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MAGAs Wanted Small Government, Elon Musk Heard Small Children In Government— Meet His Doge Workforce
Politics is America’s favorite spectator sport except here, the only rule that applies is that money picks the winners, and voters are just an afterthought. It’s a game that demands that winners raise millions of dollars just to be on the ballot.
The only catch is that these billionaires aren’t writing cheques out of the goodness of their hearts. It’s pay to play at the highest level, and Elon Musk is playing all right …
The speed and thoroughness with which Elon Musk has managed to disrupt government programs that are of both primary and secondary priority to the US government has been unprecedented.
The sudden placement in powerful government positions of Elon Musk’s hand-picked team of six Tech prodigies aged 19 to 24 is also sparking fierce debates over, oversight, and regulatory safeguards as they run around federal buildings plugging random hard drives into government computers, to transfer sensitive data into private servers run by Elon Musk.
As we’re being told, it’s the only way to ‘modernize the government’. What Elon Musk is able…
