The Daily Populous Wednesday February 12nd, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by thenewrepublic

Adams has been begging for a pardon for months, and he bet on Trump giving it to him if he started acting like he was auditioning for a role in the administration. In December, the New York City mayor cast his indictments as political targeting akin to that of Trump and Hunter Biden. “Those who are here committing crimes, robbery, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people … I would love to sit down with the border czar and hear his thoughts on how we are going to address those who are harming our citizens,” Adams bizarrely said at the time. “This is not a new position. In the era of cancel culture, no one is afraid to be honest about the truth. Well, cancel me.”

That same month, he requested a meeting with Trump’s draconian border czar Tom Homan to help him crack down on immigrants who “snuck in” to New York City. In January, he met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, and days later he was sitting down with Tucker Carlson talking about how the Democratic Party “left him.” The quid pro quo agreement has been cooking for some time now, and Adams got the best outcome possible. He gets off scot-free, and Trump and Homan get to run rampant through New York City.

StoppableHulk on February 11st, 2025 at 19:57 UTC »

This headline, and the premise of this article, is fucking stupid.

I'm really tired of this game where a guy who is a proven liar for a decade or longer is just always given the benefit of the doubt with the words he says.

Everything Elon says is a lie. If you are interacting with him, it's in bad faith. That ridiculous human being literally never has a public conversation, with anyone, about anything, that is in legitimate good faith.

When he says "wtf I'm not", it's not because he "doesn't know."

It's because he's literally just lying. Baldly, nakedly, open-faced. He's not putting a political spin on the lie, he's not doing a lawyerly half-truth jedi mind trick.

He's just fucking lying.

And what he's figured out about the media, is no matter HOW nakedly, egregiously dishonest you are, they will literally never call a lie a lie, and they will sane-wash and try and decipher "what he actually meant", and do EVERYTHING humanly possibly except just say, "this dude is fucking lying."

So, he didn't "just realize he doesn't know how to govern," he didn't have an epiphany. He's just lying to your fuckning face and he doesn't care how disprovable or transparently untrue the lie is.

He's lying about what he's doing. He's lying about why he's doing it. He's lying about what DOGE uncovers. He's literally just fucking lying with every single statement. And you really need to start operating from the premise that if he's saying something, it is A) probably not true, and B) 100% not in good faith.

Existing-Ad4303 on February 11st, 2025 at 19:41 UTC »

“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday. “I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

So he doesn’t even know what he is doing? Can the media stop trying to treat him like Tony Stark now?

thenewrepublic on February 11st, 2025 at 19:39 UTC »

> A weekend interaction between Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast and Elon Musk unexpectedly showcased just how little the world’s richest man understands about the effects of his slashing spree at the top of the federal government.

> “I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday.

> “I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

> But despite Musk’s empty protestation, that is what’s happening. On Friday, the Trump administration—under the Department of Government Efficiency’s direction—announced it would cut billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, scheduled to take effect by Monday. The slashed spending was intended to affect $4 billion in “indirect funding” for research, a category that encompasses administrative overhead, facilities, and operations. But researchers that spoke with The Washington Post decried the move as a “surefire” way to “cripple lifesaving research and innovation,” and one that will contribute to “higher degrees of disease and death in the country.”