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Tech titan Elon Musk cast doubt Wednesday on a $500 billion AI project announced by US President Donald Trump, saying the money promised for the investment actually wasn't there.

The comments marked a rare instance of a split between the world's richest man and Trump, with Musk playing a key role in the newly installed administration after spending $270 million on the election campaign.

Trump on Tuesday announced a major investment to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

Trump said the venture, called Stargate, "will invest $500 billion

But in a post on his social media platform X, Musk said the main investors "don't actually have the money."

"SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority," Musk added in a subsequent post.

From the comments: Billions for AI development? It's not like the oligarchs aren't already pouring billions into AI development as it is. This just looks like a scheme to get the taxpayers to subsidies the oligarchs with public money.
Meanwhile, trumps makes moves to cancel the rollout of a vaccine against cervical cancer for women.
I guess older women just don't count in the Project 2025 master plan.

Socialize the losses and privatize the gains. That's how the system has worked for a while now.

will be a great investment when AI can do all the jobs and they can get rid of all of us pesky peasants

And with all that investment - groceries will get cheaper and the price of gas will go below a dollar a gallon. And new homes will be plentiful. Right?

Lowering prices for us was the 2024 theme. It is now how much $$ can Donald make from us.

Musk will be on a thin thread with Trump if he does not reel himself in. That may not be his nature as he is what he is by not sitting on his hands. But Trump wants his people to be loyalist. There has to be a consensus on policy and vision and media expression. If Musk is vocal outside that box, Trump will have to take him to the woodshed.

Not infrastructure for our roads, bridges ect. Just more ai infrastructure. But he cares about us. No health care, no infrastructure, no tax cuts for middle class... nothing. Just a big investment for trumps.

Since Musk spent $300M donating to Trump's campaign, there's no way he will fire Musk. Musk and the Supreme court kept him out of prison, so Trump is in a tough spot. That said, I don't know how long Trump will allow Musk to make and influence policy decisions.
 
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DC judges slam Trump pardons as 'revisionist myth,' 'will not change the truth' of Jan. 6

In the days since President Donald Trump handed down pardons and commutations for the more than 1,500 of his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have remained essentially silent while signing off...
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On Wednesday, three judges with the D.C. District Court broke that silence on Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, with one eviscerating Trump's proclamation that stated he was righting a "national injustice" that occurred through the prosecution of the pro-Trump mob.

"No 'national injustice' occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election," Judge Beryl Howell, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said in an order Wednesday. "No 'process of national reconciliation' can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity."

She added, "That merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other poor losers and undermines the rule of law. Yet, this presidential pronouncement of a 'national injustice' is the sole justification provided in the government's motion to dismiss the pending indictment."

"What occurred that day is preserved for the future through thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury verdicts, and judicial opinions analyzing and recounting the evidence through a neutral lens," Kollar-Kotelly wrote. "Those records are immutable and represent the truth, no matter how the events of January 6 are described by those charged or their allies."

"What role law enforcement played that day and the heroism of each officer who responded also cannot be altered or ignored," she said.

"Grossly outnumbered, those law enforcement officers acted valiantly to protect the Members of Congress, their staff, the Vice President and his family, the integrity of the Capitol grounds, and the Capitol Building-our symbol of liberty and a symbol of democratic rule around the world," she added. "For hours, those officers were aggressively confronted and violently assaulted. More than 140 officers were injured. Others tragically passed away as a result of the events of that day. But law enforcement did not falter. Standing with bear spray streaming down their faces, those officers carried out their duty to protect."

She closed her order, stating bluntly, "All of what I have described has been recorded for posterity, ensuring that what transpired on January 6, 2021 can be judged accurately in the future."


Later Wednesday, the federal judge who oversaw Trump's criminal case related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election joined the growing chorus of judges breaking their silence.

"No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," said Judge Tanya Chutkan, another Obama appointee, in a brief order granting the dismissal of one rioter's criminal case. "The dismissal of this case cannot undo the 'rampage [that] left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage.' ... And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America's sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.

