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- Nope, you can't have even the unraveling threads of a social safety net, food quality standards, or health/safety regulations. Best we can do is more public subsidized car commercials in space.
King Bazinga wants this shit bad, too.
From the comments where I found the above picture:
https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1frcy0c/this_guy_is_addicted_to_ai_images_of_himself/
>During Elon's conversation with Trump on twitter, the one that came after he endorsed him and started sucking his dick and felt like he actually forced him into a live conversation on twitter spaces.
>He was leading the conversation quite effectively, and he led Trump into this corner where he was asking REPEATEDLY if Trump would make a new area of the government.
>"So really we need to reduce our government spending, and I think we need a government spending commission"
>From the twitter spaces, Elon floats the idea of the government spending efficiency department and how much we need it. Then Trump starts rambling about gasoline. Again a few minutes later Elon comes back AGAIN to this government efficiency department thing.
>"So would you agree we need to take a look at government spending and have perhaps a government efficiency commission that makes the spending more efficient"
>Trump goes off on a tangent on to talk about jets and air force one and its paintjob etc etc etc.
>But then ELON AGAIN comes back to this efficiency department, literally DRAGGING Trump back again to the subject.
>"So again I just think it would be great to have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just shows that the tax payer money is spent in a good way. I'd be happy to help out with such a commission"
>Trump says "I'd love it, you well you're the greatest cutter. People go on strike and they are gone, theyre all gone".
>So Elon basically cornered Trump into this interview and then repeatedly brought up this new government department that he wants to run, managing to get Trump to agree to it.
>Then low and behold, september 5th
>"Trump pledges to tap Elon Musk to head government efficiency commission"
https://aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/trump-pledges-to-tap-elon-musk-to-head-government-efficiency-commission
>The Republican presidential candidate says the commission would audit the entire federal government and suggest ‘drastic reforms’.
Yeah yeah be funny if the imperial core collapsed because of this expanded circus fire and all that and lol accelerationism, but I also don't want me or my family to get poisoned from toxic waste from upstream so it's hard for me to cheer for that.
- Kristi noem rejected 69 million in federal funding because it was from democratswww.rawstory.com Kristi Noem urged to reconsider rejection of $69 million in federal funding
A statewide advocacy group has launched a petition urging Republican Gov. Kristi Noem to reconsider her rejection of nearly $69 million in federal energy rebates for South Dakotans. The national Home Energy Rebates program is funded with $9 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act. The program prov...
- Was Robinson trying to light a giant cross on fire?www.huffpost.com North Carolina Candidate Mark Robinson Hospitalized After Burn 'Incident': Reports
The Republican nominee for governor reportedly burned his hand while at a campaign event in Mount Airy.
- Can I repost this on the dunk tank to ask a question?
wtf is the different shades of red supposed to mean on this stupid map?
At first I thought it was conventional wars, but we literally invaded and occupied Haiti and the Dominican Republic and Panama and they are pink.
And why are Belgium, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria dark red?
The more I look at it the less I understand.
- 👏 Prosecuting 👏 Eric 👏 Adams 👏 is 👏 antisemitic 👏
https://archive.is/Q60Jk
An incredible (deranged Zionist) mind came up with this one. The whole thing is amazing and you should read it to learn how prosecuting the Adams administration will lead to literal pogroms in the streets of NYC, but here are some choice bits:
>That’s because being the mayor of a city as big and wealthy and fractious as New York City, which is the second home of pretty much every nationality and subnational group of people on earth, requires that you have working connections to the city’s neighborhoods. The city’s neighborhoods are run by people who get stuff done, which means that being mayor requires at least the pretense of doing favors for the people who do favors for you ... The alternative to this crude political math is to elect billionaires like Michael Bloomberg who are rich enough to bribe the city’s clashing interest groups into submission with their own personal funds.
>Prosecuting New York City mayors for their proximity to one form or another of local corruption is like prosecuting bartenders for their proximity to gin.
