> DOGE’s approach is much more of a “private equity play,” said Samuel Hammond, chief economist for the right-leaning tech policy think tank Foundation for American Innovation. “It’s sort of liquidation nation,” he said, referring to the way private equity firms strip companies down for parts. While he said DOGE isn’t “universally praised or condemned” among the conservative technologists he knows, he said more people in those circles are starting to “talk about the DOGE that could have been.”
I’ve been thinking about your second point. Some speculation:
Assuming that Trump, Musk, and Putin each need something from one of each other. Assuming that the siloviki want to quietly rule Russia.
A mercenary uprising would be convenient cover for Putin to endure exile in, say, the Caribbean. Security by FSB, siloviki split up their rule across Russia, etc. Operating from Guyana, Putin could deprive ESA of access to the French Guiana spaceport, handing it over to Musk.
The entire Caribbean fell into 10% tariffs except for two: Guyana (38%) and Cuba (0%).
Numerous times, he conflates debt and budget deficit. He has even confused the direction his budget goes in. These terms are just backdrops for the things he wants to talk about: immigration, lack of loyalty to whites from other races, etc.
