But in Georgia, Republicans stopped people from offering WATER to people waiting in line to vote because they considered it buying votes.
Scoop: Musk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges" https://t.co/5cQfPuwbG1
— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) March 21, 2025
He got bashed last October, he’s already been ‘rebuked’ for this round, but apparently not hard enough. Per Axios:
… Zoom in: The April 1 election in Wisconsin will determine the tilt of an ideologically divided bench in a swing state where state-level decisions can carry national implications for abortion rights, legislative redistricting and election laws.
– Two Musk-backed groups — America PAC and Building America’s Future — have combined to spend nearly $20 million to support Brad Schimel, the Republican candidate for the Wisconsin court seat.
– The Democratic candidate, Susan Crawford, has drawn millions in donations from progressive donors, including George Soros and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.The Wisconsin campaign is entering its final days as Trump and his allies are attacking federal judges standing in the way of his agenda. Trump has been particularly critical of a judge who is questioning the administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
The Wisconsin campaign is entering its final days as Trump and his allies are attacking federal judges standing in the way of his agenda. Trump has been particularly critical of a judge who is questioning the administration’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
– Trump and Musk have called for the impeachment of that judge, leading to a rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts…
And that’s on top of the latest ‘scoop’…
Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u…— Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Change in Headline
— Editing the Blue-Gray Lady (@nytdiff.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We live in hope.
Underrated chance that Elon just locks himself in a room gaming at some point because everyone hates him so loudly
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I would suggest to Mr. Elon that you only get to be protected by laws if you agree to be bound by them– kinda how the whole thing works!
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Strom Thurmond’s dad approves
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) March 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Maybe Elon is just trying to re-create the dynamic with which he’s most comfortable?…
this lummox has been calling america the dumbest fattest piece of toxic shit in history for ten years and folks are like i love this man he adores america so so much, thank you sir
great stuff as always— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
america’s abusive dad strikes again
— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) March 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Friday Wee Hours
TBone
Gonna need more than Three Dogs to get through these dark times 🎶
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEy6968xO-I
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin, y’all.
Every time I read stuff like this, I marvel at the absolute fucking belligerent dumbassery that is approximately half the American electorate.
thruppence
@Nukular Biskits: Marvel?! Luxury! We used to wish that we could marvel.
Baud
The cult think he’s talking about us.
Waldo
Fat, dumb and foolish? They love him cuz he tells it like he is.
JoyceH
I can’t get over that quote about not doing anything harmful, when people are literally dying right now because he took away their only food or medicine, and thousands more will die and he pranced around gloating about it.
TBone
This timeline…
Privatization Threat Looms As Amtrak CEO Resigns
Yardbirds 🎶
m.youtube.com/watch?v=R18qCKNLQdM
p.a.
Our compatriots:
“Fat, dumb, lazy…” ohhh yeah daddy tell us more.
“Racist, exploitative…” fuck you you fucking liberal piece of shit!
Suzanne
Well, yeah….. how do you think you got elected? Like voted for like.
p.a.
@TBone: Oh boy the interstates in the megalopolis are gonna be hella fun without Amtrak. If private carriers didn’t want to carry people THEN, causing the origin of Amtrak, why would they want it now?
Princess
Trump take train.
TBone
@p.a.: especially The Beltway, as the Trucker convoy Found Out.
Suzanne
@TBone: Remember when they got stuck in the parking lot, driving around the Hagerstown Mall? LMAO.
TBone
@Suzanne: that’s what I was referring to and I join your LMAO!
YY_Sima Qian
Both Britain & Germany have issued travel advisories for visiting the U.S.
TBone
Tesla REMOVED From Vancouver International Auto Show
TBone
Another one bites the dust – the details are (still) hair-raising so trigger warning!
ANOTHER ONE: MAGA Hero Indicted On Child Porn Charges
prostratedragon
@TBone: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬!!
TBone
@prostratedragon: a lot of people never got The Memo about not obeying in advance.
prostratedragon
@YY_Sima Qian:
Carl T. Bergstrom 🧵:
Gvg
@YY_Sima Qian: At this point I think the Us should issue travel advisories for Americans traveling who return to the US. Given what I am reading about ICE I am worried about a trip my family had already set up to Texas in April to see wildflowers bloom. That’s 3 female born in the US Americans, one using a walker, within the states. And I wish we didn’t have to fly. They follow the news even more than I do, but don’t think flying is dangerous yet. Statistically it probably isn’t. Florida to Texas and back will almost certainly have ICE inspections and they are thugs.
TBone
Mood lightning music, sort of…take it away, Steve
m.youtube.com/watch?v=q3mfENm6VJc
Yes I spelled it rong
Professor Bigfoot
@Gvg: Most of my family are in Tennessee; and I really want to visit– but the thought 500 miles of American police make me nervous as a long-tailed cat on a porch full of rocking chairs.
