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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jimmy Kimmel: Michelle Obama on Barack being called “fine,” raising their daughters & watching trash TV

LegalEagle: The most dangerous toys of all time

Stephen: A great day for love! Biden signs Respect For Marriage Act

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Grooming Children with Bibles, Not Drag Queens!

Lewis Black: Florida politics

The Sedition Party:

Robert Reich: The Powell Memo—Corporate America’s blueprint

Ari Melber: FAUX hosts rage after Biden signs gay marriage law

Lauren Mayer: ♫ The Twitter Files ♬

NowThis: Biden, Pelosi, & Schumer react to passage of Respect for Marriage Act

Vox: A fact-checked debate about legal weed

Daily Show correspondents roast Trevor

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    Heard the latest major announcement, the NFT, backfired. I mean some supporters we’re supposedly complaining.

  2. 2

    So this is how it works from now on:

    Elon Musk calls journalists back to Twitter following poll results calling for their return

    If you, say, advocate for the mass murder of all women in Iran who don’t wish to wear the hijab whenever in public AND the Twitter poll agrees with you…all good.

    If you want to save the ancient grove of 1000 year old trees in a deserted part of Northern California and the twitter poll disagrees with you….you’re banned.

    If you tweet, “Kids should get medical care” and the poll disagrees….banned.

    If you tweet, “Kids should be beaten if they get too mouthy even if it causes brain damage” and the poll agrees….DINNER WITH ELON AND A BLUE CHECK!

    After all, it’s a private platform and if you don’t like it you can leave.

  3. 3

    Interesting to see the province of Ontario planning to restore the Toronto-Timmins Northlander passenger train, scrapped by the previous Liberal Government when they planned to sell off the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission. The ONTC is a provincial crown corporation tasked with providing transportation links in the rural Northern part of the province, and prior to 2014 also operated an airline and a telecom company.

    Interesting that they are choosing brand new rolling stock. Tge Northlander of old often used hand me down rolling stock, including in its final years, used Toronto commuter coaches. Ontario Northland has stayed in the passenger rail business even without the Northlander, as the Polar Bear Express mixed train serves a primarily road less area on the Northern end. Never thought Siemens could design a version of the Venture train set this small, 2 coaches and a cab car, pulled by a Charger locomotive. Once again, this design, originally adapted for the North American Market by Florida’s Brightline, is proving very adaptable.

    https://railcolornews.com/2022/12/16/ca-comeback-of-the-northlander-ontario-buys-siemens-passenger-trains/O

    https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/ontario-government-to-purchase-equipment-for-revival-of-northlander/

  5. 5

    @2 It’s an experiment of and for Dumbfucks.

    I wonder if I Twitter Acocunt dedicated to the Hetero Neanderthal Disease would last……..opps, by unpopular demand, my guess it wouldn’t.

  10. 10

    Good morning everyone!

    Did you know there was this thing called “after hours trading”?

    Anyway, in after hours trading the price of TSLA fell some more, finishing below 150.

    TSLA 149.06

    Merry Christmas!

  11. 11

    Blast from the past:

    Grethe Cammermeyer
    1d ·
    After 13 years as a hospital commissioner I will be retiring as of 31 January 2023. Please consider your own background and expertise and send a resume should you be interested in being considered as an incoming commissioner. Since a selection will be early spring you would have 4 months or so to get a little understanding of the role before deciding to file to run for the position in the upcoming election November 2023.

    The last time she made national news is when she led the pledge of allegiance at the White House DADA repeal signing ceremony.

    She’s been on Whidbey for a couple of decades. I’ve seen her at the occasional art event.

    Anyway, there will be an opening for hospital commissioner. Preference given to applicants with a demonstrated talent in pulling money out of hats.

  12. 12

    I believe it was QoS McHillbilly who yesterday scoffed at the notion that Tesla should be worth more than Ford or GM. Wasn’t it?

    Anyway,

    Did you know there was this thing called @ 10 debt-to-equity ratio?

