By Jo Nova
History in the making
According to Doge.tracker Elon Musk has already saved the US taxpayer $45 billion dollars (or $300 per taxpayer). Tonight DOGE officials have entered the IRS building in DC to begin their investigation. Coming soon: The Pentagon which employs 3 million troops and has a budget of $800 billion.
President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk and his army of ‘super-geniuses’ at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as they investigate the federal government for waste and fraud. … Trump said that Musk’s group had gone from 20 people to as many as 100.
Musk has been attracting young coders to work in Washington for months. The DOGE team were looking for 100 full time dedicated people to work in Washington.
The “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” that DOGE seeks need to be willing to work “80+ hours per week,” DOGE itself posted on its official X account. “This will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero,” Musk personally added. — Forbes
But they were attracting top guns who saw it as a career defining move, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Such is the allure of Musk:
One DOGE applicant pointed to a comment made by Figma CEO Dylan Field on X on Monday as “very good, pro-DOGE propaganda”: “I’d wager that in 10-20 years the group that works on DOGE will be the next PayPal Mafia,” Field posted” – Forbes
One of Musk’s team is Luke Farritor — who deciphered a 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scroll from ancient Greece with AI. He was already working for Elon Musk at SpaceX. Musk has a way of finding the hyper intelligent engineers. I heard a story that one MIT professor looked up his top 10 graduates and found half of them were working for Musk. When Elon Musk heard that, he turned up at the professors door to ask where the other half were.
Great modern art on this moment in history
FreeVoiceMedia uses AI to create a smashing parody movie trailer. Elon Musk is Sherlock Holmes solving the largest financial crime in the history of the world…
The Real Great Reset
Elon Musk was on X today wearing his “Tech Support” shirt offering advice to the world: Have you tried turning the government off and on again?
But seriously, Musk explains in one minute how to get on top of the mountain of debt.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 14, 2025
And so we find ourselves in this strange moment, where the Trump team Shock and Awe program is in full swing, the Blob has just started to fight back with legal suits, and a new era appears to be dawning:
“I don’t think the Democrats realize that it’s over”
Brett* Weinstein talks to Joe Rogan:
I don’t think the Democrats realize that it’s over, and that there was a vast infrastructure that made their feeble arguments viable and that infrastructure is now collapsing…
Watching the confirmation hearings, my sense was that the Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’ were dinosaurs who do not understand the Earth has just been hit from outer space and that they don’t live in the world that they are so used to. Their corruption was immediately apparent and they are not used to that, they’re used to having a whole phony journalistic layer that covers for them. That layer is gone, and the American public is awake and it’s angry and rightfully so…”
Next Target: people who seemed to have made inexplicable amounts of money. Perhaps they are great investors, says Musk, but we are curious:
- Nancy Pelosi Annual salary: $223,000 Net worth: $202 million
- Mitch McConnell Annual salary: $200,000 Net worth: $95 million
- Chuck Schumer Annual salary: $210,000 Net worth: $75 million
- Elizabeth Warren Annual salary: $285,000 Net worth: $67 million
* Apologies. I’ve realized it was Brett not Eric Weinstein.