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Joyce's avatar

So little time, so many idiots. And drugs. Love everything in This Week in Stupid, and will just affix the appendix: South African Illegal Immigrant Vice President bids farewell from the Oval Office, so stoned he can barely mumble out a coherent word.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

I know I shouldn't, but in some ways I feel kinda sorry for Elon (OK,OK, I SAID I know I shouldn't) - he grew up in a country ruled by shits, and his dad was an uber-shit. Then he gets all that money and privilege which obviously went straight to his head - and now he's on enough drugs to stone an elephant.

What a waste of a life and a truck load of opportunity for good.

As it is, he'll probably end up face down in a swimming pool - or like Howard Hughes, alone in a hotel room with six inch toenails and a mania for cleanliness.

I'm poor and reasonably honest - and I'd bet my boots I'm a LOT happier than he is.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Imagine having the wealth and influence to change the world, literally, for the better, and instead choosing to be an awful, hateful person who intentionally ruins peoples' lives and careers and has literally caused many deaths, including children. How can we even understand the pathos of someone like that? He, and Jabba the trump, along with the entire cadre of equally terrible douchebags around them, are all broken people. What is so indescribably evil is they choose to inflict their brokenness on the world. So I would agree that us "regular" folk are happier than these cruel, greedy pieces of shit.

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Ellis Weiner's avatar

Yes, and: Imagine being a Republican in the House or Senate and allowing this to happen EVERY DAMN DAY. Eliminating scientific research. Predictably causing tens of thousands of deaths overseas. Allowing the most obscene kind of open corruption. Making the poor much poorer so the morbidly rich can get somewhat richer. And then flaunting your "Christian" faith.

In some ways I don't blame Trump--he's a sicko who can't help himself and doesn't want to. But the GOP? They can all go straight to hell. Where is Dante when you need him?

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Joyce's avatar

Exactly.....You are Elonia and have the most money in the known universe. You could, for instance, without making a dent in your obscene fortune, set up a foundation that would provide free breakfasts and lunches to all schoolchildren. public and private, throughout the US. You could fund traveling free clinics in rural communities without medical services. You could create an endowment to support community gardens in food desert areas in inner cities. On and on.....

Instead, you get plastic surgery, drug yourself into incoherency, and convince yourself that you build the bestest cars and rockets that blow up because of other people's incompetence. With all his money, Elonia could still do that and yet afford the philanthropy.

I think that, even without the drugs, Elonia is not the brightest person--cunning, yes.....but not really all that intelligent. Steely Dan must've known him: "You've been telling me you're a genius since you were 17/In all the years I've known, I still don;t know what you mean/The weekend at the college didn't turn out like you planned/The things that pass for knowledge I can't understand."

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Damn right.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I know what you meant here, Doc, but I'd strike, "pathos" and substitute, "psychopathy."

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Mary Hall's avatar

Compare and contrast Eloon and his evil, racist, drug-addled bullshit with Bill Gates who recently said that "The world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a good look."

I knew the Gates family back in the 1970s and 80s when I worked for Bill Gates, Sr.'s law firm for six years. He was a kind and wonderful man unlike Eloon's evil father. The Gates family was all about giving back to the community. If you're ever in Seattle go to the Gates Foundation Visitor Center (by the Space Needle) to see their amazing work.

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Ralph Roberts's avatar

Kudos to Bill for that amazing statement about the second most despicable man in the Universe.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I look at it this way, Lady Em: along with his batshit family, Muck had advantages beyond most people's wildest dreams. He didnтАЩt live in a vacuum, so he saw examples of honest, caring people, but still chose to be a monster. His autism-spectrum diagnosis(?) doesn't account for that. Either he's literally sociopathic, or....well, maybe the only conclusion we can draw is that he IS a sociopath, I'm thinking as I write this. That would seem to be the only explanation for his behavior. Doesn't excuse him, of course

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

I accept what you're saying - but how awful to live life without a soul. It's my idea of Hell.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

Not Hell if you don't know what a soul is and don't care if you have one. That's what distinguishes sociopaths from the rest of us, in non-technical terms.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

In fact, Muck probably sees his total lack of empathy as a superpower.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

And here I thought it was just me who couldnтАЩt understand him. What am I saying ЁЯджтАНтЩАя╕ПI can barely understand him ANY TIME he opens his gobЁЯдмHe always sounds like itтАЩs filled with cotton balls or something

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Wonder if little X said to him "Shut your fucking mouf." Before the black eye thing.

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Marlee Ostrow's avatar

Rumor has it that was inflicted by Stephen Miller, the left handed goon whose wife just left the WH for a full time job with Musk. Yet another baby incubator?

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Hollie Rood's avatar

Oooh I hadnтАЩt thought of that oneЁЯлиOneтАЩs sleazier than the other and they all deserve what they get

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Hollie Rood's avatar

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