• Etterra@discuss.online
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    18 hours ago

    Yes, yes! I knew it would work. Seems like pretty much everybody got the same idea at the same time and it’s working a treat. If you can’t defeat your enemies, turn them against each other!

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      Actually was more so dems understanding the situation were in

      The “President Musk” messaging is by design, at least partially. This week, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter and another person briefed on it, at senior levels of different Democratic congressional offices, and also within the Democratic National Committee, discussions have been had about having party leaders and elected officials actively portray Musk as effectively Trump’s boss, and to do so during television appearances that the president-elect is likely to see. The idea is that it’s a cost-free opportunity to potentially drive a petty wedge between the notably mercurial and ego-obsessed Trump and his similarly emotive pal Musk, and to sow some chaos in the upper ranks of the Republican Party.

      https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/president-musk-dems-troll-trump-elon-1235211922/

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    Now would be a good time for a reminder that there is no such thing as a moral billionaire. Scientifically, sane people retire to lives of luxury with their families long before they reach that level of wealth. The only reason to seek such wealth is out of a sick desire to control other human beings. Religiously, scripture says that there are no wealthy people in paradise. In the end, they all burn. Scientifically or religiously, you do not become a billionaire unless there is something broken in your soul.

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      That’s why it says the oft misquoted “the love of money is the heart of all evil.” That “love” is the key part of that equation.

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      maybe we’ll be lucky and they’ll be too busy tearing each other apart that they won’t have time to tear this country apart.

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    I would think Trump pretending to be fabulously wealthy but being exposed as a populist grifter, and Elon being the richest guy in the world, would hang in the air like Trump’s stench.

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        Its the ones comfortable with manipulating people that are precisely what we do not want help from

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    What, junior assistent deputy backup “president” Donald Trump is furious that President Elon Musk outranks him and gives him orders? He cannot be mad at President Elon Musk, President Elon Musk could order a nuclear strike on his house, does lowly Donald Trump not know that? He should thank his President Elon Musk for bringing him with him to the white house, Elon Musk’s new residence!

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    So which one gets into a horrible accident /assassination?

    Either one has the willingness and lack of foresight to take out the other

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    Oooooooo, President Elon is gonna be pissed at poor man Trump and cut off his funding.

    Trump better shape up and kiss the ring.

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      Yeah, how dare Trump talk to his superior, Elon Musk, like that?? It’s unconscionable!

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    I predicted this a while back: Having two thin-skinned megalomaniacs working together never works out in the long run. Trump and Elon are both too dysfunctional even to be able to work individually with patient people without it going off the rails. Having them working together with each other is doomed to explosive failure eventually.

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      The funny part is Trump doesn’t even take office for another month, the relationship might fall apart before he’s even inaugurated and actually in power, let alone lasting “long term”.

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        Can we not insult bears with this comparison, even the weakest, dumbest, most cowardly bear is still leagues better than them. Except Koala but they arent even real bears so fuck em, Nazi punks of the bear world.

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    It would be helpful to constantly remind Donnie that Musk is about 100 times richer than him, too.