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The Twitter Implosion

  
By:  al Jizzerror  •  2 years ago  •  449 comments


The Twitter Implosion
How do you make a small fortune in social media? Start out with a large one. - Elon Musk

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The Twitter implosion is shaking social media.  

Elon Musk (the most intelligent person in history) laid off a bunch of Twitter employees and promised to abuse any employees who decided to stay.  Since Musk has instituted his new "hardcore" policy, all employees are required to work naked.  The Twitter building is locked and the only people who can unlock the building are gone.  Employee card keys have been disabled.  Poor Elon is locked inside with both of the Twitter employees who haven't quit (yet).

Elon "Free Speech" Musk used his free speech police to comb through the emails and messages of Twitter employees and he fired anyone who was critical of him.  Twitter users who criticized Musk were permanently suspended.  Apparently, to Elon Musk, using the "N-word" is free speech, butt anything negative about him is strictly prohibited.

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Elon Musk, the Chief Twit, has a new plan to revive Twitter.  First, he will welcome Donald Trump back to Twitter.   White supremacist extremist groups, like the Republican Party, will be welcome to spread their lies and propaganda on Twitter.  Idiots like Fucker Carlson, Mike Lindell, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Louie Gohmert will be encouraged to tweet their stupidity.

Musk will even invite members of fringe groups like QAnon, the KKK, Nazis, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and various White-wing "militias" to spew hate and conspiracy theories on Twitter.

Since Twitter lost its current advertisers, like General Motors, it will feature lots of My Pillow ads.   Musk will sell advertising to the NRA (and, of course, gun and ammunition manufacturers and retailers). 

Musk plans to have a plethora of political advertising.   Twitter is also experimenting with "classified ads".  This section will be for prostitution, pornography, guns, and almost anything else.


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al Jizzerror
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1  author  al Jizzerror    2 years ago

Is Elon Musk gonna buy NewsTalkers so he can ban me?

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
1.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  al Jizzerror @1    2 years ago

Maybe Musk bought Twitter because PROT from  K-Pax told him to look for the bluebird. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
1.1.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @1.1    2 years ago
PROT from  K-Pax

Dr. Powell said Elon Musk is a fucking alien.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
1.1.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  al Jizzerror @1.1.1    2 years ago

LOL

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
1.1.3  Tessylo  replied to  al Jizzerror @1.1.1    2 years ago

That was such a good movie!  I love Jeff Bridges.

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
1.2  TᵢG  replied to  al Jizzerror @1    2 years ago

It would be a steal since I am sure Perrie would settle for a measly one billion.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
2  Buzz of the Orient    2 years ago

And they're saying TikTok could be dangerous.  LOL

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
2.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @2    2 years ago
TikTok could be dangerous.

Yes, TikTok is a carcinogen. 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
4  devangelical    2 years ago

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
4.1  Tessylo  replied to  devangelical @4    2 years ago

I thought I just saw somewhere where a bunch of Twitter people were quitting after Musk's ultimatum.  

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
4.1.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Tessylo @4.1    2 years ago

a bunch of Twitter people were quitting after Musk's ultimatum.   

Yes.  

Twitter is hemorrhaging.  The life blood of every company is its employees. 

Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform’s future into uncertainty

New York CNN Business  — 

Death is in the air on Twitter.

On the platform Thursday evening, where #RIPTwitter was the top trend worldwide, users wrote what they feared might be their last posts, offering apprehensive goodbyes and listing the other (more stable) social media platforms where they can still be found.

They were reacting to the dire news emanating from inside Twitter. Scores of remaining employees at the social media company on Thursday appeared to reject owner Elon Musk’s ultimatum to work “extremely hardcore,” throwing the communications platform into utter disarray and raising serious questions about how much longer it will survive.

Inside the company’s Slack, a mass resignation effectively occurred after Musk’s 5pm deadline for employees to arrive at a decision passed. Hundreds of staffers appear to have called it quits, accepting Musk’s offer to exit in exchange for three months of severance.

Elon Musk has fucked Twitter.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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4.1.2  Split Personality  replied to  al Jizzerror @4.1.1    2 years ago

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many of the two thousand who quit signed off of Slack with this salute to their

ex co-workers.

Advice from their lawyers, "take the severance and run".

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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4.1.3  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Split Personality @4.1.2    2 years ago
Advice from their lawyers

How about a nice class action lawsuit?

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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4.1.4  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @4.1.1    2 years ago

Damn, one less social media company, what will we do?

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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4.1.6  Trout Giggles  replied to  al Jizzerror @4.1.1    2 years ago
Elon Musk has fucked Twitter

And nobody got kissed

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
4.1.7  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Trout Giggles @4.1.6    2 years ago
And nobody got kissed

I doubt that anyone wants to kiss Elon Musk.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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4.1.8  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @4.1.7    2 years ago

Not me.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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4.1.9  Split Personality  replied to  al Jizzerror @4.1.3    2 years ago

There are two in progress.

One asserts that Musk violated Federal laws by not giving 60 days notice in the first round of layoffs.

The second asserts that the termination of all remote work violated the

accommodation clause in the Americans with Disabilities Act(s).

The previous leadership team, all "fired for cause" without severance are

mulling their options. Some may opt to sue, but many had a windfall profit on 

Twitter stock they held when Musk took the company private.

Interesting...Paraq Agrawal may have $42 million coming to him from vested stock in Twitter, so severance is not probably an issue for him and his family.

 
 
 
TᵢG
Professor Principal
5  TᵢG    2 years ago

Seriously, Musk does seem to be taking damaging steps.   Alienating advertisers and users is never a healthy move.   His employee strategy has potential merits (it sucks for the employees) if he can do the same with a reduced payroll,

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
5.1  Split Personality  replied to  TᵢG @5    2 years ago

He reduced payroll by 90% and employees by 75%

What could go wrong?

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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5.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  TᵢG @5    2 years ago
Alienating advertisers and users is never a healthy move.

You're 100% right.

 
 
 
devangelical
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5.3  devangelical  replied to  TᵢG @5    last year

another billionaire, desperate to stay relevant...

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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7  JohnRussell    2 years ago

 
 
 
Ender
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8  Ender    2 years ago

Meanwhile, Tesla falling down, his tunnel project is now used for parking, I guess his space program is on the back burner...

He will get bored with twitter like he has every other project 'he' started.

Then he will move on to something else.

His attention span is all in, until it is not...

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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8.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Ender @8    2 years ago
Meanwhile, Tesla falling down,

Tesla's financial health has substantially improved over the past five years. In 2021, the company first became profitable and it earned over $2.6 billion of operating income in Q4 2021

Tesla's strategy of patience and long-term investing is now paying off. Now that the company is profitable, it might be able to solicit debt financing at lower costs than before.

his tunnel project is now used for parking,

Wasn't the Boring Company’s application to expand the Vegas Loop into downtown Las Vegas recently approved  with construction is tentatively scheduled for next year?

I guess his space program is on the back burner...

Backburner? 

NASA has expanded SpaceX's role in the Artemis program and has selected the company's Starship lunar lander to ferry the second batch of astronauts to the Moon. 

Busy Year For SpaceX to Continue with Falcon Rocket Launch at Vandenberg

He will get bored with twitter like he has every other project 'he' started.

He might get bored with twitter, I don't know what you mean about every other project, do you mean those he sold at a profit?

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
8.1.1  Ender  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @8.1    2 years ago

This is a courtesy, after your one comment that was deleted, I will no longer be responding to you, so try in vain.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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8.1.2  cobaltblue  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @8.1    2 years ago

From October 2022:

Tesla’s one-day drop of nearly 8% Friday prompted Jim Bianco, a long-time market observer and president of the Chicago-based macro analytics firm Bianco Research, to tweet a chart of its deteriorating performance. Bianco noted that “this is arguably the most important stock” to watch as a warning that the worst could be yet to come because its wide base of fans continue to provide support, but that could change if disenchantment grows.

On Wednesday, Tesla reported third-quarter earnings with revenue of $21.45 billion that was below a consensus estimate of $21.98 billion, according FactSet. The company’s earnings per share of $1.05 topped the estimate of $1.00.

Tesla blamed the shortfall in revenue on higher costs associated with raw materials, logistics, and the strong dollar. Officials also said the company will miss its goal of boosting vehicle deliveries 50% by year-end 2022, citing production problems at new plants in Texas and Berlin. Analysts remain concerned the delivery delays, coupled with shorter wait times for Tesla vehicles, might reflect weakening demand as recession fears mount . [Emphasis mine.]

Musk acknowledged he was overpaying for Twitter but said the long-term potential of the social media platform outweighed justified the price.

Cite

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
8.1.3  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @8.1    2 years ago
Wasn't the Boring Company’s application to expand the Vegas Loop into downtown Las Vegas recently approved  with construction is tentatively scheduled for next year?

Apparently Musk no longer cares.

Elon Musk's California Hyperloop test tunnel dismantled, to become parking spaces

Elon Musk's Hyperloop test tunnel has reportedly been dismantled. 
The futuristic project near the SpaceX office in Hawthorne, California, has been indefinitely shelved, according to Bloomberg. 

Through Hyperloop, Musk is seeking to revolutionize transportation by sending passengers packed into pods through an intercity system of giant, underground vacuum tubes. According to Musk's The Boring Company, the high-speed transit system would carry passengers in the pods at more than 600 mph.

Precision Construction Services was responsible for everything inside the prototype tube, including the light and aluminum track.

