Elon vs Donald in a fight to the death? NOW we're back, baby.

@1 - oh it's just a little spat between two men with huge personalities / egos. Elon is right about the BBB, it does not cut spending nearly enough. But Trump couldn't impose a hard line because the House and Senate are too evenly divided and most "Republicans" are content to spend us into oblivion.

Luckily, Trump does not hold grudges so there is plenty of opportunity for these guys to patch up their relationship and get back to Making America Great Again.

"Who in the world still owns a DVD player?"

Oh Charles, lest you forget your former colleagues Chase and Jas and their Unstreamable series? Also Scarecrow Video is still going. I pictured you as a film noir buff.

Also, sorry that your pseudo NBA joy is blemished by politics over Oklahoma.

@2: Oh my god. It's Mr. Poe, the living breathing example of the Law that fools us all.... :)

OK, Werewolf Baby!

@2: “Luckily, Trump does not hold grudges…”

Bwahahahahahahaha… gasp! Whew!

Thanks for the laughs, parody troll!

I love how these two adult babies get in the bitchiest catfight this side of the real housewives franchise and their little minion bros are like “just a couple of many men having a man fight, you girlies wouldn’t understand”. If straight men knew how gay they look to the rest of us they would kill themselves.

@2 Trump is still whining about stuff Hillary Clinton did 12 years ago. Wtf you mean he doesn't hold grudges? lol.

Temps in the mid 80s?
Wow.
If that’s not a sign of the coming apocalypse I don’t know what is.

Restaurants are always hiring.
If you don’t like the one where you work, go someplace else.

@8: “Trump is still whining about stuff Hillary Clinton did 12 years ago.”

TBF, that simply means he’s a Republican.

Charles, for once Phoebe and I are in agreement. Why should I pay to rent or own a streaming version of a film I already own in DVD format?

@4:

Ah, for those halcyon days of the OG SLOG! I still sometimes wonder who eventually ended up with the Fnarf Memorial Bed Pan that got passed around for several years at SLOG Happy white elephant gift exchange parties - remember when we could actually meet-up in-person? When we really only had Mr. Poe/Ecce Homunculus and Seattle Blues as our resident contrarians (I never considered Will In Seattle as such; he was more like the resident whipping boy, at least for Fnarf and a couple of others)? And they were decidedly more civil compared to the sorry lot of insecure, whingy, right-wing troll-bois we have to endure around here these days.

Go Pacers!

It is well known that one need only make a conciliatory statement and Trump will invite you back into the fold.

Except of course Hillary Clinton. She's a horrible person who fabricated the entire Russian collusion narrative (not to mention her emails) and deserves to spend the rest of her wretched life in prison. And while I have no doubt that Trump despises her, he also stated publicly that he would not pursue criminal charges against her because of the negative impacts that would have on the country. Always the Statesmen, Mr. Trump.

NBA = Lucy

Sonics = football

Seattle = Charlie Brown

Rats….

It’s even better known that trump turns on everyone once they’re no longer useful to him, and Elon is an attention starved junkie who makes a mess of everything he touches. They’re 2 catty bitches who live for drama. It was always going to end with a messy break up.

“September is a long way away” - preach Charles

@13 hoping for a full on Cartman (after last night’s last fractional second win, hope is strong)!

@4, 6, 8: Don't engage w Ed Wison's Nephew.

Fucking Bizzaro World.

Hard to believe, but I actually agree with WereBackBaby, sort of. The Trump-Musk fallout will - if it hasn't already - prove to be just more clickbait.
"Except of course Hillary Clinton. She's a horrible person who fabricated the entire Russian collusion narrative..." Yup.
"and deserves to spend the rest of her wretched life in prison." They all do, so this is correct.
"...he would not pursue criminal charges against her because of the negative impacts that would have on the country." Nope. He can't do anything to her because she has people who are more powerful than he is behind her - the GOP still hasn't succeeded in taking down the neoliberal cabal of the DNC. Not only that, he can't expose any of the horrors of US colonialism (euphemistically referred to as "her e-mails") in the Islamic world without smearing himself and his GOP comrades in crime. Both of the major duopoly parties are neck deep in international shenanigans of the worst kind.
To repeat, they all belong in prison.

I still buy CDs. I rip them and put them on my devices. No connectivity needed. Taylor Swift forever!

