The issue with Musk is that he’s not a very stable person and Trump has given him a lot of unchecked power.

While there’s no doubt that he’s a brilliant entrepreneur, compulsively lying and boosting easily verifiable falsehoods on X is not a sign of emotional maturity. Having so many kids with so many women with no desire to actually parent them is far from normal and carrying his toddler around everywhere may fool his fanboys but not anyone who has been a parent.

What he’s doing with DOGE is irr…

You do have to account for the fact that he has said a whole bunch of extraordinarily dumb stuff about what DOGE is "discovering" over the past month or two, much of which suggests a lack of even passing familiarity with the kind of data they're supposed to be dealing with. (The claims about duplicate SSNs, or people born in 1875 still getting checks, and so on. His original claim about large numbers of 150-year-olds was likely driven by some kind of error working with dates in ISO 8601 format,…