F'ELON and the FELON (popcorn thread)

Ronald would do it, jeez if only a man could get pregnant.

MAGAs and MAGA-likes simply hate the idea of the traditional family. It shows time after time.

Elon is 30 years older than tiffany.

Richest man in the world thinks he can buy anyone, what a creep.

Mick Jagger doing better than that

One day she will have to explain to her kids why Elon's not their father and she chose some spotty Herbert instead.

You sniffing a chance?

...and are you saying there is a chance for me?

Breaking news, Trump has shrunk 4 inches and gained 35lb overnight

Just days after his medical exam listing him as 6'3" and 224lb he was photographed next to elon musk and shown to be considerably shorter and fatter than musk.

Not surprising. Musk must be about 7 foot at least by my reckoning. He's a right lanky bean pole.

Breaking News, Republican supporters struck down with mystery eye disease

many of them are reporting distorted vision where short fat objects appear tall and thin.

Road Safety campaigners are urging police to administer roadside eye tests and revoke driving licenses of those affected

1 minute before the close on Friday someone sold $2,500,000 worth of $TSLA calls

This afternoon $TSLA delays its launch for its affordable Model Y until 2026

Its never been a better time to be an insider

Thursday

Fox news have just realised who's paying the tariffs

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1jw2k5s/the_penny_dropped/
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Nice of them to tell people what they surely will have known for many months. They aren't idiots. Of course they knew all along.

i am not sure steve doocy will have known edy.

whenever i used to play 'who's the dumbest blonde on fox today?' he was always the winner

I think they mostly just say whatever is on the prompter.

The NY Times reports that US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent 'sensitive information about strikes in Yemen' to an encrypted group chat that 'included his wife and brother'

https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1914037569160937955

How would the UK press and people have reacted if any PM ever had posted something like this thing as their jolly Easter message?

Does it catch the true spirit of Easter for Christians?

It's nice that he wishes a happy easter even to the rotters who swindled him. You will never see anything so magnanimous on the other side.

Trump rant, appealing to thicko racists as he's strugglin

How many fall for it... Fewer than last November for sure.

Don't worry Greenland. One more bottle and Pete will text you the invasion plans.

Markets are on edge about President Trump's tariff war as well as his threats to fire Fed chief Jerome Powell. Trump on Monday demanded lower rates in a post on social media, saying costs are trending downward and the economy could slow "unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW."

Markets are on edge about President Trump's tariff war as well as his threats to fire Fed chief Jerome Powell. Trump on Monday demanded lower rates in a post on social media, saying costs are trending downward and the economy could slow "unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW."

6 times Bankrupt trump pretending he knows how to run an economy.... what could go wrong?

I would like to see any of the TDS bros run thousands of businesses with only 6 bankruptcies.

I think the reason he thinks he knows how to run an economy is because he ran it well in his first term until it was interrupted by the pandemic. In fact, the voters were so happy with his work they voted him in for a second term. We are so lucky to be in the golden age.

The rapist multiple bankrupt is humiliating America in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Yes, because of course, it's just one man calling the shots

Man has never been an adequate description for MAGA males really.

Speaking of TDS, Larry David is hilarious, but he is a fully paid up TDS bro. His article "My dinner with Adolf" was obviously mocking Bill Maher who recently had dinner with Trump and afterwards Maher said Trump didn't seem too bad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html
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Maher conclusion was basically that Trump was being a total **** **** who put up a character in public to be a total **** from what I remember.

That Trump deliberately destroyed discourse and any basic civility when he really is a reasonably charming and nice lad when he doesn't put up a show.

It somewhat goes along with the well-established thing that MAGAs, more so than basically any group out there, constantly says wrong things when they know better.

And not just "wrong" things, but egregious, blatant BS.

There was a great episode of curb your enthusiasm some time after Trump's perfect phone call impeachment. Colonel Vindman made a guest appearance where he squealed on Larry for his "perfect phone call". Larry was making a corrupt deal with a politician on the phone and Vindman overheard it. Vindman is such a joke it's hard to believe he's a real person and not a made up comedy character like me.

