The next time someone tells you to "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps", look down at their shoes, and ask them to show you how that's done.
(You can let them use their shoelaces, if they don't have straps.)
Because the saying was originally talking about something you CANNOT do. Time and misuse has warped its meaning.
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I'm reading now that they were supposedly investigating a threat (by a grade schooler?) made on Tik Tok.
But this is the Trump government. I give them no credibility.
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Musk avoids paying taxes by making huge loans to himself, and living on the money.
Wall Street is preparing to sell billions of dollars worth of X loans.
Why? They are beginning to doubt he can pay them back.
https://youtu.be/77ne5l43jfs
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ICE entered a GRADE SCHOOL, claimed to be "Secret Service", but when the school people called their bluff, they left.
Why?
Because the Secret Service is only authorized to protect politicians, and would never be involved in immigration matters.
Perhaps ICE thought they would fool (and intimidate) the school officials—but they seem to be not as smart as people who educate children.
https://youtu.be/1cjrLuYdkT4
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About Stewart Rhodes:
"Trump did not, as he did with Enrique Tarrio, pardon Rhodes.
Rather, he left the judgement against Rhodes in place; he simply said, effectively, that three years and a week was a sufficient sentence for a guy who plotted an armed attack on the government."
___Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel.net
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The first pardoned Jan6er has just been RE-ARRESTED.
For a bench warrant, from crimes committed before Jan6th.
For domestic violence, and—what a surprise! attacking a police officer.
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I always wondered why the Anti-Defamation League left out the prefix 'Jewish' in their title, since it was founded overtly to combat antisemitism.
I see now; it was a strategy that would allow them to 'grow' and 'evolve' without being constrained by 'titles'.
Welcome to the newly branded (Nazi Tech Bros) Anti-Defamation League!
Of course, like many English words, the first 12 letters are silent . . .
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It's official. Trump is a convicted and SENTENCED felon.
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Tesla self-drivers weaponized as human-free suicide bombers?
Uh-oh, we're gonna need TSA screeners of electric cars at every city limits . . .
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The Musk motto?
"Saving Mankind—By Moving To Mars!"
Seems like somebody read "1984" and rooted for the villians.
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Now that you're starting to hear maga leaders condemning Trump and maga followers starting to sound like left activists—now's a good time to remember:
"Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy."
____Barrett Brown
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STEVE BANNON DENOUNCES ELON MUSK!
(Stalinistic purging soon to follow.)
This is why persistance and endurance will defeat the maga fascists.
Adrenaline junkies are still junkies—the legality of their addiction is irrelevent, when it concerns political power . . .
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TIPS FOR TIMESAVERS:
Been seeing a lot of deceptive clips from a youtube outfit called "ProDemocracyNews".
Don't be fooled. All their headlines are what an undiscerning left/liberal/Democrat might be wishing for.
But not only are they not true, the content is always clips (without narration) that have nothing to do with the clickbait headline.
I suspect they're AI generated, to get curiosity-clicks for an 'entrepreneur'.
Don't waste your time.
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LITTLE KNOWN FACT (for obvious reasons):
During the Obama administration, Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Musk went directly to Obama, and begged for a loan.
He was given 600 million dollars to bail out the company.
I doubt this is something Musk thinks about when he's sinking into his K-hole.
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Malcolm Nance has some creative ideas for protesting the inauguration.
Ignore the clickbaitish title:
https://youtu.be/Uqo0nLpUsoU
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There is a Christian concept that one should "hate the sin, but love the sinner".
Many people have taken this to heart, and applied it to Luigi Mangione, (to the dismay of the health care industry and the politicians who take their money).
So I see no contradiction in the public's response to him.
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FUN FACTS:
The shareholders meeting that Brian Thompson was going to started on time.
They advertised for his then open position the next day.
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The entire clip (I deleted the tracking):
https://youtu.be/HZl_ZBzvifA
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"The thing we're wrestling with; a murder DID happen.
"A person was killed in cold blood.
"They just didn't kill an INNOCENT man."
___ Josh Johnson
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Seeing a Short on youtube, of Raylan from "Justified" smacking some low-life drug dealer, RIGHT NEXT to another Short, of real cops trying to trick a video auditor into giving up their legal rights (and failing badly), speaks more clearly about the divide between truth and reality than any scholarly study of history.
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