joriki"This picture of Karoline Leavitt was scrubbed from AFP and Getty's systems after WH complained"
a short summary of recent events...
"It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump"
"... He represents not so much the banality as the imbecility of evil: how shallow and vacuous it is. Yet Musk’s personal, private seizure of state power has thrown real doubt on whether America’s constitution is still in effect. How can it be, if he upends its demands so heedlessly, and with such impunity? How can it be, if the power of the people’s elected representatives can simply be wished away by a man rich enough to buy anyone?
For a long time now, it has been clear that America was slipping out of a liberal democratic mode of governance and into something more vulgar and less accountable, something more like a privatized racket for the rich that extracts from and punishes the people, but never responds to their will. We knew this was coming. I just didn’t expect it to be so embarrassing."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/elon-musk-us-government-power