I don't know how the Democratic Senator of Arizona, Mark Kelly, got my phone number, but a text from him recently landed dark with a dull.
“Elon Musk came back,” said the text. Sure, sure – I knew it was a trick for cash, but I was fascinated.
It turns out that the impetuously had a billionaire Kelly insulted free of charge After the senator published a long thread on X on his latest trip to Ukraine.
“What I have seen has proven that we cannot give up the Ukrainian people.” wrote Kelly. “Everyone wants this war to end, but every agreement has to protect Ukraine's security and not be a giveaway for Putin.”
Musk's reaction: “You are a traitor.”
That let a sink, To quote musk himself.
Kelly is an American patriot. During the Operation Desert Storm, he flew 39 combat missions as the US Navy pilot. Later, when NASA astronaut, he commanded the space shuttle twice.
In contrast, Muschus left South Africa at the age of 17 To avoid mandatory military service.
His personnel insult recalled the notorious remark of the then presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who also created in 2016 about the Republican Senator John McCain, also by Arizona, a pilot from the Navy who had spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“He is a war hero because he was captured.” said TrumpWho ducked the Vietnam design through claimed that he had bone spores. “I like people who have not been captured.”
I don't know which billionaire is less suitable to exercise power in a democracy, a musk or Trump. Neither has empathy, an indispensable feature in a great guide.
“The basic weakness of western civilization is empathy”, ” Musk said to Podcaster Joe Rogan last month. “So we have civilizational suicide feeling.”
Musk recently Refested to a meme Discarded Americans who receive federal benefits as a “parasite class”. This was built by someone, the empire, including Tesla and Space X Billions of dollars of state fundsIe your tax money.
Musk's frosty attitude towards his fellow human beings explains why he can sleep at night and people in the many undeveloped countries that the US agency had helped for international development refusing life-saving food and medicine, the first of the programs that he tried to chain out of existence.
Trump and Musks Slash-and-Burn approach for the government, the economy, relationships with traditional allies and the way they have reduced the white house To a Tesla dealer shows sufficiently their lack of concern about the American people. (Did you check your 401 (K) balance lately?)
It is more important, however, that their actions show that they are not really interested in an efficient government, the alleged reason why Musk became the main co-president.
It is difficult to pursue all the complaints that have been submitted to the couple of illegal government agencies and programs. Your method is pure madness.
Make your plan to reduce half of the staff of the Internal Revenue Service. Accordingly The Washington Post employee, Natasha SarinA professor of legal faculties in Yale, who acted deputy secretary for economic policy in the bidet administration. It could easily mean more than 2 trillion dollars of losses. “
On Thursday, Federal judge in California and Maryland decided that thousands of federal workers had actually been illegally released in 19 agencies and order their reinstatement. Thanks to the so -called Department of Government Efficiency, a name George Orwell would have been proud to imagine. The country is now in a legal morass that could take years.
However, the US constitution was never designed taking into account efficiency. The founders created a system of control and compensation systems special To prevent the strength in the hands of a person. Our Republican congress in the fear of alienation of Muschus and Trump, has abdicated his role In this critical balance, hand over control of the wallet to Trump and Muschus.
“If you have an efficient government”, ” President Truman once said“You have a dictatorship.”
In their fuckelosity, musk and Trump are perfect for each other. They are the political reincarnation of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the tragically selfish couple in F. Scott Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby”.
“They smashed things and creatures and then withdraw into their money or huge negligence, or whatever they got together,” wrote Fitzgerald, “and let other people tidy up the chaos they had done.”
And oh, what a chaos Trump and musk did.
The question now is whether the Americans are back on this terrible two voices and our democracy from their grasping little hands.
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