    GM. 172.53%
    F. 304.64%
    TSLA. 8.92%

    GM and Ford are massively indebted to – well, to their unions, by and large. Tesla? That’s a really fuckin’ low ratio. Some might say too low, but they’re the ones who bought Tesla in, say, May.

    Tesla’s EBITDA is around $16B. GM’s is around $21B. GM, a massively larger company, has an EBITDA only about 30% greater than Tesla’s. Since those earnings are before subtracting interest expense (that’s the I in EBITDA), there’s very little left after factoring in this huge expense.

    This is why Tesla is so much more valuable than either GM or Ford. Company size or vehicle output have nothing to do with it. What matters is how quickly a company can respond to future opportunities. In this regard debt is a ball and chain around the ankles of GM and Ford, and always will be.

    If Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit had any money, he’d be a buyer of Tesla now. He doesn’t have the money, and he’s reliant on dividend income, so he won’t. Instead he’ll brag about how high the dividend percent is on 3M these days, since he’s lost 30% of his investment in the company.

  13. 13

    who yesterday scoffed at the notion that Tesla should be worth more than Ford or GM

    Looked and looked and looked.

    Nobody scoffed at any such notion.

  14. 14

    @ 13

    Noted, and I stand corrected. I likely was thinking of something I read elsewhere.

    Although while chasing it down I found Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s bragging about a seven-dollar gain on shares he held for three months:

    I’ll get back to you after I calculate the paper loss I didn’t take on the 3M shares I bought in September for $121.44 and sold two days ago for $128.02 that are now $122.47 last I checked.

    He bought three shares, so he actually made $21$20.

    And then told us about it. Like any millionaire you know would.

  18. 18

    12,
    Wow. Good golly.

    I knew it must be going badly. But I wouldn’t have imagined this badly. That is a lot of frantic rationalization going on there to resolve the perfectly understandable fear and regret this troll is experiencing this joyous holiday season.

    To recap in brief, for a premium that amounts to the price of a small Crate and Barrel patio set this troll placed the all-electric luxury truck he’s been dreaming of at risk, betting that the price of TSLA could not fall from 170 to 125 this month. At the half way mark we are half way to our goal!

    Now I’m the last guy on earth to bet on these things like this troll did. I have no idea how unlikely this kind of price plummet might be. But that’s probably why I haven’t placed any such bet. Ever.

    But another reason might be that I don’t get big tinglies and a restored sense of purpose and meaning to my life from this kind of pointless risk (and I used to own a couple of paragliders). I’m also not desperate to fill a moral void in my life with some kind of fabricated meaning.

    And here I’m giving this troll credit that this is money he can afford to place at risk. There’s a strong case to be made that this might not be true for him.

    But even if we assume that this troll can easily afford this loss, it’s still going to be a stressful holiday season for this troll, white-knuckling his way through each day watching the price drop, distracted and quiet at family gatherings, unable to enjoy the bowl games, silently waiting for the trade to expire and praying that it works out. I hope it doesn’t!

    But that hope costs me nothing. And even if this troll survives this remarkably stupid episode financially (why not?), I’ll still have spent the month gleefully celebrating a fantastic holiday season with friends and family, sharing great times, looking forward to a great 2023. His suffering is just the cherry on top.
    TSLA 149.06

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

  21. 21

    @11 “Preference given to applicants with a demonstrated talent in pulling money out of hats.”

    That leaves you out. Your only talent is pulling shit out of your ass.

  22. 22

    @ 18

    And here I’m giving this troll credit that this is money he can afford to place at risk. There’s a strong case to be made that this might not be true for him.

    Hey, don’t let me stop you.

  23. 23

    Back the blue!

    A Tennessee man already facing charges in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was arrested for allegedly planning to kill FBI agents, including those who had been investigating him, the Justice Department announced Friday.

