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SDWade's avatar

Geez-o-pete. Someone needs to take away DataRepublican's crayons. Her website is an illegible mess.

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Mary's avatar

Great analysis. This should be remade into an investigative video for Fox "News."

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Susan B's avatar

Excellent journey Sarah! Wow

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benedict ives's avatar

Yet another megalomaniac with more money than sense and an unslakable hunger for attention. As if one weren't enough to deal with, now its twice as exhausting. Never quite understood this type: they have everything imaginable but seem unable to quietly live life without constant validation.

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T Jefferson Snodgrass's avatar

Isn't it about time that somebody--you, JVL, Tim, Bill, Eggert, Charlie, ANYbody--writes something that recognizes Musk as the modern-day equivalent of Crassus? This is a serious question. It's about time we learn something from history.

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SM's avatar
Feb 13Edited

As a lifelong financial criminal, terrible citizen and not very bright guy Don spent decades ensuring he was the last man standing main bottom feeder in NYC. But for that (reported) fatal meeting between Ivana and the Russian Ambassador “Perestroika” would never have crossed his lips, Putin was his lifeline. But here we are, Ukraine, NATO, FBI, CIA, VA Nurses, Vets working for DEA, etc ALL Of it on the chopping black. Loyal Americans serving citizens, now facing the loss of their homes and livelihoods.

Meeting the Manic Musk was Don’s 2nd lifeline. See you all in the Streets as we strike for Democracy.

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HH's avatar

I know Sarah doesn't like me calling these people "morons" but JFC....

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Old Chemist 11's avatar

"The TLDR is this: Elon has no idea what he’s talking about."

Yes he does. MAGA is all about double standards. Things that are wrong, immoral or illegal when non-MAGAs do it, are perfectly OK in their minds when they do it. He risks being called on the double-standard, of course, but as long as the MAGA "base," and an entire party that has turned into a cult, shamelessly approves, defends and protects him (& his "useful idiot"), it's a very low risk.

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Liz V's avatar

The real name for Trump and Musk is SABOTEUR.

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Shantha Smith's avatar

I have a small nerdy quibble. Calling Stephen Miller a gollum is an insult to gollums and Gollum. His dark vision and willingness to implement it is from a lower level of hell.

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NanceeM's avatar

I think they know exactly what they're doing with this BS dissemination. Lying and deception, amplified, without question, on X is a strategy, not a mistake or coincidence.

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Stefan Tulich's avatar

The State Department is handing Musk a $400,000,000 contract to make "armored Teslas". Meanwhile, Musk's X just agreed to settle a lawsuit from Trump for $10,000,000. It's the most corrupt fucking bullshit in history and no one seems to give a shit!

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Mary's avatar

“The TLDR is this: Elon has no idea what he’s talking about.”

I think that became obvious when he started attacking the Lutheran Church.

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NanceeM's avatar

I think we conclude that every time he opens his mouth, especially when he accuses someone else of corruption or grift.

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Denise Allman's avatar

Gollum 😂. Nice, Sarah! I’m not big into name calling, this is wayyy better than Sleepy Joe. I’m pretty convinced having adjectives to associate people with seems petty to most, but it helps all people, especially the Cletuses of the world, (thanks JVL, this is a very helpful one, too) to remember who’s who and how they should feel about them.

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The Coke Brothers's avatar

"Data republican' is a ketamine addled oxymoron. Apartheid fElon has overstayed his welcome in this country. We will not get used to being shadow governed by thieves

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Linda Weide's avatar

Musk is both a deep state agent and a Russian agent, as is Trump. According to Lucian Truscott, Trump sold out the Ukraine to Russia.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-the-fuck-is-going-on?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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NanceeM's avatar

Did anyone NOT have that on their bingo card?

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Linda Weide's avatar

Well put! Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat have been saying this since forever!

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The Coke Brothers's avatar

And a Chinese agent to boot

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Linda Weide's avatar

Of course, but that is not the agency to which he sold the Ukraine. That is what he is selling the US to.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Europe is totally unprepared to deal with the Trump and how he is telling them what to do with Ukraine. I keep reading, no peacekeepers without the US involvement, and Trump is saying No to NATO and no to US peacekeepers in Ukraine, and otherwise I keep hearing numbers like 150,000 to Russias 600,000, also giving away all of the territory that Putin has claimed, and then Putin will let Trump have the minerals, or will he. Probably that is a bridge on Mars that Putin sold Trump. If he gets any minerals from Putin who I knew from the git-go was stealing the most mineral rich and arable land from Ukraine because I looked it up maps of resources in the beginning.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/16lybev/ukraines_natural_resources_minerals_eastern/#lightbox

Now look at the agricultural maps, and see what Putin is stealing and Trump and his buffoon Hegseth are giving him Carte Blanche to do this.

https://www.gis.huri.harvard.edu/ecology-and-agriculture

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