Elon Musk, after millions of people around the world blocked off their products to some of the most vulnerable, food, medical, and perhaps without prior or after-demand. It's not people because you can prove it.
Musk considers himself a data man, wielding numbers like machetes, reducing and burning government waste and corruption, leading right-wing accusations to capture the United States.
The agency went out of business after Musk sent his minions to kick the doors of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and sent rifles through its finances. Musk argued that USAID is a “criminal organisation” and Marxist. This is an allegation called “laughable” by the agency's former manager under George W. Bush, Andrew Nassios, who describes himself as a conservative Republican.
Musk didn't bother him. Less than three weeks after Donald Trump's inauguration, the new “Doctors of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) head has created a broad power base in Washington, a kind of unprecedented species.
Trump gives Musk the free reins, sends his operatives to dozens of federal agencies, seeking evidence of mismanagement and subversion, and creating disruptions outside the normal boundaries of surveillance and regulation in general. I did.
Importantly, Musk currently controls 0ffice (OPM) for Human Resources Management (OPM) that oversees federal employment. He promptly encouraged over two million government workers to resign with the stated purpose of forcing hundreds of thousands through the door.
From his recruitment to “special government officials” doge from his own businesses and the wider tech industry, it is clear that masks should run the country instead. They include a significant proportion of this type of young male software engineers who tend to worship tech billionaires like masks.Big ball“online.
If so, few other government workers have received the security clearance needed to access confidential or personal information. If they were there, Doge might not have discouraged him from hiring another recruit from Marco Erez's Silicon Valley, sent to the US Treasury Department, which has access to taxpayer records. Erez resigned on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal It was revealed He posted racist messages on social media and defended eugenics.
“For the record, I was racist before it turned out to be cool,” Erez wrote to X in July.
In the face of that, Mask is implementing Trump's commitment to cut spending.Dismantle deep state” and “illegal bureaucrats” were put in the bag. But what appears to be much of the world, like a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration celebration, including his embrace, including unbound support for German nationalist alternatives (AFD), is a political figure in Musk. Convictions and how urgent questions were raised. He intends to use his new powers.
It just so happens that much of what masks do is good for his business, such as discarding regulators and reducing the power of unions and workers. Labour commissions supporting workers' rights are paralyzed, and the institutions that regulate the financial industry are either discarded or told to abandon important parts of the work.
Musk's politics were eclectic. In the past, he has supported universal basic income and taxes on carbon emissions. At the same time, he deeply dislikes unions and public transport.Random strangerone of them could become a serial killer.” He appears to be destructive to those who support visceral hostility to diversity programs and believe that they think their wealth is low.
Thrown into this mix, Musk was captivated by the birth movement and made his bit by assaulting 12 children on his father.
Mask, who grew up in South Africa under apartheid, clearly doubts democracy and the leaders it produces. His grandfather advanced the Fringe political movement in Canada in the 1930s, with technocracy incorporated and elite engineers trying to abolish democracy in favor of government, but fascism's overtones were the second world It was banned during the war.
Musk shows some of the same trends as Silicon Valley billionaires leaning towards other libertarians who are unhappy with the clutter of elected governments. He spoke in favor of a direct democracy where policies and other issues are determined by a general referendum, rather than elected representatives.
In the meantime, however, Musk appears happy to embrace the US version of “strong” rulers through the “unified enforcement theory” of Republican rights. Will.
For many years, Musk has described himself as “not conservative” and “political moderate.” He supported Democratic candidates in all presidential elections that returned to Barack Obama's victory in 2008 until he worked together in the party over the past few years.
“In the past I voted for Democrats because they were (mostly) kind parties. But they became a party of division and hatred, so I can no longer support them. , you'll vote for Republicans. Now look at their dirty trick campaign that I'm unfolding,” he said. I wrote it on x 2022.
However, other motivations included a statement that Joe Biden would vote for Republicans to support the union, and what he saw as a Democrat underrepresented by his company.
Shortly before last year's presidential election, Musk declared that Trump would save American democracy from trampling on personal freedom. However, he further right in public with the open embrace of racist European political leaders, including the AFD, and the promotion of claims of “white genocide” in South Africa, his birth country. I continued to move to.
