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... "Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence," Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), wrote on X.

With Democrats taking control of House and Senate committees, Musk also faces the possibility of being called before Congress to answer questions about his controversial role leading DOGE, or the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

Even Musk quipped on X about the results: "Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time." ...

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... Just three of the 37 Republicans Musk backed for the House of Representatives won on Tuesday night, compared to 33 who lost. The remaining race had not been called by Thursday afternoon, though a Republican was running ahead in tallies so far.

Of the seven Senate Republican candidates Musk backed, six lost and one race hangs in the balance. In that last race, Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola was narrowly ahead with 78% of votes counted.

In Texas, where SpaceX and Tesla are headquartered and where Musk plans a chipmaking venture, Musk also came up empty after spending almost $230 million on the Senate contest, $5 million on the governor's race, and $500,000 on the lieutenant governor vote.

"A lot of Democrats see him as the Mr. Money Bags for their Republican opponents and that's certainly going to color how they're going to treat him personally," said David Hopkins, political science professor at Boston College. "He's particularly at risk because he's been part of the Trump administration and his companies have direct government involvement." ...

@#1 ... his companies have direct government involvement ...

Yeah, there's that aspect.

@#2 ... Elon Musk and team DOGE all belong in prison. ...

I am not yet at that point.

But what I want to see are investigations into their actions, and see if those investigations result in actual evidence of wrongdoing.

Then, based upon that evidence, let the Courts decide what should be done.

@#4 ... It could take years to restore civil service and agency institutional knowledge. ...

But ~destroying institutional knowledge~ may have been the end goal of DOGE.

Looking at DOGE's actions from a different angle...

What if the end goal was not really the oft-proffered ~reducing government expenditures~ but more of ~reducing government oversight of stuff?~

And that stuff might include corporations going awry?

So, while DOGE has been shown to have failed miserably in its stated goal of reducing the cost of government, maybe DOGE actually may have achieved its main goal of eliminating government oversight of corporations. One or two of which may be benefiting massively from government expenditures?

(imo, Can you say, Mr Musk's corporations? I knew you could ...)

@#6 ... On the surface, at least, it appears that both Trump and Musk were blinded by greed. ...

"Were blinded" or "are blinded?"

@8

~I'll make more moves than Allied Van Lines.~

Wow, they don't write lyrics like that anymore.

(possibly A Good Thing?)