Musk's Illegal Control of the US Government

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Just watched a propaganda commercial in which Trump claims he will end cancer by the end of his administration.

How the **** are you gonna do that?  You are cutting all the funding and firing all the researchers!  Asshats.

If everybody dies of something else, they won't get cancer.  

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

If you kill then before they die of cancer then there will be no cancer deaths. 

Oh, you beat me to it.  

[Sports_Freak]

14 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

This one always got me. I have friends that were furloughed at hospitals during this time. My conspiracy theory cousin told me they ventilators were being used to kill people. 

"Masks dont work."

OK, if you need surgery,  the surgeons won't wear masks. I wonder if they know how stupid they sounded?

[The Ronz]

8 hours ago, oblong said:

“If they tag it as COVID they get more money”

You wouldn't believe how many people I know who work in the medical field, including the operating room, who spout that till this very day.

I finally asked one of them the other day:

"Why would President Trump spend your tax dollars on that?"

Answer:

"Covid didn't start until 2021. Biden did it."

We are literally dealing with the walking dead here.

These people are never coming back to anything even remotely approaching normalcy.

 

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, romad1 said:

Just watched a propaganda commercial in which Trump claims he will end cancer by the end of his administration.

How the **** are you gonna do that?  You are cutting all the funding and firing all the researchers!  Asshats.

Change the name of it.

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

"Masks dont work."

OK, if you need surgery,  the surgeons won't wear masks. I wonder if they know how stupid they sounded?

Didn’t The Pitt have a scene in which a mask-denier was given the chance to opt for a doctor not wearing a mask during her surgery and she caved?

[Tigerbomb13]

Where cruelty is the entire point of this administration 

Feds cancel $4.3M worth of poultry, cheese, eggs to Michigan food banks

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/03/29/usda-cancels-4-3m-in-poultry-cheese-eggs-to-michigan-food-banks/82674058007/

[romad1]

this guy..

He really wants to double down on Mark Kelly being a traitor.  The drugs are talking because sense isn't.

[romad1]

i like this

 

[Tiger337]

17 hours ago, romad1 said:

i like this

 

I love the photo.  The crowd has Boston written all ovah it.  

[LaceyLou]

18 hours ago, romad1 said:

i like this

 

How the heck did I miss this???? I was about a 5 minute walk away returning books to the BPL. 

[LaceyLou]

18 hours ago, romad1 said:

this guy..

He really wants to double down on Mark Kelly being a traitor.  The drugs are talking because sense isn't.

Well he's partially right-we DO want to destroy his influence. 

He's complaining also about people being happy about Tesla stock going down. He asked "who does that?" as if he didn't celebrate cutting people's jobs by wielding a chainsaw onstage. Side note: should somebody on drugs even be using that kind of equipment? 

And by the way, Elon, if you want to save Tesla then all you have to do is step down and let somebody else run it. I think you'll be financially okay.

[Tiger337]

12 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

How the heck did I miss this???? I was about a 5 minute walk away returning books to the BPL. 

Did you take out the book out 50 years ago?

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, LaceyLou said:

And by the way, Elon, if you want to save Tesla then all you have to do is step down and let somebody else run it. I think you'll be financially okay.

He wants a lot more than to be financially okay. That’s a bourgeois dream.

[LaceyLou]

12 minutes ago, chasfh said:

He wants a lot more than to be financially okay. That’s a bourgeois dream.

True. I remember reading about one man, upon being asked how he felt about a colleague being so much richer than he was, who said: "I have something he will never have. I have enough."

I really wish I knew who to credit...

[TJ Rollercoaster]

3 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

True. I remember reading about one man, upon being asked how he felt about a colleague being so much richer than he was, who said: "I have something he will never have. I have enough."

I really wish I knew who to credit...

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . Enough.”

[Dan Gilmore]

Just now rereading Catch 22 for the (?) third time.

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[romad1]

17 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

The Ketamine hasn't improved all of his brain functions.  Indeed its rapidly disassembling his 

[Tiger337]

46 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

I never thought I'd see a bigger asshole than Trump.  Musk has pulled that off.  Pretty impressive.  

[LaceyLou]

12 hours ago, TJ Rollercoaster said:

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . Enough.”

Thank you! I knew I had heard it somewhere, and recently.

[LaceyLou]

2 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

I'd love to see him do some of those jobs he seems to think are so easy.

[Tiger337]

12 hours ago, TJ Rollercoaster said:

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, the late Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, the author Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch 22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have . . . Enough.”

 I love that quote!

[oblong]

It reminds me of something I read over the weekend.  There was one of those personal finance tiktoks or reals debating a particular strategy over 30 years.  The difference was alleged to be about $100K by the time you are 65.  One of the commenters defended it as possible for people who "don't waste money on vacations and new cars".  

I'm thinking.... what's the whole point then?  There's a balance between planning for the future and the unexpeted and actually living your life in the present.   My kids are 24 and 21 and we've went on vacation every year since 2005.  If I invested that it would be well into six figures.  But at what cost? Would I be better off? I never understood this fascination with making wealth building an almost religious undertaking.  I know too many people who have died under the age of 70 for that to be my focus. I'm also fortunate enough to have enough to be casual about these things and still have something waiting for me in 11 years.  I understand that.  But I'm not going to sweat decisions i've made in the past to provide my family with entertainment and experiences.  

 

[Edman85]

13 minutes ago, oblong said:

It reminds me of something I read over the weekend.  There was one of those personal finance tiktoks or reals debating a particular strategy over 30 years.  The difference was alleged to be about $100K by the time you are 65.  One of the commenters defended it as possible for people who "don't waste money on vacations and new cars".  

I'm thinking.... what's the whole point then?  There's a balance between planning for the future and the unexpeted and actually living your life in the present.   My kids are 24 and 21 and we've went on vacation every year since 2005.  If I invested that it would be well into six figures.  But at what cost? Would I be better off? I never understood this fascination with making wealth building an almost religious undertaking.  I know too many people who have died under the age of 70 for that to be my focus. I'm also fortunate enough to have enough to be casual about these things and still have something waiting for me in 11 years.  I understand that.  But I'm not going to sweat decisions i've made in the past to provide my family with entertainment and experiences.  

 

I think about that a lot too, but I come at it from the other angle. A lot of people drowning in student loan debt spending 5-10K a year on vacations seems like a bad move, especially in the context of the debt forgiveness.

I've never been big on vacations. They are a luxury. I never really got to go on many as a kid: dad worked long hours in the summer and we didn't have much money. As a result, I've never really been big on them as an adult.