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Carl Selfe's avatar

Trump and Musk are both stupid and playing games. I look at each action and surmise if it is legal or not legal. Most of Trump’s Executive Orders are illegal. Those I know the court will cancel in due time, like a month. I get neither worried, nor anxious about those. Each of those illegal Executive Orders constitutes a fraud on the American people. This fraud is rumming rampant. The courts are now intervening, but the court should turn proactive by citing these illegal Executive Orders as contempt against the plain language of The Law that takes taxpayer dollars to mitigate (damages).

We the people are the 5th estate that must back up the courts. DOGE has cost us taxpayers $ billions already. We the people pay the bills here.

I hear the world’s wealthiest peckerwood*, a derogatory Alabama term for a white person, whining about suffering (equitably I might add) from the anger that the peckerwood* in fact caused. Robert goes to protest the peckerwood* today! I wish the non tax-paying peckerwood* neither the pain, nor the stain. One does not easily shake off international disgust. Musk will need to change his stripes and become the giver, not the taker. That is Peckerwood’s call. Only Peckerwood* can fix his problems. Peckerwood* has engendered bad will by his cruel actions. Poor, poor pitiful Peckerwood*.

Use of the term peckereood, an inversion of woodpecker, dates to the early 19th century. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest printed use to an Alabama newspaper in 1835. Peckerwood was in use in reference to white people by 1859; it often suggested a white person who was a little off in the head, backward, or poor. The shortened form peck was in use in the same sense in the 1920s. In African American folklore during the 1920s, the woodpecker symbolically represented white Americans, in contrast to the blackbird that cartoonishly represented African Americans. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/musk-whines-poor-poor-pitiful-me?r=3m1bs

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

I cannot say that I agree with you about Musk changing. He is so high on ketamine and the other drugs he is using that his brain has probably fried by now. Rich people just become greedier - although I can't say that this is true of all wealthy people - Taylor Swift, Mark Cuban to name two. And now that Musk has tasted power he is gone. There is no turning back for him especially since Putin, Trump and MAGA are pulling his strings.

Yes, I believe in backing the courts but Trump is ignoring them. Until the courts take action against Trump and hold him accountable Trump and Musk will continue on their destruction of this country.

After Trump's announcements on Friday - telling China, sure we will go to war with you and then saying he wants Canada and he wants it now, destroying the Board of Education I'm not sure how anyone can feel safe or just not take these actions seriously.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

I don't think that Musk is redeemable. His extreme wealth, his cult of credulous fans and his drug use are all red flags for me. Add his delight in inflicting pain. He's a deeply disturbed and disturbing human being.

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Deb's avatar
Mar 22Edited

Amen!! and for me, a little creepy.

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MaryAnnP's avatar

He wears his toddler around his neck to deter assassins.

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Sandra Wallace's avatar

Having heard and read, as an avid researcher, that Elon "allegedly" uses Ketamine and Adderall, I was curious about what these approved drugs were used for, and so I googled them.

"Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic used medically for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. It is also used as a treatment for depression and in pain management. Ketamine is an NMDA receptor antagonist which accounts for most of its psychoactive effects. At anesthetic doses, ketamine induces a state of dissociative anesthesia, a trance-like state providing pain relief, sedation, and amnesia."

"What is Adderall? Adderall is a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, two central nervous stimulants that improve focus and reduce impulsivity by increasing dopamine and norepinephrine levels in the brain. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Adderall in 1996."

That's so sad to learn. As the old saying goes, "Money can't buy happiness." But it's scary to realize that our nation is being restructured and dismantled under the influence!

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Deb's avatar

If I’m not mistaken, Adderall is used for ADHD? What a combo. They both need serious mental health intervention (among other things but that’s a discussion for another time).

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Jean Conley's avatar

No wonder we're in more trouble than ever...........the guy on drugs. Nos surprised. Wonder if it crazed his mind enough to make him do that Hitler salute. Probably kept his nazism pretty well hidden until the drugs took effect. Made him show his true colors.

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