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Musk’s Ungoverning Tactic of “Wreck Then Rob”

We begin with an analysis of the strategy behind Musk’s government wrecking crew where already cuts to the IRS will mean revenues will be down by 10% while massive tax cuts are given to the super-wealthy leading to even greater deficits. We will discuss what former Social Security commissioner Martin O’Malley describes as the ungoverning tactic underway of “wreck then rob” underway as Musk cripples the Social Security Administration to the point the American people will be fed up with its dysfunction so that Trump can claim it needs to be privatized. Joining us to explain the Silicon Valley broligarch’s model of government capture is Fred Turner, the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author or co-author of five books including Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties,  From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory.

Inside the PRC’s Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionaries

Then with The New York Times revealing that Secretary of Defense Hegseth was about to share America’s top secrets about China with Elon Musk before Trump supposedly put a stop to it, we look into perennial efforts by US presidents since Clinton to pivot to China as the rising global power, and competitor or even enemy depending on how the relationship is handled. Joining us to pry into the PRC’s secretive internal leadership struggles between reformers and reactionaries is Robert Suettinger, a historian with more than forty-five years of experience studying Chinese politics. Formerly an intelligence analyst and manager for the CIA and the US State Department, he was Director of Asian Affairs at the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton. He is the author of Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations, 1989–2000 and, most recently, The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer.