MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2025
Can we long endure? We'll admit it! Yesterday morning, we were surprised by something we saw.
It was 6:49 a.m.—still early on a Sunday morning. We thought we were watching a "cable news" program—but to our surprise, one of the multimillionaire "journalists" in question was now saying this:
All right. Well, with help from the Hallow app, we're going to continue our Sunday prayer series with a prayer from the Hallow app.
If you'd like to join me, you can just bow your head, and we'll start:
"Lord, thank you for the gift of life. You are a faithful father. You never abandon us in our time of need..."
The prayer continued from there. As you can see by clicking this link, the text of the prayer appeared on the screen, underneath this heading:
PRAY EVERY DAY THIS LENT
on Hallow
At 6:50, the prayer cut straight to a commercial for the Hallow app. Before the commercial ran, a moderator's voice said this:
Fox & Friends Prayer Series is brought to you by Hallow, the number 1 prayer app in the world.
For various reasons, we were surprised by what we saw. First, though, let's say this:
Stating the obvious, there's nothing unusual about prayer on a Sunday morning. It's a very common practice in this country—and there's nothing "wrong" with the practice.
Millions of people—they're our neighbors and friends; they're our fellow citizens—engage in this highly familiar practice. Stating the obvious, there's nothing "wrong" with doing so—but yesterday, we had thought we were watching a TV "cable news" program.
There is something a bit unusual bout reading prayers in that setting. Different people will have different ideas about whether it's a good idea.
For the record, the person who was reading the prayer was Rachel Campos-Duffy. She's longest running of the current co-hosts of the Fox & Friends Weekend program.
We'd describe Cam[pos-Duffy as someone who is extremely genial among her own but is often less charitable—perhaps even a bit less "Christian"—in her behavior toward others. Yesterday morning, we were a bit surprised to see her piety put on display because of what we'd already seen her do in the first hour of the Fox News Channel program.
In our view, Campos-Duffy qualifies as major morning-show on-air "talent." She's highly telegenic, but she's also spectacularly genial—though only perhaps toward her own.
Toward others, maybe not! For example, consider this:
Yesterday morning, at 6:11 a.m., Campos-Duffy had been the first person on the Fox & Friends Weekend crew to refer to Minnesota governor Tim Walz as—what else?—"Tampon Tim."
That's the gentleman's standard moniker on the Fox News Channel. Referring to Walz as "Tampon Tim" is standard, brain-dead, ugly fare from Fox News Channel superstars like Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters.
Yesterday morning, the name-calling also came from this pious Christian. And sure enough:
After Campos-Duffy introduced the segment about "Tampon Tim," acting co-host Lisa Boothe was soon sounding off. Here's the background to what happened:
A few days earlier, Walz had made a flippant remark about rooting for Tesla's stock price to plummet. In part, the flippant remark had perhaps been unwise because the Minnesota state pension fund apparently owns something approaching two million shares of Tesla stock.
On Saturday afternoon, Walz had already semi-apologized for the flippant remark—but so what? Yesterday, he was still being savaged for the remark all over the Fox propaganda realm, with his walk-back largely going unmentioned.
Possibly rendering unto Caesar, the remarkably pious Campos-Duffy mocked him as "Tampon Tim" at 6:11 a.m. This kicked off a typically flyweight pseudo-discussion in which the trio of friends went thoroughly "gossip girls." Just that quickly, the reinvented, toughened-up Boothe was saying such things as this:
CAMPOS-DUFFY (3/23/25): Did you see him decorating his Christmas tree with his wife?
BOOTHE: No. I need to see it, though. What happened?
CAMPOS-DUFFY: It must be seen, right, Charlie?
HURT: It's painful.
BOOTHE: These people—it's like a 50/50. Is he too dumb to know that he's talking about, you know, the destruction of his own state and his own people? Or does he know and he's just that evil that he doesn't care?
I don't know! 50/50.
According to Boothe, Tampon Tim may really be "just that evil." It's basically a 50/50. Boothe said she doesn't quite know.
That was Boothe, at 6:13 in the morning. Three minutes later, as part of a different pseudo-discussion, the toughened Boothe, whitened teeth flashing, decided to go there again:
CAMPOS-DUFFY: You know what, Lisa? I've interviewed FBI agents who were whistleblowers on my podcast, and they said, "I was taken off of child pedophile cases and put on [cases involving] January 6th." I mean, just think about it!
BOOTHE: Yeah, that's evil—pure evil!
Tampon Tim might be evil. According to Boothe, it plainly was pure evil when "those people" at the FBI made the alleged re-assignments in the wake of January 6 (and we stress the word "alleged").
To her credit, Boothe didn't seek the names of the (alleged) individuals who had directed this (alleged) act of (supposed) "pure evil." But the evil seemed to be everywhere with Boothe this day, until she piously bowed her head and engaged in prayer with her pious co-host.
By the way, why might "Tampon Tim" be evil? After Boothe's 50/50 assessment, the stunningly pious Campos-Duffy explained the way it works to the Fox News Channel's viewers:
CAMPOS-DUFFY: I think that what you're seeing here, this, this—it's not just Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's Elon Derangement Syndrome.
