We will preface the present writing with profuse apologies regarding its title. The original, unexpurgated admonition, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” is an empirically wise declaration that the written word is more effective and endurable than violence as a means of social change. We humbly confess that presenting this theme does not, in any remote way, relate to the contextual meaning of the original statement; nevertheless, we have shamelessly utilized it, in its present conveniently changed form, for this writing, concerning the reversal in the relationship between Donald J. Trump, the egocentric afficionato of the black, felt tip marker (the “sharpie”) as an emphatic show of determinative authority, and the the ludicrous act of brandishing a chainsaw by his formerly compliant troll, Elon Musk; the latter to symbolize the programmic demolition of the Nation’s vital system of civil services, shamefully inclusive of humanistic, empathic programs such as USAID, Social Security and Medicaid, as well as its health protective research and clinical resources viz., NIH, the CDC and other like vital human resources.
Musk, reportedly, the richest man in the world, had contributed millions of dollars to Trump’s re-election and, for an extensive period, functioned as if he were Donald Trump’s” unelected “co-President,” in the Administration’s represented and delusional aspiration to cut (unspecified) “waste and fraud” from the government. Notably, there were no ultimate showings of such waste and fraud, an absence of congressional hearings or findings; merely a summary application of the thoughtless administrative guillotine, decapitating scores of agencies and discharging thousands of hapless and dedicated civil servants.
There existed for a time, a publicly demonstrated “bro-mance” during which much high praise exchanged between the orange autocrat and his bizarre, troll-like “Sorcerer’s “Apprentice” affording sufficient time to wreak, conceivably, irreparable damage to the administrative functioning of federal government, before the dark storm clouds arrived, to deter the dual, cooperative imposition of further inane and disabling surgery to the body politic resulting in a predictable contested and rancorous divorce betwethe two co-Presidents, as we had often predicted,
Our early predictions of a break-up were based upon the following empirical observations: (a) Musk’s great wealth is, in large part, supported by his manufacture of electric vehicles in China. Trump has recently singled out China as an enemy and imposed massive tariffs on imports from that nation. (b) The elimination of toxic fuel pollution is the fundamental “raison d’être” for the development and use of electric automobiles, Yet, Trump has been an outspoken advocate for the program he emphatically articulates as, “drill, baby drill!” and perhaps the salient ground for divorcement fundamentally, is (c) the fact that both are inveterate egomaniacs, systemically unable to suffer disparate opinion. as thus, predictably vulnerable to mutual dispute.
Musk and his cadre of sophomoric young muskrats have now departed, leaving behind a wasteland of vital and utilitarian unfulfilled governmental facilities. The chainsaw, brandished by the performance-oriented idiot-savant, has been put back in the tool shed, but, regrettably, the thick hubristic assertions of the felt-tip black Sharpie are as notoriously hubristic and irresponsible as always.
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