But that was part of the “waste, fraud, and abuse”!
What’s that you say? There is no evidence of that? Well, the morons that kept repeating (and keep repeating) that phrase like trained pets had no definition of that phrase and no evidence for any of it, any more so than they did for “voter fraud”, so I guess destroying literally anything in the government could be justified by claiming it was “waste, fraud, and abuse”.
I’m not sure I follow the logic here. Voting for a Democrat brought us to fascism?
I love this.
It’s interesting to note that given the evidence of Elon, that being a CEO is a part time job. It has to be. It’s impossible for Elon to work 40 hours a week at 6 companies.
And I’ve always been told by the people that excuse outrageously out-of-step executive pay with this bullshit narrative about how they are the best and the brightest (just like top athletes, don’t you know!), and they work long hours, probably more than anyone else at the company and other such hilarious fictions. They are basically the Michael Jordans of capitalism, yadda yadda.
This guy cannot be working even 40 hours at all six of his companies. That’s simply impossible, even if he never slept.
It’s pretty obvious now that being a CEO is a part-time job. If only everyone could get 1 trillion at a part-time job.
Time for ANOTHER Gatsby party, just a different host, I guess.
Also, LOL: “entrepreneur”. Fucking hell.
So (their) churches should run childcare facilities and public transit? In a country founded as a secular nation, no less. That must make for some wild conversations. I’d sure love to know more about how that would be funded, never mind the implementation.
Questions like: how do we decide which churches are worthy? There are approx 45,000 denominations of Christianity and that’s just Christianity…
Is he going to skip off to Galt’s Gulch now? 🤣
The vibe i am getting from overall media in the Us is that some leans “liberal” and some leans “conservative” but they all protect the interests of billionaires or are downright owned by them.
This is pretty much my view on it. For the most part, the way they may lean “liberal” would be on the margins, maybe something like identity politics. Anything that might mess with oligarchs’ money or question something like our relationship with Israel is usually out of bounds.
I didn’t start really paying attention until the early 90s, but it’s been more or less like this as far as things I’ve noticed. Chomsky says similar things going much further back in relation to the corporate media. Movies like Network lampoon it…
I don’t think it’s been getting any better - with deregulation and consolidation, it seems to be getting even worse.
Even before Bezos bought it, I don’t think they were all that liberal. I’m sure it’s only gotten worse, though.
I would lead with your values and ask questions like why they think childcare or public transit are bad things.
Yeah, there is very little that is “radical” about Zohran. Especially when you contrast that with what the Republican Party is actually carrying out against the American people right now and we don’t even have to get into what they may or may not believe or what they want to do, in theory. We can see that with our own eyes.
That’s not even getting into the completely crazy shit that their funders are influenced by: insane dumbasses like Curtis Yarvin, who is so full of Dunning-Kruger that he seemingly is convinced he’s a genius and books like The Sovereign Individual.
It’s also not getting into how the more overtly racist part of the party is excited by books like The Camp of the Saints…
He thinks that because he is grifting like a motherfucker and racking up billions in schemes like crypto shitcoins.
He is completely divorced from reality.
Paying people for work is just that “waste, fraud, and abuse” the Confederates kept babbling about.
It was one of the first “reality TV” shows and naturally, it was completely fabricated.
In America, anyway, a lot of people seem to think that “reality TV” began with Survivor for whatever reason. I don’t really understand this collective amnesia, since Cops (1989) and The Real World (1992) are both things that predated Survivor (2000), were on the air when Survivor started, and are still going…
Apparently, the first reality TV show credit goes to Candid Camera, which was on TV in 1948, and was predated by a show on radio in 1947. I have some vague memory of Candid Camera being on in the 70s or 80s, but I had no idea it went that far back.
We should probably shut down any of that book-learnin’ and knowing real facts about the world. Does fElon know about this “waste, fraud, and abuse”?
I’m still trying to process the fact that a moron known for being on “The Real World” is Transportation Secretary. And it’s been months.
Yeah. I’m pretty sure I asked him about that supposed wager between Tolkien and Lewis and how they kind of goaded one another to write fiction containing new myths that had, at root, the “true myth”, in their view which was related to Christ, since they were both Christians.
I also asked him about original myths themselves - do they contain allegory, etc? I think he may have conceded that, but for some reason, seemed to want to have some kind of arbitrary delineation between ancient myths and virtually everything else.
I don’t pretend to understand. I was utterly baffled by it. I remember asking about The Matrix, too - was that just a lot of cool FX and well-choreographed fight scenes? The answer was something I don’t remember, but I know I was baffled by it…
This guy thinks a dementia test is used to measure IQ, too.
In other words, he is entirely unfit for the job.