Elon Musk playing the role of ‘super man’ — even – Latest News
He’s fixing the funds, rescuing astronauts and saving the planet.
Look, up in the sky! Is it a chook? Is it a aircraft?
No! It’s Super-Elon.
But regardless of all Elon Musk is attaining, the richest man on Earth is down in the dumps.
And who can blame him, contemplating the death threats, arson assaults in opposition to his companies, feral protests and informal defamation in opposition to him day-after-day.
Donald Trump tried shopping for one of his Tesla electric vehicles this week to cheer up his favourite tech help man, however Musk nonetheless appears to be like unhappy.
He appeared to choke up during an interview with Larry Kudlow for Fox Business final week when requested how he stated he was juggling all his different companies, reminiscent of Tesla, SpaceX and X, along with his new accountability of auditing federal authorities spending.
“With great difficulty,” he stated, pausing and sighing closely.
“Frankly, I can’t believe I’m here doing this,” he informed the empathetic Kudlow, considering how his life has been upended since he determined to back Trump during the marketing campaign after which work free of charge to root out “waste, fraud and abuse” in the federal authorities.
“But we’ve got this enormous federal budget deficit . . . Our interest payments are higher than our Defense Department budget. That was the real wake-up call for me [seeing] that was only growing over time, which meant that if we didn’t do something about this, then there won’t be any money for anything . . . I just don’t want America to go bankrupt.”
DOGE digging in
For the as soon as virulently anti-Trump darling of the liberal elites, it’s a heroic patriotic mission, and one which appeals to his nearly childlike sense of order and justice.
He has stated that it was Trump’s superhero-style fist pump after he was nearly killed by an murderer’s bullet in Butler, Pa., that satisfied him to affix “Dark MAGA.”
But issues soured as soon as he began to use his good thoughts to authorities spending by way of DOGE, the playfully named “Department of Government Efficiency.”
Shares in Tesla tanked this week, his social-media firm X was hit with a cyber assault, and his web price suffered an 11-figure drop.
But he’s vowed to remain serving to Trump for one more 12 months.
Most Americans love that he and his crew of high-IQ whiz children are exposing outrageous fraud and waste, reminiscent of $1.5 million for range, equity and inclusion (DEI) applications in Serbia, $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comedian e-book in Peru, and $2 million for intercourse adjustments in Guatemala.
The public isn’t shopping for the relentlessly anti-Musk, anti-DOGE propaganda, in response to latest polls.
In reality, a CBS/YouGov ballot final week was so optimistic that CNN pollmeister Harry Enten declared it “shocking” as a result of it confirmed a majority of Americans help DOGE’s cuts to federal authorities spending.
Another ballot, the Washington Post/IPSOS ballot discovered 42% imagine that DOGE is chopping “wasteful” spending whereas solely 36% imagine that the division is chopping “necessary programs.”
But, as a result of Musk’s proposed cuts go to the coronary heart of Democrats’ secret funding of their road militias and most nefarious actions, a vicious full-court press is being utilized to attempt to break Musk.
The Resistance has determined that Trump is impervious to their assaults, so they’re coming after Musk simply as arduous, attempting to destroy his companies and his peace of thoughts.
Don’t imagine haters
A Cabinet assembly final week portrayed as a showdown between Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been used to assert that DOGE is on skinny ice and that Musk’s relationship with Trump is in tatters.
But anybody who sees the president and his tech help man collectively sees a real respect and rapport.
Despite his exuberant temperament, Musk by no means describes himself as something however “tech support” — offering options to the Cabinet of the place they’ll usefully trim fats.
If they select to not, they’ll reply to the public.
Some of the prompt cuts is probably not prudent, however a minimum of authorities spending is underneath the microscope ultimately. That’s a trigger for celebration. It’s our money, after all.
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DOGE is clear about its findings, which we will all see in useful chart type on its web site doge.gov.
Estimated financial savings discovered thus far are $105 billion from a mixture of “asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings and workforce reductions.”
The quantity saved per taxpayer thus far is $652.17, DOGE claims.
Musk says he’s assured he’ll attain $1 trillion in financial savings, and Trump mused final month about giving some of that money back to taxpayers in the type of a DOGE dividend examine.
That can be a good little political sweetener for the midterm elections.
Aside from politics, DOGE has discovered epic waste on DEI applications alone.
The numbers are merely staggering.
Nobody who cares about taxpayer money can be throwing it away on such a frivolous waste of time.
We’ve heard of the tens of tens of millions saved by axing DEI applications that USAID was exporting worldwide — $28 million in Burma, as an illustration.
But that’s the tip of the iceberg.
Musk, along with his mind trust and intense work ethic, is the solely particular person in historical past in a position to sort out the leviathan.
Trump is the solely president savvy and audacious enough to empower him.
History will hail Elon Musk as the real-life superhero he’s, even if narcs on Earth attempt to destroy him.
‘With No Love’ for Meghan
Meghan Markle is simple to not like, nevertheless it’s arduous to not really feel sorry for her as of late.
Lots of people are having fun with hate-watching her innocent Netflix offering, “With Love, Meghan” — mocking her as she inexpertly fluffs round a kitchen speaking about herself and searching fairly.
But as soon as her estranged father Thomas Markle piled on, it stopped being enjoyable.
Imagine having a father who assaults you publicly, saying you’ve by no means been “authentic” and that your show is a flop.
We can see why she didn’t invite him to her large royal wedding ceremony to Prince Harry and gained’t speak to him.
A father ought to have unconditional love for his daughter, no matter what.
But Thomas and the relaxation of the Markle clan solely need to denigrate their well-known relative.
No marvel she is an insecure mess.
