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Quote:Not only does Musk lie about DOGE numbers, inflating to make himself look competent, but he pretends to have knowledge he lacks. He is not trustworthy with facts and numbers:
Originally posted by second:
“I don’t think they’ve earned the benefit of the doubt.”
Musk Blows Up at Astronaut for Calling Out His Space Station Lie
The billionaire lost it after Andreas Mogensen corrected his false claim
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-bashes-a
stronaut-space-station-lies-1235274293/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Putinization of America
It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.
By Susan B. Glasser | February 20, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-pu
tinization-of-america
No matter how many times Donald Trump openly parrots the Kremlin line, it’s never not going to sound wrong coming from the President of the United States. In 2018, at a press conference in Helsinki, Trump announced that he accepted Vladimir Putin’s claim that Russia did not intervene in American elections, despite our own intelligence agencies’ conclusion to the contrary. I watched the scene sitting outside in the glaring Finnish summer sun on a CNN set, with Anderson Cooper, who, after a short, stunned silence, concluded, “You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American President.” Later, Fiona Hill, the National Security Council senior director who had staffed Trump at the summit, would recall what it felt like inside the room when she heard Trump’s words: she thought about faking an illness, pulling a fire alarm, anything to stop him from talking.
On Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after his foreign-policy team met in Riyadh with Russian officials to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine, the President had what can only be described as another Helsinki moment. Holding forth at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago about why he had refused to include the Ukrainians in the Saudi meeting, Trump said that there was no reason to have done so, since Russia’s invasion, three years ago this week, was actually Ukraine’s fault. “You should never have started it,” he said, addressing Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky. “You could have made a deal.” To hear Trump tell it, Ukraine might as well be bombing its own cities and killing its own citizens. He claimed that the United States had spent three hundred and fifty billion dollars helping Ukraine, and that Zelensky’s popularity had plummeted to just four per cent in recent polls — both statements so far divorced from reality that Putin himself might not have been brazen enough to make them.
By Wednesday, Zelensky pushed back on Trump’s ridiculous assertions by saying that he was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space,” and, in response, Trump attacked the Ukrainian leader as a “Dictator without Elections” in a long, falsehood-riddled social-media post. His officials, meanwhile, have made clear in the course of the last week that Trump’s pro-Kremlin rhetoric is more than just empty words; he appears ready to concede to Russia on most of its major demands for a peace deal, including pledging that Ukraine will never join NATO, not allowing U.S. troops to participate in providing security for Ukraine after a ceasefire, pressuring Ukraine to cede illegally occupied territory to Russia, and lifting Western sanctions imposed on Russia. Trump’s embrace of America’s adversary and rejection of its ally has been so swift and complete that even top Kremlin officials are astonished. “If you’d told me just three months ago that these were the words of the US president, I would have laughed out loud,” the former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev posted on X.
That all this has taken place exactly one month into his second term seems fitting, however, for an American President who’s never made much secret of his inexplicable desire to suck up to Putin. One difference from Trump’s first four years in office, though, is that he has now adopted not only a pro-Putin take on Russia’s conflict with Ukraine but an approach to foreign policy over all which echoes Putin’s throwback view of the world, as a playground for predatory great powers to exert nearly unlimited control over the smaller nations that fall within their sphere of influence. How else to explain Trump’s initial moves on the world stage since returning to office, as he threatened to outright seize territory in the Western Hemispher
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Trump's failure to challenge Putin in Ukraine ceasefire talks would cause a war in Europe in five years warns Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Richard Shirreff.
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In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal says:
Trump on Tuesday mimicked Russian propaganda by claiming Ukraine had started the war with Russia and that Kyiv is little better than the Kremlin because it hasn’t held a wartime election. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky replied on Wednesday that Mr. Trump was living in a “disinformation space,” which may have been imprudent but was accurate.
Mr. Trump escalated on Wednesday, as he usually does, calling Mr. Zelensky a “dictator,” and suggesting Ukraine’s leader snookered the U.S. into supporting a war “that couldn’t be won, that never had to start.” Mr. Zelensky “refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle.’” It’s tempting to dismiss this exchange as mere rhetoric, but it has the feel of political intention for Mr. Trump. He may be trashing Ukraine’s democracy to make voters think there’s no real difference between the Kremlin and Kyiv. He may think this will make it easier to sell a peace deal that betrays Ukraine.
We doubt most Americans will overlook his false moral equivalence. Mr. Putin’s war of conquest started three years ago this month when Russian troops rolled over the border and tried to capture Kyiv. The war began not because Mr. Putin had legitimate security fears — but because the aging former KGB agent wants to reassemble most of the Soviet empire he saw crumble as a young man. Ukraine has delayed elections while it is operating under martial law and fighting a war for survival. Its constitution allows this, and Britain under Nazi siege didn’t hold an election during World War II. Was Churchill a dictator?
