"The Empire Strikes Back", or part of it... making a whipping boy of some people (Very Rich ones, Big Tech boys)

The first one to face this type of fury, "punishment", was Elon Musk, with the public rejection of Tesla cars, with the company's shares plummeting on the Stock exchanges, the company sinking and its business starting to collapse (from CNN, "Everything is blowing up in Elon Musk’s face" https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/03/business/elon-musk-tesla-sales-nightcap/index.html).

But the "punishment" for the "Naughty Boy" Zuckerberg came sooner than I imagined...

Discussing the matter with some people, I commented that the act against Musk is the old "punishment of the Empire" (all economic and political Empires punishe those who misbehave...) for those who try to make things "chaotic" within, especially when it comes from people from the "elite" (the wealthy people), especially a foreigner (Afrikanner) with US citizenship (usk case).

Zuckerberg is an indigestible person, something that has been stuck in the Democrats' throats since the 2016 election, when they accused their Social Media (Facebook) of being responsible for Trump's victory in his first term.

From The Guardian (UK Press): "Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg should pay price for damage to democracy. Former presidential candidate criticises Facebook’s decision to let politicians lie in adverts" (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/04/hillary-clinton-mark-zuckerberg-pay-price-damage-democracy).

It seems this time the "Naughty Boy", who openly supports Donald Trump, will have to face the "fury" of the Empire. They want to split their company Meta into several parts.

From ABC News these days: "Meta Platforms Inc. faces a historic antitrust trial beginning Monday that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses." (Link https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/meta-faces-historic-antitrust-trial-force-break-off-120779448).

Apart the comment about "punishment", this is a protective measure by the State, when Private companies become too big and threaten the integrity/sovereignty of a country. The Elite itself solves the problem by dividing, as is the case with Standard Oil ("The Antitrust Legacy of Standard Oil in Today's World" https://jpt.spe.org/twa/the-antitrust-legacy-of-standard-oil-in-todays-world).

I think these Big Tech People should take antidepressants to sleep from now on (ironic content). I wouldn't want to be in their shoes... they were all Smiles at the inauguration of the "Big Orange Man"...

Trump decoupled the US economy from China economy. What "some" said was "impossible", it happened. China prepared for the moment

In other "times", we would read or hear something like this from the so-called "Specialized Media", but the level of nonsense and desperation of this group is so great they can no longer comment on the obvious. "Fasten your seatbelts... the pilot has disappeared" (allusion to the title and to a US comedy movie from the 80s, self-explanatory title, the title of the Brazilian version is better than the original title in English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!).

When Trump taxes China by more than 100% and China retaliates (it prepared for this) by more than 100%, in practice the two economies are disconnected, by force.

I emphasize it because the so-called "illustrated media" of the bubbles said that this issue would be impossible to happen due the connection between the two economies (USA and China), and they're too big ones, in fact the "Denial" is an act of desperation and foolishness, because in "Trump's logic", if the connection with China is cut, the "jobs", industry etc "will return" to the USA... ignoring there's an entire network of manufacturing, transportation of products that will never return to the USA, this is gone forever, besides the fact China has connections with the whole world, there's no point in the USA taxing to "punish" China as China's bilateral trade with the rest of the world will disappear, unless the "Big Orange" (Trump) wants to threaten half the world. Does he have the strength, today, to do this?...

Trump speaks as if the current US were at the same level as the 80s/90s, that's "gone", no longer exists. He wants countries to pay for the "reindustrialization" of the US, and that's not going to happen.

In addition to the bankruptcy that will be caused internally, several US products that circulate in the US require parts and pieces made in China and other countries taxed, with a stratospheric tariff of over 100%; who is going to sell these? And the inflation that will come, destroying the wages of workers in the US?

Those who thinks Trump "amazing" in Brazil (US and whole world) really have serious cognitive or visual deficiencies in how they "see the world"...