So, the six-time brankruptee, reality tv game show hosting, sexually abusing, serial philandering, convicted felon, business fraud, charity thief who has a new VP because his last one almost hanged, sent his eldest spawn to conquer Greenland, picked his daughter in law to run the party, a Russian asset to be DNI, a dead brain worm, bear dumping, whale decapitator for HHS, a chick who shot her own dog for Homeland Security, a Proud Boys simp to lead the FBI, a weekend Fox anchor day drunk for Sec Def and a reality tv star for Transportation wants to lecture the rest of us on “merit based” hiring?
Are you fucking kidding me?
When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
I am very much in favor of merit-based hiring and high standards for jobs with life and death implications. Which is why I oppose confirming Pete Hegseth, RFK JR, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel.
Let me tell you a story:
In 2015 I was working on a Presidential campaign and one night some of the staff go to dinner. While there, the person heading up our campaign research (let’s call him Research Guy) looked at me and said he wanted to give me some advice.
He said I will need to get some additional experience before I am able to make this much money again. 🧵
A lot of people in this country including the President sound like Research Guy right now. I have some advice:
Do not allow these people to run you out of the room.
Do not stop working.
Do not give them the benefit of the doubt.
They have no idea of your power.
Show them.
Chris Murphy: "Political violence in this country just become mainstream. It is now a fact of life in America. If you commit an act of horrific violence in the name of the POTUS, that president will make sure you get away with it. That is fundamentally un-American."
Trump has only been in office for 3 days and his mass deportation plot is already a shitshow after ICE accidently detained a U.S. *MILITARY VETERAN* in *NEW JERSEY*
He's already rounding up Americans. Congratulations morons.
Velázquez: Donald Trump did not care a bit about safer communities when he released those who were convicted of beating the shit out of police officers. So, don’t come to us and talk about security and safer communities when you do that
.@Timodc on Elon Musk: “The largest donor [to Trump] is the largest government contractor, is now in the West Wing. That’s insane…The idea that one of the richest men in the world who gets money from the government is now going to decide how the government spends money?!…the potential for corruption and influence there is unprecedented…”
This is unbelievable.
The Washington Post reveals that an aide working for Mike Johnson persuaded Republicans not to issue a subpoena for former WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified to the Jan. 6 committee—fearing it could expose the sexual texts many of them had sent her.
So, in addition to a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel, the Trump administration has now abruptly cancelled crucial NIH meetings related to biomedical research, infectious disease (including Bird Flu), cancer research, vaccines and more.
One NIH scientist was quoted as saying, “The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.”
What the fuck is he doing?
When Elon caught wind of the challenge, instead of addressing the controversy, he unfollowed Asmongold, removed his verified and gaming tags on X, and leaked some of their DMs. Elon’s childish response is already stirring huge backlash among gamers.
https://t.co/r043ZsNg9G
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1/8 Foreign Interference: Will we wait until it's too late, or take action now? We already have substantial evidence that Elon Musk is attempting to interfere in European elections to weaken and divide Europe, and we should not tolerate this
Trump is an insurrectionist who has no legal right to be president, his administration is illegal; even if it wasn't he is a fascist that must be stopped. Democracy is a negotiation and if that negotiation leads to the collapse of democracy, stripping of human rights, then negotiations have failed.
@ArtCandee "He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American."
=> PRO TIP: If you love Trump, you are NOT, repeat, NOT "a patriotic American." You're not anywhere near being a USA patriot. Nope. 😡
McGovern: Speaking of back rooms. The only reason Speaker Johnson got enough votes is because two members emerged from the back room and changed their votes to support him. God only knows what they were promised in order to cave to change their views.