Remember when we had a whole impeachment hearing against Trump for withholding aid to Ukraine so he could get a political hit piece on Biden? I'm wondering how long it will take before a quid pro quo scenario pops up again. Either in Ukraine or elsewhere. So ya, we're all feeling for Zelensky in the next few years.

Zelensky probably spent the whole call wondering if it would be faster to just hand deliver everything they talked about directly to Putin.

He's going to be on the cabinet while getting billions in government contracts. The richest man in the world just got a job where he gets to to shovel more government money to himself. And that's what Trump calls 'draining the swamp' and 'sticking it to the elites'.

And somehow, instead of democrats calling that out, they decided to find their own elites to trot out.

Slash government funding for everything except the socialism for the rich.

The NPR article goes into this. Elon likely will award himself money without oversight while cutting programs like NPR and the SEC and other regulatory bodies etc.

Slash Social Security, add EV subsidies, make them so that only Tesla qualifies in practice.

Maybe Germany France Italy Spain Sweden Finland Poland ... and the UK could step up?

I mean let me dream a little.

I think a lot of Americans don't understand that the USA hedgemony isn't a divine right, it was a deliberate construction with tacit agreement of convenience from the western world.

Much like an economy, belief makes it so.

Much like the UK's arrogance has driven them into geopolitical obscurity, so will the USA's.

In 15 years, Americans are going to wake up and realize that their voices are irrelevant in the world. I don't know how y'all are going to handle it.

Musk doesn't need to run for office. He's the richest man in the world. With Trump as president, Musk can just call him, offer a few million and get whatever he wants.

He's not eligible, born in south africa

He can't be president, and I don't see him interested in any other position.