Hunter just being shamed into absolute nuclear oblivion, rising from the ashes, and then just triumphantly marching into the enemy’s camp like this with zero shits to give and nothing to lose is nothing short of remarkable.
My fav thing about this interview is just how they are letting him speak uninterrupted while he says more and more stupid shit and tries to mansplain inflation to the Economists editor-in-chief 😭😭
Musk did an interview with the editor of the Economist, a posh white woman, centrist, daughter of an army officer.
It went badly for Musk.
So now she’s a ‘traitor to the West.’
Totally normal response from a normal guy.
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
Deeply disturbing story. Survivors of US boat strikes allege they were kidnapped and tortured for days by the US military. The prosecutor investigating the claims was just assassinated.
HEGSETH: We had US boats that surrendered to Iranian ships during the Biden administration--
REED: Listen -- we're talking about the war you started. Not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, there was no conflict, we weren't losing personnel. So your fallback to the Biden administration is just a very very obvious excuse for what I think is gross negligence.
Congress is not serious.
We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…
BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.
Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,
but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.
Edward Norton: "You're not on the spectrum, shut up" and the Silicon Valley trend that aggravates him
Host: "It occurred to me, do you think you're neurodivergent at all"
"Not in a claimable you know, nameable way... this is a pet peeve"
"I may not be right about this but I feel like Silicon Valley has done a lot of cool things and a lot of really negative things to our society"
"One of the ones that I find kind of aggravating what is I would call the romanticization of like the idea of being on the spectrum"
"You get all these people who are just basically assholes wanting to credit that to them being on the spectrum it's like you're not on the spectrum, shut up"
"Like you know stop it and don't do that, don't casually"
Host: "Write off all your bad behaviour"
"Yeah and also don't casually try to claim as a superpower a thing that for a lot of people is a real thing"
This clip is wild. The first half is describing how he’s rounding up his political enemies to imprison them. The second half is describing his reason: because “left-wing terrorists” want to round up their political enemies and put them in prison.
Straight up Third Reich shit.