Musk isn’t saving shit, he’s running around Mara A Lago to juice his incel fanboys fee fees. The man is a walking talking giant hole in the heart looking for love in the only place he knows, lonely old men.
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You see pleas from the center and left like: “Has the news media learned nothing from 2016?”
Yes. They’ve learned that their business model is just tickety boo.
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Any chance TIFBG gets either option?
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I believe Tesla and SpaceX both owe their financial success to government largess.
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As MSNC anchors were discussing last night, few people who notice that their credit card late fee has gone down are likely to connect Biden with that fact, not least because the Dems in general and esp. under Biden are terrible at self-promotion.
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I think we’ll have to define “failed” here. Both Musk and Trump are enormously successful. They’re turned a pretty limited set of con artist skills into a really big pile of assets or something akin to the ultimate political power. If your yardstick is P. T. Barnum they’re huge winners.
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Cool story, bra.
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Yes. That was part of the bet. It’s money in his pocket, no matter where it comes from.
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Constitution says the VP like the President has to be a natural-born US Citizen. Musk was born in South Africa.
Maybe a promise of a cabinet position? Secretary of Energy? Sure, let’s give Musk oversight over our electrical grid, our national laboratories, and our nukes. He’d love it.
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Replacing the Evil HR rep with a bot is probably an improvement.
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I posted this elsewhere, but I think it’s also appropriate here.
In the Von Neumann-Morgenstern sense, every contest that occurs under rules is a game. So elections are definitely games in that broad sense.
(Thinking about elections as games brings January 6 into a stark light. Trump lost under the rules of the game, so he decided to unilaterally abuse his powers to change the rules in his favor. He needs to punished harshly for that, for the edification of others who might consider acting similarly.)
My point though, is that viewing elections as games isn’t natural to most voters, and they don’t seem to like it.
Lawrence O’Donnell last night made an excellent point about this, though. He said that Schiff made absolutely the right move in running against Garvey in a way that promoted Garvey among California Republicans. Schiff is now on a glide path to the junior Senate seat for California. California is the most expensive media environment in the country, and a Porter-Schiff race would have fought tooth-and-nail. It would have been the most expensive Senate race in history. The cost could approach the cost of the 2024 Presidential race nationally. Running against Garvey, Schiff won’t have an expensive race and that will free up resources to use elsewhere. (Of course, this ignores the fact that Democratic funders could have said, "Okay, we’ve got two Democrats running for an open seat. We are staying out of this one. But like all arms races, this would require everyone to honor the agreement, and given preferences for one or the other candidate, funders are unlikely to honor the agreement.)
So, maybe the right move is to tell voters to grow up and get over it. As long as you’re going to have jungle primaries, strategic voting and strategic candidacies are going to be a fact of life. If you don’t like those rules then change them.
One interesting change is ranked choice voting with a Borda count. No rational voter would place Garvey ahead of either Porter or Lee on their ballot. Garvey would likely have died as a candidate after the count of first choices. This has the real practical problem of explaining how the Borda count works to a notoriously math-phobic and frequently poorly-educated electorate.
Finally, being an effective communicator is another role of the legislator in a representative republic. Porter is a media darling, but she is also a very effective communicator. I’m going to miss her in Congress, and I wish her well as she returns to her real permanent jobs as Citizen Porter and Professor Porter of the University of California at Irvine.
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Yes, we all thought traders and the people who manage annuities and IRA’s and mutual funds and pension funds and so on were studying companies’ performance and market trends and so on, when all along they were just tracking the amazingly reliable polls for the presidential race. Who knew?
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Don’t worry folks!
Sleazy E Elon Musk is coming to the rescue to pay off Trump’s fines and flood the airwaves with Trump ads!
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Let me get this straight - they only served soda AND people had to pay for their own?
Holy shit! I bet Musk springs for a few 2-liter bottles next time.
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So, a dyslexic walks into a bra…
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Here he comes to save the day!
Mighty Musk is on the way!
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Yeah. He’d sell all of our nuclear secrets to Putin and MBS for a cut of the action. He’d probably even throw a few cents Trump’s way.
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One thing for sure with Elon Musk. The Defendant will have to defend and uphold all IVF covenants if he wants Elon’s money… Most of Elon’s children were born using IVF or surrogate mothers. And, not sure how MAGATS will respond to his PRIME Neuralink project…
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