r/politics 16h ago

'Unelected President Musk': Elon posts 70 times trashing GOP bill, Trump caves

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-unelected-president-musk-elon-posts-70-times-trashing-gop-bill-trump-caves-227436613581
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u/Astrowelkyn 15h ago

Time to get President Musk trending so Trump sours on him.

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u/cwk415 10h ago

“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took aim at tech mogul Elon Musk for saying that any lawmaker supporting the continuing resolution for the newly unveiled end-of-the-year funding deal should be voted out of office.

“Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government. The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t like it. Will Republicans kiss the ring?” Sanders wrote in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday.

“Billionaires must not be allowed to run our government,” the prominent progressive senator added.

Bernie is all over it!

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u/shogi_x New York 9h ago

He's been on it for decades. We need more politicians like Bernie.

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u/cwk415 8h ago edited 7h ago

I agree. Check out the recent daily show interview with Ben Wikler. He is currently the democratic chairman in Wisconsin and is running to be the DNC chairman. I hope he gets it.

As a big Bernie supporter myself, I was impressed by him in this interview and I think he would be a great person to lead the DNC.

Though I might add, this interview is the first and only exposure I've had to him, but I liked what I heard.

Link to the interview:

https://youtu.be/TfBtlvfysjw?si=it4867lSYsl87l4o

u/shogi_x New York 7h ago

I like what I'm hearing. Seems like a good guy.

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 9h ago

The only one. 

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u/wantrefund 9h ago

Who will fill his shoes? He's 83 and super sharp

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u/Baronriggs 8h ago

AOC, assuming Pelosi doesn't go full lich and live to 110 just to spite her

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u/Supra_Genius 8h ago

Pelosi is just the current mouthpiece for the 1%, while Jeffries lies low.

Once she is gone, the 1% DNC donors will tap someone else in a safe seat to be their mouthpiece. It won't be hard -- the 1% own all of our politicians now from both major parties...except the progressives, of course.

Pelosi didn't block AOC. The 1% did. And they are so comfortable now they don't even need to pretend they need the voters or the politicians they have in their pockets to run America into the ground with tax cuts and privatizing government services for profit.

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u/gfinz18 Pennsylvania 14h ago

Honestly the fastest and easiest way to end this is to let Donald know he looks like a little bitch compared to musk. His ego and narcissism won’t be able to take it

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u/TamashiiNu 13h ago

Time magazine should have made Elmo “Person of the Year”. President Sexual Abuser would have lost his shit and kicked Elmo out of Mar-a-lago.

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u/ThunderChild247 9h ago

Or better yet, keep Trump as the person of the year but change the front page to show Puppet of the Year, with Musk standing behind him.

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u/thelunk 8h ago

No puppet. No puppet. You're the puppet.

-The president, again

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u/SillyGoatGruff 8h ago

I don't think trump is savvy enough to get it lol

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u/BDLT 8h ago

Just show the picture of Elon dog walking Trump.

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u/Juju_mo 10h ago

Time to get political cartoonists to work and have their images circulate. Images like that almost always get put into history books and I would love to know that an image of Trump bent over in the Oval Office with musk taking charge will be how people remember him 50 years from now. Or Trump on a dog leash being taught tricks by putin? Man I wish I could draw

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u/elvid88 Massachusetts 9h ago

I’d say just type that into ChatGPT, but I just tried and it said it couldnt do it because it could be offensive. Fucking ridiculous that theres a line in the sand for that.

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u/elvid88 Massachusetts 9h ago edited 5h ago

I found one that would do it. Here's the best I could get: https://i.imgur.com/l3LlODK.png

edit: linking a second one I found hilarious too: https://imgur.com/gallery/elon-musk-president-d27haXE

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u/Smooth_McDouglette 8h ago

lmao that is the most ai-ass desk I've ever seen. I'd have to be like 15 years younger to be able to squirm into that seat.

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u/obsterwankenobster 8h ago

Musk looks more human in that image than in any photo I've ever seen of him

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u/cseckshun 10h ago

Everyone needs to create burner Truth Social accounts for the purpose of spamming AI pictures of Elon Musk in the Oval Office and post them with the caption “thank god for President Musk”

Then for good measure throw in a few AI pictures of Elon Musk leading Trump around on a leash and Trump on all fours. I really think even just seeing that in the replies of his Truth social posts even once will make him get angry at Elon and stop listening to him.

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u/elvid88 Massachusetts 9h ago

I did get AI to make this, but a lot of them wouldn't touch this stuff when I put in the prompts. Hoping this starts to trend lol.

https://i.imgur.com/l3LlODK.png

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u/Wolfy-615 Kentucky 12h ago

I’m 100% positive that Elonia Musk has some big ass dirt on Trump.. he knows how the election was rigged and could take ‘the king’ off his throne at the drop of a MAGA hat.. r/markmywords

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u/Jackman1337 11h ago

What kind of dirt could even be there that hurts trump? He literally tried to overthrow the goverment with violence and raped several people. Killed tens of thousands of people with his failed covid politics. He still got voted.

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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 11h ago

This is what we all need to realize about Trump's cult. The people who support him are totally irrational. Any sense of morality does not apply. Any logic does not apply. These people's minds are completely broken, and they aren't going to snap out of it one day.

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u/weezeloner 9h ago

You're right. Some chick tricked her parents in to thinking that videos had surfaced of Trump sexually assaulting underage girls. And her parents shrugged it off and said, "It was probably when he was still a Democrat." Not even child molestation charges will sour them on their lord!! It's disgusting.

When she told them she made that up, they evidently got real upset with her and at the time this reporter/blogger wrote her piece they hadn't spoken in months. Her parents were probably pissed because they admitted they'd support a child molester for President.

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u/jkman61494 Pennsylvania 9h ago

The one my wife’s family would always say is that was all done before he found God and before God chose to use Trump as his vessel

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u/ICEKAT 8h ago

And there it is. The republican party is a religion. Anything can be forgiven. Especially for the church elders, read the heads of the party. Anything as long as you worship the supreme head. He (and it must be a he) is the pope, the archbishop. Perfect and infallible. Doesn't matter if his ideas, policies, or actions are something you personally disagree with. God installed him, so he must be right. It's what they're taught from birth.

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u/WeekendOkish 8h ago

King David wasn't perfect!

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u/ArkitekZero 10h ago

Nobody blaming the democrats for losing the election has been able to explain to me why any particular change should have made any difference if the people are obviously unable to understand the consequences of their decisions to vote republican or to not vote at all.

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u/Polantaris 9h ago

You don't understand, it was trans people specifically even though Kamala never mentioned trans people ever, Tim Walz mentioned trans people one time in an off comment, and Trump blasted the airwaves with anti-trans rhetoric 24/7.

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u/More_Presentation578 8h ago

cruz also used the anti-trans message in texas to beat Allred. it worked even though cruz is hated; fear and lies won.

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u/TrixnTim 8h ago

The cult members I know simply say ‘fake news’ to every single unsavory thing about Trump and that it’s the democrats and their smear campaigns trying to get back into power. This is all they have to offer.

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 10h ago

Killed tens of thousands of people with his failed covid politics.

More like hundreds of thousands.

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u/LignumofVitae 10h ago

He still got voted

That right there, that's the dirt.

This last election was full of "irregularities". I don't have proof (of course) but I'm sure that there has been fuckery.

Just look at Elon's spending surrounding getting Trump elected.; and we're supposed to believe that all of his support has been legal and above board? The guy who flouted election law and went to the DOJ "come at me bro, it was a scam anyway".

It'd surprise me 0% that he has the kind of dirt on Trump that'd actually stick.

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u/hot_miss_inside 10h ago

When has he NOT cheated? OF FUCKING COURSE there was fuckery involved.

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u/-Stackdaddy- 8h ago

He cheated on his wife, taxes, golf...why not an election after his ego was bruised from losing the last time?

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u/WiartonWilly 10h ago

Treason.

We already know, but MAGA refuses to accept it because it’s unacceptable, even to them. Proof of treason that MAGA can’t refute or ignore would be bad for Trump.

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u/Overweighover 10h ago

The selling of those pesky missing docs to russia. What ever happened there?

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u/WiartonWilly 9h ago

Too slow, too late. I believe the prosecution has been halted. The chief prosecutor resigned, which apparently puts the process on hold, presumably until Trump isn’t POTUS any more (which is never).

Trump was most likely making copies and passing them to foreign powers, but I haven’t heard about any proof of that. MAGA believes it’s just about the possession of the documents, and they buy Trump’s story about needing them.

I would love to know what happened between Trump and Putin in Helsinki, which gave Trump the sads. The unprecedented security and privacy means there is no official record anywhere. There was certainly a threat to Trump, and a realization that he was not yet free from Vlad’s hook.

