While driving home from an appointment today (in my Polestar which I call the “Tesla without the Musk) after Trump was finished talking about Judges (who actually expect him to follow the constitution) he turned the mike over to, you guessed it, Musk. And, before I get too far here the only way I can explain what was coming out fo Musk’s mouth is to say he’s full of dogeshit! A great example of someone who might be good at something irrelevant to the subject he’s choosing to broach who feels comfortable looking into a camera with a nationwide coverage and spewing PURE garbage.

Musk stood right next to Trump – further suggesting he’s the “co-president” – (in fact he was standing OVER Trump) complaining about our democracy and suggesting our elected representatives “don’t have the power to decide.” My question, other than what the hell is he talking about, is where does Elon Musk get off deciding if our “representatives have the power to decide?” He’s talking, of course, about the so-called $2 TRILLION in “fraud” which needs to be cut from our budget – according to him – notwithstanding THAT’S the role of those elected representatives who actually DO “have the power to decide.” It appears the problem, from Musk’s point of view, is he doesn’t agree with how they “decide.”

What is it he’s REALLY talking about? He doesn’t want those pesky judges or, worse than that, “liberals” telling him what he can and cannot do to our government (more especially, his businesses) – which has been FUNDED by Congress with appropriations that, LEGALLY, are already obligated. What he’s UNABLE to understand (or refusing to do so) is that what he’s attempting to do – he’s got a 19 year old kid with the online moniker of “BIG BALLS” rooting through the data of people like, well, ME, is ILLEGAL! I really don’t want either Musk or “BIG BALLS” to have my Social Security number, my Medicare number, my bank information, or ANYTHING else of MINE! It’s NONE of their damn business!

But, as usual with republicans, it always keeps getting worse. Musk is LYING to all those unsuspecting MAGA faithful – many of whom he TRICKED into voting for Trump – saying our nation has become a “bureaucracy” instead of a “democracy” because of all these “unelected bureaucrats” in the fourth branch of our constitution. That’s complete dogeshit! Of course, that’s exactly why I’m calling what’s coming out of his mouth “dogeshit.” He complains these “bureaucrats” are “unresponsive to the people.” Oh, where to start?

Here’s a bit of a civics lesson to Musk (and, at 77 I can’t remember everything I’ve studied in the past, but, I digress). There ARE actually THREE branches – co-equal branches – of our government. The “unelected bureaucrats” are largely under the purview of the executive branch. “Rooting out” any “waste fraud or abuse” is supposed to be carried out by the Inspector Generals of each agency. Of course, you know this if you’ve paid any attention to Trump’s first few weeks assaulting our government, Trump FIRED, in essence, ALL of the Inspector Generals shortly after taking the oath of office. ILLEGALLY! Presumably to be able to HIDE the FRAUD the Dogeshits are implementing as I’m writing this.

Musk also made it a point to complain about the deficit and lament how it’s driving America toward “bankruptcy” with the ONLY solution (in his, apparently, autistic mind) being having the Dogeshits cutting appropriations ILLEGALLY – and FIRING bureaucrats they have NO legal right to FIRE. Here’s what Musk didn’t say, when it comes to his complaint about the budget deficit. He pays literally NO income taxes – keeping in mind his “fortune” has expanded, by some accounts, close to $200 BILLION since the election! If you have been paying attention that’s in about 3 months. And, he still doesn’t feel an obligation to “pay his fair share.” (As an aside – Warren Buffet, who pays “his fair share,” said if the 800 or so BILLIONAIRES in America paid their ACTUAL taxes the deficit issue would go away – or words to that affect)

But, of course, there’s more – there’s always more. Musk has ALREADY managed to fire the people in the agency USAID (the US Agency for International Development) – people doing “God’s work” around the globe – but, an agency which was investigating Musk’s Starlink satellite system – well, how do you get rid of that annoyance? Get rid of the agency. A few million people dying around the world because of this outrageous move? So be it – in the eyes of someone as brazen as Musk. (Musk had claimed USAID has sent $50 MILLION worth of condoms to GAZA – erroneously – a better word, DISHONESTLY)

Regarding Musk, there’s a lot more. He has his “fingers,” into approximately 17 different agencies where he’s pulling in something like $3 BILLION yearly from “we the people” in federal contracts. He doesn’t seem to think there could be ANY “waste fraud and abuse” in any of his contracts – despite the FACT the day Trump took office there were an almost impossible to pinpoint number of investigations into Musk’s various businesses – soon to be none. Apparently, the taxes being spent (like from me) for all his contracts are OK! Nice work if you can get it. But, do you really believe Musk is some kind of “rule follower?” Plllease!

For example, there are WERE numerous safety investigation into Tesla – Musk’s most notable company. (And, by the way, I’m encouraging people to REFUSE to purchase one of Musk’s cars – there are LOTS of good BETTER alternatives.) Space X and Xwitter are WERE facing numerous investigations which are now “gone.” For heaven’s sake, Space X just launched a rocket which EXPLODED shortly after takeoff spewing rocket parts across a large area of the Caribbean putting an untold amount of pollution into the atmosphere around the globe. Is Musk attempting to make sure there’s no investigation of that? Of course he is! Yikes!!! And, trust me, he’s not the only BILLIONAIRE shouting to the rooftops about those pesky government regulations! That’s what they do!

