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If he does this, I’d imagine the payments will be via X since he already has all the necessary info. It’l be a tiny sum (if it ever really even comes to fruition) and he’ll use it to win a contract for billions and entrench the app in government payment operations.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

submitted 5 days ago • 784 comments

it is singularly critical that all of this mess isn't pinned on trump or musk. this is the republican party. as they systemically destroy countless lives, the entire party must pay the political cost for there to be any chance of recovery. harder to build than to destroy. dems will need numbers.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Our only hope is for Kendrick Lamar to take on Elon.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

submitted 17 days ago • 148 comments

If vinyls were $5 I could get onboard with the vinyl craze for nostalgia alone. But I don’t want to voluntarily pay 3x for an entire album of a shitty recording of one or two songs I like. Wake me up when the CD revival happens, i’m all in for that.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

submitted 18 days ago • 83 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1309 comments

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

submitted 22 days ago • 3405 comments

Every news thing now is like “law enforcement agency dissolved: all power to Zod!” and then the Dems posting “iron workers have been the backbone of American industry for 100 years, and now tariffs are breaking our promise to them”

submitted 22 days ago • 60 comments

the "just asking questions" maneuver in a nutshell. questions have been answered, they just don't like the answers they got so they continue to "ask" true with trans issues, true with race and IQ, on and on and on. they don't like the answers because they are stupid bigots.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023

submitted 24 days ago • 251 comments

This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

the prevailing response on right wing twitter to trump cutting basically all federal government services is "don't worry, he definitely has a plan to replace the important stuff with something better". lol. lmao. you've all failed the most basic sucker test

submitted 25 days ago • 63 comments

2025 in a nutshell

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

i think the executive orders directing agencies to end energy efficiency regulations and open up more land to drilling and mining is so indicative of the character of the american right — in its view everything, whether people or our larger environment, is something to be exploited and dominated

submitted 32 days ago • 1217 comments

if there is one funny thing about yesterday’s blitzkrieg of executive orders is that it makes the “democratic opposition went too far last time” crowd look like total dipshits

submitted 32 days ago • 597 comments

"oh ho, but just last year you said running people over with with a big steamroller was wrong!” I exclaim delightedly as my enemy fatally runs me over with a big steamroller. it seems I have won this battle of wits

submitted 34 days ago • 52 comments