No. of Recommendations: 16
"I don't care for Trump or his mouthy approach to issues."
He got your vote though so you care for him enough.
"However, the government, as Jamie Dimon shared, is basically wasteful and incompetent."
There are always religious zealots who believe things without evidence.
I would posit that in general the U.S. federal government is one of the most efficient and COMPETENT governments in the world. Which government do you think is better?
Can it be improved? Absolutely. There is always waste. There is always fraud. There is always incompetence that could be rooted out. That could be said of any government though. The same could be said about Chase Bank.
"So Trump's team may misfire on many fronts, but this is still better than the status quo."
Planes falling out of the sky, veterans unable to get medical care, national parks closed due to staffing shortages, nuclear weapons not maintained due to layoffs, rule of law being broken etc. etc. etc. How is that better than the status quo? I think you are one of those people who have no clue just exactly what the government does, how it does it, and what they are going to end up missing when it is broken.
"I do believe that Musk is well intended in trying to help."
LOL
I am sure at some level Musk genuinely believes he is trying to help. Everyone thinks that about themselves. People are always fooling themselves first and foremost.
However I think Musk's real motivations are much more subtle and selfish.
Even before he started working for the government in December he got the Republicans in congress to eliminate restrictions on companies that do business in China (like Musk's Tesla) in the compromise bill to keep the government open. So far he has been successful at intimidating the regulators at the SEC, FCC, FDA, and FAA who regulate his various companies. He is doing his best to make it so that the FAA can no longer interfere with his SpaceX launches and he can do them whenever and however he wants to no matter how much it puts the public at risk. He is doing his best to make it so that the SEC cannot regulate him and he can defraud lenders by manipulating Tesla's stock price. He is doing his best to make it so that the FDA cannot interfere with his Neuralink company. He is doing his best to make it so that the Department of Transportation won't interfere when he wants to declare Tesla's to be full self driving and allow them on any roads throughout the country no matter how much it might put other people at risk.
