Musk enjoys hanging out at the co-president-elect’s country club, where he is treated like a rock star.
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Elon Musk bought a president and now he’s keeping close to him to try to influence his decisions. He also gets the benefit of receiving constant approval and applause from the guests at Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump has put Musk in charge of the fake Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.), from which the broligarch plans to ruin the lives of thousands of dedicated public servants and remove benefits from millions of Americans. He has no authority to do any of this, but he can tell his co-president to sign orders based on his recommendations.
No one voted for Elon Musk, but now he thinks he’s a Founding Father. He will propose indiscriminate cuts to staffing and programs (he’s floated cutting federal staff based on whether their social security number ends in an odd or even digit: odd out, even in) without any concern about the damage to the country and its citizens.
Ably assisted by his toady, Vivek Ramaswamy, he wants to take extreme action to reduce regulations and lower taxes on the rich. They also may be looking for opportunities to enrich themselves from the public coffers. These arrogant manipulators want to destroy the American dream and replace it with a Silicon Valley fever dream called the Network State.
It will take Republicans in Congress to rein in the outrageous proposals released by the D.O.G.E. No one should count on them to show the courage to do that.
Here’s one view of the scene at Mar-a-Lago:
1. Imagine how weird it is to just move to, and live, at Mar a Lago.2. Imagine being people who spend their Thanksgiving at Mar a Lago.3. Imagine how screwed up our media and political climate is that the richest man in the world just moving into the president-elect's house is totally normalized.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2024-11-29T03:53:02.933Z
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