Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies
Summary
Elon Musk’s team is reportedly gaining control over key U.S. government operations.
His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials have clashed with Treasury staff over access to federal payment systems, which handle $6 trillion annually.
Reports indicate Musk aides have locked civil servants out of government databases and are reviewing tech operations across agencies.
Originally intended as an external advisory body, DOGE was instead integrated into the government by Trump’s executive order, giving Musk a direct role in federal operations.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/elon-musk-is-reportedly-taking-control-of-the-inner-workings-of-us-government-agencies/Open linkView original on lemmy.world589
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America is letting this guy put their government and economy on auto drive and it’s going to crash.
Cuck country.
Some of us know and are incredibly frustrated and disheartened by it, but we're still the minority. The state has a monopoly on violence at any meaningful scale. What are we supposed to do while we wait for the rest of the country to wake up? All we can do is talk about it and try to get them to see what's happening.
We’re in the minority because most folks aren’t bothering to pay attention.
Or they just blithely assume that it will all go back to normal in four years and choose to ignore it.
We’re all gonna suffer the consequences of the majority believing that it can’t happen here
Financially secure white guys keep telling me to hunker down until it blows over.
Even if Trump doesn't survive until then, and even if the best possible Democrat is able to become the next president, it will take decades to clean up Trump's mess, and at least the same amount of time for the rest of the world to start trusting the USA and Americans again.
We hoped you'd have learned how much of a mistake Trump was the first time, and then you just go and make the same mistake again a few years later.
This is a mess of your own making, and you have to fix your own shit.
Until then, the rest of us will be out here using your example as a warning, and getting on with our lives.
Dude the US is never having another election again, that doesn't involve having (1) candidate on the ballot, ala Russia.
Trump barely won the popular vote. So get off your high horse.
The fact he could shit the bed so fucking hard in his first term and then still get elected is a huge indictment on the USofA.
I agree that is a huge indictment of our electoral system. Which is garbage.
The 'Divide and rule' strategy worked after all. Although the government could have blocked the channels for sowing hate and fear earlier
You said it. Right on the nose. More Republicans own guns versus democrats, and most cops are Republicans, so the side with more common sense voted their gun rights away years ago and are sitting with their proverbial dicks in their hands.
Well hurry up and get it over with, I’m sick of this waiting shit. Pussy ass magas.
Who voted their gun rights away?
California, Washington, New York.
Oh yes the California that checks notes had the Black Panthers patrolling with guns because no one else could be bothered and then Regan and his cronies enacted the most extreme gun laws in the country. Those damn libs!
What's ironic is that it was Republicans in power at the time, as well as the NRA support, which passed the bill.
And other countries are going to crash after it, perhaps
Trump will grab them on the way down, there is no perhaps.
Yes you are.
An unelected billionaire who was appointed by the president to the head of a department he made up is gaining massive control of the federal government.
This unelected billionaire is an unapologetic nazi. He did a Nazi salute twice at the inauguration. He spreads Nazi ideology on his social media platform. He supports international Nazi causes. He is an open white supremacist on his social media platform and an open anti-semite.
He's now being given essentially limitless control over all federal agencies of the United States government. The Nazi takeover of America is already complete.
If this is all it takes to tank this country, we probably fucking deserve it.
What a joke.
Take a look at South Korea for a comparison...
Yeah maybe you do but everyone else does not, so please get your shit under control over there
Ever wonder how most Germans felt after January 1933? This is how.
It's despondent but also hilarious that every single person who has ever "ICED" a Tesla charging spot likely voted for Musk to take over their country.
wdym? hes jewish. this just shows both sides are the same just flipped. like two faces on a coin
He’s not. What?
Keep in mind that Hitler came to become the chancellor of Germany not by being elected, but by being appointed by the president.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/hitler-was-elected-myth-or-fact/
#DeportElon
Not the D word I would have chosen.
Defenestrate? Lot of appealing windows out there…
Depose?
Bingo!
Decapitate
Oh my, buy me dinner first 💋
I can verify this! My roommate works for the DOD. He can't tell me much, but every federal worker has been warned they're going to be purged and replaced with staff Elon chooses. In addition, mandatory Return To Work orders have meant that many of his coworkers will be let go for "missing work" despite the fact that the military knows they moved and they've been working remotely for almost 5 years. It's skuzzy as fuck.
If he gains full control of the DOD, then it's over.
They won't be able to fill every position, and most of the new people won't have a clue how to do their job. In a scenario where the military starts being used in conflicts on American soil, this is an opportunity.
I was told there would be checks and balances.
Instead there are blue checkmarks and one unbalanced sociopath.
I don't know that checks are necessary. He can just use direct debit to drain the treasury these days.
Free luigi
Free him yourself. No one is stopping you.
Yes, the armed snipers in prison towers definitely wouldn't stop people.
I took “free Luigi” to suggest they need Luigi to kill Elon, but they don’t need Luigi… to kill Elon.
