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Keep in mind that he's from the party that thinks Frederick Douglas is still alive, and who think Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man.

So: Boeing - not woke - $17.6 billion revenue 2023 Qualcomm - quite woke - $35.8 billion revenue 2023 Go woke or go broke!

"Hey Jeanie you got a package from Elon Musk!" "Open it! What's in it? Wait, what is THAT?"

and are trying to throw him under the bus just as hard as they can. "We are shocked - SHOCKED I tell you - that this racist would say something like that!" Of course, at the same time, Vance is questioning why it's such a big deal, it was just a joke, geez, what's wrong with you people?

EV sales just hit a new high See if you can find the place on this graph where the anti-EV crowd said "That's it! EVs are dead! All manufacturers rethinking them!"

Trump to liberals: "That wasn't my message AT ALL!" Trump to conservatives: "Yeah you heard me right."

Exactly right. It protects the government from infringing on your rights. Women recently lost some of that protection.

Trumpies gonna party like it's 1939!

Not unless he wins and can terminate the Constitution and the judicial system it calls for. To take just one example, two separate juries found that he was lying when he said he didn't rape E Jean Carroll. And in a civil trial the decision doesn't have to be unanimous - but both were. The only way you're going to overturn that is to appoint a captive judge, have them throw out the verdict, then pardon them when they are arrested themselves.

Given that those black robes have been removing rights at the behest of their conservative benefactors lately, you've got that exactly backwards. Justice is now for sale, and the price is a superyacht vacation.

Indeed. We could find the same strength of will - if we wanted to.

And now it turns out that Musk was . . .. AN ILLEGAL! He came here under a J-1 (student) visa in 1995, enrolled at Stanford - but never took any courses. Instead he started a company - Zip2 - while here under the J-1 visa, which is of course illegal. A year later, in 1996, he tried to get funding for the company. A canny investor asked if he was here legally, found out he wasn't, and demanded he get an H-1B visa before they would invest any money. Eventually he did. He's made jokes about this. In 2013, he joked about being in an immigration “gray area” early in his career. In 2020, Musk said "I was legally there, but I was meant to be doing student work." Which makes him the perfect Trump supporter - attacking others for doing what he did.

Rush thinks like most Trump supporters - you only have those rights that the government gives you, that they create "out of thin air." Of course the reality is the opposite. We are born with all the rights we will ever have - the freedom to marry who we want, the freedom to go wherever we want, even the freedom to rape and kill. The only things the government can do is 1) defend those rights from those who would take them from you and 2) take away rights that are incompatible with living in a free society. Murder, for example, deprives another person of their right to life, and so that right is taken away. Rape is considered to take away a woman's rights as well, so unless you're a powerful republican, that is illegal as well. Roe v Wade said that the government does not have the power to take away that right from women. Trump and his supporters have decided to give the government more power, and allow governments to take away rights from women.

Followed up by this, from speaker Tony Hinchcliffe: "There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico. And these Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.”

At Trump's latest rally, Tucker Carlson gave attendees a vivid Trumpian fantasy. He talked about "daddy Trump" returning home, where his "hormone-addled 15-year-old daughter” slams the door and gives her mother the finger. “And when Dad gets home, you know what he says? You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. And, no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. No it’s not. I’m not going to lie. It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl, and it has to be this way.” I'm not sure if it's creepier to think that Trump supporters fantasize about giving liberal women a "vigorous spanking" - or whether they fantasize over doing that to their 15 year old daughters.