What it is, is— When you don't have religion in your life, and you replace it with politics, it drives you crazy. Because there's no—there's no comfort in politics, right? It's just not gonna happen that way.
And so, I think that that's what you're seeing. You're seeing a complete meltdown.
"Tampon Tim" doesn't have religion in his life. Luckily, Campos-Duffy does.
According to Campos-Duffy, that explains why Walz may be "just that evil." Won't you now join her in prayer?
So it went, this Sunday morning, on the nation's most-watched "cable news" channel. Briefly, we'll once again mention this:
There's absolutely nothing wrong with prayer on a Sunday morning. The practice is observed all over the world.
More specifically, there's nothing wrong with prayer from any known political perspective. In his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, Dr. King, then just 29 years old, described his devotion to "the love ethic of Jesus" again and again and again.
A century earlier, President Lincoln had described his view of the terrible events of the recent war, and of the centuries of terrible events which had led to that war:
The Almighty has His own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come. But woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
[...]
Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said: "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
Stating the obvious, there's nothing wrong with prayer, or more broadly with the adoption of a religious understanding. That said, there is something a bit unusual about adopting this practice on a "cable news" show—especially on a show which is so devoted to the practice of trashing and judging all "others."
Also, and just for the record, we'll mention this one last fact:
Hallow, "the world's #1 prayer app," is explicitly a Catholic app. We'll tell you more about the Fox & Friends "Sunday Prayer Series" as the week continues.
According to our notes, we thought of Lincoln two separate times as we watched yesterday's program. On each occasion, we thought of the question he asked at Gettysburg:
Can our American nation—or any nation "so conceived"—expect to "long endure?"
Along the way, alas! A certain awareness was forced upon us as we watched yesterday's show. Even as we watched Campos-Duffy and Boothe, we were forced to acknowledge this:
The sheer stupidity of this Fox News Channel program has routinely been matched, in recent years, by the sheer stupidity of those of us who inhabit Blue America.
In our view, yesterday's program was highly instructive. We flashed on Lincoln twice.
The second time, we thought of Lincoln as we watched videotape of a teenage girl who lives way up north and far away, way up in tiny Presque Isle, Maine.
Lincoln's astonishing brilliance emerged from a small, unlikely place. This very bright, admirably forthright young woman has emerged from another far place
The ugliness of the Fox News Channel has routinely been matched, in recent years, by the sheer stupidity which has emerged from our own Blue American nation.
It's never been easy for us Blues to see such facts about ourselves. All this week, we'll continue to discuss yesterday morning's Fox & Friends show, but we'll also be asking this question:
Can our nation—such as it is, without large change—expect to "long endure?"
Tomorrow: When did the "Prayer Series" start?
Democrats are the party defined by evil. They say words like compassion in an effort to conceal including to themselves their deeply evil agenda of abortion, promotion of sick gender ideology, and destruction of family. Those goals are their religion.
ReplyDeleteHallow is a spectacular app.
Why is Somerby surprised by this intrusion of religion into politics? Does he not understand that Christian Nationalists are behind what Trump and Musk have been doing, at the heart of Project 2025?
DeleteThat degree of religiosity is not mainstream in the US, which has always been a secular nation being careful to separate church and state (due to the bad experiences of our founding fathers in Europe). For example, the Quakers and Pilgrims and Catholics of the colonies were religious dissenters driven to a new continent by the religious persecution widespread in Europe. They were determined to avoid such troubles in the USA.
Somerby bends over backwards to say he finds nothing wrong with prayer on a political show. Good for him, but Blue America generally supports the separation between church and government. Somerby doesn't want to go there, so he pretends this is about individual religious practice, which it is not.
I find it difficult to understand why any sincerely religious person would need an app in order to pray and maintain their relationship with God. The institutionalization of religious practice represented by mandated prayers on an app is kind of scary to me because having to be told what and how to pray is antithetical to religious experience and a mainstay of authoritarian control in places where the church is part of the power structure and uses its practices to oppress people.
I find it difficult to understand why any sincerely religious person would need an app in order to pray and maintain their relationship with God.
DeleteIt is an easy way to prey on the rubes and suck up their dollars. Next question.
God is omnipotent, prayers never made any real sense, it is just a way for the powerful to control the masses and keep them compliant.
DeleteMy God Mr. Soros controls the masses and keeps them compliant.
DeleteProject 2025: The Blueprint for Christian Nationalist Regime Change
DeleteRecall this is the blueprint that the orange chickenshit looked the American people straight in the eye and denied having any interest in it.
"I find it difficult to understand why any sincerely religious person would need an app in order to pray and maintain their relationship with God."
DeleteBegging the question. No one "needs" an app. The app offers inspiration, education, homilies, catechesis, and various prayers and meditations that Catholics often engage in alone or at Church in groups such as the rosary, chaplets or novenas. Additionally those involving recitation of prayers in a certain order that many do not have memorized and where audio guidance is helpful.
"God is omnipotent, prayers never made any real sense, it is just a way for the powerful to control the masses and keep them compliant."
DeleteGo off, edgelord.
Believers in Jesus and the like are the "edgelords", when the rubber hits the road they do not actually believe in their religion's nonsense, never actually following all the bizarre rules and rituals, instead they are in a cult and shove their religion in other people's faces as a way to assert some strange sense of dominance and to attain some strange sense of emotional comfort from the disasters of their lives - which itself is a function of their religion and of the wealthy/powerful class.
DeleteWhen the power of the wealthy is diminished, so too is diminished the interest in religion.
I recently deleted a "prayer" app from my mother-in-law's phone. (It wasn't Hallow.) The app was clear malware. It constantly bombarded the user with sales pitches for additional products and spawned "warning" screens claiming the phone was full of viruses--which could be removed with a subscription!
DeleteYes, there are legit religious groups in the world. There are also hucksters who use religion as a mask for gulling the unwitting public.
It is an easy way to prey on the rubes and suck up their dollars. Next question.
DeleteAnon@11:45: In all likelihood, that was a rhetorical question from Bob.
Bob is notorious for his slippery and coy stances.
DeleteToday's right wing christians are a weird lot, never intoning the sermon on the mount or any other nice teaching of Jesus. Mostly just being cruel like in the first book. Fugly fake pious folks.
Delete1:05 displays her ignorant Netflix-obtained philosophy.
DeleteDoes it not occur to you Einsteins that Fox News isn’t trying to propagate religion by having on- air prayer sessions. These money changers are propagating a dollar in their pocket by staging a televised prayer session via a paid subscription service they are paid to advertise.
DeleteOnce they get you to believe in God, it's easy to get you believe any old nonsense.
DeleteAnonymouse 5:00pm, you don’t have to believe in God to be a wild-eyed zealot-believer. You just have to believe that human nature is endlessly malleable.
DeleteI used to think that the local businesses highlighted on the mid morning or early afternoon local news broadcasts were there to inform us, and help the businesses. Then learned from a entrepreneurial buddy that they charged him $6,000 for the spot. It is all a big racket I tells ya.
DeleteForgot to add the above comment was a response to Cecelia's 4:41 post.
DeleteArty, indeed.
Delete"Another horror story of a law abiding foreigner visiting this nation being detained in harsh conditions by ICE has emerged. Becky Burke is a UK citizen who published comics under the name R.E. Burke. She has no criminal record anywhere.
ReplyDeleteIn early January she legally came to the United States on a tourist visa. She stayed with a host families, as part of a cultural exchange programs, and helped out with household chores. She also enjoyed backpacking trips in the Pacific Northwest. Before coming she researched and made sure this was regarded as a legitimate use of the tourist visa, which does not allow someone to work in the United States. She had done precisely this arrangement in prior visits to the United States without issue.
While here she attempted to go to Canada but officials in Canada told her she had the wrong visa for that country and should get another one. On February 26 she attempted to return to the United States to catch a flight back to England. While going through the usual processing she was detained by ICE. It seems that after her January arrival in America ICE changed its mind and decided that helping out with household chores of a sponsor was not permitted on a tourist visa because it was work.
Rather than simply deport her back to England, or allow her to voluntarily leave as she planned to do, ICE detained her, in harsh some would say inhumane, conditions for nearly three weeks. She was not released until her case became a major media story in England and British diplomats made pushing for her release a priority."
And what is Somerby worrying about this morning? Nothing important, that I can see. He craps on some Fox News person then calls "Blue America" just as bad (without any evidence). Meanwhile hapless tourists are being harrassed to the point that our tourist industry is way down. So are income tax revenues (about 10%) which will affect our debt.
Why is Somerby so narrowly focused on nonsense that he cannot see, much less talk about, any real problems facing our nation? It is as if he only dredges up some complaint against Fox in order to say something bad about Blue America (without having to do any research). This has been his pattern, day after day. He used to talk about real issues but hasn't done that since Trump came on the scene back in 2015.
Somerby is another symptom of something horribly wrong in our country, largely emanating from the right. This blog has become a toxic place with nothing to offer those of us who are worrying about our democracy and our own rights as citizens under our constitution. All other liberals have been sounding the alarm, except for Somerby, who has nothing to say to any of us except that we are just as bad as those calling Walz "Tampon Tim," as if tampons, Walz or name-calling were any sort of problem while our president becomes more demented every day. And no, mental illness is not dementia. Dementia is a word Somerby appears to be unable to say. Why?
Dumb comment.
DeleteYou mean yours?
Delete11:22 well said.
DeleteIt's dumb because it introduces a complete non sequitur about ICE detaining a UK tourist which isn't logically relevant or connected to Somerby’s critique in any way. Then it incoherently jumps from “Somerby didn’t cover this ICE story” to “he’s part of what’s wrong with America” which makes no logical sense at all and then it devolves into ad hominem, attacking Somerby personally. It's a failure of logic and reason that dodges the argument with an irrelevant comparison and personal attacks. It's a fourth grade level comment. Childish and dumb through and through.
DeleteThank you, 2;26.
