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OK, so…here’s the thing about Musk and Trump:
They’re nincompoops. They don’t •understand• diddly. Every venture they run, they’re the publicity, the front man in the con who holds the crowd’s attention. Somebody else is always doing the actual execution.
(Musk is such a technical ignoramus that at every one of his businesses there are people devoted to keeping him •away• from the engineers. This is widely known among tech folks, but I think the public still hasn’t quite caught on.)
That’s their MO. Shouldn’t we expect that this coup is working the same way?
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This is a coup. It’s a coup airing on the reality TV show that we call “the mainstream press.” Trump and Musk are the reality TV stars. Who are the scriptwriters, the showrunners? If this is Tesla, who are the engineers?
These are questions that have answers. Answers with names and addresses.
2/ #uspol via @GottaLaff:
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114082135472805861
Yes, continue the #TeslaTakedown. Punch Elon Musk directly in the testicles (which in has case are stock holdings).
And now, a new question:
How are Steven Miller and Katie Miller vulnerable? What punch doubles them over in pain?
Find that spot. Find it and hit it.
#uspol /end
@inthehands @GottaLaff
IDK, man, I think there are a bunch of people who *thought* they'd be handlers, but Musk and Trump are too unhinged/stupid/high/demented to be handled. No way did the billionaires want these tariffs blowing up the economy. No way did they want the recession that's now inevitable.
Nobody kept Musk from randomly removing servers at Twitter, and look how that went. It's cosmic justice that this directly fucked Ron DeSantis, resulting in "DeSaster."
@MaryAustinBooks @GottaLaff
Yes. “Handler” is the wrong concept; that puts the hierarchy backward. The point is that they delegate ideas and execution while taking credit for both — even in their own heads. X is a good example: Musk is constantly messing things up over there, but he can’t mess all of it up all the time, and in the spaces in between, •somebody• is actually doing all the real work he can’t do.
@MaryAustinBooks @inthehands @GottaLaff
No way did the billionaires want these tariffs blowing up the economy.
Do you know what billionaires call a depression? A buying opportunity.
During the Great Depression, most of the people who lost everything were poor. They were workers who lost their jobs or small-time investors who were buying on the margin (buying with loans using other stocks as collateral). The big investors stayed in and bought more during the crash, and made enormous piles of money.
The same thing happened in the 2008 and 2020 crashes. Billionaires did incredibly well in 2020. The stock market crashed and everyone with liquid capital (including the ability to use other assets as loan collateral) went on a buying spree. By 2022 the market had mostly recovered and these people made a load of money.
Crashing the economy is absolutely what they want, the only problem (from their perspective) is that the crash might not recover quickly enough. If you’ve got a few billion, you can easily handle your investments halving in value for a few years with no loss in lifestyle, but you really want them to recover within a decade.