Elon Musk says Trump will crash the economy, and he thinks that’s good.

[solarbird]

I just want to get it out there that Elon Musk keeps saying – in words – that the Trump plan is to crash the economy. He keeps saying it, because he thinks it’s a good thing. Ordinary Americans will have to “embrace the pain.” People like him won’t have to do that, of course not!

But, you know.

You.

The little people.

Then and only then, after a big crash, will the economy be allowed to recover under what one supposes would be a new hyper-austerity regime.

From all historical experience, this “austerity” regime would really be a looter regime. It’d also be deflationary, which is great if you’re a billionaire and terrible if you’re everyone else, since most people will make less and less over time, while the billionaires will keep more and more since the rich won’t be paying any taxes, and the value of their stored wealth – their idle, uninvested, non-productive money caches – will increase all on its own.

The MAGA government would be gambling on the idea that American memory is so short that they’ll forget before the collapse.

Well, that, and…

And I give this credence because, well, one, yeah, Trump’s plans will crash the economy. But I also give it credence because of something Trump said before even running for office. He said this:

When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.
– Donald J. Trump on Fox and Friends, 2014

Because Elon’s saying that’s the plan this time. It wasn’t the plan last time maybe, but it’s the plan this time. And “go back to where we used to be” was white supremacy with women as men’s property. That’s what he wants.

Trump’s Director of Whitehouse Personnel just today called to end voting rights for women, saying that women shouldn’t vote and that the 19th Amendment “might have to go.”

I mean really, at this point in the campaign, what people generally need to be focusing on is getting out the vote. But sometimes things happen that are big enough to talk about, like the explosion of race hate coming out of the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. And that raw hatred – and their doubling down on it on Monday and Tuesday – is the most important item this week, absolutely.

But for the “fuck you I got mine” crowd amongst your friends, particularly the ones who are perfectly happy to laugh at racial hate jokes and really kinda like it since hey, it’s not their problem, well…

I would think that intentionally crashing the economy might give them something to care about.

Just maybe.

Because Elon keeps saying it, out loud. Elon, who would be in a Trump administration, who would be the one doing the broad strokes of fiscal planning, keeps saying that they will crash the economy, and that they will do it on purpose.

That might be something to tell your more racist family and friends.

Maybe – just maybe – they’ll care about that.

5 days remain.

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Comments

[jessie_c]

It's dangerous to eat the rich. Compost them instead. Make then be useful for once in their existence.

[solarbird]

As I told someone on mastodon, "Kings of Bartertown" is a good band name but a terrible lifestyle, and it's too bad they can't find that out without dragging the rest of us to hell with them.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

You know, it really is kind of pathetic how much Enron wants to be Ming the Merciless. Like so, so bad.

[solarbird]

Y'know I don't even mind that?

What I mind is having the money and therefore the power to try.

Billionaires are a mistake.

[gorgeousgary]

And likely going completely unnoticed by too many people is that billionaires like Musk acting to crash the economy would likely take out a fair number of paper millionaires nearing retirement and hoping to live decently on their IRA's or 401(k)'s for a couple of decades.

All of whom wouldn't necessarily be able to fall back on Social Security if their bennies get cut 20-30% either and might have a problem if their Medicare gets trashed. (Of course some number of those folks sadly fall into the "keep government off my Medicare" type of idiot.)