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Assumes facts not in evidence.
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Very true… And the follow up skeet said it was “meant to be a metaphor” but we all know how right wing types love to obsess over gold.
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I say this not to defend the shithead, but to focus our energy. The headline is misleading: he was using the gold bars as a metaphor.
According to him, a climate group affiliated with Stacey Abrams received $2B in funding.
Not giving the link, not searching.
A ground.news search shows about 40 outlets carrying the story, all of them right-leaning, all of them “Mixed Factuality” at best.
Snopes says “A mixture of true and false”. The funding wasn’t a secret, and two different organizations are claiming to have discovered it: DOGE and the now-MAGAfied EPA.
This is timely:
Claims online say the $2 billion grant for Power Forward Communities was discovered by DOGE. However, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Feb. 13 that his team discovered the funding.
because a few hours ago I posted this about the history of Nazi Germany.
ETA: whoops, it’s in this same thread, just a few posts above. Repeating it here anyway.
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A metaphor is also supposed to, you know, represent something in a way that humans can understand. I feel like a lot of right wing types think it means “something that isn’t true but you don’t want called a lie”.
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There’s a whole lot of speculating in that Bluesky thread. Everything from not eating his veggies to dementia meds.
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Those are tiny fingers, aren’t they?
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Sausage fingers. He seems to have lost quite a bit of weight over the past year, yet his fingers look chonkier than ever.
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How about he holds his breath until everyone complies?
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Apparently this is an official account being used to combat their idea of fake news.
But it keeps contradicting itself. First it says the department of defense job is to do what the the president says to do and then they flat out refuse an order by the president.
So it looks like Hegseth just declared musk does not speak for the president or Hegseth is refusing to faithfully execute orders of the president.
Some serious does not compute stuff.
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It could be an infiltrated IV, but in a frail elderly guy like thst it could just as easily be a minor injury and fragile veins. I would focus on the “frail and elderly” part and not fret about the etiology much.
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Well Musk is now saying it was all a ruse to see if federal employees knew how to send an email. He’s so full of shit.
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That also seems like another way to imply that federal workers are generally incompetent (they probably can’t even send emails!), and thus worthy of firing. And thus, another insult. I don’t think Mosk realizes how powerful hornets can be when you go around kicking their nests.
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I maintain it was just the first of many stupid “tests” to instill automatic, mindless obedience.
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Probably. I’m just amazed that after it blew up in his face, with multiple cabinet members and other department heads telling their employees to ignore it, he’s trying the old “Psych! It was just a test. I didn’t mean it literally” defense. I don’t think anyone’s buying that explanation.
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