Boys
And Their Toys
Donald John Trump and Elon Reeve Musk have an unhappy history of breaking their toys. They are just entitled little monsters who always had big Christmases and birthdays.
They learned from their distracted elders and shady mentors how to attract, capture, and use other people’s money to their advantage. They grew adept in benefiting from a process of deceptive acquisition of a controlling position in an aspirational product.
They are addicted to the pleasure of hawking and handling the product. They personally benefit from every underwritten financial failure. Stakeholders left holding the broken parts will repurpose them. As of yesterday, 03 Feb 25 (the 15th day of the Reign of Terror known as the implementation of Project 2025):
1. Musk, a private citizen of questionable character and no formal security clearance, occupies the Treasury Building and control of America’s full faith and credit (against the rule of law and in violation of constitutional guardrails between the three branches of government).
2. Trump is dithering about his transactional position on additional tariffs against Canada and Mexico. He threated these taxes on the campaign trail and preemptively launched them as an executive action without consultation with congress or affected trading partners. This page from the Project 2025 playbook required blatant disregard of national obligations and the mutually cooperative spirit embodied in the USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replacing NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in 2020]. Recall that Trump signed the both the first and revised versions of the USMCA on behalf of the United States before leaving office in 2021. Trump is bringing to international trade agreements his unfortunate habit of welching on a done deal. His flawed business practices are not a wise negotiating position or a good look in the arena of international diplomacy
3. Quietly on the sidelines and largely unnoticed, Trump has signed an executive order requiring officials to submit a plan of action within 90 days about creation and operation of a sovereign wealth fund. This type of investment vehicle is owned by a nation state. It is a type of “nest egg” supposed to invest in the collective good of the nation. It deploys current money in a way that benefits future generations (public works, investment in financial products, buying positions in companies). From whence comes these sequestered funds? And who controls where, when, and how the funds are put into play? What could possibly go right?
Top and Bottom Lines
The boys are breaking their newest toy—the myth and the custom and the hope and the promise of a democratic republic known as the barely United States of America.
We the People are the shareholders most affected by their rogue actions.
It benefits us to resist the principles and derail the implementation of Project 2025 every day in every legal way.
Do not just survive Trump 2.0.
Use your person and your purse to prevail against its attack on anything and everything you hold dear.
Thanks again for a crisp and clear picture of what is happening and what We the People are doing about it. So much going on and you cut through the clutter to explain the most important action points. Is there no end to stupidity? Musk shut down the IRS system taxpayers used to file returns without needing to find and hire any third party to do so. Does he not know that system is also connected to the mechanisms to COLLECT taxes from employers, paychecks, etc. SWELL.... Musk just turned off the income machine for Congress. How long do you think it will take Congress to realize they are figuratively, "standing in the shower with shampoo in their hair and all of the water is shut off"?