Isn’t the entire point of this technocratic edifice that we are ruled by experts? By the system’s own justification, shouldn’t these people be fired?

Big Paloota and Col Beausabre: What the left despises is not someone or something that is “big”, but a threat to its power. Successful businessmen or companies that garner a lot of profit have enough power of their own to resist and fight the left, as Musk has been doing. That makes him a threat.

You will notice that the Democrats like Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos. He’s big and powerful, but he also is on their side, part of their team (at least they think so). Same thing with Richard Branson. Thus, for the past two decades both have been given a free ride by the leftist press and the people it carries water for.

Standard liberal argument – if you are big, you are, ipso facto, bad

The local EPA guy would not let Habitat for humanity rebuild houses and give them away without TOTAL lead and asbestos remediation. Even though private citizens could buy, paint over the lead and sequester the asbestos and resell the house.

Our very next door city though because they had a differe3nt EPA guy could do exactly what state law allowed private citizens to do.

It’s clear as day that Ms. Rosenworcel (as Dan Aykroid might have said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91XUyg9iWM), “you ignorant DEI you know what,” has as much business at the FCC as Tampon Tim has running for Vice President, but there she is. And she represents a legion of Biden Administration appointees whose only purpose seems to be to scuttle whatever agencies they are working for.

In stark contrast, take a moment to read about the extraordinary life and career of Grace Hopper, a pioneering programmer and patriot who helped to create the modern world. https://spectrum.ieee.org/from-punch-cards-to-python

This, more than anything else that I can imagine, probably “explains” the difference between the America of 1940 – 2000 and the gelded snow flake America of today. (And, no, I do not “hate” Ms. Rosenworcel, but I do feel sorry for her, and I am sad that she serves as such a terrible example of what women might aspire to today.)

“ Flight 5 is built and ready to fly.

Flight 6 will be ready to fly before Flight 5 even gets approved by FAA!”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836639170300666277?s=46