"The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"

[C_Clayton_Jones]

'While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us.
[…]
But for me, it was Tkacik – as usual – in the pages of The American Prospect who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook. While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"’

Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

An age of ascendant monsters, indeed – Trump and Musk being the most visible – and the monsters behind the scenes such as Krause, all of whom equally corrupt and dishonest.

 

[Harry Dresden]

'While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us.
[…]
But for me, it was Tkacik – as usual – in the pages of The American Prospect who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook. While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"’

Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

An age of ascendant monsters, indeed – Trump and Musk being the most visible – and the monsters behind the scenes such as Krause, all of whom equally corrupt and dishonest.

says a real true hypocrite.....

 

[kyzr]

WTF? Trump and Musk and his Whiz Kids are in the process of saving US taxpayers $Trillions. That is a wonderful thing!

 

[Moonglow]

WTF? Trump and Musk and his Whiz Kids are in the process of saving US taxpayers $Trillions. That is a wonderful thing!

or is it?

 

[Moonglow]

Since it takes time to go through Congress and there is no line item veto, Trump is weilding his magic small hands and trying to prove what a big man he is as a felon and how he knows to infiltrate by decree. Welcome MAGATs to yer age of the King of Orange.

 

[Moonglow]

WTF? Trump and Musk and his Whiz Kids are in the process of saving US taxpayers $Trillions. That is a wonderful thing!

Is that why they are hiding the process? And doing pell mell rushes into buildings and locking people out to cause dismay and contention?

 

[Anathema]

'While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us.
[…]
But for me, it was Tkacik – as usual – in the pages of The American Prospect who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook. While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"’

Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

An age of ascendant monsters, indeed – Trump and Musk being the most visible – and the monsters behind the scenes such as Krause, all of whom equally corrupt and dishonest.

I’d rather be a monster than being part of the children’s crusade that is the Democrat/leftist movement in this country and the western world in general.

 

[Oddball]

'While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us.
[…]
But for me, it was Tkacik – as usual – in the pages of The American Prospect who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook. While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"’

Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

An age of ascendant monsters, indeed – Trump and Musk being the most visible – and the monsters behind the scenes such as Krause, all of whom equally corrupt and dishonest.

 

[Moonglow]

I’d rather be a monster than being part of the children’s crusade that is the Democrat/leftist movement in this country and the western world in general.

Do you prefer the right's castrato?

 

[Anathema]

Do you prefer the right's castrato?

What you call Rightwing, I call centrist. I’m an Authoritarian, boldly and proudly. A nationalist, an Isolationist, Sexist, ultra-Conservative SOB. I always have been and always will be.

 

[theHawk]

'While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us.
[…]
But for me, it was Tkacik – as usual – in the pages of The American Prospect who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook. While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"’

Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

An age of ascendant monsters, indeed – Trump and Musk being the most visible – and the monsters behind the scenes such as Krause, all of whom equally corrupt and dishonest.

I love how the left have to attack them for their age.

These are the same people that believed in the “expertise” of a high school dropout out from Sweden on Climate change.

These “kids” know how to code. There are also the same age as soldiers we’ve sent to war. We have people just as young in the military right now with top secret clearances and in charge of classified information.

I wouldn’t expect a retard to know how the world actually works, so consider yourself notified.

 

[kyzr]

Is that why they are hiding the process? And doing pell mell rushes into buildings and locking people out to cause dismay and contention?

They have "read only" access and are compiling a list of items that need to be changed. If Trump agrees they will be changed.
No one needs to look over their shoulder and interrupt their work.
The process isn't "hid". They are computer geeks, they look thru data and code. No one needs to watch.
No one watched the democrats setup their cash cows.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The last three weeks have been delicious and leftist tears are salty

 

[Oddball]

THIS is why they're terrified....It's not that YOUR Slave Surveillance Number and other information will be available for scrutiny....

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

'While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us.
[…]
But for me, it was Tkacik – as usual – in the pages of The American Prospect who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook. While most of the coverage of Musk's wrecking crew has focused on the broccoli-haired Gen Z brownshirts who are wilding through the server rooms at giant, critical government agencies, Tkacik homes in on their boss, Tom Krause, whom she memorably dubs "the Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets"’

Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

An age of ascendant monsters, indeed – Trump and Musk being the most visible – and the monsters behind the scenes such as Krause, all of whom equally corrupt and dishonest.

No wonder your spin-doctor nanny cites a
character from Oliver TWIST.