Thanks to Dr. Robert Malone for linking to a Fox interview with Musk and members of the DOGE team. They talk about the kind of problems they’ve found, and assert that they’re working on fixing them. Worth watching despite the excessively friendly interviewer.
Lots of waste and fraud, as well as inefficiency, being found. But Musk, and some of the other DOGE people, are or work for important government contractors. Were no problems found with any of these contracts? How would such problems be handled?
Then, at the close, Musk talks about the need to end the Ukraine war. “[T]housands of people are dying every day in trenches…” Well, a lot of people are dying, and I suppose some of them are in trenches, but it’s not “thousands…every day.” There are numerous partial estimates, some behind paywalls or regwalls, but if we look at the Wikipedia article (“The number of civilian and military deaths is impossible to determine with precision”) we see numbers definitely less than “thousands every day.” Which does not mean that the war should not end, but does imply that maybe Elon is being a bit loose with some of his numbers. I wonder if the same might apply to the earlier parts of the interview.