Saw a comment elsewhere about Musk playing Jenga with the US government.

Plus: Mike Johnson gets owned:

With more imported workers shackled to H1B visas, which makes them easy to control, 
'we don't need no education' for Americans.

Tim Pool would agree, the Poll Pot 'year zero' solution.

Elon Musk says Department of Education no longer ‘exists’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-department-education-021429134.html

This is the funniest video I have seen in a long time. Make sure to watch it somewhere quiet as there are soo many good jabs in entire video that you do not want to miss them.

The thing is the bureaucrats are accountable to Congress who can call them in to account,
even under oath.
They fight over and approve budgets and such, in concert with President.
The people elect Congress so. 

quickymart

Musk does think that he 'was elected' this is what he paid more than $290 Million for.

Trump was just a dirty, smelly Sockpuppet, thus Elon's child's comments to Trump.
Even a child knows picking this up in conversations around him.

Trump thinks that Elon Musk is his fallguy if it all goes wrong.
Elon Musk sees Trump as his fallguy if it all goes wrong.

Peter Thiel having JD Vance there as backup, Peter there to save Musk if.

Elon Musk does see himself as dominant narcissist in any room.
He considers he got elected not Trump, every GOP candidate he financed who got elected also his property.

You look at what he did to the Tesla founders. 
Like agent Smith everything is 'Me Me Me...' to Musk.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-sales-down-worldwide

While some blame a cooldown in European EV subsidies for Tesla's sales woes, the biggest issue is almost certainly that Musk's personal brand, which is inexplicably tied to the electric carmaker, has taken a public beating for his increasingly childish antics in the government and beyond.

The unsubtle tech mogul spent the opening weeks of 2025 rallying with the far-right AfD party in Germany, performing a fascist salute in front of a MAGA crowd, posting a barrage of Holocaust jokes, and retweeting neo-Nazi accounts to his hundreds of millions of followers.

That's to say nothing of the hurricane of federal budget cuts and government employee inquisitions spearheaded by his DOGE group, which has managed to confuse everybody and send Tesla's favorability rating down to a ludicrous 3 percent — the lowest rating since financial services company Stifle began the poll in 2018.

Poor Elon, people don't like what he's doing so they stop buying Teslas.

Poor, poor Elon 😀

I also think his definition of "democracy" is a bit...warped?

🤔

https://www.thebulwark.com/i/157077139/quick-hits

DOGE’S APPROACH TO TRANSPARENCY. . . New reporting from 404 Media shows that not only was the DOGE.gov website hosted on a non-government server, but they left their database open, which means anyone could push updates to it:

The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the live site and say “this is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro.”

Perhaps Musk, his racist aide-de-camp “Big Balls,” and the rest of the sweaty tech goon squad should get their own house in order before deleting the perfectly good government websites created by people who are actually experts.

I thought Musk was someone who was big on technology? Didn't he pay a fortune to be the world leader in some game or something?

Congresswoman Jahana Hayes expresses the deep concerns of educators, says Musk supports vouchers, says that will effectively deny some children an education (question starting at 6:10)

The interview is in response to Elon Musk's throwaway comment "No such department exists in the federal government" as members of Congress are denied entry.

kingdragonfly: 'Tech genius' image wears thin after series of errors calls DOGE competence into question 

Musk a tech genius?  He happened to be in the right place at the right time on several occasions but he's only a "genius" when there's an adult in the room to pull his hands away from the wheel before he steers into the ditch.  When he gets his own way, things either die quietly or turn into train wrecks if he persists.