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As A Father, Elon Musk Is “Daddy Dearest”

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Every family has a designated weirdo and that was me.

But no matter how much of a knucklehead I was during my difficult teenage years, my family always supported me even though I knew they didn’t always understand where I was coming from. They always had my back, and I loved them for that.

I was blessed. However, some people aren’t so lucky. If the appropriate boxes aren’t checked off, they won’t get a helping hand but a slap in the face, and it hurts more when it’s coming from someone who says they love you.

To contrast and compare, let’s look at Elon Musk, the techbro zillionaire who can’t buy a clue.

Elon Musk contains multitudes. Unfortunately, they’re all bad.

Musk is a monstrous human being. As a dysfunctional parental unit, he’s a monster. Musk sees his children either as disposable props or punching bags.

In a recent interview with fellow nutjob Jordan Peterson, Musk babbled (again) about the infamous “mind woke virus” and how it “stole my son from me”.

Vivian Jenna Wilson pushed back against Musk’s nonsense. Hard.

“I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything and I would just let this go unchallenged,” she told NBC News in an interview published July 25. “Which I’m not going to do, because if you’re going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I’m not just gonna let that slide.” 

Wilson—whom Musk shares with ex-wife Justine Wilson—clapped back by saying she is entitled to make her own decisions when it comes to her identity and health. 

“I would like to emphasize one thing: I am an adult. I am 20 years old. I am not a child,” she said. “My life should be defined by my own choices.” 

Wilson—who filed to change her name when she was 18—also detailed her estranged relationship with Musk, which she said began long before she came out as trans at age 16.

Calling Musk “cold” and “quick to anger” during her childhood, Wilson alleged he was only present about 10 percent of the time. 

“He is uncaring and narcissistic,” she said, recalling one “cruel” incident in fourth grade during which he allegedly berated her vocal tone. “He was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high.”


It’s difficult, awkward, and confusing to transition from being a child to a young adult, and the arguments that erupted at home usually resulted from me trying to figure things out and my parents trying to figure me out. But despite all of the generational drama, I knew that they loved me, and the invaluable support of my family throughout the years was the solid bedrock that helped me navigate the turbulent waters of my teenage years.

And no matter how bad it got at times, my mother and father never acted like they were ashamed of me. My mother and father never did to me what Musk did to his daughter.

There’s a line from a Law and Order episode that spills the tea about men like Musk:

“He wasn’t a father,” Jack McCoy said. “He just happened to be in the room when the child was conceived.”

I bet Ms. Wilson wishes Tim Walz was her Dad.

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  5. 5.

    Kristine

    I used to follow Justine Wilson on LiveJournal around the time her marriage to Musk was fracturing. Her posts were eye-opening. She never really spoke out against him IIRC. But reading between the lines, it was obvious that he belittled her and her accomplishments—she had several books out at that time— constantly, to the point that she by all appearances believed it herself. He was and is poison.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    Every family has a designated weirdo and that was me.

    It’s why you’re a valued member of BJ.
    Glad to see you posting more.

  7. 7.

    brendancalling

    My kid is trans, and just changed her name. It’s been an adjustment, but we’ve been 100% supportive. I cannot imagine being the kind of heartless monster that Elon is.

    Adding, my kid and I have always lived apart, her in Montreal and me (mostly) in Philly. It was hard as FUCK to remain involved in my kid’s life, especially as a Person Of Not Much Money, but I’ve always done my best and tried to do the right thing. Elon has all the resources in the world,  and the dude wasn’t even involved in his kid‘s upbringing.

    what a piece of shit.

  11. 11.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I bet Ms. Wilson wishes Tim Walz was her Dad.

    With any luck Wilson will find someone who will be the father she never had. People seemed to be hardwired that way.

    But come to think of it, makes me wonder is this why all the whining about people with no children from the Right Wing fucktards: they afraid thier child is going to adopt one as surrogate parent and abandon their fuckup ass?

