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He’s melllllting, melting:

Trump’s NRA rally has just been canceled… following him backing out of 60 Minutes, CNBC, and a 2nd debate with Kamala. Meanwhile, she’s going head-to-head with Bret Baier on Fox News. Remind me again who’s the “alpha”?

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— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) October 17, 2024 at 4:52 PM

From the Savannah Morning News, since the Atlanta Journal-Constitution won’t show me stories for GDPR reasons (and I’m too lazy to fire up the VPN right now):

The NRA has canceled a Defend the 2nd Amendment event in Savannah next week that was to feature keynote speaker Donald Trump, it said on Thursday.

The cancellation is due to a campaign scheduling conflict, the NRA says.

“The NRA is committed to ensuring Donald Trump wins in November and returns to the White House,” the organization said. “NRA-PVF just launched statewide radio ads in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Georgia to complement a comprehensive GOTV operation and multi-million-dollar digital outreach strategy to defeat Kamala Harris.”

This is actually the third engagement the Rough Beast has scurried away from in the last 24–36 hours, if I’m not mistaken. He also bailed on CNBC’s Squawk Box and an interview with NBC’s Christine Romans.

I’m still on edge about how close things are, but this is a trend I hope to see continue. 

Fresh hopium, fresh thread.

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But all I can focus on right now is Casey Desantis’s eyebrows. I know it is 2023 and we are not supposed to talk about physical appearances but this shit is weirding me the fuck out:

Her eyebrows look like they are about to launch a surprise attack on her face. And when she is standing next to her husband in his lifts and ill tailored suits, they look like a total freak show.

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I was minding my own business, perusing twitter, when someone retweeted Elon Musk’s scribe:

This piqued my curiosity, and I learned that Taibbi had foolishly begged to be on Hasan’s show, where he promptly shot himself in the foot while it was in his mouth.

He then went on to claim he had been ambushed, when it was him who begged to be on the show.

Good times.

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Trump

Was

Indicted

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It’s looking like in the not so distant future, Elon Musk is going to finally ignite that pile of cash on fire:

Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk had given Twitter employees to decide whether to stay or leave their jobs, the social media company appeared to be in disarray.

Mr. Musk and his advisers held meetings with some Twitter workers whom they deemed “critical” to stop them from leaving, four people with knowledge of the conversations said. He sent out confusing messages about the company’s remote work policy, appearing to soften his stance on not allowing people to work from home before warning their managers, according to those people and internal emails viewed by The New York Times.

All the while, two people said, resignations started to roll in. By the deadline, 5 p.m. Eastern time, hundreds of Twitter employees appeared to have decided to depart with three months of severance pay, the people said. Twitter later announced via email that it would close “our office buildings” and disable employee badge access until Monday.

There are all sorts of amazing reports- locking everyone out of the system and having to unfire someone to let them back in, people stuck in garages because the barricades won’t open because their badges were revoked, etc.

There are lots of people out there who think he is doing this intentionally to own the libs, but I for one, do not. I just think he’s this fucking stupid. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity, they say. And the dirty little secret is that not only is the American Dream dead, but America has not been a meritocracy for a long, long time. If you actually pay attention, it’s fucking alarming how many extremely rich people are very, very stupid. The governor of my state is one of them, although I don’t know how rich he is anymore. A lot of these guys had one idea, made it rich, and it’s been a shitshow ever since. Hell, there’s reason to believe Elon has never even had one:

Someone has to say it: Elon Musk has lied for 27 years about his credentials. He does not have a BS in Physics, or any technical field. Did not get into a PhD program. Dropped out in 1995 & was illegal. Later, investors quietly arranged a diploma – but not in science. 🧵1/ pic.twitter.com/ziuOMblwLJ

— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters) November 17, 2022

It’s a long tweet thread and I have no verification, so reader beware.

At any rate, this jackass thought he was coming into a company coal town in the 1900’s where the employees will quite literally starve if they don’t do what he said, and a couple thousand highly educated engineers and the like looked at him, thought for a second, and told him to Johnny Paycheck his bullshit.

Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess. Musk might be whisked out of the office and saner heads might take control. Or he might blow it all up and end up selling it on the cheap to someone. Maybe Jack. And I am gonna be honest, I’m gonna die laughing if Jack buys back twitter for pennies on the dollar-0 imagine being outwitted by that dimestore philosopher who learned all the wrong lessons on his diamond plated ayahusca trip that he probably went on with one of Gwyneth’s jade eggs crammed up his arse.

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So today, I had to go to Kroger to get some produce, and dad wanted a wedge of parm for something he was cooking and mom wanted bananas. It was a nice day for a drive and I had not left the house for four days, so I was excited to go out and about. Hopped in the grocery getter and drove to the store, undid my seatbelt, and it was only then that I realized I was not wearing pants.

All I had on were a pair of duluth trading company boxers, which is all I wear, but here is the catch- it’s so expensive that I only buy it on sale. A lot of the time, when they have their sales, what they are selling are holiday themed underwear. I have the St. Patrick’s day boxers, Christmas boxers, and so on.

Today I was rocking the pink Valentines Day boxers with various red hearts.

Like I said, it was a nice day for a drive, so I put the seatbelt back on, drove the 8 miles back home, got some shorts, and went back.

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