Gil Duran: Musk's DOGE really is "Destruction of Government by Elon, or a Destroying Our Government Experiment"

[highplainsdem]

https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.bsky.social/post/3lcxwc6xezk24


https://www.theframelab.org/destruction-of-government-by-elon-doge/

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Trump has deputized Musk to recommend $2 trillion in severe cuts to the public good. There's simply no way to do that without weakening the country and creating harmful consequences for the American people. Clearly, Musk's objective is to butcher the federal government. Destruction is the goal.

Yet, ever the propagandist, Musk has given the project a positively Orwellian name: The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

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I worked through this idea while preparing for an appearance on The New Republic's Daily Blast podcast with Greg Sargent. When Sargent asked me why tech authoritarians like Elon Musk want to destroy government, here's what I said:

These men are very wealthy and very powerful, but government is more wealthy and powerful. Elon Musk is a billionaire, but government is a trillionaire. Governments can fight wars; Elon Musk can’t. Government can put you behind bars for your crimes; Elon Musk can’t do that. Not yet, right? If they can destroy the power of the state, then that power will be in their hands. Right now, they see rules and laws as a threat. Supposedly, they’re libertarians, so that means you’d want to eliminate these regulations and laws for everybody and do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

More at that link, including a link to the Greg Sargent podcast where Gil made that last statement there:

Full podcast transcript at The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/189194/transcript-gopers-suddenly-fear-mtg-creating-new-mess-trump

[Solly Mack]

1. Oh, there would still be laws. Just not for them. But the rest us? Oh, yeah. They'll need to keep us in control.

[lame54]

2. No shit and no secret...

They're been telling us this for a decade