Precision's owner, Erik Wright, learned the tunnel's fate via text message a few months ago, Bloomberg reported.

Elon Musk's California Hyperloop test tunnel dismantled, to become parking spaces: report | Fox Business

Tesla board of directors, in justifying Musk's outrageous $55 Billion compensation

package stress it was necessary to keep Musks focus on Tesla because Elon was a

"serial entrepreneur" who has difficulty staying focused on one thing at a time.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
8.1.4  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @8.1    2 years ago
He might get bored with twitter, I don't know what you mean about every other project, do you mean those he sold at a profit?

Other than X.com which merged with Confinity Bank 22 years ago to become payPal

which was sold to eBay 20 years ago,  I can't think of any other proprietary property that

Musk has sold for a profit.  Oft accused of inheriting dirty apartheid money from his

millionaire South African parents, Musk has retained Tesla, Solar City, SpaceX,

Spacelink, Hyperloop, OpenAI and Neuralink rarely if ever showing taxable profits.

He has many distractions.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
8.1.5  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Split Personality @8.1.4    2 years ago
rarely if ever showing taxable profits.

Why should he pay taxes?

Billionaires only pay as much tax as they want to.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
8.1.6  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @8.1.2    2 years ago

Yes, recession worries can impact expensive sales.  

Tesla has outperformed 82% of all stocks in the Investor's Business Daily database over the past 12 months.  

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
8.1.7  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @8.1.3    2 years ago
Elon Musk's Hyperloop test tunnel has reportedly been dismantled. 

Had the tests been completed?

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
8.1.8  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @8.1.4    2 years ago
I can't think of any other proprietary property that Musk has sold for a profit.

Didn't he first sell a computer game that he coded as a kid?  Zip2 was his first sell as an adult prior to X.com

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
8.1.9  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @8.1.4    2 years ago
Oft accused of inheriting dirty apartheid money from his millionaire South African parents

Since at least 2018, a rumor has been shared online about Tesla CEO and Twitter owner Elon Musk in regard to his father's purported past ownership of an "apartheid emerald mine" or "slave emerald mine." The gist of the claim was that Elon's father, Errol Musk, who reports say has been estranged from his son for some time, owned an emerald mine during apartheid in South Africa, and that it was seed money from his father's wealth from the mine that made it possible for him to become the American billionaire he is today.

Here's a summary of our findings: We located reporting from as far back as 2009 and 2014 that said when Elon Musk ("Elon" herefafter) was a child in South Africa in the 1980s, his father ("Errol" hereafter) at some point owned "a stake in an emerald mine" near Lake Tanganyika in Zambia , not South Africa. Beyond that, we were unable to find any evidence that showed money generated from his father's involvement in the mine helped Elon build his wealth in North America. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
8.1.10  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @8.1.9    2 years ago

Thanx for the Snopes link.

The whole emerald thingy was very entertaining.

Most young emerald smugglers don't become multibillionaires.  Young Elon did very well for himself

I consider him to be a "self-made billionaire".

He is a very intelligent person but he has made some stupid decisions about Twitter.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
8.1.11  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @8.1.8    2 years ago
Didn't he first sell a computer game that he coded as a kid? 

Sure did.  "Approximately" $500 when he was 12. 

The instructions were in the Commadore users manual.

It was a primitive version of Space Invaders.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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8.1.13  author  al Jizzerror  replied to    2 years ago

Coprophagia....  Thy name is "Conservative Republican!"

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al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
8.1.15  author  al Jizzerror  replied to    2 years ago
It's like your "experience" just kicked in.

I don't understand you when you type with your mouth full.

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al Jizzerror
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8.1.17  author  al Jizzerror  replied to    2 years ago
The Queen jrSmiley_93_smiley_image.jpg jrSmiley_93_smiley_image.jpg jrSmiley_93_smiley_image.jpg .... Has SPOKEN !

If you're the Queen of hearts, we know what you have below your waist.

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al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
8.1.19  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Split Personality @8.1.11    2 years ago
It was a primitive version of Space Invaders.

I loved Space Invaders!

This thread has been invaded by a "spaced invader".

It's an irritating troll from Dildo Planet that often gets stuck in Retrumplican's assholes.

Because of this you can usually smell them cumming.

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al Jizzerror
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8.1.21  author  al Jizzerror  replied to    2 years ago
Body Snatcher !

Nobody wants to hear about your body or your infested snatch.

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Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
9  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

I'm clueless about your reference to my deleted comments as I have many.  Your note might be a courtesy, but it's really not a response, it's a notice of not responding. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
9.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @9    2 years ago
I'm clueless about your reference to my deleted comments

I never delete comments.

So I too, am clueless

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
9.1.1  JBB  replied to  al Jizzerror @9.1    2 years ago

"GLUG GLUG GLUG"...

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
9.1.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  JBB @9.1.1    2 years ago
"GLUG GLUG GLUG"...

I'm not drinking "wry".

I'm drinking highballs (Seagrams VO and Canada Dry ginger ale).

Burp.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
9.2  devangelical  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @9    last year

nobody here knows who you're responding to...

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
10  Kavika     2 years ago

With Musk's last ultimatum more employees left and now he is asking a few high-ranking ones to come back.

This whole thing is bizarre but entertaining.

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
Professor Guide
10.1  Thrawn 31  replied to  Kavika @10    2 years ago

It seems that Musk is learning the hard way that in some industries you cannot just bully and make endless demands of your workforce. They know they cannot be easily replaced and they can tank the company if they leave en mass. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
10.1.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Thrawn 31 @10.1    2 years ago
They know they cannot be easily replaced

It kinda reminds me of the strike by the air traffic controllers in the eighties.

Ronald Rayguns fired the controllers who went on strike.

That stupidity had negative impact the airline industry that was felt for years.

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
Professor Guide
10.1.2  Thrawn 31  replied to  al Jizzerror @10.1.1    2 years ago

The amazing power of a "woke" labor force. It is funny to watch someone like Musk try to bully people who are just as smart, or smarter, than him. It never works out well for people like Musk because they to fail to understand that while they are the "owners" or "CEO", It is everyone else that actually gives them a job. And if they have options, and you are being a dick, your workers will loudly tell you to fuck off. 

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
10.2  Raven Wing  replied to  Kavika @10    2 years ago

It seems that Musk's egotistic bravado in making such a stupid mistake only proves that he's by no means the great savvy businessman he thinks he is, and thinks everyone else see him as such as well.

The first thing one should learn when buying a thriving business, is not to piss off the ones that are the backbone of the business. 

I think Musk will find it hard to regain those whom he has so egotistically thumbed his nose at. None of the Technicians he has so stupidly fired, or those who have chosen to leave on their own due to the ridiculous rules Musk has set up, will not find it hard to get another job in their chosen profession. While on the other hand, Musk may find it hard to replace them given his heavy handed and insulting attitude toward his current employees. He may be hard pressed to even find any Janitors to keep those empty offices clean.

It will be interesting to see how long it will take to save his newly acquired business, or if it goes under.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
10.2.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Raven Wing @10.2    2 years ago
The first thing one should learn when buying a thriving business, is not to piss off the ones that are the backbone of the business. 

Exactly!

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
10.3  devangelical  replied to  Kavika @10    last year

he could have bought a shit load of republican friends with the money he wasted on twitter...

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
11  George    2 years ago

The Babylon Bee’s account has been restored to Twitter. Now the thinned skinned little bitches have something new to whine about.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
11.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @11    2 years ago
The Babylon Bee’s

The Babylon Bee is just White-wing lame satire.

I'm glad they can tweet again, even though I've been suspended for years.

Who are the whining little bitches you are referring to?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
11.2  devangelical  replied to  George @11    2 years ago
the thinned skinned little bitches have something new to whine about.

let them, nobody is listening to trumpster boneheads anymore...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
11.3  devangelical  replied to  George @11    last year

bfd. only humorless morons read their fascist shit.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
12  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

Reminds me of when Jimmy Carter asked for resignation letters from all of the members of the WH senior staff and Cabinet.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
12.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @12    2 years ago
Jimmy Carter asked for resignation letters from all of the members of the WH senior staff and Cabinet.

The senior staff and members of the cabinet serve at the pleasure of the President.  The resignation letters should be SOP.  The letter(s) can be accepted at any time.

 
 
 
George
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12.2  George  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @12    2 years ago

What’s even worse is the piece of shit who is in charge now did this, while choosing a bitch who was locking up minorities for pot while getting high herself.

White House staffers asked to resign or work remotely after revealing past marijuana use

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
12.2.1  cobaltblue  replied to  George @12.2    2 years ago
while choosing a bitch who was locking up minorities for pot while getting high herself.

Who are you talking about? The article you linked states that those that resigned or chose to work remotely voluntarily admitted marijuana use. 

From your article: 

Several White House staffers were asked to resign, were suspended or are working remotely after revealing past marijuana use during their background checks, sources familiar with the situation tell CNN. Five people are no longer employed at the White House, while additional staffers are working remotely. In many of the cases involving staffers who are no longer employed, additional security factors were in play, including for some hard drug use, the official said. 

Further from your article:

The White House underscored on Friday that it has eased some restrictions in its security clearance policy to be more lenient about employing individuals with a history of drug use.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki tweeted on Friday that the White House "worked with the security service to update the policies to ensure that past marijuana use wouldn't automatically disqualify staff from serving in the White House."

"As a result, more people will serve who would not have in the past with the same level of recent drug use," she added. "The bottom line is this: of the hundreds of people hired, only five people who had started working at the White House are no longer employed as a result of this policy."

