Part II of My New Year’s 2025 Resolution: remember who is in charge.

Let’s get real here: Elon Musk isn’t very smart. Definitely not smart enough to orchestrate some 3D-chess-takeover of the United States of America.

Elon Musk is compromised.

Vladimir Putin has him. And Putin is exploiting whatever dirt he possesses to make his asset hurt the USA.

Besides being owned, Musk is also South African. He didn’t get the nickname “Apartheid Clyde” just because he looks, thinks, and carries himself like a dudebro who would naturally support an apartheid style of government. He grew up during an awful time in South Africa’s history and appeared to have benefited, at least in some way, from systematic oppression.

The country of South Africa happens to be the “S” in “BRICS.”

BRICS is a coalition of countries that have discussed developing a common currency using the same name, with the intention of rivaling the US dollar for supremacy. Five countries would back it, hence the five-letter acronym. Along with South Africa, the other participants are Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

Yeah, Russia…

The country where the richest man in the world, Vlad Putin, hails from.

Maybe I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but what if Putin is using Musk to drain the US Treasury so he can dump all that red, white, and blue government cheese into BRICS? Stealing from us while infusing the competitive currency with metric tons of dollars at the same time—just to strike back at the USA for winning the Cold War. Do I sound nutty for suggesting Elon is not an oligarch, but a mark who is being used to drain our financial power?

Regardless, Phony Stark isn’t taking us to Mars, peeps. Say he isn’t Putin’s full-on patsy, fine. He is still spinning a bullshit selling story, bastardized from a range of sci-fi tropes, to dupe the American public into handing him ginormous contracts. What if ex-KGB operatives helped craft his spiel from observing our culture, its twisted sense of exceptionalism? I saw The Americans. I love The Americans, haven’t been right since the show ended. If Phillip and Elizabeth were behind all of this, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Putin hates us. Sadly, the Reagan-neocons did give him a few reasons to. They failed when they could have succeeded after the Berlin Wall fell.

Because Republicans wanted to spike the football and inflict more suffering on the former Soviet Union, the sadistic fellas in power refused to support financially assisting Mikhail Gorbachev’s ailing Russian government in the early ’90s. The desire to twist the knife in the wound, just to be dicks, was too great. We could have created a solid trading partner by allowing the IMF and World Bank to help that fledgling democracy fix its books and begin to rebuild. But now we know that USA Republicans aren’t really into this idea called democracy, don’t we?

If we were better allies during Russia’s initial post-USSR years, who knows where we could be now. With a mutually-beneficial relationship between two countries, folks in power don’t look to ruin fruitful relationships.

Putin hates the USA, in ways we can’t comprehend and some we can, if we take the time to learn about it. I don’t like him. But I don’t like Trump or Musk, either.

Is it too out-there to think that there is a game plan at work, only the fellas who think they are its players are actually just pieces on the game board like the rest of us?

Don’t obey in advance. This is too much of a shitshow to behave otherwise.

Earlier posts:
• A gigantic thank you, from me to Rush Limbaugh.
• Predatory capitalists need martyrs, too.
• World events since I released my first book.
• Open letter to a picture of myself back in cubicle life, 2003-ish.

I also write fiction. I have two dark comedies available, Fearkiller (Volume 1) and Notes from Trillionaire Island: Fearkiller (Volume 2), as well as Revolutionizer Alpha, the first book in a sci-fi series. I also wrote a story about God. It was weird, but then I decided to make the story and its sequel free. And all of the sudden, it didn’t seem as weird. Writing about God is much less weird when you write about God without charging money for it.
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