Dunno, but here is where Dan sourced it from:
https://x.com/grandoldmemes/status/1876418169105236021/photo/1
Sometimes true, but the counterpoint would be what happened between AOC and Gerry Connolly. Connolly was the consistent "yes" vote for however many decades. AOC opened her wings to fly and shout "no" to party leadership--which has value to the public--but had no value in the fetid halls of the swamp.
Connolly's dutiful yes votes allowed him to chair a committee in the later years of his filthy career in the swamp.
The prior rules for tossing him were extremely generous.
I think Johnson plays the game better than some realize. People like Massie are not a problem for him. They are useful buffers and cudgels.
We need to realize that Johnson wasn't negotiating that mega-budget with a Republican Senate and President. He had to come up with something that Schumer and Biden would agree to. The Musk-led outcry during the voting process was just what the country needed to rapidly slam on the brakes, create something better with everyone's attention on it, and reverse-uno the emergency budget back onto the Senate and Biden.
With hindsight it was likely the plan all along, with Johnson low-key doing his part.
I don't see the memorandum referenced in the doc listed here.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-for-agencies/memoranda/#memoranda-2024
Would be curious if anyone could turn it up. It would make sense for appointed agency heads to retire..
I think where Paxton struggled is the word "willful" is not even found in the original complaint:
If willfulness is fundamental to piercing Pfizer's protection, shouldn't it be all over their claim? Maybe an appeal will open up the opportunity for them to demonstrate it.
The whole metaphor is a bit broken as it mixes files with routing. woke_mind_virus isn't a proper domain so you can't traceroute it (unless it was defined in /etc/hosts or something). You wouldn't delete a remote host with "rm -rf" (that's for files).
I think it's just a fun way for Elon to say he's done a bit of self reflection and found some residual woke virus within himself. Wonder if it's on the Israel thing or something else?
I suppose a higher interpretation of this could be that if you find the woke mind virus in yourself, you need to "clear out all files". A total system reset is necessary and you can't trust that any data is valid.