Patrick Marren

The most that can be said about the present moment is that there is disagreement within the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party about which faces to eat in what order.

Come on, George. We liberals don't really despise constitutional originalism. We just hate America generally.

Elon Musk :: Donald Trump :: American People

Aaron Rodgers :: Woody Johnson :: NY Jets Fans

PLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: By 1 April 2025, Elon Musk is the single most hated brand in the world.

IMPLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: In 2025, Elon Musk helps ordinary Americans, gains support for Trump's agenda, and Trump does not desperately want to detach from Musk.

Glad I am not on the Tesla board. #Tightrope

No - SuperDOGE Krypto.
He turns out to be loyal to a criminal trillionaire the whole time, then flees to Russia with all Clark's online passwords and dog treats.

PLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: By April Fool's Day 2025, Elon Musk is the single most hated brand in the world.

IMPLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: In 2025, Elon Musk helps ordinary Americans, gains support for Trump's agenda, and Trump does not desperately want to detach himself from Musk.

Puts the sheer madness of it all in perspective.

Until he fires the Fed chair.

It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

WaPo describing your entirely ordinary and unexceptional attempt to put yourself forward for leadership as a "power play" says it all about the casual misogyny and lazy cynicism of 2020s media.

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10. Allowing politically friendly billionaire internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms, while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored.

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9. Reversing Biden infrastructure projects, guaranteeing degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods

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8. Denial of and politicization of worsening climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs

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7. Ensuring Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology through disinvestment in U.S. alternative energy technologies and further subsidizing oil and gas

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6. Ignoring Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications, while loudly proclaiming a retreat by the U.S. from any forward position in the world, ceding that leadership to China

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5. Increasing massive investment in "big-iron" traditional defense projects (aircraft carriers, jet fighters, etc.), while neglecting actual future warfare (drones, C4ISR, hacking countermeasures, anti-satellite weaponry and satellite backup options, etc.)

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4. Supporting subversion of representative democracy worldwide; de-emphasizing alliances; sabotaging US-friendly world trade regimes (via tariffs); allowing profitable leaks of all critical military/security technology by disloyal billionaires to China, Russia, and others

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3. Shooting down drones and pushing conspiracy theories about them, while not spending any money on U.S. government drone technology

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2. Tariffs on Chinese and all other foreign goods, which will make Chinese manufacturing far more attractive to all other countries and accelerate the decline of the United States as an economic power

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CURRENT MAGA/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES
1. U.S. federal government run by and for the direct benefit of Elon Musk and other centi-billionaires, who have no actual loyalty to the United States, only to their own wealth, and who now have no check upon their actions

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10. Huge increase in the ability of internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored

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9. Degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods

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8. Worsening of climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs

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7. Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology

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6. Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications

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5. Massive investment in "big-iron" traditional defense projects (aircraft carriers, jet fighters, etc.) while neglecting actual future warfare (drones, C4ISR, data warfare, hacking countermeasures, anti-satellite weaponry and satellite backup options, etc.)

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4. Decline of representative democracy worldwide, leading to abandonment of national alliances with the United States, collapse of US-friendly world trade regimes and alliance structures, and profitable leaks of all critical military/security technology to China, Russia, and others

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3. Chinese dominance of world drone industry, steaming toward utter dominance of military drone technology

2/ 2. Chinese dominance of world manufacturing, which is already destroying the Japanese and German auto industries, and which by 2030 is on track to be able to outproduce all other countries' output, meaning it can never be defeated in any conventional war

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CURRENT HUGE THREATS TO AMERICA
1. U.S. federal government run by and for the direct benefit of Elon Musk and other centi-billionaires, who have no actual loyalty to the United States, only to their own wealth, and who now have no check upon their actions