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View submission: Elon Musk can’t balance the budget
All Musk has to do at this point is start focusing his tweets on how Social Security is actually communism, and people could actually get rich by just investing on their own in companies like Tesla.
He'll flood Twitter with reposts and boosted posts containing graphs and charts arguing that Social Security is a "fraud" and "injust." He'll have the hijacked America account hammering on this message.
The hoard of foreign influence bots will all latch onto this and drum up an apparent growing positive sentiment and public agreement. MAGA will probably be confused at first, but will eventually fall into line with this manufactured consent engineering.
The few accounts who haven't left for BlueSky will try to counter the insanity, but will be thwarted by algorithm downpressure and overwhelmed by dissent.
There will be a public uproar covered on other sites and major journalistic publications. Elon will hammer on the line that "X is the real media," "I have a mandate," "the people made their voice clear."
He will coerce Congress into going along, through both threats of political retribution, by unleashing the X mob on them, or by simple payoffs.
This series of events is not at all implausible given how the last couple months have gone. And if it does happen, this country is 100% certified fucked for anyone who isn't in the new oligarch class led by shadow president Musk.
There's nothing here!