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To be clear, Mineo's comment was directed at me. I stand by what I said to him. He loves to deal in gossip and rumor or to "be first". That is a problem, not a solution.

What we affectionately call confirmation

I would not say you are pals, but you certainly are alike. Like mirror images of each other. You are both cartoonish, immature, and love to go for the playground insult when challenged. Ylu are the yin to his yang.

Congratulations, you two have that in common.

Regret? Or no regret?

No, it means either you are too lazy to attempt, too stupid to recall, or you tried and failed then attempted a deflection.

Not a Biden appointee. Hired at the DOE and then fired when the cleptomania was discovered. The head of the Department of Defense puts the lives of soldiers at risk and he gets a vote of confidence from Trump. Perhaps you can see how these are different.

I tried reading this. I really did. It was a brutal list of questions unanswered and incomplete sentences. I am not sure what any of the specific objections were.

You spend an inordinate amount of time talking about men's genitalial unbidden.

Where?

Do your own work.

We have a head of the department of education who does not know the difference between artificial intellegence and A1 steak sauce, and was surprised to learn that 1.2 billion times 10 is less than 1.5 billion times 10 and that neither is equal to 1 trillion. We have a head of the Department of Defense who doesn't know that Signal is not safe for discussing attack plans, or who is even included in his compromised communications, but wants to add a makeup studio at tax payers' expense. We have a head of FEMA who doesn't know there is a hurricane season. From what I can tell, this guy is Trump's most qualified appointment yet.

Stop. You saw the tweet. You saw what Musk is claiming he knows about Trump. You know what Musk claims he knows is vastly worse. You know that sex trafficking and pedophilia is vastly worse. You know that Musk is the possibly the world's largest government contractor. You know he profits from SpaceX contracts, EV tax credits, access to data, and probably a lot of other things. Just stop with the "but he wrote a book".

You are just being dumb now

Are you seriously asking if Musk is profiting from getting Trump elected? Yes, he absolutely has. Now, I have answered two of your questions. How about tell us how you feel that Musk buried this information until he got in a tiff with Trump.

Only more so. Trump was not already in office. I certainly am not endorsing Biden in any of this. Biden's refusal to step aside when he clearly should have is what caused the Democrats to field an ineffectual candidate who many felt was illegitimately from the start. Trump's path was made much easier by Biden's actions and clear decline. None of that excuses Musk for burying this until now. Since you like to be the guy who does the "what about" at every possible opportunity, what do you think about Musk acting like Tapper? Clearly it must bother you. Right? You must be upset that we have Donald Trump as President because Musk did not tell the nation what he claims to know.

I like him less as a result of this episode. Presumably he had the same information/speculation about Trump before the election as after, but he wasn't principled enough to share it until now. Instead he did the exact opposite. He pushed it deep down inside and did everything in his power to get Trump elected.

Now what do you think?

You do here: What you claim you do not do here:

Why would I need to admit he never said regret when I never said he said regret? This really is not the "aha" you were planning was it? But as long as we are parsing words, the definition of regret is - feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over (something that has happened or been done, especially a loss or missed opportunity). In his CBS Morning News interview Musk said he was disappointed with the budget bill and that it undermined his work at DOGE. So stop with the he never said... And yes, I think someone who uses "just can't stand it anymore", "massive", "outrageous", "pork-filled", "disgusting", "abomination", "shame", and "wrong" in a three sentence message is expressing his disappointment and regret. Then to follow it up with "In November next year, we will fire all politicians who betrayed the American people" drives that message home. Those are not the words of someone who is happy with his time spent among politicians. And forget about your hypothetical. I do not hate Elon Musk. Just because I do not fawn over him, you and others jump to an incorrect conclusion (or as you like to call it the hypothetical in your brain). I am, however, very wary of Elon Musk, along with Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Alex Karp (especially Alex Karp), the US government (check out the deal they are doing with Palantir), the Chinese government, the Russian government, and everyone else trying to monopolize personally identifiable data to weaponize it against me (or even just to sell me crap). It is the reason that I do not have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or log into Google, or turn on my location on my phone any more than I need to, etc.

you must annoy the shiiit out of your wife

Yes, I agree that what I originally said was accurate and your comment was a non sequitur.

k is a thousand

Yeah, that is how it typically works. While he was there he began to regret his choice. He began to express that before he left and did so with much greater force and harsher criticism after he left. Several of his quotes I used were from prior to his departure.