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"In a sane world, Elon Musk and his merry band of marauding miscreants would have already been arrested."

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The Sociopaths Think Victory Is Theirs

Elon Musk and his sidekick Donald Trump are remorseless in their pursuit to dismantle our government. But they're wrong to assume their coup has succeeded.

STEVEN BESCHLOSS
FEB 07, 2025

Let’s start here: In a sane world, Elon Musk and his merry band of marauding miscreants would have already been arrested. For crying out loud: They have taken control of government computer systems at the United States Treasury and invaded the databases containing the private records of nearly every American, including personal medical records and financial information from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, all under the pretext of rooting out waste and fraud.

But for the moment anyway, his lawless co-conspirator Donald Trump—immunized by the Supreme Court—is all-in. He’s more than willing to let Musk ignore privacy laws and constitutional constraints that do not permit an unelected private citizen to usurp the power of Congress and unilaterally decide which programs and departments should be discarded and how much taxpayer funds they receive.

This coup—a sudden, unlawful seizure of power of our government—hasn’t stopped at the doors of the Treasury. Musk and his twenty-something engineering punks have reportedly invaded the databases of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that document the factual reality of the climate crisis and those at the Department of Labor and its Bureau of Labor Statistics that document unemployment, consumer prices and more—you know, minor things like the data that moves the stock market and tells the country the truth about how the economy is doing. (How dire is this? As Kai Ryssdal, host of National Public Radio’s Marketplace ominously put it on Bluesky yesterday, “If true, this is the economic ballgame.”)

This is the tech bro dream: Manipulate reality. Go fast and break things. So much power. So. Much. Fun.

We shouldn’t be shocked by what’s happening. And we surely shouldn’t be awed. The evidence was out there; they weren’t hiding their plans. Recall what Russell Vought, a key author of Project 20205 and just-confirmed Office of Management and Budget boss, said over a year ago. “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” ……………

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