The problem with assertions like this is that Tesla and SpaceX are enormously successful companies, building things that nobody else can, and selling these things at reasonable prices. And (if you are reality-based) their products don't catch fire and explode.
Or, Trump taps out in favour of Vance, who will appear to be the epitome of moderation after the havoc reeked by Trump, but being smarter than Trump, he will be worse. By that time, the changes made will be very difficult to undo.
The idea from what I've seen is fire people until stuff completely breaks. Then hire back till it works. It's looking for the minimum viable number of people to operate. Fine in a business, disastrous in a government.
Something I see from Akron through the black Ohio sky. Taxpayers fund 17 National Security Agencies. They are missing. All this stochastic terrorism and gaslighting. The liberal half of our nation in fear for and of their futures and these people haven't responded in any way. Not even encouragement.
Maybe you mean fire all the humans (bc we push back and mouth off 😊) and replace with AI bots, robots, and automatons that are loyal to him. He works with few humans and lots of obedient machines. Sick.
What has to happen before people begin to call what is happening a coup d'état? I fear we will be arguing about the barn door long after the horse has run.
competing interests- idiot savant Musk crashing the economy because he thinks its a good idea & the Project 2025 bunch push toward authoritarian privatization with a moron in the middle of it playing president
They can be neutered with action Hopefully before my brokerage account completely tanks
And we get to watch and suffer thru while the rich fk plays a corrupt version of some bizarro monopoly game with our country and lives.
Damn, America you done fkd up real bad…
"Let me see...I fired a lot of people at Space X, Tesla, and X and they all are not doing well. Lesson learned. I'll fire everyone from the government. My damage, er, work is done here."
How is this not the largest data breach in U.S. history? As the wife of a fed employee Musk now has dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of ALL Fed government workers. He could sell to the highest bidder anytime. This is NOT LEGAL!
This was my thought too when I heard about the data purge, and websites being down. They are treating the government as a corporation, doing as they please, ransacking everything. Why isn't security stopping them?
The blue states need to stop funding the federal gov based on the illegal hacking of the federal treasury. California should turn off the $ faucet and get answer of how safe is it to fund treasury that is under cyberattack.
Why can’t WTP group together and take over Musk’s workforce.
Let’s ban together in numbers and show Musk he is not wanted nor is his 24/7 criminals who are taking over “our” investments in our. Country. This country is paid with “our” tax dollars. OPM computer system is OURS.
Help us!!! Please.
He is installing software onto government systems from his hard drives. I suspect he is using government computers to create AGI. This was all about his grudge with Sam Altman.
So....will Vance pull the 25th Amendment card now? Pretty easy to see Trump is being manipulated. But would he try to make a name for himself, become more of a "normal" Republican, and jettison the Trump puppetmasters?
And he’s trying to spread his apocalyptic influence beyond the United States. He had already infected Germany and Britain. He has global aspirations. They are part of a transnational crime syndicate.
Such a pattern with these guys to destroy their own businesses. Trump University, Casinos, Wine, the Trump Foundation. They are reckless and have no concern for those harmed by their actions.
more importantly- OAN is now in the front row of the WH journalism pool. More performance at the podium. Focus on revealing the lies to MAGA world. We need to control the message.
Don’t forget the servers that he is bringing in and attaching to government server networks. Whatever he’s up to has nothing to do with government efficiency. It’s for the betterment of Elon Musk.
What does the law matter to a lawless criminal executive? Nobody is around to enforce it or even acknowledge it anyway. We are cooked.
I’d leave the country if I could.
the thing is he doesn't think the laws apply to him, so until someone gets past his secretive accounting systems etc. he will go on doing exactly what he wants to do, it's what he's done his whole life because NO ONE stops him. I think he wrote the EO not Trump to shut down spending, totally lawless
Who is going to enforce the law? He is illegally occupying a federal building and has executed a hostile takeover of major computer systems. With high level skills of his employees through those systems he can worm his way into the entire federal system. Who is empowered to stop him and who will?
He does not fear the law. His goal is to break it as well as everything within reach. They are torching it all down and enjoying every minute of our fear as they drain all resources from us and our allies.
Elon has been given free rein to do as he pleases. Trump owes him a debt forgetting him elected, Republicans fear him because he’s got the money to primary them and Dems are weak. We’re fuqq’d.
Steve Bannon said years ago that the United States should be burnt to the ground. Then pulled back up with Christian Nationalists ideology under Trump’s thumb. With Speaker Johnson, a far right religious fanatical, welding the votes to get it done. And a SCOTUS to back Trump up.
And then privatize everything. Yes. That's the plan. Don't eliminate departments but instead cripple them and claim they're inefficient and ineffective. So now they're replaceable.
Because he is the wealthiest man, it is a distraction from who he is working for/with....nobody asks questions.
His fellow investors in Twitter were the Saudis (who wanted it destroyed) & likely others, including newly wealthy Jared.
Colleague gave me a piece of last week’s exploded Space X rocket (fished out if the ocean off Turks & Caicos)-it’s prominently displayed on my Fed Gov desk as a metaphor (or cautionary tale) for this fascist clusterf*ck.
firing everyone always gives your stock price a bump up. surely that will work for government services too! operational efficiency = replace staff with a managed service provider.
