They successfully regulate our fates, however deep down, they know they’re sniveling, pathetic, and insufficient, and it eats them up.
Elon Musk and Stephen Miller all the way through a gathering within the Oval Place of job on Thursday, February 13, 2025.
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In philosophy, the Nietzschean Übermensch frees himself from the pedestrian bounds of humanity to transform a awesome being that may rule us mere mortals. In our fact, the lads who fancy themselves Übermenschen—and who, sadly, are lately accountable for each the USA executive and far of the remainder of the sector—are large losers and crybabies, regardless of getting mainly the whole lot they would like.
We’re residing via a golden age for losers who don’t appear to appreciate how a lot they preserve telegraphing their loserdom to the remainder of us. They preen and pose as world-conquering superheroes whilst frequently exposing simply how sniveling and pathetic they in reality are.
Their impulse to inform on themselves has been on complete show within the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Conservatives who generally by no means close up about cancel tradition in an instant shaped a roving cancellation mob, operating round to get dozens of educators, executive staff, and reporters fired for being insufficiently mournful or slightly too fair (amongst the ones fired have been MSNBC senior political analyst Matthew Dowd and Washington Submit columnist Karen Attiah). Some specifically unhappy sacks even went round hassling native companies to decrease their flags in honor of Kirk.
This campaign reached its apex when Jimmy Kimmel was once unceremoniously pulled off the air “indefinitely” for his benign feedback about Kirk’s killing. When Kimmel was once let again at the air ultimate week, even President Trump, a showed Winner, wasn’t above bellyaching like a loser.
“I feel we’re going to check ABC out in this. Let’s see how we do. Remaining time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Greenbacks. This one sounds much more profitable,” Trump posted on TruthSocial at 10:35 pm on Tuesday, an unbothered, commonplace time to publish. “A real bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his dangerous Rankings.”
Bitter grapes! To inspect how we were given right here, I’d love to light up two Rosetta Stones of Loserdom, taking the mortal kinds of Stephen Miller and Elon Musk.
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Not anything may well be extra illustrative of the tendency I’m speaking about than this video acquired by means of the Submit of Miller from long ago in highschool within the liberal stronghold of Malibu, a key turning level in his beginning tale. Miller addresses his classmates in remarks reportedly assembled as a part of a type of scholar documentary at the then–top schooler, which is how you already know he was once in reality common and now not already thought to be a complete freak.
Within the video, Miller says: “Am I the one one that is in poor health and uninterested in being advised to pick out up my trash when we’ve got quite a few janitors who’re paid to do it for us?” It’s a funny story, the paper issues out with apparently out of place assurance. But it surely’s telling that Miller’s goal was once the janitorial team of workers, protected other folks for a loser, himself low at the social meals chain, to pick out on.
Years on, Miller is the architect of Trump’s mass detention and deportation coverage, proof that he nonetheless loves demonizing the inclined. However for some of the tough males within the White Area and due to this fact the sector, he couldn’t even get a hold of his personal unique concepts for Kirk’s eulogy, with Twitter customers mentioning he was once mainly aping Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Goebbels.
That on my own is deeply sinister, no query. However there’s one thing concerning the blatantness, and Miller’s strongman posturing, that feels, smartly, sweaty—like he’s desperately seeking to persuade us that he’s in truth a grasp of the universe. This odd offensive additionally lately roped in his spouse, Katie Miller, the Trump aide became Musk staffer became podcaster. All over a Tuesday look on Jesse Watters Primetime, the Fox Information host referred to as her “the envy of all girls” for her marriage to Miller, prompting Katie Miller to name her husband “the sexual matador.”
Indubitably, they will have to be joking. This merely doesn’t go the scent check! Even supposing you place the politics apart—Katie Miller went on to mention Mr. Miller greets the morning by means of telling her, “Let’s get started the day! I’m going to defeat the left!”—there’s now not a lady alive who, in her middle of hearts, seems upon that visage with the rest coming near envy. Non-losers don’t need to argue and beg like this; their would possibly is self-evident. Most effective bone-deep lame-Os need to paintings this tough at it.
