You’re make this sound like it’s a metaphor or something…

But Musk is that kid literally, and last year one of the other billionaires did try to fight him for being unbearable until his mom literally stepped in and helped him back out

He’s a rich manchild who people put up with when he let them play with his cool toys. Then he went from the weird rich kid to a total asshole the second he thought this was loyalty… Now he’s crying about being bullied because everyone is turning against him, despite continuing to fuck absolutely everyone over

There’s so much to unpack in such a short statement

There’s two kind of “both sides”… There’s “we need a middle ground” which is horse shit, it leads to a choice between fascism and fascism-light

Then there’s “our politicians are decrepit zombies, so let’s do a leftist version of the tea party”

People want change, not stability. Not anymore. Everything sucks, so who are they going to vote for… An openly fascist snake oil salesman saying he’s going to fix everything, or someone composed insisting things aren’t as bad as they seem?

It’s a toss up, apparently.

Change. Remember that campaign slogan? Because it won, and Obama delivered so little of it

If a sandwich shop gives you food poisoning, you absolutely should be telling people not to eat there. You should leave reviews and tell people every time the name comes up

The logic you’re using is “well, what if the shop closes down and people can’t get sandwiches at all? What if they’re forced to eat at the numerous food stands that also give you food poisoning?”

If you say nothing, people are going to look at the sandwich shop sign and think it’s safer than the street food… That’s not better

To get away from the metaphor, harshly condemning Schumer at every turn would definitely do something. It sends a message that “this isn’t what you can expect from Democrats”

You say everyone knows who the real leaders of the party are…I literally don’t even know the second name there, I know AOC because she does good messaging about who she is and what she stands for. And I pay attention

Most people don’t even know who their representative is, but they’re much more likely to know who Schumer and Pelosi are. And they hate them.

This shady shit is why people hate the Democrats. When someone hands Trump everything he wants without a fight, they try to downplay it, like people haven’t noticed. They don’t punish it, they barely mention it - they’re so desperate to not shake the boat that they do nothing

Democrats need to shake the boat and make enemies… That’s what wins elections today. They need to call people out, and tell them what they stand for, and then they need to follow through

Because “once you enter you never leave”. You can argue that prison is a necessary evil, but you can’t argue it’s not evil

On that point, Schumer flipped (and whipped up enough traitors to pass the bill) in like the 12 hours before the vote. They had been talking about this since the inauguration, as the time when they’d finally be able to force the Republicans back to the table and do something

There’s no way he didn’t get a call from someone.

Then he meets with Trump, goes on a talk show tour to try to justify his actions, and the Democratic establishment held their breath to see if people would buy it. They still aren’t coming out hard against him… The condemnations are lukewarm and hesitant at best from party leadership.

No, they gave MAGA everything they wanted. They didn’t even get to give input on the spending bill. This isn’t 5D chess, this isn’t a strategic play… It was just total capitulation

And the party still wants to wait and see if Schumer can salvage his reputation, if they can sweep this utter betrayal under the rug

Fuck no. This is exactly the time to hold their feet to the fire and demand they be better and do more… They’re handing everything over to the fascists to try to get the oligarchs back on their side

The last thing we should do is believe they’re an effective resistance

I mean, the pathology goes so much deeper.

Musk’s family hates him. Like they actively go out of their way to speak against him. His father tweets shit about him, his grown children want nothing to do with him but will speak out against him, his ex… Well you could fill a book with that. His mother and his youngest child (who he uses like a prop) are the only ones that haven’t publicly worked against him

What friends does he have? His billionaire buddies will make moves with him, but we’ve seen the text chains - it’s all business. They barely react when he goes against his word… They congratulated him for buying Twitter himself after making plans to go into it together that he backed out of - no way that wasn’t a backhanded compliment

Trump hates his guts… But sucks up to him. What friends does he have? He has sycophants, he has people eager to use him… But every relationship he has is based around the fact he’s the richest billionaire. If he loses that, what does he have? Who does he have?

I mean, theoretically all original anonymous members are co-founders

It’s nebulous, bu at some point t it went from an idea to a hacktivist affiliation. Anyone who got on board with the idea before they did anything could be fairly called a co-founder

They do exist… They’re over at Lemmygrad.ml, I ventured over when I had the same question

Their ideology is a mess, they don’t have a roadmap beyond “workers of the world unite, then we’ll figure everything out”. And some of them think China and Russia are communist, or at least socialist… Which first off, they’re not, but more importantly they’re authoritarian regimes, which gets glossed over

It’s a fraction of the left, and a fraction of them are so focused on America bad they ignore what China does, and a fraction of them outright deny China or Russia have ever done anything wrong… I’ve encountered them online, but it’s very rare - especially if you don’t go looking for them

It’s possibly the oldest Democratic constitution, seeing as it’s both based on English common law and Democratic. That being said, it doesn’t mean it’s good… It has provisions to allow it to be updated or replaced for a reason

But it allows for slavery extremely awkwardly - it’s so obviously at odds with every point the document makes

Well for now, the courts aren’t giving up their power like Congress

So if he doesn’t show up, they’re going to rule against him and take it out of his bank account

Trump and Elon have gone through their life just fucking everything up. Really turning everything into dog shit

They had teams of people running around behind them doing their best with the chaos they leave in their wake… But those people often took their idiotic ideas and tried to reverse or misdirect them

So these guys started seeing this protection from their own incompetence as an obstacle. So they put a lot of work into removing them and replacing them with yes men and true believers

Now, more than anything, Trump and Elon are confused. They’re doing what they’ve always done, faster and more directly than ever - and they genuinely seem baffled that people keep getting angry at them

If only they could listen to Jesus first

You can read you through it all, no magic involved. Jesus is the only hero I’ve ever looked up to

If only. I’d support the idiot if he actually had any chance of getting humanity to Mars

Louisiana just declared a state of emergency over their aged license system, they’re saying if you need to fly you might need 180 days to go through their accelerated program to get a real id

I mean, I agree with all of that… I’m not saying we respect the courts crazy interpretation - but we do have to see the playing board clearly

I don’t know… I’m seeing a lot of anger. The oligarchs are censoring even most social media now… But even so, there’s so much anger. At town halls, at sports events, there’s constant protests going on somewhere… It’s being minimized, but it’s there

The argument US conservatives love to put forth is “contacting Georgia’s governor and asking that he conjure up enough votes to help Trump win, that’s an official presidential request, it was totally kosher” is wrong, and no other words other than “wrong” need to be used to describe it. Asking a governor to rig an election is not “the exercise of a constitutional power [that cannot] be infringed on [by] holding the individual personally liable” because it is not a constitutional power being exercised. It is just corruption and authoritarianism.

The problem is this was ruled on (specifically) by the supreme court. Their interpretation is obviously wrong, but the court has all the same members, so it’s unlikely to overrule itself for a while

Wait, did he figure out how security clearances work finally or did he just declare it on truth social?