You can tell he was really proud of this bon mot
>What is not politically sensitive, though, is to string up New York City’s Black mayor on charges of minor graft, while letting the big fish swim free. That’s not justice. It’s lawfare—meaning, the weaponization of the law to serve a political agenda. > >And whose political agenda would that be? Well, the same people who see Eric Adams’ refusal to welcome unlimited numbers of migrants to New York at the cost of collapsing city services as a moral and political embarrassment, rather than as basic common sense. The same people who can’t stand the sight of a Black ex-cop who knows that the police protect the people far more often than they abuse their powers. The same people who think that preventing “Zionist Jews” from walking across campus or using the library at publicly funded universities like Columbia and NYU is a form of social justice work.
>But wait a minute, you may say—what if the accusations are true? What if Hizzoner did receive campaign funds from people close to the Turkish government in return for approving the Turkish Consulate in Manhattan, and illicitly accepted other contributions from people close to foreign governments? > >You’re right. I don’t know. But here’s what I do know: I know that Hunter Biden’s laptop
>Adams also struggled to fight crime as his party increasingly deemed the very act of policing inherently racist, and he stood for New York’s Jews as his party increasingly snuggled up to their pogromists. The federal government, which has the power to uphold laws and deport foreign students who support terrorism, say, or withdraw funding for universities that coddle antisemitic mobs, many of which appear to have direct links to the foreign terrorist organizations they support, did nothing. Mayor Adams, on the other hand, sprung to action as soon as he could, breaking down the Tentifada encampment at Columbia and repeatedly advocating a zero-tolerance approach to the Hamasniks in our streets.
>So because I don’t want to see the weapons of lawfare turned against the Jews; because I don’t want to live in a third-world swamp that prosecutes political enemies and rewards flunkies with impunity; and because I don’t want gangs targeting my wife in Central Park or on the subway or savages chanting “from the river to the sea” outside my children’s day school or my favorite kosher restaurant; because of all that and more, I stand with Mayor Eric L. Adams, a hero to Jews and New Yorkers. When he is reelected, thanks in part to the support of our community, and of all sane New Yorkers, I will proudly pass out squares of Turkish delight.
- bbc fact checkers jumping at shadows
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqjrq0ewj77o
Context https://xcancel.com/tshugart3/status/1813332364761968959
some amature sleuth paying for photos of Chinese ports #osint was sure its a submarine until it wasnt
another comrade had a better write up but I can't find it now
- Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti and Chris Hedges)
where were you when class politics was kill
- CIA getting real desperate out here.
Billboard article for some amazing context.:
> The guys arrived in Los Angeles from Israel to work on their debut album on Oct. 6, 2023
> The group is composed of... Sadik Dogosh, a Palestinian Bedouin Muslim from Rahat; Palestinian Christian Aseel Farah from Haifa...
A complete psyop.
I know Hasan had Dave 1 from Chromeo atleast a couple times, so that's a good Jewish-Arab music duo to listen to. Other than that, a Palestinian artist I found is Nemahsis through this Lorde cover she did to which Lorde said:
> I am so grateful for my Palestinian sister for reminding me why I make art – it speaks when I cannot.
Nemahsis was dropped from her label after October 7 so support her if you can.
Oh, also, I almost forgot. Macklemore did Hind's Halland recently released a sequel, Hind's Hall 2, featuring Palestinian artists. He was recently dropped from his Las Vegas show after he said Fuck America at a Seattle show.
Drop more awesome music recs for people to follow instead of this garbage psyop.
- 'Keir Starmer channels Thatcher with military photo op' - The Independent
This is from 2023 but somehow I've only just seen it... My first instinct was to look for Keith Stumer's Azov patch.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-military-photo-estonia-b2468597.html
- Alexandria Ocasio-Comprador capitalising on Marcellus Williams' state-sanctioned murder
Do you want to speak out against Marcellus' execution before it actually occurs? Do you think you might be able leverage your political influence to do something to stop it?
No? Okay, well maybe just grandstand and exploit his murder so you can gain clout instead.