The U.S. has a profound interest in denying Mr. Putin a new perch on more of the NATO border, which is the real reason America has been right to arm Ukraine. A deal that amounts to Ukrainian surrender will be a blow to American power that will radiate to the Pacific and the Middle East. It would be the opposite of Mr. Trump’s promise to restore a golden age of U.S. prestige and world calm.
Last week Mr. Trump said Ukraine can’t join NATO and must give up much of its territory to Russia — concessions to Mr. Putin with nothing in return. Mr. Putin’s response this week has been more drone attacks on Ukraine. And here we thought Mr. Trump doesn’t like being played.
As it stands now, Mr. Trump’s seeming desperation for a deal is a risk to Ukraine, Europe, U.S. interests — and his own Presidency.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine
-volodymyr-zelensky-10464d9c
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Since 99% of your sources are proven wrong, sometimes within hours, I'm gonna assume you're sucking up to more neocon bullshitters, SECOND.
You really should learn to distinguish fact from fantasy.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Signym, for all the years you have been on fff.net, you have constantly bragged about being right and praised yourself for your "Critical Thinking Skills", and yet you don't bring the proof.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since 99% of your sources are proven wrong, sometimes within hours, I'm gonna assume you're sucking up to more neocon bullshitters, SECOND.
You really should learn to distinguish fact from fantasy.
When the news media was counting Trump's lies, he got into the thousands, mostly because he was claiming knowledge and attributes he did not have, much like Signym has always done.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump's+lies
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Trump is dropping fast in the polls
Did you know that the all-time record holders for the poorest early approval ratings are Donald Trump and Donald Trump?
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-is-dropping-fast-in-the-polls/
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Trump is one month in and Americans are already mad at him about inflation
Trump vowed repeatedly that he’d bring prices down “starting on Day One” if elected. Consumer prices rose 0.5% last month compared to December — the fastest monthly increase in prices since August 2023, according to Consumer Price Index data.
Vice President JD Vance said, “Consumers are going to see lower prices at the pump and at the grocery store, but it’s going to take a little bit of time.” Translation: My boss misspoke previously.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/economy/us-economy-trump/index.html
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Since Musk insists the Truth is a falsehood, he cannot be trusted with DOGE.
The same goes for Trump.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/21/elon-musk-fix-x-users-
correct-trumps-ukraine-claims/
Elon Musk has vowed to crack down on X users who have tried to correct false claims by Donald Trump that Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval ratings have collapsed.
The billionaire said he planned to “fix” the social network’s system of community notes, which allows users to label fake news and add fact-checks or further context. Mr Musk claimed the system was being “increasingly gamed by governments [and] legacy media” and said he was “working to fix this”.
On X, users have pushed back on the US president’s claims that the Ukraine president’s approval rating has collapsed to 4pc. One widely shared poll from the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology suggested his popularity was closer to 57pc.
In response, Mr Musk said that it was “utterly obvious that a Zelensky-controlled poll about his OWN approval is not credible”.
The billionaire claimed that Mr Zelensky was “despised by the people of Ukraine, which is why he has refused to hold an election”. Mr Musk added: “If Zelensky was actually loved by the people of Ukraine, he would hold an election. He knows he would lose in a landslide, despite having seized control of ALL Ukrainian media, so he canceled the election.”
His remarks come after the Ukrainian president said Mr Trump lived in a “disinformation bubble”. Mr Trump has repeated a series of inflammatory claims about the war in Ukraine that have echoed Kremlin talking points, including labelling Mr Zelensky a “dictator”.
Polling experts have dismissed Mr Trump’s suggestions about Mr Zelensky’s popularity among Ukrainians.
Prof Olga Onuch, of the University of Manchester, which has conducted polling in Ukraine, said: “Trump’s claim is not only factually incorrect, but also irresponsible and anti-democratic – Zelensky remains a fairly popular political leader in Ukraine.
“Spreading misinformation about his legitimacy directly aids Kremlin propaganda and undermines the Ukrainian people’s right to determine their own future.”
Mr Musk has championed the use of community notes on X as a means of providing context to misleading posts. The notes are crowd-sourced from contributors and voted on by other users. But the billionaire has increasingly fallen foul of his own system as dozens of his own posts receive fact-checks.
In response to a community note on another of his posts, Mr Musk said: “This Community Note is False. Legacy media is NOT a reliable source.”
Researchers have said the notes have been helpful in diverting users away from disinformation. A 2024 paper suggested they reduced the spread of a false claim by 61pc, although noted they were often too slow to stop the initial viral spread of fake news.
The system was praised by Mark Zuckerberg, who scrapped independent fact-checkers at Meta in the US last month and pledged to bring community notes to Facebook.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since 99% of your sources are proven wrong, sometimes within hours, I'm gonna assume you're sucking up to more neocon bullshitters, SECOND.
You really should learn to distinguish fact from fantasy.
He's either a deep state plant or he's irredeemably stupid. There is no 3rd option.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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