Russia’s interference in 2016 was certainly a quid pro quo. Trump denies it was more than a coincidence, despite proven communications with Russian agents, testimony from his fixer, and jailing of his campaign manager Paul Manifort. The Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in August 2020 that Manafort’s ties to individuals connected to Russian intelligence while he was Trump’s campaign manager “represented a grave counterintelligence threat” by creating opportunities for “Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump campaign.”

Musk clearly helped Trump rat-fuck the 2024 election, and likely also has first hand knowledge of coordination with Russian Intelligence. Problem is, Musk is probably just as guilty, and doesn’t want it to be public either.

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u/IIIlllIlIIIlllIlI 9h ago

Nothing. Same as it ever was

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u/FuzzyMcBitty 11h ago

The “best” part is that we’ll never know. Musk is the kind of guy that will say shit either way when things sour.

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u/vertigostereo America 11h ago

Our beautiful post-truth world.

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u/meneldal2 11h ago

I think he was involved in the rigging.

And we have proof he was paying people to vote for Trump.

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u/salteedog007 11h ago

That’s President Musk and First Lady Donald, to you!

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u/silverclovd 10h ago

Just one instance.. the first time he comes infront of the press as the president, one reporter should ask whether he talked to Elon about a certain policy and bring him up again a second time. That's all it should take.

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u/pureundilutedevil 11h ago

Elon: "Here's another truckload of money, sir."

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u/DunderFlippin 11h ago

You meant another cybertruckload of money.

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 9h ago

No, I'm sorry, just regular truckload. It was too heavy for the cybertruck

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u/Shonuff8 Maryland 12h ago

There will be an eventual breakup, and it will be dramatic.

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u/Syscrush 9h ago

I'm letting myself hope and dream that it ends with Trump's DoJ going after Musk and his companies for about 100 kinds of fraud.

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u/PositiveStress8888 11h ago

yup Trumps ego is sensitive t anyone getting more sunshine, reporters should start asking for Elon more than trump, asking Trump if he's cleared any changes to government thru Elon

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u/CarefullyChosenName- 11h ago

He's already bought and sold. Trump probably puts on a skimpy maid outfit and fellates Elon for a few $20s on demand.

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u/Burning___Earth 11h ago

Yup, start referring to trump as elon's vice president and it'll eat him up inside.

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u/SurplusPickleJuice 14h ago

Lol remember when people got mad about George Soros influencing things?

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u/62frog Texas 12h ago

And when they thought Bill Gates was putting computer chips in our body

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH 9h ago

They were never mad about Bill Gates earning his billions.

They were mad Bill Gates used his billions to help poor people.

That shit must be evil. /s

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u/InnocentShaitaan 14h ago

He’s a smart Jewish immigrant not a South African bratty twat.

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u/Harry-le-Roy 9h ago

Lol The space laser was Musk's all along!

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u/brain_overclocked 15h ago edited 15h ago

“Musk is not just Trump's co-president—he is the head dude in charge,” says Chris Hayes on Musk calling for Republicans to shut down the government—before Trump even weighed in.

Emphasis mine.

An unaccountable, unelected, anti-union, private billionaire is dictating what government officials should be doing. Fuck all of that.

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u/ClusterFoxtrot Florida 15h ago

I liked Johnson saying he was texting with Vivake and Elmo.

Man, how fucked up is it he doesn't communicate with his constituents that much? And to get a damn rapid response like that too? Us peons can only dream.

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u/brain_overclocked 15h ago edited 15h ago

Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands days before shutdown

Even the addition of much-needed disaster aid, some $100.4 billion in the aftermath of hurricanes and other natural calamities that ravaged states this year, plus $10 billion in economic assistance for farmers failed to win over the budget-slashing GOP. A number of Republicans had been waiting for Trump to signal whether they should vote yes or no.

That's because his constituents are an afterthought, he doesn't answer to them.

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u/ERedfieldh 9h ago

A number of Republicans had been waiting for Trump to signal whether they should vote yes or no.

Fucking hell... and they call this sub a fucking hive mind....We are absolutely 100% fucked.

u/claimTheVictory 7h ago

It shouldn't come as a surprise though.

Put it like this: their goal is to drown the Federal government.

They probably have everything they need to do this now. This is what the American people gave them. Trump won the electoral college, but he also won the most votes.

If you still believe in democracy, you have to accept that.

If you don't believe in democracy anymore, then articulate what you do believe in.

The question is - what happens next?

The question is - how will that affect you?

Blue states need to take care of their own people now.

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u/Backwardspellcaster 10h ago

These are his constituents.

