Brooke is entirely correct. Read up on Curtis Yarvin's plan to crater the US government and scoop up the crumbs, then install a technocrat CEO to run the country.
You'd think, right? But inciting an insurrection on live television wasn't enough to move the needle, and now SCOTUS has essentially said that nothing he does in office can be a crime, so...I wouldn't expect anything Trump did at this point to result in an impeachment vote.
He was impeached over Jan 6 and almost convicted.
Deliberately defaulting on US debt and cratering the economy would seem to be a crime of epic proportions but I guess as long as they make a lot of news and create chaos, they are happy? God, this is such a ridiculous time.
if they do it, Trump/Musk would be the most hated men in US history and even if they get ungodly levels of wealth from it, 99.999% of the country will out for their blood. Is it worth it to them?
I think you're optimistic about 99% of the country there. They're so sucked into Fox News, OANN and all of that garbage that they truly believe down is up and that Elon is doing great things. It's Orwellian in the strictest sense. They're convinced that destroying education is good for schools, etc.
maybe, but hard to spin defaulting on US debt and burning the economy to the ground... I mean they'll of course blame it on DEI or Biden or Obama ... but I don't think it will work for the majority of the country, especially if they pull some blatant switcharoo with crypto
Remember all those references Trump & Musk made to "there will be some pain" for the American people after the Inauguration? They sounded just like Argentinian & Chilean libertarian technocrats before they imposed "fiscal discipline"--currency devaluation coupled with austerity--on their countries.
In 1992 George Soros made his first billion leveraging losses on the British Sterlings pending devaluation. He did this as an insider in Britains banking system. Who is doing this now?
Symbolic: Trump has ordered to ceasing of distributing new pennies to Americans. But he now has displayed a big penny on his credenza behind Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
Oh it's 100% like Chile! But the Chilean dictatorship was a US backed project after all, organized by UChicago economists who wanted a "laboratory" to test Milton Friedman's theories. Look at how Project 2025 quotes Friedman (I mean... badly. It's like the "my only research was wikipedia" version
Trump & Musk are generally indifferent to the suffering of others, but they enjoy inflicting pain & asserting power to boost their fragile egos. They have the toddler's impulse to destroy. Unfortunately, w/ the power of the presidency & immense wealth, they seek to destroy, not blocks, but a nation.
Been saying it for months. They want crypto to be our currency for profits. Crypto is too volatile compared to US dollar. To destabilize USD and make crypto look better, they needed to destabilize the nation.
Glad someone with a following finally got it reposted.
Trump & Musk’s “there will be pain” echoes Latin America’s libertarian technocrats who imposed austerity, deregulation, & privatization. The result? Skyrocketing inequality & suffering for millions. Same rhetoric, same risks.
I don't know about that. We're now a country that doesn't believe anything is true. Trump once said he could shoot someone in the head on Fifth Ave and get away with it. I think that was more metaphor than anything.
Read up on Curtis Yarvin, the soi-disant philosopher whose insane anti-democratic ideas guide the broligarchs; he was just profiled in the NYT Magazine. He wants this. It's a bad idea and Yarvin has no understanding of government or humans, but nevertheless... https://bsky.app/profile/limina7.bsky.social/post/3lhs62psk5c2i
I wonder if there's some index of broligarch to trad-oligarch (and just plain corporate donor influence). Obviously out of wack at the moment with Elon.
I still think the crypto-dollar switcheroo plan, which I totally believe they want to do, is just a massive self own in waiting. To destroy the closest thing to a defacto global currency and attempt to replace it with something that has been rejected so forcefully is just dumb. No other words for it
Yes, it's dumb. Like shuttering USAID. I fear their long history of doing dumb things and getting bailed out afterwards has taught them the wrong lessons.
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My sense is the ultra-rich learned 2 really noxious lessons from 2008:
1. The government will bail them out when their reckless, stupid investments fail (then: CDOs; now, AI, crypto).
2. Crashing the economy allows the rich to buy valuable assets cheaply.
Deliberately defaulting on US debt and cratering the economy would seem to be a crime of epic proportions but I guess as long as they make a lot of news and create chaos, they are happy? God, this is such a ridiculous time.
This is a 'make the people fight among themselves' sort of robber baron situation.
Only because There Will Be Blood was taken.
Glad someone with a following finally got it reposted.
https://bsky.app/profile/limina7.bsky.social/post/3lhs62psk5c2i
They always learn that lesson, especially the super-rich.