Nearly twenty years ago, Washington Pillars Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote a classic novel about the American acquisition of the Iraqi government, “Imperial life in the city of emeraldsAnd the most important thing that distinguishes what a Times the reviewer The name “The deadly mix of official arrogance and incompetence” that afflicted the foreign occupiers from Washington who moved, after the American invasion in 2003, to the Green Zone-the flat complex that was one day belonged to Saddam Hussein. Young conservatives were preferred, without experience. Some of those looking for their opinions have been requested Ro against a valley. Others were employed after sending their CV to the right -wing heritage Foundation in the capital, while Baghdad was rising to violence outside of control. A twenty -four -year -old ignorant child found himself responsible for opening the Iraqi stock exchange. It did not work well.
This dark chapter was reminded of American history while reading novels this week Elon Musk And his small army is an unknown trainee, who were deployed on Donald Trump Prosecutor within a group of agencies to control computer payment systems and government human resources functions. A nineteen -year -old high school graduate is known to have an access to sensitive government information online as “big balls”. Former Musk’s Spacex, who left the University of Nebraska, is now outside the Public Services Department. Scenes of low comedy and spy drama across the federal government-an unprofessional email that lists all the recent CIA employees to the White House to comply with musk decree. Workers Nassa “Everything” was requested to clean the SPACE PROGRAM websites from referring to banned phrases such as “diversity”, “indigenous population” and “women in driving”. Musk and the Leadership Team sleeps in the Ministry of Governmental efficiency, a makeup agency that is not a legal authority established by Trump by executive order on his first day in his position, at the Personnel Management Office.
In its short presence, the small occupation force in Musk managed to reach the federal payment system in the United States with the fullest external aid worldwide. According to what was mentioned, the coming goals include everything from the Ministry of Education to the service of government implementation and the American aviation system. Federal employees won a final date on Thursday in the middle of the night to accept the Musk offer for the “acquisition” government level at the government level. A federal judge has been delayed by this step, which was expected to result in more than forty thousand detainees – less than five percent or more of the federal workforce that Mossk was hoping to purify, but still a tremendous revolution will repeat its repercussions for years.
In a series of posts on X, the social media site owned by Musk, the richest man in the world in feeding the United States Agency for International Development to “The Wood Chipper”, claimed that the agency was a “criminal institution”, and retracted “dismantling radicalism- left the shadow government. “This seemed to be far from his initial mandate represented in work as an” external volunteer “to advise Trump about possible budget discounts. Let the record appear, at 3:59 I am On the sixteenth day of Trump’s restoration, while Democrats were effectively scattered by the seizure of the illegal power of the billionaire, Musk explicitly announced his project that no less than.People’s revolution“
A day later, I spoke with a fans who worked closely with the engineers of architects in failed Iraq. I asked whether he was surprised by anything so far in the Trump administration designed. He answered – replied – MUSK was the vast MUSK acquisition of the American Executive Branch’s Service, something completely new in the world’s global coups. “Elon has discovered that the employees, the backbone of the government’s information technology, was basically equivalent to the twenty -first century of the TV tower in the fifties of the last century in the third world.” He noticed that “you can seize the government mainly with a handful of people if you can reach To all of this, “I chose my friend, by the way, to talk about the background despite his years of general criticism of Trump, noting that the thought reservoir of his belonging is receiving government contracts. Fear, in this revolution, as in all revolutions, may be the most effective weapon ever.
Two decades ago, the Bush Republican Party chose to drop Saddam Hussein’s regime for a long time. It is worth taking again to reflect that, only a short political life later, the government chosen by the Republican Party Trump to follow.
