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Feb. 5th, 2025 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsToday, Elon Musk is the real head of the executive branch of the US Government. He has a government strategy, he executes on his plans and, importantly, he is taking control over the purse. Trump only signs papers and makes loud noises.
The arrangement is clearly unconstitutional because [a bunch of arguments here], but it will take a lot of time to litigate the situation in courts. In the meantime, the de-facto president will do whatever he wants to do. This creates an important precedent for the future of American democracy. No unelected person in the history of the country had that much executive power in combination with zero accountability.
The arrangement is clearly unconstitutional because [a bunch of arguments here], but it will take a lot of time to litigate the situation in courts. In the meantime, the de-facto president will do whatever he wants to do. This creates an important precedent for the future of American democracy. No unelected person in the history of the country had that much executive power in combination with zero accountability.
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Date: 2025-02-06 10:44 am (UTC)As in Crimea of 2014, the shock-and-awe attack is abetted by the corruption and cowardice of the elected members of Congress.
The last unelected person with this kind of power in America was King George III. Almost 10% of the population died in the Revolutionary War.