I was told there would be checks and balances.
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Bank checks and balances.
All about getting that government money checks to inflate their bank accounts.
Instead there are blue checkmarks and one unbalanced sociopath.
I don't know that checks are necessary. He can just use direct debit to drain the treasury these days.
Let the billionaires war begin, Zuckerberg trying to assassinate musk, Gates trying to get Zuckerberg in an alliance with Bezos who then backstabs Gates...
I can verify this! My roommate works for the DOD. He can't tell me much, but every federal worker has been warned they're going to be purged and replaced with staff Elon chooses. In addition, mandatory Return To Work orders have meant that many of his coworkers will be let go for "missing work" despite the fact that the military knows they moved and they've been working remotely for almost 5 years. It's skuzzy as fuck.
If he gains full control of the DOD, then it's over.
What did people expect when they voted Musk into office?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
The problem is millions of us didn’t play this stupid game and we are the recipients of these stupid prizes as well.
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.
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.
If this is all it takes to tank this country, we probably fucking deserve it.
What a joke.
Take a look at South Korea for a comparison...
If this is all it takes to tank this country, we probably fucking deserve it.
Yeah maybe you do but everyone else does not, so please get your shit under control over there
Ever wonder how most Germans felt after January 1933? This is how.
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.
America is letting this guy put their government and economy on auto drive and it’s going to crash.
Cuck country.
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.
We’re in the minority because most folks aren’t bothering to pay attention.
Or they just blithely assume that it will all go back to normal in four years and choose to ignore it.
We’re all gonna suffer the consequences of the majority believing that it can’t happen here
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The conservatives are allowing an immigrant to take away American jobs lol
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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/
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. 
FFS Democrats are talking against this. It's just that they're irrelevant because the US electorate made them irrelevant. The people that voted for this and the people that didn't vote at all allowed this to happen. Americans need to start taking responsibility for their own actions or inaction instead of constantly looking for someone else to blame.
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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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.
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.
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I love when non-elected officials do what ever they want. -.-
It's who they voted for.
No one voted for Elon Musk.
Didn't they, though?
No one voted for Elon Musk.
We apparently voted for someone that would hand the power of government over to musk.
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.
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