Trump has pushed a continuous flow of propaganda and lies to justify their allegations because of a revolution outside the laws, procedures and standards fully established. According to the participation of Thursday morning on Trump’s Truth Network, the American Agency for International Development – which, as much as I can say, Trump never mentioned in the course of the 2024 campaign – one of the many agencies in which “billions of dollars”, including AS “reward” for “fake media” to promote Democrats. He warned that this plot may be “the largest scandal for all of them.” In the period leading up to a comprehensive attack on the United States Agency for International Development, White House press secretary, Caroline Levit, publishes. A ridiculous storyThrough the MUSK team, which is fifty million dollars, the agency is supposed to be sent to send the condom to the Gaza Strip. By the time Trump later repeated the story, raising the unlikely condom will to one hundred million dollars. Think of this as the equivalent of information war to cover fire from artillery before the ground attack begins. A few days later, the American website for international development, with the report proof that there was no condoms to Gaza, had been put in a non -connection mode. By mid -week, this web site was backup but was stripped of all content except Court message Readers informed that “all direct rental employees at the United States Agency for International Development” were placed on an “administrative leave worldwide”, actually in midnight on Friday. In the end, the Trump administration appears to be apparently planning to maintain about two hundred agency, which exceeds ten thousand employees.
We do not yet know to what extent will this rude trick succeed, of course. Democrats and other Congress mobilized to defend many besieged agencies; Courts have been filed; The protests were held. But at the present time, the policy may work for Trump and Musk. Both are the democratic strategic David Axelrod and Ram Emmanuel, the former White House chief of staff of Barack Obama, that they are afraid that their party would have a trap in the defense of the United States Agency for International Development. But my head told me: “A man, Trump will be well satisfied with this battle,” Axelrod He said Politico Rachel Bid. “When you talk about discounts, the first thing that people say is: cutting out external aid.”
It is also true that if cutting the federal government is what is going on around all this, Trump and Musk will not bother with the US Small Development Agency, whose budget is about forty billion dollars less than one percent of the federal government. The point is not a political battle; It is a execution. They kill one agency to intimidate one thousand others. Congress must be one of the main parties affected here, given that it has approved the laws that allow the American Agency for International Development and other departments under attack and allocate funding for them, but this is the Republican -dominated Congress in the Trump era. On Wednesday, the spokesman Mike Johnson rejected anger to play musk as a “exaggerated reaction in the media.” Perhaps the most ideal distillation of the place where Republican officials are currently electing from Senator in North Carolina Thom Tillis. When asked about what Mossk is doing on behalf of Trump, he replied, “This contradicts the constitution in the most striking sense.” But he added, “Nobody should be the abdomen about it.”
The message here is high and clear: The revolution will not be stopped in the Capitol Hill. Indeed, on Tuesday, two of the most controversial candidates in Trump, Robert F. Kennedy, Son, For the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, and Tolsi Gabbard For the Director of National Intelligence, the Senate Committees were voted after the major Republican Senators abandoned their objections to them. On Thursday evening, despite the democratic democracy throughout the night against the nomination of Russell Virus to be Trump’s director of the Budget and Budget Office, the Senate was expected to spend and confirm it. Vogue is an intellectual architect to attack the federal government that helped write the Heritage Corporation Project 2025 The agenda of the new administration, and only a little pain he hoped to attach. “We want the bureaucrats painfully affected,” He said At a conference in 2023, a tape was later obtained by ProPublica. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them not to want to go to work. We want to put them in shock.”
Earlier this week, I spoke with one of the targets of Vogue’s Millions, a professional prosecutor who spent contracts in the Department of the Environment of the Ministry of Justice. The purification of its corner of the bureaucracy did not come to the headlines of the newspaper, but it has spoken though. “They have already come,” told me. Four heads of the eight departments in the department have been removed and resets to a business squad to combat the so -called sanctuary cities. Many employees who included “diversity” roles were placed on administrative leave. The lawyer of the “Law and Politics” department was informed in the department that their office will be completely canceled. All of this was in front of the inserted public prosecutor, Bam Bondi, by the Senate. She said: “It seems as if we were in a black hole, where our leadership has been eliminated, but no political leadership has entered.”
If the shock is the goal, Trump and his followers have already succeeded. But my source also presented an eloquent refute of the reckless pieces, a approach compared to the principal of the primary school, which was decided that, instead of pruning the budget in a small percentage, would have gone forward and eliminated the entire third grade. Should we get rid of air traffic control units Fema And EPA lead to lead in the water of your children as well? I asked. Frankly, her defense of the federal government was better than anything she heard from trapped Democrats. However, the revolution will get the last laughter: after more than thirty years of public service, I have already planned to retire later this year. Congratulations, Elon Musk. ♦
