Musk, directed a coup d'état in the United States

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Now, American politics has entered a state of extreme chaos: DOGE is not authorized by the federal government, but with the support of the president and the secretaries of the main core departments, it has access to the most important data in the United States.

Written by丨Lian Qingchuan

In August 2021, Elon Musk came to a solar rooftop installation base in Texas. His temper flares up again.

One of his managers triumphantly reported that his team had just set a record: 74 solar roofs were installed in a week. But Musk was furious, and he asked for a 10-fold number.

So he climbed up to the roof himself and started installing rooftop solar. But he suffered a huge setback: there were too many components. He immediately called the design engineer and scolded him, because according to this design, it was impossible to achieve the installation speed he required.

He fired the head and the engineer. However, after April 2022, he never inquired about SolarCity's solar roof installation business again. In fact, after that, the installation rate was only 30 per week, which was far from the 1,000 he requested. But it didn't matter, because he won the lawsuit to buy SolarCity.

He founded the company in 2006 with two cousins, who are major investors. In 2016, Tesla bought SolarCity for $2.6 billion and evicted his cousin, laying off almost all of its 15,000 employees, leaving only a few hundred employees. A veteran employee named Dennis Scott writes about the harrowing experience of being made redundant. Musk has even interacted with him, but has never shown any regrets.

Musk's experience with SolarCity is today simply another rehash of the actions of the DOGE (US Government Efficiency Department): ambitious, earth-shattering, ruthless, and achieving nothing.

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In the first month since Trump took office, DOGE has already set off many bloody storms.

First up was the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where 10,000 employees were suddenly called furloughed and locked out of the work system, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced interim director.

Then there was the U.S. Treasury Department, where the DOGE team hacked into the Treasury payment system to check payment data. After a brief resistance from Treasury Department employees and even an emergency injunction by a federal judge, the new Treasury Secretary announced that Musk would be allowed to enter the system.

Many of Trump's ministers have already announced their consent to Musk's access to their systems, including the Department of Defense Pentagon, the Department of Education, and even the Department of Homeland Security. In other words, almost all of the defense, security, and finance departments involved in the core of the United States have opened their doors to Musk.

Of course, Musk is also very smart, he did not rush into these very cooperative departments, but suddenly asked to enter the IRS, that is, the Internal Revenue Service. This can almost be said to be a taboo place for the U.S. federal government: because all citizens' tax records are registered with the IRS, and obtaining IRS data is almost equivalent to controlling the lives of all citizens.

The war on the IRS has only just begun, and the employees of the IRS are fighting to the death. It is unknown how long it will last, but judging from the recent situation of Musk's confrontation with many government departments in the United States, Musk has a great chance of winning.

Almost the whole world already knows that behind the DOGE team is 6 AI geniuses with an average age of only 22 years old. Most of them have worked part-time or interned at Musk's various companies, three of them have not graduated from college, and one is a school dropout, the oldest of whom is only 25 years old, and some have posted racist remarks on social media. However, they were indeed a group of young people with a high revolutionary spirit: giving up 7-figure annual salaries and working 120 hours a week.

Why use these milky "young revolutionaries"? It is simply unrealistic to boast of their abilities as unsurpassed. There are countless geniuses and laureates of all kinds in various agencies of the U.S. federal government. Analyzing their backgrounds is actually very similar to Musk's: political outsiders, no family burdens, and unrealistic idealism.

Because he is an outsider, he will not bring any negative political impact to anyone, and it is a burden that can be easily shaken off; Because he has no family burden, he starts very dark, and he has no perception of things like layoffs that will bring great pain to life; We hate the so-called political corruption and the waste of taxpayers' hard-earned money, so we can "fight hard and think in a flash" and sweep away all institutions with absolutely violent means.

Not only are they the same people as Musk, but even their position in the government is the same as Musk: inexplicable.

Explaining Musk's position, Trump said: Musk is not a staff member of the government's efficiency department, he is only an adviser and does not have executive powers.

This answer is clearly in response to a lawsuit against Musk, which includes a joint lawsuit filed by 14 state attorneys general. These attorneys general believe that how can Musk, who is neither an elected official nor a public official recognized by the Senate question vote, have such unrestricted powers, including access to the Treasury Department and the Ministry of Education?

Now, American politics has entered a state of extreme chaos: DOGE is not authorized by the federal government, but with the support of the president and the secretaries of the main core departments, it has access to the most important data in the United States.

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However, whether in the United States or in the simple world, Musk has almost become a tragic hero regardless of success or failure.

He has amended his will for the 15th time, this time suggesting that a mysterious successor has been appointed if something happens to him.

Some people even posted photos on the Internet of Musk sleeping on the floor of the government efficiency department wrapped in a sleeping bag - however, the AI software judged that the picture was an AI-generated photo.

Musk and his team work 120 hours a week without any pay. More than 100 X stories are posted every day, constantly claiming how much tax money has been wasted, and tens of billions of dollars have been saved so far......

However, almost everything does not stand up to scrutiny. Suggesting that the Democrats might do something to him is simply nonsense. The Democratic Party, under the moral kidnapping of the Wake movement (the pursuit of extreme political correctness) and the DEI ("diversity, equality, and inclusion" program), is now at the heart of the issue of weakness rather than toughness. Those tech bigwigs who supported the Democratic Party all defected almost overnight, and there is no fighting power to speak of.

Working hard every week, but putting a lot of energy into X, is this a play, or is it a play?

