Coffee Talk with Tiff …

May 30, 2025 12:00 pm EDT Halodoc Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on Coffee Talk with Tiff …
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A mystic is driven by the urge to impress, to cheat, to flatter, to deceive, to force that omnipotent consciousness of others. “They” are his only key to reality, he feels that he cannot exist save by harnessing their mysterious power and extorting their unaccountable consent. “They” are his only means of perception and, like a blind man who depends on the sight of a dog, he feels he must leash them in order to live. To control the consciousness of others becomes his only passion; power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to surrender their consciousness to his assertions, his edicts, his wishes, his whims—as his consciousness is surrendered to theirs. He wants to deal with men by means of faith and force—he finds no satisfaction in their consent if he must earn it by means of facts and reason. Reason is the enemy he dreads and, simultaneously, considers precarious; reason, to him, is a means of deception; he feels that men possess some power more potent than reason—and only their causeless belief or their forced obedience can give him a sense of security, a proof that he has gained control of the mystic endowment he lacked. His lust is to command, not to convince: conviction requires an act of independence and rests on the absolute of an objective reality. What he seeks is power over reality and over men’s means of perceiving it, their mind, the power to interpose his will between existence and consciousness, as if, by agreeing to fake the reality he orders them to fake, men would, in fact, create it.

Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged; 1957 – Galt’s Speech

It’s Friday …

Boss is out today. She will return on Monday.

So, let’s see what new shit the shithead monkeys are flinging today.

President Shit’s Public Schedule:

Friday, May 30 2025
9:00 AM In-Town Pool Call Time The White House In-Town Pool
1:30 PM The President participates in a Press Conference with Elon Musk Oval Office White House Press Pool
2:05 PM Out-of-Town Pool Call Time Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Pool
3:25 PM The President departs The White House en route Joint Base Andrews South Lawn Open Press
3:35 PM The President arrives Joint Base AndrewsJoint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
3:45 PM The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Allegheny County Airport Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
4:35 PM The President arrives Allegheny County Airport Allegheny County Airport, Pennsylvania Pre-Credentialed Media
4:45 PM The President departs Allegheny County Airport en route U.S. Steel Corporation – Irvin Works Allegheny County Airport, Pennsylvania Pre-Credentialed Media
4:50 PM The President arrives U.S. Steel Corporation – Irvin Works US Steel Corporation – Irvin Works, West Mifflin, PA Out-of-Town Travel Pool
5:00 PM The President delivers remarks on U.S. Steel Deal US Steel Corporation – Irvin Works, West Mifflin, PA Pre-Credentialed Media
6:35 PM The President departs U.S. Steel Corporation – Irvin Works en route Alleghany County Airport US Steel Corporation – Irvin Works, West Mifflin, PA Out-of-Town Travel Pool
6:40 PM The President arrives Allegheny County Airport Allegheny County Airport, Pennsylvania Out-of-Town Travel Pool
6:50 PM The President departs Allegheny County Airport en route Joint Base Andrews Allegheny County Airport, Pennsylvania Out-of-Town Travel Pool
7:35 PM The President arrives Joint Base Andrews Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
7:45 PM The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route The White House Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
7:55 PM The President arrives The White House South Lawn Open Press

Random pickups:

The irony … it burns:

Huh. I should have known I was low-balling it when I predicted it only coming in at $10-$12 trillion over 10 years. At this point, $22 trillion is probably still low at this rate of their robbing the treasury. FFS.

This is a gift post from Figliuzzi:

NYT: Musk engaged in “intense” use of ketamine, ecstacy and mushrooms on campaign trail: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u…

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— Frank Figliuzzi (@frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social) May 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM

As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.

Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

NY Times

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