Cindi Branham
Damn, these people are arrogant.
Proving with every move that the cruelty IS the purpose.
The rumors this week have members of Trump’s unvetted and as yet, non-Senate approved Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) laying the groundwork for reducing government waste.
They’ll start with the first layers of management in every government agency. Remember that many authors of Project 2025 (via The Heritage Foundation) have interviewed in the neighborhood of 50,000 individuals to fill vacated slots?
They are unqualified but loyal, and that’s the only requirement of the Trump 2.0 administration. Remove the layers of resistance to Trump’s and Project 2025’s wildest dreams, and you have a vastly changed government and nation.
And this will affect every single one of us, without fail. Unless you’re a billionaire. Not even those who are “just” millionaires will be exempt. This is all about enriching the top 1% and devaluing the rest of us.
For now, for all we know, the two in charge of the DOGE are Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. A couple of man-children playing in the sandbox of other people’s lives, who are completely without real-life experience and lack the empathy to even care about what they may be doing to the “other.”
Ramaswamy has suggested using people’s Social Security number in a sort of lottery to see who he’ll fire people. Welcome to “Hunger Games,” the real -life edition. Cruelty.
Musk has already begun publishing the personal information of individuals who sit high in government as a sort of punishment for doing well in their careers and advancing to positions of higher responsibility, carrying out their oath to support the Constitution and the mission of their agency. So they know they’re targeted, and they and their families suffer in public shaming.
Cruelty for the sake of cruelty; because you can, and because that power makes you feel good.
Call this what you will, but I call it bullying. Billionaires bullying in ways that only they can pull off. Because they’re billionaires and a part of the favored class in Trump 2.0 America.
Will they backfill these positions with minorities rather than White, male christo-fascists? I think you already know the answer to that question. That’s not a part of the Heritage Foundation’s plan, and they’re calling the shots with Project 2025.
And once an evil, bigoted, racist, misogynist crook, always an evil, bigoted, racist, misogynist crook.
Elon Musk is the world’s richest individual and cut 80% of Twitter’s staff (which he renamed X, but… no thanks). Lives destroyed.
He isn’t the engineering inventor his façade lends itself to; rather, he bought his way into companies with cutting-edge technology and set about giving the illusion that he was somehow the inventor of all this great stuff.
Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink all existed and had innovative engineers behind their product lines before Musk bought them, giving them huge influxes of cash to ensure their further success. If you’re old enough, you may remember that Motorola’s Iridium system of communications satellites was on the brink of folding when Musk bought it and several of its engineers out.
And I have to go here: Musk wins the prize for always looking dorky in a ball cap, doesn’t he? I wish one of his many fanboys would tell him.
I call Vivek Ramaswamy second-level swindler in chief, second only to Trump. His startup pharmaceuticals company had some successes and some mergers, but his initial wealth came from investors who lost their funds when a drug didn’t work as promised. Ivy League-educated Ramaswamy came away a millionaire. During his run for president, he embraced every ultra-conservative value known to man, often with fervency.
Both Musk and Ramaswamy will be unkind to minorities and women.
Pathological narcissists are attracted to each other, so this troika (pun intended) all makes sense. Trump, Musk, Ramaswamy. They each also lack empathy to others, which is their main qualification for these positions.
What of the unemployment issues this causes?
Huntsville won’t be excused; we have whole Army and NASA directorates here that will be analyzed and reduced. Not necessarily very deeply, mind you, but just enough to ensure that loyalists are in charge.
Career Civil Servants. They don’t have other jobs they can go “back” to; this is their career, and Huntsville has a lot of civil and military servants.
This goes for the military as well. Remember that Trump once said that Hitler had good generals, and that he wanted that type of generals in his military? I can foresee that if they move to do all this, there will be far fewer generals, and those left will be true loyalists.
So Trump 2.0 and his inner circles will quickly weaponize our government and military against its citizenry. You and me.
Just days ago, it came out that Trump will kick all trans people out of the military – as soon as he takes office. Devoted 19 years of your life to service of your country? Too bad, you’re out, without your retirement benefits that kick in at 20 years. Lives destroyed.
Am I the only one who sees this coming?
Dismantling Democracy one cut, one department, one … at a time.