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Trump got what he wanted. Musk’s usefulness has ended.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
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He wants this. Trump wants to beat up protesters. He’s hoping to use this as an excuse to declare Martial Law. People this unqualified and this immoral cannot risk another open election. Russell Vought would lose his job purposely destroying the country.
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When this all goes terribly wrong, and it will, who will take responsibility? Nobody. Nobody will take responsibility because nobody ever takes responsibility for anything in the Trump administration. Ever.
When the bird flu arrives, nobody will be there for us - again.
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I’ll say the stupid thing out loud: you thought you could control Trump. You did, didn’t you? Mitch McConnell believed that once. I’ll bet Elon Musk did too.You thought you could harness the chaos for tax cuts.
When you ride the tiger, be careful of the dismount or you’re on the menu next.
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The call began awkwardly when Trump, still thinking he was on a sex chat line, asked General Secretary Xi what he was wearing.
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You do understand this was the intention, right?
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The lie must be more cunningly crafted to pass the Senate. With the help of Fox News, carefully contrived talking points will be assembled to prop up the illusion of actual governance. Only slight changes will be made. Molehills will be trumpeted as mountains. Musk will get his tax cut. You will pay
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You move toward what you picture, so picture positive things. See yourself doing the things you dream of, over and over again. The dream becomes the reality. When you arrive, you will already be unconsciously competent because you will have stood there before in your spirit a 1000 times.
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Mr. Scholten very likely has an actual functioning soul. This will be a big plus.
It may turn out that he has sensible policies for governance that he thought of himself. Wow. Putting Joni’s whackadoodle
“apology” on a continuous loop would also be good.
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Leaning upon invertebrates is probably a bad idea.
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Look at what associating with Donald Trump has gotten Elon Musk. He could have lived inside the “He’s merely an eccentric genius” fantasy, but no. We got to know him. Now we know how cruel and malevolent and vile he is. There is no going back. Tesla is dead.
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Because an ignorant populace is easy to control (see last Presidential election).
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Wouldn’t you like to be the fly on the wall, listening to these dimwits realizing that killing the people who voted for them might be a bad idea? The utter incompetence is breathtaking.
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How much the Trump administration hates science and scientific study is immeasurable. A zero budget? Vindictive morons.
I actually have a USGS hat because I think they’re so cool. Think about it. Trump and DOGE are in the process of making us the scientific laughingstock of the world. We deserve it
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Wow. Look at the time.
It’s almost 13 o’clock.
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Ah. The Double Down. Really, this is a Trump invention. When confronted with an obvious lie, bloviate all the louder. Ernst has learned her deception from the Father of Lies.
In her cruelty, that she has the temerity to invoke the name of Christ indicates that surely her faith is in vain.
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(Screaming at the end of my range)
Love, reign o’er me!
Rain on me
Rain on me
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Once you remove the smoke and mirrors from the GOP mega bill, all that remains is ignorance and soulless cruelty. These are a people who utterly despise the poor.
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If you want to watch a Trump supporter twitch spasmodically, bring up vasectomy just when they’re really comfortable telling you women have no reproductive rights.
Want to lose money? Bet me that vasectomies won’t be restricted. You doubt me? Sun yourself at the Gulf of America and think about it.
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This should increase pharmacy business.
Gonorrhea, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain!
(Apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein)
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Working class people of color need to take a good long look in the mirror and ask themselves what in the blue blazes they were thinking. You believed Trump and all the ridiculous Fox News lies. Why? Wasn’t every single cruel thing he’s done to you utterly predictable? He doesn’t care. He can’t.
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What actually happened was Biden lost the election and was replaced by a man with a brain the size of a hamster’s. It’s just that the robot story sounds so much more interesting.
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You have not yet stepped into the sphere of my influence, thou weak and mortal man.
I’ll make you buy gluten free cauliflower pizza, ineffective male enhancement pills and a reverse mortgage.
Look into my eyes!
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The American people do not have the luxury of Wall Street traders to stand around figuring things out.
