The billionaire, parasite class is turning against Trump. They wanted lower taxes and less regulation to commit more crimes, not massive global instability. And they definitely didn’t realize how diminished Trump is and the role the adults in the room played in the first administration.

This level of chaos will never be profitable. It only accelerates their plans to retreat to bunkers when everything collapses. That was supposed to be caused by climate change, not unforced errors from a senile president and the clown car administration sound him.

The Art of the Deal:

1. Behave recklessly and make threats to destroy the global economy
2. Get pushback from allies
3. Reverse course for allies, but behave even more recklessly against rival
4. Rival realizes you don’t know what you’re doing
5. Beg rival to engage
6. Rival refuses
7. Take insanely reckless actions toward rival
8. Rival stands firm
9. Get told by billionaires that you’re messing with their profits and, as a side note, domestic stability
10. Reverse course for rivals, look incredibly weak and get exposed for not having a clue what you’re doing on the global stage
11. ???
12. Make America Great Again

Behold! A featherless, bipedal shitposter!

As the world burns to the ground, we’ll always look back fondly at all the hollow, symbolic gestures along the way. Pelosi kneeled once and ended racism. Some wealthy women went to space and ended sexism.

”No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue," Garber wrote

Harvard is on the right side of history. They kind of have to be. Imagine if their alumni couldn’t talk about graduating from Harvard anymore out of shame.

Seriously though, I hope the rest of the Ivy League is taking note. History will remember who caved to the mad king.

Let’s dispel with this illusion that Meta doesn’t know exactly what it’s doing. Hate speech, compromising US National security for access to Chinese markets, dumbing down political discourse and literally everything else, manipulating hundreds of millions of people to make them insecure and more vulnerable to advertising.

Meta is as evil as evil gets. All confirmed by insider whistleblowers. They paid to play, so they’ll get away with it. Just know what you’re supporting when you participate in their ecosystem.

Electric cars, LLMs. I’m wondering how far ahead and more cost effective China is on quantum computing. There’s also a good chance that any legit quantum computing breakthrough in the US gets raped to death by VC vampires like everything else.

Republican Jesus said, “Gather the travelers in need of hospitality, then kick the door in and send them all to a gulag in El Salvador. Also cut taxes for the people who already own everything. Maybe kick a puppy while you’re at it. Good way to start the day.”

Blaming Nader for the Supreme Court handing the election to the Bush Dynasty is the kind of thinking that paralyzed American politics on the “left.” Nader spent his career working to help the people.

Bush having the governor of the deciding state be his brother and having the Supreme Court in his pocket sealed that election.

Democrats should win every election by massive landslides. Instead, they spent the last several decades bowing to billionaires and providing controlled opposition that suppressed any actual reform.

The illusion of choice between neoliberals morphed into fascism, and it’s now difficult to discern neoliberals from fascists. They have the same interests: Big number goes up for billionaires; nothing else matters.

Weegee (Luigi) is having its time in the sun.

A terrorist attack might be coming. It doesn’t even take a conspiracy, just confusion and ineffectiveness. 9/11 happened in the early days of the Bush administration, while confusion caused threats to be ignored.

The federal workers everyone takes for granted and the administration is actively trying to get rid of are the people who protect everyone from systemic failures, especially catastrophic ones.

Japan has figured out how to play trump. Be nice to his face and feed his ego, then go hard against him with actual policy. He doesn’t really understand the policy outside of it being a grift for temporary gains and is a nightmare to deal with behind closed doors with his ego and diminished capacity.

I don’t understand how the timing of these announcements work. Do they wait for all their richest clients to pay the ransom money first? Explore every avenue of deniability until they’re exhausted?

It’s sad to think about the optimism people used to have for the internet vs. what it turned into.

His motives may be unclear, but his actions are crystal clear. He’s tried to enact tariffs already and been stopped before they were implemented because everyone knows the level of damage they cause. He’s moving forward this time. He’s deliberately crashing the global economy.

Why? Who knows? His Silicon Valley overlords demand it? I doubt it’s Putin, because Russia’s economy is hanging on by a thread, and the last thing they need is a global downturn, especially when it craters oil prices. Is it just that Trump is stupid, maybe senile, and ultimately in charge?

Regardless, the leader of the biggest economy in the world has decided that it’s time for a global recession/depression, so unless that course is changed, that’s probably what’s going to happen.

What level of bullshit can the right wing tech bros maintain when ordinary Americans are priced out of bread and circuses? Even the most unfair social contracts have rails.

More to the point, how many Americans have maxed out their credit cards paying bills and basic necessities? What happens when making the minimum payment on the maxed credit card balance makes them unable to afford food and housing? Are millions of people going to become homeless in the next several months? Is the credit system going to collapse?

Honestly, the solution at the citizen level is for everyone to file bankruptcy. It ensures a roof over your head, paused payments on debt, and it shifts all the financial losses to the banks. Banks taking actual losses and being threatened with insolvency puts their skin in Trump’s game to destroy the global economy.

If their masters tell them to vote against tariffs, they’ll do so. These politicians hold no actual power. They are the mouthpieces standing in front of the monsters who hold actual power. And they don’t give a shit about anyone or anything.

That’s the problem with the removal of due process. The facts don’t matter. Being accused makes you guilty and subjects you to the maximum penalty under the law.

If you think the Trump administration isn’t going to extend this to LGBT people next and people who disagree with their policies after that, you aren’t paying attention.

Google is kissing the ring for the new would-be dictators, Trump and Musk. Don’t fall for any lip service to the contrary.

The last chance to stop this is the Roberts Court making a strong ruling, and the ruling being enforced. Otherwise, the list of who can be rounded up and disappeared will just get longer and longer.