Posted on 06/07/2025 4:08:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“MAGA is developing “tech right” fatigue.” — Cernovich on “X”.
In this age of info overload, when everybody’s brain has become a memory hole, we’ll see how long anyone remembers Elon Musk’s epic tantrum. The latest news is that Mr. Trump and Wonderboy have scheduled a phone convo for today, Friday, supposedly to “make-up.”
The whole psychodrama looks like an episode out of the Batman movie that America has become. You could see the current plot twist from a thousand miles away. Even back in the summer, Elon’s spastic cavortings on the campaign trail looked suspiciously drug-edged. He’s reported to use ketamine, which induces mood changes from euphoria to anxiety and agitation, as well as slurred speech. Also, altered judgment and disinhibition that might provoke risky behavior. You just have to kind of wonder.
Meanwhile, the fabled Fourth Turning enters full churn. Western Civ, of which we are part, continues to go sideways into history. In case you are distracted by Mr. Musk’s histrionics, we are on a path toward World War, political crack-up, and global bankruptcy.
Among the strange doings, note former CIA Director Mike Pompeo showing up a week ago at a “Black Sea Security Forum” in Odessa, Ukraine, where — say, what? —he called for called for a "complete victory" over Russia, and advocated for Crimea to be recognized as part of Ukraine (which is not in the folder labeled “Reality”).
A call for “victory” implies that we’re at war with Russia, or seek to enter such a war. Granted, the US neocon-intel-blob sparked the Ukraine-Russia War, starting in 2014, when State Department Cookie Monster Victoria Nuland set off the Maidan color revolution. And “Joe Biden” kept stoking the conflict with cash and ammo — and inflammatory rhetoric. But Mr. Trump has been working this year to put out the fire, difficult as that is, with the EU and the rest of NATO beating war drums offstage.
What was Mike Pompeo up to in Odessa? You can make the case that he was violating the Logan Act: attempting to make freelance foreign policy outside government, and in a rather dangerous way, calling for war, however obliquely. And then you have Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal flying to Kiev to confab with the unelected coke-head running Ukraine’s war machine. . . and alakazam, the next day Ukraine pulls off its long-distance bombing prank deep into Russia, destroying some of its strategic nuclear force. Surely, the purpose of that was to provoke a response that could amount to a cassus belli for the EU to launch its (insane and suicidal) longed-for war against Russia.
Why were Pompeo, Lindsey Graham, and Blumenthal not arrested when they flew back to the USA? Everything they were up to in Ukraine had the odor of serious mischief. Mr. Patel of the FBI, a former US attorney who knows how to manage such things, should have personally hauled all three of them into a windowless room for depositions. Who, exactly, does Mike Pompeo purport to represent these days? Who paid for his trip to Odessa, and who went with him? And why isn’t anybody asking these questions?
Elon Musk’s bout of intemperance was supposedly provoked by his disgust over the “big beautiful bill” before Congress, not a budget, really, but a mandatory spending reconciliation package with lots of bells, whistles, and kazoos attached. Of course, you have to ask: what legislation coming out of that animal farm is not a monstrosity? Maybe it takes a monster to fight a monster.
Maybe America needs to transition out of its Batman phase into something like King Kong versus Godzilla. The multitude of little folk underfoot are getting trampled, anyway. And the bankruptcy of America is already presenting itself as a sort of systemic sepsis driving ordinary people and small businesses to ruin, even while the stock and bond markets manage to levitate. No one can feel comfortable in the present situation.
The Democratic Party played the Joker the past ten Batman years, working overtime to throw the country into chaos. That movie’s over. Now, strange to relate, it’s looking more and more like the USA (King Kong) against Europe (Godzilla). Russia is the lady in peril down among the ferns watching the brutes roar at each other. China is something like Ming-the-Merciless from a distant planet (and another movie), waiting off-stage to see what happens.
Europe has a death wish. Its economy is cratering. It’s sacrificing two-thousand years of culture to a new barbarian invasion. The governments of the UK, France, and Germany, have gone full Orwell against their own citizens. The unelected EU has turned into a tyrannical machine grinding up anything that looks like enterprise. And the war drums they’re beating can only bring on a hard rain of Russian hypersonic “hazelnuts,” destroying the only thing they have left: their once-charming cities. If that’s not enough to finish Europe off, wait for the banking and bond market implosion.
