Imagine being the richest person on the planet and still being so deeply insecure that you spend your days surrounding yourself with 19-year-olds with broccoli haircuts breaking into the government like it’s a frat house prank gone awry. That’s Elon Musk. A man so desperate for control that $320 billion isn’t enough. He needs your tax dollars, your personal data, and your attention just to feel like he’s a man.
That’s the power structure running the government now: a divorced billionaire having a prolonged temper tantrum. I would tell one of his wives to come get him but all of them have left him. In fact, one of them actually divorced him twice!! A cool new record.
Musk isn’t running the world, he’s having a midlife crisis. And nothing says deeply fragile billionaire quite like rigging an election just to get richer, hoarding $136 billion, and then turning around and demanding that the government cut aid to starving children. Not the $849.8 billion military budget that funnels cash directly into his companies, no, no, that’s fine. Instead, he’s crying about USAID, which makes up less than 1% of the budget but has literally saved millions of lives.
This isn’t about “government waste.” If it were, Musk would be tweeting in all caps about the Pentagon’s missing trillions instead of killing programs that keep babies alive. But that would take actual courage.
And let’s remind ourselves of the truth: Musk didn’t earn his billions, he lucked into them. His entire fortune is built on government subsidies, tax breaks, and exploiting labor. And now, like a guy who won’t stop bragging about being self-made while his daddy quietly covers his rent, he’s decided that the real problem with government spending isn’t corporate welfare for billionaires like him, it’s that too many African children are surviving infancy. Brave!
Let’s be clear: USAID is far from perfect, but it’s one of the few scraps of moral responsibility left in U.S. foreign policy. It’s a half-hearted attempt to make up for centuries of Western looting, economic sabotage, and corporate exploitation. And Musk (the walking embodiment of fragile, inherited wealth) wants to gut it, not because it would save the government any meaningful money, but because it makes him feel powerful to take things away from people who are too malnourished to fight back.
That’s Musk’s whole deal. He doesn’t build things, he breaks them. He doesn’t solve problems, he creates them. He’s a nepobaby who spends more time monitoring his twitter replies than actually running his companies. And yet, despite all the money in the world, he is so profoundly empty that he is using his leverage to go after the most vulnerable people on the planet.
Not the corporate loopholes that let billionaires dodge taxes while public schools crumble. Not the war machine swallowing trillions as veterans sleep on the streets. No, Musk has decided the real problem with government spending isn’t corrupt defense contracts or Wall Street bailouts, it’s the child in Malawi writhing in pain from malaria, the mother in Uganda taking her last breath because her clinic ran out of medicine, the village where children’s ribs press against their skin as they wait for food that may never come. And as they suffer, Musk sits in one of his mansions, adding another bathroom he’ll never use, another rocket he’ll never ride. This isn’t about saving money. It’s about power. He’s not cutting aid because he has to, he’s cutting it because he can. Because no matter how much he hoards, it will never be enough to make him feel whole.
Strong men protect the vulnerable. They build, they defend, they take responsibility. Weak men hoard power, steal from the public, and blame the poor for their own inadequacies. Musk wants to be seen as strong, but nothing about him is. There is no strength in a man who needs government contracts to survive but cries about government spending when it helps anyone else. There is no power in a man who rigs the system in his favor and still acts like a victim. There is no dominance in a man so deeply insecure that, even with more money than any human should have, uses his time to take it away from starving children.
And by the way, there’s something profoundly pathetic and ironic about the fact that Musk singlehandedly cuts off aid to sick children while claiming to be pro-life. A man who insists he cares about birth rates and the future of humanity is actively making sure millions of babies never get a future at all.
Musk isn’t protecting or providing. He is hoarding and destroying. He is a man so weak he steals from those who have nothing just to convince himself he has everything.
So the next time Musk whines about “government waste,” just remember: he doesn’t care about your tax dollars. He only cares about his. And he will burn the entire world down before admitting that, even as the richest man alive, he still feels like a loser.
Thank you Liz for always standing up to these losers & as always bringing the comedic spirit to it all.
100%. It is obvious to us smart people that Musk and Trump are at the top of the weakest man list, followed by their other billionaire minions. Someone with high self-esteem is righteous and builds others up, not tear them down. We are all equal people sharing this planet, each contributing our own special gifts. NO ONE appointed either of them superior. In fact, their actions make them inferior. Their billions alone could solve most of the planet's problems, ya think? It is beyond reprehensible that they are allowed to behave with such evil. Karma is a bitch. I only hope that we all are still around to experience their downfall. Thank you Liz for speaking truth to power.