But… but isn’t Space-X a US federal contractor?
Imagine if some DOGE incel accidentally cuts off Raytheon and their whole team gets black bagged lmao
I gotta be honest, I thought DOGE was only ever gonna be some little toy for Musk to play with that had no real power. Didn’t think it would just take over an actual department and start doing real damage, I was really wrong on that one.
I mean, it’s only real insofar as Trump is allowing it to be real. It would evaporate instantly if Trump played golf with someone who said it made him look like a loser. Musk isn’t actually doing anything, he’s just taking credit for things that are being done. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Musk was being set up as the scapegoat for when all of this quickly and inevitably falls apart.
American bit idea: everyone gets more racist when a South African becomes the scapegoat for the failures of government.
Don’t pay your mercenaries
Well, we’ll know sooner than I ever imagined how many CIA/FBI have the balls of their forefathers.
Apparently Trump is firing a fuckload of FBI agents. Of course I shed no tears over such things… but his buddy RFK Jr should’ve probably told him what happened to his uncle (and father, I suppose) when he started targeting such agencies.
It’s also just annoying that they do this in the most liberal (but more rightwing flavor) ways possible. “Nooo they targeted my precious boys on Jan 6!” For the record, I don’t think (most) of those dipshits deserved the sentences they got. I wasn’t exactly crying for them, but if we’re being real… shitting on Pelosi’s desk should get you an award. The Proud Boy fascist-style leader and such, well, it was a convenient reason to get rid of them.
Either way, this is the stupidest possible pretext to destroy the US “security apparatus.” Not that I think he’s actually doing that or trying to do that. More than likely this is for show or he’s a moron (or both). Still, firing a huge percent of FBI and presumably digging into the asses at DHS, NSA, CIA, etc. is going to undermine what they’re doing. Intended or not.
It’s like cutting USAID because “it doesn’t benefit Americans.” Well, it does (capitalists anyway), but I do wonder, again, if Elon/Trump are too fucking stupid (again… yes…) to actually know what “soft power” is.
Well, either way, it’s about to insanely boring or the opposite of that in the next year or so.
Between the tariffs which are obviously going to blow the backs out of millions of people, the incoming labor shortage because they chose deportation over amnesty and fair pay, and shit like just one by one destroying government “welfare” (in different forms) programs, the suffering knob is being turned up for absolutely zero reason when the other option is, I dunno… accept multipolarity and negotiate with China. Draw down the military presence. Stop whining about the border and making shit up about it. No, no, no… turn the pain knob. Isolate while simultaneously trying to increase imperialism. Seems sustainable…
It’s like cutting USAID because “it doesn’t benefit Americans.” Well, it does (capitalists anyway), but I do wonder, again, if Elon/Trump are too fucking stupid (again… yes…) to actually know what “soft power” is.
Musk bought one of the biggest consent manufacturing mechanisms in the US and he drove it into the ground. He couldn’t even subtly make himself more popular by elevating posts about him, he needed to shove his own posts in front of everybody’s face. Dude has no idea what he’s doing.
