Catching up with Don and Musk - Season 2: The breakup.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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I hope it's a draw.
“The future is now, old man”
-a 53 yr old
3000 children emerge from the shadows
I live in that particularly odious senator's state, and saw this on the bike trail yesterday.
That frame and rims don't look like they don't suck
Was thinking that too… Is this a funky bike stand??
i believe it's a sculpture based off the way it's welded to a sculpture
Thanks Senator Joni Hearse.
She has the crazy eyes. I've been wigged out by her the first time I saw her which was when she was elected to senate.
Every time I read this "let them eat cake", it reminds me of what Luigi did...
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actuary tables suggest trump doesn't make it to 2029.
honestly I'm far more afraid of the shady-ass VP who is the bagman for Peter Theil
According to the actuarial table he can expect to live 8 more years.
actuary tables suggest trump doesn’t make it to 2029.
Actuary tables say Dick Cheney should have died ten years ago.
Do those account for the blood of children that he drinks?
Reminder that Dick fucking Cheney is still alive and kickin'.
To be fair they keep giving him new hearts to keep him alive.
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But, now hear me out, about a barely-obese 52yo with a seeerious ketamine addiction?
The line of blood donor clinics I predict he opens in order to funnel the youngest blood into his own veins and ideally stave off ageing, even that's gonna do nothing about the impending kidney failure.
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Trump can get away with what he does because of his cult, historically cults typically fall apart after the founder dies even when there's a planned line of succession
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Musk thinking all that Trumpism will go to him helps in making things make sense.
I'm calling it now so I can link to it in 3 years, Musk is wanting to make a presidential run.
like @[email protected] said, this show has a purpose and I think Trump is planning on going even harder and now they have someone they can pass the torch off to since they've already vetted his ideology and love his money. Gotta distance yourself at some point so you can swing in and be the "savior". He can lay the whole DOGE think on the current administration getting in the way and will totally be a conservative this time. The comments and rhetoric around Elon are already starting to be softer now that he's in this feud with Trump.
Musk isn't American born. He is ineligible to be President without a change to the US Constitution.
He has birthright canadian citizenship. So if Canada was ever forced to join the USA, I would assume that Canadian citizens would become US citizens and that could allow him to be eligible.
Since when does the constitution matter to these fuckers?
Not that it'll stop them from trying but the constitution does say you have to be a natural-born citizen.
"What is Habeas Corpus?" joking, but I guess my minds been so fractured from this administration it doesn't even consider the constitutional protections America has.
It does make me wonder about the presidential line of succession though. The Speaker of the house is 3rd in line, they could all get together tomorrow and vote him in.
The Constitution does not explicitly require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives... permitting a non-member to serve as Speaker would effectively exempt Speakers from the eligibility requirements of the House Qualifications Clause of Article I, Section II and from being bound by an oath of office under the Oath or Affirmation Clause of Article VI as opposed to House members. (link)
Would be fascinating to see how something like that would play out, scary, but still fascinating in a historical precedence kinda way.
Well honestly its not talked about enough but Ted Cruz ran for president and he was born in Canada. The fact that it was never brought up in any debate by any moderator or opponent is a little worrying.
He had birthright US citizenship just like McCain (born in Panama). That's what made the whole Obama birth certificate so stupid. He would still be a US citizen at birth even if he was born outside of the US. But he's brown and has a foreign sounding name. If he was Barry O'Bama and white, no one would have batted an eye.
Ted Cruise's mother was a citizen when she gave birth to him. That makes him a naturalized citizen. Honestly, if that wasn't true we would be ICE raiding of banning from office a ton of military children.
No. That makes him a US citizen at birth. A naturalized citizen is when someone who is not a US citizen acquires US citizenship.
Anyone in the line of succession that is disqualified to hold the office is skipped. Again according to the rules that the GOP might just ignore without consequence, but I don't think they like Musk enough to bother.
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Was that a threat, or Elon just being practical. It's funny either way.
Clearly, since Trump is the healthiest president ever to hold office, he will outlive Musk. That is just a given. Therefore, this statement by Musk can only be take as a threat against the life of the president, by an immigrant no less. Send in ICE, SWAT, Seal Team 6, and Space Force to grab him and deport him to Mars.
/s mostly, but I really would like to see Musk shot off in the general direction of Mars.
I just learned that I am older than Laura loomer. Her plastic surgery made me think she was 50.
Holy shit she's in her early thirties! Why do all these MAGA women get such awful fillers?
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It's more surprising that these fuckers just happily throw all the dirty laundries on the street.
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YIKES:
I would say “where’s the lie” but he’s universally hated and he just injected like $20 million into the Wisconsin election and they lost because he’s toxic
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So there's this radio editorial from 1973 called "America: The Good Neighbor", written by George Sinclair. I think a lot of what Sinclair described has been lost, unfortunately, but this line always pops into my head:
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.
I feel like this part is still true. For better or worse, as a nation even when we feel shame due to the behavior of our politicians we don't try to hide it, pretend like it doesn't exist. Our politics is theater and we all know it. It's on display for everyone to see.
You can read the whole thing here: https://thinkingagain.com/html/american_tribute.php
It is an artifact of history, and just... keep in mind that it needs to be read and understood in the context of the time it was written. The Apollo program had just ended the year before, and US troops had just withdrawn from Vietnam. The Watergate scandal was current news and is specifically what Sinclair was referring to in the quoted line above. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered only 5 years prior, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s was a recent memory. It had been only a decade since John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
And there was video and live discussion of all of it just on display for everyone to see on the still quite new platform of broadcast television.
Things haven't changed much.
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