Well since Tesla is down 71% for its earnings report, and I dont think that Tesla will ever recover from it, You cant possibly be wrong Jeff. And yes, I completely agree that Musk and his obtusimus prime robots are bullshit, and another lie. But even still deeper than that, is Donny McShitsHisPants approval rating continuing to toilet.
Keep doing the hard work Jeff. I aspire to your expressions.
It makes me sick what they are doing to LGBTQ+ youth. For God’s sake (oh that’s right…they don’t believe in God…just pretend too) We need to get these jerks out of office! And JKRowling….BLAH!!!!!
Like when a ship develops a leak, it does not register immediately. It takes time for the leak to be found, then a plan to fix it, and then the fixing. I would love to know what you think the Dems should be doing. I am at a loss, since assassinations are illegal.
Democrats have been using that excuse to do nothing for the last forty-five years. I didn't believe it then, and I sure don't believe it now.
I loathe the Republican Party, but one thing they're excellent at is being activist—which too many people mistake for "principled". If the Democratic Party pushed legislation that supported the working and middle classes (higher tax rates for billionaires, a single-payer option for those still not covered by the ACA and those who would choose that over privatized profit-driven healthcare, pro-choice nationally, marriage equality and trans rights, tuition-free higher education, repairing the torn-to-shreds social safety net), it wouldn't matter if they lost AT FIRST, because voters would see they were standing by what they claim to believe in, rather than using that as an excuse to blackmail us into sending them money for doing nothing!
You're not "waiting for the leak to reveal itself"—you're standing on the deck of a boat that's already underwater debating if you could do something!
JK Rowling turns my stomach over. She really does. And the continued harm to Queer persons, even queer youth, that she has committed is something that I dont think she will ever get past....not that she fucking cares.
As The Daily Blast's podcast Mina Stein succinctly pointed out, JK's hypocrisy is stunning. Her issues with the LGBTQ+ community is ridiculous when her most famous novel series discusses in detail the racism within the magic user community and the destructive power of prejudice. But JK can't see that she has identical lack of tolerance issues in real life.
I never liked the Harry Potter series for any reason other than it got my students reading. Given that there is a scarcity of female main characters in books, you would think the single mother of a girl could have made a girl the primary character. Also, the two books I recognized her as borrowing from, The Witches by Roald Dahl https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780241578179/the-witches/used
are way, way better. So, although I forced myself to slog through 2.5 of the books because I wanted to know what my students were reading, I am not a fan of the books or the author long before her transphobic controversy.
For what it's worth I never read a single Harry Potter book, owned any Harry Potter merch, watched any movie, preview, poster, or listened to any music, if there were any. I'm pretty pleased about that.
Me neither. I teach English Lit and Comp, but was never tempted to read Harry Potter anything. I did read her adult crime fiction though, and it was alright.
I grew up in the 50s, spent a lot of time reading. I felt the thrill of a new Wizard of Oz book, and later Nancy Drew. In an effort to inspire reading in my grandchildren, I often read what I bought for them. When I read the first Harry Potter book I experienced the same joy that I got from Oz books.
You lead with a non sequitur something something about LGBTQ youth. You are part of the problem of Why we lost all three branches of government this election.
People are exhausted by this being the top issue for Democrats and here you come out of the blue complaining yet again and totally out of context.
Can’t you just drop it for a minute? Are things really that bad for these folks? I don’t think they are.
All I know is that most people are more concerned with issues affecting their own continued existence. And I imagine a majority of LGBTQ people have the same concerns these days.
Thank you Jeff, as a trans woman who consistently deals with the kind of abuse and harm that makes is "That bad for these folks?", I think Ole's comment is mean to inflame, but that is maybe just my sensitivity talk.
I have personally known 4 trans individuals, three patients and one family member. I cannot imagine the difficulty of trying to find their identity and their place in the world, a world in which many not only do not accept them but actively persecute them, for something so deeply personal and let's face it, of little to no consequence to anyone else. They deserve privacy and the same human dignity owed to all. They exhibit tremendous courage and fortitude to pursue their own happiness and self acceptance. Hateful bigots should work on themselves, not worry about others.
Cool, continue to not believe it, despite all evidence to the contrary. You even have TWO people from the community speaking out, yet you refuse to listen.
Assuming you're not just trolling: citation needed for it being the "top issue for democrats." Their most recent presidential candidate was pretty mealy mouthed about it, at most.
You know who does make it a top issue, all the time? Republicans. You may support distancing or throwing LGBTQ+ people under the bus because the media and opposition won't stop bringing it up, but others don't. And it seems very naive to think there aren't objectively harmful policies being supported or implemented to harm LGBTQ+ people, right now. I'm glad you're in a position to not be troubled by that, but try to empathize with those who are not.
“Why we lost all three branches of government this election.” You mean due to the outrageous and vile anti-trans campaign dished out by the right to the tune of a few hundred million dollars while Democrats barely acknowledged the trans community at all, even when pressed on the subject.