    Edward Kelley, who was previously charged with assaulting an officer during the Capitol riot, and Austin Carter, also from Tennessee, have been charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate threats and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

    According to an affidavit, Kelley and Carter had a list of names of 37 law enforcement members to assassinate.

  24. 24

    Tesla forward PE ratio: 28.11

    Microsoft forward PE ratio: 24.97

    Not a whole lotta difference there.

  25. 25

    @12 “Instead he’ll brag about how high the dividend percent is on 3M these days, since he’s lost 30% of his investment in the company.”

    Yield on 3M is 4.9%. That’s also my basis or cost yield, because I paid $121 for the 3M shares I now own. On paper it looks like I bought 3M in September for $121 and flipped it in December for $128, for an annualized 23% gain, but for tax purposes the huge gain on Exxon shares I sold this year is offset by a huge loss on the 3M shares I previously bought and just sold, and I now own the same number of 3M shares and owe no taxes on the Exxon gains. I also got a double-sized 3M dividend this month because I held onto the old 3M shares until after the ex-dividend date.

    Of course, you wouldn’t know about this, because a genius investor like yourself never has any paper losses in his portfolio that he can use for tax offsets when he sells stocks and realizes taxable capital gains, which is probably something you do daily or at least weekly with your options flipping. But I’m not as good at this as you are, so I occasionally have underwater stocks in my portfolio, which I creatively use to legally avoid taxes when I cash in my winners.

    So, for your future reference, I now own 3M at $121, and Exxon at between $65 and $80, having gotten rid of my $36 Exxon shares that I bought in March 2020 and sold 2 years later for $108 for a piddling 200% gain in 2 years. Like I said, I’m not as good at this as you are, and I’m the first to admit it.

    By the way, after this week’s pounding, my stocks are up only 1.7% for the year, excluding dividends; no doubt you’re doing much better, so why don’t you tell us? As Dizzy Dean said, “it ain’t braggin’ if you done it.” You, of all people, surely are familiar with the wisdom of pitchers.

  26. 26

    Who among us hasn’t photoshopped themselves into photos they lifted from:
    Amazon
    Wired
    Men’s Warehouse
    DNW Outdoors

    And then sold them for a profit as NFTs creating a very very very high likelihood of getting sued and losing that $4.5M and then some in a settlement?

  27. 27

    @ 25

    I also got a double-sized 3M dividend this month because I held onto the old 3M shares until after the ex-dividend date.

    Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit thinks that nothing happens to the shares when they go ex-dividend.

    He doesn’t realize that his own money was handed back to him, before he took a $50/share loss on his prior purchase.

    Hey y’all, don’t look at the $50/share loss I took, look instead at the $1.49/share dividend I got for “free”!

    Don’t be a dumbfuck. Don’t invest like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  28. 28

    @ 26

    … a very very very high likelihood of getting sued and losing that $4.5M and then some in a settlement?

    Said lawsuit would activate the even higher likelihood of a countersuit. It’s how he rolls. Moreover, it’s how the Trump organization rolls. Trademark infringement.

  29. 29

    @28

    In a fantasy legal system the countersuit would be based, and not immediately dismissed, on what?

    That plaintiff has every right to lift intellectual property from a third party for commercial use?

    That copyright law does not apply to an image one sees on a website?

    That the definition of fair use includes profiting off another’s intellectual property?

    That Plaintiff is the exPresident so can legally steal any document, image or music produced within the United States because the best, better than Lincoln?

  30. 30

    forward PE ratio

    Get this kids.

    At the start of the month this troll sold a 30 day insurance policy to another investor to protect them against their TSLA shares burning down to 125. He did this just as the CEO of TSLA was going BIG TIME making a global ass of himself prompting a bunch of the largest private shareholders in the company to call for his removal, where the company’s very, very big competitors are setting records with preorders, and where the company was missing enough year end sales orders (thanks Biden) that they are having to give big cash incentives to close deals.

