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Yes, but this is not the way to go about enacting change. This is just carnage to prepare for tax cuts.

"Turns out that when you taint good programs like disease monitoring by putting them in a bag with all the color revolution funding and censorship and shaking it really hard, people want to burn the shit bag instead of picking out the good bits." - https://x.com/MrKapitalist/status/1886670873618473325

Check this $459 million opaque grant to [Redacted] in Nepal: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_LOGNPL001COM_9543...

Yes, many people are impulsive and foolish, we shouldn't encourage that. Nor should we cheer on the attempt to create an all-powerful executive that can do whatever it wants with no checks from existing legislation, the courts, or Congress. Trump's goal seems to be an elective dictatorship, and we'll see how long the elective part lasts.

why do you assume there are no checks?

There are supposed to be, we'll see if they work. Right now, as the article says, the courts are issuing injunctions to stop these changes while the various lawsuits play out. I strongly suspect Trump and Musk will ignore them, and then we will be in a full on constitutional crisis.

what in Elon Musk's track record makes you "strongly suspect" he is there to cause a constitutional crisis? Is it possible that instead he is working in good faith?

Everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works. The MCC was a extremely well publicized program to build a HVDC line from the hydro dams in Nepal to the Indian border..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_Corporati...

USAID is the American equivalent of China's belt and road initiative and a bunch of incurious dilettantes are tearing it all down.

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