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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

fun fact: first-draft headline was "does Donny even know what day it is" and now I can't get the tune out of my head. and neither can you. you're welcome

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Read an article last year or so about Musk’s promised underground pod wonder he claimed would revolutionize Las Vegas. At the time, it was pretty much all hype and grandiose promises rather than any actual achievement. Just like he himself

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

it's hard to research if any state has actually bought into Elmo's fantasy because apparently there's at least one other company calling itself 'hyperloop' that has nothing to do with Elmo, I don't think

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/5-years-later-hyperloop-project-still-moving-forward-in-northeast-ohio

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Stephen Brady's avatar

And reflect, if you will, a stone tube underneath the most earthquake-prone state in North America running 400 miles. It is a guaranteed collapse.

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Dave Drell's avatar

The construction of this tube could possibly cause an earthquake.

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Remember that big quake in the Bay Area back in the late 80s? I saw pics of land shifts of 6-8’.

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Stephen Schiff's avatar

Have you done a search on "Boring Company"? It's skuM's tunneling outfit.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Yeah, that’s what the Las Vegas article was about. The Boring Company promised an extensive and revolutionary transit solution that at the time of the writing was way behind schedule and had only a very limited segment actually built.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I answered an ad for a Boring Mill Operator. They asked me if I had any experience. I said "That was my whole last job, all day long, just boring, boring, boring. I've been boring for years. My mom says she even found me boring as a kid."

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Bonnie Council's avatar

First (no, second) laugh of the day. Thank you! ;-)

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Them: “You’re hired!”

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Teri's avatar

😂😂

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Hannah Olufs's avatar

Perfect. 👏👏👏👏👏

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shee-rah's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Janan Broadbent's avatar

Appropriately named🤪

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Thx for the link. LV authorities fell for his grandiose bullshit

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Money talks and also BS walks with it.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

Maybe they can move them onto LDFF’s wall.

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Zija Pulp's avatar

I thought it was LoneSkum’s matchmaking biz.

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Keith E. Cooper's avatar

A prominent YouTuber called Thunderf00t has many videos about Musk's failures and the fact that the hyperloop won't ever work, if you're interested.

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Julie Morrison's avatar

Read that the CA high speed rail project, while being over budget and behind schedule, is being eagerly watched by countries like Japan that have great high speed rail. Apparently, it’s very good.

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TJTarheel's avatar

They started that over ten years ago. High speed rail in U. S. Yeah! Well no longer be behind every first world country in the transits department, after all should there be high speed rails criss crossing America already? Well better get to work but I know I won’t live to see it. You either drive or fly

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Linda Weide's avatar

This ties in with USAID being gone because Musk has a grudge with South Africa, and they get USAID. I really want him deported back there, because they know what to do with Afrikaaners. Or we could deport him back to Canada. They are also not likely to be kindly disposed towards Musk, known as our Acting President, as apposed to Trump who is the "official" president.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

it also ties in with Marco Rubio refusing to go to the upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa, because we're now ruled by overgrown grievance-babies who want to hone their decades-old grudges

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-top-diplomat-rubio-will-not-attend-g20-meet-south-africa-2025-02-06/

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

What?! Is he sending anyone? Some Secretary of State he turned out to be. I will now call him R, although I must say I never thought he would be a good one. I haven't looked this up, but were his parents immigrants? No birthright citizenship for him.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Unanimous consent on Rubio's confirmation. I have told my Senators what I thought of that vote - especially after his USAID lawlessness. Those same senators could do something about it, but they won't because he is a "dear colleague".

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

The senators are not good judges of character.

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Cathy Wray's avatar

They are fucking spineless.

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Teri's avatar

535 in House. 100 Senate. 635 could fit into GITMO prison with room for 29,365.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

More like he's so unpopular they wanted to get rid of him. Big FL AG (sugar, cattle an citrus) own him. Nobody lasts with the Donny Demento.

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Bill Corbett's avatar

His parents are Cuban and immigrated to the US in 1956. He's a fucking communist like Melania. Racists, communists, and just your general scum bag people running the country. Pile the maggots on there and you have one nasty rotting dish.

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longtimebirdwatcher's avatar

Thank you!!! But if his parents were immigrants, he doesn't have birthright citizenship, does he? Especially in Florida.

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Kate's avatar

Some prominent Cuban “leader” in floriduh is already getting shipped to guantanamo—gotta love it!

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Actually I think he does. He just doesn't think anyone else should.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

No, he's not sending anybody. It's not like his job is supposed to involve talking to anybody from other countries.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Where was leeddle marco born a donde Marco?

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Anna B's avatar

Born in Miami, FL.

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

He has a grudge with USAID because it helped end apartheid. That time.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Exactly!

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

He's homesick and wants to replicate the apartheid regime here.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

USAID was also investigating Starlink and Musk can't have that.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Also boosts China’s influence in the world which is good business for Musk.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Good point Linda…I’m curious which of the two connards has the nuclear codes?

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L Turner's avatar

I live in Canada. I don’t want him here.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I live in Vegas and I wouldn't ride in that mess if you paid me. Wait till the first major earthquake hits Vegas. BTW, Nevada is the 3rd highest state in the US for earthquakes. Most are not felt, although I've felt 2 of them since I moved here. Here is a sample of an article about this:

"Meanwhile, Boring has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas under public records laws.

In June, a Clark County official documented water spilling onto a public street from a Boring Company worksite near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The county issued a cease-and-desist letter. Credit:Clark County Public Works

It twice installed tunnels without permits to work on county property. State and local environmental regulators documented it dumping untreated water into storm drains and the sewer system. And, as local politicians were approving an extension of the system, Boring workers were filing complaints with the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration about “ankle-deep” water in the tunnels, muck spills and severe chemical burns. After an investigation, Nevada OSHA in 2023 fined the company more than $112,000. Boring disputed the regulators’ allegations and contested the violations.

The complaints have continued." This helps explain why he wants to get rid of OSHA. Never have seen anyone in my lifetime just do whatever he pleases, regardless of rules/laws. Disgusting. Can't believe that there's no one who can stop him.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

He's not an engineer, civil or otherwise. Duh. He's just a rich mucky-muck who thinks his money will buy him whatever he wants, laws and regulations be damned. The faster we get him out of our politics and out of our country, the better. He's downright dangerous, in a whole lot of ways.

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Steve Kelly's avatar

Muskolini needs to take his Swastikars and disappear.

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Teri's avatar

The toxic chemical dumping in Las Vegas into a water supply.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Like we have so much water to begin with :(

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Douglas's avatar

E & D two peas in a pod what with skirting pesky regulations!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

I’m saddened, shocked and disgusted that this is even possible Deborah! Who voted for this idiotic science fiction nightmare? Must be the same tosspots that voted for Musk’s co-presidency!!

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Lucy Guerlac's avatar

He’s doing the same to our country. Get him out!!

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Louise Pattison's avatar

Sounds almost as bad as the records of SpaceX and Tesla which are (were?) also under investigation for environmental, safety and labor violations.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Not any more. No more pesky investigations to annoy Apartheid Clyde.

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Cassandra Here's avatar

I read this and wondered aloud WTAF?

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Robin's avatar

This! Earthquakes!

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook Las Vegas and surrounding areas Friday morning, (2015) forcing loose a rubber casing on a bridge and leading state officials to close Spaghetti Bowl interchanges for several hours. That's not far from where the tunnel is to the Convention Center. And that's a pretty small earthquake. This tunnel idea is a Titanic disaster just waiting to happen.

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Teri's avatar

Deborah, is the LV tunnel system planned on transporting 2028 Olympics fans & athletes to big stadiums and arenas to handle overflow of events from LA, the official city for 2028? A friend in LV told me of these vague plans six months ago. I thought the tunnels were finished and work was furiously underway to link them up with transportation to and from Olympics venues in LA.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

It just Googled it and 7 tunnels are finished. I'll be honest - I haven't paid much attention to it because I never have any intention of riding in one and I rarely go to the Strip. It says proposed link with LA so that could take quite awhile. There is a high speed above ground rail train being built between Vegas and LA. I think the ground's been broken and it's in the median of I-15 South. They are supposed to have 68 tunnels here in all. Wait till disaster strikes. Not only does our ground majorly flood with hardly any rain, there's the earthquake worry I talked about yesterday. I can see disaster written all over this scheme because of how our city is built, earthquake issue, flooding and the total moron behind all of this. I'll take Uber thank you.

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Anne Whitney's avatar

Yes, same re California and the likelihood of disturbing a) farmland and b) the plates CA is gingerly set up on and would be better not to disturb. Tunneling in CA sounds stupid.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

It's the opening frames of every disaster-porn movie, greedy Millionaire builds inappropriate (whatever) against the advice of the experts, and skimps on construction causing said disaster.

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Cheryl ODonnell's avatar

I have a real concern about the integrity of any project he’s come up with on his own. Not only not viable, but certainly liable to explode with resulting death to many. The man is not brilliant.

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Linda Weide's avatar

He still cannot get his driverless cars to stop driving. What he and Trump are doing is stirring up hate around the world. I though the Ayatollah had a 1 mil price on DTs head because I had read that in Spy Talk, but then I looked it up to check, and Al Jazeera said it is 3 mil. Perhaps it went up. Also, this was an Iranian MP, so if we add the money together it is 4 mil. Of course Musk can cough up the protection money by offering would be assassin more money not to kill him. But, I am betting the price went up since DT said that he was going to turn Gaza into the Middle East Mediterranean with luxury beach front properties and other countries have to take the Gazans. After all they could have left on day one, but instead they stayed during the war, because that was the whole point.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

There's always a gofundme. The money we would have give the worthless Dem Committee could go to this. I laugh at the comment that he's left instructions AFTER HE DIES. LOL LOL LOL. If this whole thing wasn't so literally deadly serious, it's hilarious and no one would could have made it up. There is no one, literally no one, who will miss this man when the Jesus bus comes.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Poor Melania. She would have fewer grifting opportunities, although she is so set now that might not matter. I would be curious to see if she wore that same hat and outfit at Donald's funeral that she was wearing at his inauguration.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

She's another waste of oxygen. I no longer feel bad for her being with him. She is as bad as him, only in a prettier package.

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KMD's avatar
Feb 6Edited

If you haven't read Carl Haaisen's hilarious novel " Squeeze Me", do yourself a favor & buy it as a Valentine gift to yourself. His descriptions of Melania & her tryst with a secret service agent , along with her utter contempt for Trump are pitch perfect.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

I second that recommend. The book gave me much joy that I needed.

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Maui Wahine's avatar

Thanks for the book review, just got it on Kindle for $5.

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Munchygut's avatar

Prettier, but not aging well.

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Cathy Wray's avatar

prettier if you like plastic.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

True. She looked rode hard and put away wet recently.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

True dat Munch, compared to that rotting sack of lab meat!!

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Sheri's avatar

I thought the same. Showing her age….oh, too bad.

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Prettier? Botox does not let her smile and much more and she won't even be able to see!

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Morgan's avatar

Hehehe 😂 thank you Mary I really needed that today!

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Much surgically altered and enhanced

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Randy Woodall's avatar

Maybe she'll wear it with her "I don't care, do you?" jacket.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

Third laugh of the day! Thank you!

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Mary Greenwald's avatar

Do you really think she would go to Donny's funeral? Why would she?

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Yeah, high heels don't do well on the golf course.

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arne link's avatar

To spit on his remains?

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Marla's avatar

Someone should inform Iran that Orange is planning to attend the SuperBowl in New Orleans. Just sayin'

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Remember that movie years ago - Black Sunday? I just looked it up and yikes, that was 48 years ago. I must have been still in diapers lol. Actually, my middle son was born in '77. It's about terrorism at the Super Bowl.

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Rick Calegari's avatar

In the meantime, Rep. Al Green of Texas is filing new articles of impeachment against demented Donnie for his proposed takeover of Gaza. It's beyond believe that anyone in the Oval Office would even suggest such a barbaric and disastrous plan that would displace approximately two million Palestinians so he could attempt to further line his slimy pockets. With congressional Republicans still on board with cracker farm candidate Dump and his usual wacky bullshit, this isn't going to go anywhere. However, there are currently 23 lawsuits that have been filed against Elno Smuk and his bought and paid for felonious sidekick is up to 4,095 with more on the horizon.

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Linda Weide's avatar

However, many are suggesting Donnie blurted out his son-in-laws Gaza plan without any support from his staff or Republicans, who are now walking it back, but it was probably a mainly a distraction from what Musk is doing, which it did not succeed in doing here. Perhaps in the rest of the world, which is now permanently angered at the US.

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Derek Smith's avatar

Yes. He’s dangling a shiny object to distract our attention, and the legacy media is lapping it up

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Bonnie Council's avatar

I've been thinking that - Musk does shit to distract us from what trump is doing, and trump says shit to distract us from what Musk is doing. I'd say we're being played.

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Linda Weide's avatar

And I am worried about Musk shutting down both legacy and independent media ala Hungary.

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Anne Whitney's avatar

Idk I heard this nonsense on the radio this am that Rubio was clarifying Palestinians are being rounded up and removed temporarily. Rounded up at all is of course the problem, any rounding up should not be happening but sounded like it is??? Can anyone fact check me please?

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Linda Weide's avatar

Anne, which radio station did you hear that on? Here is the PBS discussion.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-rubio-holds-news-briefing-with-dominican-president-luis-abinader

It sounds like Rubio is trying to twist the meaning of Trump's words, by pretending that what Trump said was only a plan to temporarily remove them. They had them living in tents, I assume people can live in tents while they rubble is being cleared and their homes rebuilt. Wonder if Trump intends the military to do the clean up work.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

He’s already said he is sending on the military to clean up all the unexploded munitions- bombs supplied by us that Israel dropped.

Fat Ass doesn’t want to pay to prepare his building sites. He wants Us to pay.

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Teri's avatar

Linda, Tesla's are causing death, destruction and injuries too. In a NY or NJ tunnel, a Tesla's suddenly braked hard, causing a major pile up over a holiday weekend. Not the first report of this malfunction. So, no worries at Tesla, Elump has lots of time to play at being POTUS.

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Linda Weide's avatar

So I have been reading about the dangers of Teslas for years. Years ago we made the decision that we would never support a Musk business because he has always been this odious. In fact, I talked a friend of mine here in Germany into getting rid of his. Now, Teslas are so unpopular he sold his and got a Chinese e-car. It would be bad for his business to drive one. I had been sending him Tesla recall emails every time I got them. Wishing Germany would shut his Tesla factory down. Then the German government could call for a boycott on Tesla just like Poland has.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Arab nation is offering a huge bonus on the 2 for 1 after Trump’s idiotic comments Linda!!

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

Wasn’t part of the horror the fact that they couldn’t leave Gaza? Only on the southern bridge when it was sometimes opened?

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Linda Weide's avatar

Yes, but countries in region did not accept them as refugees because they knew that it would make it too easy for Israel just to move them all out.

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Janet Friel's avatar

Are they taking contributions?

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T L Mills's avatar

We can hope, I guess.

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arne link's avatar

Insh Allah (sp?)

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Munchygut's avatar

He pitched it to Chicago to replace the L between O'Hare and downtown. Took the powers that be about 20 minutes to reject it.

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vorpal's avatar

putting the 'hype' in hyperloop

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Anne Whitney's avatar

Musk is not an engineer. Surprise. He took control of a company for whom he could not work as an engineer. Haven't his investors, including the US gvmt, ever thought twice about that? It strains credulity.

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Cassandra Here's avatar

I was just coming here to say that — really really late, but we Reno folks had a good laugh.

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

And the"loopy" in "loop"

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I never hear anyone in Vegas mention those tunnels. But we live here so we have cars or other forms of transportation.

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Kay-El's avatar

Love The Who. I can live with it.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Good catch.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Where is Melania these days? Asking for a friend.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I really don’t care. Do U?

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Joanne Filipo's avatar

Not one little bit.

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Karen Hall's avatar

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

She went back to her Tiffany's security boyfriend in the Trump Tower, probably. Or maybe she's adding 6 more feet to her hair extensions or more fillers/botox.

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David Skoglund's avatar

She got $40 million from Bezos, so she don’t need Mango anymore!

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Teri's avatar

$40 millíon isn't a lot when your 1000 pair of heels cost $$10 grand each. Designers probably flood her with free clothes. She's what 50? Poor Mel, the rich old man keeps on living. Using HER money!

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Ole Anderson's avatar

I’ll bet her eyes squinch shut another millimeter every time she thinks about that.

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Adam Electro's avatar

I don't think Donny knows who Jesus was or what prayin' is. For one, he probably thinks Jesus is an undocumented person from Mexico, and secondly -- even though Republican'ts are notorious for dispensing "thoughts and prayers" like clockwork, I can't recall Dotard Donny ever having done so.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

You suffer for your readers. Chicago ear worms. How dare those horn tooting fux steal a Petula Clark song title? “Color My World” is taken!

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Oh, wait, Tommy not “Dies Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?”

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Carl Babcock's avatar

My mind went to Chicago, too, and I'm sure it will now be there all day

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Thanks for the clarification. NOW I can hear the line in my head - probably for all day! ("Christmas")

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Been booked all day, glanced at The Who and Chicago Transit Authority (their original name) references? What was the reference I missed Richard?

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

The photo caption of today’s illustration

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Douglas's avatar

Chris (the drama queen) Cizzilla just wrote a breathtaking video on his substance about how D could POSSIBLY keep up his breakneck pace of last 2 weeks, ....46 EOs!!!! Speeches!!!! Destroying the Fed. Govt!!!! (he didn't mention that, forgive me)......Chris is a fanboy of Donny. Get on the bandwagon Jeff! 😅🤣😂

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

Chris Cilliza is the opposite of journalism

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T L Mills's avatar

Very true...he had a few anti-Donnie months...and his "Sir alerts" were pretty funny. I had subscribed to his Substack...but then he began cranking rightwards like the stupid Trumpist he truly is, so I canceled out.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

He is a Trump whore, and not even an honest one.

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Douglas's avatar

Yes Doug DOES know how to spell Cillizza.....gotta check cells IA.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂😂

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Thanks, Jeff. Just what a need...another wormhole in my ADHD brain.

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Abigail Norling's avatar

Hahahaha! Does Donny even care? :-D

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

If so, I can’t imagine why

we've all got time enough to die

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KMD's avatar

I'll be humming that song all day, now!

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MountainBoyMike's avatar

well, at least it's a good tune!

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody even care?

(It is, of course, 25 or 6 to 4)

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Malcolm's avatar

I think you meant to write, "78-year-old man who can NO longer..."

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Kate's avatar

Fukin’ perfect lyrics too…

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