"The ACLU is non-partisan and non-profit. We do not receive any government funding. Our work is supported by member dues as well as contributions and grants from private foundations and individuals."
I find all the podcasts and all of the fact based YouTube stuff because my partner wanted to know more about politics and I’ve worked on campaigns and activism. I’m more tech adept
Subscribed! I think a deciding solution to winning elections (other than picking strong candidates), is to take control of the narrative through indie media. You’re a leader in this space.
Brian, thank you for all your hard work. I had to stop watching for a couple of weeks but I’m back in fight mode and it helps that you’re there with us.!💙💙💙💙💙💙
You might be interested in this detailed piece on Tulsi Gabbard and her dubious Hindu Cult called "Science of Identity"... https://www.spytalk.co/p/my-battle-...
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I heard the billionaire they want in charge of defense. Does business with the dept of defense. Starting to look like russia. Oligarchs will rob you blind.
He's like that broken seweage geyser. Not everything he says has to be true or intelligent. He just has to spray enough crap that we're always paying attention and keeping him relevant. That's what this shit-spewers want.
Makes you wonder who he got to take his IQ test for him. Meanwhile, his ignorance of how our government works somehow makes him qualified to head up a fake governmental agency.
I would assume he knows this & doesn’t care. He knows the cult zombies will listen to whatever Trump says… and now, by extension, Elon.
Trump is old. MAGA will either rally around another similar charismatic figure, or shatter. Just like Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Elon is trying to be that figure.
No it is not! When Elon defunds the ACLU he can credit another 10 billion saved. He is easily up to 1/2 trillion saved if you count the disbanding of the VA. And he hasn’t even started! He is a genius
I just gave what I had set aside for my kids’ and grandkids’ gifts this year. They are grown and work. We all decided the gift to ACLU is more important than stuff💙. We must activate!
Because ACLU is at the top of out #Resist list. It’s our first line of Defense Especially with the immigration concentration camps opening up in Texas. ACLU needs us desperately, even if it’s just a few dollars. https://ACLU.com
These are grants from private foundations. There is no federal funding. I thought Bluesky wasn’t supposed to be filled with misinformation like X/Twitter?
It doesn’t matter who they are it’s private set aside from our government Elon just lies and ppl believe him he’s got a trans child and he says 💩like this ..
Not sure what is strange to you. It is a 100+ yo non-profit that has a Board of Directors which provides governance and an executive team which carries out the mission. The Board and leaders can be found on their Form 990 IRS filing. Within 501(c)(4) limits, they are free to set their own agenda.
They are a private organization that engages in private activities. They are regulated through 501(c)(4) like any such organization (just like the NRA, the Sierra Club). That is how citizens have oversight.
It’s like they are just pulling stuff outta their asses without having any idea how it actually works. How much more stupid are we going to be exposed to?
Being rich doesn't guarantee sensible awareness. ie: tRump, Musk, Vivek and rfk jr. But it does make it easier to lie, gaslight and manipulate the gullible.
Musk is out to make sure he gets as much as he can, while cutting his taxes as much as he can.
That's all he cares about, aside from the attention and feeling of power.
But it is just a commission. He can't actually do anything. That's Congress.
In 'Murica, it matters not how much you produce, but how much you can steal what others produce. Our patent system is designed to facilitate invention theft, and case law places the welfare of Big Tech invention thieves over the rights of patent owners.
If you have ever had a chat with a person who really likes to watch Shark Tank on one of these 👉 📺 then u've actually spoken with one of these people. 👾
Similar audience to the Apprentice back in 2004. They like fake boardroom dramas I guess? 🤷😒
Stop asking these inane questions. He knows they're not funded. He doesn't care. His cult will latch onto this and hate who he tells them to hate anyway.
The sooner US Democrats stop with the 'They're bad and dumb' and start changing hearts and minds, the better. Aren't you tired of losing?
There is value in putting the truth to the cultists. Usually they will ignore it but occasionally some of them may stop to think & challenge what they are being told to believe. If they can’t handle it, they can go to Twuth Shensal
Yeah god forbid we have....civil liberties. And from the despot wannabe who purports to be a free speech advocate though he clearly doesn't know what the fuck free speech means.
He’s no genius. He knows how to find people who are geniuses and figure out how to make money off of them. He is a fucking asshole actually but we all know that!
I mean, he really is a genius in that narrow area you mentioned. He's brilliant as an investor in good ideas. He'd likely be richer, too, if his ego didn't get in the way. But beyond that sense for where to put his money, he's pretty much a doofus.
I question that he's as "brilliant" as you suggest. He started life with hundreds of millions and can afford to take risks that most of us can't. He's an opportunist. I've worked for enough "brilliant" people in my life to know that their brilliance was nothing more than clever marketing and BS.
Oh, no doubt, but he's mainly picked big winners to back, and there's quite a bit of skill in that. If Trump has started with as much as Musk, he still ends up selling bibles.
My wife and I were talking about him tonight. He literally spent billions of dollars so he could hang out with the cool kids. He spent billions more to get more attention on Twitter. That's evil and messed up both,
This is why a video I saw the other day of a psychologist claiming that Elon has an IQ in the 150s was besieged with comments saying, "Absolutely not." He might be in the "gifted" zone--130, give or take a few points--just enough to be dangerous. But on many levels he isn't very bright.
According to the definition of IQ, if his IQ is 150 then he has the intelligence of a 79 year old (150 * 53 / 100). IQ is that quotient of intellectual age to actual age multiplied by a 100.
He's much closer to average or slightly above - 130 is way too high. 110 at most.
Elon is a classic case of a person who is skilled in a particular field (entrepreneurship in his case) and has their ego stroked enough by yesmen to foolishly believe they are an expert in every other field as well.
I’d say what made him skilled was picking out winning ideas and getting behind them. A respectable skill that he has spent years now completely forsaking, sadly.
And now he's running his companies into the ground because he can't get out of his own way, believing too strongly in his own hype, IMO. Plus, I doubt that he picked out any of the "winning ideas" himself. That's what brokers and advisors are for. He's taken credit for others' work/ideas for years.
Of course he can, but folks with that much $$$ never want to spend any of their own $$$; they expect things to be given to them, simply by virtue of them having so much $$$
From a different angle: the EV market has evolved so there are more choices. Consumption does matter. Stock prices are affected by a company's ability to sell their products and a substantial portion of Musk's wealth is in his stocks. Per the Supreme Court, political spending is free speech.
Yes. At the same time, our dollars can reflect our political speech. We're not locked into support people like Musk.
We have a group of people who glorify billionaires. But a lot of billionaires need customers to sustain their wealth. Customers can make politically motivated choices.
He's going to abolish govt departments without an understanding of what they do.
The Tories claimed that after Brexit they would simply replace 'EU' with 'UK' in thousands of laws. They soon realised they were completely out of their depth. Musk will too.
Well, hey, that's what he does! He fired all many teams at Twitter without understanding what they did. Then he offered a big exit bonus, which was taken by many if not most of the best engineers. He fired the supercharger team after the company had made deals with billions with other automakers.
I like to think that if there actually is a just afterlife in spite of immediate appearances, then Farage is going to wind up in a cage where souls from the UK can kick his teeth in with impunity, for as long as they like, as often as they like.
If there is a hell, I would like to intern there. See how the torture is done by veteran demons and eventually get hired in as middle management. I have some really good ideas on how one could be repeatedly broken without ever losing ALL hope. Just need to know where to send my resume
Oh, you didn’t read the full brochure before incarnating here, did you? We’re already IN Hell, or at least one of its suburbs. Not nearly as bad here as some other worlds, but there’s a reason people’s favourite television serials are always getting cancelled, and it isn’t money.
Musk is a billionaire blowhard with so much money he’s bored. Now he and 47 have government power, have all our money as well as theirs. They think that can do anything and get away with it because they believe “We The People” are just that ignorant. Well the majority of us anyway. Fucking scary!
Correction: 47 has government power. Must is not part of the government, yet, no matter what 47 promises. Congress still needs to approve and confirm it.
So for now at least, Elon is just a bald, ketamine junkie parasite.
Musk bought and paid for 47’s presidency. He has more influence than any one of 47’s cronies. Besides, 47 doesn’t want to be president, he wants to be the USA’s first dictator. We might never get to have a vote that matters again.
He paid for it, but he's quickly going to find out that he doesn't own it and has no power, and as soon as Trump gets tired of him (which will be very soon) he'll be discarded.
47 wants to be a dictator. He will do what he wants and use whomever he wants, including Musk to that end. I see what he is doing. Why do you think he doesn’t rail against those who try to take down his appointees? Why do you think he acted as if he was trying to lose the election at the end?
