by Jeff Childers
Elon Musk, who pretty much bet his farm on Trump’s victory, is now a bright rising star. A series of headlines evidence just how good Elon’s bet was. First, Forbes ran a cautiously excited story yesterday headlined, “Trump 2.0 Could Put A Rocket Under SpaceX And The U.S. Space Industry.”
Elon hopes that a Trump-directed EPA will stop making SpaceX survey underground gopher tortoises and free-range porpoises to calculate how much the noise from the company’s spaceship launches bothers them.
In other words, America’s revitalized space program is about to be unleashed. “Elon, get those rocket ships going because we want to reach Mars before the end of my term,” Trump said in September.
The world’s most transformative technologist is well-positioned to follow through on that astonishing dream. But you just can’t please some people. The New York Times’s top story this morning was headlined, “At Mar-a-Lago, Elon Musk Puts His Imprint on the Trump Transition.” The sub-headline sneered, “He’s on the patio. He’s on the golf course. Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world’s richest man.”
During the pandemic, the Democrats dynamited the space entrepreneur out of the apolitical wilderness. Before that, Elon always minded his own political business. But now, thanks to the Democrats, he’s heavily involved in the day-to-day details:
Yesterday, Elon suggested on Twitter that government employees who waste taxpayer dollars should be fired:
The New York Times found all this “government efficiency” talk deeply disturbing. What, pray tell, will happen to all the wealthy progressives who live on government largesse? Homelessness?
The Times was right to worry. The world’s most successful entrepreneur, who has personal experience with being on the wrong end of government weaponization, appears to have become an integral part of Trump’s transition team:
Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt assured The New York Times that Elon and President Trump were “great friends and brilliant leaders working together to Make America Great Again.”
“Mr. Musk,” the depressed Times dolefully reported, “helped tank the idea of neoconservatives like Mr. Pompeo winning administration roles.”
Finally, the Washington Post, not to be left behind in the hand-wringing department, ran a fretful cover story this morning headlined, “Trump taps Musk, Ramaswamy to oversee ‘drastic’ changes to U.S. government.” The sub-headline added, “The president-elect described the new commission as a ‘Manhattan Project’ to dramatically slash regulations, cut staff and ‘restructure’ federal agencies.”
It could be the Post’s worst nightmare. Because Republicans will control the Presidency, House, and Senate, Musk’s D.O.G.E. proposals could actually be passed, “potentially triggering major repercussions for the U.S. government and millions of federal workers.”
One can hope.
Despite all this wonderfully prpmising news, or perhaps because of it, the WaPo found nothing to like. It derisively dismissed the goal of reining in government as fanciful and absurd. It decried Elon’s conflicts of interest, mocked previous attempts by Republicans to reduce government waste, and snidely re-discovered the massive U.S. debt, which WaPo suddenly believes is simply too big to ever get under control. It’s no use.
We will see. They laughed when Elon cut 75% of Twitter’s staff, too. It’s a new day, and it’s Morning in America.
It’s always helpful to note that the left loved Musk until he took one of their propaganda tentacles away from them. Nothing pisses them off more than someone defending free speech. Identifying the waste will be the easiest job in the world; wresting it from the grip of the ruling elite will be the tough part.
It would be a shame is some of the support for the deep state turned out to be “waste”, huh? Like… NPR?
Like our Founding Fathers, Elon Musk laid it all on the line when he took sides politically.
Had kamala been elected Elon would have been run out of this country.
His space program would have had to move elsewhere, too.
He might have been forced to sell X.
He would have been fined and nit-picked by selective law enforcement into slowing his operations to a crawl.
So, it makes sense he’d be richly rewarded for his “putting his money where his mouth is.”
Remember, it was his love of the satire site, Babylon Bee, that led to his becoming political.
The Bee’s 4 top editors made a joke.
They selected Rachel Levine as its first annual Man of the Year.
They “tweeted” it out.
Jack (stay woke) Dorsey, owner of Twitter at the time, banned them all UNLESS they deleted that tweet.
They refused.
Elon BOUGHT Twitter just to reinstate them.
When he fired 75% of the twitter workforce the site never skipped a beat.
They were wasted payroll.
Same in our government.
At least 75% can go and we’ll hardly notice a difference.
No more of the Nutcakes and screwballs no more of that Baldheaded idiot who has people wearing Dog Masks going on their Hands and Knees and maybe Kaepernik will just Leave so we don’t have to put up with his stupid Whining