DeleteYour response begs the question, how is 11:22's comment not a member of the Trump Cabinet, yet?
lol. Trump probably hasn't been introduced to the comment yet. Give it time.
DeleteSpace X is primarily a company that facilitates Starlink.
ReplyDelete70% of Space X launches are for Starlink satellites.
Starlink is intended to provide internet in rural areas where it is too costly or difficult to run cables.
Starlink satellites are rapidly failing, falling out of orbit back to earth to the tune of about 100/month.
Now Musk wants to overhaul the FAA, replacing our current and safe air traffic system with an untested Starlink system. Starlink does not even match our air traffic needs, we are not suffering from lack of internet service. Starlink does not have a good track record, clearly Musk is desperate for more government handouts; Musk is leveraged to the hilt, he needs government handouts to cover his massive loans.
Google Kessler syndrome. Musk will destroy GPS, satellite communications, etc. What a mess.
DeleteThe Great Commission: In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus commands his disciples to "go and make disciples of all nations," which implies sharing the message of Christ openly, beyond private circles. This sets a foundation for public proclamation as a core part of following Him.
ReplyDeleteBoldness in Public: In Acts 4:29-31, after Peter and John faced threats for preaching, they prayed for boldness to continue speaking God’s word. The Holy Spirit filled them, and they "spoke the word of God boldly." This shows that proclaiming Christ publicly, even under pressure, is Spirit-empowered and expected.
Not Ashamed: Paul writes in Romans 1:16, "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes." This reflects a call to share Christ unapologetically in any setting, including public ones, trusting its transformative power.
Preaching Everywhere: In Mark 16:15, Jesus says, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."
Jesus warns in Matthew 10:32-33, "Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father." This ties public confession of Christ to faithfulness, suggesting it’s not optional despite risks like persecution from internet atheists.
Our constitution guarantees freedom of religion from govt interference, regardless of faith. Our laws protect religious diversity by declaring persecution based on religion to be a hate crime. This applies to all citizens, not just Christians, even when a religion mandates that it be placed above other religions and peoples. Christianity is protected but not privileged in the USA. Most of us want it to remain that way.
DeleteThere may or may not be a god/gods.
DeleteJesus is a myth.
The Gospels are stories.
Christianity is a weird cult, where you must put aside reality, evidence, and science, and follow the bizarre notions of a small group of backwater lunatics.
In most societies - including America, you can believe whatever you want, you can proclaim your beliefs however much you want, but Republican Christians want to force others to follow their weird cult, they want to control the minds of others.
Christianity threw human culture into the Dark Ages, we have slowly been crawling our way out of the Christian abyss since the Enlightenment.
America was founded on Enlightenment ideology, which has problems, but is a vast improvement over Christianity, and theocracy in general.
DeleteMr. Soros is my God.
"Christianity threw human culture into the Dark Ages, we have slowly been crawling our way out of the Christian abyss since the Enlightenment."
DeleteGet in loser, because we're going back. What you call the Dark Ages were the Enlightenment and what you call the Enlightenment was a return to pre-civilization.
Galileo would like a word about the "enlightenment"
DeleteAs a non religious multi millionaire without skeletons in the closet, in stark contrast to the fake piety of most "Christians", going to have to offer a friendly chuckle to 12:24. The most religious areas of America are also where the highest rates of vice, poverty, and crime occur. Studies show that the happiest and healthiest countries are the countries with the least amount of religiosity.
DeleteSociety took a blow when Christianity became dominant, the Enlightenment was a pivot point for society, turning away from the misery of the dark times of Christianity.
America was founded on Enlightenment principles.
Your ignorance about history is unsurprising.
DeleteEnlightenment is a tool of the white supremacism.
White Supremacy arose from Catholicism in Spain.
DeleteChristianity was used to justify racial chattel slavery.
Leaning into your ignorance does not help your lost case.
DeleteYour racist "Enlightenment" doesn't impress anyone.
ReplyDeleteKeep watching Fox News, Bob. In this post your massive TDS was totally invisible! Great progress!
Anyhow. Keep draining the swamp Mr. President. Don't stop, please.
Republican Christians chose Barabbas over Jesus; their "Christianity" is a fraud.
ReplyDeleteThe least surprising thing ever is the guy who wanted to legislate "TDS" as a way of throwing people into mental wards, has been arrested for being a pedo.
When Republicans whine about TDS, they are just trying to mask their own culpability in the massive amount of child abuse that goes on in America, primarily among Republicans/right wingers.
You seem confused. TDS is a preoccupation with Donald J. Trump manifesting as bizarre delusions and behavior.
DeleteClassic case is the current Tesla terrorism. The group that pretended to care about "climate" for decades in order to advance an agenda having nothing to do with "climate," and which pretends to oppose "violence" is not violently attacking Tesla dealerships and owners because its founder is a heroic innovator of EV technology and a Trump supporter. The top selling EV in the US and world for years is the enemy of Democrats who can't control their unhinged emotion.
TDS is real and sad, and those offenders must be imprisoned for their own safety and that of others. Those who have not yet committed terrorism connected to Tesla are ticking time bombs who will open fire at a congressional baseball game or a Christian school.
