Allegedly there’s a cadre of his inner circle that’s already pushing to establish martial law and cancel the midterms.

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And a lot of the ones who want it back have ties to stateside terror groups like the Klan and Patriot Front.

Literally I think he believed that by denying them press credentials, he was killing the network outright.

American car manufacturers are terrified of having to compete with Chinese EVs, so they’re not even going to make them at all.

There’s also the fact that a large part of that class is Silicon Valley, and an alarming chunk of them are mildly to all-in on the “AI will eventually birth God” train. Why wouldn’t they be? It’s an emotionally stunted tech-kiddy’s fantasy - you’re going to save Earth and all you have to do is play on the computer and hang out with your rich friends every so often.

Even better, if you narrow that down to the wealthiest 1%, those people control 50% of all stock in the US.

Yeah, mine’s basically doubled most weeks from even 2 years ago. That’s even if I buy the cheapest stuff and reduce what I’m eating now overall. It’s like they think the past doesn’t exist and people can’t just examine or remember things from less than a decade ago.

Also helps him bypass a lot of approvals. Remember, he did this with the stupid ballroom too.

He wants his Germania. He realizes that since DC literally has no federal representation, it’s easier to just do whatever, so he’s doing it there. I’m surprised half the metro hasn’t been bulldozed to make way for the Donald J Trump museum or the Museum Of Communist Crimes or whatever.

As I’ve pointed out before, Trump dying probably spares us the worst of the MAGA heads, but where Trump wants to lead with charisma and a charged base, I feel like Vance is actually content with keeping power via use of arms. The guy is craven at the thought of having power.

Which is what all of US transport runs on (yes, almost all trains too because railroads decided that electrified overhead looks ugly and needs more maintenance), and is largely the main driver of everything getting more and more expensive.

And the DOGE checks we were supposed to get after DOGE was gonna save us trillions of dollars.

Not just him - the ideal is that MAGA will simply collapse without their leader. The issue with that is we’ve already cemented a LOT of power into the executive in just a few years. Trump could drop dead tomorrow and despite having the charisma of an open can of surstromming, I think Vance would be able to hold onto power just through an overwhelming tide of repression. Trump’s caught up with people loving him - Vance, I think, doesn’t care if people hate him.

JD Vance had this too. You can’t even get up onto the street where his house is when he’s home now, because he’s so scared of protestors in front of his house that he’s had the Secret Service lock the entire street down just to feel safe.

That’s the hope. It’s a bad look to just have the cops round up and shoot homeless people - much easier to just have them die on the street or whatever so we can claim they’re all junkies and drunks and weirdos. Turns out corpses can’t tell their side of the story.

And solar.

I was about to say, let’s assume capitalism rather than long-reaching malice. The aristocracy has proven that largely, they’re not great at long-term thinking - so the real answer is more rationally “private equity and the demands of capitalism requiring that even everyday recreation be heavily monetized” rather than “nefarious puppetmasters are conspiring to lock humanity into a work-only lifestyle”. The former can beget the latter, but I believe that’s more a happy knock-on effect than a very pointed and intentional outcome.

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Yeah that sounds right. He did the same shit in 2016 and 2020, because he apparently can’t stop shoving his entire fucking foot in his mouth the second he opens it on a hot mic.