It'll be under the state department so at least FoIA requests will work now. It will be more difficult to hide the money, and insanely stupid projects wont get off the ground. But the swamp congress wont codify the budget cuts yet.
The work he did is accomplishing a lot of what it likely was expected to, though not the best case scenario. It revealed where a lot of the rot is, and where the focus on fixing needs to come from before we have the ability to actually make the changes proper.
I would have loved if the cuts just happened and that was that. But instead now the majority of us, including those in power, are aware of the war the judiciary is trying to wage and how much power they truly had. And that is the next great "avenue" for the Right to take back.
We just need to hope that Trump, or whoever, has the balls to actually follow through on doing so.
One reason that Julius Caesar rose to power was because their Senate and tribunes just kept vetoing anything that would have helped solve their problems. If a judge can just tell you "No" for just about anything, then that is where the power lies.
The only options are to try and tear down that power structure, or use it to your own advantage. The "conservative right" wouldn't dare "abusing" their power like it's been used against them, and until that changes they will continue to be denied any meaningful improvement.
If a judge can just tell you "No" for just about anything, then that is where the power lies.
And prior to this year, it wasn't more than a small rumbling that activist judges were a problem on the level that they can literally hold down the president from acting in so many ways. And now its a mainstream talking point. Which is my point, Musk's actions, among many Trump appointees, showed where a lot of the safety nets preventing us from just cutting the problem out are, and now we need to actually solve that problem.
It would have been great if we could have just solved it directly. But this is a century of set in rot and the government bureaucracy, so that was always a pipedream.
I'm not certain the Right, even Trump, is willing to do what is necessary for that but now we at least have forced them out of the shadows to think about. But then, he took the learning from losing 2020 and brought forth an army to dismantle it in the next election, so there is a possibility.
He probably can't justify the cost of indulging politics anymore, considering the damage to his reputation and business interests. It's not just about how controversial Trump is, it's also about how destructive and insane the left is.
Its buried in the actual article after the clickbait title, but this thing posted yesterday showed that while Woke companies are down bad, so is all of Musk's stuff. And it seems to be in a legitimate business polling figure, rather than pure reactionary media whining.
Its a dangerous game to try and be a major political figure, but also a major corporation head. Its why so many only go into politics once they are old enough to retire from their companies fully.
His edgy memes pissed of the left. The right began to like him because he wanted free speech, so he cemented that avenue of popularity by going for Trump, which wasn't against his business interests. But then he defended work immigration which pissed off the audience he had been cultivating. Ultimately, his political shenanigans haven't ended up increasing his overall popularity, which seems to be his goal since everything public he has ever done can be explained by the motive of staying fresh and relevant in people's minds. Thus, he's done with the political game for the time being. He will probably attempt to regain credibility as serious space business tycoon that does exciting new space things that NASA can't.
Another theory is that he's ensured that cheap immigrant workers will continue to be available despite the new government and that he's already done what he can to minimize regulations for his space company.
Elon Musk is in it for himself, either for the success of his space dream or the aggrandizement of his name in the public's mind. He's not a hero and he's not admirable.
You had me until the last line. I consider all men who create and build their way to power (without having to destroy others or commit evil acts on the way to the top) to be admirable. This is what being a man is about, even on the small scale like building your family and community. Exploring, creating, protecting, siring the future. The Atlas archetype who builds an entire empire "from the sweat of his brow". People like that have already demonstrated virtue above the average man and should be presented to children as role models regardless of anything else they do or don't accomplish. So in the case of Musk he's already admirable even if he doesn't make it to Mars. If he makes it to Mars, he'll get statues for that. (This coming from someone who is no respecter of men and doesn't worship the guy. I dislike a lot of what he has done and said.)
People like that have already demonstrated virtue above the average man
You're conflating virtue with success. A man's worth lies in his moral character, not his worldly accomplishments. You can get a notion of Musk's character from the families he starts and abandons.
everything public he has ever done can be explained by the motive of staying fresh and relevant in people's minds.
I don’t think that’s true. Sure, he does often come off as an autist who wants to be cool, but I think his overriding goal really is all the space stuff and pro-natalist stuff he constantly talks about.
SpaceX has very little potential value in cheap immigrant workers. For their janitors maybe, but space based industry is held to much higher standards than software slop like google. Because even idiots can understand that a space rocket is a very big weapon being diverted into commercial usefulness.
Well, we'll always have that fun week of "Winning!" tweets from everyone for the first week after Jan 20th before Nothing Ever Happens and everyone went back to sleep again.
I'd be pissed off too if I spent $44 billion to make Trump's return even possible, then permanently destroyed my reputation with a third of the country and made everybody who has ever bought one of my cars a target for violent crime, and the people I did this for just ignored it all.
Probably because of how pissed he is the work he put in for DOGE is apparently meaning fuck all.