  14. 14.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Is this family weirdo thing like the poker rule about spotting the sucker? If you can’t immediate spot them, they are you?

  15. 15.

    Ken

    @Baud: There are no pant police here.

    Note, however, page 218 paragraph 3(b) of “Project 2025″…

    (I just made up the numbers, but I’m sure it’s in there somewhere; every behavior must be policed, you know.)

  16. 16.

    Sure Lurkalot

    Vivian Wilson is very wise.

    “You are not ‘saving the planet,’ you do not give a fuck about climate change and you’re lying about multi-planetary civilization as both an excuse, and because you want to seem like the CEO from Ready Player One. I would mention the birth rate stuff, but I am not touching that weird 14-words breeder shit with a ten foot pole. You single-handedly disillusioned me with how gullible we are as a species because somehow people keep believing you for reasons that continue to evade me.”

    Me too. And I’m so sorry for the pain that fuck caused you.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    @Damien:

    Musk made some good investments early on but he then started getting in his own way. Obviously, it’s hard for the super wealthy to fall completely, but compared to where he would have been if he hadn’t fallen off the deep end, he’s a clear loser.

  19. 19.

    Jeffro

    Musk is a psycho

    i saw a great quote about Walz: “Tim Walz is the dad an entire generation wishes they had instead of the one they lost to Fox News” 💯

  22. 22.

    The Thin Black Duke

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oh no. I knew. Thing is, although I didn’t know it at the time, I also was safe. That helps enormously.

    I think that’s one aspect of the Tim Walz phenomenon that I appreciate. It’s a necessary reboot of the traditional but harmful male role model in our culture. It’s long overdue.

  23. 23.

    Steve in the ATL

    Does anything better capture the spirit of breakdancing than Taipei versus Kazakhstan in an Olympic dance off?

  26. 26.

    KatKapCC

    To me, choosing not to have children is far better than choosing to have children you are not prepared to love.

  29. 29.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @M31: The only fashion police we have are the suede denim secret police, and, to be fair, they are only here for your uncool niece.

  30. 30.

    Starfish

    I agree with SC. Musk is not a parent. He is a sperm donor. He has children with many women that he never married, and he pressures women who do reach higher levels in his companies to have babies with him. He is pushing white-replacement theory fears that require him to have as many children as possible (racism) and he just thinks that it is his job to make as many babies as possible because he is the best human ever (narcissism.)

    Musk currently has 12 children.

    The first six were by Justine.

    There were two by Grimes through surrogacy (which is weird and also can have settler-colonial implications if brown women are asked to carry white babies for rich people who have all the equipment but can’t be bothered to carry their own children.)

    Twins by Shivon Zilis, who met musk through OpenAI, and worked at both Tesla and Neurolink.

    Another by Grimes and another by Zilis.

    People keep deleting the TESCREAL article on Wikipedia, but it is a good framework for understanding what is going on at the top of some tech companies.

  34. 34.

    PST

    What I can’t forgive Walz is the duck and run he pulled on Nebraska in 1996 just months before the election. True blue Minnesota didn’t need his vote. It takes guts to be a Nebraska Democrat.

  35. 35.

    waspuppet

    In a recent interview with fellow nutjob Jordan Peterson

    So they’re just all interviewing each other now? Because no one else will talk to them understands them, I take it? Is Trump going to interview Jordan Peterson, to close the circle?

    I was in between Thin Black Duke and Vivian Wilson in how my family perceived me — closer to TBD really, but no I didn’t feel supported to just be. I was the “This IS SO a real job!” kid, except, y’know, it uncontroversially was, in that I was staying alive and keeping a roof over my head without asking them for money. It just wasn’t a livelihood they considered proper.

  37. 37.

    lamh47

    Has agent orange and sofa guy done a rally together EVER? Like I seriously asking, I try my best to NOT pay attention or even watch/keep up with the other sides rallies and shit. Have they even been on stage since RNC?

