A deranged billionaire who regularly converses with Putin has assembled a team of a half dozen babyfaced techbros and they’re literally breaking into secure federal buildings and accessing sensitive systems and data.  Neither the people nor the hardware have been vetted.  DOGE hasn’t been created by Congress, Muskrat…

the condoms thing was made up bs 

Where they would (unfortunately) be arrested and shipped off to El Salvador for being enemies of the state.

Awesome. I wonder if it runs —- I’d love to see this thing bring a bunch of women, black people, LGBTQ folks, and Hispanics to the step of the Capitol for a rally. 

Why is this filthy, Nazi scumbag defiling my country?

Exactly this. I liken it to offering your neighbor a beer on a hot day. Even if you never really socialize with him it at least makes you look like a good guy. And then a few years from now when that tree falls on your mutual fence there’s immediate goodwill to fix the problem together, as opposed to immediately go…

It’s interesting how little the MAGA folks understand about how power actually works. Sure we can threaten other countries with our military strength, in much the same way that pariah states like Iran do (whole other conversation). 

Not what I would do, but I don’t hate it. It would fit the vibe in Monaco. 

USAID was a form of soft power not unlike the diplomatic services. It was the US doing things that were, at first glance, “merely” charity and aid, but also gave us a lot of less obvious benefits. Once again, we shoot ourselves in the foot for short-term gain, but long-term losses. The world is more chaotic and less…

“Donald Trump and his boss Elon”

Musk was quoted saying, “Who cares about brown babies?” while he completed half a dozen Nazi salutes.

You’re giving Clarence Thomas an idea...

I can’t think of anything more gross than “exploring” the Belgian Congo in a $300k rig while watching the enslaved population toil outside. Sort of the equivalent of taking a luxury RV tour through Darfur today.

Right? I think they buried the lede with that article title. 25,000 makes it sound like kind of a long time, but 2 years? That’s nothing.

2 years / 25k is actually way shorter than I thought it was.

not since Trump was elected the first time.

Why would he care about what Tesla sales look like when he gets to sit on both sides of the negotiation table for government contracts with his other companies. He’ll probably end up with 100 year contracts with the most insane prices and conditions ever seen in history.

It’s pretty clear he doesn’t care about the Tesla business beyond being able to pump the stock price.

EU sales down bigly as well: https://gizmodo.com/tesla-sales-in-europe-plummet-amidst-elons-stupid-meddling-2000558496.

I can only imagine things get worse with the talk of throwing tariffs on the EU by Musk’s…

The CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, and Neuralink now has significant influence over the very government entities that regulate or contract with his businesses. Has a bigger conflict of interest ever existed?

Teslas product is very stale and outdated and the guy at the top is a creep. He bought the US government, among many other reasons, so he can use it to promote himself and his business and to use available regulatory tools to promote his interests and businesses and to shield them from competition.