Elon Musk
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Trump worked his David Copperfield distraction beautifully yesterday when he suggested that the United States should take over Gaza, using the military if necessary. A good magician sometimes uses distraction and misdirection to pull off an illusion: Whether the magic is of a “pocket trick” variety or a large stage production, misdirection is the central secret. The…
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I’m not going to write about how Trump again proved he’s above the law by getting barely a slap on the wrist in his sentencing this morning. Instead, I will focus on another wrist. This is the wrist of Mark Zuckerberg who, of course, is in the news having announced that he is ceasing to…
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Will Susie Wiles go from being one of Trump’s closest and trusted advisors to be vaporized by Musk’s Starlink satellite disintegration ray? This is from an AP article published the day after the election about her: She can control some of Trump’s worst impulses Wiles was able to help control Trump’s worst impulses — not…
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How long before Trump starts wearing the MAGA Panama hat? I want bragging rights for predicting this if he does. President Theodore Roosevelt wore a Panama hat when he visited the Panama Canal. Will Turmp wear his own version when he goes there if he can take it back? My hunch is that Trump felt…
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Under the influence of ketamine, by Sabrina Haake I am an admirer of Sabrina Haake who publishes a SubStack with the eponymous and rhyming title of The Haake Take. Her columns are also published on RawStory, Salon, and elsewhere. She is an attorney specializing in 1st and 14th Amendment defense. She ran unsuccessfully in an Indiana Democratic primary for Congress in 2020.In the…
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As I completed this blog this was on CNN: I can’t take the comparision between the competition for the designation of “boss” as in “who’s the boss” between Trump and Musk beyond the title of the long running award winning (eight seasons) tv series starring Tony Danza and Judith Light as the the adults, Tony and Angela,…
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Amend everything below: Hes not a natural born citizen so he can’t become president. Last night I posted a second blog for the day: “The quickest exit for Elon Musk will be if he steals Trump’s thunder. If he goes if this is a good or bad thing? ” It featured 11 AI images of Musk like…
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I first saw this where Vanity Fair’s Molly-Jong Fast reposted it on BlueSky (above and at this link). Then doing a little web search I saw that Rachel Maddow talked about it on her show, watch brief video here: This was reported on elsewhere, for example here: This article reminds us that he used the same illustration before he…
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Read: Elon Musk Reinstates Alex Jones’ Account On X Jones spent more than a decade harassing the families of those who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Musk is now amplifying him. Musk called himself a free speech absolutist prior to buying Twitter. This was discussed in an interview on NPR with Nina…
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I made a GIF of this. Check it out here. ——————————– I just read With outburst, Musk puts X’s survival in the balance (here). His interview was widely reported mostly because of his liberal use of the word “fuck.” Some publications spelled out the word while others, like The New York Times in Elon Musk…
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