Friday, February 28, 2025

How many "mistakes" does an oligarch need to make before he gets fired?

On two occasions in the last few weeks, Elon Musk has admitted that he and his techbros have made mistakes. He's not lying.  But what I want to know is: how many "mistakes" does an oligarch need to make before he gets fired? Here's a list of the ones I've been able to identify (I'm sure there are more).

  1. Claimed that USAID sent $50 million worth of condoms to Hamas.  
  2. Fired 300 people at the Energy Department, unaware of the fact that they are responsible for managing America's nuclear weapons.
  3. Accidentally fired USDA employees working on the bird flu.
  4. Spread a nonsense conspiracy theory about 150 year old's getting Social Security checks.
  5. Cancelled 875 VA contracts worth $2 billion for things like medical services, cancer programs, and burial services to veterans.
  6. Cancelled more than 60 contracts meant to boost efficiency, all while saving no money. 
  7. Forced to delete the top five highest savings claims on its “wall of receipts” leaderboard after various news outlets pointed out multiple errors in its calculations.
  8. Accidentally fired employees responsible for Ebola prevention.
That list doesn't even include all of the things the shadow president and his techbros have done that are illegal - which is for the courts to decide. They are simply things that are obvious "mistakes."

There are only one of two conclusions we can make about all of this. One would be that the group that claims to be about finding "efficiencies" in the federal government is extremely incompetent - and should be fired. The second is that, in their minds, these are not actually "mistakes." In other words, they are not a bug, but a feature. 

1 comment:

  1. I would submit that the real mistake was not punishing donnie for his insistence on creating a non-government agency to administer/define/destroy essential governmental work. If the created mess is to be addressed, then the one who first created the mess is also to be addressed. NOW!

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