j-minotaur.bsky.social
Whatcom's best kept secret market farmer and recovering brewer
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Simplest answer is they don't think there will consequences for just taking what they want - but why? Is the normie information diet that bad? Have they consolidated more of the state apparatus than we know? Are they fucking delusional? Just winging it?
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The same with domestic deals. There is nothing the Democrats in Congress can agree to that this admin will honor.
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living in fear is just another way of dying before your time
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100%. The hypocrisy is a flex, an establishment of hierarchy. I can do and say this and you can't. The rules apply to Zelensky, but not to Musk.
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The levels of bitchassness in this country are so insanely high, there are going to be millions of Americans who see this as being 'strong' or 'tough'.
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Cars are gross, domestic, and products, but sure, Elon, they wouldn't be counted in the GDP. Just the dumbest people.
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My co-worker's hot take: the use of AI is to obfuscate the underlying criteria for dismissal priority - race, gender, orientation and political affiliation because the layman's (incorrect) perspective of 'the algorithm' is that it is efficient math without prejudice.
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Kiss of Death is my fave of the 40s noirs.
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RNC speaker, Joe Rogan pal, and noted wife beater Dana White
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Am I not parsing this correctl? The article doesn't really match the headline (or answer the question as 'yes').
The entire article is largely built on "Jefferies didn't say 'hell no'" and some rather non-surrend-y quotes from Senators?
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*Archer voice* "Do you want communists? Because this is how you get communists"
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The scattershot approach paralyzes some of the response - wasted time trying to figure out "what are they doing?", but I think we can flip that. If they have no goal, we must have one. If they are working at cross-purposes, we must work together. Arms locked - NO KINGS. Stick to it.
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It makes me twice as mad that nobody in the media seems to notice, no one stops to ask "why is this guy even here?". Tt's just accepted as normal, business as usual without so much as a pause.
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I don't think there is a goal. In the end, the massively wealthy will pocket their tax savings, buy up all the distressed assets for a fraction of its value and the rest of us can all eat shit - which 1/3 of the country will gladly support so long as the people they hate have to eat it too.
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or more honest than the legacy media
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which debacle is this? Ethiopia? Albania? Greece? North Africa? Ottomans?
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or that she is supposed to be in DC, at home, 'working remotely', only to be found to be in Mexico.
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Say what you will about Jefferies as a leader or a speaker, he has shown himself to be a good parliamentarian.
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Can confirm. They’ve always been scumbags - handsy, controlling and stupid, but since COVID, they’ve added *weird* (derogatory) to it. We’ve fired a couple clients over their board/c suite behavior towards our team.
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Having “Big Balls” fill out Form 497/E to get access to data - subject to the usual interdepartmental processes - is a better check than any other deal the Dems can realistically get.
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What he really wants is to control of every government process that touches our everyday lives. Easier to stop if Congress expressly defines the DOGE as not that but as a narrowly defined department and forces it to follow bureaucratic process - clearances, confirmation, etc.
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Ideally the condition would be the confirmation process for Elon (and non-waivable clearance/back ground checks for DOGE employees) or his companies are barred from accepting govt contracts. But you’d need a law to guarantee it happens and Trump would never sign any law.
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This is usually the stage - the feral behavior in public - where your friends and family confront you. He doesn't have anyone like that
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I'd like the media to at least start asking "why is Musk in all these interviews, talking to the people on behalf of their elected president?" It's literally never happened in the history of the POTUS on TV, and no one even acknowledges it.
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I’m kinda shocked having a non-elected “advisor” not only sit with POTUS, but to also speak to the people on his behalf during TV interviews isn’t a bigger deal. It has literally never happened with any other. “Why is he there and talking?” no one asks.
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But wait, NYT, you are telling me everywhere else in your paper there is *no* attack on democratic norms, brazen or otherwise.
How can we both stand down because there is no crisis, but also stand down because doing something makes the crisis worse?
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Ah, you see, it wasn’t THE Death Star; it was the first of the Death Star class battle stations. DS-01. They were gonna pump them out like escort carriers.
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The same political machinery that put Adams in City Hall put Jeffries in the House, so I'm shocked not shocked he would pull his punches in regards to Adams.