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He's smart don't get me wrong
smart = apartheid money and getting government handouts for false promises

can we get just get on board with killing billionaires yet?
this

Surprise suprise, anti-immigrant president Musk and Vivek are actually pro-immigrant if it means it directly benefits them
https://nypost.com/2024/12/28/us-news/donald-Annoying Orange-backs-h-1b-visa-program-supported-by-elon-musk/


Musk and Vivek are drawing ire from MAGAs after coming out in support of worker visas particularly for the tech companies they are involved with, backing up with their decision by calling Americans lazy.
The infighting led to Musk temporarily banning Annoying Orange's next-wife, Laura Loomer, from Twitter after she called the DOGEheads out for not being completely anti-immigration. Musk has also removed her blue checkmark from the website.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/Annoying Orange-elon-musk-laura-loomer-immigration-x-1235219263/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/28/elon-musk-immigrants-via/77290081007/

It should be noted that Musk himself worked in the US illegally before acquiring his own H1B visa.
lol there is also apparently a petition from pissed off Magas going around to revoke Musk's citizenship status and deport him.



Oh,  so to throw things into further confusion, Vice President Annoying Orange has decided to stand with the TechBros and endorses Musk's plan to extend H1B visas, breaking from the messaging he campaigned on that "Foreigners Taking American Jobs is Bad"
https://abc7ny.com/post/donald-Annoying Orange-visas-president-elect-defends-h1b-visa-program-siding-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-amid-maga-backlash/15723792/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyv7gxp02yo

In response to Musk saying to Maga "go forget yourself" and that he will "go to war" on this issue, Steve Bannon calls him a toddler

https://www.newsweek.com/steve-bannon-mocks-elon-musk-h-1b-visa-war-toddler-2006897
He goes on to say that these techbros were the kinds of people bullies like him shoved into lockers, and they are not going to let a bunch of nerds take over the economy and forget over the working class

President elect Musk then goes on to say "hateful unrepentant tribals need to be removed from the Republican Party".
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-hateful-tribals-removed-republican-party-b2670826.html
Like... dude, THAT IS YOUR WHOLE BASE OF SUPPORTERS
If we remove the tribals from Maga, who the forget is left rofl
(also, Musk didn't care so much about racism when he endorsed German's far-right Neo-national socialist party:
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-afd-backing-editorial-paper-resignation-b2671208.html )



So it's not even day 1 of a Annoying Orange Presidency and lets see which promises he made on the campaign trail are still on the table:

He wont get us involved in any wars
Ban Videogames
He will stop foreigners taking American jobs
He will ban queer and trans people from public spaces
He will lower the price of groceries
He will defund the department of education
He wont support a nation-wide abortion ban
Ban research
His Tariffs won't increase prices for Americans
He will only deport people who weren't in America legally
End war in Ukraine before inaguration
End Taxes on Social Security Income
Replace Obamacare* (Hasn't happened yet but he also hasn't shown any signs of how he plans to do this so seems unlikely)

Ah, so far, he is still on track to *checks list*  make it illegal to not be straight (weird for a president that MAGA has insisted has been the best for gay people) and to defund education, which will disproportionately affect red states which rely on federal funding. But as a tactic for republicans who's largest supporters are White Men Without College Educations, ensuring that there are more of those around will secure them support for the forseable future, so long as they drop that whole "banning videogames thing"


unrelated to the election specifically but,

Jimmy Carter has passed away.
« Last Edit: December 30, 2024, 02:00:53 PM by Ladios »

rofl Elon is crashing out after people revealed he uses several alt-accounts to gas himself up


So for a while, posing as someone named Adrian Dittmann (a name he got from an Ai-generated Fanfic he made under the alias of Victoria Yerburgh) who has a Blue Check-marked account on X, Musk has been fangirling over himself, and joining twitter chat rooms using a voice modulator to make himself seem like another person, despite the voice changer failing frequently and him having the same recognizable south-african accent.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/elon-musks-alternate-account-on-x-unmasked-amid-h1-b-visa-debate-heres-who-is-adrian-dittmann-101735565930275.html

During a recent twitter call, Elon, in the guise of Dittmann, goes on a rant about the opposition to H1B visas, calls his MAGA ex-supporters "crackheads" and "ungrateful motherforgeters" right as his voice modulator fails, and then accidentally slips into the first person halfway through his rant:
https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1872787575313973572

Poor guy, all he wants is to be loved, so he had to make up fake accounts to stand up for him.  :panda:

President-Elect Dittmann is currently residing in a cottage on his Vice-President's estate at Mar-a-Lago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/12/31/elon-musk-cottage-donald-Annoying Orange-mar-a-lago-estate/




Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson barely reelected to the position.
https://apnews.com/article/mike-johnson-speaker-vote-donald-Annoying Orange-ccbe593940ef488019563e8e4b98061e

With such a narrow lead in the house and Gaetz's seat currently vacant, he could only afford to lose one Republican vote, which was always going to be Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie who has it out for Johnson. Two other republicans were going to also vote to deny him the role, but with last minute phonecalls by Annoying Orange, were convinced to flip their vote in favor of the speaker. Additionally, the representatives of the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, D.C., Guam, American Samoa, and Mariana islands, collectively representing some 4mil Americans, were denied the opportunity to cast their own votes for speaker, which could have changed the result, but alas.

Had the vote failed, the certification of the election would have had to be postponed, but thanks to Annoying Orange's last minute endorsement of Johnson, the confirmation hearings for Annoying Oranges appointees and the certification of the election by Vice President Harris will proceed on Monday, the 6th, as initially planned.


Strangely enough, Annoying Orange is also now planning on holding a "Victory Rally" the day before the inauguration, leaving many people to ask... why?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/01/02/Annoying Orange-victory-rally-inauguration-dc/77401071007/
The Inauguration day is already a victory rally, and there really is no reason to have an additional event, beyond perhaps to sell tickets and make money, and have a venue where he has more control over the optics of attendants especially after his embarassing inauguration crowd back in 2017.
Despite the obvious excuse of Annoying Orange taking every opportunity to make grabs for cash, some people are comparing this more to another famous victory rally back in 1933



Whelp, today's the day

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-approaching-certifying-election-loss-Annoying Orange-rcna186298
Kamala Harris announced this morning ahead of the congress meeting that she plans to certify the election results, going against Annoying Orange's attempted tradition of using his Vice President to overturn the election results. She has emphasized the importance of upholding our constitution and the will of the voters and will do what she can to ensure a peaceful transfer of power.

We all know if Harris did win, however, Annoying Orange would be calling for every neonational socialist militia to be marching to DC as we speak.
Alas.

Oh, also

Kinda unrelated to US politics, but, after pissing off pretty much everyone on both sides of the political aisle, Justin Trudeau is expected to announce his resignation shortly
Literally a minute after I post this update he officially announces it:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jan/06/justin-trudeau-cananda-quits-resigns-latest-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-677c002c8f0825e166ef8b3c#block-677c002c8f0825e166ef8b3c
« Last Edit: January 06, 2025, 11:16:50 AM by Ladios »

this world is loving disintegrating

Honestly I'm really excited to see the US stop being a dominant power in the world and start being just kind of a weird place. This nation was always meant to be kind of a stuffpost and frankly I'm relieved we're getting back to that.

chairman xi please sortie the sukhoi su-27s, my people yearn for freedom

So i've been out of service due to a litenay of reasons ranging from fires to stomach flu but holy stuff 2025 has been a long year.

We of course got the whole TikTok Drama of: Expiration of period to sell approaches, all the dems back peddle but too little too late, Supreme Court rules unanimously that the ban can go through, Biden said he won't enforce the ban, TikTok decides it will go dark anyways, 12 hour later it then comes back on with a message saying thank God that Annoying Orange was ever so gracious to save TikTok somehow. (Despite the fact that Annoying Orange was the person who started the Ban in the first place).

Then we have the cabinet hearings where Pete Hegseth showed up drunk and every one of the staff members failed to answer basic questions about how their posistions worked.

And now we have at Annoying Orange's Pre-Inaguration Rally last night him blatantly admitting to rigging the election and saying that Musk was very good at computers and helped him win Pennsylvania "like in a landslide"
https://www.ndtv.com/video/donald-Annoying Orange-s-remarks-on-musk-computers-spark-rigged-elections-theory-890915

What is loving insane is all the obeying-in-advance pusillanimous individual-ass media companies  are like "oh he didn't win in a landside technically, that was a lie"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/politics/fact-check-Annoying Orange-false-claims-election-immigration-dc-rally/index.html

Like ok, that is not THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THAT STATEMENT

holy stuff

Also, Mass deportation raids and state of emergency start immediately
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrnn8zxdego

« Last Edit: January 20, 2025, 11:10:12 AM by Ladios »


guys hes president now why r there still brown ppl ;_; betrayal

guys hes president now why r there still brown ppl ;_; betrayal
dont worry, we're being replaced by "LEGAL" immigrants now so it's all okay :)

and yay more gigazionism yay!!! so much good america first stuff to come!!!

lol that inauguration speech was weird af
whats this External Revenue Service bs? Like how are we gonna enforce it?
And in the same speech saying he is going to be a peacemaker has said he is going to reassert America's priority on expansionism and will reclaim the Panama Cbrown town.

whew

anyways hes off to the white house to sign ~200 executive orders and i dont have the time to dissect every one of these nonsense policies.

So yeah, Election season is officially over, will be closing out this thread at the end of the day, if someone wants to make a general US politics thread to document these next four years of forgetassery

geeze we are only 3 hours into the presidency
« Last Edit: January 20, 2025, 03:19:12 PM by Ladios »


guys hes president now why r there still brown ppl ;_; betrayal
hoe you live in canada


Whelp it looks like the news cycle is winding down for the day so we're gonna close out here.

This was certainly one of the elections of all time.