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Markos Moulitsas (kos) at Daily Kos:

Monday night, Donald Trump returned to X and joined a Spaces conversation with Elon Musk.  It was, objectively, a disaster for Trump. Thanks to a duplicitous, double-standards media, Trump has avoided the kind of “cognitive decline” stories that reporters couldn’t stop writing about President Joe Biden. Heck, The New York Times wrote dozens of stories about Biden’s age in the wake of the first presidential debate. But Trump? His increasingly unhinged rants and inability to go on the campaign trail don’t even muster a raised eyebrow.  After his “conversation” with Musk, however, it’s going to be impossible for the media to ignore. It wasn’t just his inability to have a straight conversation with Musk. We know Trump is no longer capable of expressing a coherent thought. It was worse than that.  Trump had a bizarre lisp the entire event, slurring words with the letter “s.

The so-called “conversation” with Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X Spaces last night was a giant disaster, similar to his X Spaces with Ron DeSantis.

In that call, Trump was the same old senile and unhinged self.

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Kayla Gogarty and Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested that his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom he pardoned at the end of his first term, will be involved in his potential second administration, telling Flynn at a May 2023 event: “We’re going to bring you back.”  During an October 14 social media discussion that included QAnon figures, Ben Moore — a QAnon influencer known online as “Sun Tzu” — predicted that Flynn would be appointed as a “special adviser” to Trump during a potential second Trump administration, and Flynn would lead a “special advisory board” that “brings child traffickers to justice.”

Flynn and his group, America’s Future, have been increasingly tied to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Several QAnon figures and conspiracy theorists have served as advisory board members for the group, including Moore. [...] During the October 14 discussion, held on X (formerly Twitter), Moore specifically floated himself and other America’s Future members for Trump's “special advisory board” — including QAnon-affiliated figures Brian Gamble and Liz Crokin, conspiracy theorist Lara Logan, and election denier Ivan Raiklin.

Matt Shuham at HuffPost:

President Donald Trump’s “government efficiency” cheerleader Elon Musk proposed simply ignoring all federal regulations during a public call shortly after midnight Monday morning. Musk, whose newly formed “Department of Government Efficiency” team has in recent days executed a dramatic power grab at several government agencies, called for “wholesale removal of regulations.” The public call was hosted on his website X, formerly Twitter, and included two senators and the Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy. “Regulations, basically, should be default gone,” Musk said. “Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.” “These regulations are added willy-nilly all the time. So we’ve just got to do a wholesale, spring cleaning of regulation and get the government off the backs of everyday Americans so people can get things done,” Musk said, adding later: “If the government has millions of regulations holding everyone back, well, it’s not freedom. We’ve got to restore freedom.”

Later, Ramaswamy — who briefly co-led Musk’s White House DOGE project — said, “I think it’s possible now, it’s actually possible” thanks to Trump’s second term and a conservative-dominated Supreme Court. Musk replied, “If it’s not possible now, it’ll never be possible. This is our shot. This is the best hand of cards we’re ever going to have. And if we don’t take advantage of this best hand of cards, it’s never going to happen, so we’re going to do it.” “Now or never,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Ramaswamy agreed. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) also spoke on the call.

Unelected co-dictator Elon Musk, in an X Spaces call, calls for the ending of all regulations. This man is a sociopath tearing America (and the world) asunder.

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Alex Kaplan at MMFA:

Mikki Willis, the director behind the 2020 coronavirus conspiracy theory video Plandemic, said that he will be collaborating with former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on an upcoming movie “about the border.”  Gabbard is a former Democratic member of Congress and presidential candidate turned Fox News contributor, podcast host, and Trump supporter who has played a role in his 2024 presidential campaign and is co-chairing his transition team. In addition to directing Plandemic, which spread misinformation about vaccines and COVID-19, Willis has been involved with QAnon figures and spoke at a rally in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, saying he had just come from the Capitol. In 2021, Willis also said he was collaborating with Lara Logan, who was a Fox Nation host at the time. During an October 12 X Space, Willis said, “Right now we’re making a movie with Tulsi Gabbard about the border.” Willis had also posted in September that he had become “part of Tulsi’s production team.” (During the X Space, Willis also said he is working on a movie project with Infowars’ Alex Jones.)