Humble Tech Support?
The Vigilant Voice (February 26, 2025)
A federal judge recently declared that the Constitution is unconstitutional, and NSA agents are horrified that people have been spying on their personal conversations. (Apparently NSA sex chats were just the tip of the iceberg.)
Trump thinks that this country (I think that he means the federal government) has become “bloated, and fat, and disgusting, and incompetently run.” It’s hard to argue with that. How it became so bloated, and fat, and disgusting, and incompetently run, and what to do about it are certainly matters of debate.
Elon Musk claims that his role at DOGE is merely “humble tech support” for the government. There are some things about this meeting that I find troubling, but I think that most Americans are pleased that someone is finally trying to do something about the national deficit. I may have been too hard on Elon Musk in my last post, but I have just as many good reasons to be wary of Musk as good reasons to be wary of Trump. (Not to mention good reasons to be wary of Bill Gates or Apple.)
It appears that Elon Musk and his DOGE team are first trying to discover which of America’s public servants are alive, real, and capable of writing an email. That seems reasonable. It also seems reasonable for the President, with Musk’s help, to determine which federal jobs are essential and which federal employees are doing their jobs well. The debatable question is which standard will be applied to determine such things. Shouldn’t the standard of the U.S. Constitution be part of the measurement process? It’s time to remember the Declaration of Independence as well.
Brianna Lyman at the Federalist asks a good question: An IRS contractor leaked the information of 405,000 taxpayers — but we’re supposed to be concerned about DOGE? I think that it’s ok to be concerned about both.
The author of The Vigilant Citizen posted the symbolic pictures of the month, revealing more of the darkness and evil of Hollywood and the music industry in particular. These pictures are also only the tip of the iceberg, or the facade that covers up evils such as child sex trafficking tunnels.
Did Stephen Curry and the three-point line ruin basketball? In the Wall Street Journal Robert O'Connell and Rosie Ettenheim wonder:
What happens when a game has been solved, when teams all chase the same optimal strategy? Major League Baseball has for years grappled with its game becoming more and more a parade of home runs and strikeouts, in which almost every team pursues the same statistical outcomes.
As much as I enjoy basketball, baseball, and many other sports, these articles further demonstrate why my revolution in sports, namely Verseball, is necessary. I don’t think that basketball or baseball or any other sport has been “solved,” but isn’t it about time for a new sport?
