• @[email protected]
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    274 months ago

    I mean, he’s obviously just staring at his phone, but if this had been Biden then they’d have been calling him Sleepy Joe in all the headlines. :|

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      Obviously? No. There is no possible way his hands could be holding that phone. And we all know he is absolutely a 2-handing smart phone user. *Yes to the rest

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    50 l 50 he’s looking at memory of “that one time with Epstein and those girls”, or in a Big Mac coma.

  • @[email protected]
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    74 months ago

    To me this picture says one thing: these reps and the sycophants that surround them were never representing the ppl. They just represent what keeps them, personally, in power.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    Let’s hope the coke and the ketamine are doing their jobs in Muskrat’s body and brain.

  • @[email protected]
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    1044 months ago

    The optics of Musk addressing the room while Trump is disengaged are bad enough without simply making up things that are not there.

    “Why is Elon Musk acting as the leader while Trump is disengaged” is a hard question for a reasonable person to deal with.

    Saying “lol look at Trump sleeping” when that’s obviously not what is happening, makes you come off as unserious and casts doubt on anything you say in the future.

    Spreading misleading lies is not the way to engage with the world. (To those of you that are people and not disinformation bots/agents)

    • Drew
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      364 months ago

      How is it obvious that he isn’t sleeping? He looks like he’s sleeping. Without the caption I would assume he’s sleeping as well.

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        His hands are very close together, he’s looking between his hands and we know Trump is a social media junkie.

        Without the caption you would assume he’s sleeping because someone probably flipped through hundreds of frames of video to find the shot that looked the worst so they could post about it.

        Trump, if you’re to believe the rumors, uses stimulants and drinks a lot of caffeinated soda. He’s not falling asleep in the middle of the day.

        It’s worse, he’s letting an unelected man, the richest man in the world, who paid for his campaign, act as the leader while he reads Twitter.

        Him merely being asleep would be preferable over Musk being in the room. Incompetent and lazy leadership by Trump would be vastly better than his simply handing the reigns of power to an unelected non-American.

        That’s the messaging that needs to be happening. All this is going to do is make the blue team laugh and the red team think the blue team is ignorant.

        Meanwhile, Elon is taking a chainsaw to our entire government while we’re too busy trying to score points on the other team (who are the people we need to be allying with to protect the US).

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          His hands are very close together, he’s looking between his hands and we know Trump is a social media junkie.

          We know it has tiny hands, so at that distance, it can’t possibly operate a phone with both tiny hands. ^^

          • @[email protected]
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            34 months ago

            You sound like you’re joking, but I’m honestly still trying to decide if there’s a phone the width of where his hands are…

            • Mose13
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              34 months ago

              Maybe it’s an iPad. He does kinda give iPad kid.

              • pancakes
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                34 months ago

                There’s something so funny about her mental picture of Musk handing the president of the United States an iPad to play with while he tries to seize power.

        • Drew
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          124 months ago

          I’m not suggesting people lie, but your messaging doesn’t have to be completely true to work. That’s how the red team got elected in the first place

          • @[email protected]
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            94 months ago

            I’m not saying that lying and manipulation don’t work. I’m saying that we shouldn’t be on the team of the liars and manipulators.

            • Drew
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              34 months ago

              I clearly stated in the first half of my response that I wasn’t suggesting anyone do this, but the parent comment said saying something that’s not the truth will only achieve republicans thinking their opponents are ignorant and nothing else.

              This is demonstrably false. Anything pushed hard enough becomes the status quo. This is important to know even if all you want to do is fight back against it.

  • @[email protected]
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    284 months ago

    FYI, some of those cabinet members have expressly ordered their agencies to disregard some of m*sks crap. They aren’t even all on the same page.

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        You can take my word for it. One of my buddies works for the DoD and the order came in on Monday expressly highlighting to NOT respond to the email.

        The DoD email was actually signed, unlike the musk intern hr email.

      • @[email protected]
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        74 months ago

        It’s been widely reported. Much of the cabinet hates Musk.

        Look at it from their perspectives. They’ve sold their souls to grasp at power, and now that they have control over massive federal agencies, this motherfucker starts trying to fire their staff and cut their funding.

          • @[email protected]
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            34 months ago

            “It’s been widely reported” means there’s been lots of reports. As in, you can look it up and find hundreds of articles about from all sides of the political spectrum with less effort than it takes to call everyone a liar.

            But since you’re too lazy to even do that, you can click the link below.

            http://lmgtfy2.com/?q=cabinet+members+instruct+staff+to+ignore+musk+email

            Asking someone to cite a source is important for information that obscure. When it’s for a news story that’s been on every radio, TV, internet, and print news sources in the country non-stop for multiple days, it just makes you look like an ignorant asshole.

              • @[email protected]
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                14 months ago

                I just gave you hundreds of sources you ignorant ass. Including the AP, the BBC, the NYT, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and more.

                When you demand sources for what’s being reported by literally every major news outlet, you just make it clear you either are intentially trying to mislead or are intentionally uninformed.

                If it’s the first, then you’re doing a terrible job and you may find yourself falling out of a window when the boss finds out how shitty you are at your job. If it’s the second, then it isn’t my job to educate your stupid, ignorant ass.

  • JohnnyFlapHoleSeed
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    384 months ago

    Jesus Christ, every single thing to come out of his campaign and mouth was projection. ‘Sleepy Joe’ my ass. More like drowsy Donny, who’s uppers are always wearing off

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    694 months ago

    What gets me about this photo is how fundamentally unserious the whole scene appears. The body language of nearly everyone, the lack of focus, the shabbiness of it all… just embarrassing. I’ve seen high school clubs looking more competent and serious.

    I know this is just an aesthetics thing, but it gets to me. 🤷

    • @[email protected]
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      164 months ago

      What you’re picking up on is body language and that’s not strictly aesthetics. It’s sometimes even more important than verbal language.

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        Body language predates verbal language by literal tens of millions of years so year checks out.

    • @[email protected]
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      274 months ago

      The body language just says “we’re all here to blow Elon”, except for Trump who is allowed to nap after a hard day of golfing.