TomK32

You base your comment on what? One could say the same things about Musk but at least for Musk we have plenty of sources and his own actions/writings to justify Nate ending his article with "... being co-president requires a much more rounded sort of intelligence — not the type that Elon has."

Based on which law?

With the company headquarters as a background image, AI generated with more or less inferno/rainbows depending on last quarter's performance.

He's so weak. What's a deadline worth if he doesn't act on it?

You can buy knowledge in all sorts of form, from books to consultation hours, but the most efficient when applying this knowledge to a task is still a human being. A consulting company might not even guarantee you that the same person will be sent to you for the whole time of the project.

Just think of Yosemite National Park firing their only(?) locksmith. It sounds like the most boring job but such a big park and many buildings. As soon as someone locks themselves into or out off something it becomes highly lucrative for a contractor to do this task. Replacing broken locks or cutting new keys won't get cheaper. It will be the same on many other levels. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/1... https://www.instagram.com/natevince/p/DGLxMKbyKwq/

That'd be a great spot if only there wasn't any hate speech in the US...

The US are okay with releasing the J6ers and White Boys while in Europe we prefer to treat hate-speech, threats and inciting violence as the crime it is. Those three I quoted from the 60 minute clip DHH posted.

Just in December eight people were convicted in France for the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. The lie of a schoolgirl skipping class led to a social media campaign against Paty, an imprisoned imam issued a Fatwa and then the murder of Paty by an 18-yr-old Chechen muslim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty

So far those eight adults and six teens got sentenced but there are idiots who think it's cool to praise the murderer (who was shot by the police) as martyr and get themselves into prison/deported for that. I don't care what anyone's reasoning was, but no one's feeling can be hurt that much that it justifies the killing of another human being.

I guess in the US, where nothing can be done about almost daily school shootings, there's nothing they could do about this sort of Freedom of Speech, even worse: Not accepting election results and inciting an attack on Congress still gets you re-elected. It's sad DHH doesn't see that a few years in Malibu have turned him into a Free Speech Absolutist.

Freedom of Speech must end where it hurts others or even touches the limits of their freedom.

Not sure if you confused progressive tax with something else:

> Most systems around the world contain progressive aspects. When taxable income falls within a particular tax bracket, the individual pays the listed percentage of tax on each dollar that falls within that monetary range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax#Examples

The article though mentioned progressive tax: "In 1917, for instance, a bold group of American progressives proposed a tax rate of 100 percent on annual income over $100,000, the equivalent of nearly $2.5 million in today’s dollars. A generation later, in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to place that same 100-percent tax rate on America’s most affluent."

I don't think a progressive wealth tax (100% over 999 million leaves every billioniare with plenty of month) would stand the courts, but a high 90% for income over say a million would stand and not unreasonable in times of high state debt. The net hourly rate of someone with that income (and workload?) would still be an absurd multiple of the minimum wage per hour.

Most parts of Switzerland, France, Spain (though only 2023-2025 to counter inflation), Norway, India, Lichtenstein, Japan, Luxembourg (only legal entities), Greece all currently have a wealth tax (according to de.wikipedia.org). It's a broad enough mix to counter your claim that a wealth tax would push all wealthy out of the country.

To counter the wealth tax you have to invest with a potential higher return, thus forcing the wealthy to spend it on other thing than yet another car or boat that just sits idle.

Germany collected a wealth tax until 1995 when the highest court pointed out that the valuation of real estate property needs overhauling. The then CDU/CSU-FDP government decided to nothing about it and the wealth tax hence couldn't be collected but the law is still in place. All it takes is some small repair.

> But career civil servants broke this rule with Trump's first term, with a lot of opposition to political decisions brought on by people who are supposed to be neutral to the politics of it all. What is being reaped now was sown back then.

Well, you can't enter a consistent, efficient and well-maintained system with the intention of throwing things around. Resistance is the only natural reaction to such a disruptive approach and now this resistance is missing we see the chaos Trump 2.0 and Musk cause as they follow the Project 2025 playbook.