    Now all that could turn around next year. Tesla could finally make good on it’s vapor-truck. They could finally fix enough of the quality control issues that they don’t lose their established customer base. They could complete their plans for expanded production and meet their promised delivery dates, restoring sales, etc. And Musk could appoint someone else to run things at Tesla until he gets this Twitter fetish resolved.

    But ain’t none of that happening in the next two weeks.

    What the fuck do analyst projections of next year’s earnings have to do with calculating price risk between now and the end of this month? This is like watching your next door neighbor setting up to deep fry his Christmas turkey in his living room and offering to insure the asshole against a fire through the end of the month, because you saw him replacing the batteries in his smoke detectors.

    I’m not the expert around here about this shit. Supposedly this troll is. But this gives me doubts. Professionals who make and sell insurance make their money by being experts at analyzing relevant risk. And I guess they have some really sophisticated statistical tools to weigh that risk against premium income. So while it might be compared to gambling, it’s gambling in the sense that you are the house, making the odds. Not knowing any better, I’ve just always assumed that clever options traders are doing something just like that. With this comment from this troll it sounds more like he’s trusting “his gut” and some “system” just like every other degenerate punter.

    I’m only guessing. But my guess is that the share price of Tesla has undergone most of the price drop it was probably destined always destined to face this year, and this month. I’m assuming even Elmo will pull his head out of his ass and realize that the shit he’s doing to try to save his reputation is not worth the potential financial losses. And what’s happening at Twitter probably was inevitable once the offer was accepted. He paid too much. Way too much. And even he knows that. That left him with no other choice but to gut the company leaving it unable to do meaningful content moderation, and all that this entails – loss of quality content providers, loss of advertisers, loss of accounts, loss of traffic, etc. But he can do all those things and still keep his stupid mouth shut.

    There’s a lesson to be learned there. This stupid troll could have sold his options and earned a few thou and kept his stupid mouth shut about it. He’d still be sweating out his holidays down in his basement hovering over the refresh key and jumping every time his phone notification chimes. And next spring he could fondly look back on this play as he orders some cheap aluminum patio furniture from Target or Wayfair. But I wouldn’t know any of it. And I wouldn’t be able to take so much vicarious pleasure from knowing it, making my holidays just that much sweeter.

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

  31. 31

    29,
    His counter would have to allege harm.

    No legal basis, no harm, no standing.

    I mean, yes Trump’s sparkle magic lawyer teams have worked with less. But they are also getting marched into federal courthouses by U.S. Marshals in plain sight in the middle of the work day and into the chambers of federal judges right after docket publication of show cause orders and sanctions. So it’s probably going to get harder to find enough clowns to fill the car at some point.

  32. 32

    29,
    It’s one of the most unforgiving federal statutes that I’m aware of.

    No intent requirement.
    100% liability for actual damages in addition to statutory damages per instance of up to $30,000 per individual infringement if the copyright violator is unwitting. If the holder can show the infringing party knew the statutory damages jump to $100,000 per infringement.

    The actual infringement is quite often very cut-and-dried, famous Beatles not withstanding (I actually like George Harrison – weird, I know). Action in many typical cases settles around damages. It’s actually surprising how many big companies steal like this. It’s far more common than most people think. Young artists are frequent victims. Shitty, really. But establishing the infringement is quite often trivial. And big companies will typically respond with a settlement offer that isn’t really that bad.

    But if this Trump thing is really what it looks like, it’s way too late for anything like a simple settlement. The holders of the NFT tokens may not exercise any ownership rights with respect to images derived from copyrighted content. He sold them worthless trash under false pretenses (what’s new, right?). So they are also entitled to their money back, etc. Really a mess.

    Nothing but blue sky for lawyers though.
    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  33. 33

    @27 “Don’t be a dumbfuck. Don’t invest like Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.”

    Can’t say I disagree. I’m beating the S&P 500 by only 20% or so; I’m not tripling my money every month like you. I have to say I admire your modesty in not telling anyone how much you’re killing the market.

