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I would also like to point out that this is not what environmental impact studies do. An EIS is actually used primarily to determine what existing conditions need to be mitigated through development. It isn't an independently authored document that can be used to block development; it exists solely to determine what requirements will be made of a developer once a project is approved by zoning authorities.

That;s not what I'm seeing. Obviously, the problem is with you and your phone browser.

Damn right it is.

Butt seriously.... The shock of this and the proximity to Trump's recent 60 Minutes settlement have everyone rightly looking in his direction, and there is no question that Trump has a hand in this even if it might not be explicit or direct. However, the fact that a highly rated and fairly popular iteration of a 70 year old concept is losing money on a major network suggests that the problem isn't with the program or the formula, its with the audience as a whole. Late night talk shows, and variety shows in general, have become obsolete in an age where all forms of topical comedy have been digested into YouTube, Threads, and TikTok videos. It's not so much that people have shortened their attention spans as much as online video platforms have replaced aspects of how users collect and digest their entertainment. Colbert would know doubt thrive on an online comedy platform like Funny or Die or College Humor where his content can be built around short comedic takes.

I also wonder if anyone will actually pay the settlements he's "won" when he inevitably doesn't wake up from a nap?

How do you feel about prank videos where people jump out of trash cans to give unsuspecting janitors heart attacks?

I don't know what they fuck you think you're looking at, but it I don't see any part of any paragraph blocked by anything.

That way no one gets suspicious when you walk away with another backpack.

dude wtf?

Sure, Kenna, it's your bag and your tea.

Running with a stolen backpack while thump typing on a Consumer Cellular brick phone is mighty hard work. Give the gal a break, Pooh.

Why the hell are you running to the Dollar Tree? Was there a wallet full of singles in that backpack you stole?

You guys are completely missing the point here. He's telling us that bullshit story about fences and smoking employees to distract us from the face he really wants to steal that backpack and the mostly empty bottles of iced tea. What's in that backpack, @The Evil Dr. Longshadow?

I am too. But not like Fuggs.

It's pretty easy to make a gif with the standard iPhone camera app.

There's no such thing as a regular cat.

AI actually makes him look... pleasant.

No, I don't.

Why?

Works for me. I want a giant dick too, you know.

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Absolutely. Look... to say Musk doesn't have a cult of personality is ridiculous. He does and, prior to his misadventures at DOGE, it was a healthy cult owing much to the fact that he was able to draw from the rich conservative tech sector and still harness the 20 something white males who relate to his social media persona. He got Trump elected by convincing a lot of these same Gen Zers that Trump was a more stable option than VP Harris. Whether he could do that now is debatable after Trump gave him a bullhorn to express his own latent white nationalist tendencies, but his downfall is entirely of his own making, not that of either Miller or Trump, because the voting demographic that pushed Trump over the top does is entirely from his CoP and does not include idiots like catturd or Laura Loomer. The problem here is that you're under the assumption that all disaffected white crybabies are the same. Miller isn't driving anything, he's acting as an avatar for the ardent racists out there who, in turn, are the ones exerting some kind of force on Trump. Musk doesn't represent white nationalists, but he does speak to his own bunch of racist followers who, unlike the white nationalists, don't want to advertise their bigotry. They all agree that women and POC are unfairly taking their privileges away from them; they just don't agree on how to do it. The truth is we're not hearing from Musk's group because they're not the type to publicly out their racism, but they most certainly haven't gone away either. The whole third party thing is a farce on its own, but it doesn't say anything about Musk's cult and its reticent devotees. Neither Trump nor Musk has a cult on par with what we would expect from, say, a Roman emperor (who literally had his own religious institution) or a dictator who would rewrite a constitution so he doesn't contend with elections (something military juntas do frequently). Whether they want to admit it or not, neither man is loved for themselves, they are loved for what they represent and that adoration can't be completely one-sided. It's proverbially selling one's soul, only that they didn't have souls to begin with - they were always selfish, arrogant bigots who knew how to channel that bigotry into a message palatable for other closet bigots. These guys aren't Walt Disney - they aren't hiding themselves to culture an image that is inclusive and all-welcoming. They're being awful in the open and elements of that awfulness resonate with the people that support them. If Walt Disney were to come back from the dead and start a political party, it could work because the image is more important than the man and the kind of people that support the image that Walt created could most certainly be good people (though that is a completely different conversation). Musk's followers are as self centered as he is and there is no way in hell they could ever coalesce around one message while sacrificing some of their own ambitions. TL;DR - Nobody - Musk, Miller or Trump - is driving. That doesn't mean they don't have their own access to a power base.

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