It's ridiculous to assume "a bitch" was locking up minorities for pot. Each state has a cannabis law on their books. The police in each jurisdiction make arrests according to state law. Who's the bitch you reference that has so much sway that she alone locks up minorities for pot consumption while getting high herself.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
12.2.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @12.2.1    2 years ago
Who are you talking about? The article you linked states that those that resigned or chose to work remotely voluntarily admitted marijuana use. 

Thanx for debunking that bullshit propaganda!

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George
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12.2.3  George  replied to  cobaltblue @12.2.1    2 years ago

The police can’t lock people up, prosecutors can and the stupid bitch is Harris, who has prosecutorial discretion and still locked minorities up for pot use while doing Willie Brown for personal gain.

 
 
 
George
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12.2.4  George  replied to  al Jizzerror @12.2.2    2 years ago

Biden's White House is firing staffers for marijuana use. That's a mistake.
msnbc

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
12.2.5  cobaltblue  replied to  George @12.2.4    2 years ago

Please link your all your headline articles. Even if they're opinion pieces like this one. You've been proven unreliable.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
12.2.6  cobaltblue  replied to  George @12.2.4    2 years ago
Biden's White House is firing staffers for marijuana use. That's a mistake.

Okay, I looked this up myself. Please stay current. The article is over a year old. In fact, it's almost two years old. Do keep up. 

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
12.2.7  cobaltblue  replied to  George @12.2.3    2 years ago
who has prosecutorial discretion and still locked minorities up for pot use while doing Willie Brown for personal gain.

Can you link a credible piece from a legitimate source?

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
12.2.8  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @12.2.4    2 years ago
Biden's White House is firing staffers for marijuana use. That's a mistake. msnbc

From YOUR source (an opinion piece from 18 months ago):

Well, last month, a White House official said the revised guidelines would "effectively protect our national security while modernizing policies to ensure that talented and otherwise well-qualified applicants with limited marijuana use will not be barred from serving the American people."

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
12.2.9  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @12.2.4    2 years ago
Biden's White House is firing staffers for marijuana use. That's a mistake.

Who was fired?

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
12.2.10  George  replied to  al Jizzerror @12.2.9    2 years ago

Do your own research 

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
12.2.11  JBB  replied to  George @12.2    2 years ago

Yet we will never know any of the details surrounding any of the  hundreds of staffers who quit or were fired by Trump because everyone who has ever worked for Trump was forced to sign his nasty draconian punitive ironclad nondisclosure agreements...

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
Professor Principal
12.2.12  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  JBB @12.2.11    2 years ago

Trump on a seed about Twitter? [deleted]

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
12.2.13  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  JBB @12.2.11    2 years ago
worked for Trump was forced to sign his nasty draconian punitive ironclad nondisclosure agreements...

Didn't a federal judge rule  that Trump’s presidential campaign non-disclosure clause  wasv unenforceable.  And of course there is no shortage of WH Staffer books critical of Trump.

 
 
 
Hallux
Masters Principal
12.2.14  Hallux  replied to  George @12.2.10    2 years ago
Do your own research

The Q answer to any question.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
12.2.15  Split Personality  replied to  Just Jim NC TttH @12.2.12    2 years ago

YES, when the author of the seed/article and owner of the group Al Jizzerror

allows it and has joined in comments about Biden, (George's current favorite)

Reagan, Carter and other past Presidents. 

Why knot?

Why comment?

 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
12.2.16  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @12.2.10    2 years ago
Do your own research

I always do my own research and I provide links to the material I quote.

You seem to be too fucking lazy to provide links to your quotations.

Fuck off.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
12.2.17  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Split Personality @12.2.15    2 years ago
the author of the seed

This isn't a "seed", it's my own content.

I "allow" comments about anything on my threads.

I don't delete off topic bullshit.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
12.2.18  Tessylo  replied to  cobaltblue @12.2.1    2 years ago

Another ignorant hateful rant from Gorge

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
12.2.19  devangelical  replied to  Tessylo @12.2.18    2 years ago

oh, he so popular...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
12.2.20  cobaltblue  replied to  devangelical @12.2.19    2 years ago
so popular..

I prefer the word poopular in this particular instance.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
13  cobaltblue    2 years ago

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al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
13.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @13    2 years ago

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devangelical
Professor Principal
13.1.1  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @13.1    2 years ago

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JohnRussell
Professor Principal
14  JohnRussell    2 years ago

OIP.fHi1yqBatXDT3O60K-fFsgHaEK?w=326&h=183&c=7&r=0&o=5&pid=1.7

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
15  Gsquared    2 years ago

800

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
16  George    2 years ago

[deleted

[We have to take copyright infringement very seriously]

[Please, always provide a link/citation to your source.]

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
16.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @16    2 years ago
Elon Musk mocks Senate Democrats as clueless for their calls to investigate Twitter

WTF?

There's another Headline with no fucking source cited.

Please include the source of your fucking headlines!

 
 
 
pat wilson
Professor Participates
16.1.1  pat wilson  replied to  al Jizzerror @16.1    2 years ago

(he might not know how)

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
16.1.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  pat wilson @16.1.1    2 years ago
(he might not know how)

You may be right.

Butt, if he can copy&pastie the fucking headline, he should be able to copy&pastie the source too.

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
16.1.3  George  replied to  al Jizzerror @16.1    2 years ago

You managed to find it so Fuck off!

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
16.1.4  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @16.1.3    2 years ago

If you post headlines or quotations please provide the link to your fucking source.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
16.1.5  devangelical  replied to  George @16.1.3    2 years ago

derp

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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16.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @16    2 years ago
[ deleted

[ We have to take copyright infringement very seriously ]

[ Please, always provide a link/citation to your source. ]    

Terms of Service [Split Personality] 

I asked George several times to provide links to the sources of the headlines he kept posting (see 16.1 ).

He told me to "fuck off" (see 16.1.3 ).

It looks like a site Moderator ( Split Personality) finally deleted one of George's headlines.

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George
Sophomore Expert
16.2.1  George  replied to  al Jizzerror @16.2    2 years ago

Do you need a tissue?

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
16.2.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @16.2.1    2 years ago
Do you need a tissue?

No thanx.

When trolls post stupid shit on this thread I don't wipe it up.

I leave it so eveyone knows trolls stink.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
16.2.3  Tessylo  replied to  al Jizzerror @16.2.2    2 years ago

Got some especially smelly ones

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
16.2.4  devangelical  replied to  Tessylo @16.2.3    2 years ago

stupid and smelly...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
16.2.5  cobaltblue  replied to  George @16.2.1    2 years ago

Do you need a tissue?

Not the ones you keep on your nightstand next to the baby oil, I hope.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
16.3  devangelical  replied to  George @16    last year

LOL

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
17  author  al Jizzerror    2 years ago

When I read that Musk has instituted his new "hardcore" policy, I decided to send him an old resume with my "film" experience.

I even used my old porn name, "Lance Petersin".

I wonder if my interview will include the fucking "casting couch".

 
 
 
Thrawn 31
Professor Guide
18  Thrawn 31    2 years ago

Lol this is great. I have never been a fan of Twitter or Musk, so watching Musk take control of Twitter and tank it harder than anyone has ever tanked a business before, is delightful. 

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
18.1  Ender  replied to  Thrawn 31 @18    2 years ago

This whole thing is comical. Now the extreme right wing is pissed about Musk going back on his word...

Right now it seems like all Musk is doing is using it as his own expensive playground.

I am going to make a prediction, Musk will soon get bored with twitter and it will end up being run about the same as it always has been as Musk moves on to another 'project'.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
18.1.1  Raven Wing  replied to  Ender @18.1    2 years ago
Musk will soon get bored with twitter and it will end up being run about the same as it always has been as Musk moves on to another 'project'.

That is Musk's MO...he goes into a project full speed, but, quickly gets bored with it, sluffs it off onto someone else and goes in hunt of another project. If it is run successfully he takes all the credit. However, if it does not work out well after he abandons what is left of it he then blames everyone else.

I see this happening with his new Twitter toy, and am so very glad I never joined it. 

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
18.1.2  Ender  replied to  Raven Wing @18.1.1    2 years ago

What I liked about twitter was the comedy. Some people were hilarious.

I never joined but use to read some people.

Then they made it to where one had to join to read, so no more for me.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
18.1.3  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Raven Wing @18.1.1    2 years ago
That is Musk's MO...he goes into a project full speed, but, quickly gets bored with it, sluffs it off onto someone else and goes in hunt of another project.

When did he get bored with Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX, Starlink, OpenAI and Neuralink?

If it is run successfully he takes all the credit. However, if it does not work out well after he abandons what is left of it he then blames everyone else

Who has he blamed?

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
18.1.4  Raven Wing  replied to  Ender @18.1.2    2 years ago

I really never had any interest in Twitter, or TickTok. But, I enjoy watching some of the funny videos on TikTok, and sometimes on Twitter. The kitty and puppy animal memes and videos mostly. They are really funny, and many of them truly amazing. But, since Musk took over Twitter I have limited myself to just TikTok. 

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.5  Split Personality  replied to  Raven Wing @18.1.4    2 years ago

Supposedly China considers Tik Tok to be an enemy of young minds and

national productivity so Tik Tok is limited to one hour a day for users where China controls the internet.

