Politics What is happening????

I think having as much money in your command as Elon makes you crazy with a side of narcissist. And generates fear in everyone around you so your thoughts and speech are never countered.

Agree allowing him to dominate communication and space science and tech is very dangerous and illustrates the flaws in private ownership of necessary public infrastructure.
I have this vision of privately owned freeways with private traffic cops forcing people to exit the day after they talk shit about whoever owns the freeway....or in the real world something like how chase bank owns Chicago parking meters and how Chicago is obligated to pay Chase parking fees regardless of road maintenance projects etc...

Anyway yeah, privately owned infrastructure is bad.

Regarding the Israel thing...I've watched more on the history and from Israel perspective...
Two guys talking about the land deals back then...it really sounded like the Israel and global political push was to buy land but the government and real estate ownership recording in Palestine was pretty sketchy at best and really prone to total change at any moment so, realistically any land buys would be extremely fragile to any honest logical eye.
I don't believe the culture groups in Palestine at that time were very strong on land ownership in an equivalent way to western norms.

So, in those times to think you could buy some land and feel 100% confident in your ownership would be self deluding. Add to that the conflict of the cultures you'd be trying to push together... optimistic.
Then add the racism... ugh the soup gets pretty bad in concept.
But I'm an atheist or agnostic and don't believe that any God has entitled any race to any patch of ground on earth, period.
My fam history is Christian/Lutheran and I don't think I can point to any land as my entitled homeland.
I still count myself as mostly illiterate on theocracy and the whole Jewish/Muslim problem so aside from becoming weary of magical thinking fluff, I'm open to learn more.

 

Remember after 911, ppl were thinking there was gonna be concentration camps set up in mothballed military bases for whatever reason ?
I think trump and company will try that. BLM rallys and riots, Israel/Palestine rallys and riots, LGBTQ rights events etc...the governmental purging. Don't know how far he'll get but I think he'll try it and I think he's got enough psychos and sadists to put up a good show.

Back then I thought it was not a thing, now I think it could be a thing.

No words about a trump running mate....who could he be thinking of ? Maybe his first cellmate ?
He could eat his last McFish sandwich in a 2nd term...who would be the next bullet in the leadership Russian roulette of a trump administration ?
All repugs but Vivek have talked shit about him now so who would he get ? Vivek is also a narcissist psycho profiteer on lies and possibly a ketamine/adderall abuser.

 

‘There Is a Real Sense That the Apocalypse Is Coming’

Check out Paul Weyrich and his quote list.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weyrich
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They just need to replace the word Christian with Religious.

I'm sick of Good White Christians (GWC), going back to Raygun & the Moral Majority. Note: Their "Christian morals" connection is seriously ludicrous if half the stories about the affairs of Ron & Nancy are true.

The GWC are very active in TX, & of course other states. They exercise great influence through
the Texas Board of Education.

SBOE — State Board of Education | Texas Education Agency

 

IIRC...Musk had to borrow heavily to finance the purchase of Twitter.

‘Go f**k yourself’: Elon Musk F-bombs ex X-advertisers, Disney, Apple

What is he thinking regarding advertising income?

 

Interesting all the foreknowledge of the hamass attacks, a LOT if you ask me.
Seems like the post 911 chatter and conspiracy of Bush and Dick knowing there was going to be an attack and letting it happen to...
-Help rich folks collect insurance money
-Erase financial data supposedly in one of the buildings
-Provide public support for defense spending on a war and "security" on home ground.
Etc.

Anyway, bombings resume...

I didn't watch but I'm gonna say Gavin Newsom won the "debate" with ever pained broken smile shorty Ron.

I'm down for a Newsom presidency. I want Harris to step aside and boost Biden with Newsom as VP. I think that would boost the chances a lot.
Always crossing my fingers for a choking bone in Trumps fish sandwich or maybe a septic trump tower taco salad.

 

Maybe XTPFKAT can bring some porn hub explicit advertisers for his angry incel crowd ?

But ya, I wouldn't want to sell my widgets next to a bunch of natzi sympathetic talk. Just not a good look. How hard is that yo understand for someone who espoused extra smarty smarts ? Is Elon a mensa member ? I'm sure you can buy mensa certificates and pretend.

