DOGE Chief/Non-Chief Elon Musk is playing the federal budget reduction videogame, complete with special action score boosters and millions of fake villains. Not all need to be eliminated but they fill the screen in an impressive manner.
Musk would eviscerate a subordinate for bringing him DOGE's level of analysis. The berating would likely go on for hours.
DOGE theater got spicier with the notion of giving a portion of the savings to citizens/taxpayers.
Trump made that call from the Saudi backed Future Investment Initiative confab in Miami. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's LIV Golf is tied at the hip to Trump's golf courses. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners has billions in Saudi money in its PEU fund.
The Saudi monarchy wants to guide global development:
Building on the FII Institute’s flagship annual conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the FII PRIORITY Summits are more than just gatherings of forward-thinking leaders—they are engines for action, hosted in cities that are driving the trends that will shape humanity’s collective future.The new American Donarchy was revealed when Trump included a "Long Live the King" exhortation in a social media brag about his eliminating New York City's congestion pricing.
There is much going on in the world of billionaire power players and very little of it is transparent.
Update 2-21-25: DOGE's Social Security theater may be a setup to gut the program.
