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@nostrildamus said in US Politics:
@Catogrande said in US Politics:
Black and Tans? Must be reading a CIA racial profiling report...
Looks like someone is feeding the POTUS some happy pills. What could possibly go wrong?Please end it now
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@Tim said in US Politics:
Love her now, she is absolutely fucked up. Getting wasted and talking nonsense. Big thumbs up.
Is Alzheimer's contagious?
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They found the issue, if Elon starts a Space that has 500k listeners multiplied by 100 million followers the scaling fails. He's had problems even posting long tweets because of that.
Once they swapped who was hosting it's working fine, 292k listeners at the moment.
It's a bit of a clunky format for this sort of thing, but it's closer to a podcast format with a candidate, so a step closer to better conversations with politicians. No five minute soundbite interview.
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I was hoping they would get a question from a rando, I guess that's too dangerous. It was an interesting scroll on who was listening.
My main criticism was too many questions from people that agree with him, they addressed the main hit pieces being generated on him, so didn't shy away from the controversial topics, but a little more push back would have made it more interesting, and appeared more balanced.
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De Santis doesn't look deranged, orange, decrepit or senile. He's clearly the outlier candidate.
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I read a lot of hostile remarks on De Santis but it seems to be very partisan, he is still popular in Florida (if not at Disney).
April 4: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/600604-poll-ron-desantis-remains-resoundingly-popular-in-florida/The problem though is apparently Florida: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/24/ron-desantis-florida-man-curse-00098444
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@Tim Elon probably agrees with you. He’s talked about from the ground rewrites for the code and phantom servers that when they turned them off it took the whole site down.
His new team is straightening out spaghetti code and infrastructure. It was a very poorly run company previously.
I’ve mentioned before they didn’t even have development servers.
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@Kirwan said in US Politics:
I’ve mentioned before they didn’t even have development servers.
Holy crap.
Didn't he do DD?
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@Victor-Meldrew lost me sorry. DD?
To be clear, it’s the morons that used to run Twitter that created the mess and didn’t have a proper test environment.
For context, Duluth has a test environment for the fucking Fern.
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@Kirwan
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@Victor-Meldrew No, not really. When he found they lied to him how many bots they had on the service, he tried to pull out of the detail but it was going to cost him something like a billion.
Kind of amazing to put together a deal worth 44 billion and not do a detailed review of what you were buying. All seemed rushed for reasons we may never know about.
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In regard to these charges - It's hard for me to decide whether the Biden DOJ are genuinely trying to stop Trump from running, or trying to ignite his base to make him the Republican nominee (because they assume he is the least electable in a General Election).
Either way, I don't assume for a moment it is the honest pursuit of justice and don't think for a minute that other ex-Presidents would be pursued with such vigor. (despite Trump probably being guilty of these charges because he's a careless idiot)
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@Frank said in US Politics:
In regard to these charges - It's hard for me to decide whether the Biden DOJ
Merrick Garland isn't exactly a stark raving leftie-why do you think it is the Biden DOJ?
Was it the Trump DOJ during the last presidency?Either way, I don't assume for a moment it is the honest pursuit of justice and don't think for a minute that other ex-Presidents would be pursued with such vigor. (despite Trump probably being guilty of these charges
If he is probably guilty as you say then how is the "pursuit" dishonest?
And perhaps he is being actively pursued because he is still taking such active interest in politics and related business, unlike previous Presidents?
Now as he embarks on a third presidential bid, Trump is focused on grievance, not policy. His main vow is to impose vengeance on his — and by extension the MAGA movement’s — enemies. This approach violates much of what political scientists have come to expect from politicians: that they’ll seek to build broad coalitions in pursuit of electoral advantage. Turning away from that strategy is one of the most striking features of Trump-style Republicanism.
Trump’s Dominance in the GOP Isn’t What It Seems