Elon, I'm seeing still has millions in preorder money for the 2nd edition of his sport coup. That looks better then his dumb ass "truck" clearly a truck for someone who dosn't need to even know what a truck even is ! And it's ugly to boot !

Not a word said about the sport coup since the coup of taking all dat money yo yeeee haw ! Ppl to embarrassed to make noise about it ? What a POS he is.

 

God bless Texas...even at public schools!

Katy ISD considers hiring chaplains at schools as part of new state law | Houston Public Media

 

View: https://youtu.be/HKmLVNOX1Po?si=dCScfEri0lQFlPtz


Thanks Frank Zappa.
I remember these interviews starting up with the parental notification tags ..
Yes theocracy and the fear antics of what happens when white folks become the major minority...
While, most ppl of color I see getting a chance -finally- anchoring major news (I mean -choking back vomit - fox is still the highest rated) ...dang, I want more anchors in the journalism to be of color, I want their perspective, I don't see it as different from mine but I see new added points and new reflection of history and generally I feel more informed. Even from Al Sharpton !
I'm totally down for secession. I just don't see how with the evangelical being in the central and southern parts and the east and west coasts being...umm, not insane as much ?
Gospel of Thomas...
(114) Simon Peter said to him, "Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life." Jesus said, "I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Jesus was a gender transformation Messiah ??
What good is an ideology you can use to back up anything ?

 

I have notifications Chris Noyb commented about Wisconsin alternative false electors...
Can't find that here or on the election fraud thread.
Anyway...
Mo Brooks just last night on CNN said several times fake 'alt' electors were normal and that dems have done it a lot. 4-5 times in just a few minutes.
I think repugs are trying the "say it over and over makes it real" tactic. It's certainly has worked in the minds of a lot of folks.

 

Hmmm....OK, the actions were taken by Repubs in a specific state.

OTOH much of what the article mentioned covers several topics.

 

I'll believe it when it actually happens, & lasts at six years.

Elon Musk plans to open a new university in Austin

Wait a minute, why does this sounds familiar ?

 

My name excluded reference to Trump Univ is a bit unfair to Heavy Odor (even though both seem like vanity projects). If I'm understanding the article the plan is to start with a High School dedicated to science, and grow it into a University. Hmmm...maybe...maybe not.

 

I think you need art and science. Otherwise it's like your walking with one leg.

I might even say that artistic side of your brain triggers the curiosity to begin scientific questions of why and how to do things you think of with that artistic side.
Say your a cave man, you have a thought that the sabertooth tiger used it's long sharp teeth to get food, I think it's more of.your art brain that sees a sharp rock as a possible tooth substitute tool. Then possibly both parts of.your brain my notice when you wack that rock it chipped and gained a sharp edge when you tried to use it in a fight or attacking prey.

I know folks who use tools all the time but never consider using them in any new way. They just do what the instructions say or what they're told and make no attempt.to do any better.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/15/rud...georgia-election-workers-for-defamation-.html

But Counselori Giuliani doesn't have the money.

What happens if Rudy Giuliani can’t pay for his false claims?

$148M shouldn't be too much of a hit for a friend who's business empire is "worth billions, & billions."

 

The people complaining about inflation under Biden would scream "Socialism! Communist!"
if he took measures (or even asked politely) to curb corporate profits.


"I'm paying more for materials so I'm going pass that expense on to my customers. I lost money during Covid so I'm going to make that up by charging above my normal profit margin. Now why in the hell doesn't Biden do something about this inflation?!"

 

I want to make it really fucking clear here the Stock Market has nothing to do with what the economy is for us plebes who are trying to survive from paycheck to paycheck.
However, the market has hit record highs and seems to be still climbing.
This is probably just a bubble and will burst soon but is happening because of choices the Fed has made which come from directions from the White House.
So Biden has done a lot to help this country recover even we are still fucked down here on the bottom because of the greedy fuckheads at the top.

Stock market news today: Dow hits record high as stocks cap longest weekly winning streak since 2017