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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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nycfan said:


Elon may be a bit misguided by how easy it was to take down USAID — a valuable but heretofore obscure program without a large domestic constituency to rally to the defense of cultural support of democracy and helping the poor and displaced across the globe via a series of relatively small local interventions.

He may find much more organized and powerful resistance if he goes after the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. Will Hegseth be willing to give Musk access to the national security mainframe and spending apparatus? Will the GOP still defer then?
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Probably not. Defense spending is one of the major ways senators pay off their donors. That's the reason we have such out of control defense spending now. It's not about what we need but about who's profiting. Maybe if they can show the senators a better grift, they might get somewhere.
 
altmin said:
I forgot.

All I know is he didn't vote against and now I remember why.

I remain a moron.
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At some point I’d forgotten as well. Or rather I was indulging in self delusion. I was clinging to the small hope that there were a half dozen Republicans in the Senate that might show some spine when it counted.
 
nycfan said:

Democrats focus on Elon Musk as they search for a message to fight Trump​

The party has struggled with how to respond to Trump’s aggressive efforts to remake the federal bureaucracy and other controversies.

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I actually think this might have some effect. I don't think Elon is nearly as popular as Dear Leader with the country at large and the Democrats might make some headway here if they play their cards right. Whether they will is anybody's guess. I do think it's inevitable that Elon is going to fuck something up to the point that there is an obvious disaster or crisis, and that Trump will likely drop him rather than share any of the blame. Until that happens, though, Elon is just going to continue recklessly crashing through the federal government like a bull in a china shop.
 

THE GOVERNMENT’S COMPUTING EXPERTS SAY THEY ARE TERRIFIED​

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.

www.theatlantic.com

The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified

Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be.
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

“… The four experts laid out the implications of giving untrained individuals access to the technological infrastructure that controls the country.

Their message is unambiguous: These are not systems you tamper with lightly. Musk and his crew could act deliberately to extract sensitive data, alter fundamental aspects of how these systems operate, or provide further access to unvetted actors. Or they may act with carelessness or incompetence, breaking the systems altogether.

Given the scope of what these systems do, key government services might stop working properly, citizens could be harmed, and the damage might be difficult or impossible to undo.

As one administrator for a federal agency with deep knowledge about the government’s IT operations told us, “I don’t think the public quite understands the level of danger.” …”⚠️ 🚨
 
altmin said:
Shortly after he suggested that the federal government should deploy the young DOGE staffers as air traffic controllers—“We should use some of them in the control towers, where we were putting people that were actually intellectually deficient,” the president said—the same senior White House official quickly dismissed the comment as a serious proposal.

“Lmfao no,” the White House official told WIRED in a text message. “You guys need to learn how to cover him. He was making the point that smart bright people need to be ATC’s [sic.].”

Trump simultaneously suggested the DOGE staffers are young and “very smart,” but also that “some are young, and some are not young. Some are not young at all.”
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white house staffers are using "lmfao" in communications with media outlets?

lmfao, indeed.
 
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