Seems to me that it’s mostly revenge; dismantling any government agency that has ever thwarted him, or that the right wing does not like. But, I certainly don’t trust his motives…

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    I’ll link a video about it I found both interesting and depressing. It gives insight into at least part of the reason he’s doing this. The other part is that he blames the left for taking his trans daughter away from him even though he was an absent father to begin with. He’s fucking delusional.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cZEZoa8rW0

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    I think he truly deeply wants to go to Mars. It’s his dream. His one mission. His destiny. I think he actually believes he is the only person that will be able to get people there. In his head, he’s space Jesus. Everyone else is an NPC. He sees government, the left, regulations, workers rights every thing as a barrier for him to move along on his goal. He’s breaking everything appart to build himself a runway. He’s doing one last grift, one last pump and dump to say goodbye and take off. He doesn’t care if the US doesn’t exist in 50 years since he will be off planet.

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    Pretty obvious. Destroying free elections and democracy. US is toast. Now they just need the Nazis elected in Germany (which he’s actively manipulating) and the EU falls apart and all we’ll have left in the worlds major powers is dictatorships.

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    Ketamine. He’s doing ketamine mostly, everything else is just stuff he hires someone else to do. So I guess hiring people whilst doing ketamine.

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    Setting things up to allow him to become the world’s first trillionaire.

    The important stuff is about crippling regulatory mechanisms, opening up huge government contracts, and dismantling workers rights. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.

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      He’s taking control of the government payment systems so he control everything and take whatever he wants.

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      ^ This answer. He wants the US Treasury for his own. But also, he knows money is just a way of keeping score. If he wants to accomplish great things, he needs a slave race working blindly for him. (Musk having been raised in South Africa, apartheid was a real thing. Small white ruling class with all the money over the black native population who were treated like dogs). His goal is to bring that here and D.T. will help him.

      They are both broken people inside. Something is very wrong in there and I pray it gets fixed/better.

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    He’s privatising the government and remaking it to his own technocratic specifications, a corpocracy but with racial foundations (whites at the top).

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      The first step to him taking over America and misusing the military to take over other countries until he has world domination and requires everyone to use 𝕏 accounts as government ID, banking, and the only source for news, communication, media, education, and entertainment.

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    He is a one man ponzi scheme, he would buy tesla stock,increasing his cash,the Ln spend that cash on buying stock. Its a really terrible idea because it means you conning yourself. Which is where he is now,so his trying and failing to but time and to beef up his value. Think about it, before is worth about half as much as musk,but amozon sells millions of kg of physical stuff everyday,so ya he should be worth billions. What does Elon sell? Why is his car company worth twice as much as Ford? No one is buying his shit but the stock value keeps going up? Well its a one man ponzi. Well now the walls are closing in,so what’s a billionaire to do? Buy the walls. But he needs to be stopped otherwise he’ll swallow the whole us economy

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    I once heard a talk by Bill Gates about his charity work through the Gates foundation. He described how he and Melinda had dedicated tens or hundreds of millions to causes. But the best money he could spend was in petitioning the government to join the cause. Because for all the wealth and power and notoriety held by the billionaire class, it was still a drop in the bucket compared to what world states could do. It’s a difference of orders of magnitude. The difference between a thousand dollars and a million dollars? That’s the same as the difference between a million and a billion. World governments operate in the trillions.

    This is a coup.

    Musk the Billionaire is small potatoes compared to Musk at the levers of government finance. It’s like a leaky faucet compared to a firehose. The one holding that firehose controls where it goes.

    This is a coup. It is establishing an unelected oligarchy at the core of the Federal Government with the power to influence and manipulate policy, and execute unofficial policy through financial pressure. It’s not anything new to history, and it’s not 5-D chess. It is just people in power grabbing more power for themselves at the expense of all others including elected officials. In other words, a coup.

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    He’s mad we don’t like him enough. He’s a spoiled asshole rich kid knocking down our block castle because he isn’t getting 100% attention and love. He’s pathetic and it’s terrifying he has any power let alone dictatorial power.

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    Now, don’t get me wrong, fuck Trump and fuck Musk.

    That being said, It’s most likely more simple than a master plan for world domination. He’s removing protections for workers and consumers so he can cut corners, pay less, and make more money. Plain and simple.