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Trump is checked out. They let him scribble with his sharpie and appear before cameras, but they don't brief him on stuff or include him in important meetings,

Trump is checked out. They let him scribble with his sharpie and appear before cameras, but they don't brief him on stuff or include him in important meetings, and he doesn't care. He isn't interested in that stuff. The White House is basically an assisted living facility for Trump at this point. Which raises (but does not beg) the question: why don't the young people around him doing the plotting and planning care about tanking the country? How is Musk going to sell his cars? Why does JD want to rule over a smoking, disease-ridden ruin?

BobbyTables2 2y ago
I’ve also wondered that. I suspect they are firstly idiots and secondly grifters. They are blind to the long term effects of their plans but hope to grift along the way. Sure, buying puts or shorting huge amounts of stock now (expecting near term market manipulation) is “a strategy”. But there would be significant risk in how fast one could crash the markets to make it worth the while. Doing it to am individual stock or industry would be far safer and more lucrative and just destroying everything. Would also be a lot of uncertainty in how quickly such long term damage could be repaired, even if at all. Even trying to think like a psychopathic traitor, doing all this to win favor with a dictator in a frozen second rate country seems odd. There aren’t many predominantly English speaking countries in the world. What do they expect to do? Buy Belize and retire there? Surely not going to be Greenland!
bediger4000 2y ago
Your question is a good one. I have it, too. My hypothesis is that those young people have spent their entire lives in one particular information environment, which combines economics, politics and a religion. The religion says that the economic and political policies are blessed and ordained, They are carrying out policies fore ordained to succeed. I'm willing to listen to other theories, but this is what it looks like to me
- DFHippie 2y ago
  Yeah, that's probably it: they're zealots. Musk is a zealot in the Church of Yarvin. The rest are your ordinary Christian or Jewish zealots. Faith-based decision making is a hell of a drug.

BobbyTables2 2y ago

I’ve also wondered that. I suspect they are firstly idiots and secondly grifters. They are blind to the long term effects of their plans but hope to grift along the way. Sure, buying puts or shorting huge amounts of stock now (expecting near term market manipulation) is “a strategy”. But there would be significant risk in how fast one could crash the markets to make it worth the while. Doing it to am individual stock or industry would be far safer and more lucrative and just destroying everything. Would also be a lot of uncertainty in how quickly such long term damage could be repaired, even if at all. Even trying to think like a psychopathic traitor, doing all this to win favor with a dictator in a frozen second rate country seems odd. There aren’t many predominantly English speaking countries in the world. What do they expect to do? Buy Belize and retire there? Surely not going to be Greenland!

bediger4000 2y ago

Your question is a good one. I have it, too. My hypothesis is that those young people have spent their entire lives in one particular information environment, which combines economics, politics and a religion. The religion says that the economic and political policies are blessed and ordained, They are carrying out policies fore ordained to succeed. I'm willing to listen to other theories, but this is what it looks like to me

DFHippie 2y ago
Yeah, that's probably it: they're zealots. Musk is a zealot in the Church of Yarvin. The rest are your ordinary Christian or Jewish zealots. Faith-based decision making is a hell of a drug.