As I write this, the hyperventilating by the left over Twitter/X owner Elon Musk has nearly reached a fever pitch.
As readers will recall, the Tesla CEO heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The advisory group was first publicly proposed by then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in early September and formally created via an executive order after his inauguration.
Musk and his team, under Trump’s direction, have uncovered massive amounts of government waste, abuse and mismanagement, as well as inefficiencies in federal departments that need to be addressed.
Among them were tens of millions of dollars spent on DEI and LGBTQ initiatives overseas, which included transgender comics and operas. There were also tens of millions of dollars in funding for the World Health Organization, a corrupt global entity that Trump withdrew the United States from last month.
As a result, there have been pink slips galore, office shutdowns and a spending freeze, all of which Democrats are fighting tooth and nail in the courts, desperate to keep their various slush funds, gravy trains and large-scale grifts going.
As I talked about in my prior column, congressional Democrats have lost their minds in other ways as well, accusing Musk of trying to stage a “coup” because he’s an “unelected” person who has access to “sensitive information.”
This is the same information, I should note, that unelected entrenched bureaucrats already have access to on any given day in Washington, D.C., information that at times has been weaponized against conservatives during Democrat presidential administrations without objections from these same “outraged” Democrats.
Already, the Democrat incitement is bearing fruit, with their supporters staging unhinged demonstrations at Tesla showrooms and charging stations across the country, with prospective buyers being yelled at and flipped off, and told not to buy a “swasticar” because it will help Musk, who they’ve labeled a “Nazi,” become richer and more powerful.
The UK Independent reported that things were even escalating beyond that.
“A group calling itself ‘Students Against Nazi Extremism’ is reportedly issuing threats to Tesla owners to sell their vehicles or they will be vandalized,” they noted.
“Lost Coast Outpost reports that residents in Humboldt County in northern California found notes left on their Teslas saying ‘no Nazis in America,’” the outlet also shared. “At least one of the notes was tied to a brick, according to local media reports.”
For whatever disagreements a person has with the government, intimidation, threats and violence are not the answer. Nor is having meltdowns because your political party lost the election and you just can’t deal with having to see the other one in power, fulfilling the promises they made to voters during their campaign, promises they were elected to keep.
The pace at which everything is going is fast, I will admit. But government waste, fraud, abuse and inefficiency are problems that literally accumulated for decades and were long overdue to be thoroughly addressed, and Trump has made clear the time is now rather than later to root them out wherever they can be.
The process, of course, is not going to be simple or short, and it certainly won’t be pretty, as we’ve already seen. But protests and myriad court challenges notwithstanding, they are happening. And that’s something the American taxpayer — who has had to foot the bill to the tune of billions and billions of dollars for a long time now — should more than welcome regardless of political party.
North Carolina native Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a media analyst and regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection.
