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the leopards are eating each other’s faces and I am thrilled
I am very much enjoying watching the leopards of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party eating each other’s faces. There is simply not enough popcorn in the entire world for this and I am thrilled.
If you’ve managed to miss this so far, it’s incredibly delightful. Here’s a good thread. Here’s a another one, basically a summary. But in short form, all of the worst people in the world are going at each others’ throats, with Laura Loomer figuring out, “Hey wait, you’re racist like we are but not racist enough and you don’t want all the immigrants out! You think people from India count as some kind of white!” and then Vivek going off about American culture producing sad mediocrities, which Loomer and Bannon and a bunch of their friends took real personally. Anyway, it’s broken out into a general Old MAGA vs. New Tech MAGAnates war, and that’s hilarious.
I was expecting a purge, of course, because you’ve got to have a purge when you have a new authoritarian, a new dictator. That’s because the first thing you have to do as new dictator is demonstrate to everyone who helped you get into power that your power doesn’t depend upon them. Instead, their power – and in general, their literal lives – depends upon you.
But this isn’t being instigated by the orange authoritarian fuckface. This is being instigated by his weird latecomer sidekick, the sidecar accessory who spent $44 billion on turning a popular social network into a fascist propaganda fountain and was supposed to go hang out with Third Banana Vivek and wank about budget cuts, kind of like a rocket-obsessed Jack Kemp.
What set this off in particular is the H1B visa programme, which – surprise! – Musk and Ramaswamy want to keep, and which core MAGA doesn’t like any more than they like any other immigrants who aren’t mail-order brides from Europe.
But that’s not important right now.
What’s important is that Elon has absolutely been throwing his whole weight around, escalating this at every single opportunity. He’s taken gold stars away from a whole fleet of original MAGA, and temporarily banned Loomer herself. He also disabled all of her subscriptions – thus de-monetising her on X – which is hilarious. She got real spicy in response, and that quote’s only one of many.
So now Elon’s big mad, so he’s declared war on original MAGA, calling them “contemptable fools,” and saying they have to be pulled out of the party, “root and stem.”
Got news, hon.
They are the party.
You get rid of them, and there is no Republican party.
But leaving even all that aside…
…where the hell is Trump?
Whose side is he on here, anyway? Either? Both? Is he trying to figure out which of these two groups are the SA and need to be stabbed to death in the night? Is he doing anything to try to calm this down?
Loomer in particular has started signing on to the whole “President Musk” thing and she does not like it, which may be the only time she and I would ever agree on anything. Her side’s already saying that the movement has been co-opted by “big tech” – meaning Elon and friends – and that free speech is just another big lie.
And, of course, Musk has decided to purge them all.
So. Which side’s gonna be this iteration’s Trotsky? Will they be using an ice axe, as per tradition? I hope so. It seems fitting.
And once again…
…where the hell is Trump?
#fascism #uspolitics
I am very much enjoying watching the leopards of the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party eating each other’s faces. There is simply not enough popcorn in the entire world for this and I am thrilled.
If you’ve managed to miss this so far, it’s incredibly delightful. Here’s a good thread. Here’s a another one, basically a summary. But in short form, all of the worst people in the world are going at each others’ throats, with Laura Loomer figuring out, “Hey wait, you’re racist like we are but not racist enough and you don’t want all the immigrants out! You think people from India count as some kind of white!” and then Vivek going off about American culture producing sad mediocrities, which Loomer and Bannon and a bunch of their friends took real personally. Anyway, it’s broken out into a general Old MAGA vs. New Tech MAGAnates war, and that’s hilarious.
I was expecting a purge, of course, because you’ve got to have a purge when you have a new authoritarian, a new dictator. That’s because the first thing you have to do as new dictator is demonstrate to everyone who helped you get into power that your power doesn’t depend upon them. Instead, their power – and in general, their literal lives – depends upon you.
But this isn’t being instigated by the orange authoritarian fuckface. This is being instigated by his weird latecomer sidekick, the sidecar accessory who spent $44 billion on turning a popular social network into a fascist propaganda fountain and was supposed to go hang out with Third Banana Vivek and wank about budget cuts, kind of like a rocket-obsessed Jack Kemp.
What set this off in particular is the H1B visa programme, which – surprise! – Musk and Ramaswamy want to keep, and which core MAGA doesn’t like any more than they like any other immigrants who aren’t mail-order brides from Europe.
But that’s not important right now.
What’s important is that Elon has absolutely been throwing his whole weight around, escalating this at every single opportunity. He’s taken gold stars away from a whole fleet of original MAGA, and temporarily banned Loomer herself. He also disabled all of her subscriptions – thus de-monetising her on X – which is hilarious. She got real spicy in response, and that quote’s only one of many.
So now Elon’s big mad, so he’s declared war on original MAGA, calling them “contemptable fools,” and saying they have to be pulled out of the party, “root and stem.”
Got news, hon.
They are the party.
You get rid of them, and there is no Republican party.
But leaving even all that aside…
…where the hell is Trump?
Whose side is he on here, anyway? Either? Both? Is he trying to figure out which of these two groups are the SA and need to be stabbed to death in the night? Is he doing anything to try to calm this down?
Loomer in particular has started signing on to the whole “President Musk” thing and she does not like it, which may be the only time she and I would ever agree on anything. Her side’s already saying that the movement has been co-opted by “big tech” – meaning Elon and friends – and that free speech is just another big lie.
And, of course, Musk has decided to purge them all.
So. Which side’s gonna be this iteration’s Trotsky? Will they be using an ice axe, as per tradition? I hope so. It seems fitting.
And once again…
…where the hell is Trump?
#fascism #uspolitics