She's just a figurehead anyway.
WatDabney
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He's not "surrendering" to them - he's actively working for their benefit, as it's been clear all along he intended to do.
As I've said many times, Trump and Musk and so much of the American right are pro-Russia largely because they have so many shared values.
MAGA republicans are looking forward to the time when they too will be able to torture and strip female prisoners and parade them around naked.
If America is going to continue to be not Trump, it's going to have to move fast.
With Musk threatening 60 Minutes staffers with prison and Trump taking over the FCC, it's already moving into the official government-controlled media stage, and when (if) significant protests start happening, it's going to quickly move into the gulags and mass graves stage.
And then, for all intents and purposes, the US will be Trump, like it or not.
I quite sincerely believe that the long term goal is for the US to formally ally with Russia in a war against the EU.
I'm not kidding.
Of course it won't, but they're incapable of thinking it through that clearly.
Hierarchical systems like capitalism effectively reward and thus select for psychopaths who are laser-focused on their short-term, shallow self-interest, since they have the fewest constraints on the choices they're willing to make. Anyone else might refrain from an otherwise effective course of action if they recognize that it's ultimately destructive or self-defeating or immoral or unethical, but the psychopaths who only think in the short term won't, so all other things being more or less equal, they have an advantage.
That's a lot of what we're seeing right now. Trump and Musk are making so much headway toward destroying the United States in large part because people are having a hard time working out how to even respond, since their actions are so corrupt and so destructive and so self-serving. They've jumped right past any ordinary notion of corrupt and self-serving and destructive to a brazen and egregious level that for many really is, in a simple, practical sense of the term, "unthinkable."
And yes - crushing the common people in order to maximize the wealth that can be extracted from them and the privilege granted to the wealthy few is self-defeating in the long term, since the common people are the ultimate source of that wealth. But that won't stop people like Musk and Trump, because they're quite simply neither sane nor rational enough to let it.
I liken it to people living in penthouses in apartment buildings cannibalizing the lower floors to expand their penthouses. Not only are the buildings eventually going to collapse under the weight of the penthouses, but they're actually hastening that by weakening the lower floors.
But Musk and Trump and the like just aren't equipped to see that, or to restrain themselves if they do. So that's not only what they will do, but what they are doing, right now, this minute.
By design.
The wealthy, led by Trump and Musk and Zuckerberg, among many others, have entered into open warfare against the common people.
Note this well - this isn't just rhetoric. He truly and sincerely believes that people should go to prison for the "crime" of criticising him.
The US is on the path to gulags and mass graves.
They say that as if destroying programs that benefit the common people and instituting policies that benefit the 1% are some sort of unexpected consequences rather than the exact and explicit point.
It's not an accident that I download epubs and read them on Moon+.
Amazon signaled clearly years ago that their goal wasn't to make a convenient ebook reader, but to create an entire proprietary e-reading system designed solely to extract as much money as possible for as little value as possible. And this is just another step in that ongoing process.
Broadly, it's because Musk and Trump are both psychopaths. That's the real foundation for everything else - the simple fact that we've allowed ourselves to be ruled by people who are obviously profoundly mentally ill.
As a direct consequence of their profound mental illness, they have no honor, no integrity, no principles, no morals, no ethics and no comcern for anyone or anything other than themselves.
So the only thing that could possibly stop them is force, and the federal courts have no way of applying that force.
That's what he's always done.
He has the attention span of a toddler. He latches onto ideas, and specifically things that will satisfy his ego, his greed or his lust, with a laser focus, for exactly and only so long as they manage to hold his attention.
And at the same time, he has essentially no conception of objective truth. It's not quite that he lives in a fantasy world as that his need to satisfy his ego, greed and/or lust is so much his focus that everything else pales in comparison, including truth.
So he essentially sincerely says whatever he thinks will serve to accomplish whatever it is that he's focused on at the moment. It's not so much that he lies as that he doesn't really make a distinction between truth and lies. The only meaningful measure of a claim is whether or not it will serve his goals.
And all of that means that a smart, canny and manipulative man - Putin, for instance - can get him pointed in whatever direction he wants by feeding him the right bait and the right bullet points to go along with it.