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He didn't build Tesla from scratch.

This guy is so fucking allergic to hurdles he pays other people to play video games for him so he can claim he's in the top skill brackets.

Being rich does not make you smart, it just insulates you from the consequences of failure. A lot of really fucking stupid people also happen to be filthy rich. Elon Musk is no exception, regardless of the mythology people have built around him.

It appears to be real. The federal government is currently in the midst of the most comprehensive purge in the history of the nation, and many career civil servants are being asked to retire early with a severance "or else". The worrying part should have come when Project 2025 laid out the groundwork for what is happening right at this very moment, back when it was first revealed. Trump intends to replace all of these government workers with yes-men and cronies who will be loyal to him and him alone, and not the constitution or the American people they are meant to serve. The damage being done right now will probably never be reversed in our lifetimes and will pave the way for absolute executive control - in other words, a dictatorship. This is not alarmist, this was the plan all along and nobody listened.

If you don't have a plan to GTFO in case things get even worse, I would start making one right now. You have to set an uncrossable line yourself and be prepared to act on it, because other people are going to continue to go along with this until the very end, so you can't count on other people to be giving you signals on when to bail out.

I want my prehensile tail back, not this vestigial piece of SHIT!

The main question I have is that I’ve been hearing from Americans for decades now how gun ownership means you have a 2nd amendment based militia ready to go to protect the constitution and yet in the face of what is completely obviously the initial stages of a coup, I see no signs of that militia. Where are you?

This was always posturing. It was a dumb fantasy invented by the right to mythologize the country's origins, skew the intent of the framers, and most importantly, give them plausible deniability in the gun control debate.

If gun owners truly believed in the myth of the "people's militia" being a necessary apparatus to prevent government oppression or tyranny, they would have picked up their rifles and stopped the insurrectionists attacking the capitol building on January 6th, 2021. A literal violent coup and they sat back and did nothing. No - worse than nothing, they agreed with the people trying to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power!

The idiot masses won't stand up to tyranny with force or strength of arms, ever. The propaganda machine will convince Americans to shoot their neighbors long before they ever even think to shoot at their ruling class.

50 protests

50 states

1 day

Thus 50501

There’s a few comments like this, but what would rolling over look like and / or why would a country do that?

Look no further than Colombia, who was likewise threatened with tariffs by Trump if they refused to accept our deportees. They caved and accepted them after initially refusing them.

Now, in that case, I'm sure some people in the Colombian government likely did the math and determined that it would be cheaper to just accept the few hundred people Trump deported than to have the tariffs damage their economy by depressing the demand for exports like coffee.

The entirely expected and appropriate response is to apply retaliatory tariffs. This doesn’t take bravery and isn’t “standing your ground” it’s just the obvious default response.

It is if the tariffs were meant to stand on their own merit. Trump has only historically used tariffs as a threat to get what he wants. The one time he implemented targeted tariffs on China in his first term, it led to him having to bail out farmers with the money that was collected from the tariff revenue as a result of the retaliatory tariffs on agriculture exports. You would think he would have learned his lesson about using tariffs as a bluff and then following through anyway when it's called, but then again, we are talking about Trump here. You don't get to bankrupt a casino and still claim to have a shred of business acumen.

Longer than that, most likely, since tariffs raise prices on the end consumer and once those tariffs eventually go away there's no incentive to lower the price back to pre-tariff levels.

Trump using examples of effective US economic policy from over a century ago and trying to apply it to modern international trade is peak Trump.

Ah yes, the "free market" in action.

We are rotten to the core.

Could this finally be the term that Trump speedruns the economy crash so the Republicans can be properly blamed for it happening due to their policies and leadership, rather than the Dems always inheriting a timebomb and wasting a whole ass term fixing it?

Good on Canada and Mexico for sticking to their guns and not rolling over for Trump. Show him that winning trade wars isn't as easy as he likes to think it is, and then force him into favorable terms when he implodes his own economy.

edit: lmao, well that was short. Tariffs don't go into effect until tomorrow and Trump already caved to pressure from Trudeau and Sheinbaum. Trump got the massive conciliation prize of... Canada and Mexico agreeing to do stuff they had already agreed to do under the Biden administration. lol.

Also have to take into account that we are trusting the guy who cheated the last two times to have not cheated a third time.

All this dude had to say was "This was a tragic loss and we are investigating the matter to ensure it does not happen again."

When the obvious right answer is staring him in the face, he just can't help but spin conspiracy theories and lie about shit to further his political agenda. Hijacking a tragedy or stirring up avoidable controversy to keep all the other insane shit he's doing out of the news is basically his MO at this point.

Remember a week ago when he had his highest approval rating ever when he took office?

Well, that sure was quick. The goldfish have remembered why we got rid of him in the first place.

Not sure what that has to do with anything. Milk still needs to be transported from farms to consumers regardless of whether or not it was pasteurized.

Brother, why do you think pasteurization was invented?

I personally don't see an issue with people wanting to eat risky foods, but don't try and tell us that we shouldn't warn you that they are risky and could harm you. What happens after is your responsibility, but at least allow people to make an informed decision first rather than cover up the obvious health risks.

The discussion seems to be focused around possibly waiting for one or more governing bodies to rule on the name change, or just going along with it and adding an alternate text for people who would prefer the old one, which I think is way more democratic than anything Trump had in mind when signing this XO.

I certainly prefer this over the blind deference that Google seems to have for an executive order that is functionally just direction to the state department and not legally binding in any way whatsoever.

Yeah, I've been meaning to switch to OpenStreetMaps for a while now and this was the impetus to drop what I was doing and download it immediately. Fuck Google. So sick of this mask off tech plutocracy bullshit.

Edit: I've tried it a few times yesterday and today, and I like it. Works with Android Auto in my car, guidance voice isn't annoying, directions are accurate. Only complaint is I'm not sure how to search up a business and have the app map me to the nearest location. I need to dig deeper and figure out if I just haven't found it yet.

I would 100% drop GMaps if I could hit the directions button on a Google search and have it bring up OSM instead. Google Maps has been bugged for me for years and the maps app never gets the address from a browser search. I have to search for the business or address in the maps app itself for it to work.

She'll keep us safe from all those puppies by preemptively shooting them in the back of the head. I've never felt so safe.

Hope he's somewhere hot right now.

Normalize beating the shit out of Nazis again and this stops overnight.

Maybe the cure for fascism is organized crime making a comeback. Specifically the Jewish Mafia. They wouldn't tolerate this kind of behavior.