Trump could have had it so easy by basically doing nothing, letting the soft landing happen, while doing Project 2025 stuff quietly in the background. But between Trump's insatiable desire for tariffs and Elon embracing unpopular austerity, they made things harder for themselves long term - ThreadSky

jdcmedlock.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Trump could have had it so easy by basically doing nothing, letting the soft landing happen, while doing Project 2025 stuff quietly in the background. But between Trump's insatiable desire for tariffs and Elon embracing unpopular austerity, they made things harder for themselves long term

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kristinwhite.bsky.social•1 day ago

They are following the Yarvin dictator plan. So they feel the need for shock and awe. But the “CEO of America” they chose was Musk, who only a few tech bros and Nate Silver actually believe is a genius business leader and everyone else realizes is a drug fueled delusional Nazi.

jdcmedlock.bsky.social•1 day ago

Obviously there's a long way to go, and the odds the US emerges from all of this as a functioning liberal democracy are still far lower than I'd like them to be. But we've been blessed with the stupidest fucking enemies imaginable.

it-is-alan.bsky.social•1 day ago

It sucks that that’s the saving grace

priscillamaloney.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Let Them" (keep tripping on their.....)

kalonastars.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly my thoughts, I guess the US enemies are not so smart as advertised before.

darkilluminator.bsky.social•12 hours ago

We haven't been blessed. If they weren't so stupid, they'd vote for Kamala Harris instead of Trump.

emmreef.bsky.social•1 day ago

wowthatscoolmyguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

These guys should be the vaccine against fascism. The literal weakest, most inept version imaginable that we should pound into the sand and cause us to redouble our defenses against it... unfortunately our immune system is immediately post-chemo levels of useless.

wowthatscoolmyguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

A white blood cell with an exaggerated southern accent shouting, "Just let them through! Someone else will take care of it once they do enough damage, then people will miss us!"

smuuchii.bsky.social•1 day ago

careful. there may be more to this madness than meets the eye. again, yarvin. which is compatible with a firesale of america, to be bought up by the very folks destroying it (and their allies). so long as the current system is vacated and the void filled by oligarchs.

smuuchii.bsky.social•1 day ago

not saying they're smart or even in control of how it's playing out. but they may not need to be to achieve their goals.

ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social•1 day ago

unfortunately, the American electorate is also pretty stupid

dr-john-von-pi.bsky.social•8 hours ago

#Trump is the living proof that a #conman doesn’t have to be smart if his marks are #stupid enough…
#MAGA is a cult! For #morons!

dxmnkd316.bsky.social•1 day ago

I still have faith we come out of this with a literal Green New Deal and my grandkids talk about the AOC/Walz/Pritzker era in their APUSH classes and visit the massive works projects on field trips.

mepsmith.bsky.social•1 day ago

They do so many tweets/truths about very unpopular things! Why don’t they just do them and shut up about them? No one would notice until it’s too late!

cdubs271.bsky.social•1 day ago

I get this sentiment. But, it requires a competent opposition party to turn the tides. And...yeah

dhf-on-bsky.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is true of Vance as well?

I mean, in the next election he could have owned all the "positives" and none of the chaos if he could have...just kept his mouth shut.

dribrats.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. Vance could have been the savior of the party just by keeping his head down until Trump deteriorated enough to be removed, then getting rid of Musk and DOGE and governing as a normal Republican. But now he's poisoned the foreign policy well.

missom.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, given his role in the abhorrent foreign policy, Vance has made it so that if the US manages to depose Trump and tries to convince old allies "we've changed! really! trust us again, please!" getting rid of Vance too will have to be necessary, as proof of evidence.

huntw3.bsky.social•1 day ago

Spot on! Trump has united our allies against us. Elon has made Tesla toxic. Few people other than government employees have been directly affected so far, but there are enough Veterans who are government employees for everyone see the writing on the wall. The T-Cells are now on full alert!

huntw3.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would say in the short term, too. Trump has made the flag of Ukraine a symbol of resistance like the old Confederate flag. Elon has made Tesla toxic. The body politic needs galvanizing shocks for its immune system to kick in. My sense is that this is happening now.

benjaminkabak.com•1 day ago

This is what gets me. If they had waited a few months, the GOP Congress probably would’ve authorized 95% of what they wanted. Instead they ran headlong off a cliff like the drug-addicted morons they all are.

ennui.org•1 day ago

If he had been halfway closer to normal during the pandemic, he would've been reelected.

But he is who he is.

benjaminkabak.com•1 day ago

Having no adults in the room this time around is extremely bad for us all and the country, but it’s also bad for Trump and his cronies.

bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social•1 day ago

his problem is that he has no interest in being a constitutional president, he wants to demand things and then yell and demean people until it happens or he gets distracted.

I'm not entirely sure who I'm referring to here, but it applies to both of them.

cause.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fascism remains a movement full of aesthetics-obsessed, egomaniacal, insecure and drooling simpletons.

emmowens.bsky.social•1 day ago

But, between both of their insatiable desire for attention...

slimemolder.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is difficult for such cool headed methods to take place when your ideology is inherently insane. It reminds me of people saying oh the Nazis might have won if they didn't do the Holocaust or invade the ussr. Well maybe, but their ideology demanded it. They wouldn't be who they are without this.

acekatana.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’ve fucked up the brand for all their international fascist friends too. Everyone’s looking at their local fascist party like “wait you want to do THAT??”

pumapants.bsky.social•1 day ago

Overwhelm, demoralize, disorganize the opposition, breaking the ability to resist. A blitzkrieg by executive order.
Soon enough they won't even have to pretend to obey laws.
And Trump's old. Putin needs him to entrench Vance and Musk before he's gone.

expatgirl.bsky.social•1 day ago

May they both self-implode

geneseedreams.bsky.social•1 day ago

Insatiable desire for attention. They’re narcissists.

kyleiphd.bsky.social•1 day ago

DOGE could have done the same thing more slowly over the course of a year, and probably with Congressional support. But no! They had to do everything all at once *right now*

(I realize this is no guarantee of anything still, it is genuinely very bad, and yet)

smuuchii.bsky.social•1 day ago

not sure that's what elon's up to. in fact, I'm sure it's not, it's one or both of these:

1. yarvin plan
2. control the taps, siphon/redirect

smuuchii.bsky.social•1 day ago

oh, wow, it's so sane over here. no one else mentioned either. are people taking elon's words at face value? bit surprising, given his... history and mental state

smuuchii.bsky.social•1 day ago

tbc, elon doesn't give a shit about fraud, waste, abuse, nor about imposing austerity to balance the budget.

elon cares about one thing: elon

ricosuavejd.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's just like with Covid. He could've just treated it like the threat it was, done marginal things to help solve it, and coasted to victory.

But he always chooses the wrong, terrible path.

begemot13.bsky.social•1 day ago

They thought they only had a small window to get all the Project 2025 stuff done.

But now it's run out of gas, and all the problems are coming home to roost...

spacefordogs.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ah, ze brightest flame, she burns out ze fastest!

wargarurumon.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://youtu.be/JkCgpj5zNiY?si=MEzNTaHQX0Ef6GZr

Its all just so perfectly apt, they couldn't help themselves

wargarurumon.bsky.social•1 day ago

And its not even a desire for tarrifs, those are just the means. He wants to institute autarky and bully "weaker" nations. Completely fucking retarded

phoenixfire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not to mention openly and repeatedly stating his desire to betray or outright conquer territory from longtime allies, turning this country into a rogue pariah state and diplomatically isolating it from the rest of the world

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