CarolM
@TBone: My husband works for Amtrak and told me about this yesterday. His job would likely be one of the first to be eliminated with any budget cuts that might be coming, but with my work and his ability to find other jobs, we are in a privileged position and not too worried (about ourselves, that is). Thank you for linking the article. It’s not surprising that when Amtrak put out a report on how idiotic the notion of privatization was and that it had already been tried in the UK and failed, that they would respond with anger and demand the head of the CEO.
TBone
@Professor Bigfoot: there’s an app for that but I don’t blame you! Lawyers can’t virtually stop bullets.
blackgirlsbond.com/how-paulina-bryan-built-livelawyerapp-to-connect-you-instantly-with-a-lawyer-when…
WereBear
And yet all this oppression stuff is being kept from the normies. Move along, nothing to see here.
If the Vichy press wanted everyone to know, they have their ways. They are fearful, too, hide it, and mislead the normies yet again.
TBone
@CarolM: President Biden loves Amtrak also too and so say we all. I’m glad you will both land on your feet and simultaneously horrified at *waves hand the speed of the capitulation by people in power who should be digging in with both heels. Stilletoes. Also spelled rong.
Matt McIrvin
@p.a.: I suspect the Northeast Corridor is the one place where private companies will actually want to jump in, because the passenger trains make money there. It’s everywhere else that will lose Amtrak service.
TBone
@WereBear: GMA was broadcasting loud dissatisfaction this morning, in their stilted way. Hubby has taken to watching A.M. news again after a long hiatus.
MagdaInBlack
I watched elno’s interview on Ted Cruz’s podcast. Aside from the firehose of bs from elno and the overwhelming stupid of Ted, I noticed how unwell elno looks. He is a more “drawn and waxen” unhealthy looking than I recall.
I suppose no sleep and lots of drugs will do that.
Chief Oshkosh
@Suzanne: Yes, there’s a lot of that, but there’s also a lot of dumb and foolish voting based on even less.
Chief Oshkosh
@prostratedragon: Where is this quote from? Was it in the OP and I missed it?
Chief Oshkosh
@TBone: Removed my comment as being pointlessly negative about what we already know about the press.
prostratedragon
@Chief Oshkosh:
Bergstrom’s BlueSky account. He has new posts several days a week lately, and if the form has masters, he’s among them.
Geminid
@prostratedragon: From Ankara-based Clash Report:
@YY_Sima Qian:
WereBear
@TBone: I can’t watch their “toy poodle on speed” editing style. And they kind of “yell” at me with their body language.
Get it away!
YY_Sima Qian
@Geminid: Just the beginning. The U.S. benefitted enormously from the exodus of Jewish academics (as well as other non-conforming types) from Nazi Germany. Now MAGA is doing the same, will have same deleterious results.
Chief Oshkosh
@prostratedragon: thanks
montanareddog
@Suzanne:
He should know. He has long, personal experience of fat, dumb and foolish.
montanareddog
Speaking of Brad Schimel, I wonder if that is an Ellis Island anglicization of Schimmel, which is the Dutch and German word for green mold. It would certainly be appropriate in a world of increasing nominative determinism.
p.a.
@Geminid:
@YY_Sima Qian:
It’s very very bad history-as-lesson, but to make a political argument about the regime’s cretinism, we can note the Ming Dynasty’s shut down of foreign exploration and the Tokugawa shogunate’s closing of Japan as examples of “we have nothing to learn from anyone else” coming back to really bite the ass of those civilizations. Of course, the “Germanic physics” of the 3rd Reich is a much more recent example.
Again, for pedants, I’m not saying the examples are applicable, but to make a political point they could be really useful I think.
WereBear
@p.a.: They are applicable.
Arrogance happens in bodies, and the body politic. They infest each other, don’t they?
RevRick
@montanareddog: Great for cheese; not so much for anything else.
It’s a small sample, but early voting turnout in Madison, Wisconsin are up 167% over 2023. It indicates how motivated Democrats are….and that Schimel may get buried in a landslide.
montanareddog
@RevRick: which is indeed in the name for those two languages – schimmelkaas and schimmelkäse. No polite euphemisms like blue cheese for the forthright Dutch and Germans.
ETA: glad to hear of the optimistic early signs from Wisconsin
Quaker in a Basement
Golly, the cost of daycare must be even worse than I thought. Even the richest man in the world can’t afford it.