Mr. Trump knows that Godzilla is fixing to fall off a cliff. He’s more inclined to take up with that lady down in the ferns and march back into the humid, welcoming jungle. If you really want to rescue what’s left of Western Civ, Russia in its current form, would be your natural ally, not your opponent. Nobody knows how we will get through this movie, but time does not stand still and some day we will be back in a world of nations that have given up acting like monsters. . . and maybe the next movie is something light-hearted like Carey Grant and Kate Hepburn with a pet leopard.
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James Howard Kunstler ping
He blocked me for disagreeing with him on something. He’s narcissistic.
Figure this one out...
“Democrats are warming back up to Musk as he leaves the White House and starts to break with his former boss in ways that could benefit the opposition.”
The Left thinks they can get Elon back into the fold.
Elon Musk doesn’t USE drugs. Elon Musk IS drugs.
I’m not tired of MAGA.
Anybody here tired of MAGA?
This is driving Tesla owners nuts. First they got to Virtue Signal (and parade their ‘Elite’ status), hailing/salivating over Musk as a Progressive Visionary who also happened to be the richest guy on the planet. Then they had to put anti-Musk stickers on their cars to hopefully dissuade TDS lunatics from keying or otherwise vandalizing them. And now, well, they’re probably not sure exactly WHAT to do...
I don’t agree with everything said here, but this was a good article. His use of metaphors and archetypes goes a long way to explain the positions of the main players.
I didn’t know Pompeo had also been in Ukraine, standing with Lindsay, to fan the flames of an even hotter war with Russia. Lindsey needs his political wings clipped way down.
Zackly. Don’t care. This is what I signed up for. Still backing Trump!
I have seen Ads online, some on TikTok, that guarantee to remove the Tesla Logo from the outside of your car, and can do so without a trace of it ever being there!
Now, some of those same customers might want that logo put back on, so they can once again “get credit for saving the planet’ with their neighbors.
I don’t know if this is part of the thinking, or if this is even possible, but the double standards (or is it cognitive dissonance?) is really striking — people are going to start to see it, when it is exposed so starkly.
People on the Left have no real understanding of the issues (the issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution) and they have no real principles. They just want to “feel” that they are “the Good Guys”.
Well, Tesla is good. No, it’s bad. Wait, it’s good again.
Biden is sharp as a tack. Nope, wait, that senile is old man is to blame for Trump 2.0!
Kamala Harris is great! Kamala is a buffoon! Kamala is our big hope for 2028!
Global cooling is a huge crisis! Sorry — Global warming is huge crisis. Or maybe just weather is a huge crisis. Or maybe we should talk about Gaza.
There is a lot of whiplash because The Party wants everyone to believe a lie. Not any specific lie, really. They just want to make sure that people believe whatever is not true.
Eventually, some of those people are going to catch on and be angry at how they have been shamelessly manipulated. I think a lot of young men have already seen it and recognize that this is a rigged game of lies designed to ruin their lives. They’re not having it anymore. It will take the women longer to catch on.
Bkmk
Political theater. Meant to divert attention away from democrat antics. Create a narrative ....Trump is just doing what the media does to us CONSTANTLY.
Every stupid*ss commentator or modern media person tries to chime in....as if the report of a spat tells them what they need to know..
IMHO
This is all being played up by the likes of CNN andMSNBC. Probably made up all that is regarded by the incredulous as “facts”.
Just like with Kyle and Penny. Lies, lies, lies.
What do we do when a storm is approaching? We close everything up, make sure our house is secure and our supplies are plentiful. We have potential storms across both oceans and they are coming at us from both directions. Something to think about.
I have been in, 'hunker down mode' since 0bama was selected. Worse things ARE coming. I trust President Trump, but in reality there is a LOT of Evil in this world that all men are powerless against. I'll also add that it's time to, 'get right with God' if you haven't already.
Musk mapping the Future
and other times there's
Elon's meds are wrong again
If I were the President I'd leave him be until the results of the policies speak for themselves.
Thanks for the ping.
From what I’ve gathered, the theatrics put on by Trump and Musk were to bring attention to the actual Epstein list, and what’s more than a list of names, what was going on there. A LOT worse than 16 year old sex slaves.
Elon Musk doesn’t USE drugs. Drugs use Elon Musk..
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