Musk and Trump, a timeline.

Watch it.

You know, I want an easier life for my kid. I want a kinder life for my kid. I want a healthier life for my kid. I want a happier life for my kid.

You’d think that would be the basic principles of any society.

“People aren’t having babies anymore!!!”

“Stop complaining about cost of living and cancel your Netflix”

Time and again, voters, very often women themselves, told me that they just didn’t think that “America is ready for a female president”. People said they couldn’t “see her in the chair” and asked if I “really thought a woman could run the country”. One person memorably told me that she couldn’t vote for Harris because “you don’t see women building skyscrapers”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/09/us-voters-kamala-harris-donald-trump-republican

On the upside. If Trump and Elon do what they say, Europe could see a massive opportunity as intellectuals flee. A safe space for innovation.

Farage as PM has just become more and more likely before decades end.

Our only hope is it’s a bit like Brexit. After watching the shitshow every other European Country thought “fuck that”

Yup…

A Labour MP, who worked in Washington DC during Trump’s first term: “I hate to say it but the reality is this is going to colour the entire premiership of Keir.

“It has completely changed everything – every single thing we do, everything they do will be seen through the prism of this one man’s reaction.

“And that’s going to be exhausting.

Google search for “what is a tariff” spikes day after the election

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The lads arriving at Trumps to celebrate

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I don’t have much pity for Politicians but there’s a job I’d really hate to be doing right now;

A decision on a new US ambassador is likely to be taken within days, with David Miliband, Peter Mandelson and Cathy Ashton all on the shortlist, the Guardian understands.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/08/downing-street-to-appoint-new-us-ambassador-within-days

Now I don’t know him but I know plenty like him. I can only judge on words and actions.

The words so far terrify me. But I’m OK. I’m a white man living far away from it all.

So yeah, I just think about this when I think about how he’s now the richest man in the world with the ear of the most powerful man in the world.

You get on a bus. A white bus. To a school. A white school. You were told blatant lies. You had to do cadets. Preparing for National Service.

I’d say that played a part in Musk leaving at 18. Just a guess though.

The 1980s

Musks experience for his whole childhood life right?

One of white supremacy. To me it was jarring and an experience that helped form me positively.

Looking and listening to Musk how do you think it formed his worldview?

Something that’s been on my mind recently and I’ve mentioned these memories before but in the context of Musk I do think it bears repeating.

1987. Not that long ago right? Now I was about to hit my teens. I’m not much younger than Elon. Moved to South Africa. He lived in Pretoria, me Jo’burg.

We arrived. Within a couple of weeks we had our own maid. If you didn’t take a maid in people would be at your door every day begging you to give them a job. A maid was paid peanuts.

Just don’t fuck with Glaswegians right @ecksmc 😂

The worry the kids have. Brought up through a pandemic, into this. I dunno, on the whole I’m really not too fond of adults.

It’s an awful thing to have to discuss with a teenager. You just want them to think everything’s always ok and will always be ok. It’s not and it won’t. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend your days worrying about it. Life is still for living.

Daughter chatting to me on the way home about the state of it all. “I have the best parents out of all my friends. You aren’t racist, you aren’t homophobic, you respect me and you don’t like Trump.”

Warmed my heart and made me sad at the same time. These shouldn’t be stand out features of being a person. We then discussed how she needed to understand that these are minority views in the wider world. We do not live in a liberal world so as soon as you can exercise your right to vote, you do”

Musk already taking calls with the President to heads of state.

In yet another sign of Elon Musk’s clout with the second Trump administration, Axios reports that he was on the line when Donald Trump called Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his election win.