👋 Ex-Treasury person checking in. Mr. Musk took over the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. If the Internal Revenue Service is Accounts Receivable then Bureau of the Fiscal Service is Accounts Payable. If you get a tax refund, IRS itself does not send you a check. IRS sends an electronic request to BFS for them to either mail a check or send an Electronic Funds Transfer. BFS handles all checks and EFTs for the federal government. BFS also manages the government’s bonds program including marketing and retail sales.
If he wanted to nuke our economy on a whim, Mr. Musk could do so now. There is no charitable interpretation of him taking over BFS. Having a drug-addled Nazi-sympathizer in effective control of the treasury outside any effective constraints of law is a situation where remedies are lacking. Either there is a mass march of millions in DC demanding this end or people start doubling down on their safety plans.
Sec. 1106: "Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $10,000 for each occurrence of a violation." 68,000,000 Social Security accounts linked to IRS databases multiplied by $10,000 for each account. I know DOJnwont prosecute but the.law regarding Social Service accounts provides for civil lawsuits for violations, bypassing DOJ. Musk is bankrupt upon verdict.
Brilliant reporting that leaves me feeling an impotent rage. I hope younger more plugged in warriors will develop a remedy that an 80+ retired academic can join.😵💫
With respect, none of this is reporting. It's analysis / commentary -- which, when done well (as this is), is ultra-valuable, but it isn't the same as reporting.
I note this for three reasons:
1. Accuracy is crucial. Approx. 40 years of deliberate mis- and disinformation, deployed by the GOP, has put this country in its perilous state. Therefore, everyone who wants to preserve US democracy must strive for accuracy, always. Fact-check before you post anything. Don't use words unless you would literally bet your life that you're using them correctly.
2. Reporting requires a very different skill set -- a laudable one, and one that relatively few people can master. Some reporters literally risk their safety or their life in pursuit of verifiable facts; this is a very big deal, and reporters + their skill set must not be diminished by even an inadvertent misuse of "reporter" and related words.
3. Without reporters, columnists / analysts / commentators would have no material to work with. Reporters are *the* crucial element in info-sharing and, as above, they and their skills must not be diminished, even by a well-intentioned or inadvertent misuse of "reporter," "reporting," etc.
Thanks for the editorsplaining. Would you leave me alone if I say I was referring to the holistic coverage, shorthanded (colloquially as “reporting “) ? Or is your need to show off greater than your ability to respond emphatically. Adding “with respect “ before launching into your lecture does not camouflage your disrespect.
unbelievable ignorant orange man, watch prices go sky high, watch nobody can do the work watch him lie lie lie, he needs to keep blaming anyone who doesn't agree same with Musk USAID Treasury not the Nazi party his first love
You’re thinking about it backwards. If your pension is federal, will you even see it next month? You could go to $0 on income tax withholding and still not have your pension payment show up at all. That’s the danger.
If they, the Trumpees, only informed themselves. Read the following truth:
Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
If you’re serious about exposing him, help me get my book How America Got Trumped published in the UK. https://geni.us/whitechalkcrime is the US publication. Everyone will understand how he happened once they read my book that exposes the fascist education system we have. You can reach me at WhiteChalkCrime.com. The sooner he’s explained, the sooner we can get rid of him.
Excellent comment Hugo… the fact that Trump was birthed into the Genovese crime family, laundering money for all the East and West coast crime syndicates, including, but most importantly, his puppet master Putin! Is substantially fundamental to the way he was raised by a criminal father and mentor Roy Cohn, both heartless and ruthless connards! Hence, Trump is exactly what you’ve described!!
What a brilliant, insightful, spot-on description; this is the kind of writing that makes my heart sing, even while my guts roil. That people elected this …sub-? in-? un-? human thing to lead the country is incomprehensible.
1. A person can be unlikable but still be valuable as a politician or leader. (Not the case with scum-p, of course, but I'm making the distinction bc almost everything that you quoted above is irrelevant.) For ex., from what I know about LBJ, I think I wd've disliked him and cd've compiled a long list of his flaws -- but he was an effective leader who did some truly great stuff, and therefore I wd've voted for him.
2. You're overlooking a crucial fact: The emotions that give our lives such richness also leave us vulnerable to neurosis, and many people -- worldwide, not just in the US -- are deeply neurotic; a big subset of them are cruel. Maybe just in small ways, and maybe not every day, but cruelty is their motivator. Therefore, they *want* to elect people like scum-p, who promises to hurt Others. They elect him not because they're uninformed about who he is but but bc they *are* -- they like what they see. They're similar to him in that they (unconsciously) labor under the delusion that hurting others will bring them relief from their pain, or somehow set right the wrongs of their own painful childhood. That doesn't work, of course, so the cruel actions simply continue, until/unless the cruel person encounters some life obstacle or fresh life trauma that prompts them to seek therapy, face their pain, and stop being so cruel.
I stress #2 bc until we-the-rational -- we who want to preserve democracy -- face certain truths about dt's supporters, we can't hope to create effective strategies for winning elections (with or without the small subset of his supporters who are reachable). Accurate diagnosis is crucial if one wants to treat a disease and, if possible, reduce its incidence. (Not eradicate it, bc that will never happen w/ hatred, cruelty, etc. But we could definitely reduce the amount of psychological suffering in the world.)
Well, SOMEBODY had to create whoever brought him into existence. God he is not and Satan probably had nothing to do with him. At least I don't think the fallen one was involved - yet.
As a former intelligence officer, the thing that bothers me the most is Musk’s ties(control?) to the CCP and/or the Saudis. 50% of Teslas are built and sold in China. The CCP could bankrupt Musk in a heartbeat. He could never get a security clearance never mind control the levers of government. With access to the OMB database and the Treasury payment system, the CCP could own the US government.
1). Are there lawsuits already filed to stop Musk (Democracy Docket, ACLU, etc..) I assume yes.
2). You list one - Everyone call their reps and demand ALL nomination confirmations be stopped until federal employees are reinstated and Musk is locked out of the U.S. Treasury accounts.
3). Remove X as a threat - Are there enough people still on X that would leave to make a big effect? We need another mass exodus. We also need to confirm to any advertisers or potential advertisers that it is toxic now and or can we flood the zone in some way like tik tok campaigns do to completely overwhelm their systems?
We need ideas to slow them down and fast. And we need to mobilize quickly. I know there is a call tonight at 8pm edt with Move On, Indivisible and Working Families Party. Everyone should join.
As a Canadian, this is absolutely scary. It is a step-by-step breakdown and dismantling all US institutions, and it’s going to be hard to put them back together again if ever is dictatorship Is dissolved. This is one step closer to a civil war.
Thanks for tying in doge taking over federal subsidies with his payment program. I like many others worked hard for many years to now depend on SS payments. And Medicare and affordable meds. All these are in jeopardy as are other needs of the people. My grandparents fled the USSR under Stain and moved to the US for freedom and democracy. And I live now in the US that daily looks more like the dangerous autocratic kleptocracy they left. I am a Boomer not afraid to stand up and demonstrate although I do fear I may be shot by whatever militia or military the Felon not my chief orders to shoot. I worry my kitties won’t have a Mom then. And I may not be able to finally buy after years of waiting the affordable new shared equity condo without SS. No SS will be detrimental and dangerous to the health, life support of many. No to Muskova controlling our funds, our data, our privacy, our lives.
The one thing that is stopping Congress from acting in the public interest is the insane loyalty to the Republican Party. Senators and Representatives -- any of whom could block a lot of this garbage -- are afraid to act out of fear for their self-interest if they offend the party hierarchy.
Why is Musk not under arrest yet? He is a private citizen who is sabotaging our government or , better yet executing a coup. Is this not a high crime? Is there no one at FBI or DOJ, someone still loyal to our Constitution and our country, who can obtain a warrant for his arrest?
Writing from the future: I’ve wondered that all along, and the answer apparently has been not so much about loyalty per se, as (maybe) jurisdiction. That’s how it looks to me, anyway, when I imagine myself in these departments with the boy hackers busting in (I’d love to see what it’s looked like when they’ve arrived and gone through each dept’s security). Who would you call to remove them? Capitol Police? Metropolitan police? FBI? US Marshalls?
