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So the upshot here is that instead of DOGE working on making the government more efficient, it’s going to be a vehicle for Musk to get classified information he can swap to Beijing for political favors for his companies? Fun.

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Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

Jan 21

NEWS - How Elon Musk's vision for DOGE prevailed, culminating in Ramaswamy exit: - Musk & Ramaswamy have had diverging ideas of how DOGE would work for months; - Musk wanted DOGE inside the WH, where it could obtain sensitive government information across agencies. Ramaswamy

Many leading republicans used to be aware of the problem here

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Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

We may just be cooked. Idk. slowboring.com/p/nobody-knows

5:51 PM · Jan 21, 2025

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Clark H

@Clarksterh

Jan 21

Weird take given that the only place the Biden initiated that really worked was chip manufacturing. The rural comms, the power stations… were hopelessly bloated. And Trump and Musk are much more likely to do something about the bloat generally.

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Cope

There are no more checks left on his power. He can and will stay for a third term.

I do think we are in for a period of geopolitical instability as the US leaves NATO. Putin will go after the Balkans if /when he stabilizes the situation in Ukraine. Xi wants Taiwan. Israel wants dominance over more territory in the Middle East.

I just looked at a map of the USA and Taiwan and Ukraine weren't on there.

P Breit

@pbreit

Jan 22

Every clause in that paragraph is wrong.

LMCANE

@JarredFishman

Jan 23

You sound like a literal idiot.

Ken Carter

@RousseauFTW

Jan 21

Feel like the biggest insurance against this is vanity. Hard to see this type of looting not affect stocks and markets, but downward pressure there seems to be a stick he really responds to. I think TESLA tanking when trump yanks contracts much more plausible

I don’t think the US is ever cooked, but a lot of self afflicted wounds are coming.

It is what he said he would do. It is hard to make your brain believe our government has fundamentally failed.

Voters don't want your Cold War 2.0. Russia and China will act in their own interests. So should America. That includes ending pointless wars and cooperating where appropriate.

Your anguish is highly enjoyable and your frustration induced premature balding (ahst little hair you have left) even more so. Have fun! It's going to be a veryyy long 4 years

Yeah.

You've always been a doomer at heart.

Forgot grifting, that’s going to be half of his day every day. What’s the new grift.

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Tan Man

@reallytanman

Don’t just stare at it, eat it.

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You need to take a break.

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King of the wicker people

@Kristopher_GR

Jan 21

I agree. We are not a serious people.

Given that 80% of global ship building capacity is either in China or within cruise missile range of China, it's not like we were winning under Biden either. WW 3 is a naval war and we can't make ships.

I think there seems to be some hope that trump is so eager to prove himself unpredictable and contrarian that he just wont do a lot of the bad things he promised he would, and will do a lot of random things instead that may be neutral or good

The battle over Tik Tok is really just part two of the opium wars. But the tables have turned... For we cannot and will not manufacture them anymore.

I think the only acceptable response to losing World War III is to immediately declare World War IV.

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Coffee Fool

@thecoffeefool

There's no tricks here, only treats.

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This take is in fact correct. The USA lost

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@krsmith74

Jan 22

The plan is to immiserate the American people until they are eating from the corporate overlords’ hands. The worst people in the world will use the US as a homebase for operations and protection from the harshness of the world that they create and also profit from.

The other reason we are cooked is because China is preparing its young for a world of advanced manufacturing while our President is preparing our young for a world of influencing and shitcoins.

Worth it to stop Bernie and BBB, amirite?

dreamin

@blamelessjay

Jan 22

only you could shit out “musk is on the other side of manufacturing in america” with a flat expression

Girl Geek for Miss Bumpass, 1963

@girlgeek_rva

Jan 22

Yeah, that pretty much sums up the parts we can anticipate... though I'd throw in that even in 2019, with three years of "if there's ever a crisis" under our belts, nobody had that truly awful covid response on their bingo card.

Dave Arnold

@davearnold1985

Jan 23

Yeah things worked out so well with Biden in charge…you idiot

Wordz

@lotsofword37073

Jan 23

He is not 'picking fights', you utter idiot.

OccasionalIntelligence

@OccasionalIntel

Jan 21

Isn't in it just possible that winning in Space, winning in AI, and not getting in fights on the other side of the planet might benefit our citizens though?

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Tan Man

@reallytanman

Why was everyone so much healthier in the 1970s?

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There are so many things wrong here. Trump started the "bring back manufacturing" policies. Tariffs are on Imports. America has the lowest tariffs in the world. If you're really interested in geopolitics, you must increase your sources of information.

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@RileyHagen61887

Jan 21

omg im so worried that trump and musk arent fascist enough ): they need to be good boys and nuke china already

Keeping a sense of proportion and intellectual humility is important. However, it's key in times like these not to fall into a sense of cynical detachment. You (and many others) have agency to preserve the best and prevent the worst

BHMA

@BHMA25316630

Jan 22

And MAGA brownshirts have the all-clear to intimate polling places, destroy future electoral counts, and any who obey the laws know they'll be punished. Good luck having free and fair elections from now on.

Roentgeno-phile

@hoorad_biz

Jan 22

This seems extremely disconnected from reality. Just to take one point- Trump is the one who put tariffs in place to rebuild manufacturing and it started bearing fruit during Biden admin because he kept Trump’s course.

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