Big Tech Hijacked Steve Bannon’s Movement

Steve Bannon is out and Elon Musk is in. A man who once had an office and a whiteboard in the White House now has a podcast. It’s not nothing, but it’s not an extra-governmental agency that has access to the backend systems that make America run and hum. Banon was once the darling of right-wing media and the world’s preeminent Trump whisperer. Now he’s “Sloppy Steve,” Musk is sitting next to Trump during interviews, and Bannon says he’s ready for war. And while Bannon whines, Musk is opening the door to the Big Tech takeover of the United States. The Department of Government Efficiency appears to have access to private taxpayer data. Tom Krause, a Musk ally, will be taking over as the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. He’ll keep his job as the CEO of a software company while he does it. DOGE has gutted teams that were investigating Musk’s various companies. Musk himself has complained about government overspending while his companies receive billions of doll ... Read full article.