The more I’ve thought about it, the more I feel the answer was that nobody knew who to call, because this has been unimaginable. Still, you’d think SOMEONE would’ve said, “Hey all, let’s shove them back into the elevators!” I wonder if there were episodes like that…
Every day I thank my stars I am Canadian - I just hope I get to stay one.
I wanted to let you know that I am both a pensioner (age 72) and a university student, so I am doubly broke, but I would be a paid subscriber if I could.
If I were an American right now I would be renewing my passport and putting the house on the market.
He came on a student visa and proceeded to drop out of school and start a business. So there was a period when he could have been described as an “illegal.”
Seth Abramson has written extensively on Musk and posted publicly on Blusky. He's an expert bipgrapher and it would be worth reading more of him if you haven't yet.
Big kudos for covering Musk's designs on our Treasury payment system so thoroughly...I bet you're onto something with his profit seeking motives. On another note, I'd sure like to know what kind of tactics he's using to bully our public officials out of their positions. Do they have no recourse or way of defending themselves in this?
👋 Ex-Treasury person checking in. Mr. Musk took over the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. If the Internal Revenue Service is Accounts Receivable then Bureau of the Fiscal Service is Accounts Payable. If you get a tax refund, IRS itself does not send you a check. IRS sends an electronic request to BFS for them to either mail a check or send an Electronic Funds Transfer. BFS handles all checks and EFTs for the federal government. BFS also manages the government’s bonds program including marketing and retail sales.
If he wanted to nuke our economy on a whim, Mr. Musk could do so now. There is no charitable interpretation of him taking over BFS. Having a drug-addled Nazi-sympathizer in effective control of the treasury outside any effective constraints of law is a situation where remedies are lacking. Either there is a mass march of millions in DC demanding this end or people start doubling down on their safety plans.
Sec. 1106: "Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $10,000 for each occurrence of a violation." 68,000,000 Social Security accounts linked to IRS databases multiplied by $10,000 for each account. I know DOJnwont prosecute but the.law regarding Social Service accounts provides for civil lawsuits for violations, bypassing DOJ. Musk is bankrupt upon verdict.
Thank you Rich!
I'm sure there's somebody who follows Ms. Rangappa can answer these questions:
What are the logistics of arresting the people involved who have obviously violated the law?
Who has authority to make charges and issue a warrant?
Who has jurisdiction to make the arrests?
Is there a way to connect the subset of people who are not comprised so that this can happen?
Apparently, the attorney for DC is compromised and was a participant in the stop-the-steal shenanigans: https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1886583267308208329
How and when do we file a lawsuit?
Brilliant reporting that leaves me feeling an impotent rage. I hope younger more plugged in warriors will develop a remedy that an 80+ retired academic can join.😵💫
With respect, none of this is reporting. It's analysis / commentary -- which, when done well (as this is), is ultra-valuable, but it isn't the same as reporting.
I note this for three reasons:
1. Accuracy is crucial. Approx. 40 years of deliberate mis- and disinformation, deployed by the GOP, has put this country in its perilous state. Therefore, everyone who wants to preserve US democracy must strive for accuracy, always. Fact-check before you post anything. Don't use words unless you would literally bet your life that you're using them correctly.
2. Reporting requires a very different skill set -- a laudable one, and one that relatively few people can master. Some reporters literally risk their safety or their life in pursuit of verifiable facts; this is a very big deal, and reporters + their skill set must not be diminished by even an inadvertent misuse of "reporter" and related words.
3. Without reporters, columnists / analysts / commentators would have no material to work with. Reporters are *the* crucial element in info-sharing and, as above, they and their skills must not be diminished, even by a well-intentioned or inadvertent misuse of "reporter," "reporting," etc.
Thanks.
couldn't agree more!! Beautiful
Thanks for the editorsplaining. Would you leave me alone if I say I was referring to the holistic coverage, shorthanded (colloquially as “reporting “) ? Or is your need to show off greater than your ability to respond emphatically. Adding “with respect “ before launching into your lecture does not camouflage your disrespect.
I'm planning on both.
A link to suggested resources for the prescribed “safety plans” would be helpful. 🙏
Could you please tell me what the safety plan I might take would be. Thank you.
unbelievable ignorant orange man, watch prices go sky high, watch nobody can do the work watch him lie lie lie, he needs to keep blaming anyone who doesn't agree same with Musk USAID Treasury not the Nazi party his first love
You’re thinking about it backwards. If your pension is federal, will you even see it next month? You could go to $0 on income tax withholding and still not have your pension payment show up at all. That’s the danger.
