Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk engaged in a heated exchange during a closed-door Cabinet meeting, with Musk accusing Rubio of firing “nobody” from his department.
Rubio angrily responded by citing 1,500 State Department staff who took early retirement and sarcastically asked if Musk wanted to rehire them just to fire them again.
The argument, which also involved Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over FAA management. Duffy complained DOGE’s youngsters were trying to fire air traffic controllers, which Musk responded was a “lie.”
Following the meeting, Trump announced on Truth Social that future DOGE cuts would use a “scalpel” rather than a "hatchet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
You will be happy to know that the word for “shit” in afrikaans is “kak”, so the term is particularly accurate.
Mmmm, irony layer cake.
Usually I would be happy to learn a new word, even this word, if only we weren’t experiencing this word.
Yeah I would definitely use it to describe Putin and Trump. Seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree