One of my SFW fantasies has a candidate running for President pledging to rein in the power of the office. Unfortunately even if it happened, the new President would suddenly find that (s)he liked those powers once elected.
But I thought America was essential for global security - that we can't handle ourselves without you.
I guess we'll find out, but if I was you, I would start taking Chinese lessons.
I mean if we can't count on America to keep us safe.
I think it's worse than the world not having the USA's help with global security. I think the MAGA/Nazi party will help Putin. USA may become part of a new Axis of evil.
Perhaps. As many reasons as there are to dislike and distrust Kash Patel, he does hold a recognized office in the United States government to which he has been lawfully appointed and duly confirmed. For now, that outranks whatever Elon Musk is. Why? Because not even the administration can decide what Elon Musk is and where he belongs and what he does.
That's still under adjudication. But Trump did propose to fire anyone who had anything to do with charges against him or to do with the January 6 prosecutions. Which is something like half the agents.
Elon is trying to find the outside of the envelope that Donny will let him inhabit in government.
With any luck, it will dissolve into an incredible infantile Royal Rumble at Donny's crusty old feet, with (most of) the rest of the USA looking on in horror at their nation's leadership dissolution.
There is comfort in that we live in a year when 20- and 30-something gamers can bring enough receipts to humiliate Elon Musk into first throwing a characteristically infantile tantrum and then finally having to admit they were right and that he's a fraud. What this says to me is that well-connected, well-supported people will also be able to bring enough receipts that Musk will eventually have to reckon with it. When your life is fundamentally a lie, your billions cannot save you; your AI bots cannot save you. It is possible to be too hubristic.
How stupid does Musk need to be to not understand that a significant number of federal employees do not have access to official e-mail and will never get a chance to rely directly? Perhaps not stupid, but too out of touch with the realities of life and work in America to be making any policy decisions. But this makes Musk a good fit for Trump; remember when Trump told American they needed an ID to buy food?
I'm assuming that you're being sarcastic, but just in case.
I spent 16 years in the military without an official e-mail address. I got lots of work done. I finally got an official dot-mil email account in 1999. Meh.
He is everything that's wrong with the tech-bro demographic. He has no business understanding outside of the very narrow, tech-focused world of Silicon Valley. I've seen softer examples of this from Apple and Google, but Elon Musk is trying to make it an art form. Of course everyone has this year's smart phone and is checking their work email religiously every 15 minutes even on weekends. The government is not a tech business. He is not the CEO. He can't just bully his way through forever. He's not even good at business. He's good at gaming financial systems, but that just about the only gaming he can do competently.
You do realise that was 26 years ago now, right? I'd say it's likely that most government employees have an official email address now. In the Australian Public Service, which is the one I have direct experience of, creating an IT account with email is simply part of any onboarding process. Do all employees actually access that email on a daily basis? No. But they all have one.I'm assuming that you're being sarcastic, but just in case.
When you have a bunch of people vying for power who are by all standards mentally ill, in-fighting is almost guaranteed. In a typical dictatoraship, they'd all have to answer to Trump and he would simply 'eliminate' those who are going against his personal agenda. But they all recognize Trump is slipping fast into dementia, so I suspect the infighting will intensify and lead to some sort of impasse.
That was over 150 years ago. Nowadays the republican party is all about defending slavery and genocide.
As the saying goes, he is the exception that proves the rule.
