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  #3378268 30-May-2025 13:16
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SaltyNZ:

 

Heh, more than outweighed by the Swasticar effect, I would think.

 

 

https://www.thebulwark.com/i/164720767/quick-hits

 

MUSK YOU GO?: Elon Musk is officially ending his time at DOGE, with his brand tarnished and his companies struggling in the aftermath. In reality, Musk has been gradually stepping away from politics for weeks. And it’s clear that he’s disappointed, as he has been trashing Republicans for days now for passing a budget bill that doesn’t codify DOGE cuts. But like a fired employee raiding the supply closet one last time, Musk has been sure to try and get whatever goodies he can on his way out the door. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that he tried to block a deal by rival artificial intelligence company OpenAI to build a data center in Abu Dhabi unless it included his own AI startup. He was unsuccessful.

 

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  #3378272 30-May-2025 13:32
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From a year ago, they need to get a version of this, and one of Musk, in Washington DC

There's a chance Trump could have a intracerebral hemorrhage when he sees it (God forbid)

33-foot-tall 'Trump Chicken' resurrected to greet Donald Trump during SF campaign fundraiser visit

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  #3378278 30-May-2025 15:13
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Hand over your badge, chainsaw, and the social security data you downloaded

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  #3379343 31-May-2025 07:55
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For your Saturday morning...

 

 

^ "so much winning"

 

 

^ (so much for the Russia-Ukraine war being resolved "within 24 hours") 🙄

 

 

^ the orange buffoon haunted by ghosts from his past (failed) business ventures, although I don't think he cares

 

 

^ I heard about this earlier this week - good on that reporter for calling him out like that! If only more would do it...

 

(in case you missed it: https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/trump-taco-trade-tariffs )

 

 

^ it would hilarious if this was an actual menu at Maralago - but he wouldn't allow it 😀

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  #3379413 31-May-2025 13:36
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Harsh/accurate:

 

 

 

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  #3379518 31-May-2025 22:14
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Historian Timothy Snyder explains the enormous impact of the Trump administration on American universities and academic institutions:

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  #3379536 1-Jun-2025 09:33
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Two stories about Amazon's billionaire Jeff Bezos and Washington Post.

Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?: New Yorker
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Jjust before the 2016 Presidential election, Bezos said that Trump’s calls for retribution and his unwillingness to concede defeat “erodes our democracy around the edges.”

But, in the weeks before the 2024 election, Bezos didn’t allow the Post to endorse a Presidential candidate—the editors had planned to back Kamala Harris—breaking with the paper’s long-standing tradition.

After the election, he attended Trump’s Inauguration, to which his company donated a million dollars.

Days before the Kennedy Center screening, Bezos announced another major shift at the paper. The Opinions section would feature pieces “in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” and “viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”

In the days of [1972 Watergate] Woodward and Bernstein, the Post’s remit had seemed clear: to hold the nation’s most powerful officials to account.

Now its journalists were shaken not just by what some saw as Bezos’s capitulation to Trump but by a broader identity crisis at the paper. Those who could find work elsewhere left. In January, a former executive editor, Leonard Downie, Jr., and a former managing editor, Robert Kaiser, wrote in an e-mail to Bezos, “In our experience going back to the early 1960s, morale at The Post has never been lower.” Bezos never replied.
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How Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post forgot its Martyr—as Trump embraced his killer: Daily Beast

Trump paid homage to the man who ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. But the columnist’s own paper barely noticed.

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  #3379677 1-Jun-2025 15:22
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Obviously both AI generated, but still quite clever 😀:

 

 

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  #3379745 2-Jun-2025 09:45
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Ronald Reagan did not have any infrastructure, buildings, or landmarks officially named after him while he was serving as president (1981–1989).

Naming public infrastructure after sitting presidents is extremely rare, primarily due to having some class. In other words, only the most corrupt and irredeemable brown-nosers would bestow such honors on living or active political figures, especially while they’re still in office.

Regarding trains, just like fire trucks and women, Trump loves 'em, but doesn't support 'em. Trump's 2018 budget proposed a nearly 13% reduction in rail funding.

This year, Trump rescinded federal approval for New York City's congestion pricing program, which aimed to reduce traffic and fund transit improvements. A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump's efforts.

Republican bill would force the US capital, District of Columbia,. to call its Metro the "Trump Train": Axios

A House Republican introduced legislation to block federal funding for the Washington, D.C., Metrorail system unless it is renamed the "Trump Train."

