Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The revolution will be supervised.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

You are here: Home / Politics / GOP Death Cult / Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: Sheriff Elon, Border Enforcer

Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: Sheriff Elon, Border Enforcer

by | 86 Comments

This post is in: , , ,

Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: Sheriff Elon, Border Enforcer

The GOP Death Cultists found them a new celebrity advertiser…

Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: Sheriff Elon, Border Enforcer 1


Cold Grey Dawn Open Thread: Sheriff Elon, Border Enforcer 2

Reader Interactions

86Comments

  7. 7.

    Anne Laurie

    @ColoradoGuy: Literally wearing a black hat. Has he not seen one Western?

    He likes to imagine himself as The Big Bad, He Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, He Who Is Universally Mocked.

  8. 8.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @ColoradoGuy: I’ve always worn a black hat.

    Every time I see him in the news I am reminded that this is what happens when you fire all the people who tell you the truth.

  10. 10.

    lowtechcyclist

    A company-wide email, huh? “Please fix this.” Man, the organization of that place must be so screwed, for him to need to send it to all and sundry.

  14. 14.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Rusty:

    His hat is not on backwards. His head is on backwards. 

    And his head is firmly shoved up his own ass.

    But we all knew that.

  15. 15.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @lowtechcyclist: ​the organization of that place must be so screwed, for him to need to send it to all and sundry

    Nah, I mean the org is all screwed up but that is not why he sends it to all and sundry. He does that to impress anyone not in the cult just how important he is.

  17. 17.

    eversor

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Those are for cold temperatures.  If you look around him the others are in white, tan, or straw hats as it’s hot there.

    If he’s going to be a Texan he should know this, and also not to wear it backwards.

  18. 18.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @eversor: Fuck that shit. I always wear black, except for when I wear straw and I really couldn’t give a rat’s ass what a fucking goddamned Texan wears. I just wish most of them would wear whateverthefuck far away from me.
    ps: I spent a lifetime working and playing outdoors, don’t even pretend to tell me what heat is like and the best way to deal with it.​

    eta: oh yeah, all available evidence suggests red cooks the brain.

  19. 19.

    moops

    you know what some of his brilliant genius ideas are ? “more legal immigration.” Yeah? really dude? Literally EVERYONE says this. The far left, the center, the far right, everyone.

    The PROBLEM, you idiot, is that everyone means something different with this phrase. Which is why it is safe for every politician to say this often and loudly.

    It is clearer and clearer that this guy doesn’t know very much.

    Also, he is definitely laying the groundwork for a political campaign. This is the kind of political stupid stunts that Trump used to pull before he would throw his hat in the ring.

    Governor of Texas or Senator from Texas are my top guesses.

     

    /  also, he is wearing a felt cowboy hat in summer.  felt cowboy hats are for winter.  In summer you use other materials, like straw, and have ventilation holes to prevent overheating.  All clear signals that this man has no functional brain under that hat.

  20. 20.

    eversor

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Oh I agree with you on this.   But you aren’t the one who moved to Texas to play pretend cowboy and now pretend border sherrif.

    With any luck Elon will get thrown off a horse or crushed by a bull.

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Nah, I mean the org is all screwed up but that is not why he sends it to all and sundry. He does that to impress anyone not in the cult just how important he is.

    Sure sounded more like a cry of desperation to me, combined with total ignorance of who in his org might actually be able to help him. But of course he undoubtedly has a terrible sense of what impresses normies.

  25. 25.

    p.a.

    Any photos of Texans behind him laughing their asses off over the hat?

    When do Musk-ovites online say  backward hats have a long and distinguished history of meaning based on strength in the face of adversity woke-ism?

  27. 27.

    Balconesfault

    I’m thinking that the strategy is … if you’re going to drop $40 billion with the apparent goal of impressing the incel community… you might as well go all the way and look the look.

  28. 28.

    lowtechcyclist

    @moops:

    you know what some of his brilliant genius ideas are ? “more legal immigration.” Yeah? really dude? Literally EVERYONE says this. The far left, the center, the far right, everyone.

    Maybe, but the far right sure doesn’t say it often, because it’s so easy to call them out on it. White Europeans by and large are happy to stay where they are, so which legal immigrants do they want more of?  And their answer is :crickets:

    Right now, that would be especially fun.  I’m sure we could get a whole bunch of willing immigrants who recently escaped from Nagorno-Karabakh (sp?) with what they could carry, and that’s about as white a group of immigrants of any size that we’re ever likely to get.  Are they willing to open the door to 100,000 Armenians? I’m betting not.

