(Ingrid Haunold, 17 November 2024; first published on substack.com on 13 November 2024).
The Clown Car is vroom-vroom-vrooming Its Engine at the Gates of the White House – Do Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy know anything about efficiency?
According to CNN sources, Donald Trump’s campaign manager and soon-to-be Chief of Staff Susie Wiles won’t let “the clown car…come into the White House at will.” It looks to me as if the clown car will arrive at the White House before she does.
Elon Musk is a man of vision – PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. But is there anyone on the face of this planet (or currently travelling through space) who would argue that X is better managed today than Twitter was managed before he bought it? It looks to me as if eX-Twitter is one birdcrap away from becoming utterly, irrevocably irrelevant. Visionaries don’t necessarily make good managers.
As for Vivek Ramaswamy – words fail me.
Alas, Donald Trump picked these two clowns-in-a-Tesla to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As this will undoubtedly be a very important department, it just won’t do to pronounce its name as “dough-ssh.” No, a fancier pronounciation is required to do this department justice. Only “douche” will do. Trump’s two top douche-boys will lead a newly established governmental department which is tasked to eliminate other governmental departments. Oh, the irony. I need more wine! Cheers!
Notes:
Trump names campaign manager as White House chief of staff, https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/07/politics/video/trump-names-campaign-manager-as-white-house-chief-of-staff
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in Trump administration, https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-department-of-government-efficiency-trump/index.html
Trump selects Elon Musk to lead government efficiency department, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-appoints-elon-musk-government-efficiency-department