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He has 3 years left to convince the administration to allow non-US-born lizard people to run for president.

Or, more likely, to institute some kind of perpetual monarchy passed down through his 14 kids.

I'm not sure he understands that he will always be the Crassus to someone else's Caesar. Things don't go well for the money man.

Get me off this timeline

Yeah, he reminds me of Berezovsky.

> 3 years left to convince the administration to allow

It is rare for Oligarchs to be in electable position. They do not need for that.

Garry Kasparov recently made the same connection in this piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/pu...

> Berezovsky, who elevated Putin to power from behind the scenes, was soon exiled and replaced with more compliant oligarchs. He also met a grisly end—found hanged at his Berkshire mansion at 67—a precedent that might give pause to anyone thinking of risking his business empire to play that gray-cardinal role for the likes of Trump and J. D. Vance.

I'd have him more the Incitatus to Trump's Caligula.

History shows us that things actually go pretty well for the money man you just gotta remember to bring extra water rations when you march into Asia. I always liked to imagine him rallying his troops by telling them that Parthia meant virgin in greek or something like that Παρθία/παρθένος

Lots of examples from American history too though where things turn out better like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Girard

The mistake here is equating Putin to Trump. One is a mastermind and the other is a puppet.

> One is a mastermind and the other is a puppet.

No, one is a cruel fox and another one is a stupid monkey.

Their skills lie mainly in adaptability to the situations they found themselves in and using them, but neither is a mastermind.

It took Hugenberg 6 month to loose his government position, 8 to loose his mediatic empire, and a bit more to loose his industrial base.

I did not understand it that way. Putin is probably smarter than Trump (though he does not deserve to be regarded as a mastermind IMHO). The parallel I find interesting is that both are authoritarians who were helped to power by billionaires who thought it would serve their interests. We know the fate Russian “oligarchs” later met.

Random Unexpected Defenestrations

Here's how to remember which one to use:

lose -> lost

loose -> loosened

Nah. If they manage to circumvent or amend the constitution, they'd just give Trump more terms in office rather than open up the office to Elon.

Thanks, i'll try to remember.

It's a very common mistake, so don't worry about it

I wonder how many of the 14 want to have anything to do with him.

> We know the fate Russian “oligarchs” later met.

Russians close to power have historically often met that fate - at least since 1917, I suspect either prison or forced internal or external exile was more common before that. Americans not so much I think, so this probably won't transfer.

Trump won't be around forever, if only due to age/health. Need the next perpetual emperor to be young when he first steps into office.