    I know the media is in the tank, but seriously…that’s WEIRD?

     Isn’t the convention usually followed by a run of rallies with the ENTIRE ticket?

  38. 38.

    CliosFanBoy

    I saw a great post on Quora. A gay man posted that when he came out to his Dad, his father just looked at him and said, “Same rule as your sister. No boys in your room.”

  39. 39.

    Ken

    @Sid: Just when you think you know exactly how big of an asshole Elmo is …

    … you see a Cybertruck drive past.

    (Oh, wasn’t this a “complete the sentence” game? My bad.)

  40. 40.

    eclare

    @lamh47:

    Were they together in ATL?  That’s the only appearance that comes to mind where they both might have been.

    I don’t think JV was in MT.

  47. 47.

    CliosFanBoy

    @eclare: Ack, I see the typo (“gay man” not “gay”) only after the editing window closed!  But I liked it too. No big production, just acceptance.

  53. 53.

    HumboldtBlue

    @raven: ​

    @eclare: ​
     

    Offside is a simple rule, no body part of an attacking player can be behind the LAST defender when the ball is passed or the phase of play begins, or they are offside. That’s it.

    Offside is one of the laws in association football, codified in Law 11 of the Laws of the Game. The law states that a player is in an offside position if any of their body parts, except the hands and arms, are in the opponents’ half of the pitch, and closer to the opponents’ goal line than both the ball and the second-last opponent (the last opponent is usually, but not necessarily, the goalkeeper).[1][2]

    Being in an offside position is not an offence in itself, but a player so positioned when the ball is played by a teammate can be judged guilty of an offside offence if they receive the ball or will otherwise become “involved in active play”, will “interfere with an opponent”, or will “gain an advantage” by being in that position. Offside is often considered one of the most difficult-to-understand aspects of the sport.[3]

  62. 62.

    PST

    @KatKapCC: It’s a serious sign of failure when someone asks if you are “attempting” humor. It’s the “attempting” part that stings. I thought of it more as a reductio ad absurdum of the recent swift boating.

  64. 64.

    Mike E

    @raven:

    @eclare: it’s a big defensive strategy where the back line sets the limit (actually last defender before their own goal…they move up to “catch” the opposing forward offsides at the moment of them reacting to the pass emanating from upfield). Assistant ref eyeballs it but allows play to continue if it’s close just in case their eyes deceive them and VAR verifies it either way.

    Raven: think of soccer as basketball played without hands and the beautiful game will unfold in front of you!

  67. 67.

    jowriter

    @The Thin Black Duke:Safe is all the things.  My parents could see early on that I thought different and wanted something beyond the place and monoculture where I was raised, and they let me be me.   I think that is why Walz is a magnet for kids.  When I first saw that video of him signing the meals for every kid legislation, his love for children  was so apparent it brought me to tears.  I was over the moon when Vice President Harris chose him as her running mate, because she saw what I saw.  We are not going back.

  68. 68.

    M31

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​
     

    I don’t know, man, I’ve had to tell the kids these days “LISTEN I WAS HERE FOR BELLBOTTOMS THE FIRST TIME DON’T DO IT IT’S A TRAP”

  71. 71.

    M31

    @CliosFanBoy: @M31: The No-Pant Police.  Worst Cheap Trick tribute band EVAH.

    lol Cheaper Trick

    edited to add “Cheaper Trick” looks like “Cyber Truck” which is apropo

  73. 73.

    Tony Jay

    @HumboldtBlue:

    The post-VAR ‘improvements’ to the offside rule have made it unfit for any purpose other than driving fans tonto loco and/or making sure teams from Manchester don’t lose games.

    Here’s an idea. Most every player in the top leagues wears an undervest fitted with GPS sensors already. Why not just tag them all with a specific sensor right in the centre of their chest. If that sensor is goal side of the last defender’s sensor when the ball is kicked, the player can be said to have gained an advantage and is offside. If not, then it’s onside, even if a sliver of their trailing foot can be shown to have drifted 0.1mm in the wrong direction while running away from the goal.