Finally some small pushback from Republicans against the Tech Support guy who runs with absurd numbers about 120yrs old without doing a sanity check first.

Can Congress please get some oversight in place?

Not even Youtuber LeagleEagle figured it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvSwJT0rLU

We can only hope for a swing back in the post-Musk/Trump era that gives federal workers protection like never seen before.

Oh yeah, would love to read the detailed work day of those federal agents guarding Musk, Trump or any other interesting target...

The list of wars that countries with nuclear weapons have lost against countries without nuclear weapons is pretty much all the wars those countries have list since 1945. It's a very long list.

We only see what it's directly returning to customers, not the damage it prevents to happen in the first place by a) forcing companies to change their behaviour and b) possibly influencing legislation and policy making.

You mean something like the United States Office of Special Counsel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_Specia...

Reading in various sources, many of those workers did get great performance reviews before the purges that fired them with a one-liner citing their lack of performance. Tell me how any employer doing this is acting with respect?

DEI is not just a PR thing, it forces employers to look at places for candidates they haven't looked before. Not surprising that white women are those who benefit the most from DEI. Even one JD Vance, as a military veteran, profited from a DEI program at Yale https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/feb/19/ask-politifac...

If outgoing money isn't frozen, why do farmers not receive money for the binding contracts why fullfill for the government. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/usda-freezes-farmer-funding...

The IGs have be fired in a very specific way that involves informing Congress. It was not done correctly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_inspectors_... Cardell Richardson was in office since only May, don't know about you, but I'd give a new IG a year to get his ship running smoother. But looking at his picture I see why he was fired...

Regarding the IRS, well then we can expect that from now on only the rich people will get audited?

It'd be fantastic if surveys would allow those surveyed to do a minute or two of research before answering or correcting their answer.

You still believe in the trickle-down myth? If you are against equality, that's okay, but at least admit it and allow those who weren't fortunate enough to have wealthy parents (like Musk and Trump) to live a life without worries about health-care, housing and food.

> Your mom :)

I though there's be a minimum age of 18 to register here?

Put it on a left/right issue if you want, but in reality it is about following the law (which is not happening otherwise Trump's EOs and DOGE actions wouldn't be in court so often) and treating government workers with respect. You really want to side with a felon who pardoned almost all J6ers, even those who caused the death of police officers? You want to side with those who want to kill the investigation against Mayor Adams but might want to restart the investigation at a later point? You want to side with the US president who sides with the Russia autocrat and aggressor Putin? You want to side with the President who clearly has no understanding of how tariffs work but announces them against the neighbouring countries with which he previously negotiated a free trade agreement after breaking the old one?

Very nice examples, but why then doesn't DOGE go through every project? Why did Trump end all DEI contracts, why cause the disruption by freezing all outgoing money, why fire the Inspector Generals that are inspecting their agencies for waste, why fire all probationary workers, and why the fuck do they want to mess with the IRS, the one agency that brings money in at a very successful rate?

Clearly no one at Musk's DOGE has spent time in actual government bureaucracy.

For me it's only my personal photo library, but in an age where we constantly produce data and don't have a sense for limitations in regards to storage space (unlike with my bookshelves, boxes of fabrics for sewing and board game collection) we should get into the habit of deleting content that isn't worth storing and condensing long videos.

Why is this flagged?

We don't even know what DOGE is and whether Musk is running it. LeagleEagle hasn't a clue[1], the courts are slow at finding out and the Republicans in Congress are useless at what Congress is supposed to do. Musk is overstepping even the powers of the president but I don't see anyone trying to sue him and Trump for treason.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvSwJT0rLU

Hitting fast & hard is not the legal way to do it. Congress has allocated the money and the President can't just stop spending it. You also ignore the human aspect, firing people in the most disrespectful way, with just single sentences, will hurt the trust in the government as a workplace for a long time. Good government needs good workers who trust the government.

They can be dismantled. By Congress who created them in the first place and gave the president and his executive only a limited range of powers.