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If all the Substacks I read, this one needs much wider reach and engagement.

The shoot-first process employed by the marauders is unconscionable and makes me physically ill.

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"Elon Musk has a reputation of an extraordinarily successful innovator."

But why, tho?

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Billions of dollars in federal money may have something to do with it: https://abcnews.go.com/US/musk-works-slash-federal-spending-firms-received-billions/story?id=118589121.

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Michael Lewis' 2018 book, "The Fifth Risk" about the first Trump term is a good explanation about the long-term potentially catastrophic risks that the government manages in addition to the country/world's daily needs. Part of the book is devoted to the Dept of Energy. As Elon Musk recently learned, the people who manage our nuclear weapons. But what he probably hasn't learned yet, that they also oversee the environmental clean up of the Hanford nuclear weapons facility, which could endanger the drinking water of the Pacific northwest.

Or another example from the book. The USDA makes sure that birds don't create a hazard by airports. Who acres about that? Nobody, until a plane hits a flock of birds and crashes.

But hey, the government is just like Twitter/X, right? I mean, if he cuts too much and Twitter/X is down 1% of the time, no big deal. So just cut Medicaid and if only an extra .1% of people die in a year, he'd probably consider that a success. With 79 million people on Medicaid that would end up being 79,000 people dying.

Here's a good interview that summarizes the book.

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/7/21209887/coronavirus-covid-19-michael-lewis-the-fifth-risk-trump-administration-catastrophe

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This is so good, but it’s hard to click on LIKE when the news is so bad. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

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I know what you mean. I view the like button as an acknowledgement of the poster rather than a liking of the content.

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