Elon Musk has created a PAC collecting voter data from those living in key states through an online "register to vote" form that does not directly register people to vote.
All of this in an effort to help Donald Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html
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Feel more than ever it's important to support a SM community not run by a weird unstable, maga-cult, authoritarian, like Muck arbitrarily outlawing innocuous random words. WTF even is that??
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Once in Beijing I saw many Japanese cars. All had their nameplates removed or covered. The cars are good, but after WWII war crimes the name was considered shameful. I wonder if Elon will bring about the same situation for Tesla in the US, and we'll see Teslas with the T removed.
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In related story
60 Minutes: You said that you would support Trump to a tune of $45 million a month.
Musk: I did not! Where did you get that idea? I didn’t. (Puffs on cigarette quickly) Is it me or is it him? It’s most definitely him.
60 Min: We have tape of you saying that.
Musk: I know that. Why would think I wouldn’t know that?
Knowing every type of gun, every size and brand of ammunition, every modification and accessory to a gun, or how to take a gun apart and put it together does not make you more qualified to discuss the value of guns in society than someone who has experienced or seen a gunshot wound.
Time Magazine is, at best, centrist that leans right.
Harris was never ‘border czar.’
“In fact, Harris was never put in charge of the border or immigration policy. Nor was she involved in overseeing law-enforcement efforts or guiding the federal response to the crisis. Her mandate was much narrower: to focus on examining and improving the underlying conditions in the Northern Triangle of Central America”
Republicans are lying about history.
Again.
The secret service is short staffed and routinely has to deny requests for additional protection. Though there was no denial for the Trump rally.
Why? Not Biden's fault. Not Trump's fault. Not fault of Congressional Republicans. Funding has been increasing, not cut. Turns out it's a really tough job few people want to do for very long.
@walterbays “it” happened, or at least tried to in his lifetime: THE BUSINESS PLOT, OR WHEN J.P. MORGAN’S PALS TRIED TO OVERTHROW FDR
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-business-plot-or-when-j-p-morgans-pals-tried-to-overthrow-fdr/
A good description of my #politics: I'm a "radical centrist." Rubin describes it very well, and cites its value in an age where the center has been collapsing not just in the US but worldwide, under assault from both far leftists and authoritarian populists.
@DavidSalo Here’s my bet: no one will be named before the convention, and probably as late as possible then. All our fevered speculation is free publicity, and as soon as it gets resolved it'll be replaced by more internecine bickering.
#politics
As you read Project 2025, a good companion novel is this from 1930 which could have been written today.
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-book-club/lewis-it-cant-happen-here
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