Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Stormbringer » Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:55 pm

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Intellectually, I consider Musk to be firmly average at best.
I fail to see how the man behind SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink could have an average intellect.
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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Animalmother » Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:58 pm

He bought those as established companies, he had nothing to do with the development.

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Hatredsheart » Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:01 pm

Stormbringer wrote:
Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:55 pm
Wrathbone wrote:
Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:13 am
Intellectually, I consider Musk to be firmly average at best.
I fail to see how the man behind SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink could have an average intellect.
He doesn't have to be overly intelligent, he's just lucky enough to have the riches to be able to pay the best people. Obviously he'll take the credit for it all but I'd be genuinely interested to see just how much of it he actually had solid design input into from day one.
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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Raid » Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:02 pm

Stormbringer wrote:
Fri Jan 24, 2025 12:55 pm
Wrathbone wrote:
Fri Jan 24, 2025 10:13 am
Intellectually, I consider Musk to be firmly average at best.
I fail to see how the man behind SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink could have an average intellect.
He's behind it as financial backer or owner, not as an engineer. The only product I can honestly believe Musk had a hand in designing is the Cybertruck, and that's a complete mess compared to the company's other vehicles.

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Animalmother » Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:05 pm

Just imagine how his Mars colony would have went if it had ever been taken seriously.

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Alan » Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:06 pm

Didnt he sue the chap that founded Tesla to stop him saying he founded Tesla? Such a child.
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Post by eny » Fri Jan 24, 2025 1:55 pm

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Hatredsheart » Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:16 pm

Alan wrote:
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Didnt he sue the chap that founded Tesla to stop him saying he founded Tesla? Such a child.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/elon-musk- ... gal-paper/
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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Stormbringer » Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:53 pm

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Mantis » Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:55 pm

Musk simply bankrolls his companies with money he obtained from owning PayPal, which incidentally he bought with money given to him from his daddy's slave mining operations.

One look at the guys deluded outbursts on his social media platform tells you he's an absolute bloody idiot. And a dangerous one at that.

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Animalmother » Fri Jan 24, 2025 6:49 pm

Eny posted this in the Pictures thread..

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Post by eny » Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:31 pm

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Sly Boots » Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:06 am

I know a few people the US via a Liverpool supporters' chat group, and they've been updating over the past few days on what's happening over there. It's fucking dystopian.

One of them, who works as a head of department in academia, just got a memo informing them all grants (including those they'd already been awarded and which are in the process of being spent) are being frozen, and in the memo one of the reasons it cites is "DEI and woke gender ideologies". I'll link to it, it's an official thing from the US Treasury.

Another is a doctor and says the healthcare system has just been crippled by another lot of funding stuff, while a third, who works in the US but isn't a US citizen, just got told to leave their job.

Scary stuff.

The memo: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/d ... f-full.pdf

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Wrathbone » Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:09 am

Not sure how accurate this is, but I saw something suggesting only 20% of food pickers are turning up to work now in the US because they're afraid they'll be caught and deported. If that's remotely true, it could quickly lead to a food supply crisis.

EDIT - This seems to roughly corroborate it:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigration-2670966821/
Many undocumented workers have reportedly been targeted where day laborers and field workers are known to gather, including “walking in and out of gas stations, getting breakfast, at Home Depot, or while driving along the 99 Highway,” leaving many too fearful to show up to work.

Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, told CalMatters that the events “sent shockwaves through the entire community.”

“People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school,” Creamer told the publication. “Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.”

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Re: Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

Post by Sly Boots » Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:13 am

I know that's awful, but I'm having trouble moving past the name Casey Creamer ¬_¬

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