its gonna be reeeeeeal interesting when all his supporters in law enforcement and .mil and .gov stop getting their paychecks or their family stops getting medicare

counterpoint: for every DOGE Red Bull shitlord there are hundreds of red hat bulletheads with badges who have spent the last four years waiting to unlock the doors and stonewall Congress

The physical security of the US Treasury is provided by Secret Service’s uniformed division. All the injunctions coming from the courts are supposed to be enforced by the US Marshalls, who, this time eight years ago, refused to lift a finger against ICE

If Elon moves too fast and breaks the wrong thing, Trump has already publicly stated that he has no knowledge of what DOGE is up to (he’s lying of course) but he’d be happy to let Elon blame it on one of his lackeys or set loose the paramilitaries formerly known as as Peoud Boys on him and then make Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison fight for shares of SpaceX in his sovereign wealth fund

Musk might be winning but its always been Trump’s game

you are not wrong, any potus can, theoretically if reasonably provoked, deeply curtail if not totally stop a billionaire, no matter the billionaire.

Whether Mango Musollini will lash out fully at elongated muskrat in an effort to blame shift remains to be seen.

Musk is doing exactly what Trump wants him to.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government-by-grok

I'm not sure there are convincing data points suggesting President Gropenfürhrer fully understands what musk is doing, has done, and Gropenfürhrer may or may not care a lot about the specifics.

That's not to say he shouldn't, even for his own self-preservation.