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Everyone else will be, though.

On Sunday we left the game at 3pm to get to TPA for a 5:50pm flight. Instead of taking us down I-4, which is the most direct route, Apple Maps routed us around it, west on 582 (Griffin/Knights Station Road), then down 39 back to I-4, which was still clogged in spots going into Tampa. The estimate when we left was 57 minutes. It took us nearly an hour and a half instead. But by the time we dropped off the car, took the tram, got through TSA and arrived at the gate, they were just starting to board. So the delay just happened worked out perfectly this time.

You may be on to something. His career splits indicate that Mazda does seem to be stronger against the first hitters he faces, especially in relief. This might be an indication that the contrast between his stuff and the stuff of the pitcher he relieves is substantial enough to flummox batters out of the gate.

I wouldn’t do this myself because it’s not my style, but I think the practical joke is fine. After all, regardless of whether he is MAGA, the salesman is presumably a willing and eager representative of the Tesla company, not an captive being pressed into service against his will. And it’s not as though the joke is picking his pocket or breaking his leg. After all, the drop in Tesla sales as a result of FElon’s noxious policies had already been picking the guy’s pocket even before the prank call. This is one of the ways the marketplace expresses its dissatisfaction—even better than a simple down arrow on a sales chart, actually, since it provides a vital piece of information as to why sales are plummeting. If the salesman can’t take this relatively gentle kind of heat, there are any number of sales positions with reputable companies he could take instead. Big boy pants applies here.

Where’s the $100 million coming from? Taxpayers?

I’m not so convinced that even Musk is going to get blamed by dispossessed red hats for their getting shorted on their Social Security or Medicare, let alone Trump. First of all, the regime will develop a complete horse**** story for the cuts even before they happen, in which the remaining Democrats, the former deep state, the media, and assorted other enemies of the state will be fully blamed for the debacle to come. It doesn’t matter that none of these entities have any actual power—they will be imbued with just enough power to be blamed for the debacle before it occurs. And secondly, I think we overestimate just how sensitive Trump’s core base even is to shifting economics. A really high percentage of hardcore red hats live hardscrabble lives of desperation and deprivation. They suffer in both good times and bad, such that things stay the same for them all the time—meaning, always terrible. The reason they go for Trump is not so much to restore an economic status they never had in the first place anyway, but to restore their social standing of being in the racial group that is explicitly favored by the government. It kills them, absolutely kills them, to see people of color doing better than they are, so the hardcore base’s heart’s desire is to see them dragged back down to their natural level, in which the level of the highest black person is far below the level of the lowest white person. You know, like it was back when America was great. So I really don’t see how those people are going to rise up against Trump simply because they’re not getting the checks from a program they’ve already been told for decades is going to be bankrupt by the time they come to collect anyway. OK, so, what about the Trump voters who are economically sensitive? Won’t they rise up once the **** hits the fan? I don’t think so, because that’s where the first part comes back in—the horse**** story part, which they of course will believe, because their media will tell them to believe it, so of course they will, because where are they gonna hear anything different? They might rise up, all right, but it won’t be against Trump or Musk. It will be against who they’ve been told is at fault. Only something unexpected that can’t planned for can break the spell. That could happen tomorrow, or that could happen in 50 years. Who knows.

Russia is going to know whatever intelligence is being shared even before Ukraine knows.

Fun fact about little Miss Attractive on TV: She is 27. Her husband is 59. He put a baby in her. Here's the Wikipedia page attesting as much. See if you can ace the hidden math test and morality check within: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt#Personal_life Leavitt is married to Nicholas Riccio, a real estate developer 32 years her senior.[35][36] They announced their engagement in December 2023 and were married in a private ceremony.[37][38] She gave birth to their son on July 10, 2024.[39] She had planned to go on maternity leave, but changed her mind after seeing the July 13, 2024, attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, and resumed her professional duties.[39][40] Leavitt is a Roman Catholic and credits her Catholic schooling for instilling pro-life values, discipline, and the importance of public service.[13]

I approve this practical joke. It belongs on a Morning Zoo broadcast.

She trotted out the "fair and balanced" line!

How much of driving the stock market to its knees is part of a conscious, possibly hare-brained scheme to bring corporations to his heel by flexing his ability to drive their corporate valuations into a ditch at his whim? Tell me there's no way this can work. Then tell me why.

This is true in normal political times.

Because he won't let the whole 51st state thing go, we can now assume that Trump was definitely never kidding about annexing Canada. I think at this point we have to assume that Trump will eventually initiate military action to occupy and annex Canada, because there is no way Canada would ever join the US voluntarily, and Canada will practically starve themselves, coupled with a collapse of western European aid to keep them propped up, before they would ever agree to join the US tail between their legs. I would assume there are fifth column elements in Canada right now working to soften up the target for such an action. I would also bet that a walled-off militarized border is in the planning stages on both sides. That's not a today or tomorrow thing—that would be a in-a-year-or-two-if-things-keep-going-the-way-they-are thing. And once that wall goes up on the Canada side, it is never, ever coming down again, even if Gretchen Whitmer were to become president.

Agree. And MAGA parents will not be euthanized pending special pleading approval.

Agree. And MAGA parents and disabled relatives will escape euthanasia, pending special pleading approval.

How much of this is part and parcel of an explicit MAGA cult strategy to cull the population of weak people and old people? After all, Germany had a well-defined Aktion T4 plan for "involuntarily euthanizing" disabled people as being "life unworthy of life", and that included working off lists of patients at old-age homes for residents with conditions like senile dementia. And I think most people accept that a high percentage of MAGA faithful get their inspiration from that.

OK, so, fortunately, I was able to locate the idea within a minute and a half, and it makes more sense to me now. He's not trying to charm us with his fire-breathing at State of the Union addresses—it's how he is getting apostate republicans in line for the budget vote, using good cop techniques, or at least balancing it with his more natural bad cop: Although honey, vinegar, cement, and iron sounds more like something RFK Jr would recommend to prevent measles, COVID, and AIDS.

I don't watch Degrassi, so I wouldn't know. I was just trying to highlight beautiful Canadian women in their 20s—Tate McRae came right to mind; I had to find Anna Cathcart for the post—to make the point that Justin Trudeau doesn't have to "waste his time", as it were, on women pushing 50.

I understand, but I wanted to read how they justify that statement. Maybe they are referring to something happening behind the scenes that we are not privy to seeing. Godammit, you're gonna make me listen to this, aren't you?

It depends on how he goes. If he dies in a "state of grace", such as it is, he will be practically worshiped by a very large minority of people, maybe a third or so. If someone manages to disgrace him and discredit his movement before he dies, then only a small sliver of people will continue to worship him, roughly the same percentage as people who worshiped Hitler after he died.

A little closer to the point, Margaret Sinclar met Pierre Trudeau when she was 18, and she was 22 when this picture was snapped, a week after they were wed. Women in their 20s were never considered akin to minors until just recently.

I think I see where you're going with this, so please understand that both Anna Cathcart and Tate McRae are basically the same age now as this person was in this famous picture:

Musk needs Russia to win. All his яйца are in that корзи́ну.

Next up: a lawsuit against the Marxist stock market to crashing TSLA on purpose.

What does it say? How do they mean this? I don’t do audio so please tell me.