What are your favourite five total joke acts of behaviour or beliefs of Vindman?

He was actually quite good as a comedy character, but then he was just playing his own idiotic self. I don't suppose there are many other roles for comedy whistle blowers who can't do anything else. His wife was very upset that he didn't get a pardon and who can blame her.

What are you top five favourite idiot moments from Vindman?

Striking stat from @kellycnbc.bsky.social on this:

The rise in treasury yields since Trump’s tariffs were announced leads to an increase in US debt interest payments that is larger than all the DOGE savings.



Elect clowns. Get circus.

Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers.

This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

Basically what normally happens is investors think “Stocks are too risky now, so let’s shift into US bonds and the dollar, which are a safer bet because America is a stable and well-run country with a good handle on its deficit and inflation.”

This time? Not so much.

My favourite episode? That's a tricky one, probably the one where he goes for a pee at his assistant's house and pees too high because he's had viagra and he ended up peeing on the virgin mary painting. His assistant and her mum, a devout catholic, were convinced it was evidence of a miracle because the virgin mary was crying. They couldn't understand there was any other way a drop of liquid would be on the painting because it was so high up the wall.

It's a pity USA isn't a well-run country anymore like it was when they ran a $2 Trillion deficit.

Now it's got a $2 trillion deficit, a tumbling dollar, rising debt payments, foreign markets boycotting US products, tourists boycotting US destinations and China presenting itself as the face of stable capitalism.




Saying it isn't a well-run country anymore is the understatement of the century frankly.

Trust the TDS bros to take the side of the communists. You won't like it when they are in charge, ask the Uyghurs.

What tips would you give PP to have a better handle on the deficit like the previous government?

Trump phoned Liz Truss and sang dear prudence,...

PorcupineorPineapple22 Apr 25 15:39Joined: 03 Dec 15 | Topic/replies: 23,179 | Blogger: PorcupineorPineapple's blog
Now it's got a $2 trillion deficit, a tumbling dollar, rising debt payments, foreign markets boycotting US products, tourists boycotting US destinations and China presenting itself as the face of stable capitalism.




Saying it isn't a well-run country anymore is the understatement of the century frankly.


pp, please tell me you're not thinking this is all happening because Trump has been in office just a few weeks ...

.... And 4 years

Of course there has been thorough planning by the Heritage Foundation. It didn't start with Trump's inauguration.

Though executed with Trump's brazen thoughlessness.

pp, please tell me you're not thinking this is all happening because Trump has been in office just a few weeks ...

The markets were at record highs and the US economy was the strongest it has ever been the day the Trump took office.

Look at it now, you've either got to accept that Trump has ruined it in 80 days or you've got to pretend everything is still great.
I think you're going to take the latter option.

Clouded leopard is more in the camp of it being planned all along for a long time imo instead of pretending things are great.

Yep, but any decent president would not crash stockmarket
by losing trust of the markets.

We know it's a ponzi, but the best ponzi in town
with decent leadership behind it, which it no longer
has.

If you ignore the small matter of the unsustainable $2 trillion deficit, the economy Trump inherited was strong. The markets were strong too if strong  markets are what you want in the short term rather than the long term vision of balancing trade and exporting more oil and gas.

Markets don’t react to what is going to happen tomorrow or next week, people are pulling their money out of the country in panic at what is going on.

I suppose if they keep increasing the deficit enough it will make the economy look strong again. After all there's basically no downside to reckless money printing.

I give it half a year and a word from Trump and budget deficits will be deemed the greatest and best thing ever.

"No President has ever had greater a bigger budget deficits than Our Voluptuous Leader!" will be shouted from the rooftops.

That, or Hillary will be blamed.

LOCK HER UP

Escapee22 Apr 25 17:45Joined: 27 Aug 04 | Topic/replies: 8,621 | Blogger: Escapee's blog
pp, please tell me you're not thinking this is all happening because Trump has been in office just a few weeks ...


The markets were at record highs and the US economy was the strongest it has ever been the day the Trump took office.

Look at it now, you've either got to accept that Trump has ruined it in 80 days or you've got to pretend everything is still great.
I think you're going to take the latter option.


