Elon Musk’s Bizarre Grasp on the U.S. Government
The United States federal government is reeling under some of the most vicious assaults in the entirety of its nearly-250-year history.
First, in his attempt to stay in power after his loss in 2020, Donald Trump went on a flat-out attack design to overturn the election results, involving a large ring of coconspirators and at least a few thousand foot-soldiers, including both the insurrectionists and the fake electors.
More recently, Elon Musk came to Washington with his virtually unlimited sums of cash, so as to turn congress on its head.
Where from here? No one knows.
Until the last decade or so, Republicans were fairly reasonable people.
These guys have been raising capital since they were founded 12 years ago. Will investors ever see a dime in return? No.
This, of course, is completely irrelevant, since the power generated by a moving fluid is proportional to the cube of the velocity, and so low wind speeds produce almost zero power.
Trump and his team have vowed to attack journalists who will not fall in line with incoming president’s messaging.
A corollary to this quote from 20th Century author and poet 
When MLK said this in the 1960s, he was probably referring to war, specifically nuclear war.
What happens when you combine British comedy with a disbelief in the supreme being? You get Ricky Gervais, who, as suggested at left, has a biting sense of humor.
Sadly, there is no mechanism by which this civilization can rethink the way it apportions wealth and power. As suggested at left, this is the reason for the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, not to mention the deterioration of our environment.
I recall asking a docent at the Getty Villa Museum that houses antiquities how it was possible that the people of ancient Greece both developed mathematics, philosophy, democracy , etc. and believed that the god Mercury pulled the sun across the sky is his chariot.
Here’s another way of defining “woke,” i.e., feeling the pain of others.
