Well, I pretty much agree with all of that post, minus the third from last word.
Umm Elon? Meritocracy and President Trump are mutually exclusive concepts.
You’re not using their definition of “merit”.
Merit according to Merriam-Webster Elon:
- Born on third base
- Born with a silver spoon in your mouth
- Born in the correct country
- Born with the correct skin color
- Born the correct sex
Which, according to him, always perfectly aligns with your gender
Well, of course.
As a South African (and white, though born elsewhere) I would like to point out that Mr. Musk is a nobody here, he’s not a national hero or anything. No one cares.
I think the consensus is that he is full of shit, which can be better transliterated as “Sy ma se poes”, which is the absolute worst Afrikaans insult.
Words fail me:
“Trump Backs Plan That Would Give Elon Musk Broad Role in U.S. Policymaking” – Washington Post.
Reuters link:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adopt-musks-proposal-government-efficiency-commission-wsj-reports-2024-09-05/
“If we want to preserve freedom and a meritocracy in America, then Trump must win”
I totally see that. Certainly no one is more meritorious than the Orange Felon. And no one exemplifies “freedom” more than someone who vows revenge against his perceived enemies, openly declared that he’ll be dictator on “Day One”, and apparently intends to emulate Hitler’s “night of the long knives” where up to 200 of Hitler’s perceived enemies were executed in the summer of 1934.
Elmo must have upped his dosage of ketamine to toxic levels and combined it with cocaine and LSD.
We can only hope.
Can we now look forward to two departments of Xportation?
Oh yeah, let’s make Elmo be in charge of efficiency for the US government. He knows all about how to make things efficient. He took over what was an insanely successful social media platform, got rid of most of the people who knew how to make it work in the name of efficiency, and caused the fucking thing to completely break multiple times.
Then again, the decision to give Elmo this power came from a guy who somehow made casinos lose money and go belly up.
Yeah, but Trump isn’t trying to excite people like you, he’s trying to motivate people like @Dr.Strangelove who would love to see Musk in charge. It’s a Heinlein / Randian dream scenario.
The most profitable business can be rendered distinctly unprofitable if you skim it hard enough. Those businesses were great successes for donny.
The shame is that investigators somehow never thought to question how somebody lost that much money operating a casino. Odd that.
I wouldn’t include Heinlein in that; libertarian he was, but if you’ve read his short story “Coventry” I think you’d agree he’d despise Elon.
It’s clear from more than the low number of clicks the link has gotten that nobody actually read the article, otherwise we’d all be laughing our asses off at this line from it. Not claiming to be much better, I read the post hours ago and only just clicked on the link now on a whim. But from the article:
Trump did not detail how such a commission would operate, besides saying it would develop a plan to eliminate “fraud and improper payments” within six months of being formed.
Because if there’s one thing TFG knows about, it’s fraud and improper payments. It’s almost like he has felony convictions and ongoing court cases where he’s been convicted or accused of such things.
Perhaps when he said “eliminate” he really meant “redirect”.
It sounds like Elon could benefit from a visit to a Retrophrenologist.
To be clear, that article is satire. Difficult to tell these days.