Musk Is Gone. Not.

Elon Musk served his long-awaited last day as a special government employee.  He gave a press conference from the White House explaining how he made changes to how government works and is accountable, and Trump praised him as having a great impact on government, a greater impact than anyone before in America history.

Alas, this is true.  Musk may be stepping down as director of the "Department" of Government Efficiency, but he will still most likely pull strings from the outside, and the "agency" he and Trump founded is more or less still in place, and it has all that personal data on every American it mined in the interim.  He is still a threat, and he is still a danger.  And with Tesla on the rocks, he has plenty of time to continue his assault on America as a private citizen.

As for Musk's black eye . . . apparently, he got into a row with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that got violent, but that's probably a rumor more than anything else.  Classic-rock fans may remember when the Doors appeared on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and guitarist Robby Krieger, having worn sunglasses for their performance in the first half of the show, turned out to have a black eye when he went sunglasses-free for the Doors' performance in the second half.  The story was that Jim Morrison punched Krieger in the eye during rehearsals at CBS Television City for the Smothers Brothers' show, but in fact, Krieger got his black eye from a car crash he'd recently been in.  So I don't really think Bessent punched Musk any more than I believed Jim Morrison punched Robby Krieger.  But however Musk got his black eye, he deserved it.

Musk joked that he hadn't been to France, but the French aren't the only ones who would want a crack at Musk.  Pretty much all eight billion-odd people on the planet are suspects in this assault case.  Especially Tesla owners and former admirers.