The Concrete Reason Musk Is Out To Lay Waste To Gov’t Will Terrify You

History will record that the worst teaming up in politics was the duo of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They are like two halves of an egg, a perfect fit. The rocks in Musk’s head fit the holes in Trump’s. Trump wildly lied this morning about Musk finding “hundreds of billions of dollars in fake contracts.” That is pure hyperbolic bullshit with a capital B. Nothing like that has been found, nothing even close. But this was on Fox News, Political Fantasy Central, and it is now legal in these United States and has been since the age of Reagan to say this kind of nonsense on the public airwaves and not have to provide for an opposing viewpoint.

Trump: Elon Musk found hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fake contracts. What he’s done is make people realize how many people should be cut. Normally, you cut 4% of your workforce. He said cut 50%, 60%, 70% pic.twitter.com/qJRyXswj2v

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 9, 2025

The government will not function with three quarters of its workforce gone. This is sheer madness. But there is a reason for this madness. Do yourself a favor and read this Atlantic piece about “What Ketamine Does To The Human Brain.” This will scare the bejesus out of you. Because along with Trump’s infantile emotional development and his narcissim, we have Elon Musk who is not wrapped so tightly either. It is a recipe for profound disaster. And bear in mind, it’s the yous and mes that will be on the receiving end of this disaster. These guys have their money as insulation. You remember Howard Hughes who used his money (and Kleenex boxes on his feet) as insulation? They’re going to make the last days of Hughes look sane.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Musk also takes the drug recreationally, and in 2023, Ronan Farrow reported in The New Yorker that Musk’s “associates” worried that ketamine, “alongside his isolation and his increasingly embattled relationship with the press, might contribute to his tendency to make chaotic and impulsive statements and decisions.” (Musk did not respond to my requests for comment. In a post on X responding to The New Yorker’s story, Musk wrote, “Tragic that Ronan Farrow is a puppet of the establishment and against the people.”)

Ketamine is called a dissociative drug because during a high, which lasts about an hour, people might feel detached from their body, their emotions, or the passage of time. Frequent, heavy recreational use—say, several times a week—has been linked to cognitive effects that last beyond the high, including impaired memory, delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance. You can see why people might wonder about ketamine use from a man who is trying to usher in multi-planetary human life, who has barged into global politics and is attempting to reengineer the U.S. government. With Musk’s new political power, his cognitive and psychological health is of concern not only to shareholders of his companies’ stocks but to all Americans. His late-night posts on X, mass emails to federal employees, and non sequiturs uttered on television have prompted even more questions about his drug use.

Ketamine’s great strength has always been its ability to sever humans from the world around them. It was first approved as an anesthetic in 1970, because it could make people lose consciousness without affecting the quality of their breathing. In the 1990s, as a street drug known as Special K, ketamine took ravers to euphoric states. Then, in the 2000s, researchers found that doses of ketamine that didn’t put people to sleep could rapidly reduce symptoms of depression, because, the thinking went, the drug altered the physical circuitry of the brain. In 2019, the FDA approved a nasal spray containing a form of ketamine called esketamine (sold under the brand name Spravato) for patients with depression who hadn’t responded to other treatments. Spravato came with a list of rules for how the drug should be administered: in a certified medical setting by a health-care professional, and with limited dosage amounts determined by how long a person has been in treatment.

But Spravato’s approval was followed by a surge in prescriptions for generic ketamine, which, because it’s already FDA-approved as an anesthetic, can be administered off-label without the rules that govern esketamine. (Recreational use has shot up over the past decade too.) Some providers pair low-dose injections with talk therapy. Across the country, bespoke ketamine clinics offer shots and lozenges to treat a wide variety of mental-health conditions, including anxiety and PTSD; some focus on IV drips at doses high enough that maintaining a conversation is not feasible. Few take insurance. One market report estimated that the ketamine industry was worth nearly $3.5 billion in 2023. Outside the clinic, the drug is reportedly popular among Silicon Valley’s tech elite, and a feature at some wellness retreats, including those for leadership development, corporate team building, or couples counseling.

Now take a look at this latest post and tell me if this guy doesn’t have a God complex.

Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril. pic.twitter.com/a3g40m3UaY

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 9, 2025

The bottom tweet is what you have to see.

We’re all “small men” to this guy. And he is unelected, but he’s got this enormous power. And will that be challenged in the courts? Very likely. But listen to what Mad King Donald says about his plans for that.

Trump: We have a lot of law firms that we’re going to be going after pic.twitter.com/2essshGgVI

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 9, 2025

That’s where we are. Trump and Musk against the world. Using the power of the United States government to get there. And evidently Marco Rubio is the only one speaking out to Musk and we know how that’s going.

Trump and Musk are textbook delusional. Trump also has zero interest in the job and spends most of his time doing photo ops and playing golf. This is not a good scenario but it’s the one we are emphatically in.

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