MOUNTAINH33L
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The optics aren't great, but you gotta do what you gotta do to own the libs.
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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)
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ChapelHillSooner
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Republicans claim we are morally bankrupt yet it is them that are in fact morally bankrupt.
Where is the media to state that being in our national interest does not make it morally acceptable to invade an ally?
It was in fact in Germany’s national interest to invade Poland. That doesn’t make it right.
WaynetheDrain
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Deny it? Those assholes are actually looking forward to it. They've swallowed the far-right propaganda hook, line, and sinker.
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“… Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot” at cutting half that.
… Penn also asked whether Musk had “identified some cuts that you’re really looking at, that you think will be successful.” Musk didn’t name any specific cuts, though he said generally that it’s a “very target-rich environment for saving money.” “
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“So many life lessons to be learned from speedrunning video games on max difficulty,” Musk wrote on his social-media platform X on Nov. 20, before going on to announce that he’d just cleared the highest tier of a section of the game called “The Pit” in under two minutes. He included a video clip of the milestone.
Such an accomplishment requires more than just expertise in monster slashing. It takes dozens of hours just to reach the highest tier, which is level 150. The Pit was only added to the game in May and the latest season kicked off on Oct. 7, resetting all players’ progression to level 1. That suggests Musk made his way to the top level in 45 days or less.
Musk oversees six companies, including brain-computer startup Neuralink, tunneling startup The Boring Company and artificial-intelligence startup xAI. He’s a prolific poster on the social-media platform X, which he bought in 2022. He is now helping oversee a sweeping revamp of the federal government as co-head of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
His vast array of commitments have left everyone wondering: How on Earth did he find the time to do it? …”
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Same guy who says working from home is immoral.
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“… Investors and analysts have questioned Musk’s ability to balance running all of his companies.
The issue is particularly thorny now that Tesla is preparing to appeal a Delaware judge’s decision to throw out a 2018 pay package, which granted Musk billions of dollars in Tesla stock. Among the questions in the dispute is whether the large pay package was necessary to keep Musk focused on running Tesla, a public company now valued at $1.3 trillion.
Speaking at The Wall Street Journal CEO Council in 2023, Musk said he tries to focus just on one company per day. …”
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He also squeezes in time for 100+ Twitter posts a day. Honestly, I can relate.
“… Investors and analysts have questioned Musk’s ability to balance running all of his companies.
The issue is particularly thorny now that Tesla is preparing to appeal a Delaware judge’s decision to throw out a 2018 pay package, which granted Musk billions of dollars in Tesla stock. Among the questions in the dispute is whether the large pay package was necessary to keep Musk focused on running Tesla, a public company now valued at $1.3 trillion.
Speaking at The Wall Street Journal CEO Council in 2023, Musk said he tries to focus just on one company per day. …”
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He also squeezes in time for 100+ Twitter posts a day. Honestly, I can relate.
MOUNTAINH33L
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It's the price we gotta pay in order to own those pesky libs.
lawtig02
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The media has become incapacitated by two things: (1) its takeover by billionaires, many of whom are right-leaning to begin, and all of whom have a strong interest in currying favor with the Trump regime, and (2) its inability to determine how to respond to Trump's incessant bluster. On the second one, I'm not at all apologizing for them. It's their job to figure this out. But I do have some sympathy. When he says shit like this about Canada and Greenland, do you take him seriously? Do you take it as a joke? Do you attribute it to trolling? Is it best to just ignore it?
Trump has dumbed down the level of our political discourse to such a level that intelligent people, which includes most reporters, are simply unable to respond effectively. It's like trying to reason with a toddler having a tantrum because his binky is in the wash. Again, I'm not giving the press a pass. They have to figure this out. But godalmighty I just can't get past the absolute idiocy of the people who voted for this scumbag. What were you idiots thinking?
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“… Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot” at cutting half that.
… Penn also asked whether Musk had “identified some cuts that you’re really looking at, that you think will be successful.” Musk didn’t name any specific cuts, though he said generally that it’s a “very target-rich environment for saving money.” “
Of course Mark Penn has slithered up next to him. What a ho, that guy.
StrangePackage
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uncjhodges
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I’ve noticed this in primary care
A lot of the questions I get are almost too dumb to answer effectively and am certainly not prepared to answer in the moment bc I never would have thought of it being a possible question
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Humor us with some dumb patient questions , perhaps in a new thread “Dumb shit my patients/clients/customers said to me because of social media brain rot”.
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I guess “children/parents/relatives” might be even more broadly applicable.
superrific
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Thanks for posting this. I've never closely looked at a map of the Yucatan. I didn't realize it was that big, which is to say that I thought Belize extended further north than it does. I learned something here. Probably not what was intended, but hey -- positive externalities are good!
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We need a SMDH emoji.
superrific
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His responses always seem very bot-like to me.
Mulberry Heel
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They weren't thinking - they voted for him precisely because of shit like this. They see him as endlessly entertaining, are convinced that nothing bad will ever happen to them because of anything Trump does, and love that he upsets other people (thinking people - or as they call them, snobs) so much, especially liberals with college degrees. "Look at all those people getting red-faced over him threatening to just take Greenland or the Panama Canal! Ha ha! All those snooty liberals losing their minds over this. Oh, I'm loving this!" He's "blowing up the system", "turning over the applecart", "disrupting the status quo" or whatever the hell they want to call it.
The fact that he's also causing very real damage to our relationships with our allies and doing the bidding of people like Putin doesn't bother them in the least, or matter to them at all. He's fun, he's entertaining, he hates the people they hate and makes them mad, and so they love it and want it to continue. Until, that is, his bullshit and idiocy and antics gets us into a war or causes a (at minimum) severe recession or leads to lots of Americans getting killed here or abroad, or something he does starts to affect them personally. But even that won't change their minds - they'll just somehow still blame Democrats and liberals and their usual suspects rather than Dear Leader (or themselves for voting for him).
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Humans learn much but integrate little from the historical outcomes of disastrous political behavior. Recently been brushing up on my Mussolini. Your quote, above, is a near verbatim description of how a historian described the Italian pop circa 1922 (at least the black shirt supporters). I.e. ignorant of the historical precedents, ignorant of their inevitable own demise, and placing higher value on political entertainment than their own rights or the moral fabric of society.
ttump's playbook has a stunning number of parallels to Mussolini and inevitably to Hitler (I didn't know until the last couple of years how closely Hitler copied and pasted Mussolini).
