‘Musk said DOGE’s work was like running a corporation, comparing the effort to his work downsizing Twitter. Musk purchased the social media platform, now known as X, for $44 billion in 2022. He boasted about reducing the company’s staff by 80 percent, while at the same time, advancing the “functionalities and capabilities” of the platform.’
Read the article on Politico Proof positive that (f)elon is suffering the delusion that he understands the intricacies of government. Ignorant and dangerous.
People are in for a rude surprise.
‘At the same time, a new study out today from Data for Progress showed that people who paid “a great deal” of attention to political news voted for Vice President Kamala Harris +6, while those who paid “none at all” went +19 for Trump.’
– Heather Cox Richardson, https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-14-2024
It’s astonishing how good the pundit class has become at ignoring substance in favor of style. They are almost universally hailing the Vance/Walz debate as a return to civility, and are largely awarding the night to Vance. They ignore that his entire performance was based on lies and misrepresentations, and fly in the face of all of the awful things he has said and done.
More sanewashing.
Undecided voters appear to have thought that–by a fairly slim margin–Walz came out on top. Did he flub some answers? Yes. Did he try to avoid directly answering a question about being in Tiananmen Square during the protests? Yes. Did he give solid, substantive answers about the tax, economic, gun, and abortion policies a Vance/Walz ticket would pursue? Yes. Meanwhile Vance claimed that abortion rights should be left to the states, that Trump “saved” the ACA, and he refused to say whether Trump lost the 2020 election. But sure, Politico et al, Vance won. If you say so.