He's also 78 and in poor health. His weird cult of personality doesn't really seem to have any successor lined up (I think because he burns bridges as soon as somebody starts to get as much attention as him). My one source of comfort with wannabe dictator coming into power.
Call him what you want...Trump's Tech Rasputin, his Technoligarch, Shadow VP, or whatever, if he has significant influence power over/with Trump, he attains government power through his relationship with Don the Con.
I was calling him "VoldeMusk" a couple of weeks after he took over Twitter.
I'm kind of stunned at how bad he's been, especially his politicization of the platform. He gave me bad vibes, but I still expected a certain degree of sanity responsibility, & restraint.
Aclu. Like n.o.r.m.l is private Donners, public and admissions funded. What are they going after private citizens now or what. Hahaha they don't know what they want or what they are doing and it shines like a nasty cigar hanging out their OLIGARCH mouths hahaha wow! Dukes of hazard nasty haha
I don't think this has anything to do with defunding the ACLU. They're going after every governmental institution that has any power to challenge or regulate corporations.
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure Elon will try to defund them anyway since they fight to protect average Americans against abuse by the powerful. They also send out these nice little free handbooks containing the Constitution which I'm pretty sure Elon has never read.
Pretending that he ends up with the power to actually directly affect government policy, what could he even do to touch them. If they're not funded they can't be defunded
ALCU is a non profit , bipartisan organization dedicated to protecting civil rights so of course Elon would want to " defund" it. He can't do that but he can certainly make their work much harder.
So sick of ignorant people in government positions. Musk, Bobo, mtg, comer, Tuberville, tfg, etc. Seems we need an iq test for those wanting to run for office!
I'm so sick of Americans repeatedly voting in ignorant, self serving trash to serve as their elected representative.
Maybe voting should require a minimum education requirement?
I wasn't aware Musk had an account here, but if he does, it probably infuriates him that he can't curate the content to make certain he and his right wing MAGA nuts are front and center of everyone's feed.
There's a labeller that can hide or block Xitter (and other) screenshots if you don't feel like seeing him (you can choose to unhide if you can't help yourself, and you still see the skeet) https://bsky.app/profile/xblock.aendra.dev
It's simply more proof that elom is a dipshit.There's already plenty of proof he's a dipshit,but as I'm sure you know also: Reality and proven facts just don't matter now. Welcome to bsky!Many more pet pix than elom stuff here as noted.
Why? Thanks is more appropriate. For Elon and the whole company.
"The contract means that 2,500 Starlink terminals already in Ukraine will get access to Starshield, a classified and encrypted signal over Starlink that's more difficult to hack into or jam."
I have trouble believing that this won't benefit Russia. Maybe Starlink for Ukrainians, and the newer, safer option for the Russian invaders, who knows...
The staggering thing is the 53 Million views that just saw this and accepted it as fact. I don’t know where to start with that. It’s really disheartening. Imagine if I could just say Elon Musk is trans and 53 Million people just accepted that as fact? Nobody should have that much influence.
Remember when TFG tied to defund the postal service to mess with mail in ballots? USPS is funded entirely by selling postage stamps. The gruesome twosome is so embarassing
It’s not really about how much funding Musk thinks the ACLU receives but, rather, the sheer audacity of randomly suggesting that the long-standing and upstanding national organization whose mandate is to defend our civil liberties should be defunded. The guy is a total ignoramus and joke.
Can we deport Elon? He broke the law when he was a student, that should have been it for him. Isn't that what conservatives want? Deport the lawbreakers.
When you already know everything, there's no need to look anything up. That's how you can be convinced you can save a bunch of kids with a sub you haven't even built yet. Narcissism is a hell of a drug.
I don't think Musk knows how much the ACLU receives from the Federal government but it doesn't matter. Musk said to defund the organization to stir up Trump's base. It doesn't matter what is true or what Musk knows. The base will be roused and will be happy that bad stuff will happen to the ACLU
These are grants from private foundations. There is no federal funding. I thought Bluesky wasn’t supposed to be filled with misinformation like X/Twitter?
It’s not funded from the government he’s a liar and I cannot believe he’s running our country. Ppl say no blah blah.. he is running it I’ve heard more from him than Trump since the win..
Thank you for that. I needed nicer words to describe ElonMelonHead Musk instead of just saying he was a pig. So if it's okay with you...I'll be using yours. 😉
FAFO PDQ IS The price you pay when you let an immigrant like Elon who doesn't appreciate the organizations that help workers and their rights, in the hen house.
