"Hello Elon. At work, I shopped for a new Cybertruck and asked friends on X of how to get a good deal, but not a great deal, because Tesla should be paid premium for the wonderful product that they make. After that, I got onto my fake bluesky account and trolled libs about how pathetic they are for wanting a democracy by the people for the people. For lunch, I had some face of my liberal co-workers, who I'll provide a list for. Their liberal tears were good for washing it down. After lunch, I watched Fox News while scanning X for any real news. Fox has a few dissenters that give fake news these days. After work, I go to a meeting of like-minded individuals where we sometimes round up the brown people and call ICE to pick them up. "
I'm sure they'll publish their evidence for the public to see....
This payout to the public worked for GW, so it may work for Trump. It's not to help the economy and is purely to bring up sentiment from the public. Give people $5K each while taxing them an extra $10K on the back-end. They know people, in general, do not have the foresite to see past the money that is in front of them.
Wins what though? That's why I think you have to look at it more deeply at a psychological level, the element of being 'compelled' means they have an underlying *need* to be comforted by accumulating and controlling the most wealth and power. At the most extreme level, if you believe the world/people/agencies are a threat to your ego, by controlling it all, that eliminates the threat. So, it is fundamentally a defense mechanism by people who are deeply wounded (usually by childhood trauma) That doesn't excuse their evil, no more than being an alcoholic excuses you from drunk driving.
I am sure it would buy Trump a fair amount of short-term goodwill, but it would be bound to backfire by the 2026 midterms. Trump already has only a slender majority in the House and if he loses that he will be unable to do much legislatively.
Basically it's the promise of a future bribe to look the other way while they loot the government now.
I remember Robert Reich writing about a GOP politician who expressed his fear of the "crazy" Trump followers. I can't find it now but I think it was on Twitter to which I no longer have access.
Sure, Jan. There are more effective ways of determining whether someone is alive than seeing whether they answer a mass threatening email from some guy.
Dead people voting. Dead people collecting social security. Dead people drawing paychecks. There's a real obsession going on there.
Spot on. Musk is supposedly the head of several successful companies. Yet now he can seem to spend all this time pretending to be a government officer while eking billion-dollar salaries from the companies he's supposed to be leading. Con artists excuse their immoral behavior by pretending everyone is just as ill-intentioned as they are.
This comes closest to what I was thinking. For most people, how much money they have or can get is a realistic measure of what they can afford to buy; for folks like Musk/Trump, it's a measure of their idealized self-worth, and, by comparison, how much (or, more accurately, how little) people who don't have as much are worth. It's a definition, a quality, not a quantity at all.
They don't have to both lose, I'd be okay if one side loses and the other side is defeated.
Obviously they're afraid of zombies making an honest living.
Dead person in the Oval Office...
A monumental man. Every time he shows how noble and great he is, I feel incredibly bad as a Norwegian, European, and Westerner for letting them down. They could've won the war handily and we slow-walked our support.
Will Dump or Musk be stabbed in the back first? I predict one of them won't live to see 2028...
Exactly. Posobiec's framing is a contradiction in terms. The Constitution is the embodiment of the principle that the people are the basis of government, and that no one man can be any such embodiment. It is, after all, what the term "republic" literally means.
I kind of miss the days when the right's response to any threats to democracy was the hoary and superficial "we live in a republic, not a democracy," as if there just was not enough room in their minds for the idea that we could actually be both. Now, it seems, with folks like Posobiec, the mantra has evolved naturally into the suggestion that we are neither. All hail the bloated embodiment!jreakle
Posobiec: Trump can't violate the Constitution because "Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution."This is just textbook fascism.It is antithetical to everything our Founders fought for.
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It’s one of the reasons the “fat cats” want everyone back in the office, they know that when they are “working from home” they are pissing around so they think other people are just like them.