"In hundreds of cases like this one over the past four years, judges in this district have administered justice without fear or favor," she added. "The historical record established by those proceedings must stand, unmoved by political winds, as a testament and as a warning."

From the comments: Although I voted for President Trump, I am finding it very difficult to understand how he could have pardoned individuals who were found guilty by a jury of their peers. I can only come to one sad conclusion; President Trump wanted to strut his prowess as President, and let people know that he has the power to circumvent the power of our Judicial system. I'm disappointed
 
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Tech titan Elon Musk cast doubt Wednesday on a $500 billion AI project announced by US President Donald Trump, saying the money promised for the investment actually wasn't there.

The comments marked a rare instance of a split between the world's richest man and Trump, with Musk playing a key role in the newly installed administration after spending $270 million on the election campaign.

Trump on Tuesday announced a major investment to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

Trump said the venture, called Stargate, "will invest $500 billion

But in a post on his social media platform X, Musk said the main investors "don't actually have the money."

"SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority," Musk added in a subsequent post.

From the comments: Billions for AI development? It's not like the oligarchs aren't already pouring billions into AI development as it is. This just looks like a scheme to get the taxpayers to subsidies the oligarchs with public money.
Meanwhile, trumps makes moves to cancel the rollout of a vaccine against cervical cancer for women.
I guess older women just don't count in the Project 2025 master plan.

Socialize the losses and privatize the gains. That's how the system has worked for a while now.

will be a great investment when AI can do all the jobs and they can get rid of all of us pesky peasants

And with all that investment - groceries will get cheaper and the price of gas will go below a dollar a gallon. And new homes will be plentiful. Right?

Lowering prices for us was the 2024 theme. It is now how much $$ can Donald make from us.

Musk will be on a thin thread with Trump if he does not reel himself in. That may not be his nature as he is what he is by not sitting on his hands. But Trump wants his people to be loyalist. There has to be a consensus on policy and vision and media expression. If Musk is vocal outside that box, Trump will have to take him to the woodshed.

Not infrastructure for our roads, bridges ect. Just more ai infrastructure. But he cares about us. No health care, no infrastructure, no tax cuts for middle class... nothing. Just a big investment for trumps.

Since Musk spent $300M donating to Trump's campaign, there's no way he will fire Musk. Musk and the Supreme court kept him out of prison, so Trump is in a tough spot. That said, I don't know how long Trump will allow Musk to make and influence policy decisions.
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Trump is not used to dealing with anyone that is ahead of him in intelligence, wealth, power, and personality (well most are ahead of him in intelligence, but the rest anyway) But he has met his match in Musk. Trump is the rampaging bull, wrecking everything he can by swinging his tiny tiny horns around, while Musk is the bullfighter, killing with targeted strikes. Musk will end up completely controlling this government, no doubt in my mind, mainly because he is intelligent enough and has the power wealth and influence to fully manipulate Trump. He figured this out during the campaign, and now he has Trump where he wants him. His methods are perfectly attuned to keeping Trump in line. Trump hates to be called out publicly in any way, so Musk does just that to get under his skin. Then he will give Trump the alternative he wants, and let's Trump take it and run with it to stroke his ego. It happened with the government funding bill exactly that way. It will happen again and again. Don't kid yourself, this is Musk's presidency, not Trumps.

Ironically it is the opposite of what many of us hoped when Trump was first elected in 2016. We had hoped he would be all bluster and no substance and that the "adults" in the room on the republican side would actually run things. Then it turned out that Trump was a force of nature, and the republicans proved they are not adults and have no spine and became complete lap dogs as Trump rode a wave of populism to dictator status among the republican politicians. Now we have someone who is going to run the government through Trump, but it turns out it is an idealogue that is far far worse than Trump. Instead of a group of Washington insiders secretly running things in a more or less reasoned manner with Trump as a figure head, we get a borderline personality disordered individual living in his own world of self-aggrandizement operating Trump like a puppet with his hand firmly in Trump's rectum. The possible best case turned into the absolute worst case. We are ****ed.
 