I'm strongly taking neither of those options ta very much

First of all, we all know or should know that the market is not the economy. Further, markets at record highs mean very little for the majority of Americans nor for that matter the billions of other folk on the globe who aren't able to invest in such assets. They're more distracted by paying down debt, covering rent and feeding their families. Great for the middle classes and above sure but if you're gauging a country's success by it's indices levels then I suggest you delve a little deeper from hereon.

And as for the strongest it has ever been .. well that's just pure nonsense. What are you basing that on and where have you been for the past five years ? If you say employment stats for example then again I would suggest a closer look might help. Standard of living has been nosediving the past decade and on a steady decline from as far back as the 1970's - increasing inequality with social and economic problems. Economic indicators have become more and more obfuscated in order to paint a pretty picture and keep the ball up.

Stop equating monetary expansion driven bubble assets with success.

And that's where the problem lies - monetary expansion - alongside negligence, greed and in other words corruption.

The USA has been heading for a debt and/or currency crisis for decades and especially since 1971. All fiat based on debt and debauched by excess eventually comes to an end - it has a shelf life - they die and sometimes empires with them.


My understanding is that by leaving the Gold Standard and going nuclear with new debt creation was always going to have to end at some point - you simply cannot print to infinity without the monetary system breaking ie inflation and this is where edy get's me wrong slightly.

The powers that really be, and by that I mean the Federal Reserve, supporting banks plus corporate/gov lackeys and others , would have to plan for the demise of the system - not just the reserve dollar.

Trump aint making the moves - it's been a Wall St government ever since I can remember and it's not gonna change now

This can still go a multitude of directions, too many variables to nail, but what I will call and have called on here since 2021 is the final years of the system that we all know and were all born to.

Does that mean the TDS lads have led me astray? I was led to believe that massive deficit spending makes the economy stronger.

lol Ron - it does you know .. right up until the point that it actually doesn't

and I'm off to watch the last few episodes of 1883 with the missus - cracking series btw - well worth a watch

I have heard about that and yellowstone, sounds good, not got around to watching it yet though.

April 22, 2025
Updated 1:26 p.m. ET

CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence.

In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history — told his staff in a memo that “over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.”

Journalistic independence They haven't got any journalists at CBS.

Not everyone can be independent and unbiased like recent promoted Tim Pool, who gets to be at White House press briefings these days.

Along with being tremendously well dressed for the environment, as The White House wouldn't have anything less.

Never heard of him. Am I supposed to know every spotty Herbert podcaster with guitars on the wall? Whoever he is I would be very disapproving if he didn't wear a suit for a meeting with the president, but a suit isn't really needed for press briefings.

You are actually supposed to, yes.

#Wannabe

The press briefings are usually fairly casual easy come easy go things. No particular dress code. Meeting the president is a different thing entirely in a grotty sweatshirt. What kind of person would do that?

Churchill

And Elon Musk.

Even if there is no particular dress code for press briefings, you do not wear hats indoors. Not in press briefings, not anywhere. It's a big fashion sin.

It's a press briefing not a funeral.

Would you wear a beanie indoors in the presence of Karoline Leavitt?

Have you ever seen Karoline Leavitt wear a beanie during a press briefing indoors?

One of the vital tools for installing German fascism in the 1930's was the destruction of public discourse, and the destruction of places where people could meet and talk intelligently.


EDY, Have you ever found yourself destroying places where people could talk intelligently?
Are you helping fascism by destroying public discourse?

1883 - what an amazing series imo ..



Escapee .. I'm genuinely interested in why you think the US had the strongest economy ever the day before Don walked thru the door

First time i saw 1883 last night,it wasn't bad.The cowboys had great dentists then as everyones teeth seemed pearly white,i got a bit fixated on that.

One of the first things I mentioned to the missus lapsy

Just thought v well written, authentic of the era and good characters - soundtrack was good too

found it very moving tbh ... anyway bit of escapism from today's world

as tricky as things are atm I'm pretty sure living in 1883 on the plains was a tad harsher

Ron - other half watched Yellowstone first but said 1883 was superior in many ways

Why would escapee need somewhere to talk intelligently? It would be about as much use as a beany at a press conference.

