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So he's going to just start shutting down vital services and say oh shit oops did that kill a few hundred thousand people? Trump literally already did that.
Fire 2/3rds of the White House? Rename the "Department of Defense" into just "D"?
Seriously, that's all tame compared to what Trump did.
Because that's exactly how big organizations work: Take out a big chunk out of the organization and shit just works.
"Elect me because I'll fuck over your government so bad, you'll wish you lived in anarchy."
This is the first I've heard anyone suggest that Musk's changes at Twitter somehow improved "the actual experience of what it's supposed to do." Although the "x through the administrative state" line proves this is pure, gutless pandering.
So as usual, he's not actually as stupid as he sounds, just opportunistic and immoral.
I mean, if you're a Nazi, the new Xitter is definitely a better experience. He knows exactly to whom he's pandering, which is how you get invited back to Fox. There's going to be a lot of competition for the segment of MAGA that loves the fascism and xenophobia, but worries that Trump is too toxic to win big cities.