There must be some mistake. I don't see Russia on that list.

So you're saying Donald Trump is still Putin's Bitch Puppet.

I feel your pain.

For the record, I'm not in any way in any sort of pain.

But I tend to doubt that Republicans, with or without cojones, will pull themselves out of Trump's ass, etc. and "do something".

Oh, they'll do something; the only question is how long it will take them.

All they have to do is say that Musk ain't Trump - that Musk got it wrong but Trump still has it right. More exactly, that Trump's influence on a GOP primary still seems to be definitive, unlike Musk's extra-GOP vote-buying.

I'm not referring only to the election in Wisconsin, which by the way was definitely also a referendum on Trump's policies and not just Musk. :)

And remind the few..
When ill of us they speak...
That we are all that stands between...
The monsters and the weak...

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What we have to keep in mind is that Trump isn’t your average politician. He doesn’t follow the rules of decorum, and honestly, he doesn’t even seem interested in the same version of reality the rest of us are living in. He operates in a space that feels disconnected, like he’s improvising everything in real time with no filter, no script, and no concern for how it lands. Trump was elected not because people thought he’d behave properly, but because he wouldn’t. He’s the bull in the China shop, yes, but more than that, he’s something far stranger.

He’s like one of those unstable elements that appears for a fraction of a nanosecond in an atom smasher. Something too volatile to last, too reactive to predict. But for that brief moment, when the element exists, scientists get a glimpse of something new. They learn something they couldn’t have learned otherwise.

Trump, in that same way, is a political anomaly. Something that probably shouldn’t exist in the normal structure of things, but because he does, we’ve been forced to re-examine how everything works. His presence has stirred up waters that would have otherwise remained still, probably for years. He’s reintroduced people to the system that governs them. Not because he teaches it far from it, but because his behavior has thrown it into such sharp relief that people can’t help but start asking questions.

How does a bill become law? What does the 1st Amendment really say? Can a president do that? Wait, who actually decides how elections work in my state? These are questions that in a more stable, more predictable administration, most Americans wouldn’t have bothered with. For better or worse, Trump’s unpredictability has pulled people into the process, sometimes against their will, but often with a strange urgency. There’s a kind of civic awakening hidden beneath the noise. He’s not eloquent like Obama. He’s not warm and grandfatherly like Reagan. He doesn’t wrap things in stories or uplift you with his words. He’s brash, unpolished, often contradictory.

Trump, in this way, is the salt in the muffin batter of America. I know, it feels wrong at first. Why would you put salt in something sweet? But that pinch of salt, as strange as it seems, sharpens every other flavor. Without it, the whole thing tastes flat. That’s what Trump has done. He’s introduced a jolt of contrast, and in doing so, he’s forced a lot of people to wake up to the machinery behind the curtain. Whether you love him or hate him, the conversation has changed. People are paying attention, and that kind of attention can be powerful, even if the reason it started is hard to stomach. In the end we may very well end up with a stronger, more engaged, more politically proactive America.

-Kenneth E. Harrell

This is why brain dead Democrats are completely and utterly impotent in combatting PRESIDENT Trump..

They are completely clueless... :D

A 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States

34% tax on imports from China added to the 20%
for a 54% total tariff. Yikes!
20% tax on imports from the European Union
25% on South Korea
24% on Japan
32% on Taiwan.

Vietnam 46%
India 26%
Norway 15%
Moldova 31%
Thailand 36%
Iraq 39%
Democratic Republic of the Congo 11%
Republic of the Congo 10%
Angola 32%
Cameroon 11%
Falkland Islands 41%
Mozambique 16%
Zambia 17%
Switzerland 31%
Indonesia 32%
Malaysia 24%
Cambodia 49%
UK 10%
Zimbabwe 18%
Malawi 17%
Syria 41%
Vanuatu 22%
Liechtenstein 37%
Guyana 38%
Libya 31%
Equatorial Guinea 13%
South Africa 30%
Brazil 10%
Bangladesh 37%
Singapore 10%
Israel 17%
Fiji 32%
Tunisia 28%
Ukraine 10%
Nicaragua 18%
Kazakhstan 27%
Laos 48%
Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast 21%
Botswana 37%
Venezuela 15%
Philippines 17%
Mauritius 40%
Chad 13%
Nigeria 14%
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 50%
Chile 10%
Nauru 30%
Algeria 30%
Brunei 24%
Jordan 20%
El Salvador 10%
Pakistan 29%
Namibia 21%
Myanmar 44%
Sri Lanka 44%
Serbia 37%
Madagascar 47%
Bosnia and Herzegovina 35%
Lesotho 50%
North Macedonia 33%
Norfolk Island 29%
Réunion 37%

This is going to get ugly fast...

All they have to do is say that Musk ain't Trump - that Musk got it wrong but Trump still has it right. More exactly, that Trump's influence on a GOP primary still seems to be definitive, unlike Musk's extra-GOP vote-buying.

In short, let's see Trump go down in a series of legislative endorsements - failing to throw a number of elections to the Trumpist candidates - before we expect any realistic number of GOP congresspeople to actually go public against their president.

Musk has essentially put himself on virtually every ballot in America regardless if he never wields another chainsaw, wears another cheesehead (or equivalent), or writes another check. Trump's African American (former illegal alien) is officially the poster child for the GOP.

He made the race into a referendum on him.

After the crap he has "tweeted" and said and done to the United States, virtually every race in America should be a referendum on him... and Trump and the Trump Tax Tarrifs.

Right now is exactly the time for Republicans with any cojones to pull your heads out of Trump's ass, stop cowering in fear to a wannabe dictator, grow a spine, and do something.

The video removed from twitter was later re-posted with the "vote" edited out. Ol' Musky boy knows he is treading a fine line with his million dollar giveaways. He doesn't want a buying votes charge hanging over him...