Apr 23, 2025 -- 11:38AM, Escapee wrote:

One of the vital tools for installing German fascism in the 1930's was the destruction of public discourse, and the destruction of places where people could meet and talk intelligently.EDY, Have you ever found yourself destroying places where people could talk intelligently?Are you helping fascism by destroying public discourse?

Buddy, this thread is literally called "F'ELON and the FELON (popcorn thread)", with the opening post being

I.E. some salty tears on the banners of the losers currently protesting in cities all across the USA

"Don't buy a SwastiCar"
"Stop the rise of the Nerd Reich".

It is not "Intellectual discourse between academics to halt the rise of fascism".

But do feel free to convince me with a really intelligent essay on how me disrupting your circle jerking is helping fascism.

While you are at it, I'd love to get more insight into your....fascinating brain waves by you writing an essay in which you explain why I am Ronald.

Though I guess clouded leopard should go first and receive an amazingly intelligent reply from you regarding:

Escapee .. I'm genuinely interested in why you think the US had the strongest economy ever the day before Don walked thru the door

Escapee .. I'm genuinely interested in why you think the US had the strongest economy ever the day before Don walked thru the door

I'm using the metrics that are commonly used to describe a strong economy, The metrics used by economists and politicians to point at and claim the economy is strong.

I.E.
Economic growth percent
Rising or stable stock markets
Low inflation
Low or stable interest rates.

These figures were all pointing at "Strong Economy" before Trump came in and started expressing his intention to invade Canada, Greenland and Panama. And then started a trade war with the rest of the world.

Now all these metrics are pointing at "Weak Economy" and recession.



What metrics are you using instead of the commonly used metrics?

Sounds worth watching CL. There's 2 other prequels, so I have heard, 1923 and 1944 but 1944 hasn't been made yet.

Low inflation? Don't forget escapee the economy could have been twice as strong if only they had ran a $4 trillion deficit instead of only $2 trillion.

Escapee - what a legend singlehandedly halting the rise of fascism!

It's all virtue-signalling. If he was a true and committed fighter against fascism, he would engage you over and over and over and over again. Like ... I do, as this forum's one and true and lone fighter against fascists.

Though to be fair, on occasion he does intellectually discourse you (or something you have said).

Escapee • April 16, 2025 5:59 PM BST
Breaking News, Republican supporters struck down with mystery eye disease


many of them are reporting distorted vision where short fat objects appear tall and thin.

Road Safety campaigners are urging police to administer roadside eye tests and revoke driving licenses of those affected

Not nearly often enough though.

Apr 23, 2025 -- 12:12PM, edy wrote:

While you are at it, I'd love to get more insight into your....fascinating brain waves by you writing an essay in which you explain why I am Ronald.

You just continue posting that stuff in bad faith against your own better knowledge to defame me, don't you?

Right, Escapee?

It seems like sometimes when people create threads they see themselves as being in charge of it, and able to direct others how to behave on it, but of course that's very fascistic. I am not saying it doesn't make sense for someone to be in charge, but surely the least fascistic way would be to let whoever has posted the most words on it be in charge?

To me it sounds like a nasty and sneaky plot to, under pretenses, curb my enthusiasm for the valiant fight against the fascists on here. It's the only logical explanation really that a certain someone is indeed actually a hidden agent and supporter of fascism if he wants me to stop under very blatant and transparent pretenses.

People always get away with defamation Jedwood. It could be even worse than that time the new york times defamed Sarah Palin and they got away with it too. But hang on - who is being defamed more me or you? Needless to say I would think I would have the greater claim.

The suggestion that you and I are the same person is clearly and evidently a huge insult and defamation of my good self.

For you it's an honour really. Although even with the accolades that come with being me, I guess there is the element of suggesting that you are a huge lunatic for running multiple accounts on here. Something only the very, very biggest of lunatics would ever even contemplate. The kind of person even the inmates at an asylum will stay well away from.

When I say there is just about no bigger insult than being considered you, it is nothing personal against you of course, Ronald.