I say take space x and Starlink and put them under NASA no civilian or private business should have control of those. Remember when he cut Ukraine's access to Starlink?
Yep. And he was also on the phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy. It sickens me that Trump and that idiot can have so much influence on the fate of Ukraine. I'm embarrassed that the people of this country are stupid enough to have voted for this.
Most important - strip out StarLink! No one person can be allowed that kind of government control and access! Especially not a immigrant Nazi-sympathizer like Musk.
Elons is not known for his knowledge of things, he could use his shitty AI to know the awnser, even his AI can find that awnser, but Elon is too stupid for it
His lack of intelligence.. won't be a deterrent from him fleecing Americans of their Social Security. (yes he will try to do that with his fake dept., Billionaire lobbyist group aka D.O.G.E)
But they care about getting attention. Sometimes they do feel massive waves of disapproval. They can't make us feed their needs for good attention, they have to earn that.
Yeah...that is the real issue...Why does he have problems with it?
A reminder why business titans like Elon Musk dislike regulations which keep them from making decisions they want to make with little or no push back from outside authorities.
And he knows they don’t need to. Like trump, he has realised that there is an entire cult out there that can be manipulated without needing anything to be factual because they’re just looking for someone they believe is strong and controlling the world they fear
Next to Bill Ackman, Musk is the stupidest "genius" I have seen. They certainly buy into conspiracies, talking points and play fast and loose with facts. They don't seem to get the most basic premises or logic.
He is well aware, however, the reality is the ACLU has publicly thanked Musk for being one of its largest donors.
If he simply takes his own funds away and encourages other to follow who have supported the ACLU from their past support of free speech, he can have a large impact on defunding them.
The other suggestion is, he send a portion of his yearly earnings to the government account. Him along with his billionaire supporters could pledge this and within 10 years, the deficit will be negligible. A patriot like Musk would delight at this opportunity. Right Musk?
"The ACLU is nonprofit and nonpartisan. We do not receive any government funding. Member dues as well as contributions and grants from private foundations and individuals pay for the work we do."
Elon, for someone so incredibly wealthy and “smart” you sure are one of the dumbest people who literally does no research before you open your mouth. Just shut up you cybertruck bad body built ass up and go back to your own country. K. Thanks.
I'm starting to think that maybe, just maybe, Musk isn't the genius he's convinced his fanboys he is. Growing up with money and access makes up for a lack of braincells and work ethic.
He is , I believe, a bit of a savant in some areas with his intellectual ability above that of normal .. they sometimes get referred to as geniuses of one sort or another. He definitely lacks psychosocial skills and seems devoid of emotional cognition. Dangerous and enjoys power
He is very clever - he knows exactly how to appeal to the cult and trump. How to manipulate others and he can say whatever he wants. The cult don’t care about facts they care about having people to admire who they think will benefit them because, ultimately, they’re scared, racist, cowards
He isn’t all that. There is no situation he won’t thrust himself into and make worse because it’s all about his ego. Remember that case with the kids trapped in that cave in Thailand? Musk felt dissed and called a leader of thevred ue a pedophile. Phony Stark.
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"The ACLU is non-partisan and non-profit. We do not receive any government funding. Our work is supported by member dues as well as contributions and grants from private foundations and individuals."
These days, it's practically for self-defense.
https://www.spytalk.co/p/my-battle-...
Thank you for reminding me to send in my annual donation to the ACLU.
Trump is old. MAGA will either rally around another similar charismatic figure, or shatter. Just like Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Elon is trying to be that figure.
https://action.aclu.org/give/pm-donate-to-aclu?utm_medium=pm&utm_source=gs&utm_campaign=nat-dig-pm-dd-int&utm_content=gs-search_brand_exact-donate%20to%20the%20aclu-m-680617902378&initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=pm&initms=nat-dig-pm-dd-int-gs-search_brand_exact-donate%20to%20the%20aclu-m-680617902378&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=pm&ms=nat-dig-pm-dd-int-gs-search_brand_exact-donate%20to%20the%20aclu-m-680617902378&gclid=Cj0KCQiAu8W6BhC-ARIsACEQoDC2dvVyOOtEC2HvKVErE88MzOY8rVuVBBkkAiYjwdwH4VkEGy-jo80aAoJAEALw_wcB
Brilliant journalism if you do.
A good question too, why does he want to target it?
