these guys are also afflicted by the delusion that nothing can actually get bad
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don't think the Trump guys have realized the possibility for an economic failure cascade once they keep cutting wires like this
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Just like regulations, many of these system algorithms were written in blood.
They exist because people died without them.
For them.
He expects that he’ll be able to take advantage of the chaos
I don’t think he understands that his smash-and-grab approach only works *within* the very system he’s breaking
Whatever Musk wants, it somehow works out.
This is their secret - they really believe in their bullshit, and so far it has been coming true.
Are they overestimating their abilities as this game is getting bigger and bigger? And out of hand?
https://bsky.app/profile/hamiltonnolan.bsky.social/post/3lhgq3bdkuc2a
Recession coming for sure.
Without even going into its effect on government processes
People who fall for his BS don't understand why it's BS. Walk him through the implications like he's a toddler.
It's been said that a conservative can't enjoy a steak unless he knows someone else can't have. They're just trying to make steak 'great' again.
A recipe for a population that never mentally ages beyond the age of four
Most of us are like "I'd prefer a country with a nice, safe middle-class life for everyone."
For them, living in an armed compound surrounded by poverty and rage, traveling by armored car, afraid of kidnapping or attack?
That's the dream!
Blind belief that the system is working as intended got us here.
#MakeAmericaDecentAgain
they've spent their entire lives failing upwards, there's no long term planning here.
I'm sure they would have known, for example, that those threatened tariffs would make certain stocks, and crypto drop, so they could buy up big before they announced they were then delaying them. I'm guessing they cleaned up on that one.
Illegal, of course, but..
Trump, Elon, and the GOP are actively making you poorer, sicker, and less free—they want you to “feel pain”. Where they have so much money they will feel none.
The banks that Musk owes money to for his purchase of Twitter ain't taking crypto.
They know if it gets REALLY bad, we'll get REALLY pissed off. Then we'll protest. Then the proud boys, and the pardoned "hostages" will have to smash stuff and burn stuff. Maybe kill.
Then we'll have martial law. Imagine the money we'll save not having elections.
maga
Thom Hartmann
If things get "bad", obviously they cannot be affected.
the thing about ripping up the law is that you should be very sure the security services like you first
I'm just a bit concerned he won't know how to stop pushing before he provokes one
he doesn't have a million-strong SA kinda organization that can show up at federal office buildings, watch over potentially disobedient intel agencies, stuff like that
I think there are a fair number of Russian oligarchs who fit this profile
1. Destroy government institutions
2. Economic ruin ensues
3. Blame the government institutions
4. Privatize, selling government institutions to Trump's oligarch buddies for pennies on the dollar
5. Oligarchs get even richer
Post-Soviet Russia playbook. Enjoy, Murica.
He's just a straight up white supremacist.
More excuses to expand their power.
because they can’t perceive it, they think it’s all a scam and are going to destroy it. by the time they feel the consequences it will be too late
Welp.
First person starts the business, their kids grow the business, their grandkids are entitled twats and piss the whole thing away.
But as you said: welp
Not that it's a scam, but the assumption that the scaffolding can never be removed.
In fact failure is an opportunity.
A rich guy sitting in a lifeboat watching Titanic sink would be consumed with one thought: how to mount a hostile takeover of White Star Line now shares down. Probably put iceberg there on purpose
Is the real, emerging response to climate change? Not overhauling our economy/society to cut emissions but a ruthless, billionaire-led authoritarianism positioning itself to be in possession of whatever is left once we are all gone.
But note he is not using any federal troops to quell protests..I don't think he is confident he has military backing...it is...rather diverse.
They think they're insulated.
Maybe that's what the plan is?
Tariffs are inflationary.
He destroyed our trade relationships.
If voters are swayed mostly by the economy, there's going to be a huge blue tide.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jY39bLiqZEM&pp=ygULbm9uIGNvbXBldGU%3D
Strip mine a company, bug out to the next
But there’s no next
They are cheering on that things WILL get bad for everyone else.
Or maybe are victims of a freak accident from an expensive car or boat that would have been avoided with regulations had they believed in such things
So many options
https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3lhmzlh73cs2c
Also, whatever value it's given, gold is gold, not the infinite range of "coins" from Bit to Hawk.
Remember all the landlords who bought up repossessed homes for pennies on the dollars in the 2008 crash?
Rock bottom real estate becomes available?
They destroy it all and rebuild in their twisted utopian vision.
Survival bias is a crazy thing. Especially when you’ve been hopped up on adderall and / or ketamine for the past 3-28 years.