Most of you know I do source lists on anything I find interesting. The boring big news is I have decided to use direct Twitter links for videos and ghost archive has acted weird so I am phasing it out. The big news is how many articles and stories have been about Trump this month. We might have had one, maybe two a month but not a new thing every weekend. I'll post the links collected at the beginning of next month, there's a lot.
Let's go through a list.
Elon Musk left his office to go back to his normal work. He had a shit fit with Trump and then backs off. Later he starts working in an energy grid for China.
Protests in LA started to become Riots. The Marines were called in. The governor said this was evil. Big protests spread throughout the country. Then LA stopped because the Marines stood around or something and we've forgotten about it.
Iran and Israel nearly started World War 3. I've seen plenty of comments about who did what. My wife thinks it stopped because they both wanted golden dome rocket systems and got them. Others think Donald Trump ended a nuclear program.
The fact that it's happening consistently with the same story beats and rhetoric hits me as weird. Thing happens, Trump talks about it, rhetoric intensifies, Trump does something, it dies down and we forget it for the next big thing. If it happened one or twice, I'd think it was an interesting thing, but not too important. The fact that it's been like this every weekend and has seemed weird throughout makes me think Kayfabe is going on.
In this case, I think each scenario happened for a different reason, a lot of the people involved had already agreed to things earlier. The rest was just for show. How much is completely unknown, but it looks like we are being out onto a TV show or something over and over again. I think there was some Kayfabe with Musk so he could show he isn't fully on Trump's side and do his own business. I bet the nuclear sites that were hit have been inactive for years and everyone knew it. As for the riots, that is just weird how fast it ended. It just plays like a TV show too much and too consistently to a story loop.
Meanwhile, Harvard and other ivy League schools are losing their funding. They had a judge say they need to be paid, but he has no jurisdiction over the matter.
Yeah the "Trump attacks" is following a trend. A small targeted attack that's talked up far more than it actually is, and in a way that's walked about it was a historical attack even though it was only a few hours ago. Which is a neat way of dampening escalation.
Re the Musk thing. Musk was always going to leave at some point, I'm sure he had an end date that was discussed. I don't know if this was what the plan was though but he was never going to stay in the white house for ever.