Who's In Charge Here?

 At the end of the day, the working week, payday, anything associated with earning anything comparable to a living, why would Elongated Mush care if you and yours went without for a few weeks? 

“We have to reduce spending to live within our means. And, you know, that necessarily involves some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity.”

An interesting perspective from the man in charge of the 2024 version of Space Force, the Department of Government Efficiency. This new advisory commission lives somewhere outside the bounds of irony, headed up by two billionaires with no prior government experience, unless that includes receiving healthy government subsidies for their capitalistic endeavors. Mister Mush's partner in crime, since it's only a matter of time before either one of them is charged with some sort of anti-trust boondoggle, Vivek Ramasway spent millions of his "own money" to buy himself a tiny percentage of the Republican primary vote. Mush's vaunted private Space X continues to crash and burn, not unlike his vaunted Cybertrucks, since something about being vaunted makes them more flammable. 

And these are the two nimrods the convicted felon wants to show us the way toward government efficiency. 

Why not just turn it off for a few weeks? Then when we turn it back on again we'll see if it's fixed.

Holding the government hostage is nothing new. Midnight meetings just before all those folks on Capitol Hill go off on holiday have become something of a tradition. The fate of things like social security checks, furloughs, federal employees might go to work without pay while others stay home. 

Elongated Mush makes more than fifty million dollars every day. 

Every day. 

Whether the government is shut down or not. 

This is the guy who would like you to experience a little temporary hardship.

Once again, as the Fun Bus drove directly toward the cliff, the powers that be grabbed the wheel and made a last-minute correction. Avoiding that little temporary hardship. 

For now. But how much longer will Elongated Mush be allowed to throw others under the bus? 

This is the guy who along with his pony pal Vivek would like to shutter the government for a few weeks to teach us all "a lesson." And here's the lesson that you might want to take away: Neither one of these clever boys had to actually win any sort of election to be able to push the levers and pull the strings of government. They just had to pay for some pretend billionaire to get the keys back to the Oval Office so that they could continue to swim in their own specially heated pool of filth.