Elon Musk and his army of mouth-breathing, crypto-hawkingsuck-ups variously claim that he is a self-made billionaire, an engineer, a rocket scientist, a founder or cofounder of online payment service PayPal and electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, a “free speech absolutist,” and also very clever and funny. Not one of these claims is true.
I’m sure many of those who called for Anthony Weiner’s resignation (or demanded such from President Clinton when he was embroiled in his own scandal) are the same ones who defended the lies and treason of the Bush Administration, and probably do so to this day without any awareness of the irony…
I remembered the painting Liberty Leading the People, by French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, and thought that it’d adapt well to the modern subject matter, since there seemed to be some parallels between the French revolutions of the 18th/19th centuries, and the protests happening throughout the Middle East today…