Unfortunately, it is not a good plan. The government's overhead is at most 3% to administer the programs. Compare that to a 20% overhead for private insurance companies. There is no fat to trim when they are pretending there is; their actions will destroy the delicate balance that serves America.
His fake department was never questioned by any key leaders in relation to its legal standing and legitimate federal authority. Now when he should be stopped, who ya gonna call? Co-president Musk’s coup is now fully underway.
Musk is generating a minimum of 1,100 pounds of incinerated satellite trash a day.
Blazing debris was sent miles across the sky just last month when his rocket blew up and many planes were almost hit. Why does Musk have a license to pollute and kill?
Also: make ridiculous demands because thinks would be cool.
Guy is like high school friend smokes pot, reads Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein, is 4th level berserker who always gets group into trouble by thoughtless action, thinks is smarter than everyone else in group.
We the American people are under attack. We need strong leaders to speak out and call this BS for what it is. Musk is trying to access the treasury servers that contain Social Security info. What are we doing about it?
My husband highschool education, 30 year railroader said it best: government is not about profit, break even, it’s about the poor, if the poor do better we all do.
He'll use the militias to fight or intimidate. Our tactics will have to use gorilla tactics, traps and decoys. Traditional protests will be met w violence so we need to think outside the proverbial box.
Musk's approach to government is even scarier than his company management - at least Tesla and Twitter only destroyed shareholder value. Now he wants to experiment with an entire country.
Money is power. Take all money out of the stock market now. Drain your 401k and put it in a credit union. The stock market is where all of the wealth for these evil fascists is held, and we can bankrupt them. Drain your 401k and bankrupt these Nazis. Do it now. We are quickly running out of time.
I’m not worried about him destroying data. I’m worried about him farming and selling data. Employee databases, databases full of veterans, SS & Medicare recipients and every taxpayer in America. Not to mention the trillions of dollars used for their perspective payments.
I would like to know how we can support pilots and other flight crew who are afraid to simply do their jobs. We must acknowledge their jobs have become infinitely more dangerous and some may need to tap out.
Has anybody sent you a copy of their emails they received from supposedly OPM? They were ridiculous, insulting and very unprofessional. Unprofessional Marked as spam immediately! Then our supervisors told us it was legitimate. I replied to none of them.
This administration is rogue and we aren’t even a month in.
Democrats are a little too complacent and I don’t understand that? Maybe they have some mass protests planned across the country coming up in the spring?
Severing ties with traditional allies and neighbors, withdrawing US from international organizations, ie. isolating US and breaking his structure (agencies etc), he is just handing US to the US enemies.
We are not Tesla, Twitter or Space X.We are a representative form of government by the people, for the people, of the people. We have a Constitution and nowhere does it say Trump can appoint Elon to defy the will of the people!!!! We decide and I did not vote for this. Lock him up NOW!!!!!
He's going to destroy America like America destroyed Palestine and the Middle East. Funny you know who's standing tall your favorite Israel. The country that has free health care and 90% subsidies on university for its citizens. How does America like the price of eggs now?
Apparently Musk even used the same subject line in the email he’s thought to have authored to federal employees regarding their so-called buyout as he did to Twitter employees. It wasn’t bad enough we had Ignoramus Trump destroying things now we have Ignoramus Musk helping him.
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ExTwitter not so much.
We need a good lawyer to file suit.
They can be neutered with action Hopefully before my brokerage account completely tanks
Question: Should Trump set tariffs on Musk, or will Trump demand Musk become a state?
Are we now in an upside down universe?
An episode of The Twilight Zone?
Damn, America you done fkd up real bad…
Let’s ban together in numbers and show Musk he is not wanted nor is his 24/7 criminals who are taking over “our” investments in our. Country. This country is paid with “our” tax dollars. OPM computer system is OURS.
Help us!!! Please.
Let them know how angry you are that they are doing NOTHING to stop Elon and Trump.
I’d leave the country if I could.
His fellow investors in Twitter were the Saudis (who wanted it destroyed) & likely others, including newly wealthy Jared.
Is fraud. Anyone knowing of early days at Zip2 or https://X.com (not Nazi one) knew was not engineer. Coworkers ratted him out.
Apparently, is easy to build fake reputation.
Not sure which more pathetic.
Blazing debris was sent miles across the sky just last month when his rocket blew up and many planes were almost hit. Why does Musk have a license to pollute and kill?
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-reentry-pollution-damage-earth-atmosphere
Guy is like high school friend smokes pot, reads Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein, is 4th level berserker who always gets group into trouble by thoughtless action, thinks is smarter than everyone else in group.
Only with actual power.
My only fear is they are waiting for us to respond and they are prepared to fight back with military force. We may need to be smart about this.
“Delete the Government”
I don’t know how they can be any plainer.
https://bsky.app/profile/joycewhitevance.bsky.social/post/3lh2v2ov7kc2m
Democrats are a little too complacent and I don’t understand that? Maybe they have some mass protests planned across the country coming up in the spring?
And US have tons of them.
Other topic, any tariff on China yet?
How are we-the citizens supposed to respond to this????
Who is Musk really working for —— 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 ????
Just sayin…