Cousin thinks the same things Vance thought... before Peter Thiel offered to buy him the VP job.

Now he thinks the opposite of what he said about Trump for years, ie; he thinks what he's told to think.

- think the SS department is infallible

No one but you ever uttered those words.

- everyone just accepted there is fraud everywhere.

Fortunately that's just you projecting what you laughably call thought.

Herr Musk has already had to admit to some of his Soc Sec lies... expect more of that to come as more Trumper's Soc Sec Myths are exploded.

That's the term used by some here when the only other real Party pushes a fraud, a liar, a rapist, a criminal, and a traitor as a great candidate that everyone should vote for.

And then puts billions in Oligarch money behind him to generate media-based votes.

So, yeah... an undemocratic dictatorship where the new King requires loyalty oaths to him, not the Constitution, and flaunts the laws that would prevent him from being King.

While tearing down the country, it's people, and the country's former leading role in the world.

Ticking away
The moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours
In an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground
In your hometown
Waiting for someone
Or something to show you the way

[Chorus: Richard Wright]
Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today

And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

[Verse 2: David Gilmour]
And you run, and you run
To catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around
To come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way
But you're older
Shorter of breath
And one day closer to death

[Chorus: Richard Wright]
Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

[Part II: Breathe (In the Air) (Reprise)]

[Outro: David Gilmour]
Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire

Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells

Wow... 1Nut is impressed that countries spend less after a war than they did during a war.

You can't make this stuff up!

"Erika De La Cruz said she created the Reddit group r/OcalaBlueDots after seeing TikTok users calling for protests in the Ocala area. In less than two months, she said the Reddit community has grown to 280 members and continues to expand alongside the protests.

"We're just trying to get out there and build a community and show that there are people like us who think like us in a predominantly red area," said De La Cruz, who added that she was leading protests of four people less than two months ago."

It was pretty cool, really.... protestors with signs on both sides of the main drag through the entrance to downtown. I didn't know about it, but happened to be driving by, so I got out there for a while. Long enough to wish a Trumper good luck with their Soc Sec.

/

But it seemed pretty successful considering where it was, and drew a lot of attention on Saturday.

We'll never address the two largest expenses that taxpayers pay for... the debt we owe (and continue to increase) for interest on the debt paid to Banks, and the ever expanding (and overpaying to Corporations for everything) Military.

Those are untouchable Corporations. Then when you add the tax cuts that the poor and middle class are losing to the Oligarchs, you have the budget deficit increases.

- you created a narrative out of whole cloth

I stated facts which you called a narrative because you can't refute said facts.

- undemocratic.

The preferred system of the Musk-Thiel Oligarchs whom you think of as Gods is the one they have in Singapore; a Corporate Autocracy where the Dear Leader is the Dir of the Board, chosen by the Board.

Related:

"Donald Trump and Elon Musk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics."

Good to see Visitor is all for a Gov Contractor who got $40 billion of taxpayer money in contracts, loans, and tax breaks... and still gets $8 million a day... also being able to spend at least $300 million to elect a President.

As long as money is speech, as Republicans have made the laws, the moneyed interests will own the Government.

And rwingers will still be stupid enough to support that.

Related:

"Social Security employees and former commissioner Martin O'Malley say DOGE's intrusion into the agency could mean seniors not getting their checks"
March 10, 2025

"In a declaration filed with a lawsuit on Friday and referring to the Doge agents Mike Russo and Akash Bobba, Tiffany Flick said:

"We proposed briefings to help Mr Russo and Mr Bobba understand the many measures the agency takes to help ensure the accuracy of benefit payments, including those measures that help ensure we are not paying benefits to deceased individuals.

"However, Mr Russo seemed completely focused on questions ... based on the general myth of supposed widespread social security fraud, rather than facts."

Much more at the link.

- the elites of a single party got to choose a new leader.

Whereas the elites of a single wealth class got buy a new leader here.

adjusting for "ideological alignment or naivety"

Since neither of those apply to Hair Fuehrer, he's 100 percent Vlad's ass-et.

"She is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes. Another DEI hire. It always ends badly," Mike Cernovich, a prominent rightwing influencer and conspiracy theorist, wrote on X, referencing diversity, equity and inclusion policies, which Republicans have demonized.

Fox News host Mark Levin claimed in an online post that Barrett had "deceived people into thinking she was a reliable constitutionalist". He added: "The power has gone to her head. It happens with frightening regularity the last half-century."

Laura Loomer, the rightwing activist who repeatedly traveled with Trump during his 2024 campaign, went even further. She posted a picture of Coney Barrett's family, which includes two adopted Black children, and wrote:

"Amy Coney Barrett was a DEI appointee." Jack Posobiec, a popular Maga figure with more than 3m followers on X, posted that Coney Barrett was a "DEI judge"."

more nasty rwing buffoonery at the thread link

Loyalty to the Lyin' King is Required, Patriots need not apply.

I hear that Fort Knox is being renamed Fort Trump, and that the gold is being replaced with bitcoin.

But it will be safe in the Mar a Lardo pool shed.

On My Own

B. W. Stevenson

Why not? The whole King Trump Government is For Sale.

Ask Russia and China. And the Saudis. Not to mention billionaires everywhere.

Don't tell me that ItchyP ran away from his comments... again.

Frummox - Texas Trilogy

#26

That's excellent!

It was added to the Headline because of the thread about Christians being killed, which didn't mention the Muslims.

#4

Finding a way to blame Dems for the Trump Musk Oligarchy is... blindingly idiotic.

But blindingly idiotic does capture attention, and that's what trolls feed on; positive of negative doesn't really matter, it's all attention to them.

"The violence has been concentrated in the coastal areas of Tartus and Latakia, the home of the Alawite community, a small Islamic sect to which the Assad family belongs.

According to the SOHR, the vast majority of the civilian dead appear to be Alawites, which NBC News has not independently confirmed.'

;'

"Syria's rugged Mediterranean shore was a stronghold of the Assad family's brutal regime, which lasted 53 years before a rebel alliance led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ousted Assad three months ago in a lightning-fast offensive that swept across the nation and led HTS leader Sharaa to become the new government's interim president.

However, Syria's northwest coast remains a fractured battleground, with armed Assad loyalists holding on to villages and remote pockets of territory."

'

"The Associated Press reported that revenge killings were initiated Friday by Sunni gunmen, perhaps loyal to the government, with residents saying Alawites were being killed in the streets or at the gates of their homes, and their houses looted and set on fire.

SOHR also reported that 125 government security forces and 148 militants from Assad-affiliated armed groups were among the dead."

This is basically what Musk is doing in Texas... building Company Towns like in the Gilded Age of Oligarchs. He has tiny homes for the employees, Company Stores, and a strict ignoring of Labor and Wage Laws.

Except for his personal compound for his several wives and 14 kids (no labor laws!), the newest of which he's ignoring both mom and child.