Patrick Marren
@patrickmarren.bsky.social
Consultant and author, pre-relocated to New Zealand for the End Times https://www.patrickmarren.com
Come on, George. We liberals don't really despise constitutional originalism. We just hate America generally.
December 19, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Come on, George. We liberals don't really despise constitutional originalism. We just hate America generally.
PLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: By 1 April 2025, Elon Musk is the single most hated brand in the world.
IMPLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: In 2025, Elon Musk helps ordinary Americans, gains support for Trump's agenda, and Trump does not desperately want to detach from Musk.
Glad I am not on the Tesla board. #Tightrope
IMPLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: In 2025, Elon Musk helps ordinary Americans, gains support for Trump's agenda, and Trump does not desperately want to detach from Musk.
Glad I am not on the Tesla board. #Tightrope
December 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM
PLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: By 1 April 2025, Elon Musk is the single most hated brand in the world.
IMPLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: In 2025, Elon Musk helps ordinary Americans, gains support for Trump's agenda, and Trump does not desperately want to detach from Musk.
Glad I am not on the Tesla board. #Tightrope
IMPLAUSIBLE SCENARIO: In 2025, Elon Musk helps ordinary Americans, gains support for Trump's agenda, and Trump does not desperately want to detach from Musk.
Glad I am not on the Tesla board. #Tightrope
No - SuperDOGE Krypto.
He turns out to be loyal to a criminal trillionaire the whole time, then flees to Russia with all Clark's online passwords and dog treats.
He turns out to be loyal to a criminal trillionaire the whole time, then flees to Russia with all Clark's online passwords and dog treats.
December 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
No - SuperDOGE Krypto.
He turns out to be loyal to a criminal trillionaire the whole time, then flees to Russia with all Clark's online passwords and dog treats.
He turns out to be loyal to a criminal trillionaire the whole time, then flees to Russia with all Clark's online passwords and dog treats.
Until he fires the Fed chair.
December 19, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Until he fires the Fed chair.
WaPo describing your entirely ordinary and unexceptional attempt to put yourself forward for leadership as a "power play" says it all about the casual misogyny and lazy cynicism of 2020s media.
December 19, 2024 at 1:49 AM
WaPo describing your entirely ordinary and unexceptional attempt to put yourself forward for leadership as a "power play" says it all about the casual misogyny and lazy cynicism of 2020s media.
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10. Allowing politically friendly billionaire internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms, while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored.
10. Allowing politically friendly billionaire internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms, while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored.
December 19, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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10. Allowing politically friendly billionaire internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms, while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored.
10. Allowing politically friendly billionaire internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms, while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored.
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9. Reversing Biden infrastructure projects, guaranteeing degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
9. Reversing Biden infrastructure projects, guaranteeing degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
December 19, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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9. Reversing Biden infrastructure projects, guaranteeing degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
9. Reversing Biden infrastructure projects, guaranteeing degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
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8. Denial of and politicization of worsening climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
8. Denial of and politicization of worsening climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
December 19, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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8. Denial of and politicization of worsening climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
8. Denial of and politicization of worsening climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
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7. Ensuring Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology through disinvestment in U.S. alternative energy technologies and further subsidizing oil and gas
7. Ensuring Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology through disinvestment in U.S. alternative energy technologies and further subsidizing oil and gas
December 19, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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7. Ensuring Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology through disinvestment in U.S. alternative energy technologies and further subsidizing oil and gas
7. Ensuring Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology through disinvestment in U.S. alternative energy technologies and further subsidizing oil and gas
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6. Ignoring Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications, while loudly proclaiming a retreat by the U.S. from any forward position in the world, ceding that leadership to China
6. Ignoring Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications, while loudly proclaiming a retreat by the U.S. from any forward position in the world, ceding that leadership to China
December 19, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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6. Ignoring Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications, while loudly proclaiming a retreat by the U.S. from any forward position in the world, ceding that leadership to China
6. Ignoring Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications, while loudly proclaiming a retreat by the U.S. from any forward position in the world, ceding that leadership to China
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5. Increasing massive investment in "big-iron" traditional defense projects (aircraft carriers, jet fighters, etc.), while neglecting actual future warfare (drones, C4ISR, hacking countermeasures, anti-satellite weaponry and satellite backup options, etc.)
5. Increasing massive investment in "big-iron" traditional defense projects (aircraft carriers, jet fighters, etc.), while neglecting actual future warfare (drones, C4ISR, hacking countermeasures, anti-satellite weaponry and satellite backup options, etc.)
