On the one hand, Musk is probably trying to distance himself from his work at DOGE now that his bromance with president Donald Trump has devolved into a bitter feud.

But it also smacks of hypocrisy, considering that he previously complained that empathy is destroying society.

In late February, roughly a week after wielding the chainsaw on stage, Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan that "we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on."

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit," he said at the time. "They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response."

The wake of chaos and destruction DOGE has left behind certainly underlines Musk's capacity to disregard the feelings of others " almost as if "cruelty is the point," as The Atlantic's Adam Serwer put it in a 2018 essay about Trump's first term.

But now that his once rosy relationship with Trump has exploded into a million pieces, metastasizing into an ugly feud rife with threats and personal attacks, Musk is trying to distance himself from his ruthless and ultimately fruitless endeavor to save the government money."

"Two other U.S. officials said Pentagon leadership did not seek any input from the State Department, the U.S. embassy in Kyiv or Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg's team before pulling back a shipment of critical arms that were already on the ground in Poland.

Some in the Joint Staff were also opposed to the halt, both officials and a person familiar with the discussions said.

Both the White House and the State Department pushed back on the notion that the munitions pause caught administration officials off guard.

"This is false," said a White House official who was granted anonymity to talk about an ongoing review. "The president and top officials expect the DOD to regularly review aid allocations to ensure they are in line with the America First agenda."

... gives a new meaning to Soylent Green... it's Gator Processed now for Freshness!

I wonder who's going to play her in the movie version of The Trump Devolution?

And will they do it in like a Marx Bros Meets Fascism fashion.

The Marx Brothers - This Country's Going To War

Wow... amazed to see Bluethwaffer admit that Obama and Biden are better business men than his Cult Leader.

Neither of who's Campaign Manager was a Russian asset.

Major B is like a lot of people who want to say they live in a Christian nation, then not observe any of Christianity's values. Almost none at all.

It's a really tired old ploy: it's ok to give to others if you do it yourself, but if you agree that we could do more if we do some things together as the People, well, that's just wrong.

It's utter nonsense, mostly touted by interests that are opposed to the whole idea of, "the People".

And have proved it by making corporations into Super Citizens with more money than God, and made money 'Speech'. God, who's kid more than once said that the love of money is the root of all evil, and that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven.

He added that, obviously 'all things' are possible, but he didn't sound like that was going to help the stupid, greedy, and arrogant bastards of the world.

China... the first steps in the Indo-Pacific war when Xi invades Taiwan, and Trump just salutes and gives him mean girl looks.

I still think that Vlad, Xi, and T-rump have already divvied up the world over the years, with Vlad getting most of the old SU back and parts of NATO, Xi getting Taiwan, some islands, some mainlands... Indonesia, the Philippines at a Special Discount if they throw in free cases for Trump phones. Australia, if they wanted it.

DJT gets Canada (if he can take it!), Greenland, Mexico, Central and parts of South America. But only after letting Vlad and Xi bunker drone California.

Obviously LHT assumes that all the Trumpers who testified to his Coup Crimes were actually Dem Crisis Actors.... as he has never come up with why Trump's own DOJ lawyers would refuse to sign the letter to States saying they could just mark out Biden's name on the Certified Ballots and replace it with Trump's... and threatened to resign en masse.

Or all the other Trumpers who also testified to his crimes; because they never happened in the Trump World Cult.

"Had the initial April 2 tariffs stayed in place, the companies in the JPMorganChase Institute analysis would've faced additional direct costs of $187.6 billion.

Under the current rates, the $82.3 billion would be equivalent on average to $2,080 per employee, or 3.1% of the average annual payroll. Those averages include firms that don't import goods and those that do."

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The Fart of the Deal!

#69!!!!

for Major B, apparently

"Trump administration military aid halt will only encourage Russia, Ukraine warns

Ukraine warns that slowing weapons deliveries "would only encourage the aggressor to continue war and terror."

The weapons pause was greeted positively by Russia.

"The fewer arms supplied to Ukraine, the closer the end of the special military operation will be," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters."

- hurt you?

When other people being hurt doesn't matter to you.. you might be a Trumper.

I was actually quite happy that I went for however long not knowing who Diddy is or what this trial is even about... it was blissful ignorance; to think that would last!

Herr Musk will get by.... he has a cunning plan to introduce the new Kesla!

Ketamine powered cars are the future!

- This is poor thinking.

Ah, good... you've found a title for your autobiography.

The dead and dying children must feel so much better knowing they are not going to be 'problems'.

#7

Good point. Prolly already started.

The Samaritans were. btw, basically the hated 'Palastinians' of their day as far as Jews were concerned.

Jesus shocked his listeners with the story of Jews passing by an injured Jew on the road, and how it was a Samaritan who saved him.

Answering the question, 'Who is my brother?'.

All people are our brothers, sisters, and children... no matter where they are from.

Being interested in truth and facts isn't necessary when you have a cult leader to tell you what to think.

- Sounds like a "their" country problem, not ours

Is that a Jesus quote?

Someone didn't get the Good Samaritan story.

We have (or had) what's called a representative democracy, Major B; a combination of a republic with democratic elements.

"Whether it's Trump, congressional Republicans or congressional Democrats, respondents do not have much confidence in their elected leaders.

Overall, Trump gets just a 43% job approval.

His handling of immigration mirrors his overall rating, and people have even less faith in his handling of foreign policy (41%) or the economy (39%)."

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Yeah, but what a Great Guy he is! Just a wonderful human being, honest as the day is long, and a President that we can be proud of*!!

(*on alternate Tuesdays if he's not hawking his latest overpriced Chinese perfumes and phones and bibles and guitars and.... ad infinitum on Truth Social, betraying Ukraine for Vlad, or destroying democracy)

Anything for Vlad... who has Lil' Donnie's leash pulled up really tight.

So... Mao was Bart Simpson?

The interests of the People have quite literally become secondary, at best, to the interests of the wealthy people and corporations who give money to politicians to buy media time so they can keep their prestigious jobs.

For a couple of hundred years in this country that was rightly and legally called bribery.

ha! I had about decided not, but then you mentioned you thought he was, so I'm still not sure.

Mine was but a 'cunning plan' to draw him out, mwahaha!