Elon Musk Says DOGE Is Coming for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and More

[It should be masses of working people who block DOGE from setting foot in SSA and other agencies born out of historic struggles, even if they are flawed]

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/11/headlines/elon_musk_says_doge_is_coming_for_social_security_medicare_medicaid_and_more

#musk #maga #fascism #corporativism #oligopoly #socialsecurity #medicare #medicaid #doge #takedownmusk

Spy in your pocket

Full post here. https://rene.seindal.dk/2025/02/03/spy-in-your-pocket/

Nobody expected the Shining City upon the Hill to cave in to corporate fascism as easy as it did.

Fascism is, in the words of Mussolini himself, corporativism — the merger of the state with big business.

With state power and corporate power merged, the little guy and gal will lose. Common people have no real representation in the corporativist state, except as subjects and consumers.

Now that it has happened, and the Corporate States of America is upon us, what can we do?

One thing you, as an individual can do, is to deprive the corporate state of what they need to control and manipulate you.

They need your personal information: where you are, what you're doing, who you're with, what interests you, who you know.

Unfortunately, we've been gifting the corporations this information for almost two decades.

#AntiFascism #Corporativism #Fascism #Surveillance

"Musk’s management of his own companies like X provides clues about what to expect from President Trump.

In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, the business mogul lays out what he calls his five step “algorithm” for making organizations more efficient. After his first step, questioning every requirement, Musk’s second step is to remove as many processes as possible. He goes as far as saying that if you didn’t cut so deep that you have to add some parts back later, you didn’t go far enough. Here’s how Musk put it:

“Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10 percent of them, then you didn’t delete enough.”

Sound familiar? As the Trump administration issues one sweeping declaration after another — blanket suspensions of foreign aid, DEI, federal grants, loans, and so on — the DNA of Musk’s management philosophy seems present in practically all of it.

There will be cuts. The question is: how much will be put back?"

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-buyouts-mirror-elon-musks-twitter

#USA #Trump #Musk #PublicPolicy #AntiLabor #AntiUnions #Corporativism #Austerity

#USA #Musk #Privatization #Corporativism #BigTech #CronyCapitalism: "In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from nasa, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.” Reid Hoffman told me that Musk’s attitude is “like Louis XIV: ‘L’état, c’est moi.’ ”"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule