The war in Ukraine has devastated Russia’s economy. The oligarchs don’t think the war will be successful and Putin is aware of that. He’s frightened and removing perceived threats.

Like father like son.

Protest outside of Falco’s outside. He isn’t getting enough attention it seems.

This is the oligarchy that American technocrats want to recreate at home. Owning things is dependent on being alive. Maybe paying a couple percent extra on taxes is worth it.

Musk caused a lot of problems mainly while he was being self serving. He fired a lot of FAA leadership and mass laid off air traffic controllers. He wanted to steal a contract from Verizon for SpaceX. Aircraft incidents increased almost immediately. DOGE also led cuts at NOAA which NWS relies on. There was a surprise tornado in the midwest a couple of months ago and flash flood in Texas. These events claimed lives. I blame Musk. Musk is at least partially responsible for Trump gaining power whether he hacked vote tabulations or not.

There could not be a worse bad actor to be involved in our politics. I like the idea of a centrist party but want Musk to not be involved at all.