Mask biographer Walter Isaacson; It's linked His transition from Obama voters to AFD cheerleaders shifted to his daughter Vivian Jena Wilson.
Wilson was 16 when he texted his relatives. “Hey, I'm transgender and my name is Jenna. Don't tell my dad,” she said the day after Wilson turned 18 in 2022, “Gender identity and I'm now biological.” She changed her name because of the fact that she doesn't want to be related in any form, shape, or form to her father.
Musk told Isaacson that he was optimistic about the change, but then Wilson became an avid Marxist and would no longer tell him the situation he described as one of the most painful things in his life. He said that.
“She was a complete communist beyond socialism and thought the rich were evil,” Musk told the author.
Musk blames Wilson's Progressive Los Angeles School and says he was interrupted by the “wake mind virus” that holds back America.
After California Passed the law The district bans teachers from requiring parents to communicate changes in student sexual orientation and gender identity, and Musk announces that he will move SpaceX and X headquarters to Texas, the headquarters of his two large companies. did. He said the law caused “a massive destruction of custody” and put the children at risk of “permanent damage.”
Musk did not say that moving his business would have major tax benefits either he and his business.
Still, his apparent anger over his daughter's transition appears to have begun moving forward with the wider hostility towards identity issues and the diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) program, a favorite target for Trump's rights. . Musk announces that the words “cis” and “cisgender” are considered slander x, and he came out against the pronouns and tweeted that they “suck.”
In late 2022, another tweet led to mask hostility in ways people choose to identify themselves. This is a strange position for a man who claims to be advocates of freedom of speech, and is in anger over the Biden administration's community restrictions.
Musk laughed at Anthony Forsey, Biden's leading medical advisor.
“My pronoun is the prosecution/zoo.” He wrote.
Some viewed tweets as evidence that masks are now Openly identifying it with the right edgedenies mask restrictions and stay-at-home orders, calling for planters to be trapped to infiltrate their freedom.
But while Musk's hostility towards the pronouns was personal, community regulations touched on his business and net worth.
Musk refused to close His Tesla factory, which is at the height of the pandemic, claims without evidence that “panic” over the virus causes more damage than the disease itself. He lightly paraded social distancing, predicting that the virus would claim that it did not live in the US (which ultimately claimed more than 1.2 million people), and saying that the lockdown would “fascist” and “eliminate people's freedom.” I explained it. Musk tweeted a meme comparing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Hitler about government community restrictions.
Musk may have adorned his position as a concern about the welfare of people, but his immediate effect is that even if the people working within them were at a high risk of infection and death, he was still in his factory. It was to roll it. And while Musk has a principled position in favour of individual freedom, he has a history of restraining the rights of his workers.
In 2023, he said he opposed the concept of a trade union.
“I don't like anything that produces lords and peasants,” he told the New York Times dealbook summit. “The union naturally tries to create negativity in the company.”
One reason Musk doesn't like unions is that they tend to stand up for their members. He has been actively facing charges from former employees using a secret dispute resolution process and dodged repeated claims of Sexual and racial harassment Within his company, he includes accusations of women enduring the “flathouse” vibe of groping and other abuse.
Tesla has it I paid Targeting millions of dollars of black workers Racial harassment.
However, Musk has restricted the employee's right to seek relief from the court, but he and his company filed at least 23 cases in federal court between August 2024 and August 2024. According to Fortune Magazine.
They include legal action by X against the Centre to counter digital hatred Report Social networks have accused them of making millions of dollars from accounts that vent hatred from “neo-Nazis, white supremacists, misogynists, and spreaders of dangerous conspiracy theories.” A California judge abandoned the lawsuit last year. I'm saying “The case is to punish the defendant for their speech.”
Musk will probably spend more time getting annoyed with the court. The judges have already put on hold on his push for mass resignation from civil servants, putting some restrictions on Doge's data collection. Federal workers, unions and civil rights groups line up with a surge in lawsuits to challenge Musk's actions.
However, the court itself may become a target for Musk as he works to demolish the old order.
Isaacson wrote in his biography that Musk once described as one of his default settings that he was “always at war.”
As long as Trump continues to see billionaires as more assets than liability, I don't think Musk's craving for power will stop at thwarting federal agencies. The problem is where he launches his next attack.
