The authenticity of that quote may be disputed

One thing is true about Patton: he was a professional general, which means he understood the importance of logistics and supplies and planning for a successful military campaign. If he actually even said that quote, there is no way that he meant it literally, because at the end of the war in Europe the Soviet military was as strong as it had ever been and had just gotten done rolling up 85% of Germany’s military, while the United States - which had always had a much smaller military force in Europe than the Soviets - was already in the process of transferring most of its assets to the Pacific to finish off the Japanese. Any attempt to fight the Soviets at that time would have ended quickly in complete disaster.

It’s a bit surprising he didn’t have them censor all references to him before releasing the files.

Why even bother? He could rape a baby and then eat it in front of its mother and his supporters would keep supporting him.

His supporters have no trouble making the transition from “it didn’t happen” to “it wasn’t a big deal”.

raping an underage girl

This is libelous - how dare you imply it was only one?

free markets

This one is especially hilarious in the Trump Tariffs era.

The body language just says “we’re all here to blow Elon”, except for Trump who is allowed to nap after a hard day of golfing.

And they live off of loans collateralized by stock. Musk has easy access to as much cash as he could possibly want, whenever he wants it. He’s definitely not “cash poor”.

The next time I hear a PBS commentator refer to Trump as a “populist” my head is going to explode.

The two biggest examples of fascism in history - Mussolini’s Italy and Nazi Germany - went down because they were defeated militarily by a much stronger power, the United States. I suppose you could blame Hitler’s and Mussolini’s stupidity directly for picking a fight with that much stronger power, but if you’re thinking this trend does not bode well for the current fascists, who is the much stronger military power that they’re going to stupidly pick a fight with and be defeated by? Hitler and Mussolini were absolutely never defeated by internal resistance, even in the face of obvious military catastrophe and around-the-clock bombing of civilian populations.

Elon Musn’t

No, she hates black people. Like REALLY hates black people.

My supervisor is a hardcore trumper - and also a lesbian who proudly talks about her wife. Nothing that is happening now is good, but it will at least be a little amusing to hear her “but the leopards weren’t supposed to eat my face!” lamentations.

To benefit from information, you have to be able to filter out the nonsense. Most people have no baseline to work with and are taken in by anything presented confidently and repeatedly.

A few years ago I watched a clip of Musk giving a tour of a sort of museum SpaceX has that shows the evolution of their rockets. At one point he was talking about how the more recent rockets had fewer “fiddly bits” on the outside.

I’m sure people will say “they can’t do that!” lol. They can do anything they like with nobody to stop them.

Well, I was WFH at the time and they didn’t give me anything to do so it was effectively that anyway. And really they had given me almost no work to do for the four months prior to that - which of course is why I was not even the least bit surprised by the layoff. My severance was to the penny exactly what I would have gotten from unemployment, so it effectively meant I got unemployment benefits without having to pretend to look for work. Also, they randomly sent me a check for $6K that I have no idea what for (not PTO or sick time compensation) and I used it to buy a school bus. So overall I can’t really hate them too much. Years later I found out my mother had thought I was working for Sysco (the food supply conglomerate) instead of Cisco.

I worked briefly for Cisco because they acquired my company (a much smaller competitor) to help eliminate competition. The only good thing I can say about them is they gave me (and everybody else from this smaller company) two months’ notice of the layoff and didn’t have us escorted out of the building or anything.

“… so we can be sure to avoid ever actually implementing them.”

I’m a school bus driver and most of my colleagues (and me for that matter) are either already collecting Social Security and Medicare or working towards that in a few years. They are also mostly trumpers and love what is currently happening. They are certain the republicans won’t cut SS or medicare because then 70 million people would be marching on Washington - which is pretty laughable coming from people that have trouble climbing into their buses in the morning.

My fear is that the Muskovites will keep these benefits in place for their supporters and cut them off for democrats, something they could easily do with their control over information technology and social media.

Damn, I wish I’d thought of that back then.