I have seen precious little reason to give Elon the benefit of the doubt on literally any topic. If he told me the sky was blue, I'd check for myself. The sheer breadth of things he's lied about over the past decade (from patently absurd release timelines, to promises of charity, to the cave sub fiasco, to the events of his own son's death) leaves me terrified of his access this week.

Read about autism treatment in red states. I’m not going from no evidence here, I’ve been deep into all the cracks, in trying to get my son from level 2 support up to a functioning human, I know what’s at stake and what each political party has actually done in their spheres of influence and I’m horrified at the things Republicans say about autism and care for autistic people. I don’t trust trump or musk as far as I can throw them tired together on this topic, and even if their word is to be accepted the downright reckless way they’ve been doing things is evidence enough that they don’t care about the damage they do.

Yes, I agree that they're taking the SV approach of "move fast and break things". They believe that government is severely broken, and this is their chance to reform it in significant ways. But obviously that's little comfort to you, if you get caught up in any breakage.

What I wish is that the Democrats had heard the plea of so many working class Americans, who were basically saying the same thing as you. "Your policies, (like mass immigration), make me fearful for the future, and I don't know how I will survive, or thrive". It was the dismissal of their fears, often with derision and insults, that pushed so many of them into the arms of Trump.

It was all manufactured by the Republican Party.

I think it's safe to assume that's where things are headed slowly. After the treasury situation, I think its more than fair to assume they aren't going to be only bloat or operating in good faith when their stance is to get rid of the systems entirely.

Remember when he bought twitter and gutted it? Child safty department was cut to the bone and they barely got away without any legal issues. Numerous core services failed leaving twitter/x barely operating for days. And this was with the tenured professionals keeping things running, now he seems to be using a bunch of people with under 5 years experience in the work force let alone in these sectors/technology.

Honest people don't flagrantly break laws. It would be foolish to take these people at their word when we live in an extremely transparent democracy where the effectiveness of these programs was trivial to gather data on until a week ago when these hooligans took it offline.

Waste to Elon is spending money on poor people instead of giving him a tax cut.