We just lost our jobs, our health care, our defense from natural disaster and most of our civil rights. What we’re going to do is try to survive. To do that, we’re going to stop spending at all.
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OAN is journalism in the same way that if you put wheels on my Grandmother, she’s a golf cart.
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Like “Succession,” we are here again attempting to mine humor from some of the most evil, soulless people on the planet.
What Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk have done to destroy America defies debate.
All the tech bros together are about as funny as anthrax and just as dangerous.
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She must be obviously honest and filled with personal integrity for Trump to despise her so intensely. MAGA’s don’t go to museums, so this was easy for Trump. They’re all suspicious of anyone who can count to 20 without taking their shoes off.
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This SO insane there’s nowhere to go. The GOP always likes to pretend that they have actual moral values.
They don’t. If anything, they’re worse because they lie about it and cover it up. This was never supposed to come out.
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Ensh*ttification destroys yet another iconic business. Do you remember back in the day? Decades ago? Different vibe, right? Shareholder value slowly eats quality and customer experience until you’re dead. Ironic, isn’t it?
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I love the way you issue this warning as if they have the capacity to care. No. They do not. Look at what this administration has already done to us. These AI companies funded Trump. They want to fire us and replace us with chatbots. Your family’s survival matters not at all to these greedy fools.
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There used to be a depressed and exhausted Chinese woman who did this for you. Your turn.
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You have to ask yourself, who are the people these cuts hurt the most? Trump, Musk, DOGE and the GOP are systematically killing off every single person who voted for them. It’s been weird to watch, and the MAGA body count is just beginning. I think they want no witnesses.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
said this. Kristi Noem.
Pause for a moment and reflect upon how utterly insane it is that
we have this paragon of sanity and virtue as the protector of all our families. Not very comforting, is it?
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The scramble? Can you picture any member of the Trump administration scrambling to do anything? Are they scrambling to find the phone numbers of people they already fired? When people die in the next hurricanes, Trump will scrambling to blame someone else.
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I’m convinced ICE would arrest Jesus and deport him. He has long hair. He feeds the homeless. He would talk to Trump the same way he talked to the Pharisees. Nothing has changed.
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I’ve long thought the anti-Christ might turn out to be a computer. It would be a tribute to our foolish pride and hubris to destroy ourselves in this manner. The number of the Beast is Musk’s chip in your brain.
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We need to know every single business Steve Davis is associated with so that we can boycott them into bankruptcy.
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We will not forget.
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The Mayfly has a lifespan that would far exceed Trump’s timed ability to maintain focus upon any subject other than his own belly.
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I have a friend with a severely painful health problem that requires surgery this week. She sent me a picture of her at a “Tesla Takedown” protest.
She had to sit on the ground. People there helped her. Love triumphs over evil because it humbles itself in service to the greater good.
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I’m shocked, I tell you.
Shocked. I mean, who could have seen this coming?
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Sociopaths and malignant narcissists like Trump do not respond well to humorous barbs directed at them. Their fragile little egos need constant praise and validation to sustain the fantasy they live in.
Fortunately, he has a phalanx of slithering GOP toadies to help him. Let the TACO meme rule!
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I always recall the guy who was appointed by Trump who used to raise Labradoodles prior to ascending to his lofty post. In this case we have the Labradoodle’s brain, but none of its charm.
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Yes. This is the free range organic debris that voted for Bernie Sanders, so it’s the pure stuff.
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You need to take a bow. Historical reference and all.
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I’m a Danish American.
My peeps recently made a handsome offer on California. My cousins have all this Ozempic money, so they can totally afford it. Trump hates California anyway.
He doesn’t get how huge a part of the economy we are. Do a swap before he gets wise.
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Talk to Russell Vought.
This is his idea.
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By a strange coincidence, our ability to tolerate the very sight of you has come to an end as well.
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“Aggressively revoke?”
Doesn’t that kind of indicate malice and forethought? Does anything in this statement suggest deliberation? Purely from a public relations and diplomacy standpoint, why would anyone from another country want to study here now?
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Thank you. I like that analogy, because it expresses their craven cowardice in a way we can all identify. Also a really good Night Gallery episode.