In einem Meinungsstück über das Ende von Elon Musk als Trumps Regierungsmitarbeiter, lässt die Kolumnistin Michelle Goldberg in der New York Times kein gutes Haar an den Taten (an denen wir ja bekanntlich immer alle messen sollen, egal was die Worte bereits ausgelöst haben) des Multimilliardärs, der ein Department of Government Efficiency führen sollte, das eigentlich was genau gebracht hat?
Musk’s absurd scheme to save the government a trillion dollars by slashing “waste, fraud and abuse” has been a failure. The Department of Government Efficiency claims it’s saved $175 billion, but experts believe the real number is significantly lower. Meanwhile […] DOGE’s attacks on government personnel […] could cost the government upwards of $135 billion this fiscal year, even before the price of defending DOGE’s actions in court. Musk’s rampage through the bureaucracy might not have created any savings at all, and if it did, they were negligible. […] He did indeed shred the United States Agency for International Development. […] These cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. […] Musk apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad P.R. for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children. […] “Being president doesn’t change who you are; it reveals who you are,” Michelle Obama has said. The same is true, apparently, of being the president’s best friend, even fleetingly.
NY Times
Wir haben also live miterlebt, wie selbst der reichste Mensch auf diesem Planeten an der Diskrepanz zwischen Vorstellung und Wahrheit über die Funktionsweise von Regierung und Verwaltungsapparat gescheitert ist. Scheitern ist so eine Sache, vor allem, wenn so ein Spiel scheinbar Menschenleben gekostet hat. Aber was kümmert es einen, der die Probleme offenbar ohnehin mithilfe von Substanzen bewerkstelligt?
The world’s richest person regularly consumed ketamine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms during his rise to political prominence […] His drug use reportedly intensified as he […] wielded significant power through his role spearheading the so-called “department of government efficiency”, or Doge. […] Ecstasy is classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a Schedule I controlled substance with no accepted medical use, making it entirely prohibited for federal employees […] While ketamine can be legally prescribed as a Schedule III substance, recreational use or mixing it with other drugs would probably violate federal workplace policies.
The Guardian
Aber ja, kauft er sich halt eine Therapie und alles ist wieder gut. Und ein paar Artikel, ein paar Raketen, ein paar Elektroautos, sorgt für steigende Aktienkurse und alles ist wieder gut. Die paar Tausend, die draufgegangen sind, sind egal, sobald TSLA wieder steigt.