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26 | a former Twitter engineer who now trolls Elon Musk
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It's might be next to impossible to develop AI that sounds credible but also pleases Elon Musk

Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.

JD Vance is a combination of every kid that vanished on the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory visit.

I try to stay out of the Catholic Church’s internal politics but my rule of thumb is that if fanatical converts like Vermeule / Vance, MAGA grifters like Loomer or Evangelicals like Feucht are upset it’s a good sign.

One of the most important things everyone should have learned from the first three months of DOGE cuts. Government is actually less wasteful than even the most pro-bureaucracy technocrat could have imagined!

Standing in front of a big wheel [spins wheel] MOVIES! [spins wheel again] Made OVERSEAS! [spins wheel a third time] Are a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT

The White House doesn’t have a Human Resources Department, it has a Recycling Bin Department.

Not to predict the future, but a thing that’s gonna happen is the DOGE guys / goons are gonna bury themselves inside the federal government, particularly at GSA and the treasury payments system and courts will slow-walk attempts to remove them, probably for years.

In case you missed it, the DOGE child army getting the nuclear codes is no longer a joke. I guess there are pretty much no more jokes.

DOGE is a disastrous fiasco. It’s not saving money, cutting waste or finding fraud. It’s legacy is one of a debacle of historic proportions.

The economy shrank in the first quarter. Down from 2.4% growth in q4 to -0.3 in q1. Trump has officially cratered the strongest economy in the world in just a few months.

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

It’s not “deportation” if there’s no due process.

Foreign countries begging Donald for trade deals are the new strong men with tears in their eyes calling him “Sir” and flattering him. They also don’t exist.

Who could have guessed that alienating your company’s core customer base by getting super close with a 80 year old who’s never had business acumen and is one of the most polarizing figures currently around *wasn’t* such a genius marketing idea, Elon?

It's so funny that nobody has time for Kanye West right now. He's got a brand new outrage cycle all prepped and ready to go, but everyone is so tired.

The entire world economy depends on one 80 year old narcissist experiencing self awareness for the first time in his life

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Gilded Kitsch, Temu Consumerism, and AI Slop: Aestheticism in the Age of Trump

The president sold the federal government to a billionaire, who with his accomplices at DOGE has been stripping it for parts for the last 3 months. If I were a opposition party I would be loud and clear that everyone involved in this will at minimum be prosecuted.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

I am starting to wonder how the Supreme Court feels about giving Donald Trump immunity for official acts now that one of those official acts is telling the Supreme Court to shove their ruling and that he’s not constrained by law he doesn’t agree with.

Trump on the phone to top NYC law firms: “Yeah, we need a couple million dollars worth of pro bono legal work to help us build some prison camps in Central America and kidnap Americans who say inconvenient things and send them there.”

A president who has the power to send an innocent person to a foreign prison camp, but claims he lacks the power to bring them back, is committing the crime of false imprisonment.

Love to see ratios. One thing that made twitter less fun was that changes like boosting blue check replies over all other replies made dunking on politicians boring. It wasn’t you and your online friends swooping in anymore, it was all weird sex bots and Rufo bros.

I don't think putting a pause on retaliatory tariffs on North Macedonia, Fiji, Lichtenstein, and Chad is going to counteract the over 100% retaliatory tariffs on our biggest trading partner, China. Seems the markets are being a bit silly.

Yes I set $10 trillion on fire but it was for a good reason: so that ~700 billionaires can get richer on a pump and dump with the whole economy

Sometimes when I point out that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are incompetent, I get asked, "How did they make so much money?" Many often confuse wealth with competence. Elon's father owned a gem mine in South Africa. Donald's father gave him over $400,000,000. Both born with a golden spoon.

Entering a trade war with your top supplier

China does 8% of its trade with the USA. 8%, if it does go to 0% they won't really care, they’ll just switch to Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan. The USA gets more than 40% of its stuff from China. The USA is not holding the cards here from an economics standpoint.

As we know, the most important element for business is stability and predictability, which is why they gave us a president who's either lying or changing his mind 30 seconds after making a decision.

They called him sleepy Joe because you could sleep without worrying about your portfolio

The consensus on Wall Street among savvy people paid millions to predict things was exactly what the low-information voters thought: "Trump can't mean what he says because that's silly, what he'll really do is what I personally hope he does."

What's the point of interviewing anyone from the administration? Even if they have a contrary opinion they can't express it privately much less publicly for fear of getting fired. None of these people have autonomy, they're all press secretaries.

I’d note that the tariffs are not broken down by country, they are by top level internet domain. It's why islands with only penguins (the .hm domain) and why the Diego Garcia military base on BIOT (.io) are listed, also why Reunion (.re) and Gibraltar (gi) are listed separately from France & the UK.

One month ago: “Between 1870 and 1913 the US was the richest because of tariffs” Today: “Between 1789 to 1913 the US were the richest because of tariffs” In reality, neither is true. The US has never been wealthier than now.

Trump: I'm going to do massive tariffs. The Market: We do not believe you Trump: *does tariffs* The Market: *shocked Pikachu face*

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now.

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

no no no you misunderstood. I said "I don’t care about YOUR feelings". MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby butterfly

Here’s a API that can get up to 500 results at a single time and can sort them by time and amount. api.doge.gov/docs#/Saving...

New in PN: All the laws flouted during SignalGate "There’s no excuse they can come up with that will be believable, bc the truth is obvious — they recklessly defied numerous laws by discussing war plans in a Signal group. And once they got caught, they made things even worse by incessantly lying."

Yes, the DOGE team honestly think that they can replace millions of lines of COBOL running on IBM that has lasted for twenty years with some combination of MongoDB, node.js, and Python that’ll last maybe five years. There's no possible way that could go wrong, none whatsoever.