Aaron Grote

This video may be one of those bits that future history uses so say a lot with a little. Like it's so... "perfect" isn't the right word but you know. So perfect that if it was a written account of a past event, a current historian would preface it with, "In a scene that was probably apocryphal..."

How embarrassing. This is like peak The Office where Michael Scott actually becomes painful to watch.

I live in a rural Trump+70 area. Literally +70. One "made for a classic NYT story about Real Americans" family just got a kitten from us specifically because a good Barn Cat is hard to find. Anyway they have a Mach E. It drives me effing insane how destructively out of touch "party insiders" are.

We've all been there, man.

The corrupt Kushner/Trump theft of an Albanian nature reserve island was an early catalyzing event in this anti-government movement.

I've been going out of my way to teach my kids that any time someone tells you there's an easy/simple solution to something, they're either dumb or lying.

Craziest thing about the R Rape Problem is that it's two different problems, depending on whether you're a R on the inside looking out, or you're a normie looking in. For insiders the problem is good ol boys can't do some light rape anymore. Normies see the problem is all the rape still happening.

And that unraveling atmosphere was dropping increasingly acidic rain.

The Marine Corps really is a weird, special organization. There's a real Fuck You thing in the culture in strange positive way. We're going to be the best because Fuck You. We're going to pass this financial audit because Fuck You. We're not going to feed our people to the wolves because Fuck You.

What's been historically unique about Ukraine in this war is the extent to which they have tried to *minimize* the share of the fighting burden born by the younger generation because they're doing this *for* that generation. Like exempting 18-25s from the draft! The Ukrainian army is kinda old!

Secretary Dulles, everybody.

One thing I'm trying to teach my kids is that Clever is not the same as Smart.

Lol I didn't even know the Republicans themselves were disunited and competing on this ballot.

🤔Could you afford to spend $80 on an election? Because $80 is 0.04% of the median net worth of a US citizen.🤷🏿‍♂️ $445 million for him, is like $80 for you. Because he doesn't only have $1 billion, or $10 billion, or even $100 billion. He has $1,000 billion. Your silly rules let him get that rich.

The wildest thing about this is that, for Elon, this is equivalent to someone who makes $100k spending $44. He's dropped almost half a billion dollars on an election, and it's like a normal couple grabbing dinner.

Ok at some point this guy lost a fiddle contest. That's the only explanation right?

Even in a freshman creative writing class the professor would call this a blunt metaphor, no?

I'm sorry how many genetically engineered murder dogs would one have to sell to make that valuation pay off?

This is interesting in two ways. 1) Musk refused to launch satellites that would provide services competitive with Starshield. 2) Space Force isn't even pretending SpaceX will be an option in the foreseeable future. Is SpaceXAI even a space company without Falcon?

Every accusation is a confession.

What are the odds the letter was from one of the story's sources?

But also this is what Musk believes happened *to him* because he doesn't see his own daughter as someone having her own a inherent agency, value, and rights separate from Musk as the Progenitor with implied possessive rights.

Hi Elon. It's me. My elected representative work for me. I'm demanding they hold you accountable to the maximum extent allowable by law. It's me you want.

New groundwork for justifying anything just dropped.

"[R candidate], do you disavow Vivek Ramaswami's ad, siding with a child rape enabler as she attacks her victim -- her own daughter?"

Ah yes. The time in Christianity when the government arrests large groups of clergy and violates court orders in order to send spys into churches and them raid them with armed thugs.

How would one even go about trying to write satire nowadays?

Trump comes from a long, bipartisan tradition of politicians and politicos who hate their own base.

Left unspoken is the cables in the Bab al-Mandab?

Democrats should do the *bipartisan* thing and make extra sure they give lots of free PR and tons of name recognition to the law firms representing administration crooks. Just endlessly saying what law firms are representing the Trump circle. Y'know, to be nice.

I did not hear about. Until now.

Plus Murdoch stuff. Fox News, WSJ, New York Post, and the book publisher HarperCollins.

The words he's looking for are, "re-establish deterrence".

A popular post genre on X is to recast a real interview Q as an imaginary Dialogue. The questioner stands his ground &, through the force of his masculine assertiveness & logic, forces the object of his Q to crumble in embarrassment or submission. Tyler was dumb enough to try living the fantasy.

geez louise

I got this when KGB agitators threw rocks through our windows in Crimea.

That "It all started when a failed crypto miner named CoreWeave rebranded as an AI company, then took on so much debt and investment that it threatened the entire economy." is a true sentence is such an indictment of our times.

Not the point but do politicians know that the only thing that makes you look like a Person Who Wears Carhartt LESS than not wearing Carhartt, is wearing brand new unblemished Carhartt?

this is why the AT Protocol is so important: the infrastructure of change can't be controlled by oligarchs

Freedom of Speech! (every maga accusation is a confession)

Whoa, a @warontherocks.bsky.social / @roryjohnston.bsky.social crossover!

So, headline writer person, where is this "cost cutting"? Is it in the room with us? What a joke. NYT saw how private equity leeches a company's assets and asked, "Can we do that with our reputation?"