Pylimitics

Feckless liar and scam artist Musk has purported to be running the DOGE fake department like a tech-startup founder. Fun fact: the only reason Musk has ever been called a “founder” of a startup is because he sued the actual founders and part of his demands were to be referred to as a founder. Anyway, most tech startups fail, and true to form, DOGE has not saved anywhere near the trillion dollars Musk lied about.

In fact, DOGE has cost the government money. A lot of money. If you add stuff up (some people are) it has cost as much as a trillion dollars so far. That means that feckless liar and scam artist was off in his “estimate” (which was never anything more than the blathering of a mediocre rich kid) by two trillion dollars. That’s even more than Tesla missed its financial goals by last quarter.

One of the side effects of the ubiquitous capitalist bullshit we’re subjected to in the US is that by now, Americans tend to conflate wealth with actual abilities. Sometimes amassing wealth really is based on abilities, as well as character. I think Warren Buffett might be a good example of this. But the feckless liars and scam artists who are in the process of seizing power in the US now didn’t so much “amass” their wealth as inherit it and get lucky.