YY_Sima Qian
@p.a.: Yeah, except all that the Ming & the Tokugawa Shogunate’s ban on official seaborne trade did was to create & sustain the pan-E/SE Asian smuggling & pirate networks, led by Chinese trading/shipping families now seek alternative sources of wealth, employing out of work Japanese ronins from vanquished/subjugated clans as sell swords. They plied the waves of the Yellow, East China & South China seas, carrying on trade between Mainland China, Japan, the Ryukyus, Taiwan & maritime SE Asia. They plundered coastal towns & villages, & laid seige to major coastal cities.
Ironically, a few such pirate forces then formed the last bulwarks supporting the remanent Ming court against the invading Manchus, as the Ming Empire collapsed under internal rebellion & foreign assault, holding out south of the Yangtze River & then along the SE coast, until internecine bickering & overwhelming Manchu (& allied Mongol/Chinese) might destroyed them. Koxinga led the remaining forces across the Taiwan Strait & conquered the Dutch outpost there, taking the coastal plains for Chinese colonists, thus bringing parts of Taiwan under Chinese rule for the 1st time. The Manchu Qing Empire subjugating this remanent rump then incorporated coastal parts of Taiwan formally into the Chinese state for the 1st time.
Matt McIrvin
@YY_Sima Qian: When people speculate about alternate history versions of World War II (as they do) one thing I keep thinking is that if the United States goes pro-Axis, the United States gets no atomic bomb.
Probably the Soviet Union develops it first. Maybe a little later than in OTL, not so much because they were dependent on US research (they weren’t really), because they don’t have spies telling them that the US knows a bomb is possible.
So… maybe World War II drags on into the 1950s, but it ends with the USSR simply conquering the world?
davek319
@WereBear: Grewat example of Legacy Pravda not doing their jobs here, thanks, Seth Abramson. Bombshell:
bsky.app/profile/sethabramson.bsky.social/post/3ljj6szkc4c2g
WTFGhost
Elon strikes me as the sort of man who’d be a rampant misogynist, but claim his many children proves he “loves women,” even as his former partners describe physical torments they’d go through, to avoid having sex with him.
Just that clueless. I mean, I’ve seen incels, who be like “C-words! Why don’t C-words want to f-word me? I’m a good man with a big (rooster) who knows
what I can force women to dowhat women want! What kind of C-word wouldn’t think I’m a fine piece of meat?” They might as well be asking why n-words consider them racist.I’m betting Elon could put them all away in a rampant, hateful, misogyny contest, thinking he was the judge, and not the main contestant, the bookie’s runaway favorite, etc., etc., ad nauseaum, quite literally.
WTFGhost
@TBone: So, what, you couldn’t put on some *FOUR* Dog Night?
(Just kidding – ya left yourself wide open with “more than three dogs”.)
Geminid
@YY_Sima Qian: Turkiye provided a haven for a number of German Jewish scientists made stateless by Hitler. Kemal Atatuturk welcomed the opportunity to bolster Turkiye’s universities, and he pretty much despised the mere Corporal who ran Germany.
WTFGhost
@Matt McIrvin: As I understand it – and I may have had an over-eager history teacher – D-Day was, in part, to make sure the USSR didn’t ‘free’ Europe, and the atomic bombings were, in part, to deter the Soviets.
Of course, once a bomb is possible, people didn’t have long to take to find that it’s an engineering and supply problem to make a crude Uranium bomb. And the scary thing about a uranium bomb is, it’s just so simple. Two highly polished half-spheres of sufficiently pure uranium will explode if you just drop them in place (they’re usually squeezed together) and if you didn’t polish them enough, you have the world’s worst dirty bomb, but if you polished them enough, you’ll get a low-yield nuke (plus the world’s worst dirty bomb).
It’s harder to make a plutonium bomb because implosion is a lot harder, but, again, it’s an engineering problem. You can probably try to implode a bunch of stuff that isn’t plutonium to find out how to implode plutonium.
@p.a.: Trump isn’t just shutting down furriners; he’s shutting down US universities too, though it will take more time for the brain-drain to be felt.
@MagdaInBlack: Man. Universally hated and sleep deprived. I’d feel sorry for almost anyone suffering like that. But I had a pain doctor tell me he’s plenty empathic and compassionate, if only I’d stop *fighting* him… by trying to answer his questions, in good faith. My sympathy drained rapidly for people who swear they’ve done nothing *bad*. There’s a lot of people who need to learn they’ve done something bad, and if they torment themselves along the way, it’s not my problem any longer.
Shalimar
I will put this down here where no one will read it since it is about Musk and doesn’t belong in newer threads.
Tesla’s stock is having its worst stretch ever, and the bad news keeps coming
I don’t understand this at all. Musk’s AI company is a part of X, not Tesla. What is Tesla doing with AI other than the breakdancer-in-a-robot-suit and their robotaxi that is 3-4 years behind Waymo? That car/truck sales are cratering is bad. That no one wants used Teslas either suggests a company that will be dead in a few years.