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…
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.
^ 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.
He’s taking control of the government payment systems so he control everything and take whatever he wants.
Also crashing the economy so he can buy companies at bargain bin prices.
In all seriousness, he strikes me as someone who’s compelled to act out something from his past, maybe even his childhood… if true, that’s very scary given the immense power he has today, that he simply can’t be reasoned with like with a healthy-minded person.
ETA Even scarier, the same appears to also be true of Trump, and the two of them have now paired up together.
Apparently, at both SpaceX and Tesla, he had a habit of going around demanding random changes because he was convinced he was the smartest person on the planet and whatever he came up with 2 seconds ago was far better than what the seasoned engineer who had spent months designing it had come up with. They had to make a team of people to try to keep him away from useful work because it was so destructive to what they were trying to do. There is no plausible explanation for that, to me, other than that he genuinely believes his own hype.
He could literally have the best and most qualified people in the room with him to explain virtually anything he wanted, for unlimited time, any time he wanted. He doesn’t want that. He just wants to take some random bullshit he found on Twitter combined with his own prejudice about how things work, and act on it, taking pleasure in people getting upset about him not being supposed to do that.
I am sure there is more complex stuff at work than is obvious, but I think probably, a pretty huge chunk of it is just that he genuinely believes that the whole US government is fucking up because it’s staffed with morons, and he’s such a genius that he can fix it, and that’s what he’s currently doing. I do think there’s some pathology at work in why he’s so motivated to do it: He has insecurity about whether he is actually the smartest man on the planet, it creates unsettledness, and so he has to go out and take some drastic action to prove to himself that he is. Because would anyone but the smartest person do all this stuff? It’s unprecedented. And therefore, he is smart on an unprecedented level, as he always knew, and he doesn’t need to be unsettled. And then, the next day, the unsettledness returns.
I think most of it pretty simple. It’s just “never been told no” syndrome coupled with societal reward to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, an army of fans, a record of “success” on his resume, and so on.
I mean he literally fired the entire Tesla supercharger team because he had a disagreement with the team leader
I would have thanked him for doing it. Probably I am coming from a super-privileged place, but I’m not sure why all these engineers put up with this when he starts fucking with their work. If they are working at Tesla they can surely also work at other legendary places.
I’ve walked away from really nice jobs because someone was asking me to put up with bullshit as part of my working day, and I wasn’t about it. I know Tesla is a nice fancy thing you can talk about, you get to work on great stuff, it means a lot to you, but if your boss starts treating you like you’re a dog turd and your opinions mean nothing, just walk to the exit. You will be happier than the people who tried to engineer a system to try to distract him so you all could keep making money for him unimpeded.
It’s a global far right power grab, fueled by dark money and weaponized disinformation. He’s just the face of it.
He doesn’t know either. People give these fuckers far too much credit. He doesn’t have any sort of big strategic vision. He just acts out his base impulses and does whatever will feed his narcissism the most at any given moment.
Your intuition is spot on.
Elon is gutting USAID because they were investigating him over starlink. Elon is gutting the government agencies that oversee electric car regulations and safety regulations. Elon is going after the SEC for investigating him. Elon is using the government’s databases to amass data to target political and business competitors and to further the far right propaganda campaigns as well as build list of deportees and political targets. Elon is gutting every TLA he can to ensure his taxes decrease and yours increase. Elon is tearing through decades of support and opportunity programs designed to help the less fortunate/less abled to live comfortably so he can live more comfortably.
Everything he’s doing, is for his own benefit and personal gain, to the extreme detriment of the entire country. He’s neither qualified nor elected. His actions should amount to treason, but they’re being enabled by a traitorous, treasonous, felonious criminal, the shittiest president this country has ever seen.
The country also let said traitorous, treasonous felonious criminal run a second time so we’ve failed as a country long before the past November 5th
Hard to argue with that. IDK why the fuck we can let a convicted felon run for the highest office when they’re barred from voting (state dependent, fuck you florida), or can’t own a firearm. The law literally prescribes they cannot be trusted. We can thank stacked scotus (i.e. trump) for this failure too.
You should see how up in arms the GOP is here in Missouri because there’s a felon working in the public defender’s office. He should run for president instead!
Securing power and increasing his profits. Easy.
He’s being a Nazi
As others have said, money is most of it.
But I also remember that what seems to have prompted his last few years of total unhinged behaviour was his daughter turning her back on him. That seemed to be the point of no return for him.
So there is part of me that thinks he wants to have access to and control over data. The whole nazi salute wasn’t about money, it was about ideology and I think controlling data will allow him to go after communities of people as part his ideology.
DOGE: Department Of Government Extermination.
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.
power tripping? bought a president-level account and now has pseudo president-level access to muck things up. this coincidentally also puts a lot of regulations out his way.
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.
Not playing whatever that game is that he said he’s really good at but actually doesn’t even play
Elon is wiping out any opposition or oversight into what he does while he’s also gaining access to the inner workings of other companies whether they be rivals or potential takeovers. He will also use some of that information to get back at individuals that he has a grudge with.
He’s privatising the government and remaking it to his own technocratic specifications, a corpocracy but with racial foundations (whites at the top).
