Probably, when he put the barrel of his Desert Eagle in his mouth and pulled the trigger, Matthew Livelsberger thought his message was clear and understandable. Perhaps he did not think that blowing up a Tesla at the door of a Trump tower constitutes, in itself, a message defined by its two recipients: the owner of the Tesla company and the tycoon who amassed his fortune building skyscrapers.
If the explosion occurred at the door of a Mac Donald, a shopping center or a casino in Las Vegas, the fact that it had been a Tesla Cybertruck would have meant nothing, in the same way that if the car that exploded at the Trump International Hotel had been a Toyota, a Ford or any other that is not manufactured by Tesla, the fact did not imply a message in itself. But a Tesla in a Trump skyscraper is a threatening message to Ealon Musk and Donald Trump.
However, the note left by the Las Vegas suicide bomber and the investigations into his activities and his vision of reality, what they show is the confusing labyrinth where the mind of a Green Beret who killed and killed in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Congo was lost. He saw too many people die.
Livelsberger was a conservative who supported Trump and Musk. I also admired Robert Kennedy Jr. which indicates proximity to conspiracy theories. From that perspective, the Rule of Law is perceived as the decadent lair of the “deep State,” which in milleist language is called “caste.”
By the way, demoliberal democracies suffer decadence and murky bureaucracies ferment in their institutional folds, constituting dark powers. But the plutocratic conservatism that, like the rest of the world’s ultra-conservative leaders, is proposed by the duo that will take office on January 20, will not bring political purification or reverse the decline.
Killing yourself in a Tesla become a torch at the foot of a Trump tower, a war veteran wanted to warn Americans that the lightness of their existences distracted by consumption and entertainment is eating away at American greatness. That seems to say the confusing message he wrote before he died. Ergo, the car and the place where it exploded gave a deceptive appearance to what was another consequence of the post-traumatic imbalances that many ex-combatants suffer from. It would also have been mental imbalances that caused the massacre in the first hours of 2025 in New Orleans.
The Arab ancestry of the person who threw the truck he was driving into the crowd celebrating the new year does not seem to be a more serious factor than the disturbance of that North American soldier. However, the ISIS flag he had on his rented car and the websites he drank from show that he acted under the influence of that ultra-Islamist organization. The message written in blood in New Orleans says that ISIS is not dead, because its hypnotic gravitation continues to activate disturbed minds to enter an exterminating trance.
The difference between Al Qaeda and its most criminal offshoot is that the organization that announced the start of global terrorism on 9/11 created a network of sleeping cells scattered around the world that could be activated from the central neuron where they were located. Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. But those metastasis-like cells were made up of ultra-Islamist militants who integrated the ghostly structure and interacted with the dome. Instead, ISIS developed a type of message designed to activate criminal instincts in people who were not part of the organization and who did not even know themselves to be murderers or related to the jihadist ideology.
Like the “lone wolf” who drove his car into a Christmas fair in the German city of Magdeburg, the New Orleans criminal had not been a jihadist until the very moment he entered into an exterminating trance and perpetrated the massacre.
The message is clear: ISIS was defeated in the caliphate created by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in Syrian and Iraqi territory. The Kurdish militiamen and their American allies destroyed the ultra-Islamist proto-state with its capital in Raqqa. But the existence of ISIS continued in messages designed especially to discover and activate mass murderers, turning them into killing machines.
With those dark and delirious messages, 2025 began in the United States. In the anteroom, a dark omen seemed to complete the death of Jimmy Carter. The great statesman ignored by his time. The simple man, with the kind smile, who left a humanist mark on the White House. Carter was forgotten with the seal of failure. However, his only presidency left exalting marks in history. He did not involve his country in wars but instead sought fair understandings in conflict scenarios, such as that of the Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat and the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, between whom he mediated to reach the Camp David Accords.
He advanced nuclear arms control with the SALT II treaty, granted amnesty to Vietnam War deserters, pioneered environmental protection, proposed abolishing the death penalty, and fought against the segregation of homosexuality. He was also alien to the Washington establishment and confronted the powers hidden in the institutions. These permanent powers considered it absurd to negotiate with Omar Torrijos the delivery of the Panama Canal to the country on the isthmus. Tiny and underdevelopedPanama could not force the superpower to transfer the management of the interoceanic passage. But Carter resisted in the name of what is right and, finally, the canal passed into Panamanian hands.
Nixon and Kissinger had promoted coups d’état in the southern cone, but Carter put Washington on the side of the defense of Human Rights. However, his death was more newsworthy because of his hundred years of age than because of the positive footprints with which he marked history. Perhaps it will be recognized decades later, as happened with Ilia in Argentina. Especially since his death occurred in the prelude to what seems like the twilight of democracy with which the United States was born and established itself as a superpower, dawning a conservative autocracy that will be another property of Trump and Elon Musk.
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