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Carl Selfe's avatar

Trump and Musk are both stupid and playing games. I look at each action and surmise if it is legal or not legal. Most of Trump’s Executive Orders are illegal. Those I know the court will cancel in due time, like a month. I get neither worried, nor anxious about those. Each of those illegal Executive Orders constitutes a fraud on the American people. This fraud is rumming rampant. The courts are now intervening, but the court should turn proactive by citing these illegal Executive Orders as contempt against the plain language of The Law that takes taxpayer dollars to mitigate (damages). We the people are the 5th estate that must back up the courts. DOGE has cost us taxpayers $ billions already. We the people pay the bills here. I hear the world’s wealthiest peckerwood*, a derogatory Alabama term for a white person, whining about suffering (equitably I might add) from the anger that the peckerwood* in fact caused. I wish the non tax-paying peckerwood* neither the pain, nor the stain. One does not easily shake off international disgust. Musk will need to change his stripes and become the giver, not the taker. That is Peckerwood’s call. Only Peckerwood* can fix his problems. Peckerwood* has engendered bad will by his cruel actions. Poor, poor pitiful Peckerwood*. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/musk-whines-poor-poor-pitiful-me?r=3m1bs

Use of the term peckereood, an inversion of woodpecker, dates to the early 19th century. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest printed use to an Alabama newspaper in 1835. Peckerwood was in use in reference to white people by 1859; it often suggested a white person who was a little off in the head, backward, or poor. The shortened form peck was in use in the same sense in the 1920s. In African American folklore during the 1920s, the woodpecker symbolically represented white Americans, in contrast to the blackbird that cartoonishly represented African Americans.

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TCinLA's avatar

I remember meeting all the living proofs of the accuracy of terms like peckerwood, white trash, dumbfuckingredneck, etc., back in the Navy 60 years ago - where they all constituted More White Male Morons In One Place At One Time Than I Can Ever Remember. All of them Southern. Southerners are always complaining the rest of us think they're stupid, and then...

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Keith's avatar

donnie boy's entire life was built on the frauds of his grandfather and dad

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

The courts are being undermined every single day by tRump & Muskrat. Those 2 are going after the law firms that tried to hold tRump to account & the law firms are folding! Trump also has lots of appointments he can make to the Federal bench. We cannot rely on the courts. It’s up to the people now. Will they be willing to stand up & save our democratic republic? I fear not

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Keith's avatar

WHAT THE FUK IS EVERYONE AFRAID OF?

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Douglas's avatar

Carl, I had been ruminating over how much money DOGE has wasted thru its actions...billions may be right....lost productivity for no reason, termination of vital programs, etc. This has nothing to do with saving money we all have known...this is destroying the government for benefit of E & Putin.

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