I think Musk is actually fairly unusual in his degree of cluelessness about that. You don’t really ever see billionaires getting onstage with popular comedians so they can be booed like Musk did with Dave Chapelle. The super-wealthy generally know to keep a low profile and surround themselves with armed guards.

It’s straight hopium. There’s no way they give that much of a shit about any state supreme court race.

If Gary Oldman can play a little person, why can’t Val Kilmer play a halfling?

The appropriate reaction would be to ban them for being fucking fascists, not for some incidental crime they happened to commit.

Excuse me - I was speaking as if I were Trump.

They just have to say that as long as you haven’t served two consecutive terms you’re still eligible.

Ronald Reagan had full-blown Alzheimer’s disease through his entire second term and yet Republicans kept control of the White House through 1992. Dementia is no obstacle when the guy at the top is a show pony anyway.

“There are, there are methods which you could do it, as you know,”

“There are, there are methods by which you could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it scott free, as you know.” In fact I don’t know.

Remember when they had Stephen Colbert roast GW during the dinner? That was peak comedy.

The best part is that they only invited Colbert because they didn’t realize his character on The Colbert Report was a parody of right-wing pundits.

You don’t think diplomatic immunity would apply?

“… has just been REVOKED!” and then they shoot her in the head.

Admit it but say it isn’t a big deal, but also deny that it ever happened. Let your followers pick whichever version they prefer. Profit!

What’s gone stop him from sending his goons to arrest political opponents?

The fact that his political opponents are already toothless.

Bend It (Reality) Like Beckham

the guy that hasn’t been at the head of a profitable business in his entire life

This is libelous. He’s been extremely successful at laundering Russian money.

The amazing thing about this is that Americans who travel are on average a lot more open-minded and intelligent than those who don’t. And we still make a terrible impression.

He would have been pretty nonplussed by our current batch of fools who can’t even learn from experience.

TBH I don’t think us Americans would actually have the stomach to be on the receiving end of anti-insurgency operations in the way that, say, the Vietnamese and Afghan people were - enduring 20 or 30 deaths for every oppressor killed. Also, I don’t know that very many of us would understand the need to handle all communications and organizing without using social media or the Internet at all. Today’s fascists have tools of social control that were undreamt of in the past.

WWI more than a hundred years ago demonstrated conclusively the military worthlessness of a bunch of dudes armed with rifles, when faced with the real elements of state military power: artillery, tanks and airplanes. The US government has no fear of a bunch of fat old dudes with closets full of peashooters.

No way, it was clearly only the guy who was immediately murdered while in police custody.

Fun fact: Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign with a speech in Philadelphia MS - a middle-of-nowhere city known for absolutely fucking nothing except the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.