Getting an early start
New monster much like the old monster.
Elon Musk is so excited to start his new gig ruining the federal government that he’s getting an early start by goading his millions of followers to cyberbully government employees.
This week, Musk took aim at Ashley Thomas, the director of climate diversification for the U.S. International Finance Corporation—a highly technical role that involves developing ways of securing agriculture and infrastructure against extreme weather, one agency official told The Wall Street Journal.
Well we can’t have that. We mustn’t do anything to make sure agriculture and infrastructure can withstand extreme weather. Who needs agriculture and infrastructure?
Speaking of fake jobs, last week, Donald Trump announced that Musk would be co-heading the Department of Government Efficiency, an advisory board set on slashing the government budget by a trillion dollars, hoping to cut personnel and essential government services … so they can be snatched up by government contractors or outsourced to private companies … owned by billionaires … like Musk.
As long as the billionaires are making more billions, everything is fine.
Having arbitrarily picked a savings goal of however many trillion dollars, Musk will feel compelled to find at least that much waste, whether he’s cutting fat, muscle, or bone in the federal bureaucracy, because coming up short would mean he’d been wrong about government bloat and the size of the Deep State. His ego (let alone Trump’s) would never allow that. Wall Street will love it, even if it means the emiseration of millions more Americans because vital services are cut. As long as the trains run on time, it doesn’t really matter how many people end up getting get run over by them.