Elon Musk. Twitter. Babylon Bee.

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Szdfan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 9:56 am Caption this.

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Elon catches the SpaceX spirit!
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What amuses me about all of this Musk stuff is the hypocrisy.

If any other billionaire owner of a tech social media platform was even 1/10th as much in the tank for Harris as Musk is for Trump then Republican politicians would be rupturing their larynxes screaming about it. What happened to all the hand-wringing about media bias? And all those breathtaking so-called revelations of the “twitter files.” I guess none of it was sincere after all.
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Ken wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:39 pm What amuses me about all of this Musk stuff is the hypocrisy.

If any other billionaire owner of a tech social media platform was even 1/10th as much in the tank for Harris as Musk is for Trump then Republican politicians would be rupturing their larynxes screaming about it. What happened to all the hand-wringing about media bias? And all those breathtaking so-called revelations of the “twitter files.” I guess none of it was sincere after all.
Social Media platform aside. Even more powerful than Elon Musk is the main stream media, who are in the tank for Harris/Walz.

CNN
MSNBC
ABC
CBS
NPR
PBS
NBC
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
USA Toda
Huffington Post.
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Grace wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 2:02 pm
Ken wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:39 pm What amuses me about all of this Musk stuff is the hypocrisy.

If any other billionaire owner of a tech social media platform was even 1/10th as much in the tank for Harris as Musk is for Trump then Republican politicians would be rupturing their larynxes screaming about it. What happened to all the hand-wringing about media bias? And all those breathtaking so-called revelations of the “twitter files.” I guess none of it was sincere after all.
Social Media platform aside. Even more powerful than Elon Musk is the main stream media, who are in the tank for Harris/Walz.

CNN
MSNBC
ABC
CBS
NPR
PBS
NBC
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
USA Toda
Huffington Post.
Uh huh. Are the presidents of all those organizations attending Harris rallies and working directly for the Harris campaign?
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Ken wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 11:51 pm For example, how many post offices do you think there are in the US? The answer is 31,123.
Apparently the Postal Service needs to be audited as they seem to think that there are 33,904 Post Offices.
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ken_sylvania wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 3:57 pm
Ken wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 11:51 pm For example, how many post offices do you think there are in the US? The answer is 31,123.
Apparently the Postal Service needs to be audited as they seem to think that there are 33,904 Post Offices.
Well, if we want to quibble, this is what the Post Office actually says: https://facts.usps.com/size-and-scope/# ... %20billion.
  • "There are 31,123 Postal Service-managed retail offices in the United States. Including contract offices, there are 33,904 offices."
So if you count actual Federal Post Offices the number is 31,123 and if you include the contract offices which are things like a window or counter inside a grocery store the total is 33,904.

Either way it is a lot of them to audit if you are going to audit the entire Federal government.
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Ken wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 2:08 pm
Grace wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 2:02 pm
Ken wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:39 pm What amuses me about all of this Musk stuff is the hypocrisy.

If any other billionaire owner of a tech social media platform was even 1/10th as much in the tank for Harris as Musk is for Trump then Republican politicians would be rupturing their larynxes screaming about it. What happened to all the hand-wringing about media bias? And all those breathtaking so-called revelations of the “twitter files.” I guess none of it was sincere after all.
Social Media platform aside. Even more powerful than Elon Musk is the main stream media, who are in the tank for Harris/Walz.

CNN
MSNBC
ABC
CBS
NPR
PBS
NBC
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
USA Toda
Huffington Post.
Uh huh. Are the presidents of all those organizations attending Harris rallies and working directly for the Harris campaign?
They might as well be, as they have far more wide spread influence than Elon Musk.
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temporal1 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:42 pm
ohio jones wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 1:54 pm I suspect he's lobbying for a job in the Trump Administration, probably the Chief of Navel Operations.
P.89, trump is suggesting elon to audit the entire fed gov. :)
I'm not convinced that someone whose companies have received billions in federal contracts and subsidies is the best person to audit the federal government. I think there are some serious conflict of interest issues here.
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Grace wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:31 pm
Ken wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 2:08 pm
Grace wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 2:02 pm Social Media platform aside. Even more powerful than Elon Musk is the main stream media, who are in the tank for Harris/Walz.

CNN
MSNBC
ABC
CBS
NPR
PBS
NBC
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
USA Toda
Huffington Post.
Uh huh. Are the presidents of all those organizations attending Harris rallies and working directly for the Harris campaign?
They might as well be, as they have far more wide spread influence than Elon Musk.
“The Magnificent Propaganda Machine” it’s all you named, and much more. (Human reasoning and nothing else.)
Keep in mind, Grace, the election is nigh, nerves are on edge, libs are on the warpath.
i don’t see a path around it. wish i did.

it’s getting boring.
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temporal1 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 7:05 pm it’s getting boring.
Then post about things that are interesting, which will lead to interesting conversation. :D
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