“What began with a chainsaw is ending in a whimper. Elon Musk’s looming exit from Washington brings the oddest chapter of Donald Trump’s presidency to an early close. By his own metrics, Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has failed.” My column. https://www.ft.com/content/0c6e3841-b277-4431-be93-4adf7664d08e
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The rest of us have to stop thinking that just because someone is wealthy, they are automatically intelligent.
Via Grok by @edwardluce.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
But if the objective was to cripple US state capacity for generations, particularly in the areas of science and tax enforcement, then DOGE has succeeded wildly in the ambitions of the Thiel/Musk coup set.
putting a bull in a china shop is never a good idea
Seems like a pretty big success to me
Please recall Musk is an avid gamer. His goal is far larger than a few hundred billion from the Golden Dome.
Musk wants to build the equivalent of carrier groups for kinetic space war fighting, requiring reusable rockets.
2 trillion bux.
acute - and very funny. @edwardluce.bsky.social