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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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StrangePackage said:
What's the most recent thing famously done by a guy named Luigi?
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OK, got it. I typically enjoy subtle wit like that. Alas, it landed flat on me. Doesn't mean it was bad, though. Seems pretty clever in hindsight.

It might have landed a little better if it was written as "find some guy named Mario to take inspiration from his cousin." That includes a reference to the premise and is thus more accessible, while retaining the obliqueness that is vital to the joke
 
Sounds like there are some Trump staffers who got themselves over their skis. My guess is that they were floating a trial balloon to gauge the old man's reaction.
 
nycfan said:
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Should be relatively easy to carve out a lot of sparsely-populated and physically large states from Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, the Yukon, and rural British Columbia…..say, 20-30 states with 3 EV’s apiece…..Voting like the Dakotas.
 


A ton of responses to this are to call him a liar, an anti-white racist, etc. A variation on the Pizzagate playbook all over being actively directed by the richest man in the world who also happens to be a top (ever present) advisor to the incoming POTUS and nominated member of the government.



But Afzal has a (recent?) history with Musk



 
Geisterfahrer said:
I’m not usually a Michelle Goldberg reader but this is a good summary of the whole “grooming gangs” thing if, like me, you have no idea what they’re all talking about. (Gift link)

www.nytimes.com

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Dishonest Demagogy on Grooming Gangs

The billionaire is exploiting old atrocities to undermine his perceived enemies.
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GIFT LINK —> Opinion | Elon Musk’s Dishonest Demagogy on Grooming Gangs

“…If you’ve been on X in recent days, you might have the impression that there has been some major new development in this awful story.

Musk, the platform’s owner, has been posting about it incessantly, smearing Jess Phillips, the Labour minister overseeing issues of violence against women and girls, as a “rape genocide apologist” and calling for her imprisonment. He’s also called for the jailing of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and urged Britain’s king to dissolve Parliament and call new elections, something the monarch cannot do.

As the world’s richest man and a quasi-official member of Donald Trump’s team, Musk has enormous influence, and his admirers in both the United States and Britain have taken up the cause. Kemi Badenoch, head of the Tories, is demanding a new national investigation, which her party easily could have undertaken when it was in power until last year. Starmer, in turn, was forced to address Musk’s claims on Monday.

In this uproar, we’re seeing a particularly feral right-wing version of an old-fashioned Twitter mob, but with far higher stakes. Musk is using a genuine atrocity to pursue his campaigns against both Starmer, with whom he has a long-running feud over the regulation of social media, and against mass immigration.

The visceral horror of the underlying story — especially to people who are only just discovering it — gives his demagogic attacks a sheen of righteousness.

But much of what’s he’s saying about the current government’s culpability is either distorted or flatly untrue, part of his increasingly vigorous crusade against the world’s remaining liberal leaders. …”
 
nycfan said:
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www.politico.eu

‘Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders,’ says Danish PM as Donald Trump Jr. arrives

Mette Frederiksen stresses that America doesn’t call the shots on the strategically important Arctic island’s future.
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Danish PM says Greenland is still not for sale as Donald Trump Jr. arrives​


Mette Frederiksen stresses that America doesn’t call the shots on the strategically important Arctic island’s future.

"...“On one hand, I am really happy regarding the rise in American interest in Greenland,” Frederiksen said in an interview Tuesday with Danish broadcaster TV 2. “But of course it is important that it takes place in a way where it is the Greenlanders’ decision, what their future holds.”


Greenland, the world’s largest island with a population of around 60,000, was a Danish colony until it became self-ruling with its own parliament in 1979. It remains a territory of Denmark, with Copenhagen exercising control over its foreign and defense policy.


As global powers seek to expand their reach and footprint in the Arctic, mineral-rich Greenland — which hosts a U.S. military base — is coveted for its strategic value in security and trade. ..."
 
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