That’s because Trump’s US is actually Putin’s US. And Putin wants Europe weak and malleable.

Come on UK. We need a Bond. James Luigi Bond to right this ship.

That’s assuming he’s even considering that there will be future elections. Or at least elections in which the oligarchs have a chance of losing (I’m still betting Trump plans on living forever and never ceding power because narcissist).

These stories constantly operate on the assumption that Trump is a rational actor with reasonable goals. Neither is remotely true. He’s a fucking idiot who rarely fully understands what he’s doing and Russia and oligarchs are easily working his ego and pushing him to destabilize everything.

Yeah, I also should have used “sparkling authoritarianism” it would have been funnier and more contextual.

The camps aren’t on American soil so it’s only sparkling fascism.

Everyone gets what you’re saying. It’s not a difficult concept. What they’re trying to tell you is that the symbolism is more important than the value of some cars. The symbolism is destroying an entire company. The Tesla car brand is likely permanently toxic. He’s the richest man in the world. Do you honestly think people think that destroying some cars will bankrupt him? He can afford an entire navy. They’re saying that taking away sources of wealth (mostly inflated) will hit him where it hurts. In his fragile man baby ego.

And the most disgusting and blatant display of it is Trump/Vance vs Zelinsky. Not just political theater but political 2nd graders doing Death of a Salesman.

I didn’t really do a good job in my comment. I meant fostering support by others, just like Ukraine. Against his whatever crazy agenda. But I totally agree.

That is one of my more annoying thoughts. In his child-like rampaging through the most powerful office in the world, he might accidentally do something good like wipe out the cartels or give support to a country that really needs it on the global scale. The cost will be extremely high. Like through the twisted Nazi experiments, we ended up learning a ton about mental health and brain responses that… Well, it’s probably the only way to discover some of those things. But the methodology is unthinkable.