@18 - I present interesting viewpoints that people want to engage with. I know you would prefer that everybody hold the same institutionally approved opinions but I have to stay true to myself.

@18: Aw, c'mon, he's comedy gold!

Democrats are still whining about things that President Reagan did 40 years ago.

Stop pretending you’re different

@23 Using the man who literally ruined the entire economy of the country for every future generation as your example is certainly a choice. Might as well use 9/11 or the holocaust as an example next lol.

I also buy and rip discs, or buy cd-dvd quality downloads to save

@20, @25: I once had a record collection. Now I have an external hard drive, labeled "Record Collection." MUCH easier to carry!

"The history of the relationship between owners and workers has never seen a dull day. It's been one damn thing after another."

Progressives - If business owners can't afford to pay a living wage they should close their business

Renee Erickson - My costs exceed my sales so I'll need to close and come up with a new format

Progressives - look at this evil business owner punishing her staff and putting them out of work

It's comedy gold Jerry!

@21: Interesting - the last time I checked, both major political parties who run the entire US empire make public statements against my POVs on a regular basis, and the prez is trying to get rid of all the foreigners who share these same views. Please name these obscure institutions which support my views - I'll let you know if the former have any relation to the latter (just for yucks, of course).
And - it should be added - your reply was ungracious, considering I'd just paid you a basically undeserved compliment. You're just a right-wing influencer regurgitating propaganda onto the digital page - I didn't have to say that you were, coincidentally, correct on a couple of points.

@22: You haven't earned the right to say that about me the way I earned the right to say it about you. The only one writing long-winded rants justifying racist police violence, US-led regime changes, homophobic bigotry, &c., &c., is you. I'm the consistent, ethically sound one - sorry! I've pointed out to you that your sources are flawed, but you haven't taken that into consideration - you're still too locked in your little glass house to be able to successfully throw stones.

@27 Couldn't agree more.

@27 Given that technology has been steadily eroding the ability of people to do useful work at a rate that allows them both to live and afford a decent life, perhaps it's time we stopped saddling businesses with footing the bill on both employer provide hellth insurance and a living wage.

Universal Basic Income could allow for a much freer labor market.

I for one am glad that Renee’s $10 per donut (exaggerated) place is closing. Blame unions, blame Starbucks, blame me. It was a fuckin’ donut fer chris sake. Go to Dunkin!

Bateau and Boat Bar are closing bc a) the chefs are moving on and b) they are renovating the space. The restaurant workers unionized earlier this year and that has nothing to do with the closure.

Does it suck for some of the staff who might not have positions until it reopens, yes. Is the closure bc of unionization, no.

@31 and who the hell is paying for that?

@34 I hear Trump has had a lot of success getting Mexico to pay for things.

https://www.patriciarobertsmiller.com/2025/06/06/the-politics-of-purity/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u5iHzag120

@33: “The restaurant workers unionized earlier this year and that has nothing to do with the closure.”

Which is why the Stranger heavily implied it was owner retaliation against the workers for unionizing, but didn’t actually say that.

@34: With all of the money we now pay to overcharging healthcare companies, and their overpriced CEOs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS5zI0mnXqw

The Trump/Musk is a distraction from the fact that we all lost from their successful dismantling of the government, they just couldn't agree over whose business stole more from the American people and everyone tolerating these shitbags in office one more day to wipe their filthy asses with the flag and constitution of the USA. E PLURIBUS UNUM on the top of our Congress, and here we are outlawing people because their birthplace.

GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE

Or give back the statute of liberty with everything it has ever stood for, all for a mortal Ozymandias reborn in our age.

Fight for the future!

WeAreBackBaby might be the most hilarious parody commenter in the history of SLOG... like, this can't be a real person who actually believes the the tripe he types. It HAS to be an act. Of course, on the remote chance that it isn't an act, this guy's comments are all you need to know about the delusions of the MAGA cult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-yW7HY0New&t=9s

Romulans Begonemulans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FtLQVICl0w

Where's kristofarian (as Swiftness asked the other day) - but more importantly, why do we miss him?

@40 Go to any Facebook post about the casting of a black man in Harry Potter or any post of a sports team that posted a rainbow logo this month and you'll see that WereBackBaby isn't even close to being a parody unfortunately.