In 2024, Elon Musk's Space X shot up 138 rockets carrying thousands of satellites for numerous companies and countries. For such a titan to be standing over the Resolute Desk, is unprecedented in American history. Usually presidents protected themselves with firewalls against such appearances. Once upon a time, Musk would have been a suspect for the Anti-Trust watchdogs. Musk's conflict of interest as a hyper-adviser, with Space X and NASA contracts, could only be ignored by Donald Trump, no other elected official would be so oblivious.
The Republicans are calling the Trump/Musk association visionary. They're calling all Trump's appointments creative and what's needed to fix the ship of state. In reality, they're demoralizing the departments, and marginalizing the concept of qualifications. I would like to be able to differentiate between partisan and credible Republicans, but so far, the latter has not appeared. That delay to properly describe the emperor, will come back in 2026 and 2028 as a penalty at the polls.
“In reality, they're demoralizing the departments, and marginalizing the concept of qualifications.”
ReplyDeleteFrom your previous posts, I know that you’ve visited government offices like the Allentown social security office and post office.
Are you now trying to say that during your visits you interacted with a motivated workforce? If so, that’s the polar opposite from the experience most people have had.
In my experience, even the best federal employees I’ve run into have been beaten down by a system that seems DESIGNED to de-motivate them. They (the best you encounter) will be the first to tell you how the current system is poorly managed and protects those who don’t do their jobs.
Just yesterday, we even learned that some federal employees INSIDE OUR SECURITY AGENCIES were using their secure servers to discuss their sex change operations and sexual preferences via email.
I realize that’s not what their discussing on CNN, but all of that bothers me far more (and affects me far more) than the President having one of his advisors appear with him in the Oval Office.
I’m not a Republican, but I have no problem with Elon Musk’s temporary volunteer service as one of President Trump’s many advisors.
ReplyDeleteMusk’s team of the world’s most skilled technology experts is doing an outstanding job of identifying hundreds and hundreds of questionable activities with our tax dollars. Notice of those careless and costly practices are being brought to the attention of those in position to make changes.
Musk shines the light, and it is for we citizens, through our elected officials to determine a course of correction leading to better accountability of our monies.
Those kind of corrections are NOT being executed by the auditors. They do not have such authority. I am not the least surprised the corrections made by President Trump and his Department Heads involve reducing the size of government, demoting/firing managers who failed in their duty for responsible oversight.
THIS is the posture our Federal Government should have taken all along! But, our Federal Government was failing all of us, sometimes for personal gain, particularly in recent times.
Thank you, Elon Musk. Please continue to shine that light on my behalf.
Musk's expertise is in finding and motivating the best engineers and seems to be great at managing people. This is proved by his successes.
ReplyDeleteI am sure many would like a commission of former politicians and bureaucrats, with no practical experience who could spend millions and many years to find that the federal government is a well run efficient and fraud free enterprise.
The reality is that the federal government is BANKRUPT. has no hope of surviving at the present course and the whole country will endure great suffering if not corrected.
Musk is a novice at politics, should remain behind the scenes and do what he has the ability to do.
Soon, Musk's findings will be laid out, and then congress, both dems and republicans will need to make the hard choices.
I personally am doubtful that they will, they will more likely just hope that they can get to safety before it all implodes.
Anyone who thinks Musk is doing this for free is incredibly naive. When the dust settles there will be a big ask from Musk and he will get it. Government contracts, tax breaks, funding for his trip to Mars?
ReplyDeleteDidn't he already get all that from the Democrats? No one seemed concerned when that happened.
DeleteI think it’s naive to think Musk will end his regular business model to satisfy those who don’t like his unusual personality, or what nasty stuff he’s uncovering within our government’s way of doing business.
DeleteThe man (Musk) and his company is the world leader in technology and space exploration. He is an incredible trailblazer making explorations and discoveries that help to make America better, particularly militarily, but other aspects of science, industry, even including medical technology advances. Government needs to support his talent and potential. Today’s Thomas Edison, if you will.