>Liberals are opposed to every war except the current one, they are opposed to every execution except the pending one
- "If Eric Adams Steps Down, New York City’s Next Acting Mayor Will Be an "Anti-Israel" Critic"
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3550558
> cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43386174 > > > cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20222393 > > > > > Williams has condemned Israel’s defensive military operations in Gaza as a “war crime” and criticized the US Congress for inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak in July. > > > > > > Williams issued a statement on Oct. 11 of last year, four days after Oct. 7, lamenteing the attacks before calling not to retaliate and shifting attention to oppression of Palestinians. > > > > > > “We can, we have to be able to, at once grieve the hundreds of innocent lives taken in Israel, and oppose the escalating violence of retaliation, the endless war, the systemic violence and oppression of Palestinians too often ignored, excused, or condoned,” Williams wrote. > > Good, at least make Zionchuds seethe
- Trump warns hostile migrants have machine guns beyond 'military scope,' 'massive machine gun-type equipment.'www.newsweek.com Trump warns hostile migrants have machine guns beyond 'military scope'
The allegations are based on a widely-circulated video of alleged Venezuelan gang members armed with rifles and handguns.
- Starlink found on Russian attack drone.www.newsweek.com Ukraine discovers Starlink on downed Russian Shahed drone: Report
Iranian-designed Shahed-136 and the smaller versions of the attack drones have been a key tool in Moscow's arsenal.
- Using toxic masculinity to coerce votes for Harriswww.theguardian.com ‘Be a man and vote for a woman’: Kamala Harris’s unlikely edge in America’s masculinity election
Republicans are making anxiety around masculinity a key voting issue – but the Democratic nominee is hoping to turn it to her advantage
"Be a Man" and vote for our candidate!
- James Cameron is now persona non grata
https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1838581688017846328
- The public intellectuals at The Atlantic review Ta-Nehisi Coates' new bookwww.theatlantic.com The Problem With Moral Purity
In his new book, "The Message," Ta-Nehisi Coates sacrifices necessary complexity.
- A half hour history of how the Supreme Court stole the 2000 election which ends with a Harris endorsement (for the climate, y'see)
At no point in that half hour is any argument put forward to suggest that Harris will have good climate policy, or any climate policy.
- How uk foreign minister sees liberation
Kinda missed such wild assertion from friends of democracy.
(incredible that he has substack)
also lol at armenian government
- Javier Milei posted a cartoon of him and Elon Musk as superheroes in his Instagram account.
Evil supermen? thats so 2020's
- At NLR, we have ongoing disagreement over whether ‘genocide’ is the most accurate term for Israel’s carpet-bombing of Gaza.newleftreview.org Arielle Angel, Leaving Zion, NLR 148, July–August 2024
The rejection of Israel’s hegemony by a new generation of Jewish Americans—and their radical critique of its revenge war on Gaza—have altered the political-intellectual terrain in the US. Arielle Angel, editor in chief at Jewish Currents, discusses the journal’s role in this rupture with the Zionist...
Context: The italics are people from that rag asking questions and the print is the interviewee's response.
- Very cool, NPR. I'm sure there's no reason for an increased amount of Asian-American hate crimes
I didn't click the link because I don't want to give them views. Unlimited WHATABOUTISM replies when you point out the United States is currently dealing with Bird Flu, Listeria, and more covid variants because Americans won't mask, vaccinate, or quarantine.
- Antisemite @macklemore rapped about the "Resistance" aka Hamas, accused "motherf*ckers" (Jews) of "murdering little kids"
https://fxtwitter.com/thehoffather/status/1837715498416722301
- "E~L~O~N Says He’ll Take Your Whole Family to Mars, but Only If Donald Trump Wins." The bazinga key jangling is reaching potentially extinction burst levels here.www.vanityfair.com Elon Musk Says He’ll Take Your Whole Family to Mars, but Only If Donald Trump Wins
If Harris wins, no Mars trip because she’ll “doom humanity.”
His old standard bullshit has long been promising fever dreams of colonizing Mars and turning it into a stroad-laden suburb and country club with a red lens filter, which has gotten him billions in subsidies year after year and a devout cult of credulous rubes that think they're too smart to be fooled.
He's jangling those metaphorical keys hard right now, and I think it may be make or break as a gambit. Yeah yeah I know electoralism is a fuck and it's a choice between red MAGA and blue MAGA, but if it's blue MAGA I'll still enjoy seeing the single most obnoxious dipshit Reddit incarnate techbro manchild in the world eat shit.
