@alchemy @jb @TrevorGoodchild right. what I'm saying is that you're always going to have power players. The only question is are they out in the obvious or are they hiding? We've had a lot of sneaky backroom shit in the past 20 years.

Musk is different in that he is a power player that has been not only out in front but at a level of personal investment we have never seen. The closest to this is Soros, but he hasn't been on stages in fronts of millions of people with a man who was almost killed.

I don't buy the whole spectacle thing here because if this is a spectacle ( thus you are getting fucked ) then the question is why - the answer is normally "because powerful people are getting what they want rather than you" -

but the question is why would trump have more loyality to them - the a/b answer is "because they control him", but this is where the whole a/b falls apart - if they are truly "running things" trump is a bad puppet. And a bad puppet who almost gets killed is a very bad puppet.