Some conspiracy theorists think that Tik Tok is a not so overt attempt to

undermine "Western culture" ( an oxymoron to the Chinese, lol )

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
18.1.6  Raven Wing  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.5    2 years ago
( an oxymoron to the Chinese, )

LoL!  A lot of stuff is an oxymoron to the Chinese. (grin)

But, other than the animal memes and videos it holds no interest for me. Since Musk took over Twitter I have no interest in that one anymore.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.7  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Raven Wing @18.1.6    2 years ago

Are you calling me an oxymoron?   jrSmiley_72_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.8  Split Personality  replied to  Raven Wing @18.1.6    2 years ago

I guess when NV went down I opened a Twitter account because they keep emailing me about 3 new messages in some thread so once Elon started laying people off I figured out how to get a new password to log on so I could figure out how to close that account.

It isn't intuitive.  Eventually I queried the internet and the Twitter help feature.

When I eventually arrived at the "exit interview" there were only 3 choices in a pull down menu 

and only one worked.  That twitter wasn't available in my area...

Evidence of the dumb nonsense they are going through.

"The Emperor has no clothes".

Two weeks later and Twitter is still emailing me about the same notifications...

jrSmiley_87_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.9  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.8    2 years ago
When I eventually arrived at the "exit interview" there were only 3 choices in a pull down menu  and only one worked.  That twitter wasn't available in my area...

Don't worry, I'm sure Elon Musk will fix the problem.

In keeping with his new "hardcore" policy, Musk is fixing code with his penis.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
18.1.10  Split Personality  replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.9    2 years ago

Apparently Musk announced today that Sales and Marketing layoffs 

will happen Monday...

He's a determined bugger isn't he?

I wonder if the building will be open Monday?

I wonder how many people flew to SF Friday to beg for their jobs

and actually got in?

(2PM, 10th floor in a closed building)

I heard Twitter Security is hiring in San Francisco.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
18.1.11  devangelical  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.10    2 years ago
I heard Twitter Security is hiring in San Francisco.

gee, I wonder what it pays to be part of that traveling entourage that will shield him with kevlar...

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
18.1.12  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  devangelical @18.1.11    2 years ago
I wonder what it pays to be part of that traveling entourage that will shield him with kevlar.

He requires more than the ability to use a delete button.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
18.1.13  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.9    2 years ago
Musk is fixing code with his penis.

That's banging it out.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
18.1.14  Raven Wing  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.7    2 years ago

Gee Buzz....I didn't know you were Chinese. You said you were from Canada. I guess now that you are living in China you are now Chinese. (big grin) (jk)

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
18.1.15  Raven Wing  replied to  Split Personality @18.1.8    2 years ago
Two weeks later and Twitter is still emailing me about the same notifications...

LMAO! It has long been my thought that Musk is not all that intelligent himself, he just surrounds himself with people who are, and who can make him look that smart.

INHO, what is happening with Twitter is showing just how lacking he really is. To try and bully those who are much smarter in the project he bought himself into, which had been a successful and profitable organization when he bought it, and see how quickly it has fallen since he took it over.

He is nothing more than a rich boy who makes babies with various women yet has no interest in being a Father to them. And he and goes around playing in this project then another, and when he gets bored with them he hires the experts to make them a success and claiming all success for himself.

However, his immediate bullying and threatening of a very successful staff has backfired on him, and his decision to bring Trump back very well may have even worse results. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.16  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Raven Wing @18.1.14    2 years ago

LOL.  I may be an anomoly, but I'm not an oxymoron, nor am I Chinese.  Do I look Chinese in this photo?   Because of the look on my face, I've entitled this photo 'Thinking about the next thing to do to get into trouble", and I got into trouble a lot back then. 

800

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
18.1.17  Trout Giggles  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.16    2 years ago

You were a cutie pie, Buzz and you do have a mischievous look.

 
 
 
Raven Wing
Professor Guide
18.1.18  Raven Wing  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.16    2 years ago
I may be an anomoly, but I'm not an oxymoron, nor am I Chinese.

Of course you are none of those things, Buzz. You are one that has a personality that likes to challenge others playfully, and has a good sense of humor. jrSmiley_79_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.19  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Trout Giggles @18.1.17    2 years ago

Well, around 80 years later I'm still a cutie pie and still looking for trouble. LOL

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.20  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Raven Wing @18.1.18    2 years ago

Well, I suppose it's that "devil's advocate" thing in me of attempting to indicate that there is always more than one side to a story.  Some who I feel need challenging call me a commie one day and a Nazi another - that would be quite an accomplishment if it were true. 

I think the more than one side thing was learned by me on my first day in law school.  The dean of the school gave us our first lesson, and in it he said that if we could not understand and argue our opponent's side of an issue as well if not better than our own we might just as well walk out that door right now and never come back.  

I sure miss Paul Harvey and his "The Rest of the Story" program - he told the "other side" very well.  I lost a friend on this site because I was not in lockstep with his attitude about something, but so be it. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.21  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.19    2 years ago
80 years later

Holy shit!

You're qualified to be president.

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
18.1.22  charger 383  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.16    2 years ago

Buzz is not an Ox or a Moron

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.23  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  charger 383 @18.1.22    2 years ago

charger 383    

That thing got a Hemi in it?

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.24  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.21    2 years ago

Sorry, I'm not qualified to be POTUS, I'm a Canadian.  I could have been Prime Minister, or at least as Marlon Brando said, "I could've been a contender."   LOL

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.25  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  charger 383 @18.1.22    2 years ago

Well said, charger 383.  Thank you. 

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
18.1.26  charger 383  replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.23    2 years ago

No, when I got the Charger, it was supposed to be a 383 but was a 400 and balanced wrong and went bad after running good for a several years.  I had a 440 6pack from younger days and had that rebuilt,   If I had not had that I would have got a Hemi.   Hopefully the Charger gets a new quarterpanel and paint this winter 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.27  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.24    2 years ago
I'm a Canadian.

So is Rafael "Ted" Cruz.

512

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
18.1.28  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.27    2 years ago

anchor baby ted.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.29  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.27    2 years ago

Yeah, but he's still an American because his mother was an American.  He may have given up his Canadian citizenship.  And as far as I'm concerned, you're welcome to him.

 
 
 
Gsquared
Professor Principal
18.1.30  Gsquared  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.29    2 years ago

We don't want him.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
18.1.31  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Gsquared @18.1.30    2 years ago

I don't blame you.  

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.32  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.29    2 years ago
American because his mother was an American.  He may have given up his Canadian citizenship. 

You're right.

His mom was a US citizen but she didn't file the form required to make Cruz a citizen.  She brought Cruz to the US when he was four years old.

So Cruz was automatically a citizen because he was born in Canada.

Cruz was too stupid to realize he had dual citizenship (even though he was a Harvard educated lawyer).

Cruz finally renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014.

Ted Cruz: Canadian No More

The senator has officially ditched his Canadian citizenship.

By Andrew Soergel  June 11, 2014

Calgary-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz received official notice Tuesday that he had successfully renounced his citizenship from Canada.

“Being a U.S. Senator representing Texas, it makes sense he should be only an American citizen,” spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said in an email to The Associated Press.

A letter addressed to Cruz, R-Texas, from the Canadian government said he had “formally renounced Canadian citizenship and pursuant to the Citizenship Act [ceased] to be a citizen” on May 14.

Cruz, 43, was born to an American mother and a Cuban father in Calgary, Alberta. The potential Republican presidential candidate automatically became a U.S. citizen at birth, but under Canadian citizenship laws, he also became a citizen of the Great White North, according to The Dallas Morning News .

Cruz reportedly was surprised to discover that he maintained dual citizenship when The Dallas Morning News broached the issue in August 2013.

“Because I was a U.S. citizen at birth, because I left Calgary when I was 4 and have lived my entire life since then in the U.S., and because I have never taken affirmative steps to claim Canadian citizenship, I assumed that was the end of the matter,” Cruz said in a statement at the time, according to CNN .

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
18.1.33  Kavika   replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.32    2 years ago

512

512

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
18.1.34  Trout Giggles  replied to  al Jizzerror @18.1.32    2 years ago

He should have renounced his Canadian citizenship the day he decided to enter politics

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
18.1.35  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @18.1.34    2 years ago

he probably wanted to keep all his options available, you know, just in case a war broke out and any of his bullet head pals felt the need to re-institute a draft or something...

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.36  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Kavika @18.1.33    2 years ago

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devangelical
Professor Principal
18.1.37  devangelical  replied to  Kavika @18.1.33    2 years ago

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
18.1.38  cobaltblue  replied to  Gsquared @18.1.30    2 years ago

We don't want him.

I wish Cruz, Gohmert, Paxton and Abbott would all go back to their mother country: Douchebagistan.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.39  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @18.1.38    2 years ago
their mother country: Douchebagistan.

512

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
18.1.40  cobaltblue  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1.16    2 years ago
photo

Omigosh. Cutest thing ever! Such a snappy dresser, Buzz.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
18.1.41  cobaltblue  replied to  Trout Giggles @18.1.34    2 years ago

He should have renounced his Canadian citizenship the day he decided to enter politics

Cruz has lots of should haves. He should have stayed in Texas instead of fleeing to the Mexican warmth while Texans froze to death in some instances and were without water or electricity. He should have avoided fist bumping his equally disgusting colleagues regarding the military burn pit legislation.

