OTOH it could be ratified by Congress because fundamentally President is just delegating day to day executive management. Impossible to tell with current makeup of government what will happen.
An imperfect system was corrupted, and no one did a thing to stop it (in aggregate). Mind you this didn't start with trump. It's been a long-running plan by Fabian's dating back to the 1900s.
Everyone just thought it was some fringe conspiracy theory because that's how the media portrayed it. Even the Kennedy Assassination was insufficient to wake people up to the corruption.
Now that its actually happening, and most of the smart people have been removed, discredited, or destroyed. What hope do the masses actually have?
Musk's company meanwhile is churning out rockets like there's no tomorrow. They are at number 35 of the super huge one, the Starship, although rumors are that they are currently in various stages of build with 4 more.
What I do know from personal first hand experience (ex-Twitter) is that he is a terrible leader and person. Also he isn't smart. No media influence on how I feel about how he runs companies.
Since Musk took over Twitter it is worth nearly 80% less than when he bought it, according to Fidelity [1]. Is this what he is going to do to the US government?
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-...
You won't have any enforceable rights, and will be no better than a slave by the time they are done. Shock doctrine is all about creating the disasters surreptitiously, then claiming to have a solution, which isn't a solution but just another mile down the road towards the inevitable goal.
"I'm American... yes, but what kind of American are you?"
> "I'm American... yes, but what kind of American are you?"
A surprisingly good movie, but not because of its political commentary which it shied away from almost entirely.
I feel like the real problem there is that Trump committed 34 felonies.
Or that he got off.
Or that committing 34 felonies doesn't disqualify someone from being president.
Or even that Trump and his brethren are even "out for blood."
Not that anyone had the audacity to apply the law to a sitting president to begin with. Although it's weirdly controversial to claim that the president shouldn't be above the law.
Wonder why you get oligarchy as a result.
If anything it's a miracle it's only becoming explicit now. The whole system was held by spit and glue.
In many countries parties are funded from taxes (proportionally to the results of the last elections). People/corporations paying politicians is illegal. Politicians don't have to compete for billioners' money - they just compete for votes.
It's pretty obvious it's a better system. It wastes less money too (there's a cap to the marketing arms race).
Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892278
Elon Musk's Doge Wants Access to the Treasury's Payment Systems
