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Will Elon Musk give Nigel Farage $100m to make him PM?The Tesla boss, who used his immense fortune to help Donald Trump’s campaign, is turning his attention to Britain ??https://t.co/efMWprVZRl
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Although if the cinema is not to your taste and you prefer a traditional pantomime:-
https://www.colabtheatre.co.uk/whatson?rdt_cid=4940459070609411292
My money would be on him keeling over from cirrhosis before the GE.
They spend two years concocting often dubious law cases against Trump - basically trying anything to get him in jail. But that’s ok because the Democrats aren’t criminals and they don’t break the law like Trump so they are allowed to bend the law a bit ahem
And now Biden flat out pardons his convicted criminal son. There will be an awful lot of Americans feeling very vindicated in their vote for Trump
But he's made an impressive start.
The presidential pardon system is a cancerous ulcer in America's body politic. Politically, Biden should not have done this. But from a human point of view, I see why he did.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/02/donald-trump-elon-musk-bromance-china-broker-deal-kissinger/ (£££)
Tesla builds half its cars in China. Tesla and SpaceX depend on China for Li batteries and other components. Musk could really do without a trade war.
I would add more but the flags for my Trump-critical posts have been coming in too thick and too fast over the last 48 hours.
But every outgoing Presidents pardons some right old dodgy f##kers (normally people who have donated a lot of money) and yet the system prevails.
Listen to yourself
Even the NYT is expressing shame and shock
“Mr. Biden’s decision to use the extraordinary power of executive clemency to wipe out his son’s convictions on gun and tax charges came despite repeated statements by him and his aides that he would not do so. Just this past summer, after his son was convicted at trial, the president rejected the idea of a pardon and said that “I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process.” The statement he issued on Sunday night made clear he did not accept the outcome or respect the process”
Would be very funny after all the outrage over Hunter!
That quite different from as a father, my son has been charged for something minor that was trumped up...its Stinky McStinky....
In general I am a huge Elon fan and most anything he does to shake things up/upset the consensus is fine by me.
The GOP in Congress has spent the last five years going at it, and come up with nothing, but they have quite clearly not given up.
I think the decision wrong, as I said in the last thread, but I can understand what motivated it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Donald_Trump
"Of the pardons and commutations that Trump did grant, the vast majority were to persons to whom Trump had a personal or political connection, or persons for whom executive clemency served a political goal.[2][3][4] A significant number had been convicted of fraud or public corruption.[5] The New York Times reported that during the closing days of the Trump presidency, individuals with access to the administration, such as former administration officials, were soliciting fees to lobby for presidential pardons."
It looks like this company, which has always been conservative, has really messed up. In spite of being one of the early adapters of EV's with the hopeless Leaf.
I remember the old Nissan Recovery Plan in the nineties where they demanded 35% cost reductions from suppliers. I wonder if they will do the same now.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/real-reason-for-nissan-collapse-revealed-as-finance-chief-steps-down/ar-AA1v4NtA?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=b89e67ca4a554097a114bf02286499cf&ei=18
That’s a combination of ITAR, and a ruthless policy of insourcing where they can.
There may be some minor stuff that needs to get substituted.
Tesla does more insourcing than some companies but would be badly hurt by a trade war.
Now he may be innocent or not. But the president has just made him immune from any prosecution for anything. What if it turns out one of the accusations is incontrovertibly true?
To understand why, you need to think on what they were doing. To many of the Founding Fathers, they were building England 2.0
With lots of The Ancient Rights under Magna Carta stuff.
So, the President was the King, but elected. The Senate was the House of Lords, but nominated* by the States to represent their interests in Washington. The reason that all the minor local functionaries are elected is to try and avoid a Squirearchy. Etc etc…
The power of pardon is an ancient one. Part of the ultimate power of kings. The idea is that the mechanism of justice can sometimes produce injustice. So the Noble King saves the day, 5 minutes before the play ends.
*Originally not elected.
The bandying around of absurd large numbers reminds me of that Dr Evil scene on the first Austin Powers movie.
(Besides, isn't TwiX advertising a bit rubbish? Hence the difficulty of making the thing turn a profit?)
The Political landscape within the UK would suggest that The Tories have probably more to fear from Musk than Labour, despite his obsessive hatred of Starmer. Narcissits hate anyone who will stand up to them.
Twitter / X is now basically a glorified "bot and hatred" channel.
Musk's roots are embedded in the hatred of the South African Apartheid system and whilst Farage is very adept at taking money from despots, Putin is the prime example , he may find this affront and direct attack on UK democracy a step too far given the likeliehood that the Tories will be as forceful in their condemnation as Labour.
These included getting people to buy a much more expensive car than they normally would, because it was an EV.
Then they put off investing in battery factories.
1) the accusations of which he has been convicted in court for?
2) the accusations that he has been charged with, with legal grade evidence presented?
3) the accusations which have just been stated?
With Trump and accusations of crime, there’s so many that you need to be specific…
If he does this, will Trump be grateful or offended?
