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Is he right that if you go back 10, 15 years, you hear Democrat establishment politicians claiming (dishonestly) that they believe in border enforcement? Well yes he is right:
When this greasy twat told him that millions of people hated him, he told her that millions of people hate her, too.
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Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (XHO5P) 2
Yep
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 01:21 PM (eVWBS) 3
The whole of the media is assured that they are the smarter than any conservative. (Or in Elon's case, centrist.)
Their priests assured them this was forever the truth. Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (XHO5P) 4
I nood'd
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (eVWBS) 5
She made the face.
Posted by: steevy at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (YwEeS) 6
Trump is a 90s era moderate Democrat. Musk is a 00s era moderate Democrat which is why the FNM calls them both far right extremists right now
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (sKqQm) 7
He didn't do quite as well as Jordan Peterson but Musk reminded me of him in this interview
Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (sKqQm) 8
That's why it's so easy to show them to be fools, OVER AND OVER, if you simply don't accept their premises.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 24, 2026 01:22 PM (XHO5P) 9
The Economist: Making 112 IQ People Think They Are 140 Since the 1800's
Posted by: ... at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (Nyq9f) Posted by: Axeman at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (Fi81e) 11
Is he right that if you go back 10, 15 years, you hear Democrat establishment politicians claiming (dishonestly) that they believe in border enforcement?
There is a speech by Bernie Sanders where he says of course letting illegals in will lower salaries for Americans and therefore we shouldn't do it. But that's before the left figured out how to properly grift off of illegals and harvest their ballots Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (sKqQm) 12
Hilarious, Obama promising to go after employers of illegal aliens. Not even the GOPe would do that now. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (mmrXZ) 13
What has Zanny done to be deserving of three names?
Posted by: I gotta ask at July 24, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1) 14
She looks a lot like Abigail Spamberger, White Witch of Richmond.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (SgdqL) 15
It is amazing how incurious, midwitted, and unspectacular even "elite" journalists are these days.
Decades of just accepting party-line narratives might be as bad for the brain as crack. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (RWrid) 16
Can we label this interview:
Wealthy elderly white woman blames world's problems on African American. Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:25 PM (sKqQm) 17
The Economist: Making 112 IQ People Think They Are 140 Since the 1800's
------- Actually the first practical intelligence test was invented in 1905 by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon. The term IQ was coined several years later. Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (Nyq9f) 18
There's no such thing as the 'far right,'
youtube.com/watch?v=K3oQn3Y6Blk Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (diia5) 19
It is amazing how incurious, midwitted, and unspectacular even "elite" journalists are these days.
Thinking for yourself has gotten a number of left of center celebs cancelled. They all know it is dangerous to deviate from the narrative. Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm) 20
19 It is amazing how incurious, midwitted, and unspectacular even "elite" journalists are these days.
Thinking for yourself has gotten a number of left of center celebs cancelled. They all know it is dangerous to deviate from the narrative. Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm) ===== "Wait...did that freakish looking person just say that he's a woman? He's obviously a dude. He has a beard." *Invasion of the Body Snatchers scream* Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 24, 2026 01:26 PM (RWrid) 21
Unfortunately, her lack of self-awareness is such that, immediately following the interview, she probably exchanged high-fives with her producers, thinking she had owned Elon in the interview.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (bNf8H) 22
Yeah, I looked at this yesterday. Elon held his own well. Posted by: Axeman ============= He refused to back down, but I'm not seeing the kind of "DESTRUCTION!" and "SCHOOLING!!!!" that these video masters always promise. One could argue that the interviewer held her own, too. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (mmrXZ) 23
What has Zanny done to be deserving of three names?
One for each hole Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (B78cn) 24
The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes
It sounds like a joke. If you wanted to make up a silly British name, you couldn't do better. Well, maybe Raymond Luxury Yacht or Throatwarbler Mangrove. Posted by: Archimedes at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (Riz8t) 25
Elon is Nietzsche's Superman
to have Elon and Trump on the scene at the same time in history is a stroke of good fortune Posted by: Don Black at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (ZxPkt) 26
Actually the first practical intelligence test was invented in 1905 by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon. The term IQ was coined several years later. Lefties will tell you IQ is rayciss then brag about their IQ scores on reddit. Again we live in stupid times Posted by: 18-1 at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (sKqQm) Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 24, 2026 01:27 PM (vDZgA) 28
Whatta bitch.
Posted by: wth at July 24, 2026 01:28 PM (UjdFS) 29
Yeah, I looked at this yesterday. Elon held his own well.
Elon - and in all fairness, Democrats starting with Obama - grasp something that most of the Republican Leadership still won't. If you try to please everyone, you please no one. Now that's not an idea original to me by any means. And noticed I used won't instead of don't. But that's the thing. So it all comes down to the margins. Barry Sortoro was perfectly fine with pleasing 51% at the expense of the other 49%. I don't know that I'd advise cutting it that close. But if you're on the 75% side of the argument ? Screw the other 25%. Especially when its the same 25% you're always at odds with on everything. The flaw in everything I just said ? It assumes an opposition party. The GOP is not. Posted by: Zombie Smedley Butler at July 24, 2026 01:28 PM (RhUi2) Fugitive Fraudster Arrested
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