I’m business the last one standing is the winner. That could be his goal

You can either convince people with a carrot to do what you want and hope they will comply or make them comply with a sharp expensive stick 🤷‍♂️ Orange man doesn’t seem to like carrots

While I completely agree, I do have one counterpoint that the current US administration is employing to counter that tactic. Flood the zone with news story after news story of unrelated topics and it’s massively more difficult to remember all of them or follow up on them all

Propaganda sinks in better if it’s heard years in advance instead of 3 months before the election. It’s easier to make people think other news sources are exaggerating if they’ve heard the opposite for months and months prior

This is essentially what trump is doing with musk. He’s going to"fire" musk as soon as he’s done enough damage then go back to claiming he’s making America great by rehiring people to replace the ones musk is firing. Only the replacements won’t be as competent then leave the crippled departments to the Dems and republicans will say “look at how poorly the Dems are running the place”