    Like I said, it’s so easy to call them on it, they almost never say it where anyone outside their bubble can hear.

    Anyway, someone should as Elmo what parts of the world he’d welcome more legal immigrants from.

  29. 29.

    lowtechcyclist

    @mrmoshpotato: ​
     

    I’d bet good (Monopoly) money that anyone who could actually help has left Twitter or been fired by Melon Husk.

    Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

  32. 32.

    BellyCat

    FTFNYT headline soon to come:

    Trendsetter Musk with Reverse Hat Trick Gives Nod to Ballcaps of Disaffected Youth.

  36. 36.

    sab

    We’re trapped in our neighborhood until noon because of our stupid city marathon. And this year they didn’t send out any notices, so the new neighbors will be surprised when they try to do their usual Saturday morning grocery shopping.

  37. 37.

    Tony Jay

    @BellyCat:

    New Yorker Op Ed

      From flaunting the mean-street stylings of Urban America on the Wild West’s new border to breaking all the rules of social-media in revamping Twitter for a wider appeal. How Elon Musk brought all the heat and what the real-life Zephram Cochrane is going to blow our minds with next.

  38. 38.

    Baud

    Counterpoint

    The internet is mocking Elon Musk for wearing his cowboy hat backward, but a Stetson pro says it’s correct

    I hope the press asks Biden to weigh in on this controversial subject.

  40. 40.

    eversor

    @lowtechcyclist:

    Different groups on the far right want different things.

    Musk and Carlson have advocated for more White South Africans and cloaked it in helping them escape from a failing country.  A portion of the right wants solutions like this.

    You also have figures like Dreher, Ahmari, and the entire Christian Intellectual/National Conservatism crowd who’ve come out as fine with refugees from the Middle East and some from Latin America provided they are Christian.  This is sold as stopping genocide in some cases and that it’s liberalism fault there is a genocide.  But it’s really about juicing the number of Christians in the US as the younger generations are leaving it at record rates for Christian political power.  Which is something they admit in their publications.  Many of them aren’t down with European immigration as Christianity is going away there as well.

    You also have right wingers like the Koch’s who just want cheap labor and don’t care about anything else.

    There’s also a fringe group on the far right that has a fetish about Asia because it’s viewed as more traditional than the west and the women as submissive.  Which is sort of funny as neither of those things are true.   Along with a creepy love of anime among them.  Especially Japan.  As Japan produces shit loads of cartoon rape porn where the women are shown as underage and also loves using Nazi’s in it’s cartoons who are all portrayed as heroic evil geniuses.

    The far right is not a monolith but there is a lot of overlap.  But the three goals are Christianity, caucasians, and cash.  Or religion, race, and riches which is the same thing.  It’s why they can’t really agree on a policy among themselves.

  41. 41.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:

     On Tonight with Bill Maher, with the shine coming off Tesla, NASA getting its Moonshot lined up and Twitter collapsing under the gravity of his ego, we’ll be asking the question, isn’t the real problem here our inability as a species to keep up with the genius that is Elon Musk?

  42. 42.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @lowtechcyclist: Illegal immigration gives them exactly what they want: A cheap labor force, the ability to deport any troublemakers who complain about not getting paid, and a whole demographic they can demonize without worrying about how they will vote.

  47. 47.

    Betty

    The word on Twitter/X is that Musk fired his election review staff because one of them liked a tweet calling him a dipshit. Such a fine man.

  48. 48.

    eversor

    @Tony Jay:

    I’m waiting for the failure of his AI super computer with custom chips.  Many companies have pulled this off.  But Elon can’t stop messing with things.

  49. 49.

    Mousebumples

    Good morning! Reminder that we have a postcard thread for Ohio and Virginia later tonight at 8pm blog time. Hope to see you there! 😊

  52. 52.

    Ken

    company-wide email: “Please fix this.”

    And one of the engineers, misunderstanding for obvious reasons what the problem was, sent the “murder driver” control code to Musk’s Tesla.

  53. 53.

    narya

    @Mousebumples: Okay, so I have so far FAILED on this count. BUT!!11! I am packing postcards and stamps to take with me–lots of hours on the train. Dunno if the wifi will permit joining the thread.

  56. 56.

