"If investors ever return to viewing Tesla as a car company, the stock is in trouble." IOW, if investors think of Tesla as a company that sells less of the crucially important product to its business and by far its main source of income, its stock price could sink. Meanwhile, in the real world...

Well, this will make a mockery of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Opening up a Khanna whup-ass on Bondi.

If diplomacy is war by other means, we are almost out of other means.

This is the Secretary of Commerce saying that demand lowers prices, proving that he thinks Americans know nothing about commerce.

Musk and his Dogies damaged US soft power around the world, put hundreds of thousands out of work, set back scientific research years if not decades, caused 1000s of deaths, stole data, and fired anyone who might be a threat to his own cash cows, Tesla and SpaceX. And US debt went up $2 trillion.

Schism. The right wing is at war with itself, between anti-semites, islamophobes, racists, anti-elitist populists, elites, neo-cons, MAGAnauts, and garden-variety bigots of every stripe. After this and TPAC, hostilities are in full swing. Nice to have a war nowadays where you hope every side loses.

Trump announces that he's continuing to defund other existing renewable energy sources just as his media company merges with a renewable energy firm. It won't be long until taxpayer money starts feeding into Trump's new TAE Technologies trough. It's a fusion company, fusing your tax funds to Trump.

We're turning into a banana republic except for the fact that we have to import all our bananas so we're really a "Yes, we have no bananas" banana republic.

Tulsi's got him in her favorites with an "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" ringtone.

The additional reporting it needed was apparently a White House response. So, in effect, anytime the regime chooses not to comment or respond in any way, Bari Weiss has handed Trump a new tool. He can now pocket veto news stories at CBS. CBS=FreeBS.

When you're redacting prepositions, you've gone too far.

I'm definitely getting a Ceaucescu's last speech vibe from Trump's Speech On Speed. That same kind of "Why isn't anyone obeying me? Be quiet" desperation. It didn't end well for Nicolae.

Mike Johnson does not know how to use a phone or a TV or a newspaper or a radio. He's never heard of the internet, social media , or word-of-mouth. He probably thinks Andrew Jackson is still President. He is of average height in the 19th century. Mike likes the 1800s and thinks he's going to stay.

Yelly, shouty man on TV talking real fast and making no sense at all and it's not Gary Busey. So confused.

Once she's fired, they'll all be at the struggle session to denounce her, with belts in hand.

I read recently-translated Solvej Balle's Vol. 3 in "On the Calculation of Volume", and wondered what I would do if, like her narrator Tara Selter, I was stuck in a time loop, one day endlessly repeating. The 1st thing would be learn to read Danish so I could read the last 4 books in the series.📚💙

Media paints this as if the GOP is rejecting this shit. Not really. Not Johnson. Not Thune. Not Graham. Not a single Cabinet member. Not a single GOP Senator. From the House, only MTG and Massie, who had turned against him already. The Chickenshit Party is still the Chickenshit Party.

What an incredibly wearying time to be alive. Not that anyone should consider alternatives. Stay safe, stay sane.

Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner had a 75 year legacy of entertaining people, starting with "Your Show of Shows" in 1950. If Rob had only directed "The Princess Bride", his contribution to the joy in our lives would still be immeasurable. Activism and brilliance both in front of and behind the camera.

Dick Van Dyke is a wonderful person, great entertainer, and I can't stand to hear his voice. Let me explain. When I was in college I worked in an tiny animation studio that was making a film narrated by Van Dyke about alcoholism--he had done the narration gratis because he really is a good person.⏬

Musk's little hobby cost lives, jobs, billions of dollars, and badly damaged the US and its foreign relations...and he wouldn't CHOOSE to do it again. I hope his robot fucks him in the ass with its drill attachment.

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You can take the boy out of apartheid, but you can't take the apartheid out of the boy.

What he should do is rent an upper floor of a Las Vegas hotel and let his fingernails grow out. It feels like that moment for Musk.

