Cracks & Fissures

It looks like the fault-lines in the Trump administration are already beginning to widen into nascent crevasses. Aside from the dizzying [often multiple] U-turns on just about every decision Trump has 'taken' thus far, the US stock market is going into free fall as I write, and his 'disruptor-in-chief', Elon Musk is currently denying that he ever threatened to cut access to his Starlink network for Ukraine: jury's out on that one. The fact is that Musk regards the US government as a dysfunctional 'business' in need of disruption, by guess who? He himself of course: the man who built his business success largely on the back of personal inheritance and US government and NASA funding. Now he's taken his infamous chainsaw to the very hands that have fed his successes to date: the state-funded scientists, regulators and institutions that support the developments made by companies such as Space X and Tesla. As to the latter, his customer base worldwide seems to be deserting him in droves. If it weren't for the needless damage he's causing at Trump's behest, the schadenfreude would be worth it. Given the 'progress' they've made in the few short weeks they've been in power, however, it won't be long before they alienate most of the US population, who will be poorer across the board - aside from the billionaire class, of course - all of the US' former allies and most of its foes. Good job, boys! Get your jollies while you can: you've all but eaten yourself already. The rest of the world can only look on aghast, and shamed that it allowed all of this to happen in the first place...