So you agree that EV's are going to reduce air pollution?
Delete12:32 you are truly confused.
DeleteMusk is likely behind the vandalism, a type of insurance fraud, he has done similar acts.
Nissan was the first worldwide successful EV, beating Tesla by a decade. Tesla is not the top selling EV anymore, it held that position very briefly. Tesla is getting stomped by better brands like BYD, but Tesla is also getting stomped because it is led by a Nazi lunatic.
Republicans that whine about TDS are in reality trying to cover for their own misdeeds, particularly with children.
Trump raped a 13yo girl, Musk ignores his children while sexually harassing his employees, and the Republicans shouting "TDS" on the street corners keep getting arrested for abusing minors.
DeleteWow, Corby. But what happened to your own imaginary Tesla, Corby? Remember? It was your greatest imaginary car ever.
1:29 I really do feel bad for you. Really.
Deletewomp womp
Anonymouse 1:26pm, right, and don’t leave out the Proud Boys as being behind Tesla vandalism, because like Antifa, liberal vandals don’t exit.
DeleteMy TDS levels were at dangerously low levels recently until I remembered all the evidence that the 2020 election was stolen.
DeleteNow I'm healthy as a horse!
Trump Lickspittle Syndrome is killing this country.
DeleteNot Funny. “Walz said he was rooting for Tesla's stock price to plummet. In part, the flippant remark had perhaps been unwise because the Minnesota state pension owns s lot of Tesla stock”
ReplyDeleteThere are two other reasons why Walz’s comment was unwise. It’s OK for an ordinary person to hope Tesla Corp does badly. But a prominent politician should root for the SUCCESS of any American auto company. And today there are crazy people attacking Teslas, Tesla owners and Tesla dealers. Walz’s joke encouraged this violence.
fuck you, Dickhead. Since when were you concerned about reckless statements by a politician provoking violence?
DeletePresident Donald Trump has revoked security protection for former top US health official Anthony Fauci, who has faced death threats since leading the country's Covid-19 response.
Delete"You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you work for government," Trump told reporters, when asked about the decision on Friday. "It's very standard."
This week, Trump also revoked security protections for his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, his former National Security Adviser John Bolton and former envoy Brian Hook, who all faced threats from Iran.
It is always a good idea to announce VERY PUBLICLY your vindictive decision to arbitrarily remove security protection for persons who have been receiving hateful death threats from your political supporters, eh, Dickhead?
Walz’ joke is funnier than he thinks. The goof is the head of the Minnesota State Board of Investment.
DeleteFauci has made so much bank on lying to Americans he can afford his own security.
Delete12:33, do you have any idea why so many people are upset with unconstitutional illegals acts taken by Musk and his company of cyber-nerds?
DeleteBots are not people, Soros-bot @12:46 PM.
Delete"Walz’ joke is funnier than he thinks."
DeleteJust a reminder: a joke by definition is unserious.
"a prominent politician should root for the SUCCESS of any American auto company."
Delete1/9/24:
"Donald Trump says he hopes economy tanks this election year 'because I don't want to be Herbert Hoover'"
Ha ha ha.
The pious, if perhaps somewhat hypocritical, Fox personalities, were justified in mocking Walz for his dumb statement, but, as pious followers of Jesus, they weren't justified in mocking him as "tampon Tim" - a nasty school yard taunt. Apparently, to some, mocking Trump for his constant crazy claims means one has "TDS."
DeleteAnonymouse 12:53pm, true, but so is the idiom “the joke is on you”.
DeleteActually, no, the 'joke is on you' despite containing the word 'joke' in it, is not a joke and therefore is serious.
DeleteAnonymouse 1:08pm, then there goes Walz’s alibi.
Delete"Tampon Tim" is not a taunt, it's his nickname, in the shows Bob likes watching. Same as Bob calling Donald Trump "the Commander".
DeleteTampon Tim is derisive, but not nasty and offensive. Tampons are products that are widely advertised and were dangled from the ears of female news personalities and congresswomen as a signal of abortion rights support.
DeleteTesla has lost about a trillion dollars in valuation this year.
DeleteThe joke is on Republicans and their blind defense of Musk.
Anonymouse 1:19pm, you mean the Fox shows that Bob likes ripping to shreds. I know you never got Bob’s critical take on MSNBC shows confused with “enjoying” them.
Delete
DeleteIf you keep watching a show day after day after day for months and years, I believe I am allowed to call it "the show you like watching".
Anonymouse 1:28pm, Musk had to know that was coming and if he didn’t then it was because he wasn’t listening to other people who were telling him it would happen. Musk can feel rightfully angry at attacks on his customers’ vehicles or cat lots, in the other hand, he took a calculated risk as to effect his new job would have on his pocketbook.
DeleteAnonymouse 1:33pm, no, Bob has started watching Fox News and ripping it in the past two years. MAYBE two years. Before that he was ripping blue media and no anonymouse ever confused those blogs with admiration or pleasure in MSNBC contents.
DeleteSurely we are two weeks away from a beautiful health plan.
DeleteContext matters.