Jeff Bezos, who lost me when he blocked his opinion columnists at the Washington Post (which he owns) from making an endorsement (Kamala Harris) in the 2024 election – I canceled my subscription – Bezos was the first to congratulate Trump after his “victory,” and was one of the fawning BILLIONAIRES crowding as close as they could get to “herr” leader at the inauguration – mentioning his support was based on getting rid of regulations. Now, Bezos is the classic “Robber Baron” who does everything he can to prevent his Amazon workforce from forming unions. In addition, the government – under President Biden – was suing Amazon for it’s monopolistic policies. Here’s the first paragraph from the FTC’s action in 2023:

“The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power. The FTC and its state partners say Amazon’s actions allow it to stop rivals and sellers from lowering prices, degrade quality for shoppers, overcharge sellers, stifle innovation, and prevent rivals from fairly competing against Amazon.” Oh, those pesky regulations! Thanks to the Dogeshits, that suit is gone.

Of course, Mark Zuckerberg was right there with the others lining up to kiss Trump’s (and Musk’s) ass(es). The FTC has been after all three of them for their business practices which, according to the FTC, are anti-competitive. And, to that I say, “Duh!” Has anyone besides me wondered why there hasn’t been more scrutiny on Zuckerberg who responds to competition by buying it? And, why? Well, largely because (now) Meta (then Facebook) has the money to do so. So, why not? Ask yourself, how did this college dropout get so much money? OK, that was rhetorical. (I keep wondering, “how much money do these BILLIONAIRES need?”)

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai was right there fawning over our fuhrer as he took the oath – with his hand hanging by his side as he refused to put it on the Bible – curious to me. Like the other alleged monopolies the FTC sued Google for antitrust violations and, in this case, actually a jury found Google with several violations. Their remedy is a “donation” payment of a cool MILLION and, likely, the problem goes away after an appeal which the DOJ won’t pursue. These are just the outrageous issues I’m aware of off the top of my head. I can’t respond regarding the oil execs who Trump made promises to if they gave his campaign a $1 BILLION. Somehow all those MAGA faithful either didn’t notice that or, sadly, are OK with it.

As I’m writing this there is a distinct possibility that MILLIONS of some of the poorest people around the globe will be/are DYING because of the Dogeshits blocking USAID. Apparently, until the grief starts hitting “home” the (what some people are calling) MAGAts will be OK with whatever Trump (and Musk) decides to do. Today, I listened to Trump, in essence, accusing Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. And, some wonder why I use the term STUPID. The sad reality is Trump very well could be leading Europe into the next WW by appeasing Putin just like Chamberlain appeased Hitler back in the 30’s. And, of course, that would mean the U.S. would have to take sides – and, honestly, with Trump in the “White House” I shudder to think of what the answer would be.

Trump/Musk are accomplishing what Steve Bannon – argued by some as America’s top Neo-Nazi – as the deconstruction of the “administrative state” – also the goal of Project 2025 – what I’ve called the “roadmap to fascism.” This movement towards fascism has been obvious to me since, well – when I really think about it – since the days of the “Tea Party” – although I’ve been publicly calling it out since Trump’s first reign on our nation. Trump 2.0 came in with the total backing of the Project 2025 whack jobs and they’ve hit the ground running – attempting to brush off a deluge of court defeats (remind you of anything?) – and the DAMAGE they’re inflicting – around the globe as well as here at home – could take generations to overcome.

Final Thought: In reality, this move to the far right in America started back in the early 1970’s from what I can tell. Between Milton Friedman and his “free market” propaganda and Lewis Powell and his “memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce” America’s corporate interests began a 50 year push to create a corporate structure that was aligned with the politicians willing to do their bidding and along with the lack of sophistication of “we the people” (including ME) our government has, in essence, merged with the multi-national corporations and the BILLIONAIRE CEO’s to create what has amounted to what Hitler failed to accomplish back in the 30’s and 40’s. And, trust me, Trump’s going to get more and more “full of himself” (if that’s possible) because he really likes the feeling of unlimited POWER and some of the people supporting him now will be saying, “what have I done?”

Explaining (my version of) what has brought this upon us all – is complicated. Trying to figure out what can be done about it, is even more complicated. Myself, as a die hard optimist (who’s not feeling at all optimistic, at this point) wants to think we just hold our collective breath until the elections of 2026 where we simply vote in a plethora of democrats who do IMPEACHMENT #3 and pray for enough Senators to vote to convict (including in the IMPEACHMENT,of course, JD Vance).

But, naturally, that’s a “pipe dream.” One thing today’s Senators have PROVEN is they’re scared to death of Trump. So, I’m certainly feeling, from my standpoint, there’s NOTHING I can do. However here’s what I’m NOT going to do – whether I’m stupid or not – several people I know are doing descending into the world of apathy. Hey, we now live in a fascist country – but, who cares. I hope not too many people can allow themselves into that space.

I pointed out when democrats turned on Joe Biden (due to a bad debate performance while Trump’s performance was WORSE – unless you’re OK with the LYING) they were, in essence, electing Trump. The issue should NEVER have been Joe Biden’s age – everyone knew how old he is (they were BOTH too old) – he was doing a fine job of “running the government” – the issue was ALWAYS “Trump is a fascist, he’s a FELON, he’s been adjudicated as a sexual predator, he’s been LYING his entire life, and he’s still facing over 50 FELONY charges. Plus he’s affiliated with Project 2025 which anyone could have read.” But, democrats have ALWAYS lost the messaging debate as far back as I can remember – President Obama came the closest to overcoming that – and Trump is the perfect LIAR for the republicans. Now, we’re stuck with Trump/Musk for four LONG years!