Everything Trump and Musk Touches, Dies.

     I keep going back to the title of Rick Wilson's famous book, especially when I read about the nuclear fallout of the Trump administration these past eight weeks.

     Hearing about these various and growing instances of Trump's black thumb is cold comfort because they really don't change anything.

     In his ongoing obsession with destroying the government, Musk has been taking his eyes off his own c companies. Twitter is still a right wing hellscape and is still losing users by the droves. Its net worth is only a fraction of the $44 billion that was paid for it. He just blew up his second consecutive SpaceX rocket, 120 Starlink satellites are literally falling out of the sky each month, and Tesla stock, in short order, has lost half its market capitalization. It's trading at less than half what it was as recently as last September.

     This means, as Musk's so-called wealth is almost completely tied up in Tesla stock, he's lost about half his wealth. There are protests at Tesla dealerships all over the world, including two in the UK, and one in Florida was burned to the ground. Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly have both gotten rid of their Teslas in very public fashion and many others are following suit.

     Basically,  Musk is in Stage One or Two Mike Lindell Syndrome, aka Kanye West Carcinoma.

     As for Trump, well... The stock market, for which I have, admittedly little sympathy, has seen one disastrous drop after another. In just a few weeks, it's lost trillions from its collective value. The Dow Jones looks a leap path of a suicide cliff jumper. The Kennedy Center has seen a steep drop in ticket sales (50% or more last I read), donations are down and countless acts (including Hamilton) are canceling their engagements.

     The European Union is rallying behind Zelenskyy and are preparing a new world order without the United States at its head. We're alienating allies left and right and several, including Canada, are hitting us with retaliatory tariffs (the biggest driver of the current market volatility) and boycotting anything American. Prices of things like gasoline and countless foodstuffs are going through the roof.

     And, in between rounds of golf, Trump airily dismisses this as "a transition".

     And this is just some of the fallout. I could go on if I wanted to take up the entire landing page of this blog.

     America, its once-robust economy and international prestige, are withering on the vine. But to hear Trump talk, he's building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

     The Democrats, as I've sad recently, are doing nothing to stop it. Whatever is being done to oppose these rabid assclowns, is being done by the American people and the courts. Rebellion and disobedience is in our blood, is baked into, our Constitution that people like Trump and Musk hold in complete contempt. That tends to happen when our Great Experiment is as seriously threatened as it has been these past two months.

    People like Trump and Musk are splinters or viruses in the body politic. The American people are the immune system and eventually, they will push this splinter out, pus and all. The question remains whether the rest of the body will survive long enough for the immune system to save it.