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I was bored at work. I found something to amuse myself.

That was what I took away from Elon Musk’s 38-minute interview on Fox News last night, which largely focused on the billionaire’s efforts to eliminate government programs and fire thousands of federal workers. Those efforts have spurred thousands of people to protest at Tesla locations across the US. Waving signs and chanting slogans, the so-called Tesla Takedown protesters have become a symbol of opposition to Musk as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Can you imagine 38 minutes of this dumbass talking? Pass me a gun so I can take myself out.

If you listen, you hear her quite understandably surprised reaction with a scream, and then she asks to call the police, only to be told “we’re the police.” None of them are in uniforms. Most of them are masked.

Frightening.

Relevant HN discussion if anyone wants to see a discussion on a larger tech board for insights:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43470699

The progression is clear: first came the word games and barely-technically-accurate-but-misleading declarations, then the exploitation of court procedures and customs, and now increasingly open defiance coupled with attempts to paint any judge who enforces the law as politically biased. This is how institutional guardrails get dismantled — not through dramatic confrontation, but through a thousand small acts of contempt that gradually normalize the idea that court orders are merely suggestions to be cleverly evaded.

We are fucked, friends.

No one could have predicted this. /s

Oh noez! Anyway…

Describes how police investigated to catch people.

Edit: Didn't realize this was subscriber only (cause I'm a subscriber and could read it in my RSS feed). Archive link.

These are the actions of an autocrat.

President Donald Trump has named former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, pardoned by Trump after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI, to the board that oversees the West Point military academy.

This guy lied to the FBI and admitted it. He spoke at an event shortly after the Myanmar coup and said, "Why can't we do that here?" He recorded a video of his family making a pledge to the Qanon conspiracy theory (dems drink the blood of babies). He's literally not well. But he has fealty to Trump, and that's all that matters.