Wow, people really don't like that Trump Musk smell in their house. Who would have thought it could be so noxious.
by No Hemingway February 13, 2025
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A particularly persistent and evolving odor characterized by its ability to intensify over time, resist conventional remediation methods, and require aggressive intervention to eliminate.
Etymology: Coined in 2025, combining references to persistence and escalation.
Characteristics:
Progressive Intensification: Unlike ordinary odors that dissipate or become less noticeable through olfactory fatigue, a Trump Musk grows steadily more potent and offensive with the passage of time.
Adaptive Resistance: Shows remarkable ability to resist standard deodorizing agents, air fresheners, and ventilation attempts. Conventional solutions often seem to strengthen rather than weaken its presence.
Pervasive Quality: Demonstrates an unusual capacity to permeate all elements of life making containment particularly challenging.
Psychological Impact: Creates increasing anxiety and distress in those exposed to it, as the realization dawns that normal remedies prove ineffective.
Elimination of a Trump Musk typically requires disproportionately aggressive interventions.
A particularly persistent and evolving odor characterized by its ability to intensify over time, resist conventional remediation methods, and require aggressive intervention to eliminate.
Etymology: Coined in 2025, combining references to persistence and escalation.
Characteristics:
Progressive Intensification: Unlike ordinary odors that dissipate or become less noticeable through olfactory fatigue, a Trump Musk grows steadily more potent and offensive with the passage of time.
Adaptive Resistance: Shows remarkable ability to resist standard deodorizing agents, air fresheners, and ventilation attempts. Conventional solutions often seem to strengthen rather than weaken its presence.
Pervasive Quality: Demonstrates an unusual capacity to permeate all elements of life making containment particularly challenging.
Psychological Impact: Creates increasing anxiety and distress in those exposed to it, as the realization dawns that normal remedies prove ineffective.
Elimination of a Trump Musk typically requires disproportionately aggressive interventions.
Simple Example:
Person one: Its getting worse.
Person two: hrm.
Person one: I think we have a Trump Musk problem
Person two: <<increasingly alarmed>> Fuck
Extended Example: The Unacknowledged Problem:
"The corporate culture at Nexus Industries had developed a Trump Musk. It started with small ethical compromises that everyone noticed but no one addressed. Management dismissed early complaints as 'sensitivity' while middle managers avoided mentioning the increasingly toxic environment in meetings.
As months passed, the problem intensified—high performer departures increased, customer complaints accumulated, and the company's reputation deteriorated. Still, leadership maintained there was no issue, despite the obvious stench of dysfunction permeating every department.
By the time investors finally acknowledged the problem, the Trump Musk had thoroughly saturated the organization. The board was forced to take drastic action: replacing the entire executive team, scrapping the company's operational structure, and rebuilding from the foundation up—at tremendous cost and disruption that could have been avoided had someone addressed the first whiffs of trouble years earlier.
Person one: Its getting worse.
Person two: hrm.
Person one: I think we have a Trump Musk problem
Person two: <<increasingly alarmed>> Fuck
Extended Example: The Unacknowledged Problem:
"The corporate culture at Nexus Industries had developed a Trump Musk. It started with small ethical compromises that everyone noticed but no one addressed. Management dismissed early complaints as 'sensitivity' while middle managers avoided mentioning the increasingly toxic environment in meetings.
As months passed, the problem intensified—high performer departures increased, customer complaints accumulated, and the company's reputation deteriorated. Still, leadership maintained there was no issue, despite the obvious stench of dysfunction permeating every department.
By the time investors finally acknowledged the problem, the Trump Musk had thoroughly saturated the organization. The board was forced to take drastic action: replacing the entire executive team, scrapping the company's operational structure, and rebuilding from the foundation up—at tremendous cost and disruption that could have been avoided had someone addressed the first whiffs of trouble years earlier.
by Scampifries February 27, 2025
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Descriptive term used for a time traveler’s ability to hide next generation technology in what appear to be steampunk form factors.
It wasn’t difficult to insinuate myself into the Roosevelt Rough Riders. The objective truth that as a British woman with an aristocratic name and fine livery apparently straight from an African safari, including my Holland & Holland thrumpmusket; my cover story was that I was a scion of the family owning the London Times and I simply explained that we were interested in covering individuals we saw as potential future Presidents of the United States. The timeline was left intact and my H&H-disguised RDFG (reality distortion field generator) meant I could control all events surrounding key individuals, including dear Theodore. My next use of the RFDG would be in Silicon Valley, precisely 100 years later, when I was to become Steve Jobs’ publicist…
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