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MUSK AND TRAITORTOTS
Celebrating Musk’s Departure
Even the mainstream media drank the champagne instead of the Kool-Aid on his departure from D.C.
Once in a while, the mainstream media gets it right.
You know the old saying. Even broken clocks are right twice a day. Yesterday morning, I received an email from Politico that couldn’t hide the normally sanewashed publication’s glee over Elon Musk’s departure from Washington D.C. in favor of doing the stuff he does best: blowing up rocketships and screaming at employees who are more used to his childish antics than the poor ambushed federal employees whose lives were ravaged by DOGE. (see Notes)
It is almost as if a renegade (maybe a mouthy one) Politico keyboard wizard grabbed the boss’s laptop in the middle of the night, furiously typed their screed, and hit “send” before they could be caught. Here’s the bulk of what they wrote:
SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE EFFICIENCY: You can almost hear the champagne corks popping around D.C. Elon Musk formally departed the White House last night as his brief but drama-packed stint at the heart of government draws to a close. Signing off via X after 128 days of Donald Trump’s second term — that’s nearly 12 whole Scaramuccis — Musk insisted his personal legacy…
