In itself, that doesn’t mean much. Being a Supreme Court clerk is a hotly contested job for young law school grads. If you’re offered one, you aren’t going to be picky about who your boss will be.
Obviously, they had a lot more choice to work with Musk or not.
Traditionally, former Presidents are given intelligence briefings and will be asked their opinion on various matters. Obviously, Trump is the most knowingest person to ever exist and don’t need no advice from brain inferiors.
They can’t. ICE doesn’t have the manpower. That is, unless they get military assistance.
Current people in charge of the military won’t go along with it. Trump will need to purge them and put lackies in charge.
I’m surprised he pardoned the Jan 6 people. I thought he would let them hang because their usefulness was done. The fact that he didn’t suggests he wants something more from them.
I polled myself. I say Musk is a Nazi who should be tossed in front of the nearest self-driving Tesla.
I’ll copy pasta something I wrote a while back in a similar thread. These guys have plenty of levers over Trump.
"Hey, Clarence, how you doing? Virgina doing OK? Good, good. Hey, I was just thinking, my wife and I were going to use the yacht this weekend, but we had something else come up. It’s all stocked and fueled, and it’d be a shame if it went to waste. Would you and Virginia like to get away? Ok, excellent, I’ll let the crew know.
“Oh, and Thomas, you know that big ruling on Trump’s boarder plan? Yeah, make sure it doesn’t go the President’s way. Yes, of course, I’ll make sure there’s plenty of eyebrow torture porn on the shipboard theater.”
Musk and his friends understand soft power better than Trump does. That is, understand it at all. They have more options if that happens.
Musk and some more background people likely saved the Trump campaign from financial ruin. He couldn’t be rid of them if he wanted to.
He could shift his soft power approaches against Musk. That is, if Trump’s understanding of soft power were better than Cersi Lannister.
I don’t think he could. Musk and the techbros alongside him likely saved the Trump campaign from financial ruin. Trump can’t be rid of them if he wanted to.
I’m roughly around that age, too, and yeah, that’s about what I’m looking at. Even that makes certain assumptions about the US economy that may not hold for a few more decades.
Read a little insight a while back. When boomers dreamed of being a millionaire, they dreamed of yachts and penthouse suites. When Millennials dream of being a millionaire, they dream of getting by OK without the rat race.
Well, according to the rules, she does. A lot of congress critters live in their DC office. It’s against city health code regulations, but there’s nobody who can tell them no. It’s the worst kept secret in Washington.
I don’t know if AOC herself does this or not.
For that matter, Millennials are going to need a $1M networth by retirement age. At least $1M. Now, AOC has some pension benefits as a member of Congress, so she’s not quite as ratfucked as the rest of us, but even if she had $500k, she’d be in the “good enough” range.
If only there was nearly a century of history behind us we could have drawn on to see this coming.
Incidentally, Musk did exactly that at Twitter. He blamed the developers for his own recklessness (“I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it”) when the infrastructure team strongly warned him ahead of time that this needed to be done carefully to avoid issues.
Which indicates that he learned nothing. Now he’s doing the same to the federal government.
It’s almost leftist cliche to say the system is full of contradictions. Nobody intentionally builds a system full of contradictions, but you get there by not paying attention to what you’re doing.
Which is to say that they don’t plan to do that. They just don’t know what the hell they’re doing.
The famous chess move: king’s gambit. Sacrifice your king for victory. Wait a minute . . .
It’s OK to feel burnt out already. Take a break from the news and doomscrolling social media if you need to.
Then come back, and focus on one thing that can help make things better. Doesn’t have to be the most pressing issue. I’m not even sure what the most pressing issue is right now. But pick something and focus on that.
Don’t give him too much credit. He resigned right after a judge limited his access.
That’s funny, because Indian-Americans have been an emerging MAGA group.
Why don’t coke dealers take Venmo?