The AI Coup & Trump’s CEO-Dictator Playbook w/ Gil Duran | MR Live – 2/11/25 The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder Gil Duran: “Trump is a wholly captured subsidiary of these silicon valley guys, whether you want to call them the network state or something else it’s all the same idea – tech authoritarianism, and so basically they acquired MAGA.”
Elon Musk is in conflict across the political spectrum, not just across the government and across America.
Mother Jones – Feb 11, 2025 Everything Elon Musk Touches Is a Conflict of Interest It’s no longer clear where his business ends and the government’s begins. Tim Murphy Civil servants and elected officials are often bound by tight disclosure requirements and ethics guidelines designed to curb conflicts of interest and prevent bureaucrats from profiting from their work. Michael Punke, the author of the book that was adapted into the Oscar-winning motion picture, The Revenant, was famously prohibited from even promoting the book while serving as US ambassador to the World Trade Organization. Musk, who is operating as a “special government employee,” has not divested from his vast holdings. He has not stepped down from his companies. On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Musk’s conflicts would be handled on something like an honor system: “If Elon Musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that DOGE is overseeing…Elon will excuse himself from those contracts.” The sheer scope of Musk’s interests, though, means that everything that happens, anywhere in the world, is a potential conflict.
The reason that there’s not enough opposition is because politicians of both parties have entangled themselves with Elon Musk and a lot of direct conflicts with the people they are supposed to be representing.
My letter to reps:
I don’t think any tech tycoons should be involved in controlling a government that is supposed to be for and by the people. These conflicts of interest must end, not just with Elon Musk, but all the billionaires and tech CEOs. Politicians should not be allowed to have conflicts of interests to favour tycoons. America is a government for and by the people. It’s just that simple.