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Brenda Johannesen's avatar

For one of the most powerful men in the world he sure is a whiny, little bitch.

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BTAM Master's avatar

Using the statistical analysis of Musk and Trump, that certainly does seem to be a trend.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Brenda, I was about to write a comment and I saw you had already written it. Thank you.

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laurent lathieyre's avatar

The discovery phase is going to be a lot of fun… Elmo will never sue.

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Katy Bolger's avatar

Uh, I think his name is Leon. a/k/a Nazi pig.

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Trump insists on being #1 in everything. He must be livid that Musk is the most hated man in the U.S. and Netanyahu is #2.

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BTAM Master's avatar

Be patient....

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

I'm dying to know who's #3. <g>

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BTAM Master's avatar

Assuming this is valid (I trust NOTHING on X), it's Marco Rubio. Trump is # 4.

https://x.com/Gallup/status/1952714471736046065

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BTAM Master's avatar

A while back, I was on a phone bank supporting Susan Crawford; on one phone call, as soon as I announced myself as a Dem volunteer, a woman started screaming "Musk is an asshole! Musk is an asshole! Musk is an asshole!"

Doesn't that just sum everything up?

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Katy Bolger's avatar

The sum is the most disliked person in the U.S..

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ER's avatar

all this whining about unfair competition from the guy who gutted the Federal trade Commission?

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hw's avatar

The Onion would be proud:

Downsizing due to "unprecedented demand"...

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Nilla's avatar

Right?!!

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Andy's avatar

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DARK MONEY | life manipulation

DESANTIS | faded out

DISABILITY RIGHTS | warehousing

DOJ | Blondie blinders on

EDUCATION POLICY | Turnip University

ELECTION | loaded dice roll

ELDER CARE | forgotten

FASCISM | exploitation

FOX | fogbank

GERRYMANDERING | poker

GOP | the great dustpan

GREENE | screeching preaching

GUN VIOLENCE | vast overkill

HOUSING | priced out

INCOME INEQUALITY | exclusion

JUSTICE | delayed

MAR-A-LAGO | dollar store

MAGA | ICE

MILLER | paranoid hemaroid

POLICE BRUTALITY | systemic life failures

PRISON SYSTEM | profit cages

PROPAGANDA | Pravda

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | Get out of my Bedroom

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM | intolerance

RUBIO | lettuce wilt

SCOTUS | pinball Tilt

SENATE | Old Folks Home

SEXISM | covering for ones weaknesses

STUDENT DEBT | lifelong chain

SURVEILLANCE | it's your oversight, not mine

THOMAS | hush money

TRUMPO | potato pants

TRUMP JR. | squeak

TRUTH | it's been buried again

VANCE | super needy

VOTER SUPPRESSION | theft

WAGES | barely living

WHITE SUPREMACY | religious intolerance

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Keep protests peaceful.

Don't kill anyone.

Here are resistance related guides from around the world:

🇺🇸 Fundamentals of physical surveillance: a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel

https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofph0000silj

The RCMP has its own publications including:

🇨🇦 GCPSG-022 (2025) - Threat and Risk Assessment Guide

GCPSG-010 (2022) - Operational Physical Security Guide

🇨🇦 GCPSG-019 (2023) - Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery Guide

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/physec-secmat/pubs/index-eng.htm

The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also has excellent guides on:

🇺🇸 Street Level Surveillance

https://sls.eff.org

🇺🇸 Surveillance Self-Defense

https://ssd.eff.org/

🇪🇺 🇸🇪⚠️ Resistance Operating Concept

https://jsou.edu/Press/PublicationDashboard/25

🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Radio Free Ukraine Resistance Manual

https://radiofreeukraine.com/3d-flip-book/resistance-manual/

⚠️ John Hopkins University:

Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies

This one is used a lot by ICE, so the Trump Regime keeps suppressing it. Here are alternate links as it keeps getting moved around by the good guys:

Small Wars Journal

Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Project

https://smallwarsjournal.com/2012/08/05/assessing-revolutionary-and-insurgent-strategies-aris-project/

Author's website:

On Resistance, Revolutions, and Insurgencies

https://zimmerer.typepad.com/resistance/

Free PDF download of the book from the original author:

Casebook on Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare, Volume II 1962 - 2009

http://zimmerer.typepad.com/Documents/ARIS%20Casebook%20Vol%202%202012%20s.pdf

⚠️ Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civilian-based-defense-a-post-military-weapons-system/

🏁 Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co

⚠️ Library of Congress

Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation

https://www.loc.gov/item/96024752

🏁 Robert Reich/Resistance School

Communicating Across Difference

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT8gjnOmQl3dguy0_E0vVCL5ZYEyCTzu

🏁 Bernie Sanders:

https://m.youtube.com/@BernieSanders

🏁 CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists:

Safety Kit

https://cpj.org/safety-kit/

🏁 Activist Handbook:

https://activisthandbook.org/introduction

(⚠️ These are USA sponsored websites. Some publications may have been removed by the Trump regime)

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Mike Gora's avatar

Any app showing sighnificant political bias should never be on a good “Must Have” list.

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Terry's avatar

Wtf is Eric Greenspan doing as a chef at some Tesla diner dive. Why are so many excited to completely trash their careers? For what? Someone they think will give them a modicum of fame? Jesus, I used to think Greenspan was a pretty great chef. I no longer think this.

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Daryl's avatar

Musk is delusional, X is not a News app, and Grok is just a toy.

He really throws all the toys out of the cot when he doesn't get his way.

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KB's avatar

I used to think he was a great futurist man. What he has shown are temper tantrums when he doesn’t get his way.

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Michela A. C.'s avatar

Great reporting! Keep it up! Lets see how long it takes for Lily Lim to become impregnated by muskrat.

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