Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we're talking about boring high school classes, fucking on gondolas, Kendrick Lamar, and more. It would now seem that Elon and his gang have my personnel file at their fingertips, and that a year-old intern will decide the financial fate of many.
So my question is this: am I getting my next paycheck? I wish I knew. Normally, the job of the political press is to un -confuse the rest of us about these matters, but the biggest outlets are now getting lapped by much better reporters at places like Wired. What seems clear to me is that the new administration, in which Musk is operating as a kind of shadow president, is intent on reorganizing the entire government so that it operates exactly like one of Musk's companies.
Musk has leveled up from bullying Twitter engineers out of their jobs to bullying civil servants , all so that he can abolish funding for things like foreign aid, diversity initiatives, regulatory oversight, education, health care, and anything else that doesn't fit into his ultimate goal of creating a country that only serves rich white people.
He's running around D. No more job. What high school topic did you give the least amount of shits about, Drew? And to be fair, Martin Luther was kind of a dipshit.
Oh man, I think you nailed it with that portion of history class. I remember being so psyched to learn about the Middle Ages. It was the driest material I was ever forced to slog through. Everything that happened between the birth of Christ and World War I was so, so fucking boring. The only Charlemagne I know anything about is Charlamagne tha God. The other subject that bored me to tears was Spanish, mostly because I sucked at it.