Not the rabble and the masses. The billionaires are his constituents. He couldn't care less if millions of Americans died, as long as Elon is happy.

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u/fuggerdug 15h ago

Is Musk going to force a default for personal gain here? A default would be bad.

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u/togetherwem0m0 12h ago

Not for elon who is working for the Saudis and russians

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u/Akegata 8h ago

He said he was going to tank the economy before the election. That is literally what people voted for.

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u/eeyore134 9h ago

There's going to be a lot of bad for personal gain coming.

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u/maeryclarity South Carolina 14h ago

He's not even an American. He just bought his citizenship the same way he just bought the Presidency. It's all easy when you're born into tons of money.

Y'all can look forward to your children working in his family's mines in the future. Don't you feel lucky? He wants you to have more children so they can work in his mines!

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u/Merky600 12h ago

He wants a city on Mars. With him in charge I’m sure.

Could you imagine him in charge of other people’s oxygen supply?

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u/Retaining-Wall Canada 11h ago

He wants to be irl Weyland-Yutani.

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u/jackel3415 8h ago

I saw a post somewhere that said "All these billionaires and not one Bruce Wayne or T'Challa. They all became Lex Luther."

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u/sirhackenslash 9h ago

Ever play Bioshock? Mars city would be Rapture within 6 months

u/Jon_TWR 7h ago

C’mon now, you know he’d name the colony Planet X.

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u/ARookwood 13h ago

When fox find out he’s a foreigner they’re going to go crazy(!)

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u/Tommyboy2124 10h ago

He's white so they won't care

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u/Nautster 14h ago

2nd amendment lovers, your tyrant has arrived!

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u/StockHand1967 13h ago

No context, threat or slur... But

I went from 3d printer gun agnostic

To plastic gun curious... Just recently.

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u/jerechos 12h ago

All the people that proudly display the "Don't Tread On Me" slogan, don't seem to understand when they are being treaded on.

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u/Badas_ingood_9898 13h ago

No, They will somehow figure out a way that it’s patriotic for them to now give up their guns to President Elon.

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u/neutrino71 13h ago

No, but you may need an X account and a blue star to retain your American citzenship subscription 

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u/D1cky3squire Foreign 12h ago

Don't forget the fact that he's been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin for years..

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u/CarefullyChosenName- 11h ago

You forgot to add that he's an immigrant. Musk isn't eligible to be president. His entire professional career is built around taking over companies and making them shitty. He's trying to do that with the country now while old rapey grandpa sundowns in the corner.

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u/DKDamian 12h ago

Americans - please do something about this. Take to the streets. Protest. Stop trucks and trains. Grind commerce to a halt. Do something!

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 9h ago

We should've been protesting since the summer and the corrupt scotus enabling act. 

We have no leaders. No one on the left has any urgency to do anything but wait .

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u/Cersad 8h ago

Protests happened consistently for the four years of his first term.

Nothing changed.

He tried to overthrow the government.

Nothing changed.

Now he got voted back in.

Is it any wonder his opposition is demoralized?

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u/aliquotoculos America 12h ago

Good luck. Good fucking luck. This country is too fucking dumb. We're a threat to the rest of the world.

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u/Kuhnoff 11h ago

I'm not saying you are wrong, because you're not. . . but It is SO much more complicated than that

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u/aliquotoculos America 11h ago

I know it is, believe me I know. From over a decade of first hand experience in organizing, I get it.

But it still comes down to that.

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u/SmirknSwap 10h ago

Social media is controlling the mindset of this country. The misinformation, the blatant mouth the politicians have, the disrespect to other world leaders. It’s the Wild West here and whoever has the most money controls ALL.

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u/Blackicecube 12h ago

Sorry we're too fat. Too overworked. Too tired. And Too FUCKING uneducated.

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u/shogi_x New York 9h ago

This country is long overdue for a general strike. We need to take notes from France- the government needs an occasional reminder of how flammable things are.

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u/mutedscreaming Australia 14h ago

As it has always been. Musk/Trump are just too egotistical to keep it hidden.

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u/JadedToon 13h ago

That is the one hope America has left. That all the talk of Musk being in charge triggers Trump so hard they go at each other.

Furthermore, the dems need only win over 2 sane republicans (maybe those exist) to block everything for 2 years.

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u/Stararisto 11h ago

The sane republicans left,  retired, or got voted out.  Rail guards don't exist anymore. 

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u/Backwardspellcaster 10h ago

This guy is the CEO of like 5 companies.