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BabyPeterzz said:
I learned recently that Sade is actually the name of the band and not just the singer Sade Adu. That blew my mind!
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She has such an easy-to-listen-to voice, and the band is arranged perfectly for her.

Quincy Jones, who as far as I know had nothing to do with Sade, said of his own arrangements that he always tried to leave enough space in the music for Jesus to walk through the room. Those old Sade tracks embody that philosophy, and they're timeless because of it. I can appreciate the musicianship of frenetic jazz, and there are many metal bridge solos that hold a high place, but the simplicity around that sultry voice is something special.
 
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The Musk Nazi salute was meant for the proud boys and oath keepers who were recently pardoned of their crimes.
Stand back and stand by guys
 
fishonjazz said:
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DC judges slam Trump pardons as 'revisionist myth,' 'will not change the truth' of Jan. 6

In the days since President Donald Trump handed down pardons and commutations for the more than 1,500 of his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have remained essentially silent while signing off...
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On Wednesday, three judges with the D.C. District Court broke that silence on Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, with one eviscerating Trump's proclamation that stated he was righting a "national injustice" that occurred through the prosecution of the pro-Trump mob.

"No 'national injustice' occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election," Judge Beryl Howell, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said in an order Wednesday. "No 'process of national reconciliation' can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity."

She added, "That merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other poor losers and undermines the rule of law. Yet, this presidential pronouncement of a 'national injustice' is the sole justification provided in the government's motion to dismiss the pending indictment."

"What occurred that day is preserved for the future through thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury verdicts, and judicial opinions analyzing and recounting the evidence through a neutral lens," Kollar-Kotelly wrote. "Those records are immutable and represent the truth, no matter how the events of January 6 are described by those charged or their allies."

"What role law enforcement played that day and the heroism of each officer who responded also cannot be altered or ignored," she said.

"Grossly outnumbered, those law enforcement officers acted valiantly to protect the Members of Congress, their staff, the Vice President and his family, the integrity of the Capitol grounds, and the Capitol Building-our symbol of liberty and a symbol of democratic rule around the world," she added. "For hours, those officers were aggressively confronted and violently assaulted. More than 140 officers were injured. Others tragically passed away as a result of the events of that day. But law enforcement did not falter. Standing with bear spray streaming down their faces, those officers carried out their duty to protect."

She closed her order, stating bluntly, "All of what I have described has been recorded for posterity, ensuring that what transpired on January 6, 2021 can be judged accurately in the future."


Later Wednesday, the federal judge who oversaw Trump's criminal case related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election joined the growing chorus of judges breaking their silence.

"No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," said Judge Tanya Chutkan, another Obama appointee, in a brief order granting the dismissal of one rioter's criminal case. "The dismissal of this case cannot undo the 'rampage [that] left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage.' ... And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America's sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.

"In hundreds of cases like this one over the past four years, judges in this district have administered justice without fear or favor," she added. "The historical record established by those proceedings must stand, unmoved by political winds, as a testament and as a warning."

From the comments: Although I voted for President Trump, I am finding it very difficult to understand how he could have pardoned individuals who were found guilty by a jury of their peers. I can only come to one sad conclusion; President Trump wanted to strut his prowess as President, and let people know that he has the power to circumvent the power of our Judicial system. I'm disappointed
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The Supreme Court and the president’s pardon power - SCOTUSblog

Correction appended. The Constitution gives the president the power “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.” In the days before Christmas, President Donald Trump used this power to pardon or commute the sentences of over 40 people, i
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fishonjazz said:
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'I Am Not Going to Apologize': Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out

In an interview with TIME, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde discussed her sermon, which has drawn death threats and prompted Trump to demand an apology
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In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater” who is “not very good at her job.”

Bishop Budde asked Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.” Trump glared and shifted uncomfortably as she spoke.

She added, “I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.”

