I just saw some clips of that hearing and I was surprised how low they were willing to go. That’s not normal anymore, the whole thing was absurd. The system is broken, the rule of law has ended in the US.

As a European I am very glad these criminals get exposed. It’s a nice cleansing shower.

This is the correct answer.

Financial trickery is what this is. Rolling one failing business into the next, Tesla will follow soon. It’s incredible that this is even legal, but of course nothing matters anymore in Trump’s America.

Alternative headline: Linux market share increased by 30% from november to january!

Does it feel “great again”?

I totally forgot about those! Just let me hop into my new roadster and drive to the hyperloop station to get to the Starship launch-pad in New York.

People will die, rather quickly, and that will be the end of it.

Right next to the one million robotaxis and autonomous robots, I presume.

And yet, the stock barely reacted. It’s really a gamble on Elon’s ability to keep the scam going and growing at this point. Wouldn’t recommend for investors, would recommend for idiots.

Straight up killing people in the streets, and it’s just January.

From the Wikipedia page about elections in 1933 Germany:

The resources of big business and the state were thrown behind the Nazis’ campaign to achieve saturation coverage all over Germany. Brownshirts and SS patrolled and marched menacingly through the streets of cities and towns. A “combination of terror, repression and propaganda was mobilized in every… community, large and small, across the land”.[1]: 339  Irene von Goetz wrote, “In a decree issued on 17 February 1933, Göring ordered the Prussian police force to make unrestrained use of firearms in operations against political opponents (the so-called Schießerlass, or shooting decree)”.[4]

To ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organisations also “monitored” the vote process. In Prussia, 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Der Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police (Hilfspolizei) in another decree by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring.[4]

Full page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election

Holy… that was fast.

As a German I had to learn about German history and the workings of fascism in great detail. With that in mind the outlook for the US is grim. I personally would strongly consider leaving given the unfolding situation. Ask yourself whether you are prepared to live your life in a fully authoritarian US society, where there is only a very limited rule of law, power is largely unconstrained at every level and violence just a part of daily life. Are you the type to flourish in a system comparable to today’s Russia? Because of you don’t flourish, you will suffer, there will be no middle ground.

What are you referring to?

My expectation is that extrajudicial killings by ICE agents will become normalized within the next four months.

Yup, Niagara is a dream. I hope it stays this way forever, but even if it doesn’t I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

One of the crazier parts:

On Friday, the White House announced the board’s initial executive panel would include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

What is this even supposed to accomplish? Will they offer US military intervention for a price?

Really? We’re still doing the “LLMs are intelligent” thing?

This is the relevant context to this puff-piece, this should be stickied right at the top.