Tee hee!
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There. I like that sentence structure better.
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Donald Trump Just Doesn’t Know Where He Stands
FTFY
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I suspect he’s been acting ever since he was 3 or so.
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https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1869510057047801991
Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government.
The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t like it.
Will Republicans kiss the ring?
Billionaires must not be allowed to run our government.
(my bold accent added)
Love that Bernie is running with the President Musk thing. Still wish he been given the chance instead of Hilary. I’m betting he would have won.
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What? A bullet to the face? Are you fucking kidding me?!?! I’m well aware that MAGA has long ago agreed there are five lights (six, 17, none, whatever Trump wants), but have they really moved to the point where they think the rest of us are there too?
Actually, no, I know it doesn’t matter. I heard an interesting discussion on a community radio station out of Texas, of all places, yesterday. They were comparing MAGA messaging to improv theater. So much of it is sheer absurdism that often uses actual concerns to build a false narrative in order to panic their group (and gain some of those “moderates.”) Yes, they are saying things that are blatantly false to the people that care about such things!
For so many of those concerns, the group and even the general public, may not actually know much about the situations, but that just makes them easier to manipulate. We can expend a lot of energy trying to explain the lie, but the MAGA has already moved on to some other lie and frankly, the people that feel for it usually don’t care to hear about the truth because they’ve already been convinced that we’re the ones lying.
Immigrants are eating your pets! – Well, no, but some people, especially in small rural towns, are concerned or outright bigoted, and that kind of garbage has been urban legends for decades.
Schools are making your kids trans – Again, no, but your kids might be exposed to new ideas and concepts and may realize things about themselves that challenge their parents’ beliefs. (Similar to the idea that Covid numbers would have stopped going up if we’d stopped testing.)
So many examples …
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The MAGA person who used to work for me was a massive fan of pro wrestling. Trump is in the wrestling hall of fame. And pro wrestling is, spoiler alert, theatre but with athletes. It’s very obvious that MAGA is all about treating politics as a sport in that if they can’t win, no one can, rather than ‘for the common good’ and other such things I was taught the US was about in my youth.
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musk tweets/xitters his support for the heirs of the nazi party in Germany, the AfD
Outrage as Elon Musk claims ‘only AfD can save Germany’
German health minister calls US billionaire’s intervention weeks before election ‘undignified and problematic’
Elon Musk has caused outrage in Berlin after appearing to endorse the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland.
Musk, who has been named by Donald Trump to co-lead a commission aimed at reducing the size of the US federal government, wrote on his social media platform X: “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
He reposted a video by a German rightwing influencer, Naomi Seibt, who criticised Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative Christian Democrats who has the best chance of becoming the next German chancellor, and praised Javier Milei, the libertarian president of Argentina.
The German health minister, Karl Lauterbach, called Musk’s decision to wade into the German political debate weeks before the snap election “undignified and highly problematic”.
ah. it’s “undignified”. Well we can’t have a lack of dignity for those actually running the trump administration -sigh- How about that he’s clearly pro-fascist being the primary admission??
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i’m going to accept the passing of the bill to avoid a governmental shutdown as a win for the Democrats and a loss for muskrump. …perhaps mostly because i really need something not hideous from that zone.
Shutdown averted. The people win. musk and trump lose. For now.
Friday, December 20, 2024 at 3:16:52p PST
After all the drama of the week, as president-elect musk threw hissy-fits about the spending bill to keep the government running until March, the House easily approved the 3rd version of the moments ago. The Senate has 6 hours to vote on the bill and send it to Biden’s desk.The bill, which passed by a 366 to 34 vote with one member voting present, extends federal funds to mid-March, sends more than $100 billion in relief to farmers and natural disaster victims, and reauthorizes the sweeping agriculture policy and anti-poverty law called the farm bill.
More importantly, no debt ceiling change, as demanded by president-elect musk.
All Democratic members supported the bill, 34 republicans did not. …
and musk was all over the place on X ending up with a “yeah i meant them to pass it” shallow lie.
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Even better.
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Acting out, at least.
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Yeah, yeah. We’ve seen this dodge before.
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I can’t remember; was this the same guy who supposedly had copies of Trump using the n-word in outtakes from that TV show but refused to release them?
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Obviously idiotic, but also doesn’t conform at all to likely trump authorship. (“magnanimous gesture”? both spelled correctly? only one word all caps? “please be guided accordingly”? …unlikely)
pointless aside: if one had access to a large body of almost certain to be original trump ‘tweets’ i’d guess it would be trivial to write a fairly accurate probability_real_trump_blather() function with some LLM library calls [shrug]
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First, did Panama do something to annoy Trump lately?
Second, why does Truth Social still exist? Doesn’t “X” have all the fascist stuff covered now?
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I think it’s well understood that many (but not all) of TFG’s communications are written by literate fascists to be put out on his behalf.
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