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Eugene

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 05:14 PM Friday

Elon Musk's DOGE "revolution" is a return to tyranny

Source: Salon

Elon Musk’s DOGE “revolution” is a return to tyranny

Welcome to the tyranny of the bosses

By James Hassett
Published March 28, 2025 5:45AM (EDT)

From arbitrary layoffs to intimidation tactics to targeted harassment, Elon Musk has brought the tyrannical practices of corporate America to the federal government.

"This is a revolution,” Musk told Fox News’ Bret Baier in his first interview with members of his cost-cutting team. “I think it might be the biggest revolution in the government since the original revolution."

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With Trump’s fawning approval, Musk is dismantling the American constitutional system, flouting federal law to purge perceived ideological enemies from the civil service and circumventing congressional authority by cutting off appropriated federal funding, and doing so in open defiance of the courts.

Musk doesn't just bring Silicon Valley's 'disruptor' mindset to DC — he embodies the idea that the executive, whether a CEO or a president, should be the unbridled sovereign of his domain. A boss can hire and fire at will, cancel contracts, and direct funding without any checks to his power. Now, Musk threatens to remake the federal government into a business, with the president as an all-powerful boss.

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Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/03/28/elon-musks-doge-revolution-is-a-return-to-tyranny/

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Elon Musk's DOGE "revolution" is a return to tyranny (Original Post) Eugene Friday OP
And muskrat knows it, that's he one of the primary sources of this scourge that we're all suffering from. Keep SWBTATTReg Friday #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. And muskrat knows it, that's he one of the primary sources of this scourge that we're all suffering from. Keep
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 06:03 PM
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hounding away at his businesses, refuse to do service w/ the POS, ignore tRUMP as he so well deserves. Scumbags, both of them. Congress deserves a say in what's getting cut since in most of these instances, Congress approved their funding.

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