    RevRick

    The bigotry at the border is nothing new in American history. The Chinese Exclusion Act of the 1880s was demanded by white laborers, who feared competition from Chinese immigrants who were willing to work for less pay. But it really ramped up in the 1920s, when “Real” Americans demanded a clampdown on immigration from the shithole countries of Eastern and Southern Europe, following the surge of 15 million in the previous two decades. The hue and cry then, as now, was these “inferior “ types were unassimilatable and would contaminate the pure Anglo-Saxon stock.

  57. 57.

    cmorenc

    @Baud:

    North Carolina radio station plans to reject broadcasts of ‘inappropriate‘ Met operas

    The station in question is WCPE, which is a listener-supported classical radio station, a kind of quasi-public radio outfit.  Recall how the late cultural high-brow conservative William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line” TV program intro was Brandenburg Concerto no. 2″?  WCPE’s predominant demographic appeal (think: donors) is to a similar audience of folks who think of themselves as cultured, well-mannered conservatives, though in the days before tons of similar material became easily available via streaming, it had many progressive listeners in the donating audience, and likely still has some.  The station’s decision re: Met Operas reflects the now-predominant demographic of its donating supporters.

    Not saying here that I approve of the station’s decision, just explaining it in terms of it’s predominant audience of supporting listeners.

  58. 58.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @lowtechcyclist:

    A company-wide email, huh? “Please fix this.” Man, the organization of that place must be so screwed, for him to need to send it to all and sundry.

    Would be fitting (hilarious?) if X’s version of HAL addresses Elon’s request of “fix this” and permanently “fixes” the problem by stuffing Elon into a pod and shooting him into the sun.

    AI is, after all, the wave of the future…one human at a time, right HAL? ;)

  59. 59.

    Shalimar

    @Betty: I mean, that really should be a no-no at almost any company if you want to stay employed.   On the other hand, Elon really is a dipshit and the fired employees are lucky they don’t work for him anymore.  So there is that.

  61. 61.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @lowtechcyclist: Could this email be any more rich, white, male CEO?  This is what these assholes consider the genius thinking that proves they earn their Million$/Billion$.  What brilliant Business Man!!

  62. 62.

    Josie

    That Stetson pro is in London. Seriously, Texans are going to listen to a Londoner about how to wear a cowboy hat? Besides, the hat is too small for the idiot’s big head.

  63. 63.

    UncleEbeneezer

    Just found out last night that my boss had forgotten to change my pay rate for a raise that he authorized in the beginning of the Summer.  So I just got an additional paycheck to make up for it, which is especially nice as it almost perfectly covers the remainder of what I’ll need to pay next week for the cabin we are renting for our annual Fall Color trip to the Sierras!!  Makes things a little easier for our finances.  Now we just gotta hope that the leaves don’t change/fall before we get there (the Sierra are getting hit with freezing temps this weekend which could make things accelerate fast)

  64. 64.

    mrmoshpotato

    @sab:

    We’re trapped in our neighborhood until noon because of our stupid city marathon. And this year they didn’t send out any notices, so the new neighbors will be surprised when they try to do their usual Saturday morning grocery shopping. 

    We got you surrounded!  Come out with your running shoes on!

  65. 65.

    lowtechcyclist

    @OzarkHillbilly: ​

    Illegal immigration gives them exactly what they want: A cheap labor force, the ability to deport any troublemakers who complain about not getting paid, and a whole demographic they can demonize without worrying about how they will vote.

    Exactly. Why would they want more legal immigration? The current setup is working perfectly for them.

    @eversor: ​

    Different groups on the far right want different things.

    And it’s all easily-called-out bullshit, which is why they rarely propose more legal immigration. Most of the white South Africans who were going to flee have long since fled. Few Japanese want to come here either. Dreher et al. may want more Christian immigrants, but good luck with that. And as Ozark Hillbilly pointed out, Koch et al. already have their ideal cheap, compliant labor pool of illegal immigrants.

  66. 66.

    mrmoshpotato

    @LiminalOwl: Thanks for bringing up the genocidal comments of this apartheid-loving Nazi shitstain.

    “Is the German public aware of this?” Musk asked in a Friday post on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, which he purchased for $44 billion last year. Musk embedded a post from an account that frequently shares racist attacks on migrants.

    In the post shared by Musk, the account lamented the presence of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean Sea that rescue migrants from distressed vessels.

    “These NGOs are subsidized by the German government,” the account posted. “Let’s hope AfD wins the elections to stop this European suicide.”

  67. 67.

    WaterGirl

    @Anne Laurie:

    He likes to imagine himself as The Big Bad, He Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, He Who Is Universally Mocked.

