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Elon Musk pretending he was at a party saying Overheard at a party, "If your gf is a 10, she's an asset" 02:39 • 16/8/25 • 3,9M Views 5,2K t7 2,6K • 26K 1,5K Most relevant replies v Elon Musk @elonmusk • 3h "Asset" here means "intelligence asset" 468 t7 265 2,3K Elon Musk @elonmusk • 3h Meant to say "if your gf is a 10, you're an asset" , as in intelligence agency asset 839 17 375 3,5K Ill 626K

Explain it once more and it will become so funny

Think about all the tech bros who caved immediately

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

Pointing at abstract statistics and telling struggling people the economy was actually roaring didn’t work for Biden when the numbers were real, it’s going to be even harder for Trump when the numbers are fake

Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.

The very clear message is that the BLS head will be fired if they do not produce numbers that meet Trump's approval.

In related news, these are the last set of BLS job numbers we can assume have not been doctored.

The person he appoints is gong to announce, tomorrow, that we are going to add 89.8 million jobs in September and then in September he will revise that number upwards by 440 million jobs

I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

Been wondering when this would happen, and I even had a feeling it would be BLS. If the numbers suck, just make some up. Of course that fucks with all manner of important things that rely on government data, but it's not like these guys give a shit www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

I don't think Trump cares anywhere near as much about his poll numbers as he cares about being mocked. His ego can't handle it.

Agree with this 100%. It demonstrates the info bubbles that are an unfortunately more feasible way to live in the social-media era. It sucks!

For months pundits have been theorizing about what institution might finally keep the Trump agenda in check.
The courts? GOP leaders? Donors? IGs? Wall Street? Nope. Correct answer is QAnon

This is a really, really strange hill to die on.

"A factual thing happened. But what if a completely counterfactual thing had happened instead?"

the Dem base right now is flailing and angry and they will latch onto whoever most convinces them that they will fight back and stop playing by the normal rules

that seems more likely to be someone on the left but the lane is wide open, ideology will matter less than fighting instinct

Hell no, you know they're Polo

“Woke Socialist Rupert Murdoch”

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Colbert at CBS wasn't long for this world after that disgusting $16 million bribe from Paramount, but still, it sucks!

Bretbug wasting everyone's time as usual

*jerking off motion until the end of time*

Anyone who uses "the blacks" is never coming from a good place.

But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy. Telling journalists they must use AI is not a business strategy. Partnering with AI companies is a business move, but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you’ve already created is not a smart or sustainable business move, and therefore it is not a smart business strategy. It is true that AI is changing the internet and is threatening journalists and media outlets. But the only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings, and that the work they are doing is worth supporting because it is human work that is vital to their audiences.

Found this @jasonkoebler.bsky.social story about why AI isn’t a viable business model for journalism to be extremely well done and oddly hopeful

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Awesome summation.

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.