#1 2025-02-27 17:18:27
All the rest is noise, just baffle em with BS media overload to keep the focus off the target deals in the works.
Next up Regulatory Capture for profit. More of a long game than picking the low hanging sovereign wealth fruit
Trump is using the presidency to seek golf deals. Hardly anyone’s paying attention
‘These incidents encapsulate Trump’s transactional and corrupt approach to governing – and the ways wealthy autocrats including Prince Mohammed will be able to exploit the president.’
The president later made sure to remind Prince Mohammed that he owed Trump for defending him after Khashoggi’s assassination. In interviews with the journalist Bob Woodward in early 2020, Trump boasted: “I saved his ass”– meaning he protected the crown prince from a backlash in Congress. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone,” Trump told Woodward. “I was able to get them to stop.
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#3 2025-02-28 07:43:45
I guess somebody should call Elon?
On the other hand, I'm sure President Musk is okay with the orange jester being out from underfoot.
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#4 2025-02-28 09:13:00
Is it just me or does Donald seem to be (possibly heavily) medicated these says? In most pictures where he's not speaking he is just looking off into space. In some where he's sitting he's slumped to one side and, again, gazing at nothing.
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#5 2025-02-28 11:25:36
That, or he's just fucking bored. Remember: he has ZERO desire to actually do the job, he just wants the money, fame, and power. Everything else is beneath him. Why do you think he's letting President Musk do whatever the fuck he wants?
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#6 2025-02-28 11:54:41
He should consult with Elon on how to titrate his stash. Trump may need to roll back his use of Selegiline or Rasagiline. It being a crazy powerful Irreversible MAOI favorite of the tech bros and traders.
Or something else? I am not well versed in recognizing signs that amphetamine related dementia is finally nudging in on Trump.
"Because selegiline had undoubtedly increased my agency and motivation, I would turn to it one more time, this time at lower doses. Again, after a couple of weeks, I had the feeling of constantly needing “to do” something. I was impossible to chill.
I became more me-focused, and I got irritated easily when things did not go the way I wanted them to go. One day, I ended up yelling at my sister for almost no reason. I also started to argue more and more with my girlfriend and in the end, I lost her, which caused me a great deal of pain, suffering, and regret. In hindsight, I suspect that the selegiline played a non-minor role.
Selegiline increased my self-confidence, verbal fluency, mood, motivation, cognition, and agency. Uniquely, there was little to no tolerance. However, the upsides were not worth it.Selegiline killed my prudence and mindfulness and turned me into a person I did not want to be.
On rasagiline, I am also a little more prone to wanting to have things go “my way”. I am also a tad more of an asshole due to the combination of impulsivity, impatience, and reduced cooperativeness. Rasagiline was definitely not good for my relationship.
My mood seems to subtly improve on it (a lot during the first few weeks, from then on much less but probably still above baseline).
On rasagiline, I also seem to be less prudent (e.g., my threshold for engaging in new experiments becomes much lower).
On it, my thinking is rushed and almost becomes ADHD-like (which is not necessarily bad). I “jump” quite a bit and sometimes in conversations I can make unexpected subject changes, due to my brain becoming “faster”."
Selegiline seen on the desk of SBF in his prime
"I was not surprised to learn that selegiline was the “limitless drug” employed by the fallen-from-grace crypto lord Sam Bankman-Fried, possibly contributing to his excessive risk-taking and eventually to his downfall."
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#7 2025-02-28 16:51:37
Just remember, the first one 4000 is free! kids.
Elon Musk is ratcheting up his attacks on the company in charge of a (previously awarded 2023) $2.4 billion federal aviation contract — while promoting his own satellite business Starlink as a potential solution.
Musk’s broadsides against Verizon come at the same time that his White House-anointed budget cutters are weighing the future of the Federal Aviation Administration, heightening Democrats’ complaints that his role in President Donald Trump’s administration poses a grave conflict of interest.
For at least the second time this week, Musk took to his social media network X on Thursday to lay into Verizon for what he called subpar work on a new communications system for the FAA — even though Verizon’s system is still in the testing phases. And he pitched Starlink as at least an interim fix, saying his company was delivering its communications terminals “at NO COST to the taxpayer on an emergency basis.”
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who has introduced legislation that would ban “special government employees” such as Musk from having federal contracts, asked on X: “How much richer will Elon get with an FAA contract to another one of his companies?”
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