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'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

by Gil Duran, 5 February 2025


The Point: In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO” who was not Trump and laid out a playbook for how it might work. Elon Musk is following it.

The Back Story: In 2012, Curtis Yarvin — Peter Thiel’s “house philosopher”—called for something he dubbed RAGE: Retire All Government Employees. The idea: Take over the United States government and gut the federal bureaucracy. Then, replace civil servants with political loyalists who would answer to a CEO-type leader Yarvin likened to a dictator.

“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia,” he said.

Yarvin, a software programmer, framed this as a “reboot” of government.

Elon Musk’s DOGE is just a rebranded version of RAGE. He demands mass resignations, locks career employees out of their offices, threatens to delete entire departments, and seizes total control of sensitive government systems and programs. DOGE = RAGE, masked in the bland language of “efficiency.”

But Musk’s reliance on Yarvin’s playbook runs deeper....
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article is continued here at thenerdreich.com
 
I saw a bumper sticker that says “arrest Bill Gates” alongside a bunch of pro Trump and anti-vaccine stuff. Yet these same people are fine with Musk. Bizarro
 
ZiprHead said:
Trump Administration Lays Off About 1,300 Employees at the CDC

How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?
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Pages 225-227 of the Project 2025 handbook I would guess.

The least surprising thing about all of this is how rapidly the Billionaire Administration is moving. Trumps superiors know his 2017 transition was a complete shitshow so the Heritage Foundation ensured key people were in place from the get go. It's also why Trump supporters like RVonse are now suspiciously silent about things like Citizens United even though it was their goto political rhetoric for literal years. New marching orders, I guess.
 
ZiprHead said:
Trump Administration Lays Off About 1,300 Employees at the CDC

How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?
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“Determining”?? That word implies forethought.

Elon thinking he’s making the government more “efficient” this way is like saying that you can get to work more efficiently on a unicycle than a bicycle: the second wheel is redundant and the handlebars aren’t really necessary to steer.

Though we all know this isn’t really about “efficiency”.
 
barbos said:
As if USAID were about aid or democracy,
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My Republican Pro Life anti Tax senators are concerned about what they did to USAid negatively impacting THEIR Trump voting farmers.
 
For the MAGA patriots....a short reminder

 
ZiprHead said:
Trump Administration Lays Off About 1,300 Employees at the CDC

How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?
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Probably going by job title. Got 30 Program Managers? "Program Manager Supervisor, give me 12 names by by lunch." The problem with such massive firings is letting go people who are in the middle of something with no one else being able to just pick up where they left off. This was a problem in Trump, The Original Series, when he moved part of USDA to Kansas and many of those doing research said, "Fuck that. I'm not moving to Kansas". Poof! There goes their research.
 
unapologetic said:
ZiprHead said:
How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?
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What I heard was Interns. Temps, latest hires (less than one year). If you believe that. Then going into the employee files, looking for 'libs'.
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It’s not based on quality at all. So we may end up with a smaller workforce but not necessarily (or even likely) a better workforce.
 
Shadowy Man said:
unapologetic said:
ZiprHead said:
How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?
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What I heard was Interns. Temps, latest hires (less than one year). If you believe that. Then going into the employee files, looking for 'libs'.
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It’s not based on quality at all. So we may end up with a smaller workforce but not necessarily (or even likely) a better workforce.
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Just the opposite.
Who do you think most likely to leave. Top notch professional people, with experience and credentials, or the rest?
Tom
 
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