You can take a conman's word at face value if you want, more power to you, but don't expect others to do the same, you'll just feel frustrated and rage post silly comments.
...his new job...
DeleteBwahahaha!!!!! Good one, crazy lady.
Anonymouse 1:59pm, “new hobby”… “new gig… scam… suit yourself.
DeleteThat's not up to me, crazy lady. But we wouldn't want to be too specific, else he might have to haul his lying ass in front of Congress and 'splain what the fuck he is doing.
DeleteAnonymouse 2:48, “we wouldn’t want to get too specific”? I was specific in calling it Musk’s new job. You thought that was cagey. As I said, you can call Musk’s position anything you wish and you can be specific or not.
DeleteI don't give a fuck what you call it, crazy lady. I care what our government calls it, and so far they haven't bothered to call it anything - not wanting to paint themselves into a corner, you know what I mean?
DeleteAnonymouse 3:59pm- here’s what you wrote (in your italics) . ...”his new job … disingenuous putz lady.
DeleteI was laughing at you, crazy lady, trying to normalize this crazy shit by calling it a "job". The "bwahahaha!!" might have given you a clue. And here you are still clinging to your insanity. I can't cure dumb fucks like you.
DeleteAnonymouse 4:07pm, here you go again saying you don’t give an -f what Musk is called, but you do care if the description seems to “normalize” him. You care a lot about what is said around here and all the profanity and mad scientist laughter attests to that. Go beat up your girlfriend or something.
DeleteI'd miss Cecelia's 1000s of posts telling us she doesn't care what we think, if they went away.
DeleteAnonymouse 5:28pm, you should miss being able to read. Ive never said that I don’t care what anonymices say on this board. I wouldn’t read it if I didn’t care.
Deletececilia 1:24, I disagree. "tampon Tim" is nasty, and cruel. It's like calling him a fag. It's disgraceful that talking heads on a major news TV outlet call him that. it's shear schoolyard bullying taunting.
DeleteTrump is anti American, the anti Christ incarnate.
ReplyDeleteThere is growing concern that Musk is behind the vandalism at his dealerships, as part of insurance fraud.
ReplyDeleteMusk did something similar in Canada recently, when the government subsidies were ending, suddenly Musk claimed that for two days he was selling a Tesla every few seconds, LOL!
Musk is a fraud, a snake oil salesman.
The Tesla owners professing their delight over their vehicles and the rescue of the 2 astronauts stranded by Biden at the ISS were staged.
DeleteTesla owners are suffering from poor build quality of the vehicles they bought/leased, it is embarrassing to have parts of your vehicle fly off as you drive down the road, but it is more embarrassing for others to know you bought a vehicle from a Nazi out to destroy our country, which is why they are selling their Teslas or changing out the branding logos.
DeleteIt was Boeing that stranded the astronauts, their return was actually facilitated by Biden. There is nothing extraordinary about rockets/shuttles going to and from the ISS, it's been routinely going on for years.
Recently a rocket/space company successfully landed a capsule on the moon; Space X can't even get a rocket with a payload into orbit, they recently had their 9th failure. Space X is a fraud, even more than Tesla.
Nazis, back when they existed, built the best cars, Corby. Everyone would be happy to buy a vehicle from a Nazi.
DeleteRepublicans are out to destroy our country to benefit a handful of billionaires.
DeleteYet Somerby keeps whistling his same dumb right wing tune, without a sincere or genuine care in the world.
DeleteThere’s nothing you can do about it.
DeleteShe can keep whining and complaining.
DeleteWhat does that do about it?
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DeleteAbout what? It's a performance. Ritualistic chanting of mantras. Don't they make it clear, by copy-pasting the same idiotic drivel several time a day every day?
Literally no one who owns a Tesla is embarrassed to drive a Tesla. Shrieking angry and mentally ill boomer Democrats do not affect the self-esteem of normal people. It would be a badge of honor.
DeleteBeautiful car, fun, excellent range, high performance. I would add "and I'm saving the environment" but truthfully I don't care about that part.
@1:36 is in desperate need of education. Or she could just be a typical Democrat liar.
DeleteSpaceX rockets, primarily the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, have delivered a wide variety of payloads to orbit since the company’s first successful orbital launch in 2010. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the types of payloads they’ve delivered:
1. Starlink Satellites
Details: SpaceX has been launching its Starlink satellites since 2019 to build a global internet constellation. As of September 2024, over 7,000 Starlink satellites are in low Earth orbit (LEO), with plans to deploy nearly 12,000 and potentially up to 34,400.
Purpose: These satellites provide global broadband internet access, communicating with ground transceivers.
Notable Missions:
The first batch of 60 operational Starlink satellites was launched in May 2019.
SpaceX has launched Starlink satellites in numerous missions, often deploying 20–60 satellites per launch.
Starshield, a military variant of Starlink, has also been deployed for the U.S. government, including four national security satellites on the Transporter-3 rideshare mission in January 2022.
2. International Space Station (ISS) Cargo
Details: SpaceX has been delivering cargo to the ISS since 2012 under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program using the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft.
Purpose: These missions deliver supplies, scientific experiments, and equipment to the ISS and return cargo to Earth.
