Popadanets Becoming Elon Musk. Volume 1. Not Elon Yet

Chapter 1. The Inauguration of ChaosJanuary 20, 2025. Washington, D.C.The cold felt like a deliberate snub from nature. A raw, biting wind whipped the breath out of the spectators huddled behind the double security cordon. Kamala Harris stood at the podium, her back to the Capitol, the hem of her dark blue coat snapping angrily. She smiled — that practiced prosecutor’s smile no weather, no protest, no venomous tweet could rattle.The crowd was thicker than expected, yet oddly subdued. No roar of triumph. More a wary, held-breath tension — the kind you sense in a bar seconds before the first punch, when everybody knows who’ll swing but nobody wants to be first on the floor.The ceremony ticked along on protocol, but the air was charged with a dread unseen since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The White House chief of staff’s three phones buzzed before the oath even ended: Moscow had put three st…