Seems to me that it’s mostly revenge; dismantling any government agency that has ever thwarted him, or that the right wing does not like. But, I certainly don’t trust his motives…

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    Ketamine. He’s doing ketamine mostly, everything else is just stuff he hires someone else to do. So I guess hiring people whilst doing ketamine.

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      The first step to him taking over America and misusing the military to take over other countries until he has world domination and requires everyone to use 𝕏 accounts as government ID, banking, and the only source for news, communication, media, education, and entertainment.

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    Setting things up to allow him to become the world’s first trillionaire.

    The important stuff is about crippling regulatory mechanisms, opening up huge government contracts, and dismantling workers rights. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.

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      He’s taking control of the government payment systems so he control everything and take whatever he wants.

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      ^ This answer. He wants the US Treasury for his own. But also, he knows money is just a way of keeping score. If he wants to accomplish great things, he needs a slave race working blindly for him. (Musk having been raised in South Africa, apartheid was a real thing. Small white ruling class with all the money over the black native population who were treated like dogs). His goal is to bring that here and D.T. will help him.

      They are both broken people inside. Something is very wrong in there and I pray it gets fixed/better.

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    He’s privatising the government and remaking it to his own technocratic specifications, a corpocracy but with racial foundations (whites at the top).

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    He is a one man ponzi scheme, he would buy tesla stock,increasing his cash,the Ln spend that cash on buying stock. Its a really terrible idea because it means you conning yourself. Which is where he is now,so his trying and failing to but time and to beef up his value. Think about it, before is worth about half as much as musk,but amozon sells millions of kg of physical stuff everyday,so ya he should be worth billions. What does Elon sell? Why is his car company worth twice as much as Ford? No one is buying his shit but the stock value keeps going up? Well its a one man ponzi. Well now the walls are closing in,so what’s a billionaire to do? Buy the walls. But he needs to be stopped otherwise he’ll swallow the whole us economy

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    He’s mad we don’t like him enough. He’s a spoiled asshole rich kid knocking down our block castle because he isn’t getting 100% attention and love. He’s pathetic and it’s terrifying he has any power let alone dictatorial power.

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    some humans are unhappy and that makes them insatiable.

    he is a hoarder. like those people that fill their houses with old newspapers and refuse. he is that way with money and power.

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    Elon is wiping out any opposition or oversight into what he does while he’s also gaining access to the inner workings of other companies whether they be rivals or potential takeovers. He will also use some of that information to get back at individuals that he has a grudge with.

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    I once heard a talk by Bill Gates about his charity work through the Gates foundation. He described how he and Melinda had dedicated tens or hundreds of millions to causes. But the best money he could spend was in petitioning the government to join the cause. Because for all the wealth and power and notoriety held by the billionaire class, it was still a drop in the bucket compared to what world states could do. It’s a difference of orders of magnitude. The difference between a thousand dollars and a million dollars? That’s the same as the difference between a million and a billion. World governments operate in the trillions.

    This is a coup.

    Musk the Billionaire is small potatoes compared to Musk at the levers of government finance. It’s like a leaky faucet compared to a firehose. The one holding that firehose controls where it goes.

    This is a coup. It is establishing an unelected oligarchy at the core of the Federal Government with the power to influence and manipulate policy, and execute unofficial policy through financial pressure. It’s not anything new to history, and it’s not 5-D chess. It is just people in power grabbing more power for themselves at the expense of all others including elected officials. In other words, a coup.

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    Now, don’t get me wrong, fuck Trump and fuck Musk.

    That being said, It’s most likely more simple than a master plan for world domination. He’s removing protections for workers and consumers so he can cut corners, pay less, and make more money. Plain and simple.

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    He seemed highly focused on USAID initially. USAID is a means to assert soft power around the world through the influencing of hearts and minds.

    Elon’s strong ties to Trump combined with this focus reek of Putin’s influence to me. He’s doing Russia’s bidding in deconstructing our government.

    I think Musk is likely compromised in the same way Trump is. God, it must be some truly nefarious shit too.

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      It really must be bad, dude has no fucking shame at all. Uses his own kid as a human shield, and cant keep his breeding kink to himself

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        Musk isn’t compromised by Putin, there is nothing that Putin could have on him that would make any bit of difference. What Musk wants is to be the preferred rocket supplier for both the US and Russia. He already has the US, now he’s doing Putin’s bidding and will soon be building Starship launch pads in Crimea.

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    Not playing whatever that game is that he said he’s really good at but actually doesn’t even play