No problem with him being unelected, plenty of bureaucrats aren't elected, but has no qualifications or justification other than trust me bro, I'm rich.
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Plenty of unelected people being placed in positions of immense power, Pete Hegseth wasn't elected, Trump made him head of The Department of Defense, within days a US Army Blackhawk helicopter, for the first time in recorded history, flew directly into the descending flight path of a commercial American airplane, killing 67 people, over American soil, in Washington DC.
Tulsi fucking Gabbard, a Russian/Alawite/Iranian stooge, is about to be installed as the US Director of National Intelligence.
Everything is being broken. With no way to stop it.
That is the way the USA works. The country elects a tyrant who runs the executive government stacked with their cronies, people who will back them and who need to be rewarded for their support (the spoils system). It has always been like that. They formed too early and didn't have the benefit of evolving mature parliamentary democracies like the other British colonies.
It is the job of their sorry excuse for a parliament and the politicised institution that substitutes for a high court to keep the executive accountable but both have demonstrated an unwillingness to hold the executive to account and without a true separation of powers they are clearly in very dangerous territory.
The people of the US are in control of their own destiny. They have the numbers and the power to make their country whatever they want. If they fail to do so, through their cowardice or complacency it isn't because they lack the ability but the will.
Don't worry, we'll never need to vote to elect anyone ever again!
I'm wondering what Trump's rugrats are doing right now.
Best case scenario? Tag teaming some poor faux leather sectional with JD 'the least weird thing i do is fuck couches' Vance somewhere
There are ways to stop it, but most people don't want to do murder and risk their lives.
The end of USAID would mean the collapse of American soft power abroad and a decline in American influence. USAID did not always spend money well. It spent billions attempting to reshape Afghanistan in its own image and lost much of it to corruption and foolish nation-building schemes. It paid poppy farmers to grow soybeans instead of heroin-producing plants, paid for security forces who only existed on paper, and spent billions of dollars on roads that did not materialize.
It would have been amazing to have had a serious Congress of adults go through our spending line by line and eliminate wasteful and imperialistic spending. America has been pissing billions away on interfering in foreign countries to further our own interests or line the pockets of contractors while letting her own people starve on the streets.
But this is the definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Besides being illegal, Musk's takeover is harmful and dangerous. His apple analogy makes no mention of what fruits will be planted in its place. So my assumption is, none. This is nothing but harmful for us and the people that rely on our economic power.
"helped him gain control"...why can't they just fucking tell it like it is?