    It’s too simple, they’d never go for it. How would the incorruptible paragons of the PGMOL manage to ‘earn’ those Gulf State gigs if they didn’t have last call over what does or does not constitute offside?

  74. 74.

    TBone

    Here it is on YouTube.  My dad brought home 3 suitcases of eight track tapes from Viet Nam and gave me my musical education when I was a wee girl, something I’m forever grateful for.  Big headphones were unceremoniously applied to my too small head, and I was kept out of trouble for untold hours!

    https://youtu.be/KIOo9psxYL0?si=nyb02E28csco0KZC

  75. 75.

    Leto

    Don’t know if anyone has seen this: USA Olympians getting free healthcare. Because France.

    I saw her video where she talks about getting a Pap smear, and has a dental and vision appointment setup. She was so happy.

    American teenager: “I’m training for the Olympics!”
    Reporter: “Because you want to be the best in the world?”
    AT: “No, because it’s the only way I can get checked for cervical cancer.”

  76. 76.

    Tony Jay

    @PST:

    I got it. Nice work. Sometimes it needs an “asked a spokeman for the Tampa-based Global Christian Outreach charity” tag for maximum verisimilitude.

  78. 78.

    Leto

    @Tony Jay: because you can’t just have a single one on their torso. You’d need it on the boots, knees, hands, shoulders… they’d be playing in a motion capture suit.

  80. 80.

    M31

    @Leto: lolol omg I forgot there was a second time already RUN AWAY

    I had some cool platform shoes though

    lol did anyone see the riding boots Snoop was wearing at the Olympics? now that was a fashion trend I’d get behind

  81. 81.

    TBone

    @Leto: 👍

    Yesterday I was corrected in the David Anderson medical insurance post when I advocated Medicare for All from birth, saying “Our athletes in France now know.”

    What I meant to say was

    UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE INSURANCE.

  84. 84.

    TBone

    @M31: didn’t work for Pudding Fingers though 😆

    I have a meme of a huge pair of white boots: the DeSantis Memorial in FL.

    I still have some way cool platform shoes!

  87. 87.

    mr perfect

    @Kristine: There’s a reason Elmo won’t use the bathroom w/o being accompanied by bodyguards.  Even at his company’s offices.

  88. 88.

    M31

    @TBone: every time I think of old Pud in Boots I remember that picture of Biden yucking it up with some old guy with a “Cracker” shirt on and his wife while DeSantis schlumps on by with his dejected loser face on

    ETA:

    this one

    lol and of course it’s Diamond Joe with his arm around the wife

  92. 92.

    hueyplong

    @mr perfect: Absolutely reasonable for him to assume that everyone in his employ would contemplate killing him at some point in their miserable tenures.

  95. 95.

    Tony Jay

    @Leto:

    No, specifically on the front of their chest. A lot of the anger with the more egregious offside decisions comes from players being penalised for a heel or a buttock being fractionally behind the defender even though their body position means they’re actually moving away from the goal and so not gaining an advantage.

    If the front of your body is goal side of the front of the last defender’s body, all that nonsense goes away. It brings back ‘gaining an advantage’ as the deciding factor.

  97. 97.

    Leto

    @M31: yeah JNCOs took bell bottom la to whole new level! I didn’t see Snoop, but I’m sure he was styling :)

     

    @TBone: I don’t care what name we give it (Uber Socialist Liberal No Cooties Coverage), but 100% agree. When people are exposed to these systems, they always come away going: why the hell can’t we have that here? Just have to keep at it.

  99. 99.

    Leto

    @M31: luuuul, just absolute perfection. And the guy on the right with the “ordained minister” and “troll” patches! Hahahaha! Reminds me of the “you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about” meme

  100. 100.