Steve-Daines-fist-bump-Cruz.jpg

However, in a stunning floor vote on Wednesday night, the Senate fell four votes shy of passing the legislation that had been at least two years in the making by Montana’s senior Sen. Jon Tester. Tester, chairman of the Senate Veterans Committee, and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, had worked together to find an acceptable bill that would garner enough support to clear the Senate’s 60-vote threshold, and June’s previous vote seemed to have demonstrated more than enough support.

Cite

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.42  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @18.1.41    2 years ago

Like many Republican chicken hawks (and their fearful leader,Trump), Cruz pretends to support the military while screwing the veterans.  Cruz, like Trump, avoided serving in the military.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
18.1.43  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @18.1.41    2 years ago
He should have stayed in Texas instead of fleeing to the Mexican warmth while Texans froze to death in some instances and were without water or electricity.

Like most Canadians, Cruz can't handle cold weather.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago
This whole thing is comical.

You got that right Ender. When Musk was an immigrant, moved to California at 24 and took electric cars from a political statement to a status symbol, he was adarling on the left.

But now, because of some right wing provocative words, his climate-friendly actions are forgotten.  Some have gone so far as to vow never to buy a Tesla because of his politics.  The whole thing is indeed comical.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
19.1  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19    2 years ago
he was adarling on the left.

When?

He is miserly when it comes to political contributions but he contributes equally.

We already discussed the rumors of his family's fortune being a benefit of apartheid which would

alienate many blacks and libs.

He might be a fan of the anti oil industry club but Tesla EV battery manufacturing and reclamation

is not a fan of most environmentalists who tend to be left leaners.

Ditto with Solar City's solar panels and roofing tiles.

The closest Musk came to be  political was briefly supporting Trump, joining a Presidential

Commission briefly before resigning over the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord.

My bride is recently retired from a Texas law firm that has no shortage of cases of labor contract

disputes involving Tesla, SpaceX and other Musk entities.  He is fiercely anti union. 

His respect for his employees and leadership contracts (Paraq Agrawal) is now on full display

with this Twitter fiasco. 

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
19.1.1  Ender  replied to  Split Personality @19.1    2 years ago

I have said it before yet if I had the money to buy a nice one I would rather have an Audi.

Give me an A8.

Either that or a Dodge Charger or Challenger.  Haha

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
19.1.2  Split Personality  replied to  Ender @19.1.1    2 years ago

I grew up working on Mopar Muscle cars, 413s, 383s, 400s

426 wedges and Hemis, Carter Quads and six packs

but I evolved to German cars and drive a Benz made in Georgia.

Best car purchase ever.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.3  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @19.1    2 years ago
When

The past decade.

He is miserly when it comes to political contributions but he contributes equally.

What is the percentage of your political contributions to income?

We already discussed the rumors of his family's fortune being a benefit of apartheid which would alienate many blacks and libs.

The ones that Snopes found no evidence?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.4  devangelical  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.2    2 years ago

ugh, you guys are full of beans. after '71 mopars were all junk. faulty electrical systems, cheap interiors, and gas guzzlers. while I agree that if you want a quality engineered automobile it needs to originate from some country we decimated in WWII, I'll stick with my lexus'. I'm on my 3rd one in the last 18 years.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
19.1.5  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19.1.3    2 years ago
When
The past decade.

I guess that makes it your opinion

He is miserly when it comes to political contributions but he contributes equally.
What is the percentage of your political contributions to income?

None of your business.

We already discussed the rumors of his family's fortune being a benefit of apartheid which would alienate many blacks and libs.
The ones that Snopes found no evidence?

I stated earlier that it is often reported. If you can find where I have ever

purported it to be factual, feel free to post that.

I think it's safe to say that most public opinion is not based on factual findings,

(i.e., the cases of O.J.Simpson, Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman)

regardless of what Snopes has found. 

(Snopes the go to source for most conservatives/S)

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.6  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.5    2 years ago

Awesome.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
19.1.7  Split Personality  replied to  devangelical @19.1.4    2 years ago

I'm on my 3rd one in the last 18 years.

Meh, overpriced Toyota's.  Remember how Lexus came into being?
After decades of Toyota rust issues, particularly the front fenders behind the wheels and the bottoms of the doors?
Lexus advertising was rolling a ball bearing along the perfect roof lines or
perfect gap between the hood and fenders; believe me, those of us who
worked for hours to make a freshly delivered American car have all four doors
open and close effortlessly or alligning the deck lids or hoods stood there
mouths agape at the factory delivered quality of Lexus bodies.  But underneath
the hood they were just Toyotas.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.8  devangelical  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.7    2 years ago

any auto manufacturer that can consistently produce bullet proof engines has got my attention.

 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
19.1.9  Split Personality  replied to  devangelical @19.1.8    2 years ago

Toyota is the only automaker that claims that burning through a quart of oil every 1,2oo miles was "normal".

Eventually we got a recall notice IF the car was under a certain age and mileage.

We weren't.  Neither were the 800,000 other Camry owners...

My bride loves that car but in this day and age no one should be adding a quart of oil once a month.

We also have a recall for deteriorating dash pads which constantly off gas onto the inside of the windshields.  Those parts were never made available...

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.10  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.9    2 years ago

My wife had a 86 Toyota Celica GT-S when we married. It was a good car, shipped it to Germany and it handled both the Autobahn and small Alpen roads.  Replaced it in 03 after 17 years and 212,000 miles.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.11  devangelical  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.9    2 years ago

in the past mazda has made that claim (rx8) and so has acura (TL) I've never owned a toyota that burned oil. lexus #1 = 260K miles, toyota pickup = 190K miles, lexus #2 = 387K miles, current lexus = 145K miles. I consider myself extremely diligent when purchasing a used vehicle and realize that all manufacturers have issues with some of their models. that said, I would never turn down a balanced and blueprinted mercedes AMG.

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
19.1.12  Ender  replied to  devangelical @19.1.11    2 years ago

I have gotten spoiled being up high. I am always in a truck or Tahoe.

Going back to a sedan would be weird for me. I feel like I am sitting on the ground.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.13  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.2    2 years ago

I grew up with my fathers 59 Thunderbird, 57 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce (fun little 2 seater convertible and a Turbocharged 66 Corsa Corvair. I loved that last car but when I was 16, I was arrested for racing, my dad let me spend that night in jail and sold the car within a week.  I had to drive to school som he replaced it with what later became the Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser.  I got it from an Airman that brought it back from Japan.  It was geared so low that the top speed was around 64 MPH.

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
19.1.14  Ender  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.7    2 years ago

I think it was back in the late 80's my family had two of the same, I think they were little Toyotas. Little almost VW bug like cars.

One the driver side floor rusted out. They kept a board over the hole...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.15  devangelical  replied to  Ender @19.1.12    2 years ago

I hear that. I've only owned and driven a handful of cars that didn't have a seating height above average. it's been mostly trucks and SUV's. being above the morons on the road is much safer.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.16  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  devangelical @19.1.15    2 years ago

Makes you feel more powerful?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.17  devangelical  replied to  Ender @19.1.14    2 years ago
One the driver side floor rusted out. They kept a board over the hole...

that's the contraband ejection hole when you're about to get pulled over...

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
19.1.18  Ender  replied to  devangelical @19.1.17    2 years ago

Ha. The hatch.

The hole was big enough for about a kilo...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.19  devangelical  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19.1.16    2 years ago
Makes you feel more powerful?

no, deleting trolling dumb asses where I'm able does that...

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.20  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  devangelical @19.1.19    2 years ago

Exactly, deletions and riding high make you the man!

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.21  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Ender @19.1.18    2 years ago

What did you pay for that amount of Mexican dirt weed?

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
19.1.22  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19.1.21    2 years ago
Mexican dirt weed

You'd hafta pay me to smoke that shit.

I prefer legal domestic weed.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.23  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @19.1.22    2 years ago

Ender was reminiscing about the 80's, not now. 

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
19.1.24  Ender  replied to  al Jizzerror @19.1.22    2 years ago

Who said I was talking about weed...jrSmiley_100_smiley_image.jpg

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.1.25  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Ender @19.1.24    2 years ago

Exactly, you might have bought bulk tobacco by the kilo then.  

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.26  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @19.1.22    2 years ago
I prefer legal domestic weed.

I haven't bought any mexican weed since the mid 70's. I moved on to columbian until that went away and it's been domestic for the last 40 years. I think I've seen 4 seeds in the last decade and 50 years ago that was 25% of the weight in the baggie. the weed biz has changed for the better, since I'm paying less now than I was 50 years ago for 10x the quality.

 
 
 
GregTx
PhD Guide
19.1.27  GregTx  replied to  devangelical @19.1.26    2 years ago
I'm paying less now than I was 50 years ago 

You must have been getting screwed back then, either that or your getting serious quantity discounts now.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.28  devangelical  replied to  GregTx @19.1.27    2 years ago

... says the guy that lives in a state where they sell legal hemp and pass it off as the real thing.

 
 
 
GregTx
PhD Guide
19.1.29  GregTx  replied to  devangelical @19.1.28    2 years ago

It's coming. I mean how are you gonna say delta 8 & 10 are legal but....

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
19.1.30  Trout Giggles  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.7    2 years ago

All of you are all wet.

Get a Ford.

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
19.1.31  charger 383  replied to  Ender @19.1.1    2 years ago

I had a VW in high school, then I got a Roadrunner and been almost all Mopar

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
19.1.32  Trout Giggles  replied to  charger 383 @19.1.31    2 years ago

I like Dodge trucks. The only Dodge car I ever really liked was the Daytona. We got one of those shortly after we got married. I cried the day we traded it in for a van

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.33  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @19.1.32    2 years ago

dodge would have gone the way of oldsmobile and pontiac if it hadn't been for the contracts with cummins diesel for their trucks and the mass production of cheap sold chargers for LE use.

