The Chaos Report

Look…

I know y’all already voted, so it’s too late to change anybody’s mind. If I ever was going to.

But I went to a conference today hosted by an investment fund that is all in on Elon Musk. Musk was supposed to participate, but didn’t. So I started thinking about everything.

And yeah, I get that:

• Corporations think they’re over-regulated, especially ones that want to shoot rockets into the sky all the time.

And I get that:

• If your only profitable business is electric vehicles you might want to hedge against a President who seems to really like old-school gas guzzlers. And in that case, the best way to protect your business is probably to support him.

And I even get that:

• The federal government can play a small or large role in the life of a corporation, but ultimately, the corporation and the public at large acting independently is going to decide what it wants to do, not the government (unless maybe, you’re the media, or you want to shoot rockets into the sky all the time, or you run a hospital in a state where abortion had been criminalized.)

Also, if I’m paying a lot of whatever free money I have in taxes to pay for things I don’t believe in, that may not apportion me with enough resources to act independently. Or at the very least may seem stupid and exhausting to fight for precisely the things my tax dollars are fighting against.

At the same time, wouldn’t it also be preferable to not have the high level of crazy that’s inevitable in any Trump administration? And also the inevitable hijinx that will occur at the end of any Trump administration?

That’s what I don’t get…