Worth pointing out that quote is from 2022, before Elon spent a quarter billion dollars to get Trump elected. The new quote referenced in the article is actually tame as fuck and hardly worth writing about:
“If you look at some of these internet people, I know so many of them. Elon is so terrific, but I know now all of them, you know, they all hated me in my first term, and now they’re kissing my ass. You know… it’s true. All of them. It’s true.”
Yeah it seems pretty clear that someone was like “His marijuana leaf stands for M, so let’s label that. Then we’ll say this is a smiley, so label that S. Etc etc”
Then Trump saw it and (just like the COVID hospital cleaning protocols to use bleach and UV light) assumed he was the smartest person in the room - and just ran with it. Problem is he’s too dumb and egotistical to admit he made a mistake.
Trump has since begun to soften some of the measures, granting exemptions for smartphones, semiconductors and electronics and claiming the US and China were in direct contact “every day”.
On Tuesday, the president said tariffs would come down “substantially” and a deal would be done “pretty quickly”.
But the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.
“There have been no consultations or negotiations between China and the United States regarding tariffs, let alone reaching an agreement,” said ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun.
This is classic Trump. Lie about how easy something will be and how great he’s making things, all while delivering horse shit and counting on your supporters to be too dumb to listen to what’s actually going on.
Ugh, my mom was telling me how great it was for Bill Maher to meet with Trump. I told her humanizing Trump wasn’t gonna help anyone, but she insisted it was great.
The president also has unchecked pardon power. He’s already shown he’s willing to use it to pardon people who tried to overthrow the government for him.
Throat GOAT Nancy Reagan was a hot blond bimbo?
Dude shit his pants. People were like “stop shitting your pants, you moron”. Dude wiped some of the shit out of his pants using his hand. Now his pants still smell like shit and he has shit all over his hands.
Fox News is like "great job not shitting your pants, Mr. President, you goddamn genius!”
This has me dying - nice job!
The White House has denied war plans were texted to the group, and Hegseth on Monday denied the reporting as well, calling Goldberg “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”
Fuck it, I say call their bluff and release it.
I was referring to this: https://youtu.be/ayBRXIN9Kro
Specifically Vance around 3:38
Lol I know, I was just thinking of Vance’s “have you even said ‘thank you’?”
I grew up and am still surrounded by these ingrates
Found JD Vance’s Lemmy account
Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to agree that since the 22nd Amendment doesn’t specify who enforces that the president can’t be elected, that it means Congress has to actively pass a law saying he can’t run.
That’s what ultimately happened with the Colorado case.
These people are getting paid since February 15th when they were fired. Meanwhile, many of these positions were being backfilled by air traffic controllers working overtime, most of the time not doing as well of a job as the person who was “fired” in the first place.
So to recap: Elon and Trump fired well qualified and necessary employees, continued to pay them after they left, then over paid someone else to do their job, but worse, making us all less safe and simultaneously overworking an already notoriously overworked group of ATCs who have one of the most stressful jobs in the world.
I dunno about you guys, but I’m not sure this Department of Government Efficiency is actually very efficient…
Could you imagine going back to work for a place that tried to fire you a few weeks ago? And is still actively appealing a court decision to try to fire you again?
Looks like TSLA is up 8% today. So seems to have solved Elon’s immediate problem of the stock tanking.
I’m also curious to see if Trump’s cult leader power can overcome decades of oil and gas brainwashing. Conservatives have proven they’ll quickly throw away their beliefs when Trump tells them to, but it’s not always reliable.
For example, in 2020 conservatives were all for Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” to find a COVID vaccine. But as soon as Biden won and the vaccines rolled out in 2021, many conservatives took an antivax stance. Later, Trump got booed at one of his rallies for suggesting that people get vaccinated.
So he can steer the cult agenda, but not always successfully. I guess we’ll see how this plays out.
Unfortunately yes, our president is a moron.
Lol he’s so panicked he’s had to order Trump to send a tweet to try to convince right wingers to buy EVs now.
I posted this on another thread, but thought it was worth sharing here as well.
Heads up this is about to get worse. Republicans recently voted to cut retirement funding for air traffic controllers. By cutting the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) for workers retiring before 62 (all Air Traffic Controllers are required to retire at 56 and are eligible to retire at 50), this is completely fucking over ATCs who continue working by changing their retirement math.
An open secret with ATCs is that they have numerous medical qualifications that they have to maintain to keep working. For example, if they see a doctor about sleep apnea, depression, alcoholism, etc they lose their medical qualification and are forced to take a medical retirement.
So what happens if you’re an ATC in your 40s and the government says “hey you can keep working for the next 10 years and retire without this FERS supplement… Or you can tell your doctor that you snore at night and take an immediate medical retirement right now and get paid more in retirement”?
TLDR; We’re about to have a shit load of Air Traffic Controllers taking medical retirements and these staffing problems are going to explode.