This post is for wavering GOP Reps and Senators: The Trump backed candidate in the Miami mayoral election lost by 19 pts. yesterday. The previous (GOP) mayor won with 85% and 78% in his two elections. I humbly ask you to bow out to spend more time with your family, or go to rehab, but go. Now.

You know, when I was in my twenties, the coolest guys were always the ones who couldn't get laid, were rumored to be federal informants, and thought Adolf was the shit. /s

The Ship of Theseus in EV form. So many things needed to be replaced on this Cybertruck that it may no longer be a Cybertruck, which might actually improve its resale value. #EV

MLK once said "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." When we refuse to save our most vulnerable, when we make our prosperity more important than children prospering, there is no future bending toward justice--the arc of the moral universe is bending toward extinction.

Reducing the Kennedy Center Honors to the level of the FIFA Peace Prize. If you show up, you'll get one. I'm surprised the legendary Scott Baio wasn't honored.

How close is Suriname (where the cargo on these boats were said to be heading) to the US? Well, it has the letters "U", "S", and "A" in the name. It's south of Venezuela. If these were drugs, they were likely destined for Europe. I'm not drunk, so I know that South America is south of North America.

A lot of people are saying it's Leqembi, an Alzheimer's treatment. I'm sticking with hand-enlargement plastic surgery. He's always had dysmorphia of his digits.

Can you get those at the drive-thru?

Lemmings have leaders, too.

Musk is a prime example of what I call a "hypogrant", an immigrant who's a hypocrite about immigration. The kind who wants to pull up the ladder after he's got his.

Hey Uncle Don, Thanksgiving is over. We don't have to listen to your racist, incoherent drivel anymore. Go back to sleep.

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Is this the "fog of war" of which he speaks?

Remember those "testimonials" from actors who played doctors on TV? That's Trump. He played a successful businessman on TV. All fat, no beef.

What amazes me is the sheer unmitigated bravado in this. Assuming they can slap some sloppy coverup on a health issue and bull their way through is the mark of a tinpot dictatorship. After the "Dear Leader" tongue-bath Cabinet meetings will come the garish uniforms festooned with medals and braid.

How do we know he's slipping cognitively? He naps at meetings, but insists on having them run two hours so he can get all the handjobs offered by Cabineteers. Very compos non mentis.

One poll. That's what the basis for optimism about this seat was based on. Instead, let's be optimistic about the fact that the GOP dropped ~13% from the last result in the district. If you're a Dem in a 10% or less district you can be happy, no matter who holds the seat. If you're GOP, not so much.

I guess when you're going to go off the high board into the shallow end, it helps to have tiny fingers to hit the repost buttons as fast as you possibly can.

With war looming, inflation increasing, China threatening Taiwan, Russian revanchism, spiraling healthcare costs, small business ailing, turmoil in the Middle East, extremism rising, AI threatening massive job loss (or a bursting bubble), is this the guy you want in the pilot's seat of the world?

🎶 So this is Christmas, and what have you done? Yippee kiyay, motherfucker. Now I have a machine gun. 🎶

"Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are not serious people. I won't let them stop me from holding this Administration accountable." Sen. Kelly If a highly-decorated veteran/astronaut calls you unserious, I bet you won't shitpost some meme making light of murders you're being investigated for. Unless...

One of the things that sometimes gets missed when people talk about EVs is the fact that internal combustion engines are LOUD. You notice it in its absence in EVs. As a senior citizen, married to a senior citizen, it is nice to be able to hear what my spouse has to say. Mostly.

Witless is "in the deal settlement business." But he isn't supposed to be negotiating a deal. Widiot doesn't know the difference between a deal and a treaty. Nobody dies when you fuck up a deal, which he seems intent on doing. He's not even very good at being a traitor.

When Fox News, Newsmax, The Gateway Pundit, NY Post, Breitbart, WSJ, National Review, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Epoch Times, Blaze, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, Babylon Bee, Xitter, and OAN don't offer enough confirmation bias to prop up your sagging self-worth, there's this.

Truth in journalism. Journos in the US are too afraid of an unpopular, decaying President to write an honest headline like this and that's why we can't have nice things.