Yeah, I’m aware of that.
If they, the Trumpees, only informed themselves. Read the following truth:
Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
You’ve described him perfectly! He has no redeeming qualities.
Thank you, Julie. I am determined to expose this idiot in whichever way I can.
If you’re serious about exposing him, help me get my book How America Got Trumped published in the UK. https://geni.us/whitechalkcrime is the US publication. Everyone will understand how he happened once they read my book that exposes the fascist education system we have. You can reach me at WhiteChalkCrime.com. The sooner he’s explained, the sooner we can get rid of him.
Ahh, everyone has a mother. He just did not appreciate what she did/did not do for him.
Excellent comment Hugo… the fact that Trump was birthed into the Genovese crime family, laundering money for all the East and West coast crime syndicates, including, but most importantly, his puppet master Putin! Is substantially fundamental to the way he was raised by a criminal father and mentor Roy Cohn, both heartless and ruthless connards! Hence, Trump is exactly what you’ve described!!
picky, picky, picky - - but could "connards" perhaps be "canards"?
Never mind - - I see the etymology stands by your choice. Well done.
What a brilliant, insightful, spot-on description; this is the kind of writing that makes my heart sing, even while my guts roil. That people elected this …sub-? in-? un-? human thing to lead the country is incomprehensible.
I remember reading this the first time round. Absolutely brilliant and so bang on.
Thank you for fishing this golden nugget from the ocean of dross, we call the internet.
Well done. You have a future in writing descriptive prose.
Bingo! Spot on! Thank you.
Apologies in advance for being "that guy" but did you write this? If not, who did? From where did it come? Thank you.
I suggest you read the second paragraph of my post.
Gah, thank you!
Who is the author of this quote?
U hv
Methinks thou dost protest too much, yet too little: Trump is a felon.
1. A person can be unlikable but still be valuable as a politician or leader. (Not the case with scum-p, of course, but I'm making the distinction bc almost everything that you quoted above is irrelevant.) For ex., from what I know about LBJ, I think I wd've disliked him and cd've compiled a long list of his flaws -- but he was an effective leader who did some truly great stuff, and therefore I wd've voted for him.
2. You're overlooking a crucial fact: The emotions that give our lives such richness also leave us vulnerable to neurosis, and many people -- worldwide, not just in the US -- are deeply neurotic; a big subset of them are cruel. Maybe just in small ways, and maybe not every day, but cruelty is their motivator. Therefore, they *want* to elect people like scum-p, who promises to hurt Others. They elect him not because they're uninformed about who he is but but bc they *are* -- they like what they see. They're similar to him in that they (unconsciously) labor under the delusion that hurting others will bring them relief from their pain, or somehow set right the wrongs of their own painful childhood. That doesn't work, of course, so the cruel actions simply continue, until/unless the cruel person encounters some life obstacle or fresh life trauma that prompts them to seek therapy, face their pain, and stop being so cruel.
I stress #2 bc until we-the-rational -- we who want to preserve democracy -- face certain truths about dt's supporters, we can't hope to create effective strategies for winning elections (with or without the small subset of his supporters who are reachable). Accurate diagnosis is crucial if one wants to treat a disease and, if possible, reduce its incidence. (Not eradicate it, bc that will never happen w/ hatred, cruelty, etc. But we could definitely reduce the amount of psychological suffering in the world.)
Some may doubt God’s existence, but no one can doubt the Devil’s, who made his presence known in the Trump’s grotesque figure.
Well, SOMEBODY had to create whoever brought him into existence. God he is not and Satan probably had nothing to do with him. At least I don't think the fallen one was involved - yet.
As a former intelligence officer, the thing that bothers me the most is Musk’s ties(control?) to the CCP and/or the Saudis. 50% of Teslas are built and sold in China. The CCP could bankrupt Musk in a heartbeat. He could never get a security clearance never mind control the levers of government. With access to the OMB database and the Treasury payment system, the CCP could own the US government.
