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Elon Musk Is President (www.theatlantic.com)

Summary

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has boldly declared a war on the federal government, aggressively reshaping public discourse and challenging established authority.

Using a ‘special government employee’ role via an executive order, Musk established DOGE to cut $500 billion in annual spending, strictly bypassing oversight.

Musk targeted USAID, declaring it as criminal while proposing its shutdown, and appointed young, inexperienced aides and former Tesla staff to federal positions.

These maneuvers have sparked partisan debates, raised conflict-of-interest concerns, and underscored a dramatic shift in federal power dynamics in a nation-wide upheaval.

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[-] TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 195 points 1 month ago

Hopefully more articles like this come out so Trump gets rid of him because his ego can’t handle it.

[-] ovalofsand@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago
[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

All immigrants are equal, but some are more equal than others. And ICE ignores those ones.

[-] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

He'd only see them if they were on Fox News though

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I… think I hope so?

I can’t decide if that’s the case, my first thought as well, or if he’d rage and accelerate.

[-] Embargo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Well yeah. He'll be dealt with the same way Trump likes to deal with other "very bad men". In his eyes, anyone that wrongs him is committing treason to the highest degree.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yea! And maybe I'll shit a rainbow and fart gold coins!

Trump only consumes media Musk approves

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 108 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you are richer than god. what do you do?

pull a 'chuck feeney' and give it all away?

take time off and enjoy what you've "worked so hard for"?

no, the fucking asswipe is working harder than he ever has in his life to literally destroy the country that made him all that money.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 64 points 1 month ago

Gotta pull up the ladder and burn everything that could be used to make a new one.

[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I mean, he wants to be a king. A king doesn't need his subordinates to have a voice.

[-] GoddessNoAi@lemmynsfw.com 65 points 1 month ago

"He's committing the must heinous crimes against our society, a hostile takeover of the government, completely bypassing the rule of law. Could there be some kind of conflict of interest here?"

I laugh to keep from weeping.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk needs to be stopped.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's spelled with ch, not st

[-] DampSquid@feddit.uk 20 points 1 month ago
[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

To shreds and pieces you say

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Smitheries you say?

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

stopped isn't the word most of us would use

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Stopping power is a phrase that comes to mind. Muzzle velocity also.

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Lead Supplements are proven to remove fascism from the body

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

"They come in a handy capsule form."

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The US makes most of the dispensers.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

What fucking debate needs to happen? This country is literally being handed to an unelected oligarch who's dismantling and robbing it blind, and it's up for partisan debate? What fucking lunacy. It deserves to fall, quite frankly.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

When was the last time the country was not in the hands of oligarchs?

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] cmoney@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

What a scandal this is, it should have a name like Elon gate, this could really stretch on for a long time! Ok I'm done I'll see myself out.

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Elongate is quite apt: because he will be causing fuckery and misery for a very long time before something is done about him.

[-] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Well that leaves Trump’s name out of the focus and he’s just as much to blame. Can’t let him blame Elon and dodge responsibility ( he will, of course)

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Can’t let him blame Elon and ~~dodge~~ DOGE responsibility

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 23 points 1 month ago
[-] Absaroka@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

You really have to wonder what Putin and Russia's role in all of this has been.

Because it feels like us straining our relationships with Canada, the EU / NATO, and pushing BRICS countries further away, benefits them more than anybody else.

And certainly our economic might being sabotaged from within would benefit them and China on the world stage.

Especially when you consider the whole Mexico and Canada tariff saga was mostly just staged chaos that probably was never intended to do anything other than erode our reputation in the international community.

[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Flood ICE with reports of an immigrant taking over the government.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

They've already downgraded the $2 trillion to $500 billion? That's not hardcore at all.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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