Dave Caolo

Dave Caolo

@davecaolo.bsky.social

Painter, beekeeper, New Englander, dad

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🧵 I get the sentiment but hear me out. Two years ago, Joe Shmoe bought a Tesla. Today, you set it on fire. How does that hurt Elon? It doesn’t. Instead, wildly inconveniences Joe. If you want to hurt Elon via Tesla (and who doesn’t): 1. Protest at dealerships 2. Talk would-be buyers out of it

3. Refuse rideshare drivers that have one I’m sure you can think of more. The goal is to create a vote of no confidence in him from the shareholders; to get him out and eliminate Tesla as a (huge) revenue stream for him. It’s not to destroy Joe’s car.

This isn’t a coup executed by Trump and Musk, it’s a coup executed my Putin. Vlad is directing those two dullards dismantle America’s infrastructure. Why invade when A.) your troops and related resources are occupied elsewhere and B.) you can sit back while your foe destroys itself?

This is Trump’s MO: make threats he doesn’t intend to carry out, assuming his target will capitulate & back down, handing Trump a win without his having to actually do anything. He’s done this for decades. But Trudeau is not having it and absolutely will not back down. Trump has blinked twice now

I want to use social media but I don’t want to see any posts on trump or musk. For now I block accounts that post that content. If it gets to be too much I’ll just give up. This isn’t fun anymore.

I predict Musk will divest himself from Tesla entirely soon. Space X, his political career, and his propaganda machine (Twitter) are interlinked and together fuel his aspirations. What does he care about selling cars anymore?

Here’s what Bone Spurs doesn’t understand. People don’t use illegal drugs because they don’t know it’s bad. If fact, unless we address a user’s underlying hurt/anger/misery, abuse will continue. Run all the ads you want, tariff the countries that supply drugs. It’ll make no difference.

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Captain Eighties strikes again.

Watch the Tyson / Paul fight but understand it's basically WWE. Two-minute rounds vs. three, bigger gloves that usual, five rounds total. This is sports entertainment: the winner is pre-determined, the script rehearsed and approved. It's a nice payday for both.

My cabinet picks are no worse than his: Secretary of State: Ernie from Sesame Street Director of National Intelligence: A Magic 8 Ball Chief of Staff: My 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Nolan (if she’s still alive) Director of the CIA: I don’t know, do you want to do it?

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Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

nytimes.comThe Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of BankruptcyThe satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.