😱
Questions on action items:
1). Are there lawsuits already filed to stop Musk (Democracy Docket, ACLU, etc..) I assume yes.
2). You list one - Everyone call their reps and demand ALL nomination confirmations be stopped until federal employees are reinstated and Musk is locked out of the U.S. Treasury accounts.
3). Remove X as a threat - Are there enough people still on X that would leave to make a big effect? We need another mass exodus. We also need to confirm to any advertisers or potential advertisers that it is toxic now and or can we flood the zone in some way like tik tok campaigns do to completely overwhelm their systems?
We need ideas to slow them down and fast. And we need to mobilize quickly. I know there is a call tonight at 8pm edt with Move On, Indivisible and Working Families Party. Everyone should join.
As a Canadian, this is absolutely scary. It is a step-by-step breakdown and dismantling all US institutions, and it’s going to be hard to put them back together again if ever is dictatorship Is dissolved. This is one step closer to a civil war.
Thanks for tying in doge taking over federal subsidies with his payment program. I like many others worked hard for many years to now depend on SS payments. And Medicare and affordable meds. All these are in jeopardy as are other needs of the people. My grandparents fled the USSR under Stain and moved to the US for freedom and democracy. And I live now in the US that daily looks more like the dangerous autocratic kleptocracy they left. I am a Boomer not afraid to stand up and demonstrate although I do fear I may be shot by whatever militia or military the Felon not my chief orders to shoot. I worry my kitties won’t have a Mom then. And I may not be able to finally buy after years of waiting the affordable new shared equity condo without SS. No SS will be detrimental and dangerous to the health, life support of many. No to Muskova controlling our funds, our data, our privacy, our lives.
I’ve said this all feels like a James Bond story in which Musk is the antagonist aiming to control the world by starting with the U.S.
The one thing that is stopping Congress from acting in the public interest is the insane loyalty to the Republican Party. Senators and Representatives -- any of whom could block a lot of this garbage -- are afraid to act out of fear for their self-interest if they offend the party hierarchy.
EXACTLY
Deport the bastard.
Make it biodegradable please!
Asha: Thank-you for putting the clues together and creating this alert. I have written to my senators accordingly.
Why is Musk not under arrest yet? He is a private citizen who is sabotaging our government or , better yet executing a coup. Is this not a high crime? Is there no one at FBI or DOJ, someone still loyal to our Constitution and our country, who can obtain a warrant for his arrest?
Writing from the future: I’ve wondered that all along, and the answer apparently has been not so much about loyalty per se, as (maybe) jurisdiction. That’s how it looks to me, anyway, when I imagine myself in these departments with the boy hackers busting in (I’d love to see what it’s looked like when they’ve arrived and gone through each dept’s security). Who would you call to remove them? Capitol Police? Metropolitan police? FBI? US Marshalls?
The more I’ve thought about it, the more I feel the answer was that nobody knew who to call, because this has been unimaginable. Still, you’d think SOMEONE would’ve said, “Hey all, let’s shove them back into the elevators!” I wonder if there were episodes like that…
Musk as a Despicable Me bad guy is on point!
Every day I thank my stars I am Canadian - I just hope I get to stay one.
I wanted to let you know that I am both a pensioner (age 72) and a university student, so I am doubly broke, but I would be a paid subscriber if I could.
If I were an American right now I would be renewing my passport and putting the house on the market.
Sadly, that’s what I’m planning to do.
Don't be sad - you're moving to the best country in the world!
Where do we sign up to fund the end of this?
Musk is a US citizen. It really helps creditibility to get a fact as basic as that right.
You’re right. I will correct, thank you
Otherwise a great post and, sadly, all too true.
Could somebody confirm that he actually came here illegally? Was it there some malfeasance?
He came on a student visa and proceeded to drop out of school and start a business. So there was a period when he could have been described as an “illegal.”
Seth Abramson has written extensively on Musk and posted publicly on Blusky. He's an expert bipgrapher and it would be worth reading more of him if you haven't yet.
https://www.sethabramson.net
Big kudos for covering Musk's designs on our Treasury payment system so thoroughly...I bet you're onto something with his profit seeking motives. On another note, I'd sure like to know what kind of tactics he's using to bully our public officials out of their positions. Do they have no recourse or way of defending themselves in this?