The cake is over

The title of this column is that of an autobiographical novel by journalist Nora Ephron, where she tells of her stormy relationship with her husband, Carl Bernstein, one of the two reporters who uncovered the Watergate case. The relationship ends with the protagonist smashing a freshly baked cake into her partner's face at a dinner with friends. It's funny, but a few years ago in Davos Elon Musk compared the simile of creating a company to making a cake. According to Musk, the richest man on the planet, it is not enough to have all the ingredients, you also have to know the appropriate proportion of each one.

The most brilliant of the techno-oligarchs had eggs and coffee for breakfast yesterday, as always, being aware that the Trumpist cake of his second term forgot the middle classes as an indispensable ingredient, but in addition, the volume of presidential corruption made it impossible to digest his management. He will not dare to throw the cake like Ephron did, because he was not tempted to do so either when, fed up with Trump's behavior, he left his position at the Department of Government Efficiency, but his displeasure is monumental after the 3-N result. The president wanted to turn the elections into a referendum, without understanding that Americans are more concerned about their pockets than their delusions.

Musk has entered the Guinness Book of Records by spending $500 million on these elections, not counting opaque donations. He played very strongly in Texas, where Democrat James Talarico, a 37-year-old Presbyterian seminarian, who he said was an extremist who would end democracy, won. Talarico used the biblical passage of David against Goliath to boost his candidacy. It took thirty years for Texas to have a non-Republican senator again.