My son volunteers for the Trevor Project…taking calls from suicidal youth. I don’t think that is a good thing, but hey-if you do…. No one said it was a top issue for Dems….and obviously-the same concerns are what affects LGBTQ folks.
What I have seen was the Democratic Congress bending over backwards to criminalize any discrimination against this group in a manner not seen since the Civil Rights campaign of the 60’s.
Yet it is Never enough!
What atrocities are being committed against this group which I may be unaware of?
Ole, mon Amie, I think you might have just stepped in it, the vitriol on Jeff’s site is usually directed at the fuckery of a corrupt system of governance, and it’s abuse of we the serfs!!
FYYFF! what the hell are you even talking about?? is it bad for the LGBTQIA+ people?? YES IT IS!! jesus are you freaking oblivious?? do you know no gay people?? I have two trans kids and goddamn shit is bad and scary! just because this doesn't affect you doesn't make it unimportant. let's hope no one comes after you because who will be there for you! jesus!
You mean transpersons? Yes—yes, they are, and they always HAVE been.
For every step forward, "Liberals" like you push them four steps back into the closet, saying "Now isn't the time!"
Okay, when WILL be the right time? When you're dead and buried and no longer have to face any challenge whatsoever to your sense of CisHet Privilege head-on?
Every time I see a post referring to "LGBTQ+," I know that person at best doesn't get it, or at worst is not my ally. "LGBTQ" is a male-dominated coalition. Having come out as an L in the mid-70s, I've seen feminism become straighter and straighter and lesbians, who were a major force in grassroots feminism of the late '60s and well into the '80s, disappeared into "LGBTQ+." While we're at it, "gender" has been conflated with "sex," and people actually go around thinking that gender is binary and/or innate. It sometimes feels like we're back in the 1950s. I don't agree with JK Rowling on everything, but she gets it in a way that too liberals and progressives don't.
The use in a public square with old Liberté, égalité, fraternité, guillotine worked wonders for correcting the corruption, I’d applaud the head in a bucket approach in today’s epoch Tess!!
OK, so maybe when Musk was attending to his day job, he was a really good CEO who made all the right decisions for his company. It could happen. But Musk made himself the face of Tesla, and then he ran DOGE, and engaged in gleeful cruelty and a level of lying second only to Trump. So now the "face of Tesla" is seen everywhere as a horrible person. I don't think Musk's purported management smarts are going to be enough to right the company.
It won’t last and the only reason is because Wall Street is corrupt with insider trading. Bessent, the billionaire Tres. Sec’y, had a secret meeting with bankers and fund mgrs announcing tariffs would be scaled back. Well, lo and behold, the markets went from deep red to green! Talk about manipulation…
My friend in Wisconsin had been on Elon’s Starlink because his local cable provider’s Internet was piss-poor. Now he switched from Starlink to a cell tower-based service from TMobile, and his internet is twice as fast as Starlink at half the cost.
So there’s another business Elon is ruining, as his space-detritus pollutes low Earth orbit making space travel dangerous.
Elon is yet another toxic billionnaire with a reverse-Midas touch.
Rupert Murdoch, Donald tRump, Elon Musk. I just can’t figure out who’s Moe, who’s Larry and who’s Curly.
TRump wants to give FElon Musk the contract for Starlink to provide all government Internet access and security, which Verizon has been providing since 2023. That should scare everyone who understands what FElon wants to do - steal our personal information and government secrets for personal gain...
Musk is attempting to destroy all competition, while filching every government contract available. He’s teamed with members of the PayPal mafia to secure all federal money payments, including Social Security,,he’s a true Robber Barron!!
None of the above. Moe, Larry and Curly are slapstick icons who would've never done any of the shit that these bozos have pulled. Also, those three turds aren't funny and never will be. Dump's ongoing air weasel slapping dance and Smuk's Ketamine-fueled silverware fondling says a lot about who's in charge.
Instead of slapping tariffs on imports, we should be slapping a hefty “costly externalities tax” on sales of products like Starlink that cause the world (and Earth orbit) to be filled with junk that will need to be cleaned up later, at great cost to the public
So who is taking bets on the success of new Musk ventures? Who is going to buy all those Swastikars backed up at his dealerships and at the factory? I would bet Melon has a hard time with his business models now... Especially the bringing in money part.
He has already done that. Taking a Biden era requisition for $40 million worth of electric vehicles for the State Department and morphing it Into a $440 Million contract for Tesla only electric vehicles for the Defense Dept.
Not only are they fake, but a lot of his X followers are fake too. I got that from watching a discussion of research on Elon Musk's attempts to influence the German election. Here is a piece I wrote on it.
WOW, Linda! Kudos to the professor who discovered Elon’s diabolical plans at manipulating bots! Pretty certain he did that same thing in swing states too. I hope there are smart people investigating this here in the US. Sooo glad AfD did not get their candidate in!