And the so-called discovery of corruption and tax savings have no conclusive evidence at all. Taking USAID as an example, almost all of the accusations released by Musk and approved by Trump cannot be established.

Chelsea Clinton received 84 million yuan and refuted the rumors; It's not true that the online political magazine Politico receives funding from USAID, but it's just an annual subscription fee; Spending $50 million to distribute condoms to Gaza is even more nonsense, and at the White House press conference, he personally admitted his mistake......

But the news was released like this, and the subsequent clarification made little sense, and the closure of USAID, which was caused by these false accusations, turned into actual consequences.

Are there any problems with USAID? Is there a problem with the US Department of Defense? Is there a problem with the U.S. Department of Education? Yes, there are still big problems. The waste fact exists, and it's huge.

In the past, many cases have been revealed, such as weapons left behind by the United States in Iraq, which were sold at low prices by military bases and locals; Many USAID projects are simply ineffective and even finance their own enemies. After so many years of hard work by the Department of Education, U.S. tuition has become the heaviest family burden in the world......

But are these problems caused by redundancy? Contrary. As the U.S. federal government struggles over the budget for many years, many issues remain unresolved, the funds and projects invested are unsupervised, inefficient, and all departments and personnel are overloaded.

The closure of the USIAD is basically a great humiliation and a great grievance against one of the most efficient departments in the United States. Because most of the 10,000 employees work in the poorest, backward and dangerous regions of the world, solving poverty, disease, corruption and other tasks that corrupt the progress of the whole world.

Musk and his revolutionaries have not considered the complexity of the operation of the world and the systematization of public affairs, and have used the so-called artificial intelligence and big data computing to erase all the differences between the world, humanity and human nature, and to reduce them all with the so-called standardization or consistency, thus creating huge chaos for the entire US government.

But the public does not know about it, and it has no interest in knowing about it. The public has a natural hatred and anger for government corruption, misuse of public money, and support for foreign powers, so when Trump and Musk announce that their tax dollars are being used to enrich themselves, they will naturally support Trump and Musk.

In the current poll, more than 60% of the American public supports Trump and Musk's actions.

This is the great risk of direct public participation in politics: because they are not trained to distinguish between political lies and truth. When public sentiment was stirred up by Ma Chuan (Musk and Teplan), it became logical to support the liquidation of the Democratic Party's past policies.

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Very few people have noticed that Musk has revealed that he has a severe bipolar disorder. People with this disease are unable to correctly identify and feel the emotions of others, so their emotions are always in depression and bipolar and repeatedly jumping.

Politics is a profession of negotiation, compromise and negotiation, whether between political parties, between the public, or with enemies. Without feeling the emotions of others, whether competitors, the public, or enemies, there is no way to negotiate.

This may be the reason why Musk has abandoned SolarCity in the first place. He simply couldn't understand the pain of Dennis Scott's dismissal. This company is a toy for him, or a manifestation of his ambition. He has no emotion for it, and even less responsibility. So acquisitions, fires and abandonments, this is the norm of his life.

However, public affairs is different, it needs to be screened, what is wasteful, what is necessary, and what is necessary waste. It needs to be continued. Because if you give up the aid to a diseased area, then the disease will return quickly, and the price you will pay later may be ten times and a hundred times the original. It requires more negotiation and compromise, because any rigid relationship will turn into a mutually destructive explosion.

Some believe that Trump-Musk's transactional administration, or businessman's government, may solve the problem of human government efficiency. This is clearly a form of self-deception. The success or failure of a company will most likely only affect the usage habits of a group of people, because there are a large number of alternative products.

But public affairs and public goods are worlds apart from commerce. The provision of political and public affairs is based on a common system of ethics, law and professionalism.

This is the core reason why the two parties in the United States have rotated, but they have never affected the stability of public affairs. Because over the course of more than 200 years, a group of professionals based on these political norms has been formed, value-neutral and professionally supreme.

And Musk simply can't and doesn't want to understand the huge dilemma faced by human beings or people. In his opinion, technology is the antidote to everything. Under this prescription of statecraft, it is the chaos of the country, not the good government.

But Mr. Trump is on the lookout.

Most anti-Trump factions have grossly underestimated Trump's political intelligence. He needs an outsider to make a deep knife against Washington.

MAGA is a movement that was waged at the bottom and has not been endorsed by political elites, including the Republican Party. What to do? Actions by people authorized or approved by Congress will obviously be sniped by the establishment, especially within various departments, and will certainly be constrained.

But for an outsider's drastic move, the establishment is worse than dead. They can't oppose an outsider, they can only go through litigation. But the lawsuit is long and inefficient. Even if the lawsuit had been won, the world would have changed.

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No matter how fresh and refined the packaging is, or tragic and majestic, or bizarre, MAGA and Musk's DOGE are actually nothing more than populist movements in the modern technological age.

Inciting dissatisfaction with the current politics among the middle and lower classes, using technology to intervene in the state and politics, acting in circumvention of the existing legal and political order, and undermining the existing effective state institutions are all common methods used by populism to transform the country.

They take advantage of only one thing: the public's lack of training in politics to make it easy to manipulate and change state institutions.

Paul Krugman, a well-known American economist, said that this was a coup d'état. In fact, there is no more apt description.

Musk will not die in the assassination of the Democratic Party, he is more likely to be abandoned after the loss of value, or the backlash from the power group in the internal camp.

But what does it matter? He is a South African, an outsider, a man with mental illness.

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