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"It’s one of the humiliations of our historical moment that the constitutional
order has been destroyed by such stupid and unserious people. On the trail with
Donald Trump, the billionaire Elon Musk, who financed Trump’s campaign to the
tune of about $250m, pledged to cut $2tn from the federal budget, a project
that promised to wreck the economy, destroy the nation’s credit, eliminate
programs and institutions that structure people’s lives and create an
international economic and leadership vacuum into which America’s rivals –
namely, China – could step.
This would have been ominous enough on its own. But because Musk is a
narcissist and a nerd – because he insists on discarding solemnity and being
ostentatiously irreverent and carefree as he destroys people’s lives – he named
his new project the “department of government efficiency”, or Doge, a juvenile
reference to a years-old internet meme featuring a shiba inu.
It is under this idiotic banner that Musk has upended the American system of
government, seizing an unprecedented, unelected and seemingly wholly
unaccountable degree of personal power. Less than three weeks into the Trump
restoration, Doge is well under way."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
