Subject: Elon Musk
Just a single drop of humility, please …

Late Thursday afternoon, Elon Musk appeared at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in sunglasses and toting a shiny chainsaw, being weird. The professed drug user proceeded to slur and sputter through any number of the lies or wholly misunderstood “discoveries” his DOGE teams have made as they unaccountably cancel congressionally appropriated funds, terminate the careers of hundreds of thousands of civil servants, and generally make life worse around the world. All this, while the mother of several of his children had to reply to him on X to get him to respond to one of their kids having a medical crisis. He’s more grating and wrong with each passing day, but always confidently so. GOD. Where were we going with this? Oh, right: He has this line he repeats, and it is killing us. “The president is the elected representative of the people, so he’s representing the will of the people,” Musk said in a joint interview with Trump this week. “And if the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy, not a democracy.” Congress, the Article 1 branch, never enters his mind, because he’s never bothered to study the basics of the republic he’s now shadow-running. There were 10,000 other things about him that annoyed us this week, but we’re going close the entry so we can stop thinking about him.

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