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atomheartbevo

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  1. What's funny, and a lot of people are missing this, the whole Tesla stock drop is more about the carbon credit and tax stuff than the feud with Trump. That's a huge part of what was freaking Leon out (as Trump pointed out), from CNBC: The House-passed reconciliation package would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s residential solar credit at the end of the year and rapidly phase down the clean electricity investment credit for all forms of generation except nuclear, disqualifying all but a few shovel-ready projects. The bill would also terminate most credits for electric vehicles at the end of the year, disqualifying Teslas from a $7,500 incentive at a time when the company is experiencing declining sales and backlash linked to Musk’s actions to gut the federal workforce. Tesla’s energy division has seen faster growth and higher profits than its vehicle business in recent years. Launched by Musk in 2015, it sells a range of solar and battery energy storage products to homeowners and utility companies. Tesla Energy urged the Senate to support a “sensible wind down” of the residential solar and the clean electricity investment credits, which it said would allow “continued speedy deployment of over 60 [gigawatts] capacity per year to support AI and domestic manufacturing growth.” Musk later amplified the message on his personal X account, along with a post from another user that said “slashing solar energy credits is unjust.” “There is no change to tax incentives for oil & gas, just EV/solar,” Musk wrote.
  2. You know, Trump is obsessed with deciding who is and who isn't an American citizen, and being able to strip or deny citizenship for Americans. It would be the absolutely biggest flex and the most Trumpiest thing he could ever do, if he revoked Musk's citizenship or had him investigated. And Musk being Musk, and not being able to read the room, would probably never see it coming.
  3. Is your dad a television repairman?
  4. Man if it's hitting Lubbock proper, that's not good. At least they have sirens.
  5. If he somehow lost his citizenship and/or was deported.
  6. George Wendt's cause of death: The certificate, released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, lists cardiac arrest, congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and hypertension as underlying causes. Additional contributing conditions listed include end-stage renal disease or kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol).
  7. Supposedly Ukraine hit the Tula area, which is just south of Moscow.
  8. Exactly. For Musk, this started out as shit-talking on the internet about a typical bloated budget bill. For Trump, any challenge from somebody with that kind of money, any push for impeachment by his biggest donor, any public accusation that he’s a child predator, is an existential threat to his power. Musk is playing chicken with his companies as well, not realizing that he needs them more than Trump needs him. Musk can retweet people saying the International Space Station won’t survive without SpaceX. Trump doesn’t care about NASA or the space program or the space station. He will tank all of it to fuck Musk over if that’s what it takes.
  9. Let's see if Ketamine comes into play. Really want to see Musk talking shit about Miller as well, given the wife thing.
  10. I'll take Una any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
  11. That one-month chart on Tesla, and it's down a bit in after-hours. TSLA: Tesla Inc - Stock Price, Quote and News - CNBC
  12. I don't think Russia can wait a year - Ukraine has long-range missiles coming online (homegrown no less) not to mention potentially acquiring more from Germany, France, etc. I think Russia will have to move its remaining bombers out to more isolated bases, farther away from Ukraine. Ukraine was willing to release video/expose the methods they used, partly because Russia already knew by the time the last drone hit its target, but also because they've got other things in store. While there is a lot of symbolism in hitting those bombers, a lot given how many missiles they launched at Ukrainian civilians, I think they did it for strategic reasons. This was too big of an operation - if they wanted symbolism, they could have gotten a few of those trucks near Moscow and hit the Kremlin. I think they are trying to shape the airspace to keep the bombers far enough away that either it gives them a lot more time to prepare when they launch, or to just reduce the amount of missiles that can be launched on any one raid and/or take a lot of Russian missiles completely out of the equation. I'm surprised by Russian state TV as well, I expected a lot more "we will melt the Western capitols down in a sea of nuclear fire".
  13. Wonder if Stephen Miller will be having dinner with the missus tonight.
  14. Bingo. He's the kind of guy that doesn't trim his fingernails or brush his teeth before foreplay. A good session of sex to him is probably only 5 minutes to maybe an hour at the most, instead of a couple of hours (or more) like the rest of us.
  15. National Weather Service put this out
  16. Better I think. Musk doesn't know how to read the room, and when he challenges Trump to cancel his contracts, that's a big no-no for people like Trump, who do not like having their power mocked in public. Throw in the Epstein stuff as well and you get
  17. Fox News and FoxNews.com is pumping the hell out of this feud. MAGA don’t know what to think.
  18. Look at how the Russians handled the Kursk invasion. There is a possibility, and I would not be surprised, that Moscow rations missiles and drones over the next few weeks and then hits Kyiv in a month or so with a lot more than the normal attacks. But ironically Moscow May have lost quite a few of the missile delivery systems in those destroyed aircraft.
  19. Trump won’t protect Leon with the NTSB/National Highway Traffic Safety Administration/FAA/NASA/EPA etc, if his robotaxi service goes wrong, if his rockets keep blowing up, etc. And Leon dropping the Epstein claim is going to really ramp Trump and Co. up to where Trump probably sics the government on Musk. So we’ve got that going for us.
  20. Damn, Disney spending the bucks.
  21. He doesn’t have that many options left - this latest hit on Kyiv was probably it. They are constrained by missile and drone production or acquisition.
  22. I claim Panamanian Banana Crisis as my next garage band name.
  23. Have you gone back to New Orleans since then?
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