Most likely the sector’s maximum overt loser, Elon Musk, additionally did not get a hold of an unique considered Kirk, his meant pal, apparently cribbing remarks from Miller (or in all probability each traces got here from preapproved management speaking issues). In a clip Musk posted to his Twitter account, he advised a reporter Kirk was once killed as a result of “he was once appearing other folks the sunshine. And he was once killed by means of the darkish.” Profound stuff. (Miller, for his section, pledged in his speech that “the sunshine will defeat the darkish.”)
Musk has set a brand new usual for being washed. Allow us to now not disregard that he purchased and tanked a cherished website online as a part of a years-long marketing campaign to get other folks to suppose he’s cool and humorous, a shedding combat if I’ve ever observed one. After purchasing Twitter for what many judged to be a wildly inflated valuation, he set about tweaking the set of rules to artificially flood our feeds along with his tweets (er, posts, I assume?), all as a result of a Joe Biden tweet concerning the Tremendous Bowl was once appearing significantly better than his personal.
One of the crucial Tesla CEO’s first orders of industrial was once to intestine the website’s verification device, which in the past gave where an air of legitimacy for reporters, public figures, and celebrities. The end result has been vastly a hit for the forms of losers who in the past couldn’t get verified, most commonly as a result of they’re nameless Nazis who publish from at the back of the job-preserving protection of a Greek statue profile image. (Even with all this algorithmic meddling, valued energy customers like “Catturd” nonetheless frequently bitch about being shadow banned. In the meantime, you’ll if truth be told get shadow banned for criticizing god-emperor Elon.)
Additional proof of Musk’s serial cringiness abounds, and to file it in complete will require a ebook deal. (Name me!!) However permit me to indicate to the sheer selection of occasions he’s tweeted the phrase “epic.” One fresh, extremely embarrassing instance was once a respond to Jeff Bezos, during which Musk earnestly tweeted, “It’s great to grasp that epic occasions are going down someplace on the earth, even though one isn’t provide” and wishing the Amazon founder “an epic marriage ceremony.” (Musk was once reportedly now not invited to the June carbon-burning-palooza/nuptials in Venice.) The South African businessman, who may just transform the sector’s first trillionaire, additionally tweeted a meme about Harambe, the gorilla, only a 12 months and a part in the past. It might be tricky to observe if he weren’t so hell-bent on international domination.
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Loserdom is innate to the folks lately operating our lives and shaping the way forward for humanity. I’d be remiss to not point out Ted Cruz’s complete being, or Vice President JD Vance’s making the administrative center appear much more unnecessary by means of most commonly the usage of it to shield his boss on-line whilst appearing like he’s in at the funny story, or the fresh tale in Semafor that incorporated the element {that a} Trump appointee mentioned his “radicalizing enjoy” was once being banned from the Gawker remark phase.
What’s so galling is that those utter losers are, in reality, getting away with it: They regulate the Splendid Courtroom, have all however absolutely legalized executive corruption, and are robotically circumventing due procedure in immigration courts. Each day, they trample over any other of our supposedly sacrosanct civil rights, and most commonly, they’re allowed to continue. And nonetheless, it’s now not sufficient, as a result of they know no person in reality likes them or thinks they’re cool. They successfully personal our our bodies and our freedoms, however deep down, they know they’re now not successful any new hearts and minds, and it eats them up. Take a look at how all of the conservative equipment whirred into unified movement to clamp down on the concept perhaps, simply perhaps, Charlie Kirk’s legacy is open for debate.
Those losers aren’t hemmed in by means of the rules of the land or human decency, however they’ll by no means be MacArthur or Truman, and we’re by no means going to shop for the cruel man act they’re running so onerous to fabricate and impose on us. It will have to be sufficient to easily rule the sector of their symbol, however that might call for a shred of self assurance—and faces that didn’t all appear to be that.
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