    M31

    @Leto: ​
    Snoop & Martha

    lol and notice Martha’s riding boots are all nice and scuffed, you know she’s had them for a while, while Snoop clearly called some people and said “hey make me some of those but Snoop-worthy” and man did they deliver

  103. 103.

    Leto

    @Omnes Omnibus: absolutely. I made that point over the course of my career, and most of the time the retort was, “Well I earned my benefit!” This was done quite a bit by SNCOs when I was an Airman. I didn’t have the ability to respond: “Bitch, you’re not putting in the same level of benefits you’re taking out”. Also I don’t have the needed knowledge/language to be able to make a better/more nuanced argument. I do now, but will still lead off with, “Bitch…”

    It wasn’t always perfect, but I never had to worry about my family, which was always my #1 priority.

  104. 104.

    BR

    I get the sense that the Never Trumpers are going to be cranky for the next three months. Boo hoo. They were all in on Shapiro because they liked that he (in their view — I don’t know the reality) was antagonistic with key blocs of the left like teachers unions.

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Leto: When Wes Clark was briefly running for president, he noted that the US military is the most socialist entity in the country.

  109. 109.

    M31

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​
     

    Clark also had some choice words for the guys who wanted to own ARs and so on: “look, you want to play with huge guns, join the Army, we’ve got lots of them”

    lol was a refreshing guy in many ways

  111. 111.

    lamh47

    Damnit!

    Looks like they are trying to take Jordan Chiles Bronze medal Gymnastics floor routine.

    Folks have been bombarding her socials and her mother’s socials with hurtful and racist bullshit.

    FUQ anyone hating on Jordan…So mad for Jordan! It was the judges mistake that had difficulty wrong. Paris IOC has been shit this Olympics…no one want to say it cause so many 1st this Olympic games, but the mistakes and from Paris IOC “planning” and decision have truly effected so many event results.

    Between the dirty azz Seine, the COVID outbreak, the bad weather related planning for the T&F events, the shit they allowed to going around about that poor Angola boxer, and don’t get me started on the day of the W 100M race…the bullshit that not only led to Shelly Ann Fraser Price and Sha’Carri Richardson not being admitted to the warm up area for almost an hour and neither being able to properly warm up.

  114. 114.

    West of the Rockies

    I wish all these creeps and weirdos had their Lonesome Rhodes unmaskings:  Elmo, Trump, Hannity, Carlson, Jarvanka,  etc.  I’d love to see them all go from fortunate to miserable.

  116. 116.

    Mike E

    @lamh47: ngl I thought the Romanian getting penalized a tenth of a point when she stayed in bounds throughout her routine was a head scratcher, she gets bronze otherwise.

  117. 117.

    JoyceH

    @lamh47: Now that you mention it, that is weird. At least in recent history, it’s been sort of a tradition that following the convention, the P and VP noms campaign together, tour around to intro the new team to the voters and kick off the regular campaign season – do that for a week or two and then split up so the campaign can have more headliner events. But if DJT and JDV have shared a stage other than the balloon drop, I sure can’t think of any. But then again, Trump isn’t really campaigning hardly at all.

  118. 118.

    wjca

    @Ken: I just made up the numbers, but I’m sure it’s in there somewhere; every behavior must be policed, you know.

    Perhaps not.  At least not explicitly.**  It’s a behavior which they may not have imagined.

    ** I suppose it could fall under the “gender appropriate clothing” demand.  But as long as Baud hasn’t substituted a skirt for pants, he can probably skate.

  121. 121.

    JoyceH

    BTW, programming note: for those who love it, Lawrence of Arabia is back in theaters for two days only, Aug 11 and 12, check your local theaters. (I’m going on Monday.).

    And for the streamers and old musical fans, On The Town (fun-seeking sailors on the loose in NYC) and Anchors Aweigh (fun-seeking sailors on the loose in Los Angeles) are both available on Tubi. Anchors Aweigh is the one where Gene Kelly dances with Jerry the mouse.

