Musk's Aggressive Incursion into the Federal Government

Undoing a century of progress in a fortnight without using weapons must be some kind of record.

A private, unelected individual is dismantling the US government from the inside. Congress is doing nothing about it. This is one of the wildest things I've seen in my life.

So he gets in office and gives the office to an AI overlord to hasten AI taking jobs and first target is the federal government.

Im not understanding how this will help Americans, their jobs, livelihoods and the economy? Not trying to be political just confused by elect me and America will be more prosperous. How will it when the worry of AI taking jobs is right here at our feet, being done so at the federal level and being expedited by a guy who has more money then whatever.

My autistic kid and my whole family rely on Medicaid while we have no income. Is it worth my kid not having their necessary treatments to save a few thousand bucks? Any MAGA want to answer me as to why this is a good thing? I served America for a decade in the military and now I’ll lose my home and medical coverage and my son will back slide and probably never recover. I’m also a disabled veteran, so when do they cut those benefits? Will I lose the money I currently use to pay for food, too?

Tell me, was this worth it to own the libs? I want to yell at you MAGA folks but I don’t want to get banned here, so I’m being as nice as possible but I really hate you guys right now.

Edit: instead of pressing downvote why don’t you cowards speak?

When a business bets itself on a bold gamble, with enormous upside but also enormous downside, if the gamble doesn't pay off, the worst thing that happens is that the business goes bankrupt, investors lose some money, employees lose their jobs, and everyone involved eventually moves on.

When a country bets itself on a bold gamble, with enormous upside but also enormous downside, if the gamble doesn't pay off, the worst thing that happens is that the country fails, institutions break down, conflict and violence erupt everywhere, entire populations suffer, and no one has a way out.

Like it or not, the US is going to bet itself on a bold gamble. Bureaucrats, lawmakers, and the courts move too slowly to be able to do anything about it. Indeed, it's already happening. As someone quoted in the OP explains: "Before Congress and the courts can respond, Elon Musk will have rolled up the whole government."

three selfish reasons everyone should be in favor of expanded medicaid (ie in favor of everyone having access to healthcare):

* healthy people are able to work and pay taxes

* when people don’t have access to regular care, they end up in the ER when things get really bad. All the rest of us pay the cost of those visits

* access to care (particularly vaccines like flu or covid) means less spread of disease and leas exposure to disease for the rest of us

I think civil servants underestimate how many are cheering on the incursion. A large portion if the populace that educated professional class rarely mix with view much of the federal government as paper pushers who declare shoe laces as machine guns, arrest people for improperly packaged lobsters, stop the import of favored trucks like the Hilux, and roll into towns like Waco and pose in pictures of the rubble of children burned alive.

The reasoning musk provides may be untruthful, but it's incredibly persuasive to a winning segment of voters. These articles are meant to be alarm bells, but they end up as delightful entertainment.

Elon Musk doesn’t have the authority to overturn programs and spending priorities decided by Congress. And yet he is doing that, for example he "deleted" 18F that build the Direct File site for filing taxes. Then USAID the foreign assistance agency.

“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Mr. Musk gloated on X at 1:54 a.m. Monday. “Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.”

fait accompli

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