Musk vs Farage
Musk is working to replace British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the head of the Labour Party, which won 411 seats in the House of Commons (650 seats), a massive landslide, as the Conservative Party shed 251 seats and is now down to 121. Musk’s party, the neo-fascist Reform UK, won 5 seats. But instead of getting Starmer to step down, he seems on the verge of getting his neo-fascist buddy, Nigel Farage to step down as leader of Reform UK. He’s gotten 10 Reform councillors from the Derbyshire area to resign, noting Farage’s authocratic manner and denouncing his leadership as “either incompetent or malevolent.”
“The mass resignation,” wrote Aitor Hernandez-Morales, comes less than a week after tech mogul Elon Musk demanded Farage leave his post as Reform’s leader, arguing that he ‘doesn’t have what it takes’ to lead the party.” Farage had distanced himself from Nazi and far-right English Defense League Tommy Robinson, who is in prison and who Musk admires, and Musk turned against… Farage.
Farge is trying to repair his damaged relationship with Musk by hosting an inauguration party in DC next Friday. Apparently guests include Señor T and his sons, spectacularly failed former UK prime minister Liz Truss, Tory shadow foreign secretary “Dame” Priti Patel, a boatload of far right Republicans, UK’s new ambassador, “Lord” Mandelson and… Musk. Since the public breakup between Farage and Musk Trump has been trying to repair relations.
Closer to home, Lucas Kunce was writing how Musk’s goal with his DOGE project isn’t to change government but to remake society. “There has been a lot in the news lately about the DOGE Bros’ supposed mission to make government more efficiency,” wrote Kunce in way of introduction to his essay. “It’s part of a long-time American executive suite obsession with efficiency. The same ‘efficiency’ that led to just in time supply chains that collapsed during covid. The same “efficiency” that gutted American production and made us reliant on adversarial states for literally everything. Did you know we can’t even print the dollar bill without inputs from China? That’s right, during the Trump tariff hearings the guy who makes the ink for the dollar bill said it can’t be done without China. We also can’t print bibles or make prom dresses or build most of our weapon systems. The obsession with efficiency isn’t about improving society or American greatness. It’s not about better products or innovation. It’s about monopoly and monopsony power, pitting workers against one another, and transferring wealth from society to shareholders.”
Right now, most of us sell our labor to making a live a living. The ultimate goal of the efficiency experts is to reduce and then eliminate their need to purchase that labor. As workers are replaced, if we keep our current system as it is, and let guys like the DOGE Bros write the rules, the only way to generate wealth will be by having wealth, and owning stocks in the companies that produce. What could have been a beautiful future where humans need to work less in order to survive and thrive and could focus on their passions and their families, will instead become a future where possessing wealth is the primary means of creating wealth, and the gap between everyday people/former workers, and the top percent grows exponentially.
"The obsession with efficiency isn’t about improving society or American greatness. It’s not about better products or innovation. It’s about monopoly and monopsony power, pitting workers against one another, and transferring wealth from society to shareholders.”
Not there is a guy that gets it. And his own party hates him. And you all won't elect him. He's the MO Grayson. I empathize with his Cassandra frustration... knowing shit but not able to get anyone to listen, LEAST of all that party of corrupt pussies you all STILL insist on being your champions... NOT!
DOGEfficiency is all about fooling dumber than shit americans into thinking you're helping them as you're really bending them over and emptying their wallets as they are…