The Trump Administration – with the help of Elon Musk – is stripping the federal government for parts: firing federal agents, dissolving whole departments and agencies, targeting civil servants for retribution. #Velshi
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🧵DOGE is a direct attempt to turn Curtis Yarvin & Nick Land’s neo-reactionary monarchism into reality. He’s restructuring the U.S. gov to run like a corp, w/a CEO-monarch at the top & no democratic oversight to slow things down.
🧵Musk, inspired by Yarvin’s monarchist ideals & Land’s accelerationist push to replace traditional gov with techno-capitalist rule, is using DOGE to strip democracy down to its frame & replace it w/something sleek, “efficient,” & entirely controlled by billionaires.
🧵DOGE is a Trojan Horse for Monarchism. DOGE is designed to gut the gov, cutting out what Musk & Co see as unnecessary bureaucracy; i.e., democratic accountability.
🧵The idea is that if you strip gov down to just its “most efficient” elements, you don’t need a messy, slow-moving democracy. You need a CEO. You need a Yarvin-style absolute ruler running things like a corp.
🧵But DOGE isn’t just abt centralizing power in one executive—it’s also about outsourcing gov functions to private corps (read: Musk & his tech elite friends). It’s the neo-reactionary dream:
🧵instead of politicians & public institutions, you get a network of privately run city-states, where gov is a service provided by competing corp entities. Citizens? They’re not voters anymore. They’re consumers, & if they don’t like how their city is run, their only option is to find another one.
If the US federal government is stripped, why should the individual states continue to pay taxes to or be ruled by it? Why continue with a large union? Groups and single states could separate and keep their taxes, ethics and culture. Some states have economies that rival those of other countries.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump's day coming. Following 'Footsteps' of Nixon causing his political death. (I was alive & Witnessed!). Trump has Dementia (Yes!) & Elon too young to know anything re: that Era.
So Republican Voters Now saying "I didn't sign up for this! Not to dismantle our Govt!"
Utopia has dictionary definition and technical definition.
The technical definition is "No Such Place"
If just we can just skip all the socioeconomic horrors get right to dragging them into the courtyard part.
That'ed be great.
America has to hit rock bottom before they'll vote in their best interests. Ontario has an election on the 27th. My district, Muskoka, has basically been PC since the 50s. It truly does not matter what party I vote for. But wild horses could not stop me from voting.
It is my duty to vote.
If this was just to find fraud, it should be done with bipartisan Congressional oversight. Don’t listen to Trump’s BS that he’s been spewing about! We know he a freaking
liar!
Well, those same people have had a lot of practice as venture capitalists taking apart American corporations and selling off their parts. I lost my last THREE jobs when that happened. The successful firms I worked for were blown apart & sold; 1 to foreign corps., 1 eventually declaring bankruptcy.
As President Musk is working full time as a politician- shareholders of Tesla, SpaceX and all other Musk companies should sue to stop all his compensation, replace him while he’s serving as President and have his shares placed in a trust
What happens when the services of federal agencies no longer exist. What's next? #FDIC #SheldonWhitehouse
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Republican cruelty is all about personal gain. Money. They are all corrupt, compromised, and complicit. Whether retiring wealthy or empowering the wealthy it’s about narcissistic entitlement and greed. For the Narcissistic Greed tearing apart American families, a means to an end. Power and tax cuts.
Not all of us are shell shocked. It would genuinely help if we could get something inspiring in the discourse. Doing my best to lead from the front, but we need the money to step up. Unfortunately, albeit realistic. The lack of airtime spending is wild. Who's gonna be less erudite?
Perhaps a ‘weekly’ accounting by the “richest, smartest man” in the world (including Washington DC?) MIGHT ‘report’ the dollar amount of the WASTE that this week’s spectacular efforts have achieved (and at WHAT ‘actual’ cost... so the ‘books’ can be balanced with FACTS (rather than ‘phee-sees’)!😜😎
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When will ppl realize gov’t is not a business. It’s for the people, not for profit. Want to be treated like an unvalued worker… you got it.
So Republican Voters Now saying "I didn't sign up for this! Not to dismantle our Govt!"
The technical definition is "No Such Place"
If just we can just skip all the socioeconomic horrors get right to dragging them into the courtyard part.
That'ed be great.
It is my duty to vote.
liar!
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We don't need another uncontrolled pandemic.