Purely Politics

How soon will we be seeing your face on an X video keying Teslas?

 

Just DUH! That could have been done with AI. Grok is an AI program right there on X for anyone to use. And Elon is far too smart to do anything that stupid.

 

You made me laugh out loud, thanks for that.

"elon is far too smart to do anything that stupid." Indeed. He sure looks it when he jumps up and down on the stage like a prepubescent boy who found his dad's old Playboy magazine. Or, waving that chain saw like he's auditioning for Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Or; never mind you get the picture.

OMG, this about the guy who claimed if they lost that race in WI it was the end of the world as we know it (or something akin to it). And then when he did lose, he claimed he always knew they were going to lose. He'd have been far better off to take the 25 million dollars he wasted and feed the hungry or house the homeless or buy a membership at Mar a logo. It sounds like trump is getting ready to bounce him from the team, so the Mar a logo deal was the way to go eh?

 

Glad I can make you laugh. You make me want to vomit. Elon has very low level Autism, which sometimes makes him act a little childish, and most with those levels also have very high IQ's. As far as philanthropy goes here is a little tidbit on the musk foundation.

Is Elon Musk Autistic? Exploring His Traits | All Star ABA

Elon Musk's charity donates millions, is it enough to stay tax exempt?

 

This coming from a man who told me "no one gives a shit who you are" when I asked who had access to SCF records when I was going to apply for the one time help with assessment last year. Yep, want to vomit.

 

Just in case anyone is interested I am a C-Span Junkie

Hearing on Release of President Kennedy's Assassination Records | C-SPAN.org

 

As we hear from the Left how DOGE is going to cut Social Security, we don't hear the whole truth of who's benefits will be cut.

If you saw the March 31st, Wisconsin Town Hall meeting with Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias you would have seen who they were really referring to.

Of course it goes back to the policies of the Biden administration and it was only brought to the attention of DOGE because of good people within the agency who are willing to step-up.

It goes like this:

When an alien crosses our border into our Country, the first thing they tell the Border Patrol is they are here claiming asylum, so what happens next?

The Border police have 2 options; the first is to either charge them with a misdemeanor or felony, or they can issue them a Notice to Appear (NTA) in court, but the backlog is about 6 years before they even get to see a judge and plead their case.

The Biden administration had ordered the Border police to issue them NTA's and cut them loose. They then sign-up and request a work permit document so they can work while they're here, which triggers the Social Security Administration to "automatically" send them a social security card/number. Sometimes those aliens even end up on the voter rolls!!!!

Those are the recipients of SS, along with those under 9 years of age and over 110+ that will, and should not be receiving any of those benefits.

If you can't agree with that then you truly are lost!

 

Wasting your breath. Bill thinks a deported MS13 member is a Paragon of Manliness, while Elon Musk is worthless. Bill also makes fun of Elon due to his Asperger's behavior. Maybe we should use "Bill" as the male version of "Karen" on Social Media?

 

I am weary from the meaningless back and forth and was going to step away for a bit. However, this morning's news feeds and my normal reading materials left me in a bit of a conundrum. We/my more liberal friends and writers i follow, have been pretty straight forward over trump's picks for important positions within the government. Uniquely unqualified for many of them would be one of the kinder more generous of opinions, but we all know the argument; TDS...whatever.

Years ago i started following Erick Erickson, he of the flaming right, and frankly an author i would not pay to read. I've tried to have him remove me from his mailing list, but i guess he's holding out hope at some point i send him a check. So when i opened his email this morning, i was curious his take on trump's grand vision of "Liberation Day." The market's have screamed their opinion of his actions, i wanted to see how EE defended it.

Mind you, this is from a stanch supporter (don't shoot me, i'm just the messenger):

"Let’s start with what a trade deficit is. It is not actually a bad thing, and more often than not, countries running trade deficits are those that are wealthier and healthier economically. Growing up, when I heard “trade deficit,” I thought it was bad because deficits are bad. That’s not what is going on here.

A trade deficit means that our country imports more from a country than we export to that country. Our goods tend to be more expensive because labor and production costs in the United States are higher. A country like Vietnam is poor. Its labor and production costs are lower than ours, so goods can be manufactured in Vietnam at a cheaper price than they can be here. That means the Vietnamese do not have the purchasing power to buy as many American goods as Americans can buy from Vietnam. As a result, we run a trade deficit with Vietnam. The Vietnamese poor (or even their Middle Class) cannot buy our expensive stuff, and our poor people, far more affluent than the Vietnamese as a whole, can buy a lot of their cheap stuff.

The result is that even the poorest Americans can buy a lot of clothing, food, and products for their home, while the Vietnamese cannot.

That’s all a trade deficit is. Unsurprisingly, poor nations tend to run trade surpluses, and wealthy nations run trade deficits.

The problem is that President Donald Trump, since he was a businessman, has always gotten the concept backwards and is now rolling out a trade policy that has the potential to reset the balance of global trade in China’s favor, alienate the United States from global supply chains, sever the United States dollar from global reserve currency preferences, and impose, by fiat, the largest tax increase on the American public since 1968.

Yes, friends, what happened in the Rose Garden yesterday amounts to the most significant tax increase on the American public since the Revenue and Expenditure Control Act of 1968, which, unlike the tariffs, actually passed Congress."

And now you see why i dubbed it "National Libation Day." Cheers.