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
19.1.34  JBB  replied to  devangelical @19.1.33    2 years ago

Chrysler has survived mainly because the rear seats of their minivans fold flat into their floorboard allowing the 600 pound plus Americans to ride to Houston...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.35  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @19.1.32    2 years ago

I've owned dozens of cars and trucks. the only one I was ever sentimentally attached to was my 95 lexus SC400. that's because it was the only stock vehicle I've ever owned that would do 150 mph. I sold it to some kid that wanted to put a N2O setup on it. now I rarely exceed the speed limit, unless I've got some moron in front of me going way faster than me on the interstate when I'm traveling. both of my radar detectors have been sitting in my glovebox unused for over 2 years.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.36  devangelical  replied to  GregTx @19.1.29    2 years ago

3% THC versus 20+% THC, for the same price. yeah, right...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
19.1.37  cobaltblue  replied to  Ender @19.1.1    2 years ago
Give me an A8.

Ooooh ... meeee tooooo.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
19.1.38  cobaltblue  replied to  charger 383 @19.1.31    2 years ago

I had a VW in high school, then I got a Roadrunner and been almost all Mopar

My first car was a red Mach I. Loved that car. Kept that for quite awhile, then I got TR6. I was a total 'standard' snob in those days. Insisted on having a manual transmission despite my then daily commute from South Pasadena to Century City. 

Sorry I'm so damn late to this party. 

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
19.1.39  charger 383  replied to  cobaltblue @19.1.38    2 years ago

The Charger is a floor shift automatic, my Dakota pickup has a pistol grip shifter from a Roadrunner,  Need something to shift 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
19.1.40  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  charger 383 @19.1.39    2 years ago
The Charger is a floor shift automatic

4 gears?

My F-150 is a six speed automatic.  I can also change the transmission to a lower setting for towing.

I like looking down on people.

 
 
 
charger 383
Professor Silent
19.1.41  charger 383  replied to  al Jizzerror @19.1.40    2 years ago

68 Charger has 3 speed TorqueFlite, 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
19.1.42  devangelical  replied to  Split Personality @19.1.7    2 years ago
Meh, overpriced Toyota's.  Remember how Lexus came into being?

all toyota's are overpriced. I was actually selling hondas the first year lexus came out.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
19.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19    2 years ago
he was adarling on the left.

Yes, as a true African American, Elon Musk was loved by the liberals.  /s 

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.2.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @19.2    2 years ago
  • The Obama administration loaned Tesla half a billion dollars through the Energy Dept.
  • President Barack Obama toured SpaceX with CEO Elon Musk
  • Pres Obama had dinner with Elon in SF, WH schedule listed it as one with "friends and staff." 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
19.2.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19.2.1    2 years ago
The Obama administration loaned Tesla half a billion dollars through the Energy Dept.

One year after Obama took office, Tesla got a $465 million federal loan to design electric vehicles and build them at a manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif. The company went public shortly thereafter, repaid the loan early , mainstreamed the electric vehicle, and now employs about 20,000 people in the Bay Area alone.

That was during to worst financial collapse since the great depression. 

The automobile bailout was much bigger.  Those loans were also repaid early and saved an estimated two million jobs. 

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.2.3  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @19.2.2    2 years ago

Yes, he needed the money badly at the time.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
19.2.4  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19.2.3    2 years ago
Yes, he needed the money badly at the time.

Elon Musk even tried to sell Tesla to Apple.

Butt Apple ghosted him.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
19.2.5  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @19.2.4    2 years ago

Yes, starting a new auto company is very challenging and very expensive.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
19.2.6  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @19.2.5    2 years ago
starting a new auto company is very challenging and very expensive.

Especially during a financial collapse.

Banks were not making any new loans.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
20  Drinker of the Wry    2 years ago

I haven't bought an "American car" ever:

  • Used Mercedes in Germany, 1977
  • Used Toyota Pickup, 1980
  • New Mazda RX7, 1982
  • New Honda Accord in Germany, 1992
  • New Mazda MPV 2002
  • New VW Passat Diesel 2008
  • New Honda CRV 2017
  • Used Hyundai Sonata Eco 2015
  • New Kia Forte 2018
 
 
 
Split Personality
Professor Guide
20.1  Split Personality  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @20    2 years ago

When you're in the market again, test drive a Mercedes C300 All Wheel drive 4cyl turbo,

a "pocket rocket" that gets 35mph and higher on the highway.

Two to three years old are most affordable with low mileage.

Seems like the last 10 years are indistinguishable from one another.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
20.1.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Split Personality @20.1    2 years ago
Mercedes C300 All Wheel drive 4cyl turbo

My favorite new (old) car is a fucking ten year old work truck.

I drive my 2012 3.7L V-6 Ford F-150 while my Toyota Highlander is parked in my driveway.

The F-150 was fun on my ten state camping trip.

On my previous trip I stayed in motel rooms and I found it annoying when the smoke detectors kept going off.

A camper is great for a pothead like me because there are no fucking smoke detectors.

512

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
20.1.2  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Split Personality @20.1    2 years ago

Thanks.  I got the Sonata Eco with the the penalty dollars I got from VW for their cheating. It's a 1.6-liter turbo-four/seven-speed dual-clutch.  I had a similar transmission in the Jetta and this Eco had high torque like the diesel had.

I bought off of Carvana when that was still relatively new.  It was a good experience, but I recently discovered that even though it had a good CarFax report, it had actually been in an unreported accident and I now have a paint problem.  Not Carvana's problem but I doubt that I will ever buy used again.

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
21  George    2 years ago

He’s back bitches. 

Elon Musk reinstates Trump's Twitter account 22 months after it was suspended

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
21.1  devangelical  replied to  George @21    2 years ago

cool. with musk's new relaxed freedom of speech standards, I may need to join again just so I can tell private citizen trump to go suck off a 12 gauge if he sincerely wants to make america great again.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
21.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  George @21    2 years ago
Elon Musk reinstates Trump's Twitter account

Who'd thunk it?

From this article:

Elon Musk, the Chief Twit, has a new plan to revive Twitter.   First, he will welcome Donald Trump back to Twitter.

I'm glad Trump will be able to tweet again.

The Donald used to tweet lots of asinine shit shit that alienated most people.

That's why I love freedom of speech.  

When idiots like Trump exercise their freedumb of speech, they showcase their stupidity.

512

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
21.2.1  Kavika   replied to  al Jizzerror @21.2    2 years ago

The news from Trump this morning is that he isn't coming back to twitter he is going to stick with ''Lies Social''.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
21.2.2  JohnRussell  replied to  Kavika @21.2.1    2 years ago

As soon as Musk begs him to com back he'll come back. Its just a matter of time, and probably not much time. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
21.2.3  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Kavika @21.2.1    2 years ago
''Lies Social''

Trump returning to Twitter would effectively fuck his own oxyMORONIC platform.

"Truth Social" (which is not owned by Trump) is already bleeding money despite his presence there.

Trump probably won't leave until the site gets stockholder support for it's IPO.

CEO behind Trump’s Truth Social IPO begs small investors for support: source

November 17, 2022 3:34pm

The boss of the company looking to take Donald Trump’s Truth Social app public has personally been canvassing small retail investors in a desperate bid to keep the deal alive , The Post has learned.

Patrick Orlando, CEO of Digital World Acquisition Corp. , has been picking up the phone and calling investors with as few as 20 shares each to urge them to vote for the deal, according to sources close to the situation.

Orlando — who has been forced to reschedule the vote six times — now believes he has the votes to consummate the merger, these people add. Orlando reportedly has scheduled a live interview with the IPO Edge media service for Nov. 22 — the day of the shareholder vote

Orlando previously put $3 million into the deal in September to keep DWAC from liquidating after failing to get a vote approving the extension. If he doesn’t win the Nov. 22 vote, Orlando could deposit another $3 million by Dec. 8 to keep DWAC operating another three months as it waits for SEC approval to buy Truth Social.

If the deal is approved by shareholders and the SEC finally clears it, it will infuse the money-losing social network with $1.25 billion in cash. Voting for the deal is also in shareholders’ interest: DWAC’s shares are trading above $20 and they would receive just $10 each if the deal is liquidated.

It’s in Trump’s interest, too: Faced with a Twitter ban and increasing disinterest from TV networks, Truth Social may be his best platform as he mounts a 2024 presidential bid.

Nevertheless, Trump has  backed away from promoting Truth Social’s merger . Late last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission launched a probe into whether DWAC’s founders had advance knowledge  of its target company before listing its shares in September 2021 — a violation of securities laws. Insiders believe Trump, already under investigation over the Jan. 6 riots, wants to avoid yet another fight with the feds.

That presents a tough climb for DWAC, which needs 65% of shareholders to approve extending the merger deadline.

A spokesperson for DWAC did not respond to a request for comment.

“DWAC is unlike any other SPAC out there,” Matthew Tuttle, chief executive of Tuttle Capital Management, told The Post. “Other SPACs typically have investors who know the deal inside out whereas DWAC has a majority of investors with just 50 or 100 shares.”

SPACs are shell companies that raise money in the public markets and then use that money to merge with a private company and take it public. If the SPAC can’t consummate a deal, it must return all the funds to investors.

