Four More Years

 The guy who has no clue how Twitter works (and ran it into the ground, by his own admission), now thinks he knows how the Treasury Department works:

Musk himself acknowledged his interest in the Treasury Department’s payment processing in a middle-of-the-night post on his social media platform Saturday. 

He wrote his team “discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once.” 

The post appeared to ignore the mechanisms already in place for Treasury to simply fulfill lawful payment decisions made by other agencies, and that the system’s value to the federal bureaucracy and the nation’s economy lies in its reliability. 

Jack Lew, who ran the Treasury Department during President Barack Obama’s second term, said any attempt to disrupt payments made by the BFS would be dangerous to the world’s markets. 

“The American people should not have to worry about political interference when it comes to receiving Social Security and other payments the fiscal service makes,” Lew told CNN. “And as the world’s reserve currency, it is crucial to maintain confidence around the globe that the US Government will make timely payments on its obligations.”

I’m sure Elmo will make sure the SpaceX contracts are paid in full and in time. Trump never met a conflict of interest, after all.

I’m also sure Elmo will make sure the BFS operates as reliably as the self-driving program in his cars. Or the SpaceX Starship system. With his track record, what could go wrong? Like Trump, he’s the master of all he surveys, and an expert on all he knows; or doesn’t know.

Meanwhile, Trump the tariff genius is preparing to cut taxes:

"Today, I have implemented a 25% Tariff on Imports from Mexico and Canada (10% on Canadian Energy), and a 10% additional Tariff on China," Trump said. "This was done through the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) because of the major threat of illegal aliens and deadly drugs killing our Citizens, including fentanyl."

It took the Senate four years to censure Joe McCarthy. I’m not sure the country has that long this time.