@SilvermanJacob @theliamnissan Maybe she’s got something there. But she never mentioned Elmo.
At first blush I thought she was talking about Trump. It really could apply to most billionaires and wannabe monarchists.
@SilvermanJacob She cut right down to the cognitive dissonance that drives him to self medicate daily with massive quantities of ketamine.
All that money but he’s got a personality so repellent he’s reduced to pandering to internet edgelords 40years his junior for even a sniff of validation.
@SilvermanJacob Musk: "The fundamental weakness of Western society is empathy".
Also Musk: "Hey everybody, look how mean that lady was to me."
You can't make this stuff up.
This is the authoritarian feedback loop made explicit. The state will hold a celebration of its own power, and will use the instruments of that power to crush any citizens who protest the celebration. Dissent is not just being ignored; it is being pre-emptively defined as a hostile act that justifies a violent state response.
This is absolutely incredible -- Kristi Noem repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump brandished an doctored image of Abrego Garcia's tattoos, prompting Eric Swalwell to have a staffer of his brandish an image of them right in her face.
Totally dystopian.
@georgebella@DHSgov That's right, not even the ICE facility & officers that illegally denied access to Congressmembers fulfilling their congressional oversight duties.