As the clock is ticking toward the liquidation date, the likelihood of getting the deal done decreases. Trump has also previously considered merging Truth Social with other conservative “free speech” platforms like Rumble and Parler.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
21.3  cobaltblue  replied to  George @21    2 years ago
He’s back bitches. 

Still waiting bitches. 

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
23  George    2 years ago

Trump will go wherever he gets the most attention and exposure. So he will probably use both.

The real question is, will the attention whores who promised to quit Twitter if he came back keep their word? I mean, is there an alternative in Canada where they all live now like they promised?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
23.1  devangelical  replied to  George @23    2 years ago

the america he and his supporters yearn to occupy is only 6 feet below the surface.

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
23.1.1  George  replied to  devangelical @23.1    2 years ago

You spend a lot of time wishing your fellow Americans were dead. For simply having different beliefs.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
23.1.3  devangelical  replied to  George @23.1.1    2 years ago

that's a bullshit statement. I stopped thinking of trumpsters as americans over 2 years ago.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
23.1.4  cobaltblue  replied to  George @23.1.1    2 years ago
wishing your fellow Americans were dead

Unlike the "fellow Americans" who literally wanted Capitol police and members dead, including the then vice president. After they shit in the halls of the Capitol, of course. You know ... the place where people actually died based on a lie perpetuated by trump, who KNEW he lost the election.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
23.1.5  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @23.1.4    2 years ago
Unlike the "fellow Americans" who literally wanted Capitol police and members dead, including the then vice president.

They should be facing "Capitol" punishment.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
23.2  cobaltblue  replied to  George @23    2 years ago
Canada where they all live now like they promised?

I thought that's where all the rethugs promised to go when Obama was elected. Twice. Popular vote and electoral vote. Twice. That Canada? 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
23.2.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @23.2    2 years ago
That Canada? 

512

 
 
 
George
Sophomore Expert
24  George    2 years ago

CBS showing the depth of their integrity, they’re back on Twitter after a whole 24hours. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25  author  al Jizzerror    2 years ago

Why do so many Republicans love Elon Musk?

512

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
25.2  Ender  replied to  al Jizzerror @25    2 years ago

Oh my God. I am blind....

I swear, I have blonde hair and I am not that white.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.1  cobaltblue  replied to  Ender @25.2    2 years ago

I swear, I have blonde hair and I am not that white.

I've never seen anything this white. Good grief. He looks like a Dairy Queen soft-serve.

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al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.1    2 years ago
I've never seen anything this white.

Musk was born in South Africa and he is now a US citizen (as of 2002).

Elon Musk is a genuine African American.

He is the embodiment of "oxyMORON" because he is an African American who is so White he glows in the dark.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.3  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Ender @25.2    2 years ago

Skin pigmentation is what is so very important.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.4  cobaltblue  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.3    2 years ago

Skin pigmentation is what is so very important.

It is to the right. And it seems so is ethnoreligiousness.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.5  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.4    2 years ago

It seems to be important to more than just the right here.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.6  cobaltblue  replied to  al Jizzerror @25.2.2    2 years ago
Elon Musk is a genuine African American.

So I looked up "apartheid" to make some snarky remark about it, but I was amazed that it was seems like it ended somewhat recently. But then again, I'm still somewhat amazed that women didn't get the right to vote until 1920. 

How long did apartheid last in South Africa? 1948 to 1994
The apartheid era in South African history refers to the time that the National Party led the country's white minority government, from 1948 to 1994.
 
 
 
Jack_TX
Professor Quiet
25.2.7  Jack_TX  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.6    2 years ago
But then again, I'm still somewhat amazed that women didn't get the right to vote until 1920. 

Why?

They passed prohibition in 1918.  They never needed to actually vote to control everything.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.8  cobaltblue  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.5    2 years ago

It seems to be important to more than just the right here.

Cut the shit. What we are making is an observation about someone not getting out much, which creates a somewhat pasty look. It has nothing to do with the prejudices, preconceptions and biases as you're trying to portray it to be. (Next will come the "Oh no, that's not what I [said/meant/inferred]; you're projecting" bullshit.) We've spent what seems like forever making fun of the orange one. Quit making bullshit out nothing. You're not good at it. It's predictable and tired.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.9  cobaltblue  replied to  Jack_TX @25.2.7    2 years ago

They never needed to actually vote to control everything.

Aw. That's cute. 
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Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.10  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.8    2 years ago
What we are making is an observation about someone not getting out much, which creates a somewhat pasty look.

Exactly, an important observation as looks are critical.

It has nothing to do with the prejudices, preconceptions and biases as you're trying to portray it to be.

Of course not, that’s silly to think that commenters here have any prejudices.

Quit making bullshit out nothing. You're not good at it. It's predictable and tired.

I’ll try harder but can’t promise success. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.11  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.8    2 years ago
Cut the shit. What we are making is an observation

I think Elon Musk (and Charlize Theron) have illustrated that the phrase "African American" is not necessarily about race.  I worked with a guy from Zimbabwe who left Africa when the economy collapsed.  He said he was an actual "African American" butt most of the people who used that label were born in America not Africa.

512

Charlize Theron, like Elon Musk, is a genuine African American.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.12  cobaltblue  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.10    2 years ago
Of course not, that’s silly to think that commenters here have any prejudices.

Snark noted, but stay on Elon's pale appearance on this thread. Quit trying to make what's on this thread into something it's not. And own your shit. To do otherwise is cowardly. I've noticed that most, not all, on the right have a lot of nerve but they haven't a lot of spine.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.13  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.12    2 years ago
but stay on Elon's pale appearance on this thread.

Ok, what about a pale appearance?

Quit trying to make what's on this thread into something it's not

What is it about?

And own your shit.

What makes you think that I don’t?

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.14  cobaltblue  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.13    2 years ago
What is it about?

Skin pigmentation is what is so very important. / It seems to be important to more than just the right here.

Why don't you tell me what you meant, Drinker. Was it just a lame attempt to make it about something other than making a reference to a complexion comparison to a vanilla pudding cup, or did you really mean skin pigmentation is what is so very important? If so, why do you deem it so very important? 

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.15  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.14    2 years ago
Why don't you tell me what you meant, Drinker.

I’m sorry that it wasn’t self evident, I was poking fun at your observation of:

”I've never seen anything this white. Good grief. He looks like a Dairy Queen soft-serve.”

Was it just a lame attempt to make it about something other than making a reference to a complexion comparison to a vanilla pudding cup, or did you really mean skin pigmentation is what is so very important.

Lame or not, I don’t make jokes about people’s skin tone.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.16  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.13    2 years ago
Ok, what about a pale appearance?

When Elon first came to the US, his pale appearance got him a job in marketing.

He was the inspiration for the cute little Pillsbury Doughboy.

Unfortunately, the Pillsbury started getting abusive.

512

The reason you don't see the doughboy anymore is because their sadism went too far.

Eventually those sick sadistic bastards put him in the microwave so the Doughboy is toast.

512

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.17  cobaltblue  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.15    2 years ago
Lame or not, I don’t make jokes about people’s skin tone.

Good for you. Why the question of pasty skin so very important? Important compared to what? Was it your version of "Forget his physical appearance, how about how he fired all those folks?" 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.18  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.15    2 years ago
Lame or not, I don’t make jokes about people’s skin tone.

I would never stoop to ridiculing someone's skin tone either.

512

Orange is the new stupid.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.19  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @25.2.16    2 years ago
When Elon first came to the US, his pale appearance got him a job in marketing.

Exactly, paleness was his primary attribute.

He was the inspiration for the cute little Pillsbury Doughboy.

Absolutely, although he was born around 6 years after the first Pillsbury Doughboy, he was clearly the inspiration.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.20  cobaltblue  replied to  al Jizzerror @25.2.16    2 years ago
Doughboy is toast.

I heard the doughboy died while in the hospital. Cause of death: Yeast infection.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.21  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.17    2 years ago

Well, it's free speech that's important. 

Now the RWNJs can tweet the "N-word" as much as they want.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.22  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.17    2 years ago
Why the question of pasty skin so very important? Important compared to what? Was it your version of "Forget his physical appearance, how about how he fired all those folks?" 

Those are really questions for you that I can’t answer.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.23  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.20    2 years ago

It’s healthy to find humor in death.  My Army experience taught me the same.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.24  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @25.2.18    2 years ago

So everyone with an orange hue is stupid?

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.25  cobaltblue  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.22    2 years ago

Those are really questions for you that I can’t answer.

Why? You said it. What was the answer you were expecting from Ender to that comment? 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.26  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.19    2 years ago
Absolutely, although he was born around 6 years after the first Pillsbury Doughboy, he was clearly the inspiration.

Holy shit!

That sentence so much funnier than the Doughboy gifs I posted.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.27  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.24    2 years ago
So everyone with an orange hue is stupid?

Absolutely.

Name one orange genius.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.28  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @25.2.27    2 years ago

I don’t know that history has characterized geniuses by skin hue.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.29  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  al Jizzerror @25.2.26    2 years ago

No way, you are always the funniest.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
25.2.30  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.25    2 years ago

My mistake, my initial comment in this thread was meant for you, 25.2.1

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
Professor Silent
25.2.31  Mark in Wyoming   replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.20    2 years ago

i heard the same thing , eating too many lil debbies ....and sarah lee found out ...

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.32  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @25.2.23    2 years ago
It’s healthy to find humor in death.

That kills me.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.33  cobaltblue  replied to  Mark in Wyoming @25.2.31    2 years ago

i heard the same thing , eating too many lil debbies ....and sarah lee found out ...