December 19, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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5. Increasing massive investment in "big-iron" traditional defense projects (aircraft carriers, jet fighters, etc.), while neglecting actual future warfare (drones, C4ISR, hacking countermeasures, anti-satellite weaponry and satellite backup options, etc.)
5. Increasing massive investment in "big-iron" traditional defense projects (aircraft carriers, jet fighters, etc.), while neglecting actual future warfare (drones, C4ISR, hacking countermeasures, anti-satellite weaponry and satellite backup options, etc.)
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4. Supporting subversion of representative democracy worldwide; de-emphasizing alliances; sabotaging US-friendly world trade regimes (via tariffs); allowing profitable leaks of all critical military/security technology by disloyal billionaires to China, Russia, and others
4. Supporting subversion of representative democracy worldwide; de-emphasizing alliances; sabotaging US-friendly world trade regimes (via tariffs); allowing profitable leaks of all critical military/security technology by disloyal billionaires to China, Russia, and others
December 19, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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4. Supporting subversion of representative democracy worldwide; de-emphasizing alliances; sabotaging US-friendly world trade regimes (via tariffs); allowing profitable leaks of all critical military/security technology by disloyal billionaires to China, Russia, and others
4. Supporting subversion of representative democracy worldwide; de-emphasizing alliances; sabotaging US-friendly world trade regimes (via tariffs); allowing profitable leaks of all critical military/security technology by disloyal billionaires to China, Russia, and others
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3. Shooting down drones and pushing conspiracy theories about them, while not spending any money on U.S. government drone technology
3. Shooting down drones and pushing conspiracy theories about them, while not spending any money on U.S. government drone technology
December 19, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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3. Shooting down drones and pushing conspiracy theories about them, while not spending any money on U.S. government drone technology
3. Shooting down drones and pushing conspiracy theories about them, while not spending any money on U.S. government drone technology
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2. Tariffs on Chinese and all other foreign goods, which will make Chinese manufacturing far more attractive to all other countries and accelerate the decline of the United States as an economic power
2. Tariffs on Chinese and all other foreign goods, which will make Chinese manufacturing far more attractive to all other countries and accelerate the decline of the United States as an economic power
December 19, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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2. Tariffs on Chinese and all other foreign goods, which will make Chinese manufacturing far more attractive to all other countries and accelerate the decline of the United States as an economic power
2. Tariffs on Chinese and all other foreign goods, which will make Chinese manufacturing far more attractive to all other countries and accelerate the decline of the United States as an economic power
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CURRENT MAGA/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES
1. U.S. federal government run by and for the direct benefit of Elon Musk and other centi-billionaires, who have no actual loyalty to the United States, only to their own wealth, and who now have no check upon their actions
CURRENT MAGA/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES
1. U.S. federal government run by and for the direct benefit of Elon Musk and other centi-billionaires, who have no actual loyalty to the United States, only to their own wealth, and who now have no check upon their actions
December 19, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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CURRENT MAGA/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES
1. U.S. federal government run by and for the direct benefit of Elon Musk and other centi-billionaires, who have no actual loyalty to the United States, only to their own wealth, and who now have no check upon their actions
CURRENT MAGA/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIES
1. U.S. federal government run by and for the direct benefit of Elon Musk and other centi-billionaires, who have no actual loyalty to the United States, only to their own wealth, and who now have no check upon their actions
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10. Huge increase in the ability of internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored
10. Huge increase in the ability of internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored
December 19, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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10. Huge increase in the ability of internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored
10. Huge increase in the ability of internet actors to target children, divide the American people for profit, and drive general hysteria over phantoms while problems 1 through 9 are utterly ignored
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9. Degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
9. Degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
December 19, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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9. Degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
9. Degradation of American infrastructure, causing massive waste (delayed commutes, damage to vehicles) and raising transport costs for all goods
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8. Worsening of climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
8. Worsening of climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
December 19, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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8. Worsening of climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
8. Worsening of climate-change-driven damage (e.g. hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, droughts, fires), destabilizing insurance markets and raising premiums, and raising agricultural and food costs
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7. Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology
7. Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology
December 19, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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7. Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology
7. Chinese dominance of future-critical electric technologies (solar, wind, etc.) and battery technology
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6. Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications
6. Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications
December 19, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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6. Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications
6. Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals (antimony, coltan, etc.) critical to military weapons systems and communications