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Should be a wild four years.

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gibbslets said:
I thank god that they are this stupid, saying this out loud. No internal voice, they must say it.
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One would argue they are that stupid by design. Dumb retards are perfectly happy taking their bribes and playing make believe about being princes and princesses while mommy and daddy beaurocracy actually ran the house.
 
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Get the rope Macaulay! said:
people forget Obama, despite his love of his iphone, wasn't really internet based. the 2008 and 2012 runs were very low on meme magic. his run was a lot closer to a TV era run than the internet based runs of guys like Ron Paul or Bernie Sanders or our very own Donnie Trumpo. I know for a fact Obama wouldn't be able to keep his shit together for a 3 hr podcast, he could barely stand doing a 30 minute podcast with Bruce Springstein, once someone took Obama to task he'd start going if-if-if-if-if-if, Okie Dokie like when asked about Trump 8 years ago.
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Slight correction: Barack Obama's claim to fame among young voters was primarily due to being on the perceived cutting edge of the technologies available to him at the time. In 2009, he received clearance to use his BlackBerry; this was at a time when BBM was the predominant instant messaging application, and when Android and iOS were still nascent operating systems. He posted Spotify playlists via White House social media accounts that debuted for the first time on Facebook and Twitter in the early 2010s. Mind you, this was at a point when internet streaming wasn't yet mainstream and Spotify only then got traction as an alternative to Pandora. TIME Magazine even said that social media was a huge reason why his campaign won; Mitt Romney was a Mormon dinosaur whose ideas of what technology was capable of probably didn't evolve past the late 1980s/early 1990s when BASIC and eventually MS-DOS were omnipresent. It's true that both of Obama's campaigns were predominantly TV-oriented campaigns, since that was the dominant medium of the time. Having said that, it's really easy to forget that the White House didn't have any presence on Facebook or Twitter until the Obama administration.
 
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Dread First said:
Having said that, it's really easy to forget that the White House didn't have any presence on Facebook or Twitter until the Obama administration.
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its one thing to link the press releases like the obama admin did with their social media and its another thing to act like trump with his diet coke or nipples tweets. Like you'd have to be a real idiot to compare Trump's twitter in 2011 to obama's or the white houses' be honest with yourself. beyond that its rather fucking obvious Obama's spotify is a whole "what would the voters want to know our president likes to listen to" style playlists instead of something authentic, literally like Brat Summer with Kamala, you know Kamala is probably listening to Rod Stewart or Leif Garrett or some old school black R&B and probably only heard of half the singers at her rallies the day of.
 
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GAY Ted Wheeler said:
You seemed to have missed his ”do what I say or you’re fired” routine on Twitter. Musk is not a cabinet member. He not an SES. He is not anyone that is invested with any power in the US government. That the leadership (cabinet heads and all) are, for the most part, bending over to taken his broken dick anytime he wants like a $2 whore would be seen as shameful in a sane world but we don’t live there any longer.

Again, Musk is no ones boss. He can’t tell people what to do and talk about firing people that don’t comply with his insane commands anywhere except in his personal life and with any business he’s the primary shareholder over. This isn't difficult to understand.
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You're actually not completely wrong. Yes, Musk isn't a cabinet member (neither is the National Security advisor by the way), nor is he really in charge of an agency or cabinet, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that Trump wanted him to go through public records and financing and report any funny business to him which is what he's done.

I should probably also note, that I don't think Musk or anyone else he is with is being paid by the public. He is pretty much acting the part of a concerned citizen who has the trust and attention of a US president. Trump is the one who ultimately gets to decide what gets cut, who gets fired, or whether he should care what Musk has to say.
 
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BullfrogBill said:
Joe Rogan never picked any side though. That's just the lunacy of the left talking. They're desperately searching for the Left's Joe Rogan when Joe Rogan isn't even the Right's Joe Rogan lol. He's as centrist as they come, he offered Kamala a chance to come on his show and she refused and the left somehow thinks that means Joe Rogan is literally a nazi.
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Kamala’s team offered to do a one hour interview limited to certain topics. Rogan rightfully said no thanks.
 
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I know some here have shit on the idea, but I think sending DOGE cuts back to the tax payer is necessary. Yes it's chump change (compared to what's been stolen), yes they should be focusing on the debt, but for your average tax payer, you need to put money back in their pockets for it to actually be real. You can tell people about how much money you've saved or how much the debt has been lowered, but it's all intangible and imaginary numbers until they actually see some of it.
 
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