Musk Names Programs He Wants to End
A Series on Misinformation, Disinformation and Subterfuge
Ever wonder what Musk intends to cut under the guise of waste, fraud, abuse? Here is what he said.
Musk should pay the Federal Government back their business subsidies, loans and carbon tax credits given to support Tesla.
While he is intentionally wrong on everything above, let’s note the attack on FEMA, the government response team handling disaster relief. Cheap temporary housing only has so much capacity to give during a federal emergency. Once that is maxed, FEMA would go to the next level.
I once inadvertently traveled into a disaster zone in St. Louis, Missouri without a hotel reservation. The city got hit by a tornado within a day of our arrival damaging power lines during the summer heat. We were oblivious, because we hit the touristy areas that were on generators near the Arch, with my remarking that when my dad trimmed trees we’d all clean them up afterwards. It wasn’t until night when we went to the hotel housing the Magic Tournament did I realize seeing a twisted traffic light pole and beyond it a city in pure darkness, what happened. There was no hotel space anywhere along with being unable to find available gas and power to refuel my car, getting down to vapors some 20-miles before filling up. We then went to Hannibal some ninety minutes away to sleep as all the locals had already filled up every hotel room. That’s why FEMA resources go at times, to using luxury hotels temporarily to house displaced residents.
All those programs Musk rails against, are programs that make America great in times of crisis. Keeping them in place also shields Russian-affiliated oligarchs like Musk from getting steamrolled by the masses, something he should have thought about before his fancy cars got tires stripped, burned or vandalized.
This above is another worrisome and expected development as this creates informational silos where the government, not independent media, tells its viewers what to think. If they also cancel Fox News coverage, it might be a silver lining until they hardliner up their own propaganda pundits.
The Democrats are also writing Trump a blank check by keeping the government open giving in to the GOPs demands.
Not choosing to let the GOP shutdown the government means the Dems have zero leverage left, rolling over and playing possums. It also makes it harder to argue against Trump usurping power from the legislative branch as only he is calling the shots on spending making sure to cancel ‘waste, abuse and fraud’ going to Liberal leaning states and redistributing those funds to states and businesses Trump likes. During COVID Trump similarly did that, cutting off PPE and ventilators to New York, Washington and California, and sending the lion’s share to Florida and Texas because all life isn’t equal.
Most of the slush funds in that bill will go to government crackdowns via the military and ICE. Some might be used in a yet to be determined war given Trump has railed mightily about subjugating Canada, Greenland and Panama’s Canal.
Democrats in the House additionally lost two Representatives that died recently giving the GOP more wiggle room until they can be replaced.
It’s not looking good.
Social Security, the Post Office and other agencies may be privatized, saving the Fed billions. Medicare and Medicaid too will be gutted or watered down. Other programs will end, not by an act of Congress rather by breaking the services and providers rendering them obsolete and inefficient.
The courts too will capitulate on some issues, perhaps ending birthright citizenship.
While my wife is safe, I and others may not be simply because of being born an American while she is a naturalized citizen. Oddly, Trump too would be disqualified as President as he also would be a noncitizen.
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That would also mean no one would ever be allowed to run as President again.
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While Trump asked the Supreme Court’s opinion on this, if they do hear the argument, that will unnerve most of the country that understands why Trump wants this—to selectively punish and remove Green Card holders denying long established Civil Rights and Liberties.