Donald Trump will reportedly allege—armed with freshly declassified documents, selected and shaped by an acting Director of National Intelligence with NO intelligence experience—that China compromised our voter data, that the CIA hid it from him, that the machinery of American democracy is corrupted.
The current concentration of wealth at the top is not only immensely greater than in the 50s or 60s, but is in fact far greater than during the Gilded Age.
So Musk has understood that selling hope (belief, illusion) is more profitable than selling cars or rockets. The catholic church has known this for over thousand years.
He didn’t end a war — he bought his way out of one with $324 billion of your money and someone else’s leverage, then flew to France to talk about cage fighting until the host told him to stop. The Nobel committee will not be calling.
But the UFC might. To offer him color commentary. It’s the one job he seems to actually want…
“Iran has been able to continue producing drones and missiles in underground factories during US and Israeli bombing attacks, and Trump is stuck in a war he may not be able to win before the midterms. The immense US and Israeli intelligence failure about Iran’s underground capabilities has rarely been discussed by the Trump administration as the war goes on with no resolution in sight...
Trump still hasn’t gotten over the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling, so the administration replaced the individualized tariffs with a 10% flat global tariff, but a trade court has ruled that the replacement tariffs are also illegal.
Andrew Weissmann: This is an “I am Spartacus” moment if ever there was one.Don’t let America go Nazi!PUT A WOMAN IN CHARGE“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”― Neil deGrasse Tyson“extreme billionaire wealth is largely unmerited.”Both profile pics are my oil paintings.