Since her sermon drew national attention on Tuesday, Budde tells TIME she has “heard from many people who are grateful that someone was willing to speak on their behalf” as well as those who “have said they do wish me dead, and that's a little heartbreaking.”

BISHOP BUDDE: I hope that a message calling for dignity, respecting dignity, honesty, humility and kindness is resonating with people. I'm grateful for that. I'm saddened by the level of vitriol that it has evoked in others, and the intensity of it has been disheartening.

Trump called you a "Radical left hard line Trump hater." What's your response to that?

I don't hate President Trump. I strive not to hate anyone and I dare say that I am not of the 'radical left' either, whatever that means. That is not who I am.

He said you're not very good at your job.

That is for other people to judge, and so he is certainly entitled to his opinion.

And he said you should apologize. Will you apologize?

I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others.

Have you received threats? Do you feel in danger?
The real people who are in danger are those who are fearful of being deported. The real people who are in danger are the young people who feel they cannot be themselves and be safe and who are prone to all kinds of both external attacks and suicidal responses to them. So I think we should keep our eyes on the people who are really vulnerable in our society. I have a lot of support and a lot of safety around me, so no, I'm not feeling personally at risk. Although people have said they do wish me dead, and that's a little heartbreaking. It was a pretty mild sermon. It certainly wasn't a fire and brimstone sermon. It was as respectful and as universal as I could with the exception of making someone who has been entrusted with such enormous influence and power to have mercy on those who are most vulnerable.
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The problem is the vast vast vast majority of people are in it for themselves. They will help others, sure, and give of their means, like money and time, but when push comes to shove comes to prison time, the vast majority will do whatever it takes to save their own skin. Not to mention that many from that day feel they were in the right to begin with, no matter what harm it caused and continues to cause. The pardons are a slap in the face to the families of all that died as a result of the violence that day, or that continue to live with other fall-out from it. It is just Trump swinging his tiny dick around for all to see. Shameful. We are in a severe low point of American politics, maybe the lowest since the Civil War, or the race riots of the civil rights era. But even then we had people with level heads who could effect change. Where the **** are those people now?
 
Dudes. This is so ****ed up. I hope it’s a socialist/communist red flag. Cause if it’s real, why did we let it get here?

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Purported writings from Antioch High School shooter show his plans, thoughts before death

Pages of writings from the accused shooter at Antioch High School showed a layout of the school, the weapons he wanted to use and his thoughts about why he wanted to commit a shooting.
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“In one of his first sentences, Henderson wrote he "was ashamed to be Black." He was anti-Semitic in his writings and posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League, which is a neo-Nazi white supremacy group that visited Nashville this summer.

Henderson said he was inspired by Candance Owens, a conservative Black pundit who previously called Nashville home.

"Candance Owens influenced me above all each time she spoke," Henderson wrote.

His writings showed that he had been thinking about violence for a few months. He wrote his final remarks on Nov. 18.

"I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living breathing disgrace. All my (in real life) friends outgrew me act like they didn't f—ing know me. Being me was so f—ing humiliating. That's why I spend all day dissociating."”

@Al-O-Meter let’s hear the zinger on this one! How is this the libtards fault? Tan suit? Ice creams?


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BabyPeterzz said:
Dudes. This is so ****ed up. I hope it’s a socialist/communist red flag. Cause if it’s real, why did we let it get here?
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Why, indeed. I haven't heard yet, but I suspect this child, and a 17 year old boy is a child, had no strong male role model in the home. This has all the hallmarks of a child lacking a father figure, and filling the hole with some edgy awful things our culture makes available. Maybe I'm wrong and we'll come to find the kid did grow up in a loving two-parent household. Maybe, but this has the feel of a toddler playing on the freeway.
 
Saw some posts on my neighborhood Facebook group page today about how there are ICE (immigration enforcement) driving around our neighborhood.

Lots of arguing, anger, and fear was noted in the over 100 comments in the post.

Just like trump wanted. Lots of fear, division, and anger.
 
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