There is an incredible fable that it can tee someone up to run for POTUS, despite being the graveyard of such ambitions.

I’ll do you one better; my dumbfuck BIL has been an active duty Marine for over a decade. And *every time* the government is about to shut down over budget negotiations we tell him to start saving money, and *every time* he tells us we’re wrong and that he’ll still be paid regardless because somehow things have…

I have so many friends who work in our local VA hospital, and they’re so, so sick of having this constantly looming over their heads. It’s so demoralizing for them, because even if a shutdown happens, they’ll have to keep working (of course, that’s not what they object to, obvs.), but they won’t get paid. So basically…

True, the Democrats don’t have a MAGA wing. But they do have a big tent with a lot of people with competing interests, and Pelosi managed to wrangle her party and get a comparative shit-ton of legislation passed all while having a razor thin margin. A handful of Democrats could have brought all efforts to legislate to…

That is really the problem. Whatever their differences, the various factions in the Democratic Party actually want the federal government to function and do things, if they may disagree on what those things are. Post-Trump, there are just too many Republicans who simply want to blow everything up.

“Happy Thanksgiving, enjoy your government shutdown!" -House Freedom Caucus

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER......AS A CITATION?!?!

Too much credit to Pelosi. The explanation here is simply that the Dems don’t have the equivalent of Maga Repubs who don’t actually care about governing.

All of this just underlines how very good Rep. Pelosi was when she was Speaker. Keeping Dems somewhat disciplined for years, and having that discipline hold even now, is impressive.

“Biased” “partisan” “Washington Examiner”

Are you a new imposter troll? This definitely isn’t Dems fault and you definitely wouldn’t normally cite the Washington Examiner.

Can anyone explain what good Elon did/does on the factory floor, sleeping or awake? This dude wouldn’t know which end of a hammer to hold, and if he had a toolbox, it would be all 10mm sockets.

Musk bought Twitter because he’s addicted to it and he wants total control over it. There’s a lot of kerfuffle about some article about “How Musk can declare war on the ‘global elitists’” by buying Twitter, but I think it’s more that he’s addicted to the dopamine hits he gets from using Twitter to hurt people while…

Entire generations of workers have internalized the idea that working yourself to the bone and ruining your health and family life are the only way to be productive and successful at your job. (That was the prevailing culture at the time, so I suppose for many people, it was difficult to avoid.) But with Elon, it’s…

To be fair, Musk’s relationship with Twitter is a lot more like Gollum with the One Ring.

I listened to the call - the really good stuff is at 48:30.

And let’s see what Tesla Musk Stans fanbois will say about this

Sure seems like there are a number of people who have been fortunate enough to have their decisions go their way for long enough that it’s basically impossible for them to admit that they even have the capacity for making an incorrect call. Anything that happens is the fault of someone or something else.

Capitalism is a cold mistress