President Musk, Yes, we live in an oligarchy

This week the interwebs are abuzz over Elon Musk single-handedly stalling a widely supported bipartisan funding bill. He accomplished this herculean feat via a tweetstorm of lies, anger, and vague threats to primary Republicans who supported the legislation.

Link to tweet

The man whose company, Tesla, was rescued in 2009 by a $465 million Federal loan and who makes billions off the federal government, now apparently runs it. Fox & Friends was delighted to have Musk in charge, trumpeting that Musk is now “the center of the universe on Capitol Hill in a way that nobody has ever seen.”

A fact that will certainly help him navigate all the federal investigations into his misdeeds.

If we didn’t have enough evidence before, this makes it official: the United States is now an oligarchy. One man’s rage-tweeting is now more influential than everyone else in the country. After all, 75% of Americans believe that using a government shutdown as a negotiating tactic is wrong.

https://lucaskunce.substack.com/p/president-musk