but which would you say came first: The Dragon or elon being perceived by others as The Dragon?

i’m sure, as with any big personality, this relationship evolves concurrently and interdependently. I just wish more had seen through him sooner. it was not difficult to predict that he would ultimately undermine himself faster than he would naturally fall out. we will keep seeing more of his type unless we can get a bit faster on the uptake.

“with this handy rent-a-cart system, the dirty homeless wont be able to get their grubby hands on them!”

that hair is weirding me out. thin, receding hairline in the front yet solid black on the side? must be using the same stylist as giuliani.

gross. go back to reddit.

might be more fair to say “women in the US are becoming less inclined to support a dumpster fire like the self-identified modern Conservative Party”.

he was also paid to speak on behalf of Amway at conventions all over the world with the intent to spread the unsustainable business model to other countries… and directly ensured that MLM operation(s) could continue to expand in the states, repeatedly calling it the embodiment of american enterprise. he basically built the framework for the protected Grift class.

Reagan.

well, and palestinians.

and plenty of others. like west yemen civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time the other week.

and the two workers at the damascus airport last month, plus others at the aleppo airport in december, thanks to both exponential aid and the ongoing normalization of this unacceptable response.

and whatever is sure to follow the in the wake of the next escalation.

all the “[person] slammed by [person]” headlines.

Did you misread end a political career for murder? AIPAC absolutely holds political sway in this country. It is no theory or secret.

yeah, definitely not the right time for that. 100%, two parties is insufficient and in an ideal world we would have 5-6 parties who actually discuss and compete over policy. but it would have to be accomplished strategically, not when totalitarianism is holding a full house.

further, the “iron dome” of israel wouldn’t cover the state of florida. can you even imagine the logistics of trying to install one to cover the continental united states?

oh, there is definitely a tape.

“passable level of technique, entirely uninspired work without any semblance of originality”

they saw right through him.

is this like a spanking thing?

love your come/pepsi metaphor. i think it was a piece in the atlantic not too long ago comparing desantis to sweet-n-low and trump to high-fructose corn syrup. but that was describing him at his peak. if memory serves that was just before one of his staffers was publicly fired as the fall guy for a neonazi pro-desantis clip that went viral. right around the puddingfingers incident but before he decided to single-handed bring down disney. he has fallen so far so fast.

it will be interesting to see how haley fares in this. i have some of those “old republicans” in my family who hope haley will wind back the party’s clock pre-trump. a nice fantasy. i do wonder how large that demographic is. she is pulling in koch support so there are big players trying to move some pieces. but i certainly don’t see it actually happening.

i definitely get the sense that this is going to be a vicious and chaotic election cycle no matter how it plays out.

six months ago i was worried. now he’s just the punchline.