Poor Sara Lee. She's had it tough. Word on the street she was .... well ... let me put it this way. She was like the first piece of a loaf of bread. Everybody touched her but nobody wanted her. 

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
25.2.34  cobaltblue  replied to  al Jizzerror @25.2.32    2 years ago

That kills me.

It slays me!

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
25.2.35  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.33    2 years ago
Poor Sara Lee. She's had it tough.

No shit!

Former WWE 'Tough Enough' Winner Sara Lee Dies At 30

512
The nose ring probably killed her.
 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
Professor Silent
25.2.36  Mark in Wyoming   replied to  cobaltblue @25.2.33    2 years ago
She was like the first piece of a loaf of bread. Everybody touched her but nobody wanted her. 

personally i like those end pieces ( heels )make great sandwiches , just like i like the heels of roasts .

 i also heard there was a line , marie collander and aunt jemima were seen waiting too , that little dough boy didnt stand a chance , i hear uncle ben is sitting pretty now though .

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
25.2.37  Trout Giggles  replied to  Mark in Wyoming @25.2.31    2 years ago

I had to read that twice to get it

 
 
 
Mark in Wyoming
Professor Silent
25.2.38  Mark in Wyoming   replied to  Trout Giggles @25.2.37    2 years ago

point is , you got it .

 like how i got kicked out of weblos , i couldnt stop eating brownies .... I know , old joke , i will show myself out .....

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
25.3  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @25    last year

you'd think the titanic would have at least left a scar...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
25.3.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @25.3    last year

another wasted joke...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
26  devangelical    2 years ago

dump trump bump

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
26.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @26    last year

x2

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
26.1.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @26.1    last year

just because, ha ha ha...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
27  cobaltblue    2 years ago

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Ender
Professor Principal
27.1  Ender  replied to  cobaltblue @27    2 years ago

I am going to use that one day on someone and see if I get a ticket. 

So, youtwitface?   Haha

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
27.1.1  Trout Giggles  replied to  Ender @27.1    2 years ago

better than my version...twatface

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
27.1.2  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @27.1.1    last year

that what santos' colleagues in the house are calling him now...

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
27.1.3  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  devangelical @27.1.2    last year
what santos' colleagues in the house are calling him now...

"Cumbucket"?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
27.1.4  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @27.1.3    last year

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devangelical
Professor Principal
27.1.5  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @27.1.4    last year

designated pivot man for the GOP circle jerk...

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
Junior Expert
27.2  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @27    2 years ago

Good one, thanks.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
27.3  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @27    2 years ago

jrSmiley_10_smiley_image.gif

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
28  Kavika     2 years ago

512

But I won the election and I still can't get airborne, seems shit is really heavy.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
28.1  cobaltblue  replied to  Kavika @28    2 years ago

I love this...

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
28.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Kavika @28    2 years ago
But I won the election

That shit was rigged.

512

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
29  cobaltblue    2 years ago

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When traitorous trump was soft on immigration.

 
 
 
freepress
Freshman Silent
30  freepress    2 years ago

Just another stunt to "own the libs" at any cost. So allowing the hordes of bots that are pro right wing talking points along with all the haters back on to the site isn't going to win over "hearts and minds". It definitely isn't going to "own the libs". It isn't going to win over any liberals to the "conservative" side. It isn't going to endear conservatives or right wing hate posters to any particular group, it just expands their right wing bubble. It isn't fooling anyone and there is no victory to be had. Just a mega expensive game of words that benefits no one. If anything it is going to vastly expand other sites to liberals and progressives and expand their sphere. The Twitter experience as right wing megaphone will not work. All it does is preach to the choir of right wing haters and they cannot be swayed by anything so what is the point? Pandering to the right so they can hear their own voices does nothing for them and won't sway anyone else to join them.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
30.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  freepress @30    2 years ago
The Twitter experience as right wing megaphone will not work.

Elon Musk is to free speech as Fox is to news.

512

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
30.1.1  cobaltblue  replied to  al Jizzerror @30.1    2 years ago
Elon Musk is to free speech as Fox is to news.

I edited my Christmas cards this year. Took a while and an eensy bit of a pain in the ass, but it was a labor of love. Card on the left is in its original state; card on the right with my modification.

800

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
30.1.2  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  cobaltblue @30.1.1    2 years ago

jrSmiley_100_smiley_image.jpg

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
30.2  Ender  replied to  freepress @30    2 years ago

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
30.2.1  cobaltblue  replied to  Ender @30.2    2 years ago

Awkward moment Elon Musk is savagely booed at Dave Chappelle show

That was somewhat satisfying to hear!

He'd be twice as wealthy if he got paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of the problems he creates.

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Ender
Professor Principal
30.2.2  Ender  replied to  cobaltblue @30.2.1    2 years ago

I heard one commentor say something the the effect of...I was a little insulted at Chappelle for saying the people booing were in the cheap seats...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
31  cobaltblue    last year

Gentlemen on NT: Be wise.

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cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
32  cobaltblue    last year

Speaking of Twitter, have you been unjailed with the new landlord in charge, al?

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
32.1  devangelical  replied to  cobaltblue @32    last year

I personally lost interest when billy o'really blocked me like 13 years or so ago...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
32.1.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @32.1    last year

the less I handle my phone, the happier I am.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
Professor Principal
32.1.12  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  devangelical @32.1.1    last year

This thread removed for no value.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
32.1.13  devangelical  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @32.1.12    last year

LOL

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
32.1.14  devangelical  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @32.1.12    last year

... uh, you missed some spots...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
33  cobaltblue    last year

Uh-oh. World domination has begun.

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devangelical
Professor Principal
33.1  devangelical  replied to  cobaltblue @33    last year

he could fuck up a free lunch.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
33.1.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @33.1    last year

he can afford to buy all the attention he never got as a child.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
33.1.2  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @33.1.1    last year

and all the friends he's never had...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
34  devangelical    last year

taking out the trash...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
34.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @34    last year

twice a day...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
34.1.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @34.1    last year

every day...

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
34.1.2  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @34.1.1    last year

>boom<

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
34.1.3  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @34.1.2    last year

LOL

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
34.1.4  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @34.1.3    last year

-1

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
34.1.5  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @34.1.4    last year

>poof<

 
 
 
freepress
Freshman Silent
35  freepress    last year

The only thing that is happening is the opposite of the goal, twitter's aim to elevate right wingers is going to backfire. The right wing nuts lie and while a lie can go around the world before the truth is told, advertisers will leave rather than back the level of right wing extremism and lying that is being allowed. The new attempt at adjusting algorithms to accommodate the right wing loons is unsustainable because we have all heard it before, there won't be enough of other points of view to argue with them which is all they want. They don't want progress or ethics or truth or change or anything positive or constructive, they opt for the lies and any "gotcha" moment and people are tired of it. There is no longer any way to reason, only pointless rage baiting fake arguments that go nowhere. No company wants to be associated with a site that has now become more political than every with no real positive outcomes for either side. The left is only going to increase their reach across multiple other sites and there will be nowhere to go for the right wing bots, trolls and contrarians to go but back to their own separate bubbles.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
35.1  devangelical  replied to  freepress @35    last year

the new rwnj house majority will dig a hole so deep that no GOPer will be able to climb out of it in 2024.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
35.1.1  devangelical  replied to  devangelical @35.1    last year

bummer

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
36  author  al Jizzerror    last year

Many of us have been wondering how Tesla will perform now that it's $ is being used to keep Twitter from going bankrupt.

I asked Google:  "How has Tesla done since Musk acquired Twitter?"

Tesla stock has plummeted since CEO Elon Musk took over Twitter, falling more than 45% in about over two months. In all, the company's stock has dropped more than 65% since January, when Musk began investing in Twitter. By comparison, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has fallen about half as far over that period.Dec 24, 2022 - Google

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
36.1  Kavika   replied to  al Jizzerror @36    last year

Massive price cuts on Tesla cars took place in December which of course will cut into the profit of Tesla. The competition is getting larger and stronger so I don't see with these facts and the attention and money that Musk is putting into Twitter that there is going to be any good news for Tesla for a while.

Currently, Musk is on trial, and if found guilty will have more headwinds for Musk which will also translate to Tesla.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
36.1.1  author  al Jizzerror  replied to  Kavika @36.1    last year
more headwinds for Musk which will also translate to Tesla.

Tesla is generating some of it's own headwinds.

In most cases the driver who is behind another car and "rear ends" it is at fault.  Nine people were injured in the Tesla pile up.  The Tesla driver (a lawyer) claims he had "full self-driving" engaged when it stopped suddenly, causing the collision.  The surveillance video shows the Tesla signal and execute a lane change as it braked hard.  Butt Teslas in with self-driving engaged don't change lanes unit the driver takes manual control.

It appears that the lawyer who was responsible for the accident will blame the car and he will sue Tesla.  Everyone involved in the crash will also sue Tesla.  

I don't think I will ever let my car drive itself.  I rarely use cruise control.

And it's probably not a good idea to let your fucking cat drive your car.

512

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
36.1.2  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @36.1.1    last year

my car wrecked me...

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
37  author  al Jizzerror    last year

Tesla owners love their cars.

Butt most Tesla owners just use the convenient "self destruct mode".

I guess the car beside it (007) may have killed the Tesla (it was licensed to kill).

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
37.1  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @37    last year

... expensive bonfire.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
Masters Expert
38  author  al Jizzerror    last year

Got marshmallows?

 
 

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