I don't have a clear opinion on Elon.
BUT the ANTI-Elon side pushed open borders, men in girls sports, hiring by race , destroying careers over vax status and a president with dimensia + calls me racist if I ask why
So bare with me if I'm skeptical of the anti-DOGE/Elon POV
Here's the thing about Trump.
Trump says or does something that antagonizes some group of people who don't like him.
Then that group of people say, very spitefully, "OH YEAH???? We'll show him!!!"
Then they do exactly what Trump wanted them to do.
It happens over and over, and they never see it.
It's Trump's superpower.
Elon is doing applied political science. He had a hypothesis, and then he bet on it. And in being correct, we are learning empirically: The Professional Managerial Class has perfected a system of moral blackmail through which they convert third world suffering into personal wealth and status. They position themselves as noble humanitarian experts with PhDs who care deeply about things like global poverty, to justify their own sinecures extracted from the national purse. These credentialed do-gooders wield the threat of African deaths as a shield against any questioning of their privileges. We've long understood bourgeois professional hypocrisy in theory, but never before have we had such a complete empirical revelation of the exact dollar amounts, networks, and individual names involved across the top of the PMC hierarchy. Professional political scientists are generally feigning horror at Elon right now, but that's because they are members of the PMC, even if they are only minor and distant dependents on DC.
Trump’s out-of-nowhere idea of America owning Gaza is so provocative you could miss how easily he made us think past the sale.
I mean the real sale. Not the one you’re thinking.
Trump just told the world the fate of Gaza is his decision.
And we zipped right past that sale to bitch about how much we hate the idea. Or love it. Now we’re locked in that frame, uncritically accepting it is his decision.
And he made Netanyahu watch.
We’ve never seen this level of skill. Reality is bending.
What’s happening in America is roughly equivalent to the yearbook committee and theater kid types getting rocked by a football team and chess club alliance.
Two years ago Bitcoin was $22k, Biden was president, regulatory threats everywhere
Bitcoin is now $103k, Larry Fink is in Davos talking about BTC at $700k, Ross is free from jail, we just got an executive order banning CBDCs and protecting self custody
Perspective
My message to every business in the world is very simple.
Come make your product in America, and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth. But if you don't make your product in America, you will have to pay a tariff.
I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbright to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!
Donald Trump Truth Social 07:00 PM EST 01/21/25
Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by @realDonaldTrump. Words cannot express how grateful we are.
President Trump is a man of his word and he just saved Ross's life. ROSS IS A FREE MAN!!!!!
One of the most important skills I see in successful (and good) people is to constantly reevaluate assumptions. They make predictions based on various inputs, some of them unknown, and reevaluate based on what they got right and wrong. They trust people not because they're always right--no one is--but because if you're constantly seeking the truth it's easy to identify those who are doing the same.
If you were confident that Donald J. Trump was going to lose, maybe you should question what else you "know" about him. Maybe the people who misled you about his electoral chances have misled you about other things.
In the words of Cormac McCarthy, "If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
@BarackObama Actually, July 4th is Independence Day.
You know, when the "insurrectionists" rose up and defeated tyranny.
PS: We are a constitutional republic.
Last night, Donald Trump pledged to commute my sentence on day 1, if reelected. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
After 11 years in prison, it is hard to express how I feel at this moment. It is thanks to your undying support that I may get a second chance.