Michelle Goldberg, in her column today, writing about the eerie similarities between the young, unqualified zealots that the U.S. sent to reshape Iraq after Saddam's fall to the young software sociopaths whom co-President Musk has sent rampaging through Federal agencies:
"Many are describing Musk’s assault on the federal bureaucracy as a coup, which isn’t quite right. Trump was, alas, elected, and delegated outsize power to Musk voluntarily. But the reason it feels like a coup is that we have no precedent for an administration treating its own government like a hostile territory to be conquered and exploited. In his memoir of America’s war on Iraq and its aftermath, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad described being ruled by 'young, naïve zealots who held unchallenged powers to reshape Iraq the way their masters wanted. They represented the worst combination of colonial hubris, racist arrogance and criminal incompetence.' We’re now getting a taste of that experience." (our emphasis)
You can bet that Musk (a.k.a. Kekius Maximus, Maximus Anus) won't set his zealous budget-cutting weenies on any programs that he has a financial stake in. He's already stepped on the Malignant Fascist's toes, but not enough to get him sidelined, despite the MF suggesting that his co-President has limits.
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😊 I am grateful for the guest link. I was already apoplectic, but Golberg's analogy has me nearly unconscious with anger!! The Iraq incels!! What could go wrong?! She is such a good thinker and writer and I hope she survives at NYT; another trusted institution that is looking shaky! 🤞
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