I will give you some credit for at least mentioning the real heart of the evil and the danger:
"he appears to believe that the U.S. president should have powers analogous to a CEO’s, with the American electorate functioning as a board that votes every four years."
This is, quite simply and without exaggeration, fascism. No system where the president has that level of power can protect civil liberty or the rule of law. Elected dictatorship is utterly foreign not only to American tradition but to all civilized and humane values. And elected dictatorship is precisely what the Trump cabal is trying to foist upon us now.
Musk and DOGE are acting in seriously confidential areas of our government records and that is not right, no matter how it looks. Even the skilled current workers he is firing were not allowed the access he has. He was neither elected nor approved by the Senate, so he should be escorted out of the WH until those conditions are met. I am not going to speculate on the supposed results: at $8M/day, we deserve personnel who are vetted and approved. Period.
Which of the wealthy influential men in American history was as much of a sociopath and compulsive liar as Musk?
And which of them openly used his influence to threaten other businessmen into corruptly serving him, as Musk is now doing by threatening companies with antitrust suits if they don't advertise on Twitter?
The principle of someone being in his position is not pernicious -- but the extraordinarily evil character of Musk is, like the extraordinarily evil character of Trump.
As a paid subscriber I cannot read the article because it is behind another paywall.
Sadly substack is killing itself, I want to read articles and too many are podcasts. This is a new curve with having the article you tell me to read behind a paywall.
I will give you some credit for at least mentioning the real heart of the evil and the danger:
"he appears to believe that the U.S. president should have powers analogous to a CEO’s, with the American electorate functioning as a board that votes every four years."
This is, quite simply and without exaggeration, fascism. No system where the president has that level of power can protect civil liberty or the rule of law. Elected dictatorship is utterly foreign not only to American tradition but to all civilized and humane values. And elected dictatorship is precisely what the Trump cabal is trying to foist upon us now.
Musk and DOGE are acting in seriously confidential areas of our government records and that is not right, no matter how it looks. Even the skilled current workers he is firing were not allowed the access he has. He was neither elected nor approved by the Senate, so he should be escorted out of the WH until those conditions are met. I am not going to speculate on the supposed results: at $8M/day, we deserve personnel who are vetted and approved. Period.
Which of the wealthy influential men in American history was as much of a sociopath and compulsive liar as Musk?
And which of them openly used his influence to threaten other businessmen into corruptly serving him, as Musk is now doing by threatening companies with antitrust suits if they don't advertise on Twitter?
The principle of someone being in his position is not pernicious -- but the extraordinarily evil character of Musk is, like the extraordinarily evil character of Trump.
it only took a man with the Midas touch to get Marxist lunatics to show their true colors even more https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/doge-finger
Excellent article. At last, someone understands Elon and his asbergers condition.
Yep, we shouldn't obsess so over Musks henchman act & thus let Trump off the hook 4. But 👎 Nope, Musk Is pernicious.
As a paid subscriber I cannot read the article because it is behind another paywall.
Sadly substack is killing itself, I want to read articles and too many are podcasts. This is a new curve with having the article you tell me to read behind a paywall.
Oof
I will not make a habit of these kinds of posts.