Me too Marlene. As you can see from what I reported, she could not prove causality of the votes, but did point out a correlation between the ones with the most social media action and the most increase in youth votes.
The Digital Services Act allows supports this sort of research. We should be asking people in the US Congress to support such legislation in the US. It makes deceitful influence illegal by social media platforms. This summer we will find out what kind of fine Musk gets.
Yes, Patrick, our efforts at protesting haven’t been wasted at all! The best thing is that none of us are giving up because he has damaged our systems of government and ruined many lives in the interim.
Germans are not big on buying Teslas anymore. Most EVs in Germany are German made. Then others are getting them from Polestar, Sweden's collab with China.
Credit to Rickstrademeus of lincolnsquare.media for #ETTD ( Everything Trump Touches Dies) We are at the find out stage of #FAFO ( Eff around and find out) ☠️🏴☠️😎✊🏼Mwa-ha-ha
She really should sue her plastic surgeon, but I suspect it is one of those cut-rate ones, who take RVs in exchange for poor work (there was an ENT who did that in our area.) Definitely NOT a board-certified plastic Surgeon.
After reading about Pam Bondi's Christian Nationalist meeting yesterday, which my friend who is not Christian and another one who is, asked me not to call CN because they are just White Nationalists, I am grateful to be able to get a laugh about Hegseth and Musk.
In fact, today a friend sent me a news media pic from a German comic who has a picture of a German Hausfrau in a do rag, so she looks a bit like Rosie the Riveter. She is standing on what we can assume is her stoop, because we see a broom handle in her hand and she is saying in one ballon, "Hallo Frau Meyer! Ich bin auch in der Chat-gruppe von US Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth!" In the next balloon she is saying, " und raten sie wen, er als Nächsten bombadieren will!" Which means, "Hello Mrs. Meyer! I am also in the chat group of the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth." and, "Guess who he is going to bomb next!"
It was in the Hamburger Abendblatt. Amazing how even from over here, they can see right through him--he is like a schoolboy bragging about himself in a playground with lethal toys. He already ate up so much money and supplies that some will have to be transferred from protecting Taiwan, but with no notable success against the Houthis. It is all a joke for him.
The heading of her email sharing this to me was "Unserious defense minister spends 200 million in 3 weeks." So, I presume she was translating the article heading in the Hamburger Evening News.
I’m so happy for Elon. And really, I’m happy for the cultists because they are beyond hope of any common sense or decency. They will starve before they admit they backed the wrong horse.
Let them. I’ve never seen such effective brainwashing. 🤪
Elon Musk is suggesting that hundreds of thousands of Americans are not genuinely outraged, heartbroken, or morally activated, but rather on someone’s payroll to go protest. (He wishes he could pay people to march for MAGA.)
Let’s take the conservative number of 200,000 paid protesters.
Assume they each earn $15/hour (which would be generous for a conspiracy payroll, but sure, let’s treat them like union actors). Let’s say they protest 5 hours per event. That’s $75 per protester, per protest.
200,000 x $75 = $15,000,000 per event. Now let’s imagine even just 10 events in a few months. $15,000,000 x 10 = $150 million. And these protests are only going to get larger and larger.
Maybe people are showing up because they actually care. Maybe they’re alarmed by his glee while destroying our government, tanking public and humanitarian services, trying to steal our social security, and palling around with authoritarian maniacs.
Thanks for the laugh-out-loud moment when I scrolled as reading the post and then...Palin. That photo just cracked me up. She was, is, and will always be, a disaster. I wonder why all these elderly gals, (and some guys), invest in plastic surgery that make them look as ugly on the outside as they truly are on the inside.
It's all the decades of stupidity, and evil, leaking its toxicity to the outside. But seriously, as a former surgical assistant never go cheap if you want plastic surgery. Always go to a board certified plastic surgeon. Also read online reviews, and look at their "before" and "after" photos. I've had some work done, and no one ever notices, because good work is subtle. (They thought I lost weight or had my hair done, when I had my droopy eyelids fixed.)
Learning curve my ass. He was a fucking Major, ok? When I got my TS as a dumb Ensign it was pounded into my head that the reward for giving even CONFIDENTIAL information to someone without need-to-know was an all expense paid trip to Leavenworth.
Some mornings I meditate. Other mornings, I simply read the news about Elon and Pete and achieve the same out-of-body experience, minus the incense.
Today's koan:
If your ego is larger than your earnings report, but smaller than your moral compass, are you still a visionary—or just a cautionary tale with a rocket fetish?
Self-care tip from the Monastery of Madness: When the world is run by the tantrum-prone and the tactless, practice radical stillness. Or scream into a compostable pillow. Either works.
We’ve entered the era of government by grievance and guidance by guys who think humility is a liberal hoax. Breathe deep. The fall of fools is not your fault—just your front-row ticket to karmic slapstick.
🕯️
May your feed be ever free of Space Nazis and your ketamine come with a warning label: Not a substitute for insight.
I feel bad for the military personnel who truly love their country and put it all on the line. Having someone who’s obviously uniquely unqualified in the top job has to be demoralizing. I highly doubt that Tesla will ever recover.
fun fact about the Space Nazi's optimus robots: they're all fake
https://qz.com/robot-legit-elon-musk-fake-optimus-tesla-demo-astribot-1851457009
Well since Tesla is down 71% for its earnings report, and I dont think that Tesla will ever recover from it, You cant possibly be wrong Jeff. And yes, I completely agree that Musk and his obtusimus prime robots are bullshit, and another lie. But even still deeper than that, is Donny McShitsHisPants approval rating continuing to toilet.
Keep doing the hard work Jeff. I aspire to your expressions.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/voices-of-a-diverse-america-april
It makes me sick what they are doing to LGBTQ+ youth. For God’s sake (oh that’s right…they don’t believe in God…just pretend too) We need to get these jerks out of office! And JKRowling….BLAH!!!!!
Yes, we DO need to get these jerks out of office, and the sooner, the better.
I'm just wondering why the Democratic Party is so busy self-destructing that they can't be arsed to do what we pay them for—take out the garbage.
Like when a ship develops a leak, it does not register immediately. It takes time for the leak to be found, then a plan to fix it, and then the fixing. I would love to know what you think the Dems should be doing. I am at a loss, since assassinations are illegal.
Democrats have been using that excuse to do nothing for the last forty-five years. I didn't believe it then, and I sure don't believe it now.
I loathe the Republican Party, but one thing they're excellent at is being activist—which too many people mistake for "principled". If the Democratic Party pushed legislation that supported the working and middle classes (higher tax rates for billionaires, a single-payer option for those still not covered by the ACA and those who would choose that over privatized profit-driven healthcare, pro-choice nationally, marriage equality and trans rights, tuition-free higher education, repairing the torn-to-shreds social safety net), it wouldn't matter if they lost AT FIRST, because voters would see they were standing by what they claim to believe in, rather than using that as an excuse to blackmail us into sending them money for doing nothing!
You're not "waiting for the leak to reveal itself"—you're standing on the deck of a boat that's already underwater debating if you could do something!
What a white privileged POS she is!
JK Rowling turns my stomach over. She really does. And the continued harm to Queer persons, even queer youth, that she has committed is something that I dont think she will ever get past....not that she fucking cares.
As The Daily Blast's podcast Mina Stein succinctly pointed out, JK's hypocrisy is stunning. Her issues with the LGBTQ+ community is ridiculous when her most famous novel series discusses in detail the racism within the magic user community and the destructive power of prejudice. But JK can't see that she has identical lack of tolerance issues in real life.
She broke millions of hearts
I never liked the Harry Potter series for any reason other than it got my students reading. Given that there is a scarcity of female main characters in books, you would think the single mother of a girl could have made a girl the primary character. Also, the two books I recognized her as borrowing from, The Witches by Roald Dahl https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780241578179/the-witches/used
and The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes
https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9780152026103/the-witch-family/used
are way, way better. So, although I forced myself to slog through 2.5 of the books because I wanted to know what my students were reading, I am not a fan of the books or the author long before her transphobic controversy.
For what it's worth I never read a single Harry Potter book, owned any Harry Potter merch, watched any movie, preview, poster, or listened to any music, if there were any. I'm pretty pleased about that.
Me neither. I teach English Lit and Comp, but was never tempted to read Harry Potter anything. I did read her adult crime fiction though, and it was alright.
I grew up in the 50s, spent a lot of time reading. I felt the thrill of a new Wizard of Oz book, and later Nancy Drew. In an effort to inspire reading in my grandchildren, I often read what I bought for them. When I read the first Harry Potter book I experienced the same joy that I got from Oz books.
Yeah, it really kills me that I liked the Cormoran Strike series so much, and the author is such a .....
Thank you for the book recommendations! I plan to read them both.
Getting kids eyes off their computers and cell phones is tricky… I applaud getting them to read any book!!
You lead with a non sequitur something something about LGBTQ youth. You are part of the problem of Why we lost all three branches of government this election.
People are exhausted by this being the top issue for Democrats and here you come out of the blue complaining yet again and totally out of context.
Can’t you just drop it for a minute? Are things really that bad for these folks? I don’t think they are.
All I know is that most people are more concerned with issues affecting their own continued existence. And I imagine a majority of LGBTQ people have the same concerns these days.
"Are things really that bad for these folks?"
yes it is, and this isn't really the venue for this kind of squabbling
Thank you Jeff, as a trans woman who consistently deals with the kind of abuse and harm that makes is "That bad for these folks?", I think Ole's comment is mean to inflame, but that is maybe just my sensitivity talk.
Regardless jeff, thank you for defending.
We have your back, Wendy. Jeff’s answer proves that. My best to you. 💕
We have your back, Wendy! I have two trans kids and shit is scary and bad. that dude needs to drop off the earth right now. ((hugs))
Wendy,
It was not.
Am I not allowed to voice an opinion here?
Perhaps I am in the wrong place.
Thank you, Jeff. It frequently feels like nobody cares about our community. Nice to know some still do.
Of course I do. Not a question.
I have personally known 4 trans individuals, three patients and one family member. I cannot imagine the difficulty of trying to find their identity and their place in the world, a world in which many not only do not accept them but actively persecute them, for something so deeply personal and let's face it, of little to no consequence to anyone else. They deserve privacy and the same human dignity owed to all. They exhibit tremendous courage and fortitude to pursue their own happiness and self acceptance. Hateful bigots should work on themselves, not worry about others.
Truer words Doc!!
Jeff
Evidently when you say the name Rowling it becomes such. And I believe it would be ‘they are’, and I don’t believe it however it’s phrased.
Cool, continue to not believe it, despite all evidence to the contrary. You even have TWO people from the community speaking out, yet you refuse to listen.
Assuming you're not just trolling: citation needed for it being the "top issue for democrats." Their most recent presidential candidate was pretty mealy mouthed about it, at most.
You know who does make it a top issue, all the time? Republicans. You may support distancing or throwing LGBTQ+ people under the bus because the media and opposition won't stop bringing it up, but others don't. And it seems very naive to think there aren't objectively harmful policies being supported or implemented to harm LGBTQ+ people, right now. I'm glad you're in a position to not be troubled by that, but try to empathize with those who are not.
I don’t support making it the headline of a post which is not remotely about that.
But I already knew the haters would call me anti the issue, which I am not. I am just opining that maybe we should tone it down a little.
Is that so foolish an ask?
Considering the very real threats facing our community, yeah it is.
“Haters.” You’re showing your cards. Take a walk.
Yup.
“Why we lost all three branches of government this election.” You mean due to the outrageous and vile anti-trans campaign dished out by the right to the tune of a few hundred million dollars while Democrats barely acknowledged the trans community at all, even when pressed on the subject.
My son volunteers for the Trevor Project…taking calls from suicidal youth. I don’t think that is a good thing, but hey-if you do…. No one said it was a top issue for Dems….and obviously-the same concerns are what affects LGBTQ folks.
Hell yes they're bad! Your rights depend on their rights.
Yes. Human rights are all our rights, if we aren't all free, no one is free.
What I have seen was the Democratic Congress bending over backwards to criminalize any discrimination against this group in a manner not seen since the Civil Rights campaign of the 60’s.
Yet it is Never enough!
What atrocities are being committed against this group which I may be unaware of?
Anybody?
https://translegislation.com/
https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2025
https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map
Just a start since you’re too lazy/bad faith to look for yourself.
Try Google. It's a thing.
Attacking us has been the top issue for REPUBLICANS. And yes, we are very concerned about issues affecting our continued existence.
Ole, mon Amie, I think you might have just stepped in it, the vitriol on Jeff’s site is usually directed at the fuckery of a corrupt system of governance, and it’s abuse of we the serfs!!
You sound like a real peach, Anderson. Maybe read the room next time.
FYYFF! what the hell are you even talking about?? is it bad for the LGBTQIA+ people?? YES IT IS!! jesus are you freaking oblivious?? do you know no gay people?? I have two trans kids and goddamn shit is bad and scary! just because this doesn't affect you doesn't make it unimportant. let's hope no one comes after you because who will be there for you! jesus!
::Are things really that bad for these folks?::
You mean transpersons? Yes—yes, they are, and they always HAVE been.
For every step forward, "Liberals" like you push them four steps back into the closet, saying "Now isn't the time!"
Okay, when WILL be the right time? When you're dead and buried and no longer have to face any challenge whatsoever to your sense of CisHet Privilege head-on?
Every time I see a post referring to "LGBTQ+," I know that person at best doesn't get it, or at worst is not my ally. "LGBTQ" is a male-dominated coalition. Having come out as an L in the mid-70s, I've seen feminism become straighter and straighter and lesbians, who were a major force in grassroots feminism of the late '60s and well into the '80s, disappeared into "LGBTQ+." While we're at it, "gender" has been conflated with "sex," and people actually go around thinking that gender is binary and/or innate. It sometimes feels like we're back in the 1950s. I don't agree with JK Rowling on everything, but she gets it in a way that too liberals and progressives don't.
The use in a public square with old Liberté, égalité, fraternité, guillotine worked wonders for correcting the corruption, I’d applaud the head in a bucket approach in today’s epoch Tess!!
The funniest part was the ABC sub-headline, "The company’s performance fell short of analysts’ expectations."
😥
Do ya think, Unk? What -> were <- they expecting, only a 70% loss? A strong nominee for the Understatement of The First Quarter.
Clowns. “Notnews”
Alas TSLA is up more than $16 today, that is some good shit the market is smoking.
I have to think this is wish casting that Musk spending more time at TSLA will help their free-fall.
OK, so maybe when Musk was attending to his day job, he was a really good CEO who made all the right decisions for his company. It could happen. But Musk made himself the face of Tesla, and then he ran DOGE, and engaged in gleeful cruelty and a level of lying second only to Trump. So now the "face of Tesla" is seen everywhere as a horrible person. I don't think Musk's purported management smarts are going to be enough to right the company.
Truth is, he wasn’t that good of a CEO, his edge lord and tech-bro fandom is a large factor for the wildly overvalued TSLA stock.
Now, his warts are all front and center. Honestly, I do not think this will help Tesla in the near, medium, or long term.
He’s torched any goodwill he had.
Good
The board needs to fire him. That's the only thing that has a chance to save their asses.
I don't see how he could, he was too busy gutting Twitter to run it, and gutting our government through Tangeranus.
It won’t last and the only reason is because Wall Street is corrupt with insider trading. Bessent, the billionaire Tres. Sec’y, had a secret meeting with bankers and fund mgrs announcing tariffs would be scaled back. Well, lo and behold, the markets went from deep red to green! Talk about manipulation…
It's the true believer douche-bros, they don't think TSLA will be allowed to fail. Especially with the purchased presidential creep in the WH.
As long as it's a gold toilet
The DepLorean is an electric Edsel
My friend in Wisconsin had been on Elon’s Starlink because his local cable provider’s Internet was piss-poor. Now he switched from Starlink to a cell tower-based service from TMobile, and his internet is twice as fast as Starlink at half the cost.
So there’s another business Elon is ruining, as his space-detritus pollutes low Earth orbit making space travel dangerous.
Elon is yet another toxic billionnaire with a reverse-Midas touch.
Rupert Murdoch, Donald tRump, Elon Musk. I just can’t figure out who’s Moe, who’s Larry and who’s Curly.
TRump wants to give FElon Musk the contract for Starlink to provide all government Internet access and security, which Verizon has been providing since 2023. That should scare everyone who understands what FElon wants to do - steal our personal information and government secrets for personal gain...
He already has.
I was just writing a similar comment. I do not want to see what he does to the FAA either.
Musk is attempting to destroy all competition, while filching every government contract available. He’s teamed with members of the PayPal mafia to secure all federal money payments, including Social Security,,he’s a true Robber Barron!!
His plan to father thousands of racist white children should be foiled by some heroic rubber baron
😂😂😂
Ooooh!!!! Excellent one!!! 💕💕💕💕
None of the above. Moe, Larry and Curly are slapstick icons who would've never done any of the shit that these bozos have pulled. Also, those three turds aren't funny and never will be. Dump's ongoing air weasel slapping dance and Smuk's Ketamine-fueled silverware fondling says a lot about who's in charge.
More like CarTalk’s “Dewey, Cheatum, & How.”
You’re right; I’m sorry for denigrating the Stooges
True dat Rick!!
Space detritus. 👍
And shouldn’t we be billing Muck the $50,000 per pound it costs NASA to retrieve space junk, which all his stuff will eventually become?
Instead of slapping tariffs on imports, we should be slapping a hefty “costly externalities tax” on sales of products like Starlink that cause the world (and Earth orbit) to be filled with junk that will need to be cleaned up later, at great cost to the public
You’re a transphobic troll, stop trying to mingle with the rest of us.
So who is taking bets on the success of new Musk ventures? Who is going to buy all those Swastikars backed up at his dealerships and at the factory? I would bet Melon has a hard time with his business models now... Especially the bringing in money part.
Tesla has always had a problem with the ‘bringing in money’ part of the business- Tesla has never turned a profit.
It is the proverbial Ponzi scheme that Muck boy talks about SS being.
It's all gove4nment subsidies
Ole Anderson is a transphobic troll, everyone would do good in not engaging and/or blocking them.
That's an easy one. Dumpty will buy them as a "Green Fleet" for the several thousand government workers remaining, those not-yet-fired by Elbow.
He has already done that. Taking a Biden era requisition for $40 million worth of electric vehicles for the State Department and morphing it Into a $440 Million contract for Tesla only electric vehicles for the Defense Dept.
I’m sure there will be a big fat kickback involved.
There always is.
Transphobic troll alert!
The government bought fleets of K-Cars when Lee Iacocca’s Mopar biz was floundering, you’ve got a good read on the matter Doc!!
Not only are they fake, but a lot of his X followers are fake too. I got that from watching a discussion of research on Elon Musk's attempts to influence the German election. Here is a piece I wrote on it.
Part 2
https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/did-bots-and-right-wing-media-platforms-b88?r=f0qfn
WOW, Linda! Kudos to the professor who discovered Elon’s diabolical plans at manipulating bots! Pretty certain he did that same thing in swing states too. I hope there are smart people investigating this here in the US. Sooo glad AfD did not get their candidate in!
Me too Marlene. As you can see from what I reported, she could not prove causality of the votes, but did point out a correlation between the ones with the most social media action and the most increase in youth votes.
The Digital Services Act allows supports this sort of research. We should be asking people in the US Congress to support such legislation in the US. It makes deceitful influence illegal by social media platforms. This summer we will find out what kind of fine Musk gets.
I knew that we didn't get a fair and honest election. It was so obviously biased to the swing states.
My wager is $0.00
Zip, Zilch, Zero!
Ditto Marlene, the fascist influence Musk spent millions on was wasted thankfully!!
Yes, Patrick, our efforts at protesting haven’t been wasted at all! The best thing is that none of us are giving up because he has damaged our systems of government and ruined many lives in the interim.
Exceptionally crafted piece Linda!!
Elon cheats at video games.
https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/gamers-disgusted-elon-musk-admits-220306975.html
Donald cheats at golf. And business of course.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/sports/2023/02/03/trump-and-golf-fancy-resorts-a-list-partners-cheating-at-highest-level/69857594007/
Sarah and Pete cheated too.
https://www.basketballnetwork.net/off-the-court/the-alleged-affair-between-politician-sarah-palin-and-nba-champ-glen-rice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14284385/pete-hegseth-marriages-infidelity-alcohol.html
There's a pattern here.
A definite pattern of the rich and famous! We can probably add drug and human trafficking, at some future point.
Just like him and drumpf
I’ll be sharing the robot article. It widens the view of Musk’s phoniness.
Because of course they are. jfc...
You don't say! Why, I am SO SURPRISED! How could anything having to do with dear ol' Elon and his infallible products ever be fake??
Nice post today about 3 dumbasses who are getting what they deserved! “Everything Donny touches dies….” ho hum
It’s glorious!!!😂
Germans are not big on buying Teslas anymore. Most EVs in Germany are German made. Then others are getting them from Polestar, Sweden's collab with China.
One of Jeff's absolute best! Three idiots in a row. The Hip Stooges!
I’m loving the fallout Tess, Musk deserves every fous le camp he receives Tess!!
Credit to Rickstrademeus of lincolnsquare.media for #ETTD ( Everything Trump Touches Dies) We are at the find out stage of #FAFO ( Eff around and find out) ☠️🏴☠️😎✊🏼Mwa-ha-ha
Weird how Sarah Palin and Tina Fey were virtual twins at one time. Tina is still as pretty as ever. And then there's Sarah.
Yeah, she does look rough.
Forty years of alcoholism will do that to you.
Very witchy !
“I’ll get you my pretties! And your little dog too!” 😳
https://theantiqueher.com/cdn/shop/files/IMG_4108.jpg?v=1724179072&width=1080
She really should sue her plastic surgeon, but I suspect it is one of those cut-rate ones, who take RVs in exchange for poor work (there was an ENT who did that in our area.) Definitely NOT a board-certified plastic Surgeon.
The plastic surgeon in Wasilla doubles as the taxidermist.😂😂
That explains a few things!
For sure!
I’ll never understand any of the love of plastics in your mug thing Natalie, we consume too much of it every day!!
Palin has had plastic surgery done. Pretty scary face.
Kristy Gnome is still much scarier to look at Brooke… it might be worth a survey here, though!!
One is a cartoon character, the other is something from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Hard pass on both.
She should have left well enough alone
She just got her ass handed to her again by a jury of her peers, tough day for Sarah blech, good call Steve!!
After reading about Pam Bondi's Christian Nationalist meeting yesterday, which my friend who is not Christian and another one who is, asked me not to call CN because they are just White Nationalists, I am grateful to be able to get a laugh about Hegseth and Musk.
In fact, today a friend sent me a news media pic from a German comic who has a picture of a German Hausfrau in a do rag, so she looks a bit like Rosie the Riveter. She is standing on what we can assume is her stoop, because we see a broom handle in her hand and she is saying in one ballon, "Hallo Frau Meyer! Ich bin auch in der Chat-gruppe von US Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth!" In the next balloon she is saying, " und raten sie wen, er als Nächsten bombadieren will!" Which means, "Hello Mrs. Meyer! I am also in the chat group of the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth." and, "Guess who he is going to bomb next!"
Ich bin el stupido mofo.
My friend says,
It was in the Hamburger Abendblatt. Amazing how even from over here, they can see right through him--he is like a schoolboy bragging about himself in a playground with lethal toys. He already ate up so much money and supplies that some will have to be transferred from protecting Taiwan, but with no notable success against the Houthis. It is all a joke for him.
The heading of her email sharing this to me was "Unserious defense minister spends 200 million in 3 weeks." So, I presume she was translating the article heading in the Hamburger Evening News.
Das KRANKENHAUS, mit KINDER ?
Must be Olga Hungova shining through on you Kristy!!
Miss Olga was of suspicious ethnicity.
Furthering Mexican-German relations! 😉
well, THAT didn't take long. And by THAT I mean Tesla tanking and the Pentagon becoming a giant cluster.
Dear President Xi,
Please keep the magnets. Forever.
Sincerely,
Sanity and Karma
How bizarre that among the modern 3 great powers, the most benign head of government is Pres. Xi ?! (None of them are choirboys.)
😂😂 I would like to sign that letter!
I’m so happy for Elon. And really, I’m happy for the cultists because they are beyond hope of any common sense or decency. They will starve before they admit they backed the wrong horse.
Let them. I’ve never seen such effective brainwashing. 🤪
Elon Musk is suggesting that hundreds of thousands of Americans are not genuinely outraged, heartbroken, or morally activated, but rather on someone’s payroll to go protest. (He wishes he could pay people to march for MAGA.)
Let’s take the conservative number of 200,000 paid protesters.
Assume they each earn $15/hour (which would be generous for a conspiracy payroll, but sure, let’s treat them like union actors). Let’s say they protest 5 hours per event. That’s $75 per protester, per protest.
200,000 x $75 = $15,000,000 per event. Now let’s imagine even just 10 events in a few months. $15,000,000 x 10 = $150 million. And these protests are only going to get larger and larger.
Maybe people are showing up because they actually care. Maybe they’re alarmed by his glee while destroying our government, tanking public and humanitarian services, trying to steal our social security, and palling around with authoritarian maniacs.
They are neck deep in the goo, Susan.
They ain’t never coming back
This shite — all of it — would be rejected in every writers’ room around the world. And yet… we are living through it.
And to the extent they excuse it as “fighting anti-semitism” the amount of “off” they can fuck exceeds the set of real numbers.
True, not a shred of plausibility. And Well Said! 😅
Thanks for the laugh-out-loud moment when I scrolled as reading the post and then...Palin. That photo just cracked me up. She was, is, and will always be, a disaster. I wonder why all these elderly gals, (and some guys), invest in plastic surgery that make them look as ugly on the outside as they truly are on the inside.
It's all the decades of stupidity, and evil, leaking its toxicity to the outside. But seriously, as a former surgical assistant never go cheap if you want plastic surgery. Always go to a board certified plastic surgeon. Also read online reviews, and look at their "before" and "after" photos. I've had some work done, and no one ever notices, because good work is subtle. (They thought I lost weight or had my hair done, when I had my droopy eyelids fixed.)
I'll keep that in mind, but I believe I'll be going out 'el natural', although I always wear makeup, even to take out the trash. :)
Yeah, the guy working out of the back of the transmission shop is probably a poor choice.😂😂
Elderly? She's only 61 years old. But yeah, she's a hot mess.
Right on, Jeff. As usual, nailed it. Fuck em all.
F u c k e m ALL!!!
If there is ever a movie made about $arah Palin, I want Mickey Rourke to play the lead, also too (wink, wink).
Brilliant.
😂😂😂
I want the Elephant Man to play the lead
Too bad Jocelyn Wilde (cat-faced woman) is dead.
I think that Mickey Rourke IS the elephant man but without the kindness. Poor Mickey. He was an outstanding actor once. Really.
He was, and a damn fine looking one, too. Too bad what he did to his face.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Learning curve my ass. He was a fucking Major, ok? When I got my TS as a dumb Ensign it was pounded into my head that the reward for giving even CONFIDENTIAL information to someone without need-to-know was an all expense paid trip to Leavenworth.
Why is Sarah Palin wearing a witch costume? Oh, wait.
Ms. Spouse said Palin looked like a vulture in that outfit
Or Poes RAVEN.
👆🎯
😃 😃 😃
BREAKING: Longtime Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin will not seek re-election in 2026
ATTN Senator Schumer: Please take note
Future Senator J.D. Pritzker?
I'd prefer President J.B. Pritzker, but would love a Senator J.B. Pritzker in the meantime
Some mornings I meditate. Other mornings, I simply read the news about Elon and Pete and achieve the same out-of-body experience, minus the incense.
Today's koan:
If your ego is larger than your earnings report, but smaller than your moral compass, are you still a visionary—or just a cautionary tale with a rocket fetish?
Self-care tip from the Monastery of Madness: When the world is run by the tantrum-prone and the tactless, practice radical stillness. Or scream into a compostable pillow. Either works.
We’ve entered the era of government by grievance and guidance by guys who think humility is a liberal hoax. Breathe deep. The fall of fools is not your fault—just your front-row ticket to karmic slapstick.
🕯️
May your feed be ever free of Space Nazis and your ketamine come with a warning label: Not a substitute for insight.
—Virgin Monk Boy
I feel bad for the military personnel who truly love their country and put it all on the line. Having someone who’s obviously uniquely unqualified in the top job has to be demoralizing. I highly doubt that Tesla will ever recover.