{"id":908,"date":"2025-02-22T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2025-02-22T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:25:11","slug":"what-is-musk-up-to-david-bernstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/what-is-musk-up-to-david-bernstein\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat Is Musk Up To?\u201d &#8211; David Bernstein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSeriously, when he decided: \u201cI\u2019m going to help elect Donald Trump President if he agrees to then let me loose on all the governmental department systems, because I really really want to <strong>__<\/strong>\u201d; what goes into that blank? Was he motivated by a desire to prove that a drastically smaller government is possible? Or to demonstrate some other super-genius theory of government? Was it because he\u2019d always wanted political as well as financial power? Did he want to punish all the wokeness and taste librul tears? Was he after competitive advantage, or outright fraud, for his companies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not s[u]re anybody does, which seems like a flaw when you\u2019re basically letting a guy run amok with the federal government\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com\/p\/what-is-musk-up-to\">https:\/\/goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com\/p\/what-is-musk-up-to<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSeriously, when he decided: \u201cI\u2019m going to help elect Donald Trump President if he agrees to then let me loose on all the governmental department systems, because I really really want to __\u201d; what goes into that blank? Was he motivated by a desire to prove that a drastically smaller government is possible? Or to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}