With friends like Elon, who needs enemies?

[mystery-ak]

June 5, 2025
With friends like Elon, who needs enemies?
By Noel S. Williams

Smart people can be really dumb. Sometimes it’s preferable to just be brilliant, rather than genius.  For the majority of us in the middle of the Bell Curve, being smart-enough is sufficient to be commonsense conservatives. 

Elon Musk is in the genius category, and comes with some of the hazards associated with a high IQ. Indeed, he is capable of stupidity, sometimes in business (Tesla Cybertruck “Armour glass” demonstration and overpaying for Twitter, are just two examples).  And sometimes in politics, as evidenced by calling the big, beautiful bill (BBB) a “pork-filled, disgusting abomination.”

As stark as that criticism is, he was just getting warmed up.  He just claimed that the BBB will condemn America to “debt slavery,” while urging lawmakers to “Kill the Bill.”   That’s where being too smart for one’s own good usurps common sense.

I wouldn’t know, but I’m told that geniuses are often on the cusp of madness.  Surely, it is simply mad to hand slubberdegullion socialists some unearned political ammunition.  Their 2026 campaign ads about MAGA’s signature legislation will write themselves — courtesy of a temperamental Elon.  Or has he simply gone mental?

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[Smokin Joe]

Government, funding, procurement, and practice have an inertia all their own, something that is easy to override in business. The reality is that Elon's brilliance worked in the private sector, but has come up against the molasses in January resistance of the bureaucratic leviathan to change. By statute and practice, some things cannot be rapidly changed, and by design, the Constitution is resistant to change also.

The rules are different, and would frustrate anyone used to the relatively nimble actions of the business world.

Elon has identified, with the help of the DOGE team, targets for efficiency increases and cutting waste, but hitting those targets will take a longer game. He has businesses to run, and should, hopefully, be able to return to that without enmity, and the actual thanks of the American People for his service.