Predators in Power
The Cover and The Architect
There’s a false belief that power corrupts. It doesn’t. Power reveals.
** WARNING ** This article contains reference to abuse, coercion, and rape, and may be triggering for some readers.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk embody this truth in their own distinct ways. Trump, the showman, operates in full view—loud, vulgar, grotesquely transparent. He wants to own it, and fuck it, and he makes no effort to hide it. His greed is primal, his brutality overt. He is the distraction.
Musk, on the other hand, is the architect of something far more insidious. While Trump pillages, Musk builds. He operates in a different register—quietly consolidating power, absorbing institutions, and reshaping reality itself. He doesn’t simply own; he enslaves. He wants to own it, and fuck it. He loves, and hates, the light.
One is the distraction, the other is the designer. Their acolytes, scavengers. Both are predators of the highest order, and their existence is not accidental. They are symptoms of a deeper disease.
The Predator's Blueprint
Predators do not create systems; they exploit them. They seek leverage, identify the weaknesses in societal structures, and capitalize ruthlessly.
Step 1: Own the Narrative
Control perception, and you control the world. Trump dominates the discourse with scandals, outrage, and chaos. His presence is a never-ending reality show where truth is meaningless, and attention is the currency. Musk, by contrast, crafts a mythology around himself—genius, innovator, visionary. His flaws are reframed as eccentricities. His missteps are signs of ambition. His failures? Merely the cost of world-changing progress.
Step 2: Break the System
Predators thrive in chaos. Trump attacks institutions directly—government, the legal system, the press—ensuring that nothing functions as it should. The more dysfunctional the system, the easier it is to plunder. Musk, however, undermines systems through co-option. He buys platforms, controls infrastructure, and dictates the rules. He doesn’t attack; he absorbs.
Step 3: Extract the Maximum
Wealth and power are not goals; they are the means to reshape reality. Trump’s extractive process is crude—scams, fraud, and a lifetime of grifts. Musk’s is infinitely more sophisticated. He builds monopolies, secures government subsidies, and presents his domination as progress. He isn’t just extracting wealth; he’s redefining civilization itself.
From Rape to Enslavement
Trump is a rapist in every sense of the word—financially, politically, and physically. His history is one of personal violation, of seizing, of taking without consent. He pillages, moves on, and leaves behind ruin.
Musk is a slaver. He does not simply take; he absorbs and reconstructs. He replaces governments, controls essential infrastructure, and bends entire industries to his will. His empire is built on compliance and impunity, on workers who live in fear of exile from the systems he controls. He is not burning Rome; he is rebuilding it in his own image.
Why They Win
Trump is not the disease; he is the fever. Musk is not the answer; he is the parasite. The system rewards them because it is built to do so. The illusion that their wealth and power are proof of merit is the greatest trick ever pulled.
They do not operate in a vacuum. Every tax break, every government contract, every regulatory loophole is an invitation. Every dollar spent supporting them, every media cycle wasted on their spectacle, every institution that fails to hold them accountable enables their ascent.
They win because people believe that power should exist without responsibility. That wealth is a moral virtue. That brilliance excuses atrocity.
They win because the system was built for them to win.
What Comes Next
Trump will fall. That much is inevitable. He is too sloppy, too undisciplined, too self-destructive. He was the tool for the time. But Musk and those like him? They are the future. They are designing a world where dissent is impossible, where escape is unthinkable, where every aspect of life is dictated by their platforms, their infrastructure, their whims.
If Trump is the villain of today, Musk is the architect of tomorrow’s dystopia.
Unless something changes now, he will own all of it. And fuck all of us.
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Trump is the distraction. Musk is the designer. One pillages, the other enslaves. Different predators, same outcome—absolute control. The system rewards them because it was built for them. And they are rebuilding it for themselves. Pay attention. ​The want to own it. They want to fuck it.
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