I am not sure what people are disagreeing with here. The only factual claims I see are “the preexisting chain of command is incompetent or corrupt”, which I agree with (on incompetence), that “the president has a lot of power”, “is supposed to control all the agencies”, and “if the new CEO of a private company…”. None of these seem incorrect to me. I’ve strong-upvoted in both ways.
As I see it, the large majority of government employees are neither incompetent nor corrupt, and the Federal government overall works extremely well given all of the tasks that it’s asked to do. The president is supposed to execute the will of the legislature according to the law (which he isn’t, he’s shutting down agencies that Congress has created and subverting other agencies to not do what Congress has instructed them to do). Musk did a bad job of it with Twitter (it’s less profitable now than it was when he bought it, last time I checked the data) and it’s a bad policy for a new CEO coming in with goals other than “destroy the old system because I think a well functioning system is bad”.
Trump is radically reinterpreting the job of the executive branch to include “determine which laws I want to exist and only enforce those”, which is a massive expansion of executive power.
If Congress passed laws for all of these things, I think it would be a bad choice, but at least it wouldn’t be an unconstitutional coup.
I am not sure what people are disagreeing with here. The only factual claims I see are “the preexisting chain of command is incompetent or corrupt”, which I agree with (on incompetence), that “the president has a lot of power”, “is supposed to control all the agencies”, and “if the new CEO of a private company…”. None of these seem incorrect to me. I’ve strong-upvoted in both ways.
I disagree with basically all of them.
As I see it, the large majority of government employees are neither incompetent nor corrupt, and the Federal government overall works extremely well given all of the tasks that it’s asked to do. The president is supposed to execute the will of the legislature according to the law (which he isn’t, he’s shutting down agencies that Congress has created and subverting other agencies to not do what Congress has instructed them to do). Musk did a bad job of it with Twitter (it’s less profitable now than it was when he bought it, last time I checked the data) and it’s a bad policy for a new CEO coming in with goals other than “destroy the old system because I think a well functioning system is bad”.
Trump is radically reinterpreting the job of the executive branch to include “determine which laws I want to exist and only enforce those”, which is a massive expansion of executive power.
If Congress passed laws for all of these things, I think it would be a bad choice, but at least it wouldn’t be an unconstitutional coup.
Re twitter’s profitability, Musk about doubled EBITDA despite revenue halving, i.e. he more than tripled EBITDA margin
https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-x-doubled-ebitda-since-2022-takeover-report/amp
Well okay then :)! You giving a disagree-vote makes a lot of sense. Thanks for explaining.