At the start of this month, TIME Journal revealed a canopy that visually says what most of us have been interested by the state of issues over on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And it ought to scare the hell out of you should you’re paying consideration.
The picture is of Elon Musk sitting in a seat reserved just for the President of the USA: The Resolute Desk. If an image is value a thousand phrases, this cowl is value one million, however let’s see if I can break it down in fewer phrases than that.
Perhaps you’ve been partaking within the Mary Jane that’s now authorized in half of the nation, and have forgotten who Musk is and what he does: He’s the richest males on the earth with Forbes Journal estimating his web value at over $391 billion. (With a B.) He’s the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX…and is the dude who purchased Twitter, modified its identify to X after which ruined the platform.
He’s additionally a South African native with seemingly bare white supremacist bona fides whom Trump has granted an unprecedented quantity of governmental energy: Musk heads the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE). An initiative of the administration ostensibly designed to scale back wasteful and fraudulent federal spending and get rid of extreme rules.
Which brings us again to the TIME cowl.
Other than the authoritarian pose and pink backdrop being reminiscent of Russian President (dictator) Vladamir Putin, the subtext of the photograph means that it’s Musk, not Trump, who’s really behind what’s popping out of the White Home as of late…as if to counsel that Musk is pulling Trump’s strings like a marionette doll.
Whether or not that is true or not, the quilt clearly bought beneath the pores and skin of the President. When he was requested about it, he regarded like he dropped his ice cream cone, paused, after which requested, “Is TIME Journal nonetheless in enterprise?”
Musk is just not in cost, however in his position as the pinnacle of DOGE, he’s unquestionably inflicting chaos within the authorities. Up to now, he has had a job in shutting down USAID (a authorities program instituted by Congress), attempting to fireplace any governmental worker that’s not loyal to the President, and never simply scale back federal spending, however taking management of it. The South African immigrant is 47th’s assault canine, mercilessly wreaking havoc and bringing us to the brink of a constitutional disaster.
Thoughts you, Musk and Trump haven’t all the time gotten alongside. In July 2022, Musk tweeted “I don’t hate the person, but it surely’s time for Trump to hold up his hat & sail into the sundown.” However over the previous few months, the 2 have apparently gotten friendship bracelets and grow to be besties…and the TIME cowl suggests it may all be a intelligent ruse by Musk to place himself.
Musk is a profitable businessman; I’ll give him that. (Properly, at the least he’s in terms of his electrical automobiles. Not a lot while you take X into consideration.) However he isn’t certified to tackle the duty of constructing our authorities extra environment friendly. That’s what’s ironic about that cowl. It incorporates a man who’s utilizing the facility the president gave him to trigger dysfunction. But, he isn’t really the one in energy. That is all Agent Orange’s doing. He’s merely utilizing the Nazi saluting billionaire as cowl.