Excellent analysis of the latest Epstein friend, musk. He and the feranged trump should be arrested for crimes against humanity for their rapid destruction of life saving USAID. At some point, musk, will be mentioned in the same breath as other deadly, malevolent, sadistic, pathological, killers like Saddam, Pol Pot, and Putin. While musk hasn't yet attained Mao, Stalin or Hitler death totals, he is working on it. The needless devastation to millions of people, including the starvation of millions of infants and children will be musk's most consequential contribution of his doge damage. musk is much like trump where they both find it easy to destroy what is good but are unable to replace it with anything of value. musk is also a taxpayer parasite. He blows up rockets and gets paid billions to do so. If dems EVER had any stones, they would be sure to rip SpaceX and Starlink from musk's grubby, filthy, moneygrubbing hands for national security reasons. Who doesn't sipport national security! Then dems should put him, shackled, on a red eye back to South Africa or Russia if he feels more comfortable under putin's glare. musk got too big too fast and that narcissism, as with trump, leads to bad things happening to all that surround them, and ot America's decline. Now that musk is tied to Epstein party invites, that can only lead to the further disgusting view of a once world leader in Tesla. As sales decline with each passing quarter, the Epstein connection to musk will not make Tesla a family car option, unless that family is trump and his party, I mean really party, of family values. Now if dems had the stones... A person can dream.
Muskrat shares Trump’s malignant narcissism and sociopathy. Muskrat also acts like he’s the smartest guy in the room even if there are smarter people. Despite Trump letting him acquire our personal and private data, he and his little hackers violated a number of federal criminal statutes in the process. Some of it was given to a voter suppression group, we know Palantir will get it to build a Chinese style citizen database, and Muskrat will train AI with the data. Killing off USAID was the worst, but throwing necessary federal employees was almost as bad, as his using X as a platform for spreading his racism, hate, and ignorance. X is a cesspool of racism, hate, and lies.
DOJ in response to a Congressional demand for release of the files has said in essence “We’re not going to and nobody can make us”
The quiet part is now being said out loud Today's Nazi Republican Party has since at least Reagan has been the political equivalent of the "wealthy bro club" and it's implied promise that those without any money are duped into believing that wealth will rub off if they mingle with money
At least that's part of the equation Another is the argument that wealth should not be constrained in a society Rules and regulations be damned And the attract duped followers by the moniker "don't tell me what to do" bravado This is clearly the message Cheeto is sending to his rabid MAGA group of cult followers and to the courts
But the mainstream psychological profile of the average American has not bought into the Nazi koolaid that rules are for suckers and might makes right And protecting the depravity of the wealthy is where even MAGA draws the line
Dollars do not equate to morality and kill the soul of America
Love the term 'broligarchy'. Donald Trump, our American 'Mango Mussolini', is doing exactly what Putin does in Russia: allow billionaire oligarchs who are useful to him make obscene profits, but only as long as they're useful to him, and don't pose a threat to his power. In America, those oligarchs are in the tech industry.
When it comes to our 'Mango Mussolini' though, I do wonder who's really in control. He's not as intelligent as Putin, but just as greedy, and it seems that the tech bros can get him to do whatever they want him to do, as long as they promise him that whatever they propose will make him even more wealthy. Meanwhile, those proposals are enriching the tech bros even faster than they enrich Trump.
When someone thinks their intelligence and brilliance is proven by their wealth their actions can only be blind and destructive. The muskrat’s ego (like his captor) just makes him dangerous not helpful. It’s difficult to see how DOGE, as well as this current regime, will improve in any way our government to take care of the health and lives of the nation and the world. Our disaster continues to unfold.
The data breaches (plural—we still don’t know where all of them occurred or to what extent, but for sure IRS data, very likely on EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN TAXPAYER) is what frightens me the most. And nobody know where the data (and copies of that) reside now. Stir in some AI algorithms, facial-recognition and cell phone location data (courtesy of Palantir and other mostly Israeli hacking software) and they basically have all the tools for total state surveillance on the entire populace. Makes 1984 look rather innocuous by comparison.
Secondly, you mentioned the general outline of reducing government oversight of MAGA donors’ companies, but nobody benefitted more from DOGE’s dragnet than Musk himself. Many oversight functions, inquiries, and possible lawsuits against Musk companies simply vanished. POOF! Gone. In a former corrupt business environment many companies considered a few lawsuits and payouts simply the price of doing business, but this takes it to a whole new level. Musk’s $300M “investment” to get Trump elected (and, in reality, I’d say buying Twitter was at least as important and a whole lot cheaper for Musk as he’s a master of information manipulation) was the bargain of the century. He’ll make that up at least 10X over, and possibly much more than that in the coming years with his stream of government contracts and zero oversight now. Not a pretty scenario for anybody except…Musk.
I know 2 things for sure about "DOGE" #1 - it did make government any more efficient because they got rid of the the people that actually knew what they were doing and #2 - it didn't save ANY money like they said it would because they had to rehire a bunch of the people they got rid of. So it basically was an action or whatever you want to call it in "futility."
I think the Occam’s razor explanation for DOGE is the theft of all the Federal Government data to build sophisticated surveillance systems and eventually the Trump Regime version of the Chinese Social Credit System. It will make 1984 look like beneficent social policy and the Thought Police like Boy Scouts. As a triangle the Trump Regime is at the top; on the corner apex angles are AI and the Tech Broligarchs. The rest unpacts from this.
