— Musk’s Trojan hounds: DOGE operatives penetrate Social Security & USPS in shocking power grab. Nobody elected this South African billionaire, Trump’s largest campaign donor, to do anything to America, but here he is with his chainsaw and his band of seemingly sociopathic barely-post-adolescent young men tearing our government apart. New reporting says of their invasion of Social Security’s offices, “This team appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency.” Musk and his billionaire buddies must be drooling over the $2.5 trillion sitting in the Social Security trust fund; if they could privatize the institution and have the new banking operation he’s planning to connect to X distribute SS checks, just a tiny 1% skim off the top could make his money bin bulge obscenely. And then there’s the Post Office, the agency that Ben Franklin first led and is listed in our Constitution, that Louis DeJoy says he’s cut a deal with Musk to begin gutting, presumably with the ultimate goal of privatizing (both Musk and Trump have called for privatizing the mail service). To top it all off, in a post on his Nazi-infested social media site, Musk just listed other programs he alleges are being used as part of the Jewish-funded “Great Replacement” theory to give Black and Hispanic people jobs and lifestyles that should rightfully belong exclusively to white men. In response to a tweet from Senator Mazie Hirono which read, “Musk is spreading a lie that Dems use Social Security & Medicare to pay undocumented immigrants to come into the country” the Nazi-saluting billionaire posted: “Not just those programs! Democrats also use every other government money tool to attract and retain illegals, like unemployment insurance, disability insurance, tax rebates on nonexistent income, SBA loans, student loans, COVID payments, FEMA money for luxury hotels, etc., etc.”
— Musk’s Hitler post sparks public-sector union fury: Billionaire blames public workers for the Nazi genocide! Musk is famous for his Hitler salutes and his propensity to post 14 little flags in his tweets, presumably representing the “14 words” that every white supremacist must memorize and recite: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” He’s also made wildly inappropriate jokes about the slaughter of Jews, retweeting: “Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming!” But this time he really stepped in it, although the almost complete lack of coverage of the story by the nation’s mainstream media is downright eerie. Musk just tweeted, “Hitler didn’t murder millions, public sector workers did,” arguing that it was German government employees who were responsible for the Holocaust, not Adolf Hitler and his senior leadership who planned the so-called Final Solution. This strategy probably is designed to justify his mass firing of federal public sector workers, and Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union, blasted back at him, writing: “America’s public service workers — our nurses, teachers, firefighters, librarians — chose making our communities safe, healthy and strong over getting rich. They are not, as the world’s richest man implies, genocidal murderers. Elon Musk and the billionaires in this administration have no idea what real people go through every day. That’s why he’s so willing to take a chainsaw to people’s jobs, Medicaid, Social Security and Medicare.”
Few bring the receipts like Hartmann; he's a progressive Dem media machine.
We've always been a racist country, but racists in public life that go off on some racist rant usually get cancelled, or are at least marginalized, remember when ESPN dropped Rush Limbaugh? But I guess the racists never completely went away, of course. They were just closeted in segregated "white power" communities listening to Limbaugh on the radio. And we've never been post-racial, to be sure, but Obama was something, incremental progress; no gainsaying that, although people try. And we've been at least post-Jim Crow racist since, I don't know, let's say the Voting Rights Act of 1965? But the racists and extreme bigots are calling the shots again, trashing women, immigrants, and minority communities, and defending Hitler and the Nazis. And a bunch of my relatives and people without college educations and Bro Culture gamers, in short, billionaires and bigots, voted for this. It's a cryin' shame.
Every time Leon opens his mouth, or at least every time he opens it to talk about government, or government waste, it is apparent-- OMG!-- he has no fucking idea what the gov does or doesn't do. He's enthralled with the business lobby's favorite zombie ideology: any governance (consumer protections, labor protections, environmental proections) that isn't protecting absolutist property rights is a libertarian threat to the freedom and independence of capital and so government waste. He's pumped up on ketamine and some neoliberal techno-optimist delusions of grandeur and now it comes out a proud Neo-Nazi.
As some consolation he is now also more pariah than ever in the original Nazi homeland. Tesla sales have crashed in Germany and many other places around the world. If there is any justice and humanity this whole authoritarian scam will come crashing down around these monumental creeps but you know there will have to be terrible amounts of humanitarian destruction before that day will come.
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