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Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison.

“If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.”

Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

11.11.2025 19:21 — 👍 6539    🔁 1077    💬 593    📌 616

He really did it folks

11.11.2025 16:17 — 👍 568    🔁 96    💬 24    📌 3

Literally no such thing as the miracle mile shopping center. This dotard means the Magnificent Mile, which is 100s of stores located in office buildings along Michigan avenue. Which doesn’t even have petty crime, it’s the most swanky French handbag tourist strip in the city. Absolute moron talk

11.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 121    🔁 21    💬 10    📌 0

It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.

10.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 2106    🔁 437    💬 18    📌 4

“your screen time this week” shut up narc

06.07.2025 16:26 — 👍 871    🔁 201    💬 8    📌 2
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This is not a guy who's just gonna leave when he loses. Hope we are all prepared for that. He's building the world's most garish bunker under that ballroom, guaranteed.

05.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 177    🔁 22    💬 15    📌 2

dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods

05.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 9824    🔁 1729    💬 376    📌 98

telling everyone in the home depot gravel aisle that these stones have seen more sunsets than all the humans who ever lived combined

31.10.2025 14:35 — 👍 427    🔁 75    💬 2    📌 0
We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise.

    But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.

We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise. But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something?

www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...

02.09.2025 23:51 — 👍 3696    🔁 585    💬 117    📌 167

Legally, this is no different from Iran sinking a Disney cruise in international waters and then saying "it's all good, they were terrorists carrying drugs."

Which is to say, it's wholly illegal and has been for centuries. You couldn't even do this with a Letter of Marque and Reprisal.

30.10.2025 00:25 — 👍 3221    🔁 1016    💬 68    📌 22

Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

29.10.2025 14:51 — 👍 13246    🔁 6063    💬 635    📌 643
Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
People

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results People

This is probably the funniest headline of the year.

28.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 2714    🔁 639    💬 67    📌 43

Should be wearing a Greinke jersey as a show of solidarity between guys who got a 9-figure deal in LA after abandoning the Royals

29.10.2025 03:19 — 👍 2747    🔁 425    💬 21    📌 24

Justice 4 Girls5Eva

29.10.2025 04:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My God they've just created a machine that incentivizes every Trump staffer to break the economy (and much else) on purpose so they can insider trade on Truth Social.

Literally every insider trading son of a bitch in this regime is gonna be deliberately *increasing* volatility as much as possible.

29.10.2025 03:51 — 👍 1157    🔁 387    💬 40    📌 16
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Top media analyst tells Comcast to hire Charlie Kirk’s widow as NBC’s editor-in-chief ‘Sure, at first blush it sounds crazy, but Trump loves a deal, and Brian Roberts needs to think big and differently,’ media analyst Rich Greenfield wrote this week

This is the state of American media right now.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

27.10.2025 22:34 — 👍 1357    🔁 416    💬 134    📌 137

I'm like Muad'Dib, I got the ill communication, Muad'Dib I got the stillsuit for hydration, Muad'Dib I got the worm for transportation

24.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 151    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 0

Yes, the Grink *was* there. He was there for *me*, Bryan, in ways you haven’t been. And, you know, it’s just so fucking *you* to keep bringing him up like it’s some kind of gotcha. This was never about me or my mistakes, it’s about your insecurity and I’m sick of it. At least the Grink was *there*

26.10.2025 13:29 — 👍 1400    🔁 408    💬 17    📌 4

this is exactly what's happening

26.10.2025 16:40 — 👍 8979    🔁 1923    💬 121    📌 21
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Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe ATLANTA—Saying the novelty decoration would add the perfect touch to Halloween yard displays, the Home Depot announced Friday it had begun selling a new 12-foot-tall Willem Dafoe in stores nationwide....

Home Depot Introduces New 12-Foot-Tall Willem Dafoe

26.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 1750    🔁 267    💬 50    📌 48

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

23.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 7614    🔁 1968    💬 235    📌 90
Trump Is Demolishing the Entire East Wing to Make Way for His Ballroom
President Trump initially said the construction at the White House would not touch the East Wing or "interfere with the current building."
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Trump Is Demolishing the Entire East Wing to Make Way for His Ballroom President Trump initially said the construction at the White House would not touch the East Wing or "interfere with the current building." See more updates › ACECO

I am kind of astonished at how muted the reaction has been so far in a country were people try to get, like, gas stations declared as historic landmarks. Can we at least get Mike Johnson on camera claiming he hasn’t seen these pictures? Or doesn’t know where or what the White House is?

22.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 2440    🔁 611    💬 128    📌 62

⚠️ Google has given you access to The Computer That Lies.

⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.

29.01.2025 20:06 — 👍 2890    🔁 504    💬 10    📌 13

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

22.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 4572    🔁 1133    💬 176    📌 40
'Our hands are tied': Can anyone stop Trump's tear-down of the East Wing?
Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too.
Today at 2:49 p.m. EDT

'Our hands are tied': Can anyone stop Trump's tear-down of the East Wing? Many preservationists fear the answer is no. A pro-Trump review board is expected to approve the president's planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom, too. Today at 2:49 p.m. EDT

Bullshit. Congress can stop this any time it wants, but it’s controlled by cowards whose slogan is YES KING.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

22.10.2025 19:53 — 👍 681    🔁 174    💬 19    📌 8

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

20.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 3840    🔁 823    💬 156    📌 23

Maybe it was a sign when the person Trump put in charge of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was a protege of Jeffrey Hart at Dartmouth, a man who wrote this column in 1977.

21.10.2025 13:51 — 👍 475    🔁 155    💬 7    📌 2

I keep wondering why this is quite so shocking and it really is the obvious that he’s visibly desecrating our history in a horribly irreversible way, on top of all the other less visible ways

21.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 462    🔁 94    💬 13    📌 0

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