President Musk

Bob Lefsetz’s original post – President Musk

Move fast and break things. Isn’t that the credo of the techies?

Actually, that’s more the credo of Antifa and the “Black Lives Matter” folks. I live in Minneapolis and saw police stations and private businesses burned to the ground, damaging more than $500 million dollars in property, while Governor Tim Walz sat on his hands for three days and lives were lost as our city burned. It’s reassuring to know that Vice Presidential candidate Walz nevertheless felt that placing tampon dispensers in boys bathrooms was a more important policy issue.

The mainstream press is doing a very good job of covering Musk’s shenanigans.

I don’t want to overload you with information, but here is the best description/analysis of what Musk is doing in D.C.

“In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear – Shrink government, control data and — according to one official closely watching the billionaire’s DOGE — replace ‘the human workforce with machines.'”

I hope you take the time to read this, but it’s in the “Washington Post,” and like the rest of Big Press it has been excoriated to the point where both the left and the right ignore it.

It’s not so much that Big Press has been excoriated, but that they have failed miserably in their mission as a free press to inform and educate the public. You are right, though – legacy media is dead. According to a recent Gallup poll:

“Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of confidence in the media to report the news “fully, accurately and fairly.”

For several years, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and nearly ALL of the mainstream media outlets have assured us that President Biden was “sharp as a tack”, that the Russian collusion hoax and the Steele dossier were factual, and that the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation”.

“In 2020, more than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter suggesting that the disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the earmarks” of Russian disinformation.”

They lied, the mainstream media promoted the lies, and we now know they were 100% wrong. Thank you, New York Times, Washington Post and CNN!

Big Press has been doing a great job of delineating the malfeasance of Musk and Trump.

Just take a look at Musk’s minions in D.C. One is only 19. Ask your boomer friend if he can code, ask your Gen-X friend if he can code. They don’t even know the languages! 

Minions? Is this just a spinoff of the “Despicable Me” movies? And who is the 19 year old on Musk’s DOGE team? Too bad you couldn’t take the time to research your political rant.

Edward Coristine Coristine, a high school graduate with a history of launching startups, has founded at least five companies across multiple jurisdictions, including Connecticut, Delaware, and the United Kingdom.

In 2022, he worked briefly for Path Network, a network monitoring company known for hiring former hackers, according to Wired. That same year, an individual using a Telegram alias linked to Coristine reportedly sought out a cyberattack-for-hire service.

One of Coristine’s ventures, Tesla.Sexy LLC, registered when he was just 16, manages dozens of web domains, including Russian-registered sites. One of these, still operational, offers Helfie, an AI-powered Discord bot operating in Russia, which could present security clearance challenges, per Wired.

This 19 year CAN code and he’s accomplished more at a young age than many others have in a lifetime, including Chuck Schumer, AOC, Elizabeth Warren and Bob Lefsetz!

Elon Musk destroys first and picks up the pieces later.

You are no better than the “journalists” who get their news and information from Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook and other social media outlets, rather than researching, investigating, and reporting the who, what, when, where and why that is supposed to be the duty and responsibility of newspapers, magazines, and broadcast and cable news networks.

Are we talking about the same Elon Musk? The guy who built PayPal, the Tesla electric automobile company, restarted the U.S. space program accomplishing things that NASA has been unable to do in the last 30 years, who developed and launched StarLink providing Internet access to people in Ukraine and hurricane victims in the southeast, and then invested $40 billion dollars to revamp and clean-up the Twitter swamp? 

Musk is making up his own rules for his own benefit. Despite what he may say to the public.

His own benefit? He is working with President Trump for free, trying to help clean house in a government that spends several trillion dollars a year more than it takes in, with a national debt of $37,462,434,549,043 TRILLION dollars. Every man, woman and child in the United States owes $107,361 and the annual interest alone on this debt is more than $1,042,661,384,233 trillion dollars per year.

U.S. Debt Clock

Making up his own rules for his own benefit? He’s simply trying to enforce the rules our government and Congress have already established.

Musk Claims FEMA Sent $59 Million to Hotels to House Illegal Immigrants in Defiance of Trump Order

“The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order,” Musk posted.

“That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds.”

Here is what Elon Musk, his young staff of genius professionals and the Trump administration are doing, as reported before Congress by Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana:

John Kennedy, of Louisiana, lauded Musk as a national hero for his relentless audit of government spending under President Donald Trump’s directive.

‘They’re very, very, very upset at President Trump,’ Kennedy declared in his signature Southern drawl. ‘And they’re very, very, very upset at Elon Musk.’ During his 16-minute speech Kennedy wasted no time in painting a picture of Musk as a modern-day crusader, a genius businessman with a top-secret security clearance. Musk was handpicked by President Trump to fulfill a campaign promise: a line-by-line, no-nonsense audit of every single dollar the federal government spends.

Musk’s audit began with USAID, the agency responsible for handling America’s foreign aid budget, a $40 billion behemoth with 10,000 employees.

Kennedy described it as a bloated, unchecked institution that had become a piggy bank for Washington insiders looking to throw money around the world, regardless of where it ended up.

$20 million spent producing a new Sesame Street show in Iraq; $7.9 million funneled into a Sri Lankan journalism project to teach reporters to ‘avoid binary gendered language’; $1.5 million dedicated to LGBT advocacy in Jamaica; $4.5 million spent combating ‘disinformation’ in Kazakhstan; $2 million earmarked for sex changes in Guatemala.

‘We’re literally sending American taxpayer dollars to change people’s genders in foreign countries while our own veterans are sleeping on the streets,’ Kennedy fumed. ‘How does that make sense?’

But the real bombshells came when Kennedy detailed Musk’s discovery of U.S. taxpayer dollars allegedly finding their way into the pockets of terrorist-linked organizations.

$164 million in USAID funding was reportedly used to support radical organizations worldwide with $122 million of that sum allegedly going to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations.

Millions of dollars reportedly flowed to organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas, some of which, according to Kennedy, ‘called for their lands to be cleansed from the impurity of Jews.’

Republican Senator sets internet ablaze as he sets the record straight on DOGE 

Americans didn’t elect Elon Musk and most are not in favor of what Trump is doing in Washington. 

Once again, you should do some research before you bloviate nonsense like this. Let me help – don’t be so darn lazy and do your homework.

Trump’s Approval Rating At 53% In New Poll

It’s much worse than you think it is. Much, much worse. And I sympathize with your reluctance and defeat. If the election were held again today, Trump would lose. This is not what most Americans want.

It’s actually much better than you tell your left wing fanboys it is – see the previous link and poll results. If the election was held again today, Trump would win by a larger margin than he did last November.

But let’s see if you and I can find at least a little common ground.

I’m sure the 10,000 people working with USAID do some good things. Programs to help with hunger, poverty, disasters, education, disease and vaccinations should be continued, and they will be. But surely – even a left coast liberal such as yourself – should be able to see the folly of funding some of the insane programs described above by Senator Kennedy.

Does Bob Lefsetz honestly support American taxpayers funding $2 million earmarked for sex changes in Guatemala, $20 million spent producing a new Sesame Street show in Iraq, and $164 million in USAID funding that was reportedly used to support radical organizations worldwide with $122 million of that sum allegedly going to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations?

Is your Trump derangement syndrome so severe that you cannot possibly see the dangers and waste involved with an unmonitored taxpayer funded agency like the USAID spending more than $40 billion dollars with no supervision or federal auditing and oversight?

How much more of YOUR tax dollars are you willing to send to terrorist organizations in other countries?