For Trump? The guy who famously hung out with Jeffrey Epstein? The guy who publicly bragged about running the Miss USA pageant so he could walk into the dressing room to look at under-aged girls naked?
I just can’t imagine Trump being accused of something that a) his followers even care about, but b) if they did care, that they’d believe it, whatever the evidence, because they have absolutely no problem simply denying things Trump has said and done, in public, on the public record, captured on video.
It strikes me that past Abigail kind wasn’t harsh enough in her analysis? I wonder if she did an update to this, what would she change with regards to her analysis of Musk, given current events.
I mean, “I created a situation where I could walk in on naked, under-aged girls for my sexual pleasure” seems pretty indicative, but at the very least it means that any physical abuse that came to light couldn’t exactly be called a surprise. (Especially given his bragging about sexual assaults on women.) I fear a lot of MAGAts are fine with it*, and the ones that aren’t fine either rationalize away as “well, all men are like that” (that would be my aunt), or refuse to accept it.
*In fact, I’d say that for a good chunk of his supporters, the worse Trump’s behavior, the better - Trump gets away with stuff, and they like that about him.
Yeah, even when we find the things that Trump supporters actually object to, they have an amazing ability to deny the reality of it. “Trump did X!” Fake news! “He did it on video!” Fake video! “He got convicted of doing it, in a court of law, where there was copious evidence!” It was a witch-hunt!
As has been pointed out elsewhere, since Elno talks in a strange human-like gobbledy-gook, it’s hard to know exactly what he meant.
One possible answer to the “150 year olds” is a quirk of the date handling implementation. It doesn’t even mean an old record, it means “null” in database parlance and “we don’t know” in normal-human speech.
You could have a brand-new record with a 150 year old, and someone familiar with the software wouldn’t bat an eye. “Ah, we don’t have their birthdate on file.”
It’s more than that - Elno doesn’t understand anything of what he’s looking at. The numbers he released involved five times more people than are actually receiving social security payments. Which means there are a bunch of people on his list with undefined ages (who thanks to the cobol issue show up as being 150), but also a whole lot more people who are, in fact, dead and not getting money, and he’s mixed them up with current social security recipients. (And here the line between ignorance and dishonesty on Musk’s part becomes blurred.)
Yeah, there’s no honest ignorance here, it’s not just indistinguishable, it’s all very much part of the whole Trumpian disregard for “facts” and “truth” in favor of bullshit.
Such as deceased spouses for married couples where one spouse worked and the other was a homemaker all their life and now lives off the dead spouses benefits; or for orphans receiving their deceased parents’ benefits; or, you know, for statistical purposes to understand trends, or for historical purposes, or make calculations, or for any number of reasons why you would want to keep a hold of data.
Stupid or malicious or maliciously stupid doesn’t matter at this point anymore.