Notable Missions:
The first commercial resupply mission to the ISS launched on October 8, 2012 (SpaceX CRS-1), which was a partial success due to a secondary payload being stranded in a lower orbit.
SpaceX CRS-7 in 2015 was a failure, with the rocket disintegrating in flight.
As of March 2025, SpaceX has conducted numerous successful CRS missions, contributing to its high success rate.
3. Crewed Missions to the ISS
Details: Starting in 2020, SpaceX began transporting astronauts to the ISS under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program using the Crew Dragon spacecraft atop Falcon 9 rockets.
Purpose: To ferry astronauts to and from the ISS, marking the first commercial rocket to launch humans to orbit.
Notable Missions:
The first crewed mission, Demo-2, launched on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the ISS.
Subsequent missions like Crew-1, Crew-2, and beyond have continued to transport international crews to the ISS.
4. Commercial Satellites
Details: SpaceX has launched a variety of commercial satellites for telecommunications, Earth observation, and other purposes.
Examples:
SES Satellites: SpaceX has launched multiple satellites for SES, such as SES-8 (2013) and SES-9 (2016), for global communications.
Iridium NEXT Constellation: Between 2017 and 2019, SpaceX launched 75 Iridium NEXT satellites across eight missions to provide global satellite communications.
Globalstar: In June 2022, SpaceX launched a group of four U.S. satellites with an on-orbit spare Globalstar FM-15 satellite.
5. Government and Military Payloads
Details: SpaceX has launched payloads for the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense and other agencies.
Examples:
Space Development Agency (SDA): SpaceX builds and launches customized military satellites based on the Starlink bus for the SDA, primarily for missile defense and observation platforms.
GPS III Satellites: SpaceX has launched several GPS III satellites for the U.S. Space Force, such as GPS III-3 in June 2020.
NRO Missions: SpaceX has launched classified payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), including NROL-76 in 2017 and NROL-108 in 2020.
6. Rideshare Missions
DeleteDetails: SpaceX’s Transporter missions are dedicated rideshare launches that carry multiple small satellites for various customers.
Examples:
Transporter-1 (2021): Set a record by launching 143 satellites in a single mission, including CubeSats, microsatellites, and other small payloads.
Transporter-3 (2022): Included four U.S. national security satellites alongside other smallsats.
These missions often include payloads from universities, startups, and government agencies.
7. Scientific and Research Payloads
Details: SpaceX has launched payloads for scientific research, often as secondary payloads or part of larger missions.
Examples:
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test): Launched in November 2021 for NASA, this mission tested planetary defense by impacting an asteroid.
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite): Launched in April 2018 for NASA to search for exoplanets.
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer): Launched in December 2021 for NASA to study X-ray emissions from cosmic sources.
8. Lunar and Deep Space Missions
Details: While most SpaceX missions target LEO or geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), some payloads have been sent to lunar or deep space trajectories.
Examples:
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C Lander: Launched in February 2024 as part of NASA’s CLPS program, this was the first U.S. lunar landing since Apollo.
Hakuto-R Mission 1: Launched in December 2022 for ispace, a Japanese lunar exploration company, though the lander failed to achieve a soft landing.
Psyche Mission: Launched in October 2023 for NASA to study a metal-rich asteroid.
9. Other Payloads
Details: SpaceX has also launched unique or experimental payloads.
Examples:
Tesla Roadster: Launched on the inaugural Falcon Heavy flight in February 2018, Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster was sent into a heliocentric orbit as a dummy payload.
AMOS-6: A communications satellite for Spacecom, which was destroyed in a pre-flight explosion during a static fire test in 2016.
Summary of Payload Delivery Capacity
In 2023, SpaceX delivered approximately 1,200 tonnes (2,600,000 lb) to orbit across 96 launches.
In 2024, this increased to over 1,498 tonnes (3,303,000 lb) across 134 launches, though only 85.5% of those launches had reported masses.
Success Rate and Failures
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 family has a 99.35% success rate across 465 launches as of March 2025, with notable failures including:
SpaceX CRS-7 (2015): In-flight failure, loss of ISS cargo.
AMOS-6 (2016): Pre-flight destruction during a static fire test.
Starlink Group 9–3 (2024): In-flight failure, the only failure of the Falcon 9 Block 5 variant.
SpaceX CRS-1 (2012): Partial failure, with a secondary payload stranded in a lower orbit.
SpaceX’s ability to deliver diverse payloads—ranging from commercial satellites to human crews, military assets, and deep space missions—has solidified its position as a leader in the space industry, with a focus on reusability and high launch cadence
That's all fantastic. And yet DOGE still had to take down ten of their top twelve (by dollar amount) items on their Wall of Receipts because they were wrong, one mistake being to count in the billions instead of the millions.
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DeleteAgree, that the 2nd Amendment has outlived it's usefulness..
I’m reminded that Trump and the entire right wing population of the US despised EV’s, until Musk became a die hard trumper. Now Trump and Hannity et al can’t sing their praises enough. Funny how sheeplike the trumpers are, with no principle except “whatever trump likes today”, which is determined by whoever praised him most recently or gave him sacks of cash.