  34. 34

    @29 Music artists sending cease-and-desist letters to GOP campaigns is routine. They need a newspaper plant to print them all, and the courier services need semi-trailers to deliver them all.

  35. 35

    @30 “my guess is that the share price of Tesla has undergone most of the price drop it was probably destined always destined to face”

    I have doubts. A $150 stock that’s never made over 95 cents in a single quarter with a P/E over 40 and downward momentum in both the stock and broader market might have some more downside.

  36. 36

    @31 Freshly minted Liberty University Law School grads? If enticed with promises of future federal judgeships that may or may not materialize.

  37. 37

    @32 “He sold them worthless trash”

    Sure looks like it, unless they can fence it. What I remember is a buyer of stolen property can’t acquire good title, as countless good-faith purchasers of the Brooklyn Bridge learned to their dismay. So all the NFT purchasers actually own is an image of Trump’s visage, and the rest isn’t theirs. Their biggest legal problem mostly likely is that Trump’s going to be judgment-proof, if he isn’t already.

  38. 38

    Noted, and I stand corrected.

    He only notes it when it is pointed out, otherwise he just pretends what he says is true.

  39. 39

    But another reason might be that I don’t get big tinglies and a restored sense of purpose and meaning to my life from this kind of pointless risk (and I used to own a couple of paragliders). I’m also not desperate to fill a moral void in my life with some kind of fabricated meaning.

    You ever try a horse for the void in your life?

  40. 40

    it’s still going to be a stressful holiday season for this troll, white-knuckling his way through each day watching the price drop, distracted and quiet at family gatherings, unable to enjoy the bowl games, silently waiting for the trade to expire and praying that it works out. I hope it doesn’t!

    The horse is enjoying all that too. And hope it doesn’t either.

    Too funny.

    Merry Christmas! Ohhh, and God Bless!

  46. 46

    38,

    You’re very astute to point this out.

    Trolls lie constantly. They make up their own “facts” to suit the needs of any given moment or post. But admitting to a false premise long afterward does nothing to repudiate the argument it was advanced to frame and support.

  47. 47

    @ 38, 46

    The one guy who admits error around here is criticized for a character flaw – willingness to admit error.

    The six liberal men and HA’s dumbest twat YLB who post here refuse to acknowledge their innumerable individual and collective errors, and wallow in their self-appointed perfection.

  48. 48

    The one guy who admits error around here is criticized for a character flaw – willingness to admit error.

    “A dozen cosplaying grandmothers”

  49. 49

    @47… A slime dweller like you makes us all look freakin’ close to perfect..

    thank you for that, keep it up.. it only makes our point.

  50. 50

    So Lionel Messi can check a World Cup championship off his bucket list..

    The degen lord kreepshit is goin’ for 1 million misogynist bleats before its stupid dance in 2023? 2024? Whenever… And add that to 2 or 3 million bleats about “GE”.. zzzZZZZZzzzZZZzzzz…

    Most “seriously” degenerate klownservatic EVAH…

  51. 51

    @50 so yes, I’m indulging in hyperbole there.. but the real numbers are no less stomach turning..

    But please by all means continue to make our point.

  52. 52

    is criticized for a character flaw – willingness to admit error.

    Willing only to admit trivial, insignificant error.

    This troll is the driver dragging James Byrd, Jr. to death, admitting to the court that his vehicle tags are expired.

  53. 53

    This troll is the driver dragging James Byrd, Jr. to death, admitting to the court that his vehicle tags are expired.

    We’d only end up adding that to the nearly endless list of topics we talk about here that he will not even acknowledge. You know, minor things like his GQP wanting American self governance to end.

    Over 30 former lawmakers demand ethics investigation of members of Congress with ties to Jan. 6

    For example, over the course of nearly two years, the only thing he’s had to say about 1/6 was that it was “a dozen cosplaying grandmothers”.

    Avoidance is his game, making any further discussion with the weak troll pointless. But lynching his treasonous ass? Count me in. America, our state, Whidbey Island and a poor, unfortunate horse would all be better for it.

