All the Red Lights are Flashing
While we sit here tonight, Elon Musk is in the process of executing a coup against the US government. As we’ve been discussing, his hackers have taken over computer systems in Office of Personnel Management, USAID, and the US Treasury. He’s also in the process of taking over other agencies. Musk has already announced that he’s cancelling USAID and newly minted secretary of state Marco Rubio has declared himself “acting director” of USAID. Employees at USAID and Treasury who attempted to protect the integrity of the systems have either been fired of put on administrative leave, and the acting US attorney in DC, Ed Martin, is now threatening criminal prosecution of all federal employees resisting Musk’s illegal takeover.
Folks, this is the very definition of a coup against the government of the United States. It’s also espionage, which is a federal felony. We have one private individual taking personal control of government agencies, announcing what will stay and what will go, even which bills the government will pay. He now has access to the private personal and financial information of millions of Americans, including you. Career civil servants are being fired and threatened, and some are choosing just to walk away. This is happening under Trump’s acquiesence, which is an impeachable offense. AGAIN.
The Congress, of course, is doing nothing but talk. To be clear, Republicans aren’t doing shit and not even talking. This is a major crisis, and ALL THE RED LIGHTS ARE FLASHING.
Pardon my locker room language, but the fucking mainstream media sits with their thumbs up their ass and feet in their mouths. Same for congress and the justice system. This is a police state now run by musk and other trumpF sycophants.
1The world’s dictators must be laughing hysterically at us.
All the world’s dictators laughing hysterically except for Putin who is absolutely puffed up with joy. America destroyed from the inside without a shot being fired.
2Steve, yup.
3I’ve been purty silent here lately. But I’m gonna put something out there that may or may not make sense.
Or be coherent.
The reason red lights aren’t flashing in the media is because the coordinated effort to paint any federal agency, program or policy as overreachingly invasive, evil, or UnAmerican is so ingrained in so many folks that grover fuckin norquist sees his own face on Mt Rushmore.
And the idea of Government agencies ceasing to function can’t be fathomed.
Hell I don’t think anybody can predict the outcome other than chaos and breakdown.
The stunningly stupid idea that government just gets in the way of progress just ignores the true (IMHO) purpose of government regulation, which protects average folks from rich/powerful folks, or corporations from robbing us blind.
So here’s an uneducated opinion about what’s coming down the pike.
My rudimentary understanding of economics tells me that the health of a particular economy requires constant growth. All indicators I see reference that. Nobody talks about the status quo. And all growth requires investment.
Much of that investment is paid for from debt. People lending money wanna know they’re gonna get paid back.
And IMHO that’s where government agencies come in. There’s certifications and approvals and who knows what else involved making lenders get a warm and fuzzy feeling about risk assessments. And all that’s going fuckity bye.
And now let’s talk about the fact that everything has to be insured. I’m fairly certain insurance companies rely on little things like certifications, approvals and whatnot.
I’m kinda thinking all that shit going dark might just put the kibosh on a whole shitload of growth.
But as always that’s just my opinion and I’m just as full of shit as anybody else.
More than most some would say.
1860 into 1861-1865 x integer of 5-10
4“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana
What Steve from Beaverton said.
Thanks, El Jefe, for keeping the beauty salon in business. It’s a unique bunch of commenters; it covers important subjects; and we’d all miss it terribly if it closed down.
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