or something like that) and he MAY live on Mars? So maybe that version of him can do this era next!

cjevans.bsky.social•2 days ago

Preach it, brother! But preach it to the evangelicals who have wrapped fascism with the bible.

uppityalice.bsky.social•2 days ago

Its entirely credible - in a country so absolutely dedicated to the worship of money I'm amazed it hasn't happened sooner.

theloaraxe.bsky.social•2 days ago

I believe that we can work to make the price he paid for this purchase much higher than it seems today.

geminidrgn.bsky.social•2 days ago

The cost is his head if he should ever be knocked from his perch.

apogean.bsky.social•2 days ago

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