Summary
Elon Musk’s team is reportedly gaining control over key U.S. government operations.
His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials have clashed with Treasury staff over access to federal payment systems, which handle $6 trillion annually.
Reports indicate Musk aides have locked civil servants out of government databases and are reviewing tech operations across agencies.
Originally intended as an external advisory body, DOGE was instead integrated into the government by Trump’s executive order, giving Musk a direct role in federal operations.
Got his mitts on the treasury right now.
This is a coup
Elon Musk has to go
Free luigi
Free him yourself. No one is stopping you.
Yes, the armed snipers in prison towers definitely wouldn’t stop people.
I took “free Luigi” to suggest they need Luigi to kill Elon, but they don’t need Luigi… to kill Elon.
I do not see how “free Luigi” followed by the response of “free him yourself” means “go kill Elon yourself.” Wouldn’t that be “free Elon?”
People didn’t say “free Mumia” and “free Leonard Peltier” because they wanted them to stay imprisoned.
You’ll get it eventually, but I’m not sure it’s worth your time. Although, I guess you’ve got a lot of free time now that you can’t shape the dialog on lemmy. 🤷♂️
Huh. I seem to not be the only one who didn’t “get it.”
Got it.
Let the billionaires war begin, Zuckerberg trying to assassinate musk, Gates trying to get Zuckerberg in an alliance with Bezos who then backstabs Gates…
I wish it actually happens, but I also fear something akin to regeional dictators helping each other consolidate their power.
America is letting this guy put their government and economy on auto drive and it’s going to crash.
Cuck country.
The conservatives are allowing an immigrant to take away American jobs lol
Some of us know and are incredibly frustrated and disheartened by it, but we’re still the minority. The state has a monopoly on violence at any meaningful scale. What are we supposed to do while we wait for the rest of the country to wake up? All we can do is talk about it and try to get them to see what’s happening.
We’re in the minority because most folks aren’t bothering to pay attention.
Or they just blithely assume that it will all go back to normal in four years and choose to ignore it.
Or they just blithely assume that it will all go back to normal in four years
Even if Trump doesn’t survive until then, and even if the best possible Democrat is able to become the next president, it will take decades to clean up Trump’s mess, and at least the same amount of time for the rest of the world to start trusting the USA and Americans again.
We hoped you’d have learned how much of a mistake Trump was the first time, and then you just go and make the same mistake again a few years later.
This is a mess of your own making, and you have to fix your own shit.
Until then, the rest of us will be out here using your example as a warning, and getting on with our lives.
Trump barely won the popular vote. So get off your high horse.
The fact he could shit the bed so fucking hard in his first term and then still get elected is a huge indictment on the USofA.
I agree that is a huge indictment of our electoral system. Which is garbage.
You said it. Right on the nose. More Republicans own guns versus democrats, and most cops are Republicans, so the side with more common sense voted their gun rights away years ago and are sitting with their proverbial dicks in their hands.
Who voted their gun rights away?
California, Washington, New York.
Oh yes the California that checks notes had the Black Panthers patrolling with guns because no one else could be bothered and then Regan and his cronies enacted the most extreme gun laws in the country. Those damn libs!
What’s ironic is that it was Republicans in power at the time, as well as the NRA support, which passed the bill.
An unelected billionaire who was appointed by the president to the head of a department he made up is gaining massive control of the federal government.
This unelected billionaire is an unapologetic nazi. He did a Nazi salute twice at the inauguration. He spreads Nazi ideology on his social media platform. He supports international Nazi causes. He is an open white supremacist on his social media platform and an open anti-semite.
He’s now being given essentially limitless control over all federal agencies of the United States government. The Nazi takeover of America is already complete.
wdym? hes jewish. this just shows both sides are the same just flipped. like two faces on a coin
He’s not. What?
Keep in mind that Hitler came to become the chancellor of Germany not by being elected, but by being appointed by the president.
Hitler could not have come to power without the large section of German voters who rallied to his populist rhetoric and joined in his scapegoating of Jews and Communists for the capitalist crisis of the Great Depression. But it was not their votes that secured his power; nor was it their interests that guided his policies. He placed himself — his paranoia and megalomania, his rabid anti-Semitism, his promises of Aryan greatness sealed in a thousand-year Reich — at the service of Germany’s industrial and financial elite.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/hitler-was-elected-myth-or-fact/
