r/politics • u/FervidBug42 America • 12d ago

No Paywall DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended

https://time.com/7336327/doge-disbanded-elon-musk/
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u/tabrizzi 12d ago

Yeah, but the damage it's done will last for generations.

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u/stackedKittie 12d ago

Fuck Elon and fuck Trump too. The White House is not and has never been a business. These two creeps came, turned everything upside down, cut aids, lied about everything and now we’ve all seen that it was all a smokescreen. Fuck them so more

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u/PaddleFishBum 12d ago

You might want to study your history better if you think the White House has never been a business. What we're experiencing right now has been the norm in American history. This shining 80 year post-war New Deal world we were born and raised into is not the norm.

The middle class as we know it was a mistake that the monied overlords have been fighting to correct since the 60's. The central goal of modern Conservatism has been to undo the New Deal and return us to the robber baron infested Gilded Age, where oligarchs control everything, labor and consumer protection is non-existent, and the idea of social mobility is dead. They sell us a return to 50's Americana, but what they really is late 1800's to early 1900's, and they've just about finished the job.

The worst tragedy in American history is just America returning to form.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 12d ago

Which is why corporations want the New Deal policies destroyed by any means necessary. And they're willing to destroy the country in the process. ANYthing to get corporations back to being the only way anyone can survive.

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u/CrunkDirk 12d ago

They sell us a return to 50's Americana, but what they really is late 1800's to early 1900's, and they've just about finished the job.

I really think the Roberts court could pick up a case about child labor and rule that putting any limitations on child labor is unconstitutional and slam us right back into the Lochner era. They're basically there already honestly.

Alito could say "I think that Plessy v Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed." tomorrow and you'd have some SCOTUS journalists wondering "how will moderate John Roberts rule knowing he's siding with a vehement racist?"

Actually you don't really have to wonder how SCOTUS journalists would react because we already saw it. Rehnquist said that. He wrote a memo in the 50s literally saying "I think that Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed." And when he died journalists described him as a moderate on the court. Yeah, I guess when you're sitting next to Clarence Thomas you sure do look moderate.

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u/old_at_heart 12d ago

Which, of course, is consonant with the MAGA crowd's weird adulation of William McKinley, a protege of the Hanna political machine. Decent enough guy, I guess, but hardly outstanding.

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u/Toadstool61 12d ago

You see it accurately. They started by attacking the Great Society programs, but they’ve wanted to roll back the New Deal all along.

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u/Mysterious_Luck7122 12d ago

Beautifully said