Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[nycfan]

He must be strung-out/high all the time.

 

[nycfan]

Video game speak(?)

 

[Paine]

Video game speak(?)

Coming from someone who loves video games, Musk needs to be shoved into a locker.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[Centerpiece]

By Jove I believe Centerpiece knows sarcasm when he sees it.

I wasn’t talking to you, numbnuts. I was talking about you

 

[nycfan]

High on Ketamine, alter-ego feigning and non-compliant sounds like the perfect co-president to me. Let’s ride.

 

[lawtig02]

High on Ketamine, alter-ego feigning and non-compliant sounds like the perfect co-president to me. Let’s ride.

Maybe it's just the holiday spirit, but the more we see, the more I think it's possible Elon will be the thing that eviscerates Trump's presidency from the start. I thought this part of Heather Cox Richardson's update from yesterday was particularly on point:

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo pointed out on Saturday that what many of us have been calling a civil war in the MAGA movement is not the best way to look at the MAGA fight. Marshall points out that the 2024–2025 MAGA was mostly just an electoral machine built around Trump. In the past, he notes, MAGA never really had policies. Mostly, it was a vehicle for Trump’s grievance about the investigation into the ties between his 2016 campaign and Russian operatives, and after his first impeachment, it became about retribution. But now, as Marshall notes, Trump is “tired and on the way out,” and he never really cared about policy anyway: he ran for president for the purpose of staying out of jail and “lording it over his foes.”

What is going on now, Marshall says, is less a civil war than “a battle over the steering wheel.” Trump absorbed groups into his coalition with the promise he would work for them, but their policies have always been contradictory. Now that it’s time for their payoff, not everyone can be appeased. So, will the Trump machine work for the MAGAs or the DOGEs…or even the Robert F. Kennedy “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) faction—which, as Marshall says, was “grafted on to the movement in the last months of the final stretch of the campaign for narrowly electoral reasons.” Today, Nathaniel Weixel of The Hill outlined how the MAHA faction is itself bitterly divided over issues like drugs to treat obesity.

Marshall concludes that, in any case, “[t]here’s little sign Trump cares. He’s already gotten what he wants.”

 

[Centerpiece]

President Musk, looking the part of a Bond villain.

Dr. Evil’s #1

 

[gtyellowjacket]

I wasn’t talking to you, numbnuts. I was talking about you

I wasn't talking about you either or your world class sarcasm detector.

 

[mynameisbond]

It should have been obvious to anyone with half a brain that one of Trump's primary motivations was avoiding accountability for his mounting legal problems. Now the country is stuck with four more years of his incompetence.

 

[UNCatTech]

High on Ketamine, alter-ego feigning and non-compliant sounds like the perfect co-president to me. Let’s ride.

He clearly doesn't think that his companies should have to be accountable to any government.

I read that he also doesn't want to have to release safety and crash test data from Tesla.

Yea, he didn't buy this influence to increase his wealth at any cost...

 

[Bobfripp]

This is a relevant and very interesting read in the NYTimes on patrimonialism (gift article) - which appears to be where the world is headed.

Opinion | Trump Is Dismantling the Systems That Keep Us Safe. All Americans Will Suffer.

Eviscerating modern state institutions almost always clears a path for a different political order, built on loyalties and connections to the ruler.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Mulberry Heel]

This is a relevant and very interesting read in the NYTimes on patrimonialism (gift article) - which appears to be where the world is headed.

Opinion | Trump Is Dismantling the Systems That Keep Us Safe. All Americans Will Suffer.

Eviscerating modern state institutions almost always clears a path for a different political order, built on loyalties and connections to the ruler.

www.nytimes.com

That's also how populist authoritarian regimes nearly always work - loyalty is always to the ruler, not to the rule of law or constitutionalism or governmental procedures.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

You could teach a class on racism in America in the 21st century just based on the responses to this tweet.

One response pretty well sums up a whole faction of Trumpers: "i love being white, i love seeing white. i dnt hate other cultures but if i want 90% of people to be black or indian ID MOVE TO INDIA.. I WANT MY COUNTRY TO BE of MY PEOPLE. make me a racist, GOOD. cuz i love MY RACE. not every other race. every other race puts their race first.!!!!"

 

[dcphx]

High on Ketamine, alter-ego feigning and non-compliant sounds like the perfect co-president to me. Let’s ride.

You forgot, thinks he is above the law. Since the law doesn't seem too interested in changing that belief, maybe he is.

 

[wmheel1287]

You forgot, thinks he is above the law. Since the law doesn't seem too interested in changing that belief, maybe he is.

What truly wealthy person in the United States isn't above the law?

 

[gtyellowjacket]

What truly wealthy person in the United States isn't above the law?

No gif for Bernie Madoff? Disappointed.

 

[sringwal]

You do know that this is Dave Chapelle and not R. Kelly, right?

 

[mpaer]

Let the beyotch try to arrest her