DeleteAnonymouse 7:35pm, so, Pot, you’ve been introduced to Kettle.
DeleteFalse. Trump still doesn't like EV and hasn't pretended otherwise. He does love his new son, Elon.
DeleteCalling someone Corby because you disagree with what they say isn't really any kind of argument.
DeleteUkraine is still going strong, same with inflation, the genocide of Palestinians, Trump engaging in military action (killing children), and Republicans cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
ReplyDeleteWho knew?
Energy source cost per megawatt hour.
ReplyDeleteCoal
2010 $111
2020 $109
Nuclear
2010 $123
2020 $155
Wind
2010 $135
2020 $41
Solar
2010 $359
2020 $40
The trend is clear.
I don't know about you but I was always a liberal because we are the party that defends the system and status quo.
ReplyDeleteTSLA is skyrocketing today not because legacy Model Y is flying off the shelves, which it is, or because unsupervised FSD is going to be a complete and thrilling gamechanger, but because investors know that people who buy the Tesla brand LOVE their cars and will buy it again and again.
ReplyDeleteNo one is buying Model Y, Tesla sales are waaaaaaaay down, and Tesla's FSD does not work (because it only uses cameras, other self driving systems work because they use cameras plus lidar).
DeleteApparently you do not understand how the stock market works.
TSLA was at 488 3 months ago, now it is ranging around 250-275, TSLA has lost about a trillion dollars in valuation, in a very short amount of time.
TSLA P/E is about 300% over it's sector average, it is a pump and dump stock. it will go up and down, but overall it goes down.
TSLA is a pump and dump stock, if you got conned, sadly, that is on you.
Personally, I only invest into Mr. Soros' hedge funds.
DeleteCurrency speculations helped by anti-government coups hardly ever fail.
Even Tesla insiders are dumping their stock, with all the top Tesla executives selling off.
DeleteSinking ship.
DeleteThat's nothing. Tesla cars now have a gadget that sells Tesla stock while driving.
TSLA at 278 and climbing today, dummy.
DeleteThe stock market is a real statement of the value of stock and the economy.
DeleteWhy else do you think the mainstream media ignored the stock market gains, and instead focused on inflation in an election year?
Got to love critically responding to a post noting Tesla stock has plummeted and is now hovering around 250 to 275; and the snotty response is it is up to 275 libturd!!! Can't fix the stupid.
Delete$278, which is $100 higher than this date last year.
Delete"Tampon Tim" is rude, but it's not as rude as the awful things Dems call Trump.
ReplyDeleteYou mean like Dickweed Don or Douchebag Don or Orange Chickenshit or the Tender Tendoned Wonder or the Fat Fascist or Uncle Stupid?
DeleteIs that what you're referring to?
Which of these names are you referring to, David?
DeleteFuckhead.
President McRapey.
Failed real estate investor from Queens.
Tiny-handed rapist.
Self-admitted sexual predator.
Or are you confusing couch-fucker, JD Vance, with a Dem, who called Trump "Hitler".
President McRapey is cute.
DeleteA coworker called the Convicted Felon (not name calling, a fact) Don VonShitzhizpantz. Is that what you were looking for David?
DeleteDraft dodger works.
DeleteWhich Democrats called him names, David?
DeleteCheetos Jesus? Is that one?
DeleteShort-fingered vulgarian. That's definitely one.
DeleteBlow-dried bonobo.
DeleteTesla has the biggest market capitalization of any auto company in the world. And it isn't close. Its closest rival, Toyota has $278 billion. Tesla has $895 billon.
ReplyDeleteOkay, take a few deep breaths and use your hand to fan yourself. A man with such a large capitalization is terribly exciting to you, we all can tell.
DeleteThere. Now what was your point?
What would DOGE's capitalization be if they went public as an auditing firm? Based on their performance so far?
Delete@6:47 -- My point was to emphasize how remarkable Musk's accomplishments were in starting Tesla. Not to mention his other remarkable achievements. Americans are incredibly fortunate to have probably the best manager in the world voluntarily working to improve the work done by the Executive Branch of the US Government.
DeleteThere is no evidence Musk is a good manager, much less the best in the world. Money is not an indicator of that, especially when it is obtained in unethical and illegal ways, such as the corruption involved in his current conflicts of interest.
DeleteThe average PE ratio for U.S. auto manufacturers is around 6.36;
DeleteTesla PE Ratio: 134.41 for March 24, 2025.
That may be one reason why Tesla's market capitalization is so out of whack.
We have had the president turn the WH into a car commercial for Tesla. The Commerce Secretary goes on some right-wing podcast and corruptly starts hawking Tesla stocks.
Old enough to remember the predicted demise of X after Elon fired 90% of its employees. It is now the best social media app in existence and is worth $44 billion now, more than when he bought it.
ReplyDelete"best" only if you like cesspools full of racists and Nazis
DeleteX is a cesspool. Dogshit.
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DeleteWhat's with the stupid all the time from you idiots? Also what does the valuation of a company have to do with illegally eliminating democracy?
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