"He wants us fighting with each other. He wants us firing guns at each other. And he wants us isolated from the rest of the world and the rest of our allies. That’s what he wants. He’s said as much."

Olear thinks it's no accident that "everything [Musk-Trump are] doing is designed to make us weaker." Musk and Trump are colluding with Putin to accomplish this, he maintains.

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"The U.S. government is currently under the control of a deeply ignorant, vengeful megalomaniac with zero impulse control. And it’s not just Elon Musk: Trump shares the same characteristics."

And "having ignorant men with poor impulse control running things has to be bad for business."

~ Paul Krugman

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/surprise-chaos-is-bad-for-business

"He feels a genuine rapport with autocrats, dictators, and outright thugs. There’s no such connection with our European allies, who[m] he openly antagonizes."

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