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On Trump and Musk, curious to see how Trump milks some more of Musk’s wealth, or how long it takes for this bromance to fade if more is said that Musk is the most powerful person in the world. Trump will not tolerate a bigger Kahuna than him getting all the attention and perceived “power.”

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So true.

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So the elitists did win. Good to know that the richest men in the world like Musk, Thiel, and Bezos played a key role in subverting our democracy. We are screwed.

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Kamala had over a billion- BILLION dollars

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How thick a bundle of cash did Elon Musk fork over to his Master/Puppet [your choice] Donald Trump?

Go figure.

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Chris, please move on from the election (who, what, etc.), it’s over. I’d appreciate your thoughts on the Trump agenda, for starters, GOP Presidents have campaigned on eliminating the Department of Education since Carter made it a Cabinet post. Reagan and Bush (W) both campaigned on it, then wound up keeping it. It would help your readers to know what the Dept of Education does, why the GOP wanted to get rid of it, why they didn’t, and pros and cons of doing so. Time to start talking issues, the campaign and election are over. Even if not your gig, you do a good job of pointing us in the right direction if you are familiar with others who have taken on this issue. Thanks!

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The Department of Education is close to useless. Go to WhiteChalkCrime.com. Trump will substitute his henchmen for the bullies now in command. The only change will be more privatization and vouchers. Our schools’ failure to produce citizens is why Trump rose to power. Do not waste your thoughts on education unless you’re willing to investigate what I’ve tried to blow the whistle on since 1995. Only that would make a difference. Trump won’t make it worse. It’s already a loyalty based mafia-system with a self serving agenda. And furthermore, no reporter looked into this. They’ve looked the other way along with the unions, the courts, and the ACLU. If you care about education you must listen to the courageous whistleblower teachers on the podcast at WhiteChalkCrime.com, not the reporters who never looked into this, which one day will be known as their biggest failure.

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One thing the Ed Dept does is mandate that boys be allowed into any girls' space (including changing rooms, showers) at every school in the country.

As a college professor for 40 years, and a registered Democrat for 50, IMO the Ed Dept is completely useless and counterproductive, even aside from their insane policy on bodily privacy and dignity for children. I'd love to see Trump dismantle it.

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Interesting. Not familiar of the Dept of Ed mandate about allowing boys into girls’ spaces (and I assume then girls into boy spaces). If you can point me to it, would greatly appreciate it….

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I agree. Check out WhiteChalkCrime.com. Our schools are so corrupt they need the smoke and mirrors if controversial issues so people focus on bad policies rather than their crime.

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It seems like a contest to see who's the bigger narcissist, megalomaniac, and richboy hoodlum.

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Well stated!

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The more I think of Trump calling on Musk and Kennedy the more I have trouble sleeping at night.

Hopefully, like past relationships Trump has had, these will fizzle out.

I certainly hope so.

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We should all be taking bets on how long the Trump/Musk ego dance will last. Trump always has to be the smartest person in the room (even, of course, when he's not) -- and Trump turns on everyone in his circle eventually. I think it will crash before the inauguration.

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I give the romance till May Day.

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Musk is a bewitching seductress who Trump is infatuated with. Musk has the wealth, status, and chutzpah that Trump wishes he had. Musk is aware of the situation and is taking full advantage of it. We can only hope that Musks intentions are greed-related and not rooted in evil.

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Seems like Musk is taking Jared Kushner’s place as Trump’s apprentice (pun intended!) now that Jared and Ivanka barely acknowledge Daddy’s existence

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Musk wants to be a sort of shadow president or co-president or unofficial prime minister, and Trump is humoring him but will never really share power until the dementia sets in quite a bit further. But what will Musk do Trump inevitably disappoints him?

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So Elon is the replacement for Ivanka and Jared? This seems bad, really bad.

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Well this just keeps getting better and better. And more and more terrifying. 🤦‍♀️

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I must point out that Twitter was FAR WORSE in terms of censorship before Musk bought it: any statement that did not adhere to trans ideology was cause for an immediate and permanent ban. Pre-Musk, many left-wing Democrat feminists such as Kara Dansky were banned from Twitter for their adherence to biological facts and women's sex-based rights.

And, according to a Democrat-aligned PAC doing post-election surveys of thousands of voters, TRANS WAS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR SWING VOTERS, AND #3 FOR ALL VOTERS (behind inflation and illegal immigration). Abortion was #22/21.

https://blueprint2024.com/polling/why-trump-reasons-11-8/

But before Musk bought Twitter, we were not allowed to talk about it on that platform. That's one reason why its importance will come as a shock to the Democrats who are so deeply ensconced in their blue bubbles.

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Dude, transgender is not an ideology. There have been transgender people since time began.

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Why was the electorate obsessed with the fate of 0.5% of the population? The anti-trans ads from the GOP were ubiquitous in the days leading up to the election. Given the results, I can't deny that they were effective but it just seems bizarre.

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Because it's not 0.5% of the population. For example, EVERY girl in EVERY school in the country must now deal with boys in her shower and changing rooms, thanks to the April 2024 ruling of the Biden-Harris Ed Dept that re-interpreted Title IX as forbidding discrimination against a self-determined "gender identity". If a boy says he is now a girl, then he is one, according to this ruling, and must be granted access to all girls' single-sex spaces. And he can change his mind about what his "gender identity" is as often as he likes. If he just likes to ogle naked girls, that's totally cool according to this ruling, there is nothing the school can do about it. And if the school tries to do something, all of its federal funding will be pulled.

Also, thousands of girls and women have already lost sports prizes to boys and men, here is a highly incomplete list (it lists over 1000 and has not been updated in some time, and was incomplete to begin with): https://www.shewon.org

Also, Democrats in blue states have unanimously passed laws greatly weakening parental rights to prevent their kids from running away from home and getting sex-trait modification drugs and surgeries. Walz proudly signed Minnesota's "trans state sanctuary law" to this effect. Also laws preventing parents from knowing that their kids have socially changed gender at school. The Democrat Attorneys General of New Jersey and California were suing school districts in their states for informing parents of what was happening to their kids, claiming this violated the child's privacy. This was a dicey interpretation of existing California law, so the Democrats in the state legislature unanimously passed a new law making it explicit that parents cannot be told.

So it's not bizarre at all that this was an important issue. It is the reason that I, a registered Democrat for 50 years and formerly a left-wing activist who worked as a volunteer on multiple Democrat campaigns at all levels, voted straight Republican.

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President ... Trusk

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Lichtman wrong

Chuck Todd wrong

Dutch called it right!

EZ election to call! How did these experts miss it so badly?!?

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On Lichtman, one of his keys was incumbency. He gave that key to Harris. Obviously, his model did not fit for the Harris use case. He also gave the good economy key to the incumbent. In many ways his model worked but he was so blinded in application

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I agree. He needs to changed his key to fit the model of a candidate who wins primary elections. Harris had 100 days for people to know her, and it wasn't enough time. Also inflation needs to be included somewhere in his keys, as the cost of eggs really did bother a bunch of voters.

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Economy was a “key” but it was given to Harris

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I know, because there is no recession (despite what Fox News says). But if inflation were included in one of the keys, it might have gone against Harris. But what do I know?

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Congratulations Dutch.

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Agree with Thune, boring but trained by McConnell how to work the system. And while I am sure the “country” was thinking of the Senate majority leader, as the vote for leader is traditionally non-public, I would bet there are enough Senators who inwardly are afraid of the Trump agenda even if they would never say it publicly.

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On Musk and X, hopeful some enterprising someone can either develop or market a new “de facto town square for politics and political journalism.”

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