I do not see how "free Luigi" followed by the response of "free him yourself" means "go kill Elon yourself." Wouldn't that be "free Elon?"
People didn't say "free Mumia" and "free Leonard Peltier" because they wanted them to stay imprisoned.
You’ll get it eventually, but I’m not sure it’s worth your time. Although, I guess you’ve got a lot of free time now that you can’t shape the dialog on lemmy. 🤷♂️
Huh. I seem to not be the only one who didn't "get it."
Got it.
He is a mod who got fired. There are inside jokes here.
Considering the near-complete silence from almost all democrats, I'm beginning to believe that this is something that America was already leaning into anyway, and that Trump is a nice patsy to blame it on.
How they (the entirety of the government) can sit back idly — throwing out occasional soundbites for good measure — and allow this to happen makes me feel defeated.
Freedom and liberty were the just the rose that held the thorns of fascism.
Edit: I feel like I should add that I am in no way trying to alleviate Trump from any guilt that he deserves. Calling him a patsy just seems like I'm letting him off. I'm certainly not. The guy is a total piece of trash. 
This has been obvious to anyone paying attention for the last 20 years. The Democratic party started courting billionaires for donations just like the Republicans and stopped giving a shit about anything else.
There are a few Dems in Congress that try to work within the system to accomplish actual change. But the vast majority generally just follow the party and work towards the same goals, and a few break away occasionally when it suits them. The Dems have not been actively fighting against the shift to the right for decades. They helped shift the entire country further to the right until we now have open fascism, we allowed an attempted insurrection to go unpunished, and a 34x convicted felon in the White House, and that's apparently acceptable. The Democratic party establishment is 100% ok with helping to facilitate it.
Exactly. They blatantly sabotage Bernie Sanders, preventing arguably the last sane politician available.
More than that, Democrats have gradually shifted right over time, so what is considered "liberal" these days is actually closer to older generations of Republicans prior to Reagan.
I don't think there's a true left-leaning party in America anymore.
Cant they just piss off one billionaire at a time?
Honestly if they just work down the list I'd be happy just to get to Page. He's at #6 and isn't even at half of Musks wealth.
Who the fuck wants to go to Florida?
For that matter, who the fuck wants to get on a plane right now? Commercial pilot is on its way to being a more dangerous job than a suburban cop.
It probably already is. I recall reading somewhere that cops don't even show up on the top 10 most dangerous jobs.
FFS Democrats are talking against this. It's just that they're irrelevant because the US electorate made them irrelevant. The people that voted for this and the people that didn't vote at all allowed this to happen. Americans need to start taking responsibility for their own actions or inaction instead of constantly looking for someone else to blame.
Totally agree. I'm not sure when Americans became so complacent that they'd rather quietly observe than, say, protest.
Looking back on the Civil Rights movement, for example, Americans did what was necessary and right. Same goes for protesting the Vietnam War. Even as recent as BLM protests. It just seems oddly quiet to me lately.
Fuck you, not silent.
I meant democratic leadership, not citizens.
Stand down, captain!
Not standing down, sir! But will give you grace.
What did people expect when they voted Musk into office?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Squid game, bruh. Majority rules and every person for themselves!
I love when non-elected officials do what ever they want. -.-
This is what small government is. I have no idea how people convince themselves that right-wing libertarianism isn't an absolute joke of an ideology. It's just replacing positions answerable to elected officials with unelected oligarchs.
It's who they voted for.
No one voted for Elon Musk.
They voted for the candidate he bought though
And the candidate known to be for sale
We apparently voted for someone that would hand the power of government over to musk.
Yep, Trump doesn’t actually want to be president he just wanted to stay out of prison. Elon Musk didn’t spend $260 million to get Trump re-elected. He paid $260 million for a shadow Presidency.
Didn't they, though?
Well, like Kamala, we don’t get to choose anymore.
Think of the worst case scenario, then multiply that by two, and you’ll have a realistic idea of the future.
Seems as though ignoring reality when voting has led to some surprising results.
source
He has ungodly amounts of money to his name. No one will tell him no.
I mean, you could.
Let the billionaires war begin, Zuckerberg trying to assassinate musk, Gates trying to get Zuckerberg in an alliance with Bezos who then backstabs Gates...
Let the First Corporate War begin.
My money is on Palmer Luckey, he actually runs a weapons tech company and owns a special ops fast insertion boat with a .50 machine gun. Plus he has a grudge to settle with Zuck (who ironically fired him for funding Trump during his first election).
Militech will have the initial advantage but don’t count Arasaka Intelligence out, their strategic AI and logistics are second to none.
It is a good advantage until Viagra Boys raids and nukes their HQ,
Game of thrones but no one is likable and everyone is just a recast of Cersei.
I wish it actually happens, but I also fear something akin to regeional dictators helping each other consolidate their power.
These people are demonic.
Without the neutral Inspector Generals, Leon Hitler can steal and rampage through the US Government.
Elon Musk has to go
Got his mitts on the treasury right now.
"originally intended"? WTF are they talking about
This is a coup