This will hurt you more than it hurts me

Jason “I demand an immediate bailout for the Silicon Valley tech plutocrat community” Calacanis has discovered your need for solidarity:

Jason thinks people need to sacrifice to balance the budget, but I wonder if he would consider sacrificing the billions of dollars the feds spent to bailout his buddies at Silicon Valley Bank. https://t.co/VxF2xjKsDn pic.twitter.com/CSVOvf50XP— Jeremiah Johnson (@JeremiahDJohns) November 22, 2024

“I get a tax cut, you lose your pension. Shared sacrifice!”

It’s true that these contradictions were if anything a benefit to Trump’s campaign — projection and wishful thinking are critical to holding a broader coalition based around mostly unpopular views together — but with Trump becoming president again he’s going to have to actually pick a lane, and it’s not the soft seats at Nate Silver’s favorite poker tables who are going to get screwed:

I guess nobody cared but it's still kind of weird that half of Trump's coalition thinks they're doing Peronism and the other half thinks they're doing shock therapy.

[image or embed]— Nathan Goldwag (@goldwagnathan.bsky.social) November 22, 2024 at 11:36 AM

At this point it’s worth noting that George W. Bush came out for Social Security privatization after securing an actual majority of the popular vote and it permanently tanked his popularity. And this was true even though he was (dishonestly) promising a free lunch rather than “sacrifice for you, upper-class tax cuts pour moi.” Elon Musk and his band of insufferable knobs are going to be even more toxic than that.