Today is Tuesday, February 11, 2025. As you would expect, many millions of Americans are disgusted with the authority given to a South African billionaire by the delusional person in the White House, and are demanding that he and his entity called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) get out of government and out of their personal lives as he and his young tech nerds have gained access to sensitive files within the Treasury Department. In an online article for Mother Jones, Julianne McShane writes that a very large proportion of Americans do not want Elon Musk (Muskrat) making decisions about how the government functions. That should be reserved for the executive branch, not some spoiled, hated billionaire who has not been elected by voters. The title of the article is “Polls Keep Showing Americans Want Elon Musk and DOGE Out of Government.” This article truly shows how unpopular the crazy, conspiracy-fueled billionaire is with the general population.

Nearly half of people who responded to a new CBS/YouGov poll out today said they want Muskrat to have less influence over government spending and operations, including nearly a third who think they should have none at all. The poll found that 18 percent of respondents said that Muskrat and his DOGE acolytes should have “not much” influence on government operations and spending, while 31 percent said they should have none at all. I’m surprised that the number isn’t even larger here. “Predictably, the support differed along partisan lines: Nearly three-quarters of Republicans surveyed said Musk and DOGE should have ‘a lot’ or ‘some’ influence, whereas more than two-thirds of Democrats said they should have ‘not much’ or ‘none.'”

The results of this new poll are clear: a majority of Americans are fed up with Muskrat running the government; in my mind, it shows how fucking weak and beholden the Orange Turd is to the billionaire. Where the fuck is JD Vance, one must ask? Just this week, another poll from the Economist/YouGov also showed that 51 percent of Americans believe Muskrat has a lot of influence in the government, while only 13 percent want him to have that much influence; 46 percent (again, I wonder why it’s not even bigger), on the other hand, don’t want him to have any influence. Another poll released this week from progressive advocacy groups Groundwork Collaborative and Public Citizen in partnership with Hart Research found 54 percent of voters have an unfavorable opinion of him, with a majority also saying he has too much influence and involvement in the government and that they have less favorable opinions after learning about the lack of oversight regulating potential conflicts of interest with his companies as well as the ability of DOGE to access unclassified information.

You would think that all of these negative impressions of the unpopular Tesla billionaire (who has actually lost billions with sales of his car – it seems his car is not popular in Europe either) would reach the bobble head of the president who gave Muskrat all of this unwanted authority. But who really thinks Chump would listen to this scathing criticism of his Uber rich pal’s involvement in governmental affairs? If you think he will listen to people in the streets and the press, I have a bridge to sell you cheap.

Tomorrow Elliot and I embark on our Argentinian junket and we’ll return to the United States on Wednesday, February 26. I hope you will not reel with more crazy news coming out of the White House over the next two weeks. Keep calm and just turn off the television if he ever comes on. Read a good book instead.

I hope to see you all on the 26th.

And so it went!