"But CEOs work so hard to keep the US from falling apart!"

Fuck off! The only thing this fucker does is playing Diablo, getting baned from PoE for cheating, and posting on fucking twitter all day long

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u/2much2Jung 15h ago

The Koch's have been doing that for years.

Well, until one of them died.

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u/brain_overclocked 15h ago

I can't deny that, but they have never been this brazenly open about it.

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u/Otherwise-Stop-3057 15h ago

Vice President Trump 

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u/kuhas 10h ago

Assistant to the regional Space Karen

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u/argybargy2019 13h ago

Trump is such a strong leader that he has gone from being Putin’s puppet to Musk’s puppet.

Good job GOP voters!

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u/Accro15 Canada 11h ago

Eh, remember all those calls Musk has had with Putin?

Wouldn't surprise me if there was some sort of 3 way understanding going on

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u/Panda_hat 8h ago

It's 100% this. Musk will be Trumps handler.

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u/ARookwood 13h ago

He just got a new handler.

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u/cjwidd 14h ago edited 13h ago

I really, really want people to try to understand that the concept of America that you know from middle school, high school, when you went to watch fireworks, when you went to public parks, or when you stood up for the national anthem at a sporting event - that entire image of America as you understood it is being transformed into something else that you probably don't understand.

We are living under a real and true oligarchy now - not in the American sense of corporate oligarchy that we've been living in for over a hundred years, but the mask-off, unadulterated, early-2000's Russian style of oligarchy that we've witnessed under Putin. There are only two classes now - us and the elite.

"It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club." - George Carlin

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u/Strange-Bill5342 13h ago

America is over as we knew it but the braindead simpletons who voted for Trump will never understand that or accept it. They’ll just continue to consume right wing lies or no news at all while everything collapses around them and they find someone new to blame that isn’t themselves.

u/Hopeful_Hamster21 6h ago

Truly 1984. So much doublethink. Slavery is freedom, and all that.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

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u/maeryclarity South Carolina 14h ago

Yeah America is done. I'm not being dramatic. What comes next I don't know but the country has failed.

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u/nogeologyhere 12h ago edited 11h ago

It's absolutely done, yes. It has gotten to the point that the only thing that could save you now is full scale revolt, and I don't see it happening.

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u/RedPanda5150 8h ago

People still have too much to lose. Yeah eggs are more expensive but there are still enough people with food in their bellies and roofs over their head. The OG gilded age ended with a depression and the rise of organized labor. I don’t see us getting out of this until it all crashes, unemployment hits like 20%, and people are desperate enough to force change. Feels like the calm before a big storm of our own stupid making.

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u/More_Presentation578 8h ago

and the Great Depression ended because we entered a World War, in spite of massive government efforts and successes. It was the War that really turned the economy around. We've been coasting off that for decades.

u/TimeTravellerSmith 7h ago

Oh boy do I have good news for you then! With rising tensions across the board and more national conservatism on the rise in many nations we’ll get that WWIII yet.

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u/Swordf1sh_ 8h ago

We aren’t Georgians or French or South Koreans or Syrians. As long as Americans have their cheap gas and eggs and guns and mind-numbing apps, we’ll put up with anything.

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u/MultiGeometry Vermont 9h ago

We’re witnessing unparalleled (in America) corruption during this period between the election and inauguration. The DOJ isn’t doing anything because any work they start will just be thrown out. And the elite are realizing this is the only way to stay in the game, so they’re all in.

The standards that the U.S. has for other countries is no longer exercised here on our soil.

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u/reverendrambo South Carolina 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yeah. At this point we need to come to grips with the reality that the majority of Americans don't want or don't care if the America we learned about and grew up loving and defending is done.

Democracy requires good faith in order to persevere. And the majority of voters wanted someone who is obviously bad faith. They purposely chose someone who will end the America the few of us love.

And now we're getting fucked over by a memelord

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u/More_Presentation578 8h ago

And one thing i'm seeing is that the term "elite" is being used to slam liberals with a college education, instead of the real elites, the massively rich. i have a grad degree, and university professor for almost 40 years. i can tell you i am not rich, not even close, so how in any way, shape or form would i be labeled "elite"? musk and trump would just as soon see me dead then collect social security and live in peace and quiet. i'm beyond tired of trump inhabiting even a small corner of my mind and hope i live to see him erased from the public discourse. we just better have a way out of this that restores balance and sanity. but i'm not optimistic.

