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Francisco 2.0

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  1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/28/elon-musk-germany-afd-party Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
  2. Cross-posting this from the Trump's America thread, because its a different kind of Leopards Eating Faces. And I'm here for this.
  3. "In which the MAGA folk find out that Elon really didn't like them after all"
  4. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/26/california-farmers-trump-water-workers-00195839
  5. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/26/trump-voters-federal-benefits-food/? After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits
  6. Eh, he will be ok. But there are a looooooooot of soft targets in his orbit. Particularly loud, arrogant, and generally loathsome human pieces of shit targets that won't have the benefit of SS protection 24/7 in his administration. I'm thinking collateral damage.
  7. For at least a decade now, I've read and heard the name Soros as some kind of puppetmaster who was the ills of all society and was secretly running the legislative and executive branches of the federal government (when Dems were in charge). Today, the GOP has their very own version of this; the difference is he's actually running the show and bragging about it. And has no qualms on using his media megaphone in order to inflict as much pain and chaos as possible. And has received billions in government contracts and will use his influence to cripple any potential competitors to his business interests. But tell me all about this Soros bogeyman.
  8. Imagine the hijinks.
  9. But here's the thing: the GOP would willingly embrace and pass a CR double whatever was tanked on Wednesday of this week after January 20, because reasons.
  10. While this is terrible news, even if it had passed, RFK would have taken a scalpel to this or shifted the funds because of some theory that pediatric cancer was caused by immunizations, therefore this money would better for raw milk subsidies or some other bullshit.
  11. FYI, a deal was reached earlier today. I fully expect it to get torpedoed sometime this evening:
  12. I take a few days off, then catchup and go away. It's a fucking trainwreck with no end in sight. Some people like to gawk, some avert their eyes, some want to stare and wonder just how bad things will be. Some people crave the entertainment or just to watch the world burn. We do know this----literally anything and everything everything associated with this administration has no limits---morally, ethically, legally, whatever. There are no safeguards any longer. There's perhaps someone within the Trump high command that realizes how hypocritical they are using private email services over the stance that Trump and the GOP had less than 8 years ago. However, they have correctely surmized that it just doesn't matter any longer.
  13. I remember way back in 2016 when private email servers were a major, major issue. Now it's trans and brown people and the price of eggs. Shrugs. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217
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