  122. 122.

    Another Scott

    Meanwhile, …

    Aaron Fritschner
    @Fritschner
    3h

    I’m not here to make predictions but normally it would not be a great sign if your standing in a state that already went for you twice dropped sharply in the weeks after you made a Senator from that state your running mate

    That’s just crazy talk!!11

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  125. 125.

    TBone

    Fox News’s Outnumbered panelists are used to propping up Donald Trump, who eats Big Macs by the fistful while downing a Diet Coke or ten. So naturally, they’re mad at Kamala Harris for having kitchen skills. They got her this time, you guys. Kamala likes to cook.

    🙄

    https://crooksandliars.com/2024/08/tragedy-now-fox-news-mad-kamala-likes-cook

    Cooks for Kamala!  👩‍🍳 Recipe exchanges!  Potlucks!  I could go on and on with this theme, lemme get some more vape and munchies, BRB

  126. 126.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @tam1MI: He is 60 years old.  The Cars would be part of the sound track of his high school years.  It isn’t really surprising.

  129. 129.

    tam1MI

    @Omnes Omnibus: He is 60 years old.  The Cars would be part of the sound track of his high school years.  It isn’t really surprising.

    I am close to his age, and it is the same way with me – the Cars were so omnipresent when I was in my prime music appreciation years I was a fan almost by default

    To bring things back around to Tim Walz, there was another denizen of Minnesota who was also a huge Cars fan:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxaLNoW-KDg

  131. 131.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @tam1MI: His Replacements fandom is more significant as a sign of musical taste.  The Cars were a good intro to non-Journey/REO Speedwagon/etc. bands that weren’t Rush or metal.  A gateway drug, as it were, but a pretty mainstream one.

  132. 132.

    tam1MI

    My gateway drug to New Wave/Alternative was the Police.  Different roads, same destination!  :)

  133. 133.

    lamh47

    @Mike E: it started with the Paris IOC judges having the incorrect difficulty level assigned to Jordan’s routine…that was why her score was revised.

    Go back and look at Simone Biles routines, not all of them was perfect, but her difficulty levels for her routines is so high, that even a bobble or occasional out of bounds deduction doesn’t stop her from being a top scorer.

    Jordan’s coaching team was right to ask for repeal of that score…No what happened here was basically on a 4 second technicality…i.e. the coaching team has 1min to ask for an inquiry after the score is given, the allegation is Jordan’s team waited 1 min 4 sec…a 4 sec TECHNICALITY!!

  138. 138.

    Geminid

    @JoyceH: Trump and Vance appeared together last Saturday in Atlanta. That’s the rally where Trump picked a fight with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp

    Ed. I thought Trump’s managers hoped for a campaign “reset” that night, but their uncontrollable candidate turned the rally into a setback.

  139. 139.

    M31

    lolol just read some of Trump’s remarks in MT

    “He’s very freakish,” Trump said during a meandering speech in Montana. “If Comrade Walz and Comrade [Kamala] Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists, the looters, the perverts, the flag burners, Hamas supporters, drug dealers, gun grabbers and human traffickers.”

    LOLOL except for swapping out Hamas for the Yippies or something, that’s a Nixon-era enemies list. Trump really is reverting.

    And the best is him saying “We’re not weird, They’re weird!” hahahahaha that’s 100% “Don’t put it in the newspaper that I’m mad” energy

    oh and that was Politico saying “in a meandering speech” which is what counts as critical journalism these days

    meandering, spittle-flecked incoherent rant of a decompensating dumbass not being in the Politico style sheet

  140. 140.

    TBone

    @JoyceH: thank you for that PSA!

    Made me check my town’s renovated art deco Campus Theater – I’ll be seeing Barbie for free on 8/19 (all Monday 7pm movies are free!)

  141. 141.

