Point taken. I wasn’t aware that he did that and it is indeed next-level disgusting.
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What struck me, sitting on my perch north of the border, was how often the word “fear” came up with T—p supporters. The authoritarians promise to reduce the risk that many people feel in ways that they, individually, feel powerless against; some of those risks are imaginary, but
8 times out of 10 it’s simple economic vulnerability.
I think there is a need for democratic forces to generate messages that, in turn, generate that visceral reaction that gets to people who have fewer resources and more social and economic vulnerability. They don’t have time to sit down and discuss policy, they are swamped and need simple answers; answers that are repeated loudly, in places where they are consuming messaging or entertainment in the first place, and accompanied by non-stop, punchy, one-line revelations about how evil the authoritarian side really is (the easy part).
(Many on this board have those 2 in 10 risks that are just as, or often more serious than simple economic vulnerability. The challenge remains in flipping that majority, without whom those other issues blow up at the same time.)
In some ways, it’s co-opting the messaging modes of religion, really. I don’t love that idea; I don’t have an alternative, at least one that I think will work.
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I fought with everything I had to get that man elected. I am appalled at how he walked away from those of us who carried him to where he is. I am now looking forward to voting against him at the earliest opportunity. What a heel turn.
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Oh FML…
It’s called fucking DOGE…
Also, is it JUST me or is it HEIGHT of stupidity to create a whole ass government department in order to cut whole ass government departments? They are literally creating more bureaucracy to “destroy bureaucracy”… granted, it’s stupid bureaucracy led by stupid men, but still… God, we are in the very wrongest trouser leg of time…
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Stand by for a shitload of dopey policies that revolve around 4/20 and 69 and other edgelord crap
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Trump voters on tiktok are EXTREMELY mad about the following:
- They just found out what tariffs are
- They just found out what denaturalization is
- They (particularly black and Hispanic trump voters) just found out that other trump voters are racist
- Leftists and liberals don’t want to be their friends (they are furious about this)
- Leftists keep telling them they hope they get what they voted for (they are really mad about this too)
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Maybe a good sign already for midterm voting?
I also saw somewhere that a trending Google search now is, “Can I change my vote?” 
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Definitely misses the forests for the trees. Guns and climate change are economic populist topics. Climate change destroys wealth, primarily for the 99%. Gun violence, likewise, destroys families, causes widespread economic harm, and pulls school resources away from education into otherwise useless time and energy.
If people want to be part of economic populism, they need to be open to listening to experts, otherwise it’s empty pageantry
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Etc.
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Trump gave him something that doesn’t exist and that he won’t spend time running.
Hopefully- he got a title- not a real job. And Trump is going to tire of him real quickly. That’ll be fun.
One small thing to look forward to. When Trump says Elon, be gone.
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He’s theoretically supposed to be running SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, the Musk Foundation, the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and who the hell knows what else in addition to co-raising his twelve children. Yet he apparently spends enough time playing video games to be one of the top 20 Diablo players in the world.
I assume he will take his new government position just as seriously as he takes his other responsibilities. Which is to say he’ll probably put in a token effort yet still find some incredibly stupid ways to screw it up.
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Apparently- he’s hanging out at Mar-a-lago full time now. Inserting himself into all the family social activities.
That’ll get old for Trump quick. Trump’s the least chill dude to hang with. And Elon’s a goofy, intrusive man boy
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That seems to be the take shared by people who are familiar with both men. No residence can handle two narcissists of that magnitude for long.
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Either that, or Trump in his progressing dementia starts to think Leon is one of his sons.
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Oh what if he dies before he kicks that illegal immigrant out? RFKJR/Musk/couchfucker!!!
Happily Vances owner Thiel hates Musk.
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Well it’s not like Trump has ever shown much affection for his actual sons.
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But Leon gives him lots of money instead of the other way round and might also share the ketamine.
Good boy!
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Maybe he’ll have a ketamine overdose at Mar-a-lago. That would be a hilarious obituary!
Though the staff probably carry narcan for Beavis and Butthead.
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