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I have a feeling that the U.S. folding to Elon is probably a little bit like the Afghani government folding in three months to the Taliban. If Elon’s effectively seizing treasury—whether that’s government contracts, subsidies, or even direct financial influence—he’s doing it with a mercenary class rather than a bureaucracy or a true political movement. But holding power is a whole different game. Trump’s week shows that there are many ways dementia manifests. The Gaza thing, is full-blown delusional, even by Trump standards. Proposing to make Gaza a U.S. colony in 2025 is like stepping into a time machine back to the 19th century, but without any of the practical mechanisms that made colonialism “work” back then (not that it ever really did in the long run).
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It’s like he fundamentally doesn’t grasp that the U.S. couldn’t even handle Afghanistan, a place where it had far more control and influence. Gaza, with its deeply entrenched resistance, hostile neighbors, and already explosive situation, would turn into an even bigger quagmire overnight. The way he’s operating now, it’s like his brain is throwing out whatever fragments of historical memory are left, but without context or logic. This isn’t strategic thinking—it’s pure confabulation, like the way dementia patients start making up stories to fill in gaps. Biden was so far gone that it made Trump look almost normal in his fabulism but in this case, the gaps are geopolitical realities, and the stories involve a fantasy of imperial conquest
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I suspect Trump found himself live-parroting the vision of the fringe coalition partners of the Likud who advocate for the eviction of Palestinians from Gaza — assuming either Bibi or someone close planted that bug in his ear shortly before he spoke. From Trump’s simplistic point of view, that singular idea has the dual appeal of instantly resolving the current conflict and of paving the way for a profitable real estate project, which resonates with him naturally. Of course, what actually becomes of those reluctant Palestinians, when no other neighboring country wants them and no infrastructure is ready to receive them, is a second-order consideration that is conveniently brushed aside as a minor detail to be ironed out later, because no detail should ever stand in the way of a grand announcement. I don’t necessarily ascribe this to a “senior moment” as much as to a casual and habitual shifting of the Overton window by normalizing fringe positions without much consideration of the consequences
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