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Chuck DarwinOn the last Friday of September 2023, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> dropped in about an hour late to a dinner party at the Silicon Valley mansion of the technology investor <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chamath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chamath</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Palihapitiya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palihapitiya</a>.Musk’s visit was meant to be discreet -- Still skittish about getting involved publicly in politics, he told the guests he had to be careful about supporting anyone in the Republican nomination fight. And yet here he was — joined by Claire Boucher, the singer known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/Grimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grimes</a> and the mother of three of his children — at a $50,000-a-head dinner in honor of the presidential candidate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Vivek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vivek</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>, who was running as an entrepreneur who would shake up the status quo.As the night wore on, Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics, according to four people with knowledge of the conversation: his visit that week to the U.S.-Mexico border; the war in Ukraine; his frustrations with government regulations hindering his rocket company, SpaceX; and Mr. Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the federal bureaucracy. Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter, the key was gaining access to the company’s serversWouldn’t it be great, Musk offered, if he could have access to the computers of the federal government?Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, and he would make the government fit and trim. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

NonilexThe group at Mar-a-Lago brainstormed ways to terminate <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a>. One idea was to motivate them to quit, by forcing them to return to the office 5 days a week or, as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> suggested, moving <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivilServants</a> to work on admin priorities like border security. Ramaswamy predicted to the team that many federal workers would not want to be part of an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> crackdown & would leave govt — a win-win situation.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coup</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> had still not figured out the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> structure for his effort or how it would work. He & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> …tried to answer fundamental questions, pressure-testing ideas w/prospective cabinet members & budget experts.It was “spaghetti against the wall,” per 1 person in touch w/Musk at the time.In the wk after the election, Smith gave Musk a presentation that amounted to a basic budget & civics lesson, explaining how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Congress</a> appropriated funds & noting major items like defense & health care.

NonilexThe group included <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a>; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>, who was then <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>’s co-leader; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaire</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HowardLutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HowardLutnick</a>, who was running <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s transition & would become his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/commerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#commerce</a> secy; & a health care entrepreneur, Brad Smith, who had worked w/Trump’s son-in-law <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JaredKushner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JaredKushner</a>…. [but more importantly] Smith was a close business associate of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmyGleason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmyGleason</a>, who had worked at one of his companies as a chief product officer.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coup</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#regulation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Technofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Technofeudalism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NRx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NRx</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

Manish VijThe Nazi grift in a nutshell: blame the brown guy, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>

Manish Vij<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Haley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haley</a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> both freaked out over their Elon T•••• criminal exposure and bailed. Middle-class brown kids turned scammers not used to / not granted the total impunity of apartheidists Elon T••••

Manish Vij<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>’s conundrum is he wants to be the face man in a white-power heist ring. Has to get richer to buy his own orangeface

M. Ní SídachThis is still about the racial class hierarchy Dixiecrats turned Republican have raged and fought to hold on to for the past 60 plus years. The last thing on earth, the white Christofascist patriarchy wants are clear-minded, educated, empowered <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BIPOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BIPOC</a> organizing for a secure, equitable, justice society.Trump Preps Order To Eliminate Department Of Education <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SamSeder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SamSeder</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EmmaVigeland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EmmaVigeland</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MajorityReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MajorityReport</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpRegime</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Broligarchy</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Z3Yl4X3eE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Z3Yl4X3eE</a>

Chuck DarwinThe last and only remaining nuclear arms deal between the U.S. and Russia —the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, otherwise known as New START —is set to expire on February 5, 2026. The deal capped the number of strategic nuclear warheads that the two nations could deploy, as well as the number of land and water vehicles used to deliver them.Legitimate international disarmament would, of course, be a good thing. But whether or not Putin would actually follow through on diminishing his nation’s nuclear stockpiles is unclear. For decades, Russia has spent millions working to replace and upgrade its strategic and non-strategic nuclear systems.As of early 2024, Russia possessed a total of 5,580 nuclear warheads, the most of any country in the world, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The nonprofit organization argued that the war in Ukraine had drastically depleted Russia’s “conventional forces,” pushing it to deepen its reliance on nuclear weapons for its national defense systems.“Russia’s nuclear modernization programs —combined with frequent explicit nuclear threats against other countries in the context of its large conventional war in Ukraine —contribute to uncertainty about the country’s long-term intentions and have generated a growing international debate about the nature of its nuclear strategy,” read a Bulletin’s column.The global security group further argued that the U.S.’s ballistic missile system could stand in the way of Russia’s eventual nuclear disarmament, claiming that the missile system “constitutes a real future risk to the credibility of Russia’s retaliatory capability.”Some of Trump’s domestic decisions prior to entering the White House were reportedly “thrilling” to Russian mouthpieces. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Margarita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Margarita</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Simonyan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Simonyan</a>, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, mocked American politicians in December for their stupidity while claiming that some of Trump’s more unqualified choices for his cabinet —such as one-time DOGE co-chair nominee Vivek <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> and director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gabbard</a> —are friendly faces that bring the Kremlin “lots of joy.” <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/190605/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/post/190605/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-nuclear-weapons</a>

Manish VijT•••• is constitutionally barred from fed office. Uno reverse: T•••• strips citizenship from <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Haley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haley</a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>T•••• is a domestic terrorist who belongs in prison. Uno reverse: T•••• springs his villager Y’all Qaeda.White power is a hell of a card

Manish VijS. African Elmo threw Mahatma <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> from the train <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/doge-musk-helped-eject-ramaswamy-00199487" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/doge-musk-helped-eject-ramaswamy-00199487</a>

Manish VijSo T•••• 2’s “day 1 Muslim ban” is stripping citizenship from kids of work and student visas—millions of Americans, and maybe <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Kamala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kamala</a>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Haley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haley</a>, Jindal, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>?Let’s see the instant polls! :D

IamSheilaforHarrisSo why is Ramaswamy suddenly gone? Simple. Neither trump nor his co-president Musk is able to be near a brown or black face for an extended period. The suggestion that they might all be in the same political or social group is anathema to these two racist fascists.<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>

Manish Vij<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> self-deported, DOGE-style

Manish Vij<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>: this DOGE thing is so fake, dawg

LaffyThat was fast.Via ‪Paul Krugman:So <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> is being run out of DOGE? <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-expected-to-depart-doge/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vivek-ramaswamy-expected-to-depart-doge/</a>

Laffy👀 “Vivek’s base plan remains [the] same: to get accomplishments at DOGE [sic] and then announce a run for governor shortly,” said an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ohio</a> operative familiar with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a>’s thinking who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about the former presidential candidate's intentions” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/vivek-ramaswamy-ohio-governor-run/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/vivek-ramaswamy-ohio-governor-run/</a>

Manish Vij<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> calling MAGAs lazy > Hillary calling them deplorable, lol

USAJusticeWatch<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> Is Officially in Action—and Causing Mass Confusion. “<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ramaswamy</a> already have 50 employees working out of the Washington, DC, offices of Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX…with plans to have 100 people in place by January 20, when Trump is sworn in as president. But their plans are already meeting skepticism from civil servants & members of Congress, including Republicans.” | The New Republic <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/190087/doge-in-action-confusion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/post/190087/doge-in-action-confusion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</a>

beSpacific<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Wileymiller" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Wileymiller</a> They and their team are not elected officials and have no authority or power under law but this clown show will serve the purpose as directed - dismantle career public service jobs across the government [which means offices in all states] and eliminate experts who together perform critical services for our country in all sectors. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doge</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ramaswamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ramaswamy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lies</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/civilservants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#civilservants</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/federalgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#federalgovernment</a>

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