Trump 2.0 - Oligarchs

Infighting and jostling for top position may wreck the Techbro oligarchy. (If we're lucky.)

Trump announced (and tried to take credit for) Open AI’s partnership with SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX to invest $500 billion in a massive AI infrastructure project called Stargate. One of their main competitors happens to be Elon Musk. He responded with several posts trashing the idea and Open AI’s Sam Altman. Musk: “They don’t actually have the money. SoftBank has well under $10 billion secured. I have that on good authority.”

Altman responded: “Wrong, as you surely know. Want to come visit the first site already underway? This is great for the country. I realize what is great for the country isn’t always what’s optimal for your companies, but in your new role I hope you’ll put the country first.”

So Musk ends up trashing Trump’s hype show by claiming the whole thing is a scam and they don’t really have the money to do what they are saying, proving that Musk will always side with his own companies over Trump. It will be interesting to see how this bromance between Musk and Trump plays out if that continues.

  Meidas Touch

Aside from ousting the co-chair of DOGE, Vivek Ramaswamy, there are other indicators that this pseudo-agency is going to be chaotic.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) posted this on X about House DOGE committee Chair Marge Greene: “MTG specifically told (my friend) James Comer that she won’t allow any Republican women on her subcommittee.” I asked him if this was true or if he was just being snarky. He said it was 100% true. Doesn’t surprise me at all - Marge does not get along with other women at all. She doesn’t even look at her old friend Boebert anymore.

But Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) is on the committee and he says he’s ready for battle: “I’ve been tapped to represent House Oversight Dems on the new DOGE committee chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene. Let’s be clear: this committee is designed to destroy federal agencies and the social safety net so that billionaires can enrich themselves. They ain’t ready for us.”

Good luck.

Karma is a bitch

If you could call it a fall from grace, Kevin McCarthy's fall has been as infamous as his rise.

And the GOP bad behavior virus has spread to the Senate.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 03:12 pm:  She's joking, but that's what lots of folks say seriously.

And, the virus is global...

What a puke this woman is

Pay attention to the terms she emphasises.

I have a solution to the GOP resistance to gun control.  And I'm 100% certain it would work, and maybe the ONLY thing that will:  have a bunch of black and Muslim men buy AR-15s and walk around with them in open carry states.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 03:54 pm:   Also despicable...

Hoist with their own petard

Once again, a self-own by the ridiculous GOP "investigations".

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 03/01/2023:

Wow.

UPDATE 01:21 pm:

UPDATE 02:13 pm:

The Twitter (Hunter Biden laptop) hearing is as crazy as you might have assumed it would be

Fucking lunatic.

Also, fucking lunatic.

Donalds is adding confirmation to the perception he gave during the Speaker of the House fiasco that he is indeed a fool.

Apparently, though, some Democrats are joining the fray.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 07:02 pm:

UPDATE 02/09/2023 :  Another Moskowitz clip...

Moskowitz is about to become another focus of the MAGA Menace.

UPDATE 02/09/2023 11:34 am:

UPDATE 02/10/2023:

I didn't realize until now that I have two previous posts on Clay Higgins.  From 2020, where he claims his wife had a premonition dream he thought worthy of tweeting, and 2019, where we learn he resigned from two police departments before he could be charged with brutality and breach of ethics, was married four times and was sued for $140,000 in back child support.

UPDATE 02/11/2023:

I think we all saw this coming for Moskowitz.