Skia perhaps.

Good, Discord takes a ridiculous amount of time to start up these days.

Running a bank is already a license to print money.

But no, making money by arbitraging the difference between deposits and loans wasn't good enough, they had to go ahead and give "free" money to themselves via dodgy loans.

The consequence? Death penalty for the bank, since it was no longer financially sound.

Definitely falls under the column of killing the golden goose.

San Francisco has a strong Waymo presence (I think we were the first market to get public access to them). But we also believe in public transit; in fact, the Bay Area just voted for two important transit measures that will increase costs to taxpayers and property owners, but are designed to make up for badly needed funding from the state and federal governments that just isn't forthcoming anymore. The alternative, we were told, was massive cuts to buses, light rail, and passenger rail across multiple cities and jurisdictions. I guess we decided that wasn't what we really wanted. But there's still room for Waymo, just like there used to be room for taxis.

Some banks allow it. They give you a one-time code to take to an ATM.

I don't even use X.

I think it's more of a "Trump broke his promises" vote. Republicans just stayed home. No one suddenly fell in love with the crazy, assassination loving left.

His support for tariffs were known, but rarely mentioned. The surprise was that he'd focus on that so entirely given his constant rhetoric around reducing inflation. But, given the gridlock in Congress, maybe it was predictable he'd latch onto that as his main economic tool.

I don't mean they were a completely surprise; I vaguely remembered he liked tariffs. But I never heard him speak about them and they weren't ever a focus on the campaign, border security and million other things were. It appears his focus on the campaign on inflation reduction had been partially sophistry, which was odd given his well earned reputation for never breaking campaign promises. He's learned to lie with the worst of them.

I find it odd that the usual suspects around here call me things like "an infamous MAGtard," considering I've been a Never-Trumper. I never voted for him and I woke up in a literal panic attack when I woke up on Election Day 2016, hearing he won on the hotel television.

Though, I do like "infamous." :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

One of my favorite quotes by an Italian satirist during Mussolini's era, Leo Longanesi: "In Italy, there are two categories of fascists: the fascists properly speaking, and the anti-fascists."

Thanks for showing us that Fascism, like Socialism, will never die, it just swings back and forth between incarnations.

I knew the second he started his second term by poking everyone in the eye, the backlash was gonna be brutal. (And the backlash against the backlash is gonna be even more brutal.)

He is a victim of his own success and his near total lack of political acumen. 1. He immediately closed the border, eliminating the major reason he was elected.
2. The tariffs were a surprise, since he didn't run on them and they counteracted other anti-inflation policies and didn't really achieve anything other than pissing the whole world. But he always sucked at diplomacy.
3. Then the poor treatment of Ukraine for seemingly petty AF personal reasons. This angered me beyond anything because it wasn't just trolling; it had real world consequences for a democracy trying to resist a dictator's territorial expansion (TBF Biden was far worse since his cowardice occurred during the critical early phases of the war). Zelensky is pretty happy right now, and that makes me happy. :)
4. Trump's absurd miscalculation that Iran's extremists wouldn't try to close the Strait of Hormuz (temporarily) just boggles the mind. I hope he does, in fact, finish the war now, but I also wish he had honestly taken the issue to the American people months ago instead of waiting for the midterms. Toppling the regime would have broken the ridiculous "Iran won" narrative, since Iran's shipping is totally shut down and the Strait is pretty much back to pre-war levels for the rest of the world. Toppling the Iranian regime would have been leadership; instead we got weakness motivated by polling data.
5. After 4 years of impeachments and 2 years of unprecedented, outright lawfare against their political opponent in the next election, he could have just taken the big 'W' and been the bigger man, but he instead chose his own lawfare campaign, and failed miserably.

Anyway, I remember in a past midterms when parties swept into power, but to a majority well short of filibuster-proof and veto-proof, and paid for it dearly the next election cycle after everyone expected way, way too much. This will be no different, as disaffected Republicans who sat home this time get scared off their asses at what a reenergized leftist fascist movement pushes more insanity than they could have imagined the second time around. What's really gonna hurt is all the new lawfare, and unlike Trump, the Democrats are really good at it.

And so the American people will suffer even more.

Wow.
1. Don't use quote marks if it's not a quote. I never said that.
2. I've never even heard of the "DDP" party; I was obviously referring to the Republican Party.

It's weird that this makes me a "Nazi" in your mind, but then all it took for the hate-o-sphere to declare Elon a "Nazi" was something the Jewish Anti-Defamation League called "nothing more than an unfortunate, but well meaning gesture." But hate is its own reward, right?

Anyway, given your surface level, partisan understanding of American politics (I don't think you even read your own links), I somehow doubt the veracity of your recounting of events on the European side, or your understanding of what Elon actually endorses over there.

I suggest you get your news from more varied sources. Realclearpolitics.com is a helpful aggregator.

Thanks, I think we all knew this.

So all I'm seeing is he didn't support your party and he lost his temper at Trump once and said something stupid and unsupported.

Yes, he offered an award for voting during the last election, but that was apparently done out of ignorance of the law and had very little impact on the election.

EDS and TDS confirmed.

It's easy to make cheap cars when your entire workforce is slaves. I hope yours doesn't explode.

Anyway, I honestly would love to know what "political meddling" Elon did that made you hate him more than China's President Xi.