{"id":8886,"date":"2025-02-03T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=8886"},"modified":"2025-02-03T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T17:47:29","slug":"no-one-elected-mucks-hes-taken-over-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/no-one-elected-mucks-hes-taken-over-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"No one elected Mucks. He’s taken over. #resist"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the conman distracts us with a trade war, the nazi from South Africa — unelected, uncontrollable — has taken over the government. Who wanted this?\u00a0<\/p>\n

February 2, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n

DOGE has simply taken over government systems. Musk, using President Donald Trump\u2019s name, is personally deciding what he thinks should be cut from the U.S. government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSo this feels like a hostile takeover of the machinery of governments by the richest man in the world,\u201d he said.<\/span>\u00a0“<\/span>That is not efficiency; that is a coup.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The news that DOGE has taken over U.S. government computers is not the only bombshell this weekend.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the conman distracts us with a trade war, the nazi from South Africa — unelected, uncontrollable — has taken over the government. Who wanted this?\u00a0 February 2, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson DOGE has simply taken over government systems. Musk, using President Donald Trump\u2019s name, is personally deciding what he thinks should be … Continue reading No one elected Mucks. He’s taken over. #resist<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada","tag-resist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8887,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions\/8887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}