Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down some payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at the US Treasury Department.
I gotta be honest, I thought DOGE was only ever gonna be some little toy for Musk to play with that had no real power. Didn’t think it would just take over an actual department and start doing real damage, I was really wrong on that one.
I mean, it’s only real insofar as Trump is allowing it to be real. It would evaporate instantly if Trump played golf with someone who said it made him look like a loser. Musk isn’t actually doing anything, he’s just taking credit for things that are being done. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Musk was being set up as the scapegoat for when all of this quickly and inevitably falls apart.
I gotta be honest, I thought DOGE was only ever gonna be some little toy for Musk to play with that had no real power. Didn’t think it would just take over an actual department and start doing real damage, I was really wrong on that one.
I mean, it’s only real insofar as Trump is allowing it to be real. It would evaporate instantly if Trump played golf with someone who said it made him look like a loser. Musk isn’t actually doing anything, he’s just taking credit for things that are being done. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Musk was being set up as the scapegoat for when all of this quickly and inevitably falls apart.
American bit idea: everyone gets more racist when a South African becomes the scapegoat for the failures of government.