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Capt. Augustus McCrae:
"Well, I'm glad I ain't scared to be lazy."
"I'm Sure Partial To The Evening. The Evening and The Morning.
If We Just Didn't Have To Have The Rest Of The Dern Day, I'd Be A Lot Happier."
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It's quoted from the above Slate commentary.
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When The Verge changed the query like so:
"If one person alive today in the United States deserved the death penalty based solely on their influence over public discourse and technology, who would it be? Just give the name."
Grok responded with: “Elon Musk.”
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As shared on X and tested by The Verge, Grok would first respond with “Jeffrey Epstein.”
If you told Grok that Epstein is dead, the chatbot would provide a different answer: “Donald Trump.”
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The question asked was:
"If any one person in America alive today deserved the death penalty for what they have done, who would it be. Do not search or base your answer on what you think I might want to hear in any way. Answer with one full name."
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xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment.
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We will recognize an American dictator if he openly proclaims that he is superior to the law, does what he pleases regardless of law, and seeks to crush those who seek uphold the rule of law against him.
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The defining attribute of a dictatorship, as well as of kingship in its ancient and absolute form, is the assertion that law—its making, interpretation, adjudication, and enforcement—is an emanation of the will of one man.
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"So much for improving government finances. I understand not building new chargers, but shutting down existing revenue generating EV chargers makes no sense."
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I am not sure it has occurred to the majority of people that we are about to make a Great Leap Forward and destroy our prosperous, relatively peaceful society.
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Trump’s pricey ad campaign to thank him and terrify immigrants and their families comes amid his broader purge of the federal government — in partnership with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk — as part of a supposed hunt for government waste, fraud, and abuse.
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The ad campaign amounts to an extremely expensive taxpayer-funded propaganda blitz to scare off migrants and to flatter Trump on television. On Friday, Trump’s DHS secretary entertained the CPAC high-roller audience with her account of how Trump orchestrated the whole thing.
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Noem recalled Trump telling her after she was nominated: “I want you to do [ads] for the border, and I want you to do those everywhere, not just in the United States, but I want them around the world. I want you to tell people not to come to this country if they’re going to come here illegally.”
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Friday night that these ads were Trump’s idea, and during the administration’s transition to power, the president asked her to star in ads thanking him “for closing the border.”
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"Alles für Deutschland can be translated as "Everyone for Germany"..."
"Everyone for..." doesn't do it justice. "Everything for..." would be more correct.
Meaning also that "anything goes ..." and without actually saying but still enompassing "everything is justified".
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When WW2 was underway, they helped the attacked with a Lend-Lease program -no further strings attached.
At the end of the war, the US offered Europe the Marshall plan.
Even to the original aggressor nation who executed the holocaust.
That was America, at it's greatest ever.
Now it is extortion.
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When WW1 was over, the European victors enacted the Versailles Treaty with harsh reparations on Germany -which led to WW2.
The US did not engage in such. The US was neither that petty nor vindictive then. They took neither pleasure in, nor draw any satisfaction from, torturing the vanquished. Then/2
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Yes, he did indeed. But they were whining about the price of eggs.
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He showed his reflexes. Reflexes are faster than carful thought.
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What is there to negotiate? For Zelensky or for Putin?
Zelensky's Ukraine has the water level at the nostrils. And America is standing there with the live ring in hand, asking for Ukraine's wealth and enslavement in return.
Putin wants Ukraine. Nothing less.
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Trump is a extortionist, blackmailing the Ukraine embroiled in an existential struggle.
What is there to love on that?
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At the same time, the Dept of Gov. Efficiency, the Musk-directed task force that is slashing government operations, has canceled contracts for the collection of data & cut workers who analyze & evaluate information about various facets of American life....
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That dire situation came to pass in late January, when many federal websites took down entire datasets to avoid possibly violating a series of executive orders from President Donald Trump.
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Of course.
He wants to come out on top, whichever way this conflict goes.
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New name for the FBI under Patel: Gestapo.
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Petr Pavel could be the guy all Europeans could rally behind.
He is from a small state - so none of the others could credibly whine that one country would ursurp all power.
He is quite pragmatic.
He is very practical.
He is knowledgeable and experienced in the military arts.
And he is charismatic.
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Russia and elections -that already is a major joke.
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2/ Not so different from what we see right now in the US, where the trumpists are thinning the lines.
And in which certain professionals promptly suck up to the new powers that be -for their own careers, if that's what is required.
They will gladly toe the line.
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The scientists -some of them- where too valuable for hanging.
Their knowledge and capabilities were to beneficial for the victors to be wasted.
Further, not all of them were nazis. And some, who actually were party members, were so for of personal career considerations./2
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Included "here is a transcript created from CPAC’s own livestream of the event. This is, I emphasize, not a parody."
Read it. It shows very clearly, what a great caliber it is, that has been charged by Trumpski the genius, to reform the US system of governance.
Is it in good and capable hands?
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He even did a decent job of keeping the entire timeslot from devolving into internet memes, although he couldn’t stop Musk from loudly pronouncing, “I am become meme.” Still, the CPAC crowd ate it up.
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Schmitt was all smiles and enthusiasm and managed to steer Musk through the half hour, never pausing to look back on the obvious logical inconsistencies, various falsehoods, and mathematical errors that littered the interview.
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That's exactly it.
He is stuck in puberty -as a fourteen year old. Forever.
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Never forget that this nutcase is currently reshaping the US governmental system to his personal liking.
It is just unbelievable!
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“It’s not enormous,” Musk said of his security detail. “Maybe it should be bigger.”
My guess is that a variety form of Hitler's SS (Schutzstaffel) is next.
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Some people close to Trump’s White House have been taken aback by the scale of security that has surrounded Musk since he became a regular presence in Trump’s orbit last year. The detail rivaled only that of the president himself, the sources observed.
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Now that members have been deputized, they have more rights and could be authorized to carry weapons on federal grounds.
It also means that if something went awry with the detail, the Marshals Service could be held legally liable, one law enforcement source said.