Pretty much.
I’m more ambiguous than most about what is going specifically right now, because everyone opposing Trump and Musk is way, way, WAY too hasty picking up any tiny victory or proof of being “right.”
Too easy, too fast, pointing at this defeat.
The other meaningful part is summarized and explained here (the embedded video).
People who know more than me about economic theory are aware that a great depression can also be conductive to a great rebound. The volatility of a market is essentially NEVER a proof, of anything. It’s just knee-jerk reaction that you can never trust. Whether it confirms and flatters your beliefs, or pushes back.
Tesla stock going down? Great news. But great news that is utterly worthless if it’s just a short term anomaly. You don’t know what’s past the corner. A cheer for victory BECOMES defeat. Do we really trust that the pressure on Tesla is going to be persistent? Because if it’s not it’s all a pure waste of time and, for us, awful gloating that will be punished, AGAIN.
Once again we give the enemy weapons that will then be used against us.
What if tariffs are removed (or delayed) just a few days later? You think it’s one Trump defeat, but in truth it’s just another SUCCESSFUL TROLLING. What we are is dancing monkeys to HIS TUNE, and for his amusement. The fact that he can stop the tune at any point, to give the world some respite, only reinforces his power and control. It’s not a crack into that power, it’s the basis for more.
All protests and exhibitions of outrage is precisely what Trump expects and laughs at. His funny dancing monkeys. The only way to fight it is being disruptive to expectations. Everything that I’m observing as consequence of tariffs isn’t Trump losing control and losing support, it’s instead watch a perfectly choreographed monkey dance.
(It’s also quite funny observing, after Switch 2 announce, everyone blaming tariffs for the higher costs. Again dancing monkeys to the tune, of big corporations instead. The price announce comes BEFORE tariffs. If anything tariffs WILL PUSH THE PRICE UP. All the tariffs you see, RIGHT NOW, are FEELS and projections. You have YET to see tariffs HAPPEN. Nothing that is happening right now is BECAUSE of tariffs. We are only fretting at announces. Which is why it’s all so stupid, nothing is actually happening, only the blackmailing has started. Big corporations will indeed use the inflation and higher costs as the motivation to cause inflation and higher costs. It’s precisely how they enslave a population. Not through money, but through beliefs. The belief that they have no choice other than to FUCK YOU.)
EDIT: I wonder why I bother writing, it’s so fucking predictable. The world is just a predictable trainwreck.