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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 03:24:37 JST Paul Cantrell

   OK, so…here’s the thing about Musk and Trump:

   They nincompoops. They don’t •understand• diddly. Every venture they run, they’re the publicity, the front man in the con who holds the crowd’s attention. Somebody else is always doing the actual execution.

   (Musk is such a technical ignoramus that at every one of his businesses there are people devoted to keeping him •away• from the engineers. This is widely known among tech folks, but I think the public still hasn’t quite caught on.)

   That’s their MO. Shouldn’t we expect that this coup is working the same way?

   #uspol

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 03:28:36 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Laffy

     This is a coup. It’s a coup airing on the reality TV show that we call “the mainstream press.” Trump and Musk are the reality TV stars. Who are the engineers?

     This is a question that has answers. Answers with names and addresses.

     2/ #uspol via @GottaLaff:
     https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114082135472805861

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 03:33:15 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Yes, continue the #TeslaTakedown. Punch Elon Musk directly in the testicles (which in has case are stock holdings).

     And now, a new question:

     How are Steven Miller and Katie Miller vulnerable? What punch doubles them over in pain?

     Find that spot. Find it and hit it.

     /end

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 03:40:18 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Susanna the Artist 🌻

     @superflippy
     No kidding. And, for clarity’s sake, the insult “nuts” can mean “disconnected from reality and any sort of moral grounding,” which is that whole stinking group — but it can also mean “incapable of coherent thought,” and unfortunately that does not apply to Miller.

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     Susanna the Artist 🌻 (superflippy@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 03:40:20 JST Susanna the Artist 🌻

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     @inthehands The fact that Stephen Miller is the one playing grownup & “managing” Musk tells me just how nuts Melon is.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 05:17:01 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Scary Austin
     • Laffy

     @MaryAustinBooks @GottaLaff
     Yes. “Handler” is the wrong concept; that puts the hierarchy backward. The point is that they delegate ideas and execution while taking credit for both — even in their own heads. X is a good example: Musk is constantly messing things up over there, but he can’t mess all of it up all the time, and in the spaces in between, •somebody• is actually doing all the real work he can’t do.

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     Scary Austin (maryaustinbooks@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 05:17:02 JST Scary Austin

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     • Laffy

     @inthehands @GottaLaff
     IDK, man, I think there are a bunch of people who *thought* they'd be handlers, but Musk and Trump are too unhinged/stupid/high/demented to be handled. No way did the billionaires want these tariffs blowing up the economy. No way did they want the recession that's now inevitable.

     Nobody kept Musk from randomly removing servers at Twitter, and look how that went. It's cosmic justice that this directly fucked Ron DeSantis, resulting in "DeSaster."

     https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself-in-the-night-new-biography-details-his-maniacal-sense-of-urgency.html