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He’s fixing the budget, rescuing astronauts and redeeming the planet.
Look, up successful the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
No! It’s Super-Elon.
But contempt each Elon Musk is achieving, the richest antheral connected Earth is down successful the dumps.
And who tin blasted him, considering the decease threats, arson attacks against his businesses, feral protests and casual defamation against him each day.
Donald Trump tried buying 1 of his Tesla electrical cars this week to cheer up his favourite tech enactment guy, but Musk inactive looks sad.
He seemed to choke up during an interrogation with Larry Kudlow for Fox Business past week erstwhile asked however helium said helium was juggling each his different businesses, specified arsenic Tesla, SpaceX and X, with his caller work of auditing national authorities spending.
“With large difficulty,” helium said, pausing and sighing heavily.
“Frankly, I can’t judge I’m present doing this,” helium told the empathetic Kudlow, contemplating however his beingness has been upended since helium decided to backmost Trump during the run and past enactment for escaped to basal retired “waste, fraud and abuse” successful the national government.
“But we’ve got this tremendous national fund shortage . . . Our involvement payments are higher than our Defense Department budget. That was the existent wake-up telephone for maine [seeing] that was lone increasing implicit time, which meant that if we didn’t bash thing astir this, past determination won’t beryllium immoderate wealth for thing . . . I conscionable don’t privation America to spell bankrupt.”
DOGE digging in
For the erstwhile virulently anti-Trump darling of the wide elites, it is simply a heroic patriotic mission, and 1 that appeals to his astir childlike consciousness of bid and justice.
He has said that it was Trump’s superhero-style fist pump aft helium was astir killed by an assassin’s slug successful Butler, Pa., that convinced him to articulation “Dark MAGA.”
But things soured erstwhile helium started to use his superb caput to authorities spending done DOGE, the playfully named “Department of Government Efficiency.”
Shares successful Tesla tanked this week, his social-media steadfast X was deed with a cyber attack, and his nett worthy suffered an 11-figure drop.
But he’s vowed to enactment helping Trump for different year.
Most Americans emotion that helium and his squad of high-IQ whiz kids are exposing outrageous fraud and waste, specified arsenic $1.5 cardinal for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs successful Serbia, $70,000 for a DEI philharmonic successful Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera successful Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender comic publication successful Peru, and $2 cardinal for enactment changes successful Guatemala.
The nationalist isn’t buying the relentlessly anti-Musk, anti-DOGE propaganda, according to caller polls.
In fact, a CBS/YouGov canvass past week was truthful affirmative that CNN pollmeister Harry Enten declared it “shocking” due to the fact that it showed a bulk of Americans enactment DOGE’s cuts to national authorities spending.
Another poll, the Washington Post/IPSOS canvass recovered 42% judge that DOGE is cutting “wasteful” spending portion lone 36% judge that the section is cutting “necessary programs.”
But, due to the fact that Musk’s projected cuts spell to the bosom of Democrats’ concealed backing of their thoroughfare militias and astir nefarious activities, a vicious full-court property is being applied to effort to interruption Musk.
The Resistance has decided that Trump is impervious to their attacks, truthful they are coming aft Musk conscionable arsenic hard, trying to destruct his businesses and his bid of mind.
Don’t judge haters
A Cabinet gathering past week portrayed arsenic a showdown betwixt Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been utilized to assertion that DOGE is connected bladed crystal and that Musk’s narration with Trump is successful tatters.
But anyone who sees the president and his tech enactment feline unneurotic sees a genuine respect and rapport.
Despite his exuberant temperament, Musk ne'er describes himself arsenic thing “tech support” — offering suggestions to the Cabinet of wherever they tin usefully trim fat.
If they take not to, they tin reply to the public.
Some of the suggested cuts whitethorn not beryllium prudent, but astatine slightest authorities spending is nether the microscope astatine last. That’s a origin for celebration. It’s our money, aft all.
DOGE is transparent astir its findings, which we tin each spot successful useful illustration signifier connected its website doge.gov.
Estimated savings recovered truthful acold are $105 cardinal from a operation of “asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper outgo deletion, assistance cancellations, involvement savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings and workforce reductions.”
The magnitude saved per payer truthful acold is $652.17, DOGE claims.
Musk says he’s assured helium volition scope $1 trillion successful savings, and Trump mused past period astir giving immoderate of that wealth backmost to taxpayers successful the signifier of a DOGE dividend check.
That would beryllium a bully small governmental sweetener for the midterm elections.
Aside from politics, DOGE has recovered epic discarded connected DEI programs alone.
The numbers are simply staggering.
Nobody who cares astir payer wealth would beryllium throwing it distant connected specified a frivolous discarded of time.
We’ve heard of the tens of millions saved by axing DEI programs that USAID was exporting worldwide — $28 cardinal successful Burma, for instance.
But that’s the extremity of the iceberg.
Musk, with his encephalon spot and aggravated enactment ethic, is the lone idiosyncratic successful past capable to tackle the leviathan.
Trump is the lone president savvy and audacious capable to empower him.
History volition hail Elon Musk arsenic the real-life superhero helium is, adjacent if narcs connected Earth effort to destruct him.
‘With No Love’ for Meghan
Meghan Markle is casual not to like, but it’s hard not to consciousness atrocious for her these days.
Lots of radical are enjoying hate-watching her harmless Netflix offering, “With Love, Meghan” — mocking her arsenic she inexpertly fluffs astir a room talking astir herself and looking pretty.
But erstwhile her estranged begetter Thomas Markle piled on, it stopped being fun.
Imagine having a begetter who attacks you publicly, saying you’ve ne'er been “authentic” and that your amusement is simply a flop.
We tin spot wherefore she didn’t invitation him to her large royal wedding to Prince Harry and won’t speech to him.
A begetter should person unconditional emotion for his daughter, nary substance what.
But Thomas and the remainder of the Markle clan lone privation to denigrate their celebrated relative.
No wonderment she is an insecure mess.
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