

Somehow I think he didn’t resign because of the remarks specifically but because he was named and shamed in the spotlight.
Somehow I think he didn’t resign because of the remarks specifically but because he was named and shamed in the spotlight.
“Comfortable”:
Where having 3 jobs doesn’t even give a proper living wage… Where a health crisis will bankrupt you… Where the common people pay the taxes for the richest. Where vacation days are tightly controlled and preferrably denied. Already the doctrine is: “You Live To Work”.
And this is before Trump started slashing all government aid and will give even more money to the rich, thinking the populace will make up the difference on the countries income…
Now he just about personally has total control of the government payment system, down to the social serurity number of each individual. A good weapon to have.
(Had a long rant here about the US’ bleak future, but it’s not befitting the discussion at this moment)
My point being, things are only a very small drop to where it’s too late and the shackles are clamped on.
The ones sworn in to uphold the law and constitution are the ones who need to step in now, but are too afraid or corrupted to risk standing up.
King Trump already is above regular checks and balances.
What I find interesting yet distressing is that no one asks “WHY?”
What does an unelected outsider have to gain from getting access to SOURCE CODE of the US payment system (not just a running pc in the payment network, no, actual code is bring changed)
Why? Why demand code access and what is being changed in the dark hours of the night when there is little oversight?
And no; “because transgenders” is not an acceptable answer!
BTW… expect fully encrypted code where possible so no one else besides Musk can read it … think of the lasting repercussions of that … it’s a malware bomb on the governmental payment system.
Want your package from chaina? Pay the tariffs!
~…then very humbly ask the Chinese government to refund you those tariff costs…~
Yep. Still feel I need to put this here…
He WANTS to be a despot … he eagerly looks at, admires and wishes to count himself amongst worldly despots like Putin, Maduro, the Saudi kings and even the younger Kim Yong Un.
He does not aspire to be a benevolent leader at all, I don’t think he even can be one. To be important is indeed what he wants, but it is the importance in the form of keeping him happy or he’ll give you misery.
He also has done nothing but spout lies and easy grifts for decades now, and if caught he’d be as vindictive as possible to instill fear and hesitation on any who would oppose him. So, swift opposition from within his ranks is not going to happen soon.
The ultra rich might turn on him if he torches the economy, but they do know he now has the power to take away their assets if push comes to shove…
Not just that, but frankly for a company like Proton it’s prudent to “cry along with the wolves, lest you get killed” …
As long as Proton’s products still stand on their own in the light of the Trump regime I don’t think it is useful at all to torch the company because of remarks of its ceo now that Trump is in office…
Ofcourse one can frown and be miffed but there are far worse companies out there that everyone uses, and people shrug off direct comments of anyone on the board of directors.
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Hmm not to discredit this, but how does that work, being detained and having to produce a birth certificate … does one normally daily carry a birth certificate next to ones ID?
And if you’re detained without a a birth certificate while on vacation across the country?
Only ID on you? Go to prison?
No ID nor birth certificate and you’ll either get shot or deported?
What if you speak something else than Spanish or English amongst yourselves?
How long 'till the Trump administration mandates a form of ID on ones hand, arm, or forehead?
Musk is a firm believer in this system.
A bunch of other capitalists surely are as well.
And Trump is the willing agent of chaos to push it, thinking he is the controlling factor
He wants/expects to be the world’s first trillionaire, and races himself to be the fastest getting there.
To more than double his current net worth quickly he needs to control all aspects of the flow of his money, legit or through shady deals and can not have any onlookers.
So the best way is TO BE the all controlling influence in all monetary systems.
I am contemplating this scenario:
California says “we can’t contribute no more due to needing our own funds” … Trump says: “you’ll pay …or… tariffs!”
Not just fired, a list is to be made and those on it will be “investigated”, a good chunk even prosecuted and will get a trial…
“Only day 1 dictator”… right?
Frankly, at this point I’d say do it, let him fire up his tariffs for a few weeks, let him watch his economy go up in flames … let’s watch him expedite his Nero reenactment…
By now it is the best course of action for the voters who believed in him to witness/live in the disaster…
Any other intervention of courts trying to stop him will keep the (incorrect) belief in his tariffs alive.
The other stuff he is doing will only show damage in the long term, years away, and by then it is too late.
I still find it apalling no one is properly explaining tariffs to anyone in a short understandable manner, even online explanations are needlessly convoluted, the guy on the street won’t follow a lecture like it.
As long as he has his billionaires and unschooled army/backers he’ll keep on doing what he wants. But when the billionaires’ riches go up in flames and the backers can’t afford eggs at all anymore, let alone steaks he’ll shut his wide mouth pretty fast.
Ofcourse he’ll try to find another enemy quickly to redirect attention towards, but at least then a bigger group will see the damage he is doing.
“Dictator, but only on day 1”
Any other …untruths… no one expected? /s
Not just that, they will be more readily remembering the plain illegal stuff that’s happening now and will add it to their remembered list of the previous Trump case(s).
Remove all witnesses past and present so all history can be rewritten.
You’re forgetting he made up “the millions and millions of illegal immigrants crossing the border”
Which, to him, are all living together in halls and single decrepid buildings and easily picked up.
He envisioned the numbers and now must make them exist, or at least make the deportations logically match up.
Ofcourse it’s not going to line up so he’ll find new victims, next targets will be freshly awarded green cards, to be checked for discrepancies like spelling errors or those with recent adress changes, or say any green card holder who committed a small crime like jaywalking in the last 10 years.
But hey, it is good for the unemployment numbers!
… Hitler also targeted others besides jews, gypsies, colored, disabled people, all under the pretense of danger to and burdens on the society …