**** 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook (Gil Duran on Musk following Curtis Yarvin's plan) ****

[highplainsdem]

https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/

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Wrote Yarvin:

We’ve got to risk a full power start—a full reboot of the USG. We can only do this by giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization—with roughly the powers that the Allied occupation authorities held in Japan and Germany in the fall of 1945. This level of centralized emergency power worked to refound a nation then, for them. So it should work now, for us.”

(The metaphor of “full power start” comes from Star Trek and entails a risky process of restarting a fictional spaceship in a way that might cause “implosion.” The World War II metaphor casts the federal government as a conquered enemy now controlled by an outside force.)

Yarvin wrote that in a second term, Trump could appoint a different person to act as the nation’s “CEO.” This CEO would be enabled to run roughshod over the federal government, with Trump in the background as “chairman of the board.” The metaphors clarify the core idea: Run the government as a rogue corporation rather than a public institution beholden to the rules of democracy.

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The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments. Most existing important institutions, public and private, will be shut down and replaced with new and efficient systems. Trump will be monitoring this CEO’s performance, again on TV, and can fire him if need be.

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Much more at the link, including Yarvin saying that "The new regime must seize all points of power.... Anything can be nationalized...." He emphasizes getting control of "journalism, academia and social media."

[tanyev]

1. So you bring in the guy that single-handedly killed Twitter.

Ever since Elon Musk closed his deal to buy Twitter he’s claimed the company, now called X, is in “a very dire situation from a revenue standpoint.”

Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell off some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned Musk to finance the deal. It mentions an email sent to employees this month, also confirmed by The Verge, where the Chief Twit said, “...we’ve witnessed the power of X in shaping national conversations and outcomes,” but also claimed, “Our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even.”

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth

[William Seger]

2. Now he's killing Tesla stock by endorsing neo-fascist party AfD in Germany

Sales way down, especially in Europe, Tesla stock soon to follow. We'll see how many billions he thinks he deserves for that.

[highplainsdem]

4. At the moment he's more interested in getting control of more countries.

[Diraven]

5. He'll just raid the US Treasury

To make up any shortfall.

[highplainsdem]

3. Musk wanted Twitter more for the platform than to make money. But he'll still make a lot of money

with it if he can arrange for US government payments to go through Twitter, which some believe is one of his goals.

[William Seger]

6. Exactly! He sees social media as the new key to political power

..Unfortunately, it's starting to look like he's right.

[Intractable]

7. "full power start" comes from Star Trek

That episode was so early on, Roddenberry hadn't even established that the Enterprise was part of a Starfleet that served a United Federation of Planets.

But later on, there's an episode called "Patterns of Force" where they literally dealt with Nazis on another planet. This planet is under Federation control, and the Fed governor set up the society in the image of Nazis because of "efficiencies." It doesn't end well due to political corruption.

[highplainsdem]

8. Kicking after adding some asterisks to the title in the hope this will get more attention.

[mackdaddy]

9. This is EXACTLY the playbook Musk is following at this moment. It IS happening.

I had missed this post earlier, but saw in interview with the writer on YT MeidasTouch.

They are exactly following this plan. Trump is the perfect stooge frontman with Musk busy ripping out the guts of our democracy and replacing everyone with loyalist to the new Regime. Musk and the billionaire bros.

Happening in plain sight.

Here is the interview with the article author, it starts at 8:00 minutes into the vid.