This is normal
...a dispatch from bewilderness
The “Big One” came, but it wasn’t an earthquake that triggered the inferno, it was surging storms eating southern California. Maiming and disabling humans, birds, land and countless homes in our most populated state.
The scale of the environmental disaster will dwarf the damage caused by the 9/11 clean-up. The pollution is toxic, cancerous and deadly. It will be the most expensive disaster in the history.
Many (former) government agencies — tasked with keeping people alive and saving our planet — have been disabled intentionally by Mr. Musk and his minions at DOGE. Which (although not elected and officially not part of the government) seem to be running this country instead. This is normal. The new normal now.
In addition to his business endeavors, Mr. Musk has somehow found time to sire 13 kids, some by surrogate, with number 14 on the way. This is normal, too. Mr. Musk started dating singer Grimes, whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher, in 2018.
She gave birth to their son, X AE A-XII, in May 2020, whose name was pronounced "X Ash A Twelve". Evidently, “Æ” and “12” violated California law for not being part of the English alphabet, which forced his parents to change his name.
Grimes revealed to Vanity Fair in March 2022 that she and the SpaceX founder welcomed their first daughter, the Exa Dark Sideræl [sic] Musk, via surrogate in December 2021. Exa, who was given the nickname Y, is now 3. There’s also Tau Techno Mechanicus Musk.
At a holiday celebration in southern Ukraine, where celebrations are likely rare, some kids asked Saint Nick for iPhones and some asked for peace. Musk and Trump have gone in the opposite direction — enabling Putin and disabling both Ukraine and peace.
Fyi, the official numbers are in, and 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history—and almost surely also the hottest year in the history of human civilization. The ketamine-fueled gazillionaire is not “just” disabling attempts to remedy this, he is profiting from extensive efforts to make things worse. And promises? While Donald Trump promised to save Social Security, Elon did not.
Meanwhile, back in LA, insurance companies are denying claims saying that the catastrophic loss of 100,000 structures resulted from a “wind event” as opposed to fire. This may somehow help insurers. The ordinary family devastated in a biblical fire is about to be burned by corporate greed. With help from the richest man in the world.
NOTE: This just in from The New York Times March 24, 2025: Mr. Musk is “positioned to profit from billions in government contracts.”
What a very excellent and enchanting read!!!
iPhones and peace - sort of nails it.