• Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        He already announced he’s done donating to the gop after he burned all that money in wisconsins Supreme Court race.

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        His money is tied up in his companies, which are crashing. Tesla stock is dropping steadily, and the only reason it was making any money at all was because of EV credits, which go away in the Big Beautiful Bill. That’s why he hates it so much. It dooms Tesla, which will be bankrupt within two years.

        Now he’s threatening to decommission the only American spacecraft that goes to the Space Station. That gives the government the excuse to cancel all contracts for Space X, or even confiscate it.

        Kill Tesla and nationalize Space X, and he’s got nothing left.

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      Which means I doubt there’s going to be a bunch of Republicans suddenly jumping to Team Musk.

      GOP grifters avoiding the biggest pile of money to grift, and you’re confident grifters will actively avoid it? I’m not so sure. I’m betting a number of opportunistic GOP will sign up on the Musk train if it means getting a paycheck/personal superpac donation.

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      I feel like if he wanted to he could out right buy half the GOP congress people though. Money holds a lot of political power when the politicians are for sale.

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        He could buy all of them, politicians are particularly cheap. $10K each could buy the entire Congress. That’s nothing to Musk.

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        Half it’s been proven buying a politician is not expensive at all. He could buy everyone.

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    Anybody have any idea what they’re trying to hide with this puppet show? Is the big bill getting too much attention or is it something else?

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      I think you’re giving them too much credit. I’m pretty sure this really is just a senile old man feuding with a ketamine addict.

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          I don’t really see how. Trump could be playing it up a little to distract from the Medicare cuts, but I imagine he’s genuinely pissed about the Epstien thing. That probably played really badly with his base. There’s also no way Musk is doing this as a distraction; Telsa’s stock is imploding because of this.

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            I think its a senile russian asset fighting a ketamine addict and both of their handlers are simply making good use of the natural distraction.

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            While I don’t necessarily want to believe there’s anything decent in any of his supporters, I also really don’t feel like he’d lose a single one being a proven pedophile. They’re all in.

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      There was news today that the Senate is considering cutting Medicare in addition to Medicaid, as well as news of major changes to how science funding is sent out to researchers. Also the travel bans for foreign nationals from certain countries.

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      I highly doubt it’s anything. They’re selfish egotistical people out for their own gains. Elon never cared for Trump or the Republicans, just about what made him the most money. Now he’s buthurt and lashing out.

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        Imagine a timeline where Biden invited Elon to the electric car summit or whatever it was called. I imagine flipping to the Republicans was a response to being but hurt about that.

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    So let me get that straight, you spent hundreds of millions of dollars to get a guy, who you think should be impeached and is guilty of underage sex, to be the president of the United States?

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    Is this a massive gamble by Elmo to rebuild his brand image by forcing me to agree with him on certain issues? Let’s not forget this was the same guy Nazi saluting this dude at his Inauguration a few short months ago.

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      No, its not. Musk is just salty Trump used and discarded him. You have to understand, these are just children who stumbled into power and never really grew up.

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        Yeah - nepo babies are like this. Made the mistake of marrying one, and any perceived slight needed punishment and retaliation.

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        It’s all just show. Elon well get government contracts and we’ll get wealthy from the stock market. Everything else is showmanship he’s the current fall guy look everything thet sucks is Elons fault

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      I’m not forgetting anything. I’m just enjoying two enemies fight it out.

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      I know there is some clause or stipulation that allows for the seizure of assets obtained by illegal immigrants.

      Musk is an illegal immigrant who pursued business ventures in violation of his school visa and lied about it.

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      If we’re dreaming of fantasies that will never happen, I also want nationwide ranked-choice voting, and maybe we can overturn Citizens United Vs Federal Elections and stop allowing corporations to literally run our country.

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    Consider this, JD Vance is Peter Thiel’s Acolyte, who desperately wants to bring about a global technocracy. What if all of this hasn’t been a genuine attempt yet. What if it’s merely theatre that has been setting the stage for Vance to take over. Trump gets to enrich his family beyond their wildest imagination, then he peaces out and the real horror begins.

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      I don’t see Vance flags on people’s trucks. I see Trump flags. I just don’t know that Vance gets the backing Trump does. I think the Rs capitulate to Trump so much because of his rabies base, and there’s this concern they’ll be replaced by someone who Trump endorses.

      I do think it’s all a game for wealthy people, and we will just pay for it one way or another, regardless.

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        MAGA is a classic cult of personality. It’s all HitlerPig, there is no #2 waiting in the wings, not even his own spawn. When HitlerPig goes, MAGA is dead, and the backstabbing will become open warfare.

        If the Dems can get their shit together, and have the spine to act, they’ll have the opportunity to sweep up the most corrupt traitors, and remove them from politics forever. They can hit a giant reset button on American politics.

        Let’s see if they have the nerve for bold action on America’s behalf.

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    Elmo the degenerate mass murderer can get fucked.

    They are both corrupt degenerates that lack humanity and should be dealt with in a way that accounts for their lack of humanity.

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          So hard use of ketamine causes extensive damage to the urinary tract, and damages the bladder (and eventually causes kidney failure as shit backs up.)

          It makes pissing incredibly painful.

          Thing is, when ejaculating, semen also passed through the urethra, which is part of the lower urinary tract. So that would also probably be incredibly painful as well.

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    This is like hearing the school saying the two biggest bullies are going to fight in the yard after school

    Everyone knows that one of them can’t hit any thing harder than a pillow and the other always chickens out against any opponent unless the person they’ll punch is held down by four guys.

    The entire school knows that this shit show is a circus that will just be full of drama and no fighting … but we’re all going to head out onto the yard anyway to laugh at how stupid these idiots are going perform.

    I’ll see you all on the yard after the last bell at 3pm

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      Because he spent the last 4 months balls deep in everything relating to the government and probably has access to all the information he could ever want to take him down. I fucking hate the guy, but it’s one of those “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” kinda situation.

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        No, he was just gathering it to hand over to Palantir. Once again, Peter Thiel, the real CEO of paypal is the shadowy puppeteer.

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      You shouldn’t be. When in history has rich people infighting worked out for poor people?

      I guess it’s great that they’re seemingly not working together, but I find it hard to get excited.

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        “When the elephants fight, the grass is crushed. When the elephants make love, the grass is crushed.”

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      Because it’s easy to manipulate the general public with these planned out and scheduled spectacles specifically developed to provide cover for all the truly terrible stuff that’s being done just slightly behind the curtains while also giving both sides convenient cover from the other’s failures.

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    I was waiting for those two to fall out. Two egos this big were always going to clash sooner or later. This will be entertaining and hopefully damaging to both of them.