Red Team Stops Making Sense

Confession:  I have not had a political party for quite some time, as a social liberal and fiscal conservative who expects the common person's voice to matter outside the brief period around elections.  I've been disturbed by the bipartisan sucking up to "policy making billionaires", a several decade long pattern.  I worked for more than one private equity owned healthcare company and watched their greed in action.  It damaged patient care and harmed employees. I am not on X or Facebook or Instagram or Substack or OnlyFans.  I am not an influencer, but I have written about my experiences over the years.  I did so in part to relieve stress, make sense of what was going on and to have a record.  

Various people reached out to me through the years and for that I am grateful.  One in particular sees things I cannot.  My wise fried wrote:

Trump's reality is our dystopia. I don't think anything has to make sense. 

Like getting rid of the people responsible for addressing waste, fraud and abuse (Inspector Generals) to go after waste, fraud and abuse (DOGE).

From what I've been reading..... he is heading to a modeled approach just like a pro forma business fantasy (MUSK/private equity/VC model) where he models all the tariffs that are coming in (potentially) and adding up all of DOGE cuts plus whatever other sleight of hand they have in their bag of tricks (BS projections, AI, money promised) to make an official forecast and treat it as if it's concrete number. The number will match all the goodies and tax cuts he has promised. Then they will act like its reality forever and run the government off of it and call it complete success. Just like private markets. STRAW markets 

Just what the PEU boys do, crunch a lot of data, create a model, arrange financing, conduct the buyout, traumatize existing workforce for the expense side of the model (many people have to go to pay for new technology), cross fingers that revenue does not disappear (like employee headcount), mark to model until some sucker offers a price that meets their ROE expectations.  If that doesn't happen use PIK to turn interest expenses into more debt until the PEU/TechGod alliance can install enough and the right politicians to stoke the buyout fires.

The government is not a corporation.  Laws establish some departments and some employees have civil service protections.  Trump proved long ago that laws are not a constraint to his actions.  TechGods view things like copyright and intellectual property as things to workaround or save for a later in a possible legal settlement.

Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump's agenda faces legal pushback

My friend's take:

Doesn't this say it all? My judges are not on the take but your judges are on the take? WAFJ.  Hail Caesar Yes, Cadet MUSK-ET and Cadet Just Dance Dance VANCE reporting for duty and commandeering the ship. This is normal?

It shouldn't be, yet that is where we find things.   

Update 2-14-25:  Consider this:

Veterans Affairs said Thursday it dismissed more than 1,000 of about 43,000 probationary employees across the department, producing an estimated savings of about $98 million. 

 "This was a tough decision, but ultimately it’s the right call to better support the Veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors the department exists to serve,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins said in a statement

Blather, nonsense....How does getting rid of 1,000 workers better support veterans?  

Update 2-15-25:  As for those do nothing federal probationary employees:

“In order to help veterans, you just fired a veteran...”

Update 2-22-25:  Voters wanted Trump to make goods more affordable.  One month into his Donarchy the public is not pleased with his economic progress.