Elon Musk is a weirdo POS

[myboynoah]

I could get behind Mother Theresa taking a look at the government. I am sure she would be measured, humble, and dedicated to a compassionate approach to government reorg, if needed. Of course, that would disqualify her for the job, so this is just a silly idea.

[myboynoah]

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[PaloAltoCougar]

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More evidence of the "fifteen-year-old", but not the "smartest in the world" characterizations.

[frank ryan]

More evidence of the "fifteen-year-old", but not the "smartest in the world" characterizations.

I think he has got the unchecked manic episodes mixed with ketamine use thing going on. Not safe to give one single individual that much power. It blows my mind that people are ok with it.

[Shaka]

More evidence of the "fifteen-year-old", but not the "smartest in the world" characterizations.

I'm not going to lie, it made me chuckle.

[Pelado]

I'm not going to lie, it made me chuckle.

I thought you were over 15 years old.

[Northwestcoug]

Even though we won’t get the 1 trillion in government cuts, DOGE will still be worth it since we can share retarded memes again.

[frank ryan]

Elon's private security guards are now US Marshals. I'm sure they were vetted appropriately and underwent background checks given Musk's respect for due process and responsible governance.

[Shaka]

I thought you were over 15 years old.

Not in spirit.

[Pelado]

Not in spirit.

Understood.

[myboynoah]

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[PaloAltoCougar]

Musk decries "INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent" after sending an "utterly trivial" and "inane" demand to millions of government employees. He may not be the smartest fifteen-year-old after all. I think there are several high school sophomores would could spot a glaring contradiction there.

[myboynoah]

Musk decries "INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent" after sending an "utterly trivial" and "inane" demand to millions of government employees. He may not be the smartest fifteen-year-old after all. I think there are several high school sophomores would could spot a glaring contradiction there.

I sincerely believe he is not mentally stable. Such is the state of our country.

[frank ryan]

I sincerely believe he is not mentally stable. Such is the state of our country.

Oh, he isn't and hasn't been. He also isn't someone who has a lot of life stories to indicate high moral character.

[Northwestcoug]

Twitter is real life. Solid piece from Nick Catoggio:

Not only is Twitter real life, it’s begun setting policy for the world’s most powerful country and the rest of the international order.

Exhibit A in the case that Twitter has become real life is the fact that the second-most powerful man in the government happens to, er, own Twitter, a.k.a. X.

Which is ironic, because the guy who’s supposed to be the second-most powerful man in the government seems to spend most of his own time sh-tposting there.

There’s a little more to Elon Musk’s biography than his social media business, you might point out, which is fair enough. It’s not Twitter that’s earned him the momentary benefit of the doubt from Americans about his new government role; it’s Tesla and SpaceX and the minor distinction he’s earned for having become the most successful human in history as measured by personal wealth. Putting a visionary titan of industry in charge of government efficiency isn’t inherently crazy.

But Twitter isn’t just an asset in Musk’s portfolio. The culture of the platform has come to feel like a window onto his psyche as he endlessly freebases populist hysteria. Literally no one, Donald Trump included, does more there to promote whatever insanity the grassroots right happens to have latched onto on a given day. He radiates a sense of being under the influence of something powerful, mind-altering, and malign. (More than one thing, maybe.) Illiberal, conspiratorial, occasionally racist, and remorselessly dishonest or uninformed—the hallmarks of the populist reply guy—are the very definition of Elon’s Twitter persona.

No surprise, then, that the version of Musk Americans have gotten at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) isn’t the tech wizard who succeeded in landing rockets safely on their own launchpads. It’s the brain-poisoned Jacobin who’s bent on purging the cultural enemies of the postliberal right and is proceeding in his new duties with precisely the degree of care and competence you’d expect from a loudmouthed Twitter ignoramus thrust suddenly into a position of great importance.

The quickest way to convey how inept and deceitful DOGE has been about its work is to refer you to Wired’s list of the outfit’s many screw-ups, but one episode nicely captures the scale of the negligence. Last week Musk flagged a contract that his team discovered between the Defense Department and Reuters, a well-known news agency, worth millions of dollars for services involving “large scale social deception.” Aha—here was proof that the “deep state” has been in cahoots with the dastardly media all along. The claim was so explosive that it was picked up by the reply-guy-in-chief and duly promoted on his own social media platform.

But it wasn’t the Reuters news agency that the Pentagon had partnered with. It was Thomson Reuters, a different wing of the company specializing in tech. The “large scale social deception” mentioned in the contract was a reference to foreign propaganda; Thomson Reuters had been enlisted to provide cyberdefenses to the military. The contract was signed in 2018 under—you guessed it—President Donald Trump.