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If those two crazy (and I do mean crazy!) kids can't make it, where's the hope for the rest of us?! :P 

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Everything with Elon and Trump is a stunt. If people, and the sycophantic press, are talking about their "feud," they are not talking about Republican plans to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA. 

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1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

Everything with Elon and Trump is a stunt. If people, and the sycophantic press, are talking about their "feud," they are not talking about Republican plans to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA. 

exactly.

I can understand schadenfreude if it were real, but a lot of this is just an engineered distraction.

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7 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Everything with Elon and Trump is a stunt. If people, and the sycophantic press, are talking about their "feud," they are not talking about Republican plans to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA. 

That did cross my mind at first, but I'd be more inclined to believe it if this didn't involve Trump. I'm not at all sure he is capable of being that sneaky. Of course, there's always a possibility I guess that his advisors are doing it without telling him, but that seems awfully risky. Trump is such a loose cannon you can never predict what he's going to do or say.

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Per today's developing L.A. situation, I will let someone else cover it. I am not out there because of my recent physical situation (though I'd like to be) but I'm perfectly safe.

Honestly I expect it'll go as poorly for the administration as it's already beginning to, and good for the people who can be out there fighting but we've been here before. Charlottesville was an atrocity that should've ended a presidency and didn't, and now Trump in like Flynn and his second term is less than six months in. My general pragmatism has curdled into something entirely more fatalistic in recent months.

I have no expectation for this changing anything materially about our larger situation, I just hope a lot of people don't die. And if it shackles or trips up the administration for awhile re: its fascist policies or actions, great.

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12 hours ago, Vee said:

My general pragmatism has curdled into something entirely more fatalistic in recent months.

Bloodshed is inevitable now. It’s another reason I’m glad Black people aren’t getting involved in these protests.

As awful as this is, I keep reminding myself that 54 percent of Latino men voted for Trump. These people were put in harm’s way by members of their own communities and sometimes even members of their own families. Too many people decided to touch the stove.

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6 hours ago, marceline said:

Bloodshed is inevitable now. It’s another reason I’m glad Black people aren’t getting involved in these protests.

As awful as this is, I keep reminding myself that 54 percent of Latino men voted for Trump. These people were put in harm’s way by members of their own communities and sometimes even members of their own families. Too many people decided to touch the stove.

The woman who was the co-chair of Latinas for Trump is now complaining about his targeting immigrants that she thought were "safe." I also read a puff piece from yet another "insider" journalist who lives to normalize fascists - this one with a tech bro who was venting off the record because he thought voting for Trump was cool and would show up the Democrats and maybe we'd get Greenland, but now he's getting upset. 

These people still support Trump, and Republicans, they just want to make sure they get credit for being respectable. And they will get it.

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I tried following the news in Los Angeles at https://laist.com
(independent public radio and news)
They had up-to-the minute accurate info during the wildfires in January.

There's no video, no impact to my mind as to what's happening.

Trying other outlets, to get the truth, but it's hard.

 

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On 6/6/2025 at 3:42 AM, DRW50 said:

Everything with Elon and Trump is a stunt. If people, and the sycophantic press, are talking about their "feud," they are not talking about Republican plans to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA. 

The cynical (i.e., the dominant) me has the very same thoughts.

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2 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

The cynical (i.e., the dominant) me has the very same thoughts.

And this came out as the "feud" and the media pushing the protests in Los Angeles got all the media attention. They know the press and the public will not care or can be manipulated into approving.

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