while we’re going back to the McKinley era. people were more self-reliant then. more people lived on the farm.

do the tariffs in their current form survive the morrow?

maybe i'm not a real American or something, but it frustrates me that Slotkin is not talking about all the criming and destruction the administration is wreaking—taking Congressionally prescribed agencies to the wood chipper, withdrawing food and life-saving care from people with no notice, deaths.

it's when stuff costs a lot of doe.

woke is gone.

under Trump, you announce everything. what you actually do… well that's not so important. as long as he can take credit for your announcement.

when you're a star…

the point of fentanyl as a pretext is it has nothing at all to do with the tariffs so there's complete liberty in slapping them on or off, making them stronger or weaker, as a response to actions that may be invented or merely symbolic.

I think it's like half his wealth, with the other half SpaceX, but that's privately held, less liquid. He also allegedly has a lot of debt, likely with Tesla stock as collateral. So if Tesla really crashes he could be put in a position where he's under pressure to repay, has to sell some SpaceX.

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touch the stove for the pleasure of withdrawing your finger. it’s a kink!

teslas are threatened and need habitat.

if you set wealth and income taxes too low, a kind of very powerful but misaligned AGI emerges.

there are two sides of that question. persecution by a vindictive state may not be great for shareholder value.

"committed to marrying" (nice ironic phrasing!)

(thanks!)

what bank would have the balls to make a collateral call to Musk as the value of the Tesla shares he pledged falls?

the bribes collected to fund the Presidential library should be used to fund the Presidential jail.

thank you John Roberts and the US Supreme Court for having narrowed the definition of bribery to a nullity.