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Stuck in my head from the snuff box scene. Had to get this out.

Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s AI chatbot about whether Venezuelans would celebrate if he captured leader Nicolas Maduro—then ordered the operation that seized the South American dictator weeks later.

According to the report, Trump has “marveled at AI’s capabilities” ever since he returned to power, and during an Oval Office meeting with Elon Musk in December, he spent hours asking his Grok chatbot questions about his presidency and legacy.

When the president asked Grok how Venezuelans might react to Maduro’s capture, the chatbot predicted many would welcome the downfall of the “repressive” leader, the official said.

I feel like the embodiment of a jekell and Mr Hyde anomaly that flips between "woke" and "anti-woke" (Formal etymology: Libertarian or South Parker)

I'm the Albert Camus of leftist edgelords.

And I know my limits and the kilometers of my boundaries, but I'm sure as hell ain't backing down on calling Trump the r word 500 times or Ted Cruz a horsefucking failed abortion. (It's not like they're asking for with his constitutional ravaging and generally pathetic statement) there shortly be no standards on MAGA's jagged mockery conga, their voters deserve to be keel hauled and left to drift on a unfairly small board of wood Caribou Inuit famine style. )

Let Me Call Trump A Tiny Dick Friendless Chud and a inhumane authoritarian Douchewhore

I spotted this project today and thought it might be of interest for some of you.

It will allow you to stream your vinyls, CD or cassette players to airplay capable devices.

Freedom Mobile has set November 3, 2026, as the date it will shut down its 3G network across Quebec and the Ottawa-Gatineau region.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76356893

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7960#issuecomment-5433758829

What is the best alternative?

It seems like a million years ago now, but there was a moment back in 2024, in the heat of that weird presidential campaign, when everyone was talking about the radical blueprint for Donald Trump’s restoration. Project 2025 was so extreme, in fact, that his campaign had Trump disavow it publicly. He usually said that he hadn’t read the plan and didn’t intend to, but at times he went further. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 20, 2024, Trump said, “Like some on the right, severe right, came up with this Project 25 . . . They’re sort of the opposite of the radical left. You have the radical left and the radical right, and they come up — I don’t know what the hell it is, it’s Project 25 . . . and then they read some of the things, and they are extreme, seriously extreme.”

Trump probably wasn’t lying when he said he hadn’t read it, but his advisers obviously believed he should keep his distance from the plan, which didn’t poll well, and when people found out what was in it, they were appalled. Project 2025 was a far-right manifesto, filled with the kind of pie-in-the-sky fantasies that denizens of conservative think-tanks had been churning out for decades in the hopes of influencing Republican administrations.

One such organization, the Heritage Foundation, had been publishing “Mandate for Leadership,” its so-called policy guide, since 1981 and updating it as necessary. But Project 2025 was different from the group’s previous effort. This time, the Heritage Foundation had organized a formal transition operation, created training sessions, personnel lists and a day-one playbook for Trump to hit the ground running with a flurry of executive orders and personnel changes.

Related We all need Jack Smith’s defiance right now

This effort was largely guided by its co-author, Russell Vought, who served in the first Trump administration as the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Having worked for years for the Republican Study Committee in the House, a group of far-right members dedicated to social conservatism, tax cuts and the destruction of the federal safety net, Vought was an experienced bureaucrat with a specific vision: to shrink the federal workforce and bring as much power under the direct auspices of the president as possible. As a self-described Christian nationalist, he also believed that the U.S. should espouse fundamentalist Christianity, and that the country has no obligation to engage in global initiatives that do not directly benefit its own people.

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