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For context John McEntee, is not just a former Trump aide who's been referred to as the "deputy president," but a Project 2025 official, and co-founder of a Peter Thiel-funded right-wing dating app

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It’s not (just) that Trump seems unpresidential—it’s that he seems like an unwell elderly man posting AI slop for an audience of bots on Facebook. Imagine that, instead of Donald Trump’s, you were looking at the feed of a relative. What would you say or do? Whom would you call?

 

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Video of the speech is here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

If it was only blueberries, it wouldn't be a big deal. The problem is that it's going to be every crop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

He could just withdraw from the race and endorsed Trump if he wanted that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a gift link. If you're hitting a paywall in the next 30 days, it means that at least one of the following is true:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

When we can get congress to pass it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of heroin followed by brain worms will do that to you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (11 children)

There is still physical video rental outside of libraries? Even netflix shut down dvd-by-mail

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The real test for the convention is what makes it into the party platform; items which get there usually see an attempt to enact them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Today, more like fire and brimstone

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they said that; just that Musk had talked about buying it, and that the two of them didn't discuss it at all. Per the article:

Mr. Lawson said he hoped to own The Onion for the rest of his life. The business could be turned around, he said, if it focused first on satisfying its paying customers.

Mr. Lawson said he hadn’t discussed his purchase of The Onion with Elon Musk — the Tesla chief executive, who at one point discussed a bid for the site — despite their shared love of satire.

“Unbelievably, not all Silicon Valley people hang out in an evil mountainside lair,” Mr. Lawson said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah; it's a set of actions consistent with wanting to end democracy in favor of rule by rich white men.

The point of the article is that the decision to go there has pushed a bunch of Democrats into being willing to support reforms which would ensure popular support is needed to win power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You shouldn't be, but adaptation to damage already done is part of what needs to happen.

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