Asinine is the professional word and term for dumb, stupid, and silly.
But that's even weirder, isn't it? Who has the oversight and who are the main investors? Wouldn't they have their own agendas?
(None too bright either).
https://bsky.app/profile/imkyuti.bsky.social/post/3lcn2svbcl22x
That's all he cares about, aside from the attention and feeling of power.
But it is just a commission. He can't actually do anything. That's Congress.
Ivy League education with high morals
It just doesn't stop with these people.
Similar audience to the Apprentice back in 2004. They like fake boardroom dramas I guess? 🤷😒
I guess, since I send them money regularly, someone is going to call me a terrorist supporter soon.
The sooner US Democrats stop with the 'They're bad and dumb' and start changing hearts and minds, the better. Aren't you tired of losing?
If you're reading this post, please consider donating a small amount to the ACLU monthly. You will feel better for it.
https://www.aclu.org/
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The truth about the Musk Rat
https://youtu.be/4y40RU5Nx6U?feature=shared
"Stable Genius."
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Elon is a classic case of a person who is skilled in a particular field (entrepreneurship in his case) and has their ego stroked enough by yesmen to foolishly believe they are an expert in every other field as well.
He's a fraud. I can careless if he thanks others for the ideas since he doesn't speak about someone else coming up with it when it works.
https://youtu.be/PU7QM3MZ2Vs?si=DCUtomJ-R1NidBRM
We have a group of people who glorify billionaires. But a lot of billionaires need customers to sustain their wealth. Customers can make politically motivated choices.
The Tories claimed that after Brexit they would simply replace 'EU' with 'UK' in thousands of laws. They soon realised they were completely out of their depth. Musk will too.
So for now at least, Elon is just a bald, ketamine junkie parasite.
Call him what you want...Trump's Tech Rasputin, his Technoligarch, Shadow VP, or whatever, if he has significant influence power over/with Trump, he attains government power through his relationship with Don the Con.
I was calling him "VoldeMusk" a couple of weeks after he took over Twitter.
I'm kind of stunned at how bad he's been, especially his politicization of the platform. He gave me bad vibes, but I still expected a certain degree of sanity responsibility, & restraint.
Boy, was I wrong.
Maybe voting should require a minimum education requirement?
Just enough to move Overton Window against him & the Right, while then enjoying other stuff
There is also a subscribe list that lets you block any twitter screenshots to avoid people bypassing the word filter.
"The contract means that 2,500 Starlink terminals already in Ukraine will get access to Starshield, a classified and encrypted signal over Starlink that's more difficult to hack into or jam."
Proves that repeatedly
Thank you.🙏
Musk is a monster, an incomplete set of organs and associated tropes kept artificially alive somehow in a glass jar.
https://bsky.app/profile/imkyuti.bsky.social/post/3lcn2svbcl22x
know it allism
He wants his angry flying monkeys to throw their feces at particular groups b/c he doesn't like them & they happily oblige
Many even know, but that won't stop them from still screeching they should be shut down/ silenced - "defund" is just shorthand to them
That's not a joke.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-fortune-fight-jared-birchall-igor-kurganov-11657308426
https://nypost.com/2022/07/18/how-elon-musk-entrusted-5-7b-to-russian-born-igor-kurganov/
He’s so much worse …
The question thus becomes…who, tucked squarely somewhere within the sphere of Trump’s cavalcade of clowns, would play the role of Riff Raff?
Especially true with the kind of resources Elon has. Life hasn't been so hard on him, after all.
Oh… right. Okay.
#DefundElonMusk
ACLU = American Civil Liberties Union.
Elon wants to get rid of the folks that go to bat for civil liberties.
I have questions.
Slave labor in an apartheid state is the bedrock of his billions.
Civil liberties are rather anathema to his entire business model.
That said, about ~10 years ago ACLU flipped from DEFENDING civil liberties to ATTACKING civil liberties.
ACLU is now dedicated to the OPPOSITE of it's Mission Statement.
Good riddance to the ACLU.
A reminder why business titans like Elon Musk dislike regulations which keep them from making decisions they want to make with little or no push back from outside authorities.
Tell me more.
If he simply takes his own funds away and encourages other to follow who have supported the ACLU from their past support of free speech, he can have a large impact on defunding them.
"The ACLU is nonprofit and nonpartisan. We do not receive any government funding. Member dues as well as contributions and grants from private foundations and individuals pay for the work we do."
Thanks for the clarification