Mary Beard, the classicist, delivers a timeless truth about autocrats: they’re generous until it’s lethal, just like the White House’s latest autocratic dinner party. A group of all-male suits, including the ever-so-wonderful Elon Musk, laugh their way through Musk’s trillion-dollar fantasy. But what’s a few billion in false savings between friends? When it comes to throwing out Musk, it seems the cabinet is all about a ‘game respects game’ attitude towards totalitarianism. And for the record, it’s not just the Ebola prevention that got canceled—there’s also a lack of concern for the trillions in corporate subsidies that truly define ‘efficiency’.
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