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Progressive media scholar at large.
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It's actually very important that for all intents and purposes, Miller is president—more so now with Musk gone, though that doesn't redeem Musk for even a second.
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LAPD sweeping people out of the MOCA parking lot- I’ll follow up, I believe that’s private property?
Mural says “who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose…” etc.
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Me (below) about Candace Owens, a month ago—noting the similar path to Newsom.
Newsom's radicalization is accelerating; he's past the "G*mergaters are cool guys" phase and just embracing Trumpists willy-nilly. We're lucky Newsom's term ends soon. I'm not sure it's soon enough.
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Depends on who the marks are. I don't think the ulterior motive here is to fool rank-and-file Dem voters into thinking courting Elon is a good idea (or that it's something "all the Dems are doing").
The motive here is to fool Schumer, Jeffries, Carville, Newsom, and Fetterman.
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I've seen people saying this is due process; being put before a kangaroo court on the charges the regime transparently only invented to smear Garcia's name after his name became public is not "due process". It's still openly fascist dictator shit and I hope people won't be Handing It To Em for this.
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Centrist Dems grasping now for Musk's allegiance fully realize this—they simply think Musk will continue to possess money and clout that can be turned against Trump.
But what a Trojan horse to swallow. Own Musk's unpopularity, and his bigotries, and his inevitable demands and conditions...
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And no matter how I might idealistically wish that could happen, here's what would likely come next—remember, these are people who want a civil war.
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My perception is that that's exactly what Trump wants—so he can recapture it and throw out the rulebook:
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"Trump" (actually Miller, Yarvin, Vought, Bannon) wants to goad CA into seceding so he can
• use the army to capture/occupy it
• imprison its gov and other Dem leaders
• send millions of its legal-immigrant citizens to El Salvador
• destroy its economy as revenge for its perceived progressivism
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No wonder the TN prosecutor has resigned: he clearly doesn't want to be part of a kangaroo court (as I've described below).
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Oldest-looking Gen Z manosphere influencer I've ever seen
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In effect, R SCOTUS are functioning as de facto dictators and attempting to rule through Trump, just as Vought, Miller, and others in his admin now do.
All of these rulings are technically temporary so R SCOTUS can reverse them if a Dem wins in 2028.
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They're also—for people supposedly led by consultants and overfocused on centrist voters—blatantly ignoring how polled voters feel about Musk.
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I think the goal is a threat: "hey, everyone, we're blatantly falsifying charges against a transparently innocent person who embarrassed us, to prove we can do that to anybody, with impunity."
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In this sycophantic race to the bottom, I'm surprised that the Turd hasn't yet been asked to join Trump's cabinet.
(I'm a little worried that I may singlehandedly be memeing such an incident into happening.)
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Are the criminal charges just whatever the admin could make up? Most match nothing he's even been accused of before.
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Invent a colorful phrase that sounds like it might be an old saying. Type it into Google, and watch Google's AI Overview
• assume it *is* an old saying
• hallucinate the "saying's" history and meaning—convincingly enough that randos would be fooled
This is a, however unintentionally, a weapon.
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Maybe one day people will catch on that republicans only care about deficits when Dems are in charge.
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Oh—Because I'd seen Schumer involve himself in the Trump/Musk fallout earlier today as well, so I was comparing the two...
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That's actually less ambiguous and more damning than any other remark he's made on the subject. Thanks (and wow!)
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Well—Schumer's wisecracks at/about Trump are fine in theory, too; the problem is that they need to undergird a larger strategy of passionately, angrily calling out Republicans' violent abuses of power.
Schumer doesn't just NOT want to do that—he doesn't seem to want OTHER Dems to, either.
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Beltway Dems are amazingly incapable of seizing opportunities and-- even more important, if they do have any kind of rapid response -- sticking with it until that framing enters the zeitgeist.
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The guy who voted to give Trump/Musk a blank check just gee months ago in a funding fight when Dems had leverage is out there lecturing again about people to focus. 🙄
If he were strategic he’d figure out how to walk and chew gum - focus on healthcare cuts; lean into maga divisions.
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Sadly, that's the only spot I know of.
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Who put the ape in apex?
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It would require a level of humility and sobriety (and forgiveness of his poor trans kid) that he's never possessed.
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Trump and Elon could yet have a tearful apology/reunion in days—forced by the sheer fear of what they could do to each other.
Rushing to forgive Musk is nuts unless we can get him on the record recanting his bigotry and vowing to help Dems undo his disastrous actions in the regime. He would never.
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IDIOCRACY failed to anticipate the centrality of hate.
Self-styled bros teasingly call the main character "gay" for being interested in knowledge, but don't try to harm him or impede him for it.
POC are as accepted as anyone; the president is one.
Horribly, IDIOCRACY is *better* than our version.
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It's almost like trusting Donald OR Trump.
(kidding...! I've made the same kind of typo)
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Gigachad