I'm going to go easy on you today with three images and minimum writing. I do this, in part, as atonement for yesterday's 1,032-word post. Honoring my pledge, I'll get right to it.
From The Atlantic: "Elon Musk’s unceasing attempts to access the data and information systems of the federal government range so widely, and are so unprecedented and unpredictable, that government computing experts believe the effort has spun out of control."
That is to say, Elon Musk has spun out of control — an inexorable development among tin-foil chief executives in pursuit of a totalitarian government, singularly portrayed in image 1.
Image 2 is of no surprise — only wonderment about who the punch-drunk 6% are in each group. Are they just Tesla owners or for whatever deranged reason do they dream of becoming Tesla owners? Were they at all aware of Musk's bizarre, usually vicious and always ideologically besotted "writings" on his $44 billion toy of a cyber-rag he mystifyingly renamed as X? Do they understand that because Trump spends most days playing golf and penning equally vicious posts he appointed the richest man on earth to mangle the government so he can become even richer and evade accountability in the bloated figurehead's place?
But of striking surprise is image 3. That Musk had less than 50% support among the mental layabouts who in early November spent two minutes helping to destroy a then-237-year-old representative democracy comes as news, to me anyway. (The pollster is YouGov, rated a perfect 3.0 by the NYT, B+ by Nate's Silver Bulletin.) Now his original below-par support has been cut in half, roughly, and in only three months. That's meaningful, given that it's 1) intriguing statistical evidence of somewhat abundant Republican educability, 2) suggestive of the base's rapidly declining enthusiasm for unadulterated Trumpism, and 3) auspicious, for disapproval of Musk might well transcend into rampant disapproval of Trump himself.
Our as-it-were government's ceremonial lunatic is already on a suspiciously downward slope. His approval/disapproval numbers are mixed — the upside for us: Reuters/Ipsos had him at "Disapprove +1" on 28 Jan.; Gallup, also disapprove +1 on 30 Jan.; and Pew Research pegged his disapproval at a satisfying +4 on 7 Feb.
Unsatisfying is that in Trump's scrambled polling the recent +approvals outnumber their opposites by two. Still, Americans' discontent with his and Musk's raygun-blazing alien invasion of D.C. appears to be challenging its opposite — and remarkably soon. Post-election I gave the unhinged scofflaw three to six months (at the outside) before his polled favorability cratered. My prognosticating assessment might have been too conservative.
Is there a way democrats can use Elon's tanking poll numbers to their political advantage?
I have never heard of public polling on a non politician.
Let me preface this by saying that Elmo likely knows this and does not care, because he has eleventy gazillion dollars and has no need to care about anything, but: he is yet another one of those Trump-created problems that Orange Crushler will at some point swoop in to “solve.” Probably once the requisite control over the Treasury has been achieved. I might go so far as to say this is the plan, if indeed there is any actual method to the madness. But I’m wary of outright declaring that because most of this gang of wreckers couldn’t assemble a ham sandwich, so we will see.