The ONLY reason Musk could destroy so many programs and services w/out fear of losing midterms is that the election was fully hacked.

Their actions are those of individuals who no longer have to care about future elections. They are alienating huge swaths of voters and approval is dropping rapidly. They are gutting “third-rail” services that are guaranteed ways to lose electoral support without a second thought.

This isn’t just bravery or efficiency, and Trump knows he didn’t have a mandate. They know that threatening both Canada and Mexico, plus double crossing huge numbers of communities who secured the razor thin wins, would almost certainly lead to being crushed in special elections and midterms.

A democratic midterm majority would lead to SERIOUS consequences, including criminal ones, and they know it, yet flout the law brazenly.

The ONLY explanation for this behavior is they know they hacked the election; they’ll do an even better job of it in future; and they have no reason to care about voter interests. It truly means our democracy is dead.

Buying twitter was effectively a massive Kompromat operation. Downloading all US data serves the same purpose. They can selectively dismantle roadblocks or consequences using leverage obtained with this data. Where the leverage doesn’t exist - just lie, blast it all over X and Meta, and it is just as effective.

Welcome to the oligarchy.