  54. 54

    Avoidance is his game

    Which may possibly explain the preoccupation with “butt stuff”, gender conformity, and GE stock, especially after life-in-general has once again stolen his lunch money and stuffed him into a locker.

    But only possibly. There’s more than sufficient evidence available in his posting history to support the conclusion that this troll is just juvenile. Perhaps literally so.

  55. 55

    As for the rest of his party, I’m cool with the avoidance.

    It’s how we get to watch Kevin crawl groveling through a mile of shit in order to debase himself slavishly kissing Marge’s asshole, while Fat Midget remains sidelined and struggling for attention with MAGA stunts that poison moderate voters against him.

    Their avoidance is our victory.

  56. 56

    I don’t know how you fix something like this. I suspect local LE is in on it, at least to the extent of looking the other way. (You’ll remember Ahmaud Arbery’s killers never would’ve been prosecuted without outside intervention.) Giving it national news coverage is a good thing; that whole subdivision is now infamous, and deserves to be. But what really needs to happen is for the FBI to get involved, because this very clearly was a hate crime.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/18/us/tennessee-interracial-family-fire-hate-crime-reaj/index.html

  57. 57

    @53 “Over 30 former lawmakers demand ethics investigation of members of Congress with ties to Jan. 6.”

    This isn’t necessary at all. Just condemn the entire Republican Party, because they’re all in on it. Any Republicans who weren’t have already been driven out of the party.

    This morning I watched a TV clip of Chris Christie bleating that a criminal referral would make prosecuting Trump look “political.” Fuck him. That’s exactly what he’s trying to do. Christie is a chump for ass-kissing insurrectionists. He’s just as bad as the rest of them.

  58. 58

    @55 I’m reading that McCarthy has gotten very threatening to the holdouts. He’s blackmailing them with something like this: You have to elect me, because if you don’t, the Democrats will elect a Republican who isn’t a wild-eyed insurrectionist as speaker.

    I say go for it.

  59. 59

    He’s just as bad as the rest of them.

    He’s always been part of “The rest of them”….. There are very few, maybe 7, that aren’t included in the “rest”. Two being Kinzinger and Cheney….but althought they aren’t insurrectionists, they were part of the bad mouthing of Obama that created this.

  60. 60

    The HA joke du jour is Steve.

    This is a reasonably close second:

    Larry Elder
    @larryelder
    ·
    Dec 17
    If Adolph Hitler, Mao Tse Tung and Elon Musk were walking down the street, and you gave an American lefty a gun with two bullets—he’d put both in Elon Musk.

    #TwitterFiles
    @elonmusk
    Elon Musk
    @elonmusk
    Replying to
    @larryelder
    And miss both times
    8:14 PM · Dec 17, 2022

  61. 61

    58,

    Kevin is going to cave on the motion to vacate rule.
    On top of everything else, he’s going to go into the year facing the certainty that at any moment whatever random “QUALITY” MAGA Republican elected this year from Dipshitsville can publicly stab him in the ass like a prison yard bitch.

    It will be the most ignominious two years in the history of the Speakership. After which, if he even survives, he will retire in disgrace. It will be enormous fun to watch.

  62. 62

    There’s more than sufficient evidence available in his posting history to support the conclusion that this troll is just juvenile.

    The weak troll and Elder both chose the juvenile route.

    Say, how about those three dozen GQP congressmen and women and their text messaging with McCarthy, trying to overthrow our government! Didn’t a half dozen of them ask for pardons from Trump? I wonder what the crimes they must have believed they had committed that had them seeking presidential pardons?

    The weak troll won’t talk about this stuff because he’s too…..weak.

  63. 63

    62,
    None of their holidays will be very happy. Very little to look forward to in the new year.

    But at least that weak troll can probably look forward to some new resin and aluminum patio furniture. If he can make it through the next two weeks, that is.