Mike, for enjoyment I scour the political publications daily. I read all perspectives, left, right, and what little is left of the center. Doing this provides insights into who's ascending, who descending, who is confident and in in control, who is confused, searching, and bewildered, who is united and who is divided. I have been reading these publications for decades have have seen the pendulum swing from right to left several times. Never have I witnessed one side go into total collapse as quickly and completely as the Democrats these past months. Presently, the Democrats don't even know who they are. Are they the woke, far left radicals like Josh Siegel we see here locally or are they the few moderates like Commissioner Brace of Lehigh County. Nationally, the radical wing appears to hold all the cards and this bodes very poorly for the Democrats is future elections. While the Democrats agenda remains very radical and ideological, the Republican agenda seems to be one of common sense and consensus. Yes, Trump often seems to be a rude, unpredictable, and at best inarticulate, he reads his audience/ the American public, better than any politician around. Increasingly the public is willing to overlook his personality to embrace his vision of an America that actually works for them rather than the elites. Republicans will need to continue to stay focused, and do the grinding work winning elections requires to win. From what I see here locally they are all in on keeping the big MO going.
ReplyDelete7:29 - I think you’ve stumbled onto the master plan.
ReplyDeleteMusk won’t receive funding for HIS trip to Mars, but Phase 2 of Trump’s immigration plan calls for resettling illegals - AND DEMOCRATS - onto the Red Planet.
If that happens, I will finally be happy about how my tax dollars are spent.
We need to view government and politics with COMMON SENSE. Not just through the lens of Democrat or Republican.
ReplyDeleteWhen I’m shown evidence of billions of our tax dollars going out the door to hastily-formed charities and non-governmental organizations without any oversight and reporting of specifically who is getting those pass-trough payments, nor what my dollars are actually funding, I’m unhappy. I expect all abuse and incompetence to be ended and cleaned-out . . . . No matter whose feelings are hurt.
My personal opinion is, many of those payments are being re-directed back here to fund political campaigns of some elected officials, and to enrich their own family members. Can this all be true?
Seems to me that Musk is doing a great job... in pushing the Project 25 agenda. Get rid of a large part of the IRS so as not to hinder our masters' agenda: "The IRS is in the process of terminating more than 6,000 employees, around six percent of the agency's workforce, as Elon Musk's team continues its efforts to cut federal employees." So if you are on or looking forward to actually retiring on Social Security, good luck! Cuz that's also on the Project's agenda.
ReplyDeleteAnd another big plus for scammers, such as the Great Orange One, will be if they can get rid of that pesky Consumer Protection Agency as they have attempted (and may still succeed). Let the fake universities arise again with whatever scams or schemes can be bled from the "saps and suckers"!
True naivety is the belief that billionaires who are fighting tooth and nail not to pay the same percentage of taxes the average worker must pay gives a dam about our lives or families.
President Musk is having the time of his life. He bought an election and now he gets to play. He gets to live outside social norms, building a pride of babies from multiple wives and non-wives. He gets to gleefully ruin people’s lives without any real auditors. He gets to take his kid to work while we have to find daycare for ours. I agree with you, but we have no anti-trust watchdogs as he’s dismantling the Federal Trade Commission also. Trump doesn’t know what time it is, he just wants beautiful hotels in Gaza. He just keeps rambling on with the same old lines that got him elected. We’ve never experienced such corruption and conflicts of interest before, but then we’ve never had a president who operated a hotel down the street from the White House.
ReplyDeleteThis is the partly the public's (and Congress's) fault for "normalizing" Trump's behavior in his first term. His conflicts of interest weren't dealt with as they should have been. So someday we'll have a president with a car dealership and a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue, and we'll all act like it's normal.
DeleteIt’s pretty clear from today’s posts, the anti-Trump crowd is unable to make any cogent arguments in defense of the previous administration. They CAN attack this one without justification.
ReplyDeleteWe are experiencing either a lack of trustworthy information in the media to guide them, they don’t know how to find that information, or they’re just plain ignorant. Our Department of Education could be failing just as suspected.
What do you mean, they’re unable to make cogent arguments?
DeleteOne said “President” Musk (how clever), and another mentioned “Project 25”, that super scary plan that Kamala pointed out to us before we elected her President.
The anti-Trumpers are really bringing their “A-game” today!
As some readers know, I prefer not to comment on my posts, but sometimes it is necessary.
ReplyDeleteBeing a conservative long term blog, most of my audience is conservative, so opposition to Trump's policies is underrepresented.
Nobody disputes that government is wasteful and should be better monitored for public value, but the current massacre has many victims that were for the public good.