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[–] 73 points 1 year ago

If Elonazi actually manages to maintain the attention span to see this through over the next 1.5-2yrs, I'm all in and here for it... Popcorn Popcorn

But, the reality side of me holds little to no hope this particular tantrum will last. Especially given Mafia Don Mangolini holds the checkbook for all Elonazi's gov't "income". 🤡 🖕 💩

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I do not like that Elon Musk.

    Never uttered a word I believe or trust.

    He has fathered and fled more kids than Nick Cannon.

    With a soul and heart more grotesque than Steve Bannon.

    When he goes to jail the world will dance.

    Until then we can smile as he pisses his pants.

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  • [–] 145 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Oh, this is going to get good, isn't it?

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  • [–] 174 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    No. Its going to continue getting worse unfortunately......

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Might as well have some entertainment while civilization is collapsing

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The difference is that Musk doesn’t depend on Trump to remain relevant (or solvent). All those others absolutely do: They were nothing before Trump, and nothing without him.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Musk definitely depends on government contracts for his companies. If Trump cancels those all his companies will take a big hit which in turn will take a big chunk off his net worth which is propped by shares in those companies. If his net worth substantially goes down he may run into issues getting credit which will affect him directly. Elon Musk uses his stock to take loans to fund his personal expenses among other things.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No nothing is good about two asshole like this going head to head.

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    they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth

    Win win.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Democracy is when the richest man on Earth can help elect the politicians he likes.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I fucking hate this dude with all my heart but if he actually does it then I'll take a cautious "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" stance.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The enemy of my enemy who is also my enemy gets shot after one of them kills the other.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ahh. The Sun Tsu approach to war.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hey any action is simplified greatly if you wait for it to partially resolve itself before your own involvement. Worked great for the Turks when the Romans killed each other the night before battle.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is another point that can be used as an argument against Machiavelli's philosophy. It was well-written, but I'm not sure a prince should trust the advice of a guy his family threw in prison. The Prince might be chock full of intentionally written bad advice for all we know. ...such as always take a side to form allies, rather than Sun Tsu's approach of allowing them to exhaust themselves without interfering.

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  • That's at least partially because of Italian philosophy as a whole, picking sides is great when you are the biggest monster on the field like say the Romans but once you aren't? Well better to bunker down and focus on other things like say trade. Worked great for Denmark, Switzerland, and historically Scotland.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    He's gonna be the first person denaturalized for his "nazi rhetoric" as a theatrical farce of normalizing deporting US citizens. It'll be in a "this is what u dem's asked for" way with tv propagandists showing hand selected tweets calling for musk's deportation from liberal pfp accounts.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I think it's all theater to win over all the rightwing folx that he cultivated during this tour. These are the folx that are gonna be hurt the most from this bill and are just ignorant enough to buy a Tesla out of some weird culty appreciation. Mans trying to salvage a lagging brand.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    I want this Nazi FUCK out of my country

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They’re fighting again? I thought they kissed and made up after musk told us that Trump…

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    After musk reaffirmed the facts we already know about trump raping little girls with Epstein?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    "Look, democrats, I'm on your side again! Please buy my cars"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    The best use of a Tesla, is having it on fire and blocking ICE traffickers.

    ...honestly, that might actually be a good way to protect our communities. Teslas would make for a decent gatehouse barricade at anti-trafficking checkpoints. Nothing of value is lost if a ICE vehicle tries to force their way through.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I mean, go ahead Muskrat, but please also go the fuck away.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Baby boy’s heart is still broken.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Primary with who? They're all MAGA.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty much my only hope at this point is that these two fuckers will take each other down.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    If one wins the fight, I'd want it to be Elon because he doesn't have the following Trump does.

    Elon's already on his way down from his pedestal, all he'd gain from attacking Trump is taking Agent Orange down with him.

    Therefore who I root for in the feud is without question, Elon The Musky Husky.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Ok so wtf?

    “Why aren’t you as genocidal as my family!”

    Next to….

    “I’m trying to fuck my daughter as hard as I can!”

    The rest of us….

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Excuse my ignorance, but what does this mean? He threatens to 'primary' members of Congress?

    I've tried searching, and that wasn't much help, employees of said member are to quickly start looking for another job. Something happens at the end of term.. And a Time magazine article, which was beyond useless in explaining what it is.

    I'm none the wiser.. 🤷

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Congress members in the US are elected in constituencies. For each constituency each party typically fields one candidate. Before the actual election, the parties hold primary elections to determine the candidate for the constituency for that particular party. Pretty much anyone can run in these primaries. Your chance of winning very much depends on the support, i.e. funding you have. If Elmo decides to fund candidates that would challenge the incumbents in the primaries, he could likely unseat quite a few of them on account of having a lot of money. And yes, this is all deeply undemocratic.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And yes, this is all deeply undemocratic.

    Agreed, and it's worth noting the Republican party has done the same thing to candidates who weren't far enough to the right.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thank you. Every time I think the US election system couldn't be any more open to corruption, I'm proven wrong. Learning something new every day.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wait until you hear about super-PACs.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The ability to corrupt is inversely proportional to how active our citizens are in the political process.

    Only like 10% of eligible voters vote in primary elections. That likely makes it far easier for money to buy enough name recognition via advertising to make a financially backed candidate a shoe in. But if you look at something like the NYC mayoral primary, a grassroots movement with support still beats moneyed interests.

    That said, our country does a lot to discourage participation in our political process.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    One of the rare times Elon and I are on the same side

    The Big Beautiful Bill bans all legislation that regulate AI and more importantly, bans Transgender Healthcare for all but the very rich.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Alright, time to start primarying if you're not totally full of shit, elon.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is he going to invent something worse than MAGA? !

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Looks like Musk has been hitting the Ketamine again. He's going to be wearing a diaper permanently if he keeps this up. Not that anyone cares about him I guess.

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    that worked out great for wisconsin didn't it...?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Is ‘primary’ as a verb a thing?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Has been for at least a few years, yeah.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    thanks! i'm happy to be out of touch with Senate slang

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Trump had been using it to threaten Republican politicians who didn't do what he wanted, said that he'd support their opponents in primary elections. I hadn't heard it prior than that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Primary them with his own toadies he means

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Do it if you're not a bussy.

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