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[Paulie Walnuts]

Musk is getting behind Trump because his son Xavier is dead due to woke. He’s not physically dead but is now Vivian.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

This clip definitely gives off some Jeb "please clap" vibes. Dude has the charisma of a door knob.

And 1 of 28 members of Congress who objected to rules preventing menstrual surveillance.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1815404087695036507

[chemgear]

How many kids is Musk up to now? Tbh, could he remember all their names (or their mothers) anymore?

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by paulie walnuts

musk is getting behind trump because his son xavier is dead due to woke. He’s not physically dead but is now vivian.

https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1814853455745589699

lol can’t embed but this is why Elon is all onboard the trump train

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Christ almighty, Trump is dumb. Does he not realize the president still has the job of being president until his term is up? Quitting the campaign isn't the same as quitting his job.

A also wonder if he demands to see Harris's birth certificate.

Considering the earlier SCOTUS ruling and that Biden is pretty lame duck with not mich to lose, Trump would probably be better off remaining in Biden’s good graces than tempting a test of that “Seal Team 6” hypothetical.

[direwolf]

Menstrual surveillance?? Jesus f'n christ. Just when I thought I'd heard everything, the MAGA cult continues to surprise in increasingly reprehensible ways. Just pure evil.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Azure

Scary testimony by the Secret Service director today.

The fact that she is in charge of protecting the most important human being on the planet boggles the mind, nevermind in charge of protecting former Presidents, candidates, etc.

Turns out the "sloped roof" she claimed was a safety hazard was a total lie as it was pointed out there was another sniper team on a roof with a larger slope. But of course we all knew it was a lie.

But hey, literally nothing strange about anything that happened that day.

And now we have POTUS deciding he isn't running for President, telling the world with a post on X (must piss Fuzz off because OMGFREESPEECHMAGAPLATFORM!!!@#@!#FAE@#!E!@), and then literally being a no-show. I mean maybe a press conference should happen?

And on top of top of that, the former President Obama has still no endorsed Harris, which makes it pretty obvious that she is a complete #### candidate, given that I'd rather trust his judgement than someone who doesn't know what century he is living in. But of course we knew that as well, given the fact that Harris told everyone that Biden was a-okay. Till he wasn't.

But hey, everything is going great!

Too bad nothing actually was able to look beyond their partisan politics months ago and stop covering up that Biden wasn't the way forward, and allowed Biden to drop out, give proper time for a proper candidate to run. But BIDENCARESFORDACOUNTRYAMIRITE!@#!@#

What a mess.

State specifically what you allege to be happening.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

I can see him saying that Kamala the wrestler was from Uganda and therefore Harris must be as well.

Coincidentally, the man behind that character also has the last name Harris in real life (and was born in Mississippi). But yeah, Trump probably doesn't realize wrestling is fake. At least most of his core supporters don't.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Menstrual surveillance?? Jesus f'n christ. Just when I thought I'd heard everything, the MAGA cult continues to surprise in increasingly reprehensible ways. Just pure evil.

It's honestly extremely hard to sympathize or understand Republican voters these days (and many other conservative voters, because the Republicans are hardly the only conservative party that has been going full loco in the last 20 years).

Sure, there have always been crazy people in every party making crazy suggestions, and there's always been some quotes that have either aged terribly or were terrible to begin with, but were said a decade+ ago. To some extent you have to learn to ignore that because it's not representative of the party as a whole.

That's not what's going on with the GOP. The outright crazy people with incredibly disturbing suggestions in that party are governors and senators and presidential candidates, and they are saying the crazy stuff in the official campaign rallies and the RNC. The list of people suggesting that they use violence against their opponents of start a civil war if they lose is worryingly long by now. Many of the "anti-trans" laws they've already passed in many states are just straight up undiluted fascism with zero caveats.

Yeah it's a big party and not everyone in it is crazy or dangerous, but the current leadership most certainly and very obviously is a danger to the basic functions and overall stability of the nation.

Of course we already live in incredibly effed up times. In my nerdy circles, a common joke these days is that most past dystopias are incredibly optimistic by today's standards. Back in 1979, Weyland-Utani might have been a ruthless corporation that would willingly sacrifice the lives of it's workers to smuggle an alien lifeform on to Earth for study, sure, but the least credible part of that movie today is that the crew are employees with a bonus system.

The crap that Republicans spew is so incredibly deranged that you could not have credibly put it in a satire in the 90's.

[SutterBrother]

The most recent season of “The Boys” just uses actual GOP talking points for the supervillians.

Jewish space lasers and how “truly raped” women’s bodies can “reject” a pregnancy.

It was pretty striking.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Menstrual surveillance?? Jesus f'n christ. Just when I thought I'd heard everything, the MAGA cult continues to surprise in increasingly reprehensible ways. Just pure evil.

People don't realize how much of a warning the Handmaids Tale actually is. The Christofacists will not just decide to stop controlling people after each win. They'll take it all the way to the end.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

You need Obama to endorse? How about his closest advisor? How about Whitmer, Mayor Pete, Newsome, AOC, Shapiro, Gillibrand, Murphy, Kelly, Whitehouse, Schiff, Pelosi, etc etc etc?.

There's also no scenario where Obama doesn't endorse Harris when she's officially the nominee.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Early reports are that republicans plan to attack Harris as being “weird”.

Well, it's a step up from this line of attack...

Originally Posted by JD Vance

“We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too...
It’s just a basic fact: You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” he said. “And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people that don’t have a direct stake in it.”

[Ozy_Flame]

JD Vance's comments - such a misinformed, jingoistic, and unsurprising conservative intepretation of being a parent and valued member of society. And direct stake? Anyone who is a citizen has a direct stake, children or not. What a two-tier, class-based conspiracy of the importance of having 'stakes'.

Step parents, adoptive parents, and people providing fatherly and motherly roles for children that aren't their genetic own are often the ones who really step up and care, willing to help children who need a second chance or important parental roles in their lives, often when their biological parents can't provide it.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Watching the testimony of SS Director Cheatle is shocking to say the least. Whether she's refusing to cooperate, or being accused of Perjury, or just plain not knowing what she's talking about. Its stunning that she's refusing to resign.

Cheatle has resigned.

[OldSam]

Originally Posted by direwolf

Menstrual surveillance?? Jesus f'n christ. Just when I thought I'd heard everything, the MAGA cult continues to surprise in increasingly reprehensible ways. Just pure evil.

Don't forget the Project 2925 mantra that the Department of Education will cease to exist. Just imagine even 4 years of children not being allowed to learn anything. Absolutely frightening future.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

Cheatle has resigned.

Just saw that, it doesn't absolve her though, she still has to answer for her actions, and possible purjury.

[Azure]

Originally Posted by Ped

She's running against a convicted felon, proven liar, and adjudicated rapist.


All these points SHOULD seem quite minor in comparison, but history has shown that they won't.

Fixed your post.

[KelVarnsen]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

He been saying he wants everyone in the world to die or something?

My point is there have been plenty of unhinged posts that scream a lot more red flags then my posts but you say nothing

[Azure]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

There is 106 days until election day.
Probably enough time, no?

Who knows. I mean right now it seems like Harris is the best candidate ever because look at all the money flowing in and how happy all the Democrats are.

She had the worst approval rating in history for a vice president for a reason, and it sure ain't because everyone thinks she's a great candidate.