Excellent analysis of the latest Epstein friend, musk. He and the feranged trump should be arrested for crimes against humanity for their rapid destruction of life saving USAID. At some point, musk, will be mentioned in the same breath as other deadly, malevolent, sadistic, pathological, killers like Saddam, Pol Pot, and Putin. While musk hasn't yet attained Mao, Stalin or Hitler death totals, he is working on it. The needless devastation to millions of people, including the starvation of millions of infants and children will be musk's most consequential contribution of his doge damage. musk is much like trump where they both find it easy to destroy what is good but are unable to replace it with anything of value. musk is also a taxpayer parasite. He blows up rockets and gets paid billions to do so. If dems EVER had any stones, they would be sure to rip SpaceX and Starlink from musk's grubby, filthy, moneygrubbing hands for national security reasons. Who doesn't sipport national security! Then dems should put him, shackled, on a red eye back to South Africa or Russia if he feels more comfortable under putin's glare. musk got too big too fast and that narcissism, as with trump, leads to bad things happening to all that surround them, and ot America's decline. Now that musk is tied to Epstein party invites, that can only lead to the further disgusting view of a once world leader in Tesla. As sales decline with each passing quarter, the Epstein connection to musk will not make Tesla a family car option, unless that family is trump and his party, I mean really party, of family values. Now if dems had the stones... A person can dream.
Muskrat shares Trump’s malignant narcissism and sociopathy. Muskrat also acts like he’s the smartest guy in the room even if there are smarter people. Despite Trump letting him acquire our personal and private data, he and his little hackers violated a number of federal criminal statutes in the process. Some of it was given to a voter suppression group, we know Palantir will get it to build a Chinese style citizen database, and Muskrat will train AI with the data. Killing off USAID was the worst, but throwing necessary federal employees was almost as bad, as his using X as a platform for spreading his racism, hate, and ignorance. X is a cesspool of racism, hate, and lies.
Epstein Cover Up: A Case For American Morality
DOJ in response to a Congressional demand for release of the files has said in essence “We’re not going to and nobody can make us”
The quiet part is now being said out loud Today's Nazi Republican Party has since at least Reagan has been the political equivalent of the "wealthy bro club" and it's implied promise that those without any money are duped into believing that wealth will rub off if they mingle with money
At least that's part of the equation Another is the argument that wealth should not be constrained in a society Rules and regulations be damned And the attract duped followers by the moniker "don't tell me what to do" bravado This is clearly the message Cheeto is sending to his rabid MAGA group of cult followers and to the courts
But the mainstream psychological profile of the average American has not bought into the Nazi koolaid that rules are for suckers and might makes right And protecting the depravity of the wealthy is where even MAGA draws the line
Dollars do not equate to morality and kill the soul of America
Love the term 'broligarchy'. Donald Trump, our American 'Mango Mussolini', is doing exactly what Putin does in Russia: allow billionaire oligarchs who are useful to him make obscene profits, but only as long as they're useful to him, and don't pose a threat to his power. In America, those oligarchs are in the tech industry.
When it comes to our 'Mango Mussolini' though, I do wonder who's really in control. He's not as intelligent as Putin, but just as greedy, and it seems that the tech bros can get him to do whatever they want him to do, as long as they promise him that whatever they propose will make him even more wealthy. Meanwhile, those proposals are enriching the tech bros even faster than they enrich Trump.
When someone thinks their intelligence and brilliance is proven by their wealth their actions can only be blind and destructive. The muskrat’s ego (like his captor) just makes him dangerous not helpful. It’s difficult to see how DOGE, as well as this current regime, will improve in any way our government to take care of the health and lives of the nation and the world. Our disaster continues to unfold.
Very helpful review, Mr. Moynihan; thank you.
The data breaches (plural—we still don’t know where all of them occurred or to what extent, but for sure IRS data, very likely on EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN TAXPAYER) is what frightens me the most. And nobody know where the data (and copies of that) reside now. Stir in some AI algorithms, facial-recognition and cell phone location data (courtesy of Palantir and other mostly Israeli hacking software) and they basically have all the tools for total state surveillance on the entire populace. Makes 1984 look rather innocuous by comparison.
Secondly, you mentioned the general outline of reducing government oversight of MAGA donors’ companies, but nobody benefitted more from DOGE’s dragnet than Musk himself. Many oversight functions, inquiries, and possible lawsuits against Musk companies simply vanished. POOF! Gone. In a former corrupt business environment many companies considered a few lawsuits and payouts simply the price of doing business, but this takes it to a whole new level. Musk’s $300M “investment” to get Trump elected (and, in reality, I’d say buying Twitter was at least as important and a whole lot cheaper for Musk as he’s a master of information manipulation) was the bargain of the century. He’ll make that up at least 10X over, and possibly much more than that in the coming years with his stream of government contracts and zero oversight now. Not a pretty scenario for anybody except…Musk.
Well stated, thoroughly supported review & analysis. Thanks. 🙏
Given the massive theft of WE THE PEOPLE's data, is there a better argument for the French Revolution?
I know 2 things for sure about "DOGE" #1 - it did make government any more efficient because they got rid of the the people that actually knew what they were doing and #2 - it didn't save ANY money like they said it would because they had to rehire a bunch of the people they got rid of. So it basically was an action or whatever you want to call it in "futility."
I think the Occam’s razor explanation for DOGE is the theft of all the Federal Government data to build sophisticated surveillance systems and eventually the Trump Regime version of the Chinese Social Credit System. It will make 1984 look like beneficent social policy and the Thought Police like Boy Scouts. As a triangle the Trump Regime is at the top; on the corner apex angles are AI and the Tech Broligarchs. The rest unpacts from this.
Simply put, DOGE sent our government and its agency to "Hell in a Hens basket." Thanks, Don. Good article.