 

And this "trade policy' by Trump is doubly interesting (to me) because the Constitution makes it very clear that this sort of thing is the duty and responsibility of Congress and not the President. And yet . . . . . .......
“The Trump Tariff Tax is the largest peacetime tax hike in U.S. history,” posted former vice president Mike Pence.

 

Huh!

Trump Scores First Big Win Less Than 24 Hours After Tariffs Went Into Effect - TFPP Wire

 

Hmmm.

Ford Rolls Out Employee Pricing to All Americans Effective Immediately, Just Hours After Trump’s Tariffs Hit: 'Same Deal Our Workers Get' | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

 

I adore Sen. John Kennedy.

https://x.com/SenJohnKennedy/status/1907834250285494695

 

Move to Louisiana and you can have as much of him as you want. He is what my good buddy in N’Awlinz calls a coon ass, that is a low intelligence, bloviating, backwoods pseudo good ol’ boy in a $3,000 suit.

 

While the economic news was devastating for many in the stock market, there was even more ugly, grim reports coming out of the south. While many of you decry climate change as a Chinese hoax, the reality is these severe weather events will kill people and drive the cost of insurance off the charts. Throw in the massive increases for construction materials and life as we knew it will never be the same.

Here's a brief cut from the article:
"Tornadoes and violent winds flattened homes and ripped apart buildings from Oklahoma to Indiana in the first round of storms that are expected to bring record-setting rains and life-threatening flash floods across the nation's midsection in the coming days.

At least seven people were killed in western Tennessee, Missouri and Indiana in the first wave on Wednesday and early Thursday that spawned powerful tornadoes — one launching light debris nearly 5 miles above the ground in Arkansas.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, after touring the devastation, said Thursday it was too early to know whether there were more deaths as searches persisted."

So tragically sad.

 

It is tragic. We have had this convo before. I was in the Oak Lawn Ill tornado in 1967. Many tornados, many dead. My BIL helped the Firemen look for bodies at the roller rink. Weather is not new. In the 1990's my home was hit by a tornado. Then another time I was driving home from Springfield IL watching one fly over the highway. I lived in Arkansas during the mid/late 70's. Lots of them.

Oak Lawn tornado 1967 pictures - Google Search

I get the hurricane rates. I have a friend who lives on Sanibel Island Fl, and another at the very end of Key West. Their home insurance rates are astronomical, as they should be. They are both very wealthy and can afford it.

It was tragic in 1967 and weather events are still tragic. Now explain how Trump is responsible and how you are so sure rates will go up. Put your TDS and EDS on the back burner for a bit, you are starting to sound like Dave.

BTW have you seen the new books out by the Biden Admin folks about how they hid his cognitive issues since the day he took office? There was even a plan in case he died while in office. Bet there will be many more.

 

Interesting......but not funny. Chief Justice Roberts’ Secret Friendship with Trump Prosecutor Ally Norm Eisen Exposed | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

 

I'm always fascinated when people are so naively obtuse when it comes to understanding how one thing impacts almost every thing. Home owners, and now car owners insurances have been spiking across the country for the past couple of years. Most of those hikes have been due to the increasing number of severe and catastrophic weather events. I've posted the data before, but connecting the dots for some is apparently difficult.

Now with the looming tariff wars, the cost of building materials is set to spike by as much as 20-25% (projections by many in the industry). Those same severe weather events result in massive rebuilding efforts. In those cases where insurance does cover the losses, it means higher replacement costs, which in turn increase the premiums. It's both a vicious cycle and a vicious circle that will remain unbroken. In the worst cases people walk away losing everything.

I've seen some reports with home owners insurance being as high as $1000 a month on average priced homes in states and locations that are targeted as being in high risk areas. Even with Gov DeSantis striking all references to climate change from state documents, it won't save the state and more importantly those living in segments of Florida from the coming hurricane season (projected to be higher than normal). What's really sad is a lot of those residents have been unable to buy coverage at any cost as insurers have dropped them because of the heightened liability.

It's sad to think those same folks screaming about the price of a dozen eggs a few months ago, could care less now that the cost of most everything will be exploding because of a ego driven tariff war. Of course when all else fails we all just need to lean into the brilliant genius of Tommy Tuberville who reminded us all: "no pain, no gain...that's what we used to tell our football players." Someone need remind Tommy-boy life isn't a football game.

Naively obtuse indeed.

 

I saw the OL tornado hit the intersection at 95th &SW Highway by the high school and carpet store. I also saw the destruction along SW Highway East from the school. It decimated all those old oak trees and actually drove wildlife north of the highway. Parents had an opossum and raccoon problems for years taking up residence in the backyard.

Here’s the problem with Republicans and climate change, 99% of climate scientists say climate change is real, 1% say it is not. The Republicans agree with the 1%. Now imagine you are in the hospital with serious abdominal pain and nothing seems to work. Now after an examination 9 doctors say your appendix is about to burst causing even more serious problems possibly even death. One doctor said the others are wrong as it is your gall bladder and changing your diet will solve everything. Which doctor(s) would you believe?

You are part of the solution or you are part of the destroyed landscape.

 

FYI, I read the case you cited recently and it upheld the right of the Supreme Court to review State statutes if there was a Constitutional question. This re-enforced the doctrine of judicial review set down 18 years earlier by Justice Marshall in Marbury v. Madison. Yes I know there were two separate decisions two days apart by different justices.