    Merry Christmas, Steve.
    Check TSLA daily and enjoy a good laugh with me!

  67. 67

    My single greatest fear is that I’ll die all alone in a Vegas hotel room surrounded by jars of pee.

  68. 68

    @61 Given the GOP’s vaunted internal party discipline, it’s surprising to see this vicious infighting. I guess Republicans just don’t like each other. That’s understandable; nobody else likes them, either.

  69. 69

    @67 There’s precedent for that, as you’re no doubt well aware. But first you have to wander into the desert, and then will your entire estate to a random motorist who picks you up and takes you back to civilization.

  70. 70

    I see two big downsides to being the World’s Richest Person.

    One, security concerns: Half of humanity wants to kidnap you for ransom, and the other half wants to kill you because you’re an insufferable asshole.

    Two, when you’re on top, the only direction is down.

  71. 71

    Bill Gates must have experienced the same thing when he was the richest guy in the world.

  72. 72

    “It’s all of the branches (controlled by republicans) at this point working together to destroy democracy. The republican state legislatures want to throw out the votes, the republicans in congress want to throw out the votes, the republican ex president wanted to throw out the votes. The Supreme Court annex of the federalist society is now hearing a case to legalize throwing out the votes.”
    I see a trend, republican voters are fine with anything, like abandoning Democracy, if that keeps them in power.

  73. 73

    72,
    Republicans (older, white, evangelical racists) wish to permanently establish themselves as a ruling minority.
    Democracy is incompatible with that goal.

    So it should not surprise us to see Republicans publicly question the utility of democracy while operating behind the scenes, to quietly dismantle it. David Duke’s successful election to the Louisiana legislature and his nearly successful run for the US Senate all began with challenges to elections and voting.

  74. 74

    Headline from 13 hours ago
    Elon Musk says he will step down as Twitter CEO if voted out by a poll he tweeted
    Headline from an hour ago
    Elon Musk: Twitter users vote in favor of boss resigning
    A total of 57.5% voted “yes” after Mr Musk asked his 122 million followers whether he should stand down.
    >> Whats he gonna do? Stepping down would be the smart thing to do. Do you think he assumed he was loved so much they wouldn’t vote him out?

  75. 75

    74,
    Most leaders assess the value of their contribution to the organizations they lead as far greater than they are. It’s pretty rare that an individual comes along whose personal charisma, vision, inspirational character, and judgement are so exceptional that they make the difference between organizational success and failure. But every CEO thinks they are that individual.

    Musk knows Twitter is failing. By now he knows that its failure was preordained on the day he agreed to buy it. Not because of his failures as a leader. But because of his failures as an investor. He paid so much, and burdened the company with so much debt, that it can no longer succeed without first going through a big period of failure as a company.

    I think his departure or his retention on these terms is planned and intentional. If he leaves now “he did not quit” or run away from his own mistakes. And the inevitable subsequent failures of the company are not “his fault”. If he stays it is because “users demanded his leadership”. And whatever comes next (lots of bad leadership and failure) it must be endured and tolerated at least with grudging acceptance by users.

    This is aimed at journalists, especially business journalists, as a way to reframe the media narrative around Twitter. It’ll probably work at least somewhat because business journalists are only surpassed in stupidity by sports journalists.

  76. 76

    “The six liberal men and HA’s dumbest twat YLB who post here refuse to acknowledge their innumerable individual and collective errors, and wallow in their self-appointed perfection.”

    Remember who you’re dealing with here, Vicious Troll. Here’s a previous quote I have used several times to show the incompetence and arrogance of these liberal progressive trolls, compliments of McFuckHead:

    “…affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.”

    That simple phrase describes perfectly the arrogance and self-centeredness of the liberal progressive trolls on HA.

  77. 77

    76. if “…affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.” is bad then
    Impoverished, ordinary, sick and ignorant inland primitives
    is good?

    Except for being ordinary and inland, please explain what about that list of opposites that is remotely desirable?

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