At The Center Of Elon vs Trump, The Vibe Shift And More

 Kind of funny that within a few days of me mentioning the growing rift between the two main factions on the right, Elon and Trump take it mainstream. Let me break down what's at the heart of each side, as I see it at least.

First off, Elon and Trump breaking up was as embarrassing as it was predictable. It was probably always going to end this way, although I don't think anyone could have possible foreseen Elon calling Trump a fucking Epstein-list-pedophile. I'm sure you know, but the basic gist of it all is that Trump is trying to get his 'big beautiful bill' passed, and Elon hates it. Some say it's because the EV tax credits are being taken away, but I find that hard to believe. I can't imagine someone as smart and as rich as Musk would fly off the handle like that and attack the single most powerful man in the world over tax credits affecting one of his many companies. To burn an ally like that over what amounts to a fraction of his net worth possibly being effected? It feels way too short sighted of a move.  (There is a funny parallel here for any Rick and Morty fans. Elon being Rick and Trump being the President. If you watch the show you know what I mean). Elon says he flipped out because the new bill will 'bankrupt future America', and he might have a point, but even that feels bizarre. Whatever the reason for the temper tantrum, I suppose it really doesn't matter. What's done is done. I think this whole thing made Elon look bad, definitely worse for him than Trump. It is amazing the pure, raw power that Trump has. He's like T-1000. He just cannot be stopped. Elon has since walked back some of his comments, but the damage is done.

At the center of it all though, the real debate here is between two different ideologies that are fomenting and swirling and taking more and more shape on the right. It's what I talked about in the last half of my South Africa post. It's between people who think America is a 'collection of ideas' and those who think we're a Nation of people with our own identity, values and characteristics. And the real center of it, I think, is this basic question: does the economy of a nation serve its people? Or do people serve its economy?

Elon seems to be on the side of nothing is more important than the economy. I don't think he would ever come out and say that, and maybe he doesn't even really think he believes that, but his actions would say otherwise. Just look at his life for a minute. He fled South Africa for Canada, left Canada for California and left California for Texas. I doubt he'll end up in Texas, too. He has 14(!) children with 4 different women, none of which are his wife. He kind of lives like life is a video game, maxing out stats. He's a tech-nomad. A genius spazz. And look, that's all fine. We need people like him, obviously. But is he a role model? Do you think he's happy? Would society be better or worse if everyone had over a dozen kids with multiple women? No roots, no real allegiance to anyone or anything other than himself. He's a 'proud American', for now. To be clear, I am and always have been an admirer of Elon and he may very well save us all by getting us off Earth at some point. But I admire him like I would a really effective mercenary. It's great when he's on your side and we can all objectively marvel at his accomplishments and continue to root for him, but would you really be shocked if he moved countries again and went to battle against America? If Denmark or Germany or Australia offered him some kind of massive business incentives to move there, do you think he wouldn't?

The Trump side of the argument is that, essentially, the economy serves us, not the other way around. What good is a couple more GDP points if it doesn't actually help anyone but like 10 people at the very top? If Jamie Dimon adds a couple more zeroes to his bank account, what good does that do? 

America's GDP has about doubled since 2007. Has your life gotten twice as good since 2007? Has the quality of life in America DOUBLED for the average person since then? If not, then what exactly is the point of a rising GDP? For the vast majority of people, it's numbers on a screen. Stock prices have risen when measured in dollars, but the value of those dollars has decreased substantially since then. So I ask again because I think it's important and at the very center of this issue; if a rising GDP doesn't equate to a rising standard of living for the vast majority of citizens, then what good is it?

The average American right now lives in a world he barely recognizes. The insane immigration of the past decade has transformed us, pretty profoundly. 

Here is a video from yesterday in NY of Andrew Cuomo wearing a turban, addressing a room full of men wearing turbans, saying that there is '180 different languages being spoken in our public schools. That's a strength, not a weakness.' How? How is that possibly a strength? Adding tens of thousands of children to schools that don't speak English, that will all need specialized instructions will add a ridiculous amount of inefficiencies and burdens, to say nothing about a complete lack of cohesion and identity. To also say nothing about the obvious various conflicts that will inevitably emerge. 

Shifting gears somewhat, the LA 'protests' are on their 5th day in a row now, and this might honestly be the single dumbest 'protest' I have ever even heard about. It feels like a turning point, a defining bookend for an era. Masked men standing on burned out cars waving the Mexican flag, apparently protesting for their right to...not live in Mexico? To not be sent back to the country whose flag they're waving? It's absurd. And unlike the BLM 2020 riots, they have largely lost the public. The vibe shift is real. People are getting more and more fed up with all of it and you can definitely feel it. I remember a nervousness during the BLM nonsense, even among those who vehemently disagreed with the whole thing. People were afraid to discuss it. Now? Not so much. 

