America: “Fuck everyone else, we’re going to create a totally isolated economy and refuse to buy anything from our allies. Fuck international trade, we don’t need you losers anyway”

Europe: “OK, we won’t trade with you then.”

America: “Wait, no, come back!”

No matter stupid you think he is, I guarantee it’s more than that.

It matters only insofar as Kramer is exactly the kind of person who MAGA thinks is really smart.

His opinion shouldn’t matter to anyone with two braincells to rub together, but a lot of people don’t meet that criteria and do care a lot about what he says.

It’s an important temperature check for how things are going in MAGA land.

Which actually makes this poll much, much worse for Elon. You’re right that a lot of that 33% saying “Yeah I’d totally buy a Tesla” are probably the MAGA cult who’ve downloaded the latest instruction set and are now responding as programmed. Which means a lot of those people live in areas that Tesla has previously underserved (because red voters were actively antagonistic to electric cars and their infrastructure), meaning have no infrastructure there; no dealerships, no charging stations. You can’t take a Tesla to a regular mechanic, and charging stations are a real problem when you live in flyover country where everything is 200km from everything, at a minimum. Most of the people who now support Elon because he’s “hurting the right people” probably have no ability to actually use his products.

But if you don’t insist then you’ve willingly given them your complicitly, which is what they want, because they fear your resistance. If they didn’t fear you, they wouldn’t need to silence you or shout you down.

So keep insisting. Keep shouting these facts from the rooftop. Force them to actually work to cover it up, and know that the truth will leak through.

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

Yeah, this should scare the shit out of any investor.

If you were waiting until it got to actual concentration camps before you were willing to call this fascism, well, here you go.