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The year is 2050. The US government is run by President Elon Musk and his 690 children. Donald Trump, immortalized as an AI hologram, continues to send ALL CAPS tweets ALL THE TIME. The US has a special new relationship with the UK: the British Isles have been turned into a SpaceX rocket factory.

In this brave new world, might is right. International human rights law doesn't exist anymore. Journalists don't exist either. Kash Patel, who Trump picked as his FBI director in 2024, promised to come after people in the media" and he followed through. Now state news is piped directly into people's brains via Musk's proprietary microchips.