    ArchTeryx

    The actual quote came from Ben Stone, Assistant DA and later US Attorney, played by the awesome Michael Moriarity. It went something like this:

    “Benny Williams wasn’t Pat’s father. He was just in the room when Pat was conceived.”

    The episode was a murder trial involving the death of the father of a Major League baseball player, who originally was thought to have been killed by “Papa Doc,” the biggest bookie in Harlem. Instead, it came out that Papa Doc had nothing to do with Benny’s death; he’d tried to force his son Pat, the successful MLB player, to pay his gambling debts. The son pushed him; he hit his head on the way down and died. It was accidental manslaughter, not murder.

    The final quote was describing just how very few shits Pat’s father gave about him, other than the money he was pulling in. Benny was nothing but a leech and a parasite, riding off his own son’s successful career to feed a gambling addiction.

    Very reminiscent of Elon Musk and Trump himself.

  142. 142.

    UncleEbeneezer

    There needs to be a special place in Hell for people who publicly misgender and dead-name their Trans/NB kids (and make a political show of it).  Totally unsurprising for this Nazi piece-of-shit, but still really and truly gross.

  144. 144.

    lamh47

    Ha…Celine’s team sent a cease and desist to Chump’s team about using the Titanic song at their railly…

    Today, Celine Dion’s management team and her record label, Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., became aware of the unauthorized usage of the video, recording, musical performance, and likeness of Celine Dion singing “My Heart Will Go On” at a Donald Trump / JD Vance campaign rally in Montana. In no way is this use authorized, and Celine Dion does not endorse this or any similar use. …And really, THAT song?

    https://x.com/celinedion/status/1822347994223587506

  147. 147.

    M31

    @lamh47: lol OK I read on reddit that the staff at that event also played “Send in the Clowns” is that true? I mean, maybe that sound staff had their trump checks bounce already.

  153. 153.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @eclare: So do it.  I triple dog dare you.

    ETA: I have never had any desire to dye my hair any color, but I have always been partial to women with that odd shade of red that only Frenchwomen seem to use and also blue/purple.

  155. 155.

    wjca

    @Baud: Trump reads Balloon Juice?

    Hey, we’re not perverts!  It’s just that most of us have an odd kick in our gallop.

  156. 156.

    The Kropenhagen Interpretation

    So, just now driving down the freeway. I was getting ready to switch lanes and decide to let the car on the left pass me first.

    I get a look and it’s the Batmobile, but from a version of Batman that was never animated because the producers thought the designs were too angular and abstract.

  157. 157.

    Quinerly

    @rikyrah:

    I love him more everyday. I, too, have a working 8 track player (Capehart brand) just to play my Tony Orlando and Dawn.

    And, Crystal Gale.

    Both the Capehart and the 8 tracks survived college dorm life and my Springsteen loving dorm mate.

    Cue “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.”

  160. 160.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    @rikyrah: I love that so many replies cited that the 8track is The Cars and then write:  Tim, you are just what we needed!

  161. 161.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    @TBone: I doubt if she has the time, but wouldn’t it be great to have Harris cookbook merch.  I bet walz could add venison, pheasant and wild Turkey/duck recipes.  I’d buy it!

  162. 162.

    JML

    @ArchTeryx: Michael Moriarty: great actor. utter loon. Loved him on Law & Order. Then he started to think he actually was Ben Stone, I think…

  163. 163.

    alex j.

    Simple. Once Musk got closer Mega wealth, he initiated a breeding program. I think he has 10 kids. Money CAN buy you anything… except time itself.  So he likely vetted these “partners” for traits he preferred….ethnicity/looks, docility/volatility etc.  Ol’ Vivian turned out to be quite the firecracker….Kharma, you lunatic pseudo-scientist !

  165. 165.

    Ebony

    If your family made you feel like a weirdo for being different from them then maybe they actually were not that great. I don’t think the so called “normal” people are always better than the people they seem “weird”.

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