    Serious rotating tag material!  I will have to edit slightly so it’s not too long for the space.

  69. 69.

    Karen S.

    @Baud: I read the story. The station’s general manager is a god-bothering idiot. She’s worried about Judgment Day and how she’ll answer to her (abusive) God if she lets even one child hear one of the operas she objects to. Arrgggh!!! Such people are a stain on humanity.

  73. 73.

    kalakal

    @Chief Oshkosh:

    if X’s version of HAL

    The poor thing is at the “Daisy, Daisy” stage by now

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Illegal immigration gives them exactly what they want

    Spot on! If they really wanted to stop it they could cut 90% of it within a month. All they need to do is prosecute anyone who employs undocumented workers. Anytime they raid a workplace haul out the owners as well as the workforce in the ICE van. Illegal immigration would plummet

  75. 75.

    Honus

    @Josie: my family sold stetsons in West Virginia for nearly 100 years.  That hat may not be backwards but it doesn’t fit and looks bad. My grandfather and uncle wouldn’t have let him walk out of the store like that.

  76. 76.

    Another Scott

    @Honus:

    Reddit.com:

    appleburger17
    19 hr. ago

    After reviewing all the evidence in the THREE threads on this in the sub today I think I’ve cracked it: Elon is a douche, his hat is backwards, the band on the hat is installed wrong.

    You should always have the buckle of the band on the left side. Elon’s buckle is on the left side. Correctly. But the band is on upside down so even though the band orientation is correct the hat was shaped to be worn the other way. So he’s half wrong, full moron.

    And finally, r/Texas is way too concerned about this.

    I’m shocked, shocked to read that last bit. ;-)

    FWIW.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  77. 77.

    scav

    “Please fix this”

    Wouldn’t a real Texan say geld?  Would improve the marbling, tenderness and marketability at least.

  78. 78.

    Ruckus

    @Rusty:

    His hat is not on backwards.  His head is on backwards.

    100 points for pointing out that he is sfb II. Also how can you tell when it is surrounded by asshole?

    Also, I wonder who will purchase his cars now? He’s alienating liberals and I wonder how many conservatives want to purchase a vehicle without a liquid fuel motive source, you know join the 21st century? I do but I’m a lifelong liberal and thinking of retiring my driving efforts as there are alternatives and I drive so much now……not.

  79. 79.

    Subsole

    As a Texan, Elon has not offended my sense of aesthetics, but my sense of ergonomics.

    Like, the crease on that hat fits your hand perfectly when you hold it by the front of the crown. It would feel supremely weird just on a kinesthetic level to hold the crown by the wider part, at least on that style of crown (there are some styles where the front does not narrow). That narrowed front fits your hand just right.

     

    With respect to the Stetson pro, I have never in 40+ years living in my state seen people wear that style of crown in that fashion. Again, there are other styles of crown where the front doesn’t come to a point. He isn’t wearing one of those.

    I don’t wear hats. I am a city boy. I have only worn a hat a handful of times, when I was unlucky enough to be working outdoors in high summer. And I don’t think I could screw up the application of that article of attire as thoroughly as he did.

    I mean, Jesus, y’all. It’s a HAT. This ain’t some ancient secret handed down by the first Vaqueros to the Inner Circle of the Sacred Brotherhood of Willie and Waylon.

    How do you fuck up putting on a hat?

    I don’t know how to explain why this bothers me so. The closest analogy would be putting your shoes on upside down. I’m sure you could, but it would require:

    1. Determined effort.

    2. No one in the vicinity who cared enough to help you do it correctly.

     

    I am forced to conclude that if you handed Elon a boot full of piss with emptying instructions printed on the heel, then walked away for five minutes and let nature take its course, you would come back to find the man with his hair fully soaked and the boot halfway up his ass.

  80. 80.

    Subsole

    @Honus:

    That’s part of what bugs me.

    I don’t care about the hat. I’m not letting you walk out into public looking like a dipshit when you came to me asking for help looking nice.

    This man genuinely has no friends.

  81. 81.

    Subsole

    Sigh.

    I am so very, very tired of these conservadouches trying to dress like us because their hideously malformed thought processes have told them it gives them some kind of street cred with failed-theater-kid political operatives who yearn for some rustic down-home masculinity as a tonic to their deep-seated inadequacies…

  84. 84.

    mr perfect

    @Josie: I was thinking New York City.  He’s trying for the Marlborough Man look but instead resembles the 42nd Street Cowboy.

Comments are closed.