2025-02-11
Behind the scenes in Washington DC, in "the belly of the beast", a quiet blitzkrieg is reportedly overwhelming the bureaucracy.
Enabled by IT and up to eight years of meticulous planning and preparation, Elon's Marauders are mapping the money and deconstructing the byzantine layers of obfuscation and delay, replacing all with fit-for-purpose control systems designed for real results in real-time.
The US equivalents of Sir Humphrey Appleby are still reacting in accord with their eternal paradigm, that change cannot, indeed must not, be rushed. Flat-footed is to overstate their response.
If this report is true, they are being swept away with no meaningful chance to resist.
Trump set the standard with his initial blizzard of executive orders, meanwhile Elon's stormtroopers are tearing into the bureaucracy that never thought it could be discovered analysed and remapped in so short a space of time.
Well, that's the story, and I don't doubt that it isn't necessarily quite so clean and clear-cut in practice, but ... Heck, it's a good story!