We either have a border or we don't. There isn't a functioning country on EARTH that has 'open borders'. Even the words 'open borders' do not make sense. The idea that a country cannot control who comes into it is one of those ideas so fucking stupid that only a PHD nerd could possibly entertain it. And finally, the backlash has arrived, like a boomerang to the fucking face. Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh and many others have floated the idea of a complete end to ALL immigration, at least for a while. Those are pretty mainstream dudes. It really is pretty unreal how much the Overton Window has moved in only 5 years. Imagine where it is in 10 years.

Let's look at some funny things from X this past week.

Look at this tweet. It's hard to believe this is even real:

Notice the ratio. People are fed up.

Here is multi-millionaire, Juilliard/Harvard trained Tom Morello, miles away from any 'protest', posing front and center with his cool baseball helmet in what looks like a reddit meetup. Honestly, is this the least cool thing you have ever seen in your life?

Here are two pictures from a street in Mexico. I can't confirm this, but apparently signs like these are everywhere. So for some reason, Mexico is for Mexicans and America is also for Mexicans. Again, the dumbest fucking protest I have ever seen.

Here is the daughter of Ilhan Omar, a Somalian refugee who is somehow a Congresswoman from Minnesota. Ilhan fled a civil war in Somalia and spent 4 years in a refugee camp before she was graciously taken in by America. Not only did this awful, racist country take her and her family in at our expense, we somehow elected her to office! She's a multi-millionaire, famous politician now. And this is what her daughter thinks of us? 'Death to America', the ONLY country that saved her and her family from certain, brutal death by her own countrymen. If she said anything like this in her home country, she would be executed. So I ask again, why are we doing this? Why would any country continue any kind of program that saves people from themselves, only to be despised? If it weren't for America, Ilhan and her daughter would probably have died a brutal death that no one would have even heard about. And forget gratitude, they openly hate us! It's so absurd, it's almost comical. 

Here is step 2 on the 'let's kill/chase away all the White farmers from our land' plan. The brutal, dumb, short sighted, wanton killing of animals. Kindness to animals is largely a White trait. Something people may take from granted. Also, if that was a group of White men standing behind that dead elephant, would you feel differently about that picture? Ask yourself why.

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More nonsense. Stuff like this is interesting because it is so outrageously false. Really, is there one single educated person on the planet who believes stuff like this? From 100,000 BC to about 1960, there were basically zero non white people in what is now the UK. That is fairly common knowledge. So you have to ask yourself, why the lie? What's the point, exactly? Is it to dehumanize? Repeat a lie enough and it starts to seep through national consciousness. And if someone can get you to believe absurdities, what else can they get you to do?

Here is an eerily accurate 4chan post from 2013. 

More evidence of the Overton Window being flung the fuck open. This story is worth reading about. Below are the e-mails that caused the pearl clutching headline above.

Look at this graph!

"Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door."

What the fuck happened to Harvard? Imagine replacing the word White with ANYTHING else. Why is this ok??

"So-called 'white race'"

Notice the authors, Levitt and Segal, going way out of their way to not capitalize the W in White. I watch shows with the subtitles on a lot, and a really bizarre thing I've started to notice is that the B in Black will ALWAYS be capitalized, but the W in White NEVER will be. 

Here's the picture of a South African farm murderer with the $20k signal jammer I talked about in my SA post:

More fun in Africa:

Here is an illuminating recent picture from Britain. A Muslim man running for office wants you to be more concerned with Gaza than the hollowed out industrial building directly behind the ad. It's so on the nose that, again, it's almost comical:

I'm posting this stuff not only because it's so shocking, but I feel like a lot of people on the left/center don't realize what's going on. I can't tell you how many times I've been in casual conversations with people and mentioned something in the news that I thought was common knowledge, only to have them be completely fucking shocked/unaware. We have to put this shit out there. It's uncomfortable, I know, but what is the alternative? Just get dwindled down to nothing because we didn't want to appear mean to people who live among us while openly despising us and calling for our deaths? What do you think happens when we actually are a minority in our own countries? They speak and act this way in a roughly 60% White America. What do you think happens when that number is 40%? 25%? Really think about that for a minute. It's a terrifying thought.

Anyway, that's about it for today. Never know what you're gonna get around here. Some sports betting, some modeling, some crypto, some slice of life, investing, politics, economics and a sprinkle of White Nationalism :)