Often with no override or veto by anyone else.
In the U.K., the sovereigns power to pardon was just used by the government to overturn the judicial process for the Post Office convictions. Because it was clear that the permanent system of government would fight to prevent any other avenue of justice.
However he may well be innocent, of course - the more profound allegations themselves may be politically contrived by Trumpites
But we will now never know because he’s got a blanket pardon from his demented dad. It’s not a great look for America
Have moved ont to Bluesky but the other remains.
But I can't see any of their advertising having much effect on me.
This is a terrible precedent but perhaps inevitable in a system where Lawfare has become so prevalent. Democrats carry their share of the blame for that.
I've never used it, although I used to click on links that others put up. (I generally regreted doing so.) Now I don't even do that because they insist on knowing my d.o.b. and I won't give them that.
It's not been any great loss.
Similar with Facebook, which I haven't visited for years. I have the impression that has degenerated into a wasteland for lonely losers.
That doesn't mean that one side doesn't push that far harder than the other, that one side is better and the other worse. In fact, that's inevitable, because anyone who went into the gunfight of US politics armed only with the teaspoon of virtue would get killed in the first five seconds.
But it does allow people who are cleverish (but not that clever and not at all wise) or utterly cynical in their dishonesty to rant about both sides being as bad as each other, rather than bad and worse.
It's a shame we can't actually revoke US independence, like those memes after the 2000 elections suggested. The current setup is clearly neither providing functionality or enjoyment.
I'm not sure what Leon's 'deeply serious' allegations are, as the many years of investigation have not actually surfaced any credible ones.
I think the Tories are now down to their core vote, Tory voters who were going to go Reform largely did so in July and have stayed with Farage on the whole even after Badenoch took over the Tory leadership (though she has made some slight gains from Labour herself). Reform are now targeting Labour voters, especially white working class Leavers and they have already made some inroads with them, hence Farage's party is now polling close to 20% with the Tories and Labour both on 25-30%
There is no social platform where I feel “at home”. I use instagram for marketing purposes, LinkedIn to put out work stuff if I have to, and TwiX to check breaking news. But none feel like natural territory to linger.
I entirely agree America is now in an absolute mess. Its legal system has basically been trashed by both sides. How do they pull back from this?
The UK public have resolutely elected a social democrat government in every election since 1945. And I think they will carry on doing so.
No £trillions would ever make George Galloway prime minister; Farage becoming PM would rest ultimately on enough voters believing that his version of social democracy - a fairly old fashioned sort and even less well costed than the others - is the least worst available. Musk can't make Farage PM, but Kemi and Starmer might.
It's perfectly possible to filter most of the latter out, even though it's probably 95% of the traffic.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1863504144277131672?s=61
It has a wide range of informed opinion and is completely authentic (apart from the occasional Russian Bot.)
The main problem the US has now is the extremely deep levels of partisanship, but even there one could argue that the constitution is helping things, as each side is able to block change to the constitution until they trust the other, and each side still has a stake in governance, because of the power that rests at different levels.
I don't think the British constitution would deal so well with such vitriolic levels of partisanship.
He just pretends to be a bit social democrat when campaigning in the redwall. Johnson was economically quite social democrat and as he called himself 'a Brexity Hezza' but Farage isn't and economically more of a Thatcherite ideologue than Boris ever was
In any event, given that Leon has judged Biden as demented, there's clearly no prospect of bringing him to justice anyway.
You don't get information like that on Bake Off.
However Biden is damaging the whole Democrat party - and indeed the American polity. How can the Dems now complain about any of Trump’s legal mischief? They can’t
"No. No. It's a no. It will always be a no. Biden will not pardon his son Hunter."
https://x.com/richquack/status/1863504826346488110?s=46
Do the optics get any worse than that?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/us/politics/biden-pardon-son-hunter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Democrats have as much to answer for as the GoP.
A Biden without dementia may well have narrowly won re election over Trump. However Biden is now focused on his family and given Trump will get no punishment it seems for his criminal conviction why can't Biden ensure the same for Hunter?
It really won't make much difference to the Dems, Biden will never be their candidate again and how they do in the 2026 midterms depends on the record of Trump's incoming administration on the economy and border control not Biden's pardon of his son today.
The moment US voters re elected Trump Dems couldn't make anymore of Trump's legal mischief anyway
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/
Btw I do not ascribe this to the genius of Musk. He’s mismanaged X quite seriously. From the idiotic name change to the blue tick stuff to the strangling of links. All bad
I reckon he’s simply benefiting from a charged political environment and a monumental sequence of elections and news events. So people go to TwiX
Never change, old pal, never change!
Also that’s from mid October before the migration to Bluesky kicked off
At least Hunter Biden is accused of relative trivialities for the most part which aren't even usually prosecuted and everybody can understand a father wanting to help his surviving son but there was no excuse at all for Marc Rich, whose wife had just happened to make large donations to Hilary's Senate campaign.