The final votes weren’t even tallied before people took to social media, and what’s left of the barren media landscape, to crow about what Harris had done wrong, and the points were many. She focussed too much on abortion, not enough on abortion, genocide!, didn’t support Israel enough, not free Palestine enough, courting Liz Cheney and not leaning into the base, leaning too far left and not taking into account how far right the country leaned, too many celeb endorsements, not going on Joe Rogan…. Everyone can fuck off. The reason it went wrong is because half the country voted for a fascist with their whole chests. 2024 feels different than 2016, in that I saw the train coming back then, felt he was going to win so wasn't surprised, but I was pissed, furious, on fire with rage because people were so blind to it. In this case, half the country voted for him with their eyes wide open. Now it feels..... lost. Adrift. Gone. Hardened. Because make no mistake, it is gone. 250 years is not very long. That’s …

Musk squeezed out this intellectual brainfart on Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is what we have now instead of rigorous public discourse, the scientific method or literally any system of iterative knowledge development that doesn’t involve a shaved gorilla taking hits off the crazy bong while Temu Tony Stark explains why fluoride is mind control.