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let's just say that there are several gravity-based, historically used methods of permanently disentangling corrupt antisocial mass murderers from government

The Chinese and Japan will achieve that when they finally sell off their US bonds!

Step one transparency. See what shakes out. Grab the pointy bits. He may help by self-implosion. Good faith at all stages. Don't go nuts the facts will do that for you.

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And Thiel while we're at it.

“Do we have the political will to treat this as business plot 2.0: billionaire boogaloo and actually try them for treason vs No we don’t” is gonna decide the course of all our lives Removing Musk merely requires us to enforce the existing law, but of course we’ve never once done that for the rich

I think it would start with a new president, right? There are presumably plenty of other men like Musk…he’s just the tip of the iceberg. We could use a good bureaucratic purge, metaphorically speaking. Then maybe pass some laws about the level of direct government involvement allowed if you’re rich.

Maybe some writers, like @gilduran.com , could dig further into this?

there's quite a bit that can be done with executive power day one even if we glide right past the sorts of things states can do with their monopoly on force when the rule of law has been eroded

Executive summary: DOGE was an experiment in direct rule by an oligarch using Signal.

Always remember: The cult of Musk only exists because its enabled to.

Would be a good use of think tank funding if there was a particularly angry liberal rich