US Elections 2024 - the most consequential election again!

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Maybe H1B folks that feel threatened by T, can start learning Japanese! Didn't know there is a Desi snack Mogul in Japan.
https://www.newsweek.com/ceo-japan-news ... on-2002519

Now our own expert on Japanese culture Okonomi will be missed on the forum , may she could have taught haiku for interested folks as a starter

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics ... index.html

This guy was supposed to have been the Attorney General! He did all this with that face, surely there must have been an additional hazard pay for all those women. (Pardon my Trump-style, you know I am just being a straight-shooter)

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... rcna185165

This guy needs some basic civic lessons - he should know that if there is a prime minister, president is just a dummy that gets to live in a yuuge house like Rashtrapati Bhavan/ White house(?)!

[JINSAKAI]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... rcna185165

This guy needs some basic civic lessons - he should know that if there is a prime minister, president is just a dummy that gets to live in a yuuge house like Rashtrapati Bhavan/ White house(?)!

I think they should change constitution to allow Elon to be the president

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... rcna185165

This guy needs some basic civic lessons - he should know that if there is a prime minister, president is just a dummy that gets to live in a yuuge house like Rashtrapati Bhavan/ White house(?)!

I think they should change constitution to allow Elon to be the president

Is the constitution still a thing? The trick for the next few decades would be enact all kinds of crazy laws and all that needs to be done is to bring it to SCOTUS that would invariably uphold it. If Musk becomes the president, Trump should become the emperor since it's for the lifetime and dynastical.

[Returning_Indian]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congre ... rcna185165

This guy needs some basic civic lessons - he should know that if there is a prime minister, president is just a dummy that gets to live in a yuuge house like Rashtrapati Bhavan/ White house(?)!

I think they should change constitution to allow Elon to be the president

they are just more transparent in their dealings. Democrats are completely driven by big names like Soros who define and execute the agenda.

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they are just more transparent in their dealings. Democrats are completely driven by big names like Soros who define and execute the agenda.

I guess the right word is blatant and not transparent. Soros spends money on leftist ideas like civil liberties, gun control and LGBTQ rights unlike Musk who is using his influence to further his own interests like scrapping Tesla crash reporting and removing EV credits for other manufacturers and so on.

[Returning_Indian]

they are just more transparent in their dealings. Democrats are completely driven by big names like Soros who define and execute the agenda.

I guess the right word is blatant and not transparent. Soros spends money on leftist ideas like civil liberties, gun control and LGBTQ rights unlike Musk who is using his influence to further his own interests like scrapping Tesla crash reporting and removing EV credits for other manufacturers and so on.

Lobbying a.k.a bribing is legal in US. You are misdirecting your complaint on Musk for your dislike of Trump. Soros and alike do lot more than funding liberal camps. They influence elections of candidates who favor their policies and agendas. Soros is a classic example on how he influences policies and politicians to make money. And he is not the only one. So this happens on both sides. Atleast musk is vocal on what he wants to achieve with US in mind unlike Soros etc

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Lobbying a.k.a bribing is legal in US. You are misdirecting your complaint on Musk for your dislike of Trump. Soros and alike do lot more than funding liberal camps. They influence elections of candidates who favor their policies and agendas. Soros is a classic example on how he influences policies and politicians to make money. And he is not the only one. So this happens on both sides. Atleast musk is vocal on what he wants to achieve with US in mind unlike Soros etc

Lobbying is legal but actual beneficiaries of lobbying running the govt is illegal, even though it's not so in current admin. The age-old approach to rationalizing criminality is to say that everyone does it and so I am doing it. It's interesting that Musk himself was in fact a big supporter of Dems and Biden in 2020, and he got no preferential treatment in return for his own company but only policies beneficial to the EV industry.

Musk knows he has a puppet in his hands and so got all-in this time with $300M and has the gall to sink a bipartisan funding bill with just tweets, only because it does not suit his interests in China.

As an American, it hurts, it may not be so much for Indians.

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“No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you,” Trump proclaimed. “And I’m safe. You know why? He can’t be. He wasn’t born in this country. But the fake news knows that.”
LOL - why can't he use at least 1% of his normal bluster and say "I am the president because people voted for me" instead of going defensive and saying "He can't be president because he was not born here"!