I hope it’s a draw.
Catching up with Don and Musk - Season 2: The breakup.
YIKES:
actuary tables suggest trump doesn’t make it to 2029.
honestly I’m far more afraid of the shady-ass VP who is the bagman for Peter Theil
According to the actuarial table he can expect to live 8 more years.
actuary tables suggest trump doesn’t make it to 2029.
Actuary tables say Dick Cheney should have died ten years ago.
Do those account for the blood of children that he drinks?
Reminder that Dick fucking Cheney is still alive and kickin’.
To be fair they keep giving him new hearts to keep him alive.
Tell that to Trump’s self contained severed living head in a glass container in 2070
More realistically… AI Trump.
They could feed all of his bullshit into a model, and have an AI Trump spewing nonsense forever. Bet it’d even take AI golf trips.
The hallucinations would be a feature.
It wouldn’t take many lines of code, or much of a lexicon, to replicate that repetitious blather.
I think that’s called reddit
He is a vile PoS. Even when Biden announced cancer, Trump demonstrated more humanity than Vance did. Vance has no chill and no human decency.
The fuck he didn’t.
Trump did no such thing. Trump’s handlers took his phone and typed a message, Trump since has been nothing but disgusting and vile
Whatever, the point was even Vance couldn’t do that. Started questioning Biden’s health before.
I was not defending Trump, I was criticising how Vance limbo’d under Trump’s response…
Never drank or smoked. Probably quite a rarity for that generation.
There’s a good chance he’s lying about that, just like he lies about everything else.
“The future is now, old man”
-a 53 yr old
I just learned that I am older than Laura loomer. Her plastic surgery made me think she was 50.
Holy shit she’s in her early thirties! Why do all these MAGA women get such awful fillers?
And Katherine leavitt is only 27
wtf she looks 40? Like she’s pretty but she looks way older than me.
Musk thinking all that Trumpism will go to him helps in making things make sense.
I’m calling it now so I can link to it in 3 years, Musk is wanting to make a presidential run.
like @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social said, this show has a purpose and I think Trump is planning on going even harder and now they have someone they can pass the torch off to since they’ve already vetted his ideology and love his money. Gotta distance yourself at some point so you can swing in and be the “savior”. He can lay the whole DOGE think on the current administration getting in the way and will totally be a conservative this time. The comments and rhetoric around Elon are already starting to be softer now that he’s in this feud with Trump.
Musk isn’t American born. He is ineligible to be President without a change to the US Constitution.
He has birthright canadian citizenship. So if Canada was ever forced to join the USA, I would assume that Canadian citizens would become US citizens and that could allow him to be eligible.
Since when does the constitution matter to these fuckers?
Not that it’ll stop them from trying but the constitution does say you have to be a natural-born citizen.
“What is Habeas Corpus?” joking, but I guess my minds been so fractured from this administration it doesn’t even consider the constitutional protections America has.
It does make me wonder about the presidential line of succession though. The Speaker of the house is 3rd in line, they could all get together tomorrow and vote him in.
The Constitution does not explicitly require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives… permitting a non-member to serve as Speaker would effectively exempt Speakers from the eligibility requirements of the House Qualifications Clause of Article I, Section II and from being bound by an oath of office under the Oath or Affirmation Clause of Article VI as opposed to House members. (link)
Would be fascinating to see how something like that would play out, scary, but still fascinating in a historical precedence kinda way.
Anyone in the line of succession that is disqualified to hold the office is skipped. Again according to the rules that the GOP might just ignore without consequence, but I don’t think they like Musk enough to bother.
Well honestly its not talked about enough but Ted Cruz ran for president and he was born in Canada. The fact that it was never brought up in any debate by any moderator or opponent is a little worrying.
Ted Cruise’s mother was a citizen when she gave birth to him. That makes him a naturalized citizen. Honestly, if that wasn’t true we would be ICE raiding of banning from office a ton of military children.
No. That makes him a US citizen at birth. A naturalized citizen is when someone who is not a US citizen acquires US citizenship.
He had birthright US citizenship just like McCain (born in Panama). That’s what made the whole Obama birth certificate so stupid. He would still be a US citizen at birth even if he was born outside of the US. But he’s brown and has a foreign sounding name. If he was Barry O’Bama and white, no one would have batted an eye.
He can’t be president, he wasn’t born here. They already tried that with Ahn-old, and he actually stood a chance of winning. No way anybody with enough juice will back Skum’s presidential bid.
Considering how unprecedented things have been I’m not sure pointing to the past as what to expect in the future makes much sense anymore
If Trump every gets his way with annexing Canada, Musk’s birthright canadian citizenship could allow him to be eligible to run for president.
He won’t annex Canada. That’s silly.
Was that a threat, or Elon just being practical. It’s funny either way.
Clearly, since Trump is the healthiest president ever to hold office, he will outlive Musk. That is just a given. Therefore, this statement by Musk can only be take as a threat against the life of the president, by an immigrant no less. Send in ICE, SWAT, Seal Team 6, and Space Force to grab him and deport him to Mars.
/s mostly, but I really would like to see Musk shot off in the general direction of Mars.
It’s more surprising that these fuckers just happily throw all the dirty laundries on the street.
So there’s this radio editorial from 1973 called “America: The Good Neighbor”, written by George Sinclair. I think a lot of what Sinclair described has been lost, unfortunately, but this line always pops into my head:
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.
I feel like this part is still true. For better or worse, as a nation even when we feel shame due to the behavior of our politicians we don’t try to hide it, pretend like it doesn’t exist. Our politics is theater and we all know it. It’s on display for everyone to see.
You can read the whole thing here: https://thinkingagain.com/html/american_tribute.php
It is an artifact of history, and just… keep in mind that it needs to be read and understood in the context of the time it was written. The Apollo program had just ended the year before, and US troops had just withdrawn from Vietnam. The Watergate scandal was current news and is specifically what Sinclair was referring to in the quoted line above. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered only 5 years prior, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s was a recent memory. It had been only a decade since John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
And there was video and live discussion of all of it just on display for everyone to see on the still quite new platform of broadcast television.
Things haven’t changed much.
I would say “where’s the lie” but he’s universally hated and he just injected like $20 million into the Wisconsin election and they lost because he’s toxic
He also lost because, in his mind, money = influence. He didn’t realize that even conservative Wisconsin voters do not react well to people throwing money at them to win.
We border Illinois and constantly deal with FIBs coming to our state, utilizing our parks, lakes, and woodlands, while acting like they are better because they have money. This is particularly common in the north woods where a lot of the conservative voters are.
Illinisians also think money makes them important. The difference is that we tolerate them because they are our neighbors, and we have a long history of hating on each other but also relying on each other - similar to siblings who disagree with how the other lives their life. Musk is a complete outsider and people were not happy about it.
Hey neighbor, Minnesotan here but new to the term FIB, mind sharing?
Hello Midwestern neighbor!
I’m not sure if I’m allowed to swear on this sub so if my post gets deleted, that’s why, but it stands for “fucking Illinois bastard.” It’s super common on the southern side of Wisconsin and the people from Illinois are often aware of it and use it too in a joking fashion.
Well consider that added to my lexicon! I have a few people that come to mind hahaha
I’m going to guess “Fucking Illinois Bastards”
I’m not convinced that is the case.
The plot thickens I haven’t been this excited since the first assassination. 🍿
“assassination”
I am fine with this as long as it doesn’t take too long for Musk to follow.
Fighting for the crown and the Skeksis Emperor isn’t even dead yet.
