Good episode. The entire Elon Musk/DOGE operation has bothered me from the beginning as it had the ring of an all-to-familiar Machiavellian principle:
“For although the act condemns the doer, the end may justify him…”
And I believe Smith is correct in that Trump is just ratchetting up our future of alternating authoritarian regimes making wild swings of public policy and actions.
Good episode. The entire Elon Musk/DOGE operation has bothered me from the beginning as it had the ring of an all-to-familiar Machiavellian principle:
“For although the act condemns the doer, the end may justify him…”
And I believe Smith is correct in that Trump is just ratchetting up our future of alternating authoritarian regimes making wild swings of public policy and actions.
Good episode. The entire Elon Musk/DOGE operation has bothered me from the beginning as it had the ring of an all-to-familiar Machiavellian principle:
“For although the act condemns the doer, the end may justify him…”
And I believe Smith is correct in that Trump is just ratchetting up our future of alternating authoritarian regimes making wild swings of public policy and actions.