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I believe we are witnessing a slow-motion coup d’état. The unelected, foreign-born, richest man in the world, Elon Musk is ignoring laws and the U. S. constitution and slashing and burning his way through the federal government.
He has released his unvetted computer hacker minions to rifle through government computers potentially accessing our sensitive personal information such as names, addresses, passwords, and Social Security numbers. This is the very information a scammer would need to drain your bank account.
All the while they may be altering code in these computers and could be inserting malware with the potential for causing irreparable harm. Are they doing anything nefarious? Nobody knows because there is no oversight over what they are doing.
Meanwhile, the person voters elected to be president seems to be clueless of the danger while daydreaming of annexing Greenland and Canada.
Make no mistake, this is not about eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in government. If it were, Musk would not have summarily shut down USAID leaving hundreds of millions of dollars of food to rot and medicine undelivered. It would have been shut down slowly allowing the aid to get to the people in need while cancelling future orders deemed to be wasteful or fraudulent.
No this appears to be about finding money to give to Elon Musk and his tech bro friends, in a futile attempt to satiate their unmitigated greed.
This is a coup. Don’t be a participant. Join the resistance. Contact your representatives and tell them that this is not OK!
Earl Coombs
Winslow
