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.

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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours ago

      It’s despondent but also hilarious that every single person who has ever “ICED” a Tesla charging spot likely voted for Musk to take over their country.

    • poo
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      He’s got a lot of work to do!

      • Flying Squid
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        Yes, the armed snipers in prison towers definitely wouldn’t stop people.

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    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/

  • @Hobbes_Dent
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    America is letting this guy put their government and economy on auto drive and it’s going to crash.

    Cuck country.

    • Drusas
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        The ‘Divide and rule’ strategy worked after all. Although the government could have blocked the channels for sowing hate and fear earlier

      • SuiXi3D
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        We’re in the minority because most folks aren’t bothering to pay attention.

        • Drusas
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          Or they just blithely assume that it will all go back to normal in four years and choose to ignore it.

          • @cmbabul
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            We’re all gonna suffer the consequences of the majority believing that it can’t happen here

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        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.

    • @normanwall
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      The conservatives are allowing an immigrant to take away American jobs lol

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    Considering the near-complete silence from almost all democrats, I’m beginning to believe that this is something that America was already leaning into anyway, and that Trump is a nice patsy to blame it on.

    How they (the entirety of the government) can sit back idly — throwing out occasional soundbites for good measure — and allow this to happen makes me feel defeated.

    Freedom and liberty were the just the rose that held the thorns of fascism.

    Edit: I feel like I should add that I am in no way trying to alleviate Trump from any guilt that he deserves. Calling him a patsy just seems like I’m letting him off. I’m certainly not. The guy is a total piece of trash. 

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        I meant democratic leadership, not citizens.

        Stand down, captain!

    • @[email protected]
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      Elon is a billionaire. The democrats won’t seriously do anything to anger billionaires, any more than they would do something to anger Israel. They know who pads their wallets, and they aren’t in politics to help the people. They’re there to get paid by the special interests that actually run the country.

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        Cant they just piss off one billionaire at a time?

        Honestly if they just work down the list I’d be happy just to get to Page. He’s at #6 and isn’t even at half of Musks wealth.

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            Who the fuck wants to go to Florida?

            For that matter, who the fuck wants to get on a plane right now? Commercial pilot is on its way to being a more dangerous job than a suburban cop.

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      This has been obvious to anyone paying attention for the last 20 years. The Democratic party started courting billionaires for donations just like the Republicans and stopped giving a shit about anything else.

      There are a few Dems in Congress that try to work within the system to accomplish actual change. But the vast majority generally just follow the party and work towards the same goals, and a few break away occasionally when it suits them. The Dems have not been actively fighting against the shift to the right for decades. They helped shift the entire country further to the right until we now have open fascism, we allowed an attempted insurrection to go unpunished, and a 34x convicted felon in the White House, and that’s apparently acceptable. The Democratic party establishment is 100% ok with helping to facilitate it.

      • loaf
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        Exactly. They blatantly sabotage Bernie Sanders, preventing arguably the last sane politician available.

        More than that, Democrats have gradually shifted right over time, so what is considered “liberal” these days is actually closer to older generations of Republicans prior to Reagan.

        I don’t think there’s a true left-leaning party in America anymore.

  • @kerrigan778
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    “originally intended”? WTF are they talking about

  • Majorllama
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    I love when non-elected officials do what ever they want. -.-

  • @Fluffy_Ruffs
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    He has ungodly amounts of money to his name. No one will tell him no.

      • MushuChupacabra
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        Seems as though ignoring reality when voting has led to some surprising results.

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        Well, like Kamala, we don’t get to choose anymore.

        Think of the worst case scenario, then multiply that by two, and you’ll have a realistic idea of the future.

      • partial_accumen
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        No one voted for Elon Musk.

        We apparently voted for someone that would hand the power of government over to musk.

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          Yep, Trump doesn’t actually want to be president he just wanted to stay out of prison. Elon Musk didn’t spend $260 million to get Trump re-elected. He paid $260 million for a shadow Presidency.

  • Flying Squid
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    What did people expect when they voted Musk into office?