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I’m not so sure of that. It seems like they’ve served their purpose in getting him into office. “Giving them a break” would also interfere with large agribusiness companies interest in gobbling up financially failing family farms.

I keep going back and forth on this for myself. I believe I have a responsibility to contribute to fixing the problems here as it affects others negatively and I have even the smallest amount of power to help fix this.

You don’t think FlyingSquid had a family? I’ve immigrated twice. You think I don’t have a family?

FlyingSquid left the USA because of his family. His child was part of a group targeted by modern day conservatives. He did the most important job as a father and protected his child. He took his child to a safe country.

I sold $1mm in stocks over the last 2 weeks.

That must have been a really hard decision especially to incur the likely $100k+ of capital gains taxes.

They should have canceled the entire “White House Correspondents’ Dinner” and simply held a completely new event at the exact same time at the same venue with a different name, and kept the jokes at the president’s expense.

Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying

YES! FINALLY!

Demanded In Wisconsin

Dude, don’t tease me like that

There’s a large one with about 5x the subscribers and more activity here: https://lemmy.world/c/leopardsatemyface

However, there’s room in the Fediverse for both!

Musk said. “Let the record show that I said this.”

Oh Elon, your record on “what you said” and reality has been divorced from one another for a long long time.

trump did leak on TV the classified keyhole satellite photos of an Iranian rocket test. It wasn’t so much the rocket that was classified, but the release of the picture showed resolution not thought possible with spy satellites in orbit at the time. So what he did was tell all our enemies what we could see from orbit of theirs.

Future opening to federal court proceedings:

“All rise. Presiding is the honorable Elizabeth Jackson.”

“Thank you, bailiff. We’re meeting today on case number 2940184, the US vs Kreiger on the crime of drug kingpin. Before we begin, first a word from our sponsor”

“Rachet Strap! The energy drink illegal in 3 states! The drink the forbidden energy!!”

“Prosecution, you may call your first witness.”

But they have lost their effectiveness, because companies and politicians have figured out ways to make themselves immune to boycotts and protests.

Musk going in front of his employees begging them to not sell their stock doesn’t sound like a company immune to a boycott.

This is an expression of power. An intentional leak to show that “We get to break rules, and you cannot.”

Hanlon’s razor applies I think:

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence or stupidity”

I really think they really are just this stupid

Yep. They fired all the adults that think things through and provide rigor for a reason so the only people left are children doing whatever they want ignorant of the consequences.

Joe didn’t really do much to make egg prices go up [or down] and Trump clearly isn’t trying on that front either.

To the best of my knowledge Joe never made claims either way on egg prices. trump campaigned on lowering egg prices.

Speaking next to a table of packaged goods during an August press conference, Trump promised, should he be re-elected, to lower grocery prices on “day one.”

“Grocery prices have skyrocketed. Cereals are up 26 percent, bread is up 24 percent, butter is up 37 percent, baby formula is up 30 percent, flour is up 38 percent, and eggs are up 46 percent,” he said. “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.”

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So egg prices continue to rise and what is trump’s response to the American people after getting elected? “Shut up about egg prices”.

"The new numbers come days after Trump posted a link to an article with the headline “Shut Up About Egg Prices ― Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions,” written by right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, on Truth Social. "

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No. I’m embarrassed to be driving one now .

Or is it intentional for this round of closures because these would likely service people that would swallow the GOP “trust me bro” excuse for longer?

“Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said.

Holy fucking crap! He’s going to intentionally cut legitimate payments to millions of retirees and disabled people, and his criteria for finding fraud are the people that cry out first?! What kind of bullshit is that?!

“Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”

Howard, your mom isn’t calling in because she died in 1978. Source: Obituary in the New York times from Feb. 21, 1978

Your mother-in-law, Geri, likely inherited a healthy sum from her husband’s company (which he got from his father) which allowed her husband to have two country club memberships for golf and a comfortable lifestyle of booze and travel, before he died in 2022:

“Joel was an avid golfer and an active member of Wycliffe Golf & Country Club and Edgewood Country Club. He loved to make others laugh with his dry wit, and enjoyed dining out, travel, wine, and dirty martinis, and he did it all with his beautiful bride “Gedgy” by his side.” Source: father in law obituary

Howard, your mother-in-law likely doesn’t depend on social a meager Social Security payment for her housing, food, and needed healthcare. Millions of other American senior citizens aren’t nearly as lucky you ghoul.

I love that place as a symbol of our shared history and unity. It frustrates me to no end trump is pissing on it with his tantrums.

he said. “We’ve never done anything harmful.”

He’s personally seen to the loss of tens of thousands (hundreds now perhaps) of jobs has no signs of stopping, stopping nutritional aid to those that need it most, and has even made comments about going after Social Security which serves our societies most vulnerable. Elon, how on Earth are you so clueless to see that all this hate is directly from your actions.

I’d even argue people may not have cared for Tesla, but the fact that Musk directly benefits monetarily makes Tesla a target.

A perfect example: Musk also was partial creator of Paypal even though he sold his interest in it a long time ago and has no association with it now. While lots of folks don’t like Paypal for a number of reasons, I don’t hear one peep of people ditching paypal because Musk had a hand in its creation.

Yanukovych was a Putin laptop that was thrown out by the citizenry as well as the Ukrainian military. You’ll find Yanukovych in Russia now, but I probably don’t have to tell you that. You’re probably closer to him than I am.

Ukraine underwent a violent coup against the democratically elected government

Yanukovych was a Putin puppet that turned armed forces against unarmed civilians. The armed forces themselves turned on Yanukovych. That tells you how bad he was for Ukraine. If you’re looking for Yanukovych now, you’ll find him in Russia. I wonder why…