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Elon Musk: " My appointment overseeing FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the other matter with Mayor Eric Adams."
Camera cuts to Elon and Donald, alternating between them
Donald Trump: " I take it he was agreeable?"
Elon Musk: " He didn't really have a choice."
Donald Trump: " Has he been indicted?"
Elon Musk: " Oh, yes, most certainly. When I mentioned that we could force the DOJ to withhold their case against him, he was so willing it was almost pathetic."
Donald Trump: " These plagues -- covid lingers in the background as we cut ties with world medical groups, and bird flu already further raises the cost of eggs, and without leadership or funds, the FDA is incapable of containing its spread to humans."
Camera zooms in on Elons’ son picking his nose.
Elon Musk: " Why contain it? (Its coool!) Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them."
Cut to the LA fires and a FEMA agent surrounded by farmers and newly homeless.
Donald Trump: " I've received reports of escalating natural disasters, and mass ICE deportations has irrevocably harmed the agricultural-business complex. There's not enough food or funding to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate."
Camera pans through a super market. Food displays show surge pricing raise costs in real time.
Elon Musk: " Of course they're desperate. They can smell their poverty, and the sound they'll make rattling their cage in Gitmo will serve as a warning to the rest."
Cut to protests getting beat into submission by police.
Donald Trump: " Mmm. I hope you're not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think -- intelligence indicates grass roots protests are growing across the country."
Elon Musk: " A bunch of pretentious children pretending at changing the world. They protest where we want and how we want."
Elon Musk: " But the world left them behind long ago. We are the future."
Donald Trump: " We have other problems."
Elon Musk: " Activist judges?"
Cut to the terrace of the Supreme Court and the ceremony confirming Justice Kavanaugh. Attending are President Donald Trump with First Lady Melania. Agents in the back row, together with two generic NPCs.
Donald Trump: " Hired before my last term as president, they claim to have authority over my executive actions. I have people in place, though. I'm more concerned about Bernie Sanders. He stands to rally the orphaned progressive vote against me"
Cut to Guantanamo bay. The captured immigrants are forced to concentrate at this camp, exploited for labor.
Elon Musk: " Our party unity is lock-step and will believe anything we tell them over their very eyes. And democrat...ethical inflexibility has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider."
Donald Trump: " Project 2025?"
Cut back to Washington.
Elon Musk: " Among other things -- but I must admit that I've been somewhat disappointed in the… efficiency of the government agencies."
Donald Trump: " These agencies should be captured soon. We are currently undergoing a loyalty purge, and will be operational within six months. My people will continue to report on their progress. If necessary, these agencies will be terminated."
Elon Musk: " We've had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again, a new age. Aquinas spoke of the mythical City on the Hill. Soon that city will be a reality, and I will be crowned its king."
Elon Musk: " Or better than king. Godking!"
Holy shit, well done!
For those unaware, it's an adaptation of Deus Ex's intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStn70Ot4r0
Bonus humorous edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmOCsiZgAbg
Thank you! Thank you! bows
It was important for me that elon takes the bob page role. And really hammer in that trump is somehow second fiddle as president.