Why it matters: The bill is likely a long shot, but it is the latest in a series of GOP measures geared primarily toward displaying fealty to President Trump.

The House passed a tax bill last week that would institute $1,000 savings accounts for newborns. Initially called "MAGA Accounts," they were changed at the last minute to "Trump Accounts."

Lawmakers have also proposed bills to rename Dulles Airport after Trump, put him on the $100 bill and allow him to run for a third term.

Driving the news: Rep. Greg Steube's (R-Fla.) Make Autorail Great Again Act threatens to withhold more than $150 million in annual federal grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

To receive the funding, the system would have to be renamed to the Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access (WMAGA) — a play on Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.

D.C. would also have to refer to its Metrorail system as the "Trump Train," another one of Trump's oft-used slogans.

What he's saying: Steube said in a statement that the bill "demands accountability by conditioning federal funding on reforms that signal a cultural shift away from bureaucratic stagnation toward public-facing excellence and patriotism."

WMATA, he argued, needs "a fresh identity that aligns with efficiency, service quality, and renewed public trust."
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  #3379781 2-Jun-2025 11:50
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Right, so there's a cost-of-living crisis (which the orange buffoon promised to tackle starting "from day 1") and this idiot thinks this is the kind of crap that people are interested in? 🙄

 

I hope his bill goes absolutely nowhere (as it should).

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  #3379791 2-Jun-2025 12:20
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I hate to repeat myself:

 

When his back is economicslly against the wall, he goes to war, just as America did in the last two world wars (it wasn't just the liberation of the world from the Nazis). With the ‘problem’ of Canada and/or Greenland, this convicted lump will find a justification for it.

 

 




     

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  #3379991 2-Jun-2025 20:41
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https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/unhinged-elephant-in-the-room-jim-acosta-warns-trump-is-spiraling-further-into-incoherency/ar-AA1FSRGX?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=f34d522138ed4950af04b1cc8dbef94c&ei=41

 

As per journalist Jim Acosta: "Consider Trump’s latest excursion into the cringey realm of make believe - his Truth Social “retruth” amplifying the astonishingly nutty conspiracy theory that Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced with a clone. 'Oh stop Jim,' you say? Read for yourself," he wrote.

 

Acosta raised a question: if the so-called deep state really intended to replace Biden with a double, wouldn’t they choose someone younger?

 

When/where did he write that one? I must have missed it...but if the orange buffoon actually said this, it sure is...out there.

 

I also note that the official covid19.org US Government website about coronavirus has been updated(?) to include some story about the "Wuhan lab leak" theory (where to get masks? where to get vaccinated?).

 

Sigh 🙄

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  #3379996 2-Jun-2025 21:28
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RFK cancels evidence based federal guidance for covid19 vaccination. Local health officials try to cover the gaps

KLCC: Lane County Public Health Officer responds to RFK Jr. dropping COVID vaccine guidance for kids, pregnant women

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced plans to drop recommendations for pregnant women and healthy children to get COVID-19 vaccines. The decision has Lane County’s Senior Public Health Officer noting some discrepancies.

Dr. Patrick Luedtke said the vaccine decision made by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., conflicts with what the Food and Drug Administration data show. “The available science we have hasn’t changed in the last 6 to 12 months," Luedtke said. "We know that pregnant women who become sick with COVID are at significantly high risk of severe disease including death. We also know the baby can suffer.”

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  #3380049 3-Jun-2025 09:07
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So Trump re-posted an article from the Babylon Bee as fact.

The Babylon Bee is a parody or satirical website. It publishes humorous, fictional articles that imitate real news stories, often with a focus on politics, culture, and religion—especially from a conservative Christian perspective.

“Nation’s Poor Gather to Hear Billionaire Lecture Them on Eating Bugs to Save the Planet”

“CNN Hires 4-Year-Old To Fact-Check Satirical Articles From Babylon Bee”

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  #3380193 3-Jun-2025 15:12
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Late Night with Seth Meyers: A Closer Look

Musk Backs Away from Trump After DOGE Failure;

Trump Shares Insane Biden Clone Theory

"Seth takes a closer look at President Trump reposting a far-right conspiracy theory that former President Biden was executed five years ago and is a robotically engineered clone, The New York Times reporting that Elon Musk was engaged in increasingly intense drug use during the Trump campaign and more."

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