Canceling US AID would have been a major accomplishment on his own.
The entire project was temporary. Real cuts have to come from Congress.
So USAID is back/going to come back?
It'll be under the state department so at least FoIA requests will work now. It will be more difficult to hide the money, and insanely stupid projects wont get off the ground. But the swamp congress wont codify the budget cuts yet.
The work he did is accomplishing a lot of what it likely was expected to, though not the best case scenario. It revealed where a lot of the rot is, and where the focus on fixing needs to come from before we have the ability to actually make the changes proper.
I would have loved if the cuts just happened and that was that. But instead now the majority of us, including those in power, are aware of the war the judiciary is trying to wage and how much power they truly had. And that is the next great "avenue" for the Right to take back.
We just need to hope that Trump, or whoever, has the balls to actually follow through on doing so.
One reason that Julius Caesar rose to power was because their Senate and tribunes just kept vetoing anything that would have helped solve their problems. If a judge can just tell you "No" for just about anything, then that is where the power lies.
The only options are to try and tear down that power structure, or use it to your own advantage. The "conservative right" wouldn't dare "abusing" their power like it's been used against them, and until that changes they will continue to be denied any meaningful improvement.
And prior to this year, it wasn't more than a small rumbling that activist judges were a problem on the level that they can literally hold down the president from acting in so many ways. And now its a mainstream talking point. Which is my point, Musk's actions, among many Trump appointees, showed where a lot of the safety nets preventing us from just cutting the problem out are, and now we need to actually solve that problem.
It would have been great if we could have just solved it directly. But this is a century of set in rot and the government bureaucracy, so that was always a pipedream.
I'm not certain the Right, even Trump, is willing to do what is necessary for that but now we at least have forced them out of the shadows to think about. But then, he took the learning from losing 2020 and brought forth an army to dismantle it in the next election, so there is a possibility.
He probably can't justify the cost of indulging politics anymore, considering the damage to his reputation and business interests. It's not just about how controversial Trump is, it's also about how destructive and insane the left is.
Its buried in the actual article after the clickbait title, but this thing posted yesterday showed that while Woke companies are down bad, so is all of Musk's stuff. And it seems to be in a legitimate business polling figure, rather than pure reactionary media whining.
Its a dangerous game to try and be a major political figure, but also a major corporation head. Its why so many only go into politics once they are old enough to retire from their companies fully.
His edgy memes pissed of the left. The right began to like him because he wanted free speech, so he cemented that avenue of popularity by going for Trump, which wasn't against his business interests. But then he defended work immigration which pissed off the audience he had been cultivating. Ultimately, his political shenanigans haven't ended up increasing his overall popularity, which seems to be his goal since everything public he has ever done can be explained by the motive of staying fresh and relevant in people's minds. Thus, he's done with the political game for the time being. He will probably attempt to regain credibility as serious space business tycoon that does exciting new space things that NASA can't.
Another theory is that he's ensured that cheap immigrant workers will continue to be available despite the new government and that he's already done what he can to minimize regulations for his space company.
Elon Musk is in it for himself, either for the success of his space dream or the aggrandizement of his name in the public's mind. He's not a hero and he's not admirable.
You had me until the last line. I consider all men who create and build their way to power (without having to destroy others or commit evil acts on the way to the top) to be admirable. This is what being a man is about, even on the small scale like building your family and community. Exploring, creating, protecting, siring the future. The Atlas archetype who builds an entire empire "from the sweat of his brow". People like that have already demonstrated virtue above the average man and should be presented to children as role models regardless of anything else they do or don't accomplish. So in the case of Musk he's already admirable even if he doesn't make it to Mars. If he makes it to Mars, he'll get statues for that. (This coming from someone who is no respecter of men and doesn't worship the guy. I dislike a lot of what he has done and said.)
You're conflating virtue with success. A man's worth lies in his moral character, not his worldly accomplishments. You can get a notion of Musk's character from the families he starts and abandons.
I don’t think that’s true. Sure, he does often come off as an autist who wants to be cool, but I think his overriding goal really is all the space stuff and pro-natalist stuff he constantly talks about.
SpaceX has very little potential value in cheap immigrant workers. For their janitors maybe, but space based industry is held to much higher standards than software slop like google. Because even idiots can understand that a space rocket is a very big weapon being diverted into commercial usefulness.
Wow, he's doing the very thing he said he was going to do all along? What a despot and second worst secret President in history
Well, we'll always have that fun week of "Winning!" tweets from everyone for the first week after Jan 20th before Nothing Ever Happens and everyone went back to sleep again.
He had to convince himself the country couldn't be saved
I'd be pissed off too if I spent $44 billion to make Trump's return even possible, then permanently destroyed my reputation with a third of the country and made everybody who has ever bought one of my cars a target for violent crime, and the people I did this for just ignored it all.