"An SSA employee we spoke to, who we are not naming because of concern for retribution, said:

'They are effectively looking to dismantle SSA in a matter of months. With no study. No planning. No insider knowledge. Nothing.'"

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #destruction #FederalGovernment #firings #workers #SocialSecurity #SSA
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"What Putin wants isn’t a gain of territory or anything like that. He just wants us gone. He wants us so weak and so fighting with each other and so, you know, fatally wounded that we don’t bother their ambitions anymore. He wants us sick. He wants us broke. He wants us stupid."

~ Greg Olear

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Russia #FederalGovernment #destruction #firings
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-putins-rasputin-and-trumps

"The U.S. government is currently under the control of a deeply ignorant, vengeful megalomaniac with zero impulse control. And it’s not just Elon Musk: Trump shares the same characteristics."

And "having ignorant men with poor impulse control running things has to be bad for business."

~ Paul Krugman

#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #firings #economy
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-chaos-is-bad-for-business

"Since returning to office, Donald Trump has swiftly reoriented US foreign policy around Russia’s best interests. …

Whenever Trump talks about Putin or Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, he does so in much warmer terms than he does with respect to democratic leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron or Canada’s Justin Trudeau. It’s not a performance."

~ Stephen Robinson

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Russia #FederalGovernment #destruction #firings
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-vance-munich-orwellian-free-speech

"He feels a genuine rapport with autocrats, dictators, and outright thugs. There’s no such connection with our European allies, who[m] he openly antagonizes."

#Musk #Trump #Putin #Russia #FederalGovernment #destruction #firings
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