T•••• runs a genuine-sample con like Musk. Handed a mid-econ cycle racket by his dad—putting up buildings—he proved too dumb to run it. Fell down to the ass end as vulture buyer, then brand licensing / money laundering.
He’s still coasting on the initial image of property developer, when he was pretending to run his dad’s biz from his little Fisher-Price desk.
A vulture’s racket is countercyclical like a repo man’s. He wants distressed assets in a market crash. As a criminal, he prefers low trust, extortion over trade, crime, no law enforcement. As a debtor, he wants low interest rates so his own payments are cheaper. As a richie, he wants no income tax. These are his motives, tariffs are his means.
Now the dumbest voters in America have put their equivalent of an automaker biz in the hands of a repo man who profits only when the automaker fails. He’s trying to crash your biz to make more from his. He’s posting about it. He says so all the time!
T••••’s also too stupid and selfish to care about anything other than his shitty little racket. Is happily torching $trillions in others’ rackets to make pennies off his.
T•••• is driven to extinguish social trust, trade and merit, replacing them with transactionalism, extortion and sycophancy.
The feud is between T•••• backers like Musk and Dimon in the legitimate economy, and T••••, in a crime-adjacent countercyclical niche. And GOP are letting T•••• crash it.