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Elon Musk can now fire anyone in government. It will be like a nuclear bomb.
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IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
No he can't lol
TheChadOfGaming
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DOGE is needed. imagine spending 1 trillion dollars on interest payments from debt
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
Elon really thinks he's going to run the country via Twitter poll.
IntentionalPun
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Flag with 11 stripes, love it lol
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LegendOfKage
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The main issue with that was the fact that Twitter was applying new rules selectively, and creating new rules whenever something they personally didn't like was happening. If they would have just kept enforcing the original rules they had for years, none of this would have ever happened.
But they didn't, and it did, and now we're in this weird timeline.
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No but he can delete entire agencies.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
No he can’t. It’s an advisory panel. He can say “I think you should do this” and then Trump can go try to do it.
But ending entire agencies isn’t that easy even for a President.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
You cannot. Many government jobs come with something akin to tenure. Where after you have been there for a while you can’t be fired without cause. You can eliminate jobs and programs and funding and that can eliminate people. But you just don’t get to fire government employees.
Looks like some kind of "advisory role" with no actual authority? This isn't a cabinet level position requiring Senate confirmation.
AGRacing
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You can try to put a price on the power of free speech. In this case … the price is wrong.
The mainstream media is in absolute shambles right now for several reasons.
1. Advertising revenue is about to collapse like a dying star. Why? They’re going after pharmaceutical ads on TV. Checkmate.
2. A post election subscriber abandoning of the ship. A consumer of cable news feels quite misinformed this week. Rightfully so.
3. The last reason (and perhaps most important) any owner would keep a cable or print news network. Narrative control. Unfortunately for them…. this was just proven an outdated and irrelevant method of that control. The batteries are dead on that power tool.
Cable news hasn’t been a big money maker for a while outside of Fox.. but narrative control is valued in a different way. Without this there is literally no reason to maintain a cable news network. They tried pivoting to the middle to save this aspect of the value. To maintain credibility to exercise later … didn’t work. The nut job networks (MSNBC) are now totally useless and WILL be sold off or wrote off.
Who has narrative control? X and podcasts.
Where will wise ad revenue migrate from cable and print news ? X and podcasts.
Where is subscriber revenue trending ? X, podcasts, private platforms that use both those tools.
The shockwaves of this election just started. Buckle up.
The mainstream media is in absolute shambles right now for several reasons.
1. Advertising revenue is about to collapse like a dying star. Why? They’re going after pharmaceutical ads on TV. Checkmate.
2. A post election subscriber abandoning of the ship. A consumer of cable news feels quite misinformed this week. Rightfully so.
3. The last reason (and perhaps most important) any owner would keep a cable or print news network. Narrative control. Unfortunately for them…. this was just proven an outdated and irrelevant method of that control. The batteries are dead on that power tool.
Cable news hasn’t been a big money maker for a while outside of Fox.. but narrative control is valued in a different way. Without this there is literally no reason to maintain a cable news network. They tried pivoting to the middle to save this aspect of the value. To maintain credibility to exercise later … didn’t work. The nut job networks (MSNBC) are now totally useless and WILL be sold off or wrote off.
Who has narrative control? X and podcasts.
Where will wise ad revenue migrate from cable and print news ? X and podcasts.
Where is subscriber revenue trending ? X, podcasts, private platforms that use both those tools.
The shockwaves of this election just started. Buckle up.
The SCOTUS has basically given permision to do just this. Judge rules and its the job of the Executive branch to carry it out.
EPA vs WV
These agencies can't write laws. They have and they violated the Constitution. Therefore they can be elminated.
Unknown Soldier
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FunkMiller
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Well, quite possibly... but you can't say it's bad for one government administration/political agenda to have influence over a social media platform, and be fine when it's coming from the other side. It's hypocrisy of the highest level.
Either you're against someone being able to control the message for political aims or you're not.
FunkMiller
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Looks like some kind of "advisory role" with no actual authority? This isn't a cabinet level position requiring Senate confirmation.
The announcement literally says they're going to be leading the department. Why did you cut off the first sentence?
Was there a lot of banning of liberal posts during this election or something? Musk being co-leader of some new department Trump imagined up is a far cry from the lapdog behaviour of Twitter back in 2020 when they could barely keep up with the requests from the White House for posts and posters to be banned for failing to tow "the party line".
FunkMiller
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Hilarious. You actually think there's a difference between one White House administration having an influence over Twitter than another. It's the same thing - much, much actually worse in this instance, given Musk's level of control over X.
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Musk is ingrained in Politics now, so one of GAFs fave subjects is on the line here, do we ban talk about Musk?
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