Greg Sargent

Elon Musk has relied enormously on the US state to support his schemes over the years. Yet now he'd dramatically roll back its role in enabling the future flourishing of countless Americans and in helping the global poor avoid starvation and death. https://t.co/B0hdaZFrOz https://t.co/jxZD4OkpzT

Trump/Musk agree on the fundamentals: *Both see the US state as something to capture for megalomaniacal self-dealing *Both agree the US state should abandon global poor to unimaginable suffering *Both want the state to dramatically roll back help for working and poor people

Greg Sargent @GregTSargent

We keep hearing the Trump-Musk saga reveals the split between tech oligarchs and MAGA. But they're largely in sync on crucial matters involving egalitarianism and the state. Trump/Musk mainly differ over how badly to screw the poor. Some thoughts on this: https://t.co/B0hdaZFrOz https://t.co/1vRTdN0q4h

We keep hearing the Trump-Musk saga reveals the split between tech oligarchs and MAGA. But they're largely in sync on crucial matters involving egalitarianism and the state. Trump/Musk mainly differ over how badly to screw the poor. Some thoughts on this: https://t.co/B0hdaZFrOz https://t.co/1vRTdN0q4h

RT @StaceyMonetti: EXCELLENT piece. Grab a cup of ☕️ and take the time to read it. #IncomeInequality

RT @xpostfactoid: Two flavors of fascism duking it out for control of the U.S.

RT @joespal: This is absolutely perfect.

ICYMI, new piece/thread from me:

Greg Sargent @GregTSargent

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: https://t.co/B0hdaZFZE7

Wow. The rot of malevolence and depravity runs deep here. We're going to learn a lot more about how corrupt the Trump administration's handling of this case really was in coming days -->

Katherine Faulders @KFaulders

NEW - Ben Schrader, the former chief of the criminal division for the U.S. attorney’s office in Nashville, resigned following the office’s decision to seek an indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. https://t.co/KeMDtWLQXv

RT @JeanetteKStone1: "[Their] respective positions...are mysteriously missing from the whole Trump-Musk discourse. Flush them into the open…

when you put it that way it sounds bad

xpostfactoid @xpostfactoid

Two flavors of fascism duking it out for control of the U.S.

RT @kennethzinn: Correct. So, Democrats, stop saying gleefully you agree with the fascist, Elon Musk, even if it’s tongue-in-cheek. A plagu…

RT @Darkl1ght3r: 💯 “They are at odds, but mainly because they merely fall at different places on the same spectrum of impulses. And those i…

RT @robcovingtonjr: Greg nails the primary motivations behind these two sadistic, narcissistic psychopaths. Greg also scratches the surface…

Just remember that Trump and all his consiglieres confidently told us over and over again that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was *never* coming back to the US, to get us to demobilize, give up on politics, and internalize the idea that everything is futile.

RT @mattyglesias: I take Greg’s points here, I don’t think it’s *just* that — there is a real difference between Musk’s futurist economic v…

RT @NightShiftMD: This. It's a distraction from the real issue. That the U.S. is becoming a meaner and more aggressive place to live.

RT @NickFalacci: It’s all fun and games to the MSM — but this is simply two billionaire sociopaths fighting over how much money to steal fr…