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Dan Gillmor

Trump will overthrow Musk because there can be only one fascist Dear Leader at a time...

@dangillmor well, Musk will get sidelined eventually, but he's done the damage - and he's already set up with Farage and the AfD, so can play even more dangerous fascist games across the Atlantic

@dangillmor Neither of them is particularly intelligent, but I think Musk might win out in that battle.

@dangillmor Or vice versa, because who fucking knows anymore.

@dangillmor He has Trump over a barrel, but one of the other oligarchs might lose patience and take care of him. It's The Way when you adopt this political system.

@dangillmor (Seriously, if I were an obscenely wealthy person with a finger in the Republican regime, I'd be less worried about random self-appointed assassins than I would mercenaries in the employ of my peers.)

@dangillmor #PresidentMusk wil be displeased with disobedience from his new puppet.

@virtualbri @dangillmor Make it a cage fight. No, better yet, make it a welded-3-inch-steel-plate-box-at-the-bottom-of-the-Mariana-trench fight. Two fighters enter, nobody cares what happens after that as long as nobody comes out.

@StarkRG @dangillmor Yeah, exactly. Put all their sycophants and hangers on in there too.

@virtualbri @dangillmor They do need an audience, that's true. Without an audience, I expect they'd be like ants that are cut off from their nest, their activity would quickly diminish until they fall into a fatal stupor that they won't recover from unless they're reunited.

@dangillmor
Shouldn't musk be doing rocket surgery or something instead of running around DC?

@godzero @dangillmor I have seen lots of reports that SpaceX works better when Musk isn't paying attention so the competent people can make the decisions without interference. But Musk has way more money than he can ever use, so he wants to convert it into power.

@not2b @dangillmor
I've heard that too, also applied to Tesla. I wonder if the boards and stockholders think that though.

@godzero @dangillmor Tesla is a weird situation. The problem is that the company is wildly overvalued, and if they replace Musk with a competent auto executive they might fix the worst problems and sell more cars and make more money, but the market will then value Tesla like a normal auto manufacturer, so the stock will go down. Investors are buying the Musk fantasy.

@not2b @dangillmor
There needs to be that correction but I'm not holding my breath.

@dangillmor could Vance and Musk kick him out via 25th Amendment? Fairly easy to say he’s senile

@dangillmor Frankly, whoever ‘wins’, nothing good will come out of it anyway. The chances of any last minute reversal of all this stupidity is fleeting, now that the inauguration of pure evil is coming closer.

The 2/3 have spoken, by voting for this or not at all. May they suffer too and hopefully more painfully than the 1/3 who did not want this.

I am perpetually angry ever since the mid-2010s and want MAGA and their allies to suffer and disappear from this living world. No forgiveness.

@dangillmor
I'm surprised trumpthing hasn't complained that the election was stolen - by musk.

@dangillmor Unless Trump succumbs to death first, which is a distinct possibility, given his age and unhealthy lifestyle. Then there will be no reason for Musk to hold back