Trying out AdBlock for Safari (Apple App Store—free) and so far, so good. Tried a few websites that were more ads than content and it seems to work as advertised. Hopefully this will reduce the ads sucking up bandwidth.

This site, www.w3schools.com is especially egregious and now that ads are just gone.

“The second person suggested that Musk was hurting his chances of sticking around by not keeping a low profile, as the former president hates sharing the spotlight. Earlier this week, Trump cracked a joke at Musk’s expense during a meeting with Republican lawmakers, a reminder to everyone that Musk serves at his leisure, not the other way around.”

“Serves?”

No one serves. One is owned until discarded. You are replaceable. You are just a thing, barely human. Discarded you are “the worst…”

Different article:

“And he’s sure taking lots of credit for the president’s victory. Bragging about America PAC and X to anyone who will listen. He’s trying to make President Trump feel indebted to him. And the president is indebted to no one,” they added.

Apparently he is acting as if he is “co-president” and that’s pissing people off. Of course he thinks he’s deserved an important spot in Trump’s inner circle: he believes in quid pro quo—that Trump will reward him.

https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/188501/elon-musk-annoying-trump-team

This what happens when you think Trump owes you: you get mocked publicly.

“During his first meeting with Republican lawmakers on the Hill as president-elect, Trump asserted his power over Musk, mocking the tech billionaire for sticking around for so long. ‘Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him,’ Trump said Wednesday. ‘Until I don’t like him.’”

No one is Trump’s friend. In his mind, yhey exist to be used.

https://newrepublic.com/maz/post/188412/trump-humiliates-elon-musk-house-republicans

“In a recording of his Sunday sermon following Election Day, 87-year-old Kenneth Copeland said, ‘I believe it’s here right now, the [Christian spiritual] awakening we’ve been waiting for…. Now the atmosphere has been cleansed…. No more rainbow flags. No more.’ An audience member can be heard exclaiming, ‘Thank you, Jesus!’ in response.”

What would Jesus do? Not that.

If you think Jesus would act like that, you didnt learn one damn thing.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/donald-trumps-spiritual-advisor-says-there-will-be-no-more-rainbow-flags-after-re-election/

“Ruhle put a stop to the disorder–potentially and threw the show to commercial. ‘I just threw up in my mouth, so we have to go to commercial,’ she said as the panel was overcome with laughter again.”

Why?

“I do agree. (Gaetz) will probably have to pull out.. excuse me, that’s a bad choice of words,” said Rogers

😂🤢

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mat-gaetz-pull-remark-derails-164736680.html

Women box. And predictably for less.

“For anyone wondering how many subscribers would be logged on for the chief support fight, Taylor and Serrano quite literally broke the streaming platform. Viewers reported that Netflix crashed repeatedly throughout the fight.”

https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/articles/cvg4kxg8l42o

Bullshit. That’s why he was nominated. Dig into all of these guys and you will find criming. Not one of them is clean.

“Claims of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump’s pick for defence secretary that were missed in the vetting process could lead the transition team to reconsider the nomination.”

And if you think the Senate will block them, you’re dreaming. If they cared, they would have run someone other than Trump.

Republicans are the crime party.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/trumps-pick-for-defence-secretary-in-doubt-after-sex-allegations-chgjtrx5f

“Cammarata called Giuliani ‘a victim of political persecution’ in an email and said this month’s election demonstrated Americans were tired of ‘witch-hunts, indictments, impeachments, prosecutions, convictions, civil cases and judgments.’”

You mean law?

Without law, lawyers would have nothing to do.

This is what the rich do: try to destroy us and then attempt to weasel out of their conviction.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/16/rudy-giuliani-property-election-workers-defamation

“ All we know, based on Musk’s announcement, is that the Cybercab will get an unsupervised version of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) kit, which is exclusively camera-based (no radar, no lidar) but gets AI support to be, according to Musk, ‘10 times safer than a human driver’.”

Well thank the goddess that Musk isn’t one to toss around meaningless superlatives.

🙄

No LiDAR? Big problem. Cameras can only do so much. In one of Tesla’s accidents the camera was blinded. It did not end well.

We ran against a rapist and a criminal. This is the kind of garbage being served up as news:

“No introspective messaging about losing not just the presidency but the Senate and the House. And apparently, not even any high-level discussion of a change in strategy.”

The change in strategy being what?

MORE rapey and MORE criming? Because unless we managed to get Jesus Christ, I’m puzzled as to what their strategy would be.

Or just be as bad as Republicans?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-democrats-biden-kamala-harris-obama-pelosi-jeffries-schumer.html

“‘The public interest is not served in any way by releasing confidential information upon which the court has never relied to make any decision in this case,’ attorneys for Dorworth wrote in an Oct. 16 filing.”

Uh, yes it is—we do not need a pedophile as AG. Most pedophiles are not allowed to be around children.

But this guy thinks Gaetz should get special treatment.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-matt-gaetz-friend-court-destroy-records-sex-party-1235165571/

This is a good article about why authoritarianism is bad and what Trump will do—too bad it didn’t get the kind of notice it should have BEFORE the election.

“ There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.”

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/11/is-trump-trying-to-kill-us-authoritarian-expert-says-yes.html

I’ve the opening music to Bad Sisters going through my head on auto repeat.

BlueAnon?

Can I go back to my original timeline? In this one the author is just phoning it in.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-election-elon-musk-starlink-conspiracy-theory-voting.html

Biden tried to help those making low wages.

A Trump judge torpedoed it.

This is Trump’s plan—make you work for less money.

“A Texas federal judge has struck down a US Department of Labor rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility to four million new workers, kneecapping one of the Biden administration’s most substantial labor policies.”

But it’s democrats fault.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/overtime-expansion-for-4-million-workers-tossed-by-texas-judge