Baked Like A Pie 🥧

These rubes still think they are getting checks in the mail because of Musk. This is how someone like Trump gets elected - people will believe any promise if they are made by convincing liars, regardless of overwhelming evidence that they are habitual frauds. https://t.co/zRA9C6QMAR

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 31, 2025

Going back to the story of Forrest Fenn’s treasure, the documentary profiled 4 treasure hunters, on of whom were a father and two sons living in poverty in Wyoming. They wanted to buy their mother a decent house, and help their Downs sister. They became convinced the clues to the puzzle were in their backyard, and in fact that Fenn, an 80 year old man when he started this, had hiked up into the mountains and contrived to roll a boulder down to cover the chest.

They spent a year trying to shift that boulder, dig under it, get around it. Literally a year. Finally they blasted it loose. There was nothing under it.

They were also in contact with Fenn. When the treasure was found (in Yosemite, not where they were looking), and Fenn died shortly thereafter, they contacted the lawyer probating the estate, expecting that Fenn had left them something for all their troubles looking for his treasure.

The lawyer said a lot of people did this.

So it could be a lot of people expecting “DOGE” checks are in straitened circumstances, and imagine the rich will do something for them. 

Trump and Musk wouldn’t even take their phone calls. Fenn did; but that’s really all he did.

If the cruelty of the system isn’t the point, it sure is baked in regardless.