The thing about Elon is he is so fucking drug addled and insane that it's truly difficult to tell which second and third order effects he is purposely trying to engineer and which are just obvious consequences that he is too dumb to see.
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Going with Elon’s dumb and insane and Trump’s brain is so cooked he’ll literally agree to anything you tell him too. A US occupation of Gaza in the way Trump was talking isn’t physically realistic in the immediate term and logistically likely not in the long term.
Like I could go full conspiracy brained and be like "that's the point, they want an attack in the US because it gives them a tangible threat at home as reason to crack down on civil rights" or Elon is just a moron who thinks he's smarter than everyone.
I did expect Trump to dismantle shit, but I expected it to go through Congress. What's happening now is unprecedented. An entire government agency is just gone, practically overnight, and Congress is uninterested in challenging it.
I don't know what to expect. The first Trump administration was full of people I disagreed with, even hated, but they were people who had a basic respect for the Constitution. That's not the case in this second term and I have no idea what's coming next.
People are really, really, REALLY underestimating how stupid and how stoned Musk is.
One of the reasons I think he's got so many 20-year olds is because anyone older, even horrible groyper techbro types, have had enough life beaten into them not to try something THIS stupid.
There is not a single spine in the entire GOP congressional delegation. Totally cowed and subservient to Trump, and on board with the dismantling and waylaying of the American government.
I can’t help but wonder if their goal is to hasten the collapse of civilization so they can get to enjoying their rule of their little protected fiefdoms and not having to act like normal people anymore
Like Elon’s tired of waiting, he wants his Handmaid’s Tale now damn it.
Well, but we’re talking about Elon (and I, by extension, the other tech oligarchs), who doesn’t have to worry about elections because no one elected him.
I think there's also a Trump phenomenon where he's easily distracted by people around him who do have some sort of coherent (if conflicting bt each other) motivations
God I fucking spent some time with one of those “we are so smart and rational” fuckers and unfortunately I think a lot of it is the latter. God help us all.
someone posted clips from about 15 years back and he sure seems a lot more lucid. not stammering his way through even basic thoughts like today https://youtu.be/PU7QM3MZ2Vs?si=4qWOJAw4ZimwIGUz
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And that ignores the Saudis.
https://bsky.app/profile/lethalityjane.bsky.social/post/3lhfo63qny227
One of the reasons I think he's got so many 20-year olds is because anyone older, even horrible groyper techbro types, have had enough life beaten into them not to try something THIS stupid.
Their options were:
•Raise taxes - noooooo!
•Cut spending - nooooo!
E.M. has given them the unique benefit of achieving cost cuts w/o voting for them.
They abdicated to avoid making cuts themselves.
NOAA, NIH, NSF, DOE, they are killing it all and republicans are shrugging.
Like Elon’s tired of waiting, he wants his Handmaid’s Tale now damn it.
In other words, if we barge in there, we WILL have another 9/11.