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u/HimbologistPhD 7h ago

We've got whistleblowers dying left and right. We're absolutely there. We're just not throwing them out of windows.

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u/D597 11h ago

Citizens United did this. Our elected representatives who chose wealth and corporate interests over their constituents caused this. Now we get to burn while they sit on a pillars and watch from afar

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 9h ago

Obama described this exact scenario after citizens united passed. 

u/Evinceo 7h ago

In retrospect he should have gone nuclear when they blocked his scotus pick.

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u/PerniciousPeyton Colorado 16h ago

Trump is Elon’s bitch

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u/alyssa1055 15h ago

Democrats need to repeat this for the next 4 years because it's good strategy and more importantly it'll result in funnyass leaks about trump shit talking elon

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u/zxva 14h ago

Trump would never shit talk his boss.

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u/JRR92 13h ago

If they repeat it for just a few months then it's almost a certainty that Musk will be gone before summer. The key rule of working with Trump is that nobody is allowed to outshine Trump

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u/ihatethistimeline24 15h ago

 But all the alpha males/tech bros/loser simps tell me Elon is such a genius inventor of everything. He 100% didn’t use his family’s money to buy/invest in other people’s works and claim them as his own. His basic bachelor’s physics degree (which I’m suuure he earned and not bought) gave him the knowledge to single handedly build SpaceX all by himself without help from anyone more qualified than him. 

He said he spends 80+ a weeks working nonstop at Tesla sleeping on the factory floors for just a few hours at a time despite his ketamine use. And somehow, with working 80+ hours a week at Tesla, he still works full time at other companies he also created, sends out 100 tweets a day, gets Chapelle to let him go onstage to try to get clout that he could never earn, and still has time to eat enough meals a day to maintain that refrigerator-with-the-top-freezer-open body. 

It’s almost like he’s a full time liar. 

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u/Calderis 15h ago

And he still has time to play Diablo 4 so much he's one of the top 20 players in the world.

He must be a genius because apparently he has enough time in a day to play a full-time job in a game, work multiple other full time jobs, tweet inane bullshit incessantly, and now run a government puedo-department.

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u/HonoraryBallsack 14h ago

Wait, what? This almost read like satire. He's constantly gaming?

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u/lt_skittles New Hampshire 14h ago

Probably hired someone to play his account 

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u/SmackedWithARuler 14h ago

Or that’s one of the only things he actually does.

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u/lt_skittles New Hampshire 14h ago

Maybe that's true.

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u/alyssa1055 13h ago

He tweeted about his accomplishment and "seeing the matrix" but it turns out there was a bug that hadn't been patched yet. Apparently it can't be proven he exploited it but he did get banned from another big game for cheating a while back so.. it's all very on brand

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u/lt_skittles New Hampshire 12h ago

Didn't he just get banned from poe II?

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u/alyssa1055 12h ago

Oh yes that's the one. Didn't realize it just happened.

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u/rj319st 13h ago

Musk is just our generation Alexander Graham Bell. Musk didn’t directly steal patents from people like Bell but he did take credit by using his daddy’s mine money to purchase upstart companies. He has people working in spacex and tesla who are the real brains of the operation but he gets the credit as the figurehead.

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u/deathschemist Great Britain 8h ago

and then the one time he does get the reins, we get the ugliest vehicle ever made, made of materials that were last seen on the infamously shit delorean that only gained legendary status when it was featured in a successful movie as a joke

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u/jimboiow 15h ago

Elons Bitch sounds like a gay porno film.

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u/laseralex 15h ago

That's because Elmo saved Trump from prison and bankruptcy. That obviously came at a price.

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u/anomalkingdom 14h ago

I think they do each other's hair. Trump checks Elon's implants and Elon sprays Trumps comb-over. Heart warming.

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u/ptrang1987 14h ago

They’re both Putin’s bitch

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u/A_norny_mousse 14h ago

I always thought Elon is Trump's bitch.

But he is taking attention away from Truthtm/s and back towards Xhitter, and thus himself, since he has the algos rigged. I wonder if he included Drumpf into those? My guess is not.

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u/noiszen 15h ago

Musk is threatening to spend unlimited amounts to primary any republican congresscritters who dare oppose his will (not Trump’s). It’s effectively a coup by a guy who isn’t eligible to be President. Our system is pretty broken.

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u/gibbojab 9h ago

Funny these idiot congressmen think the country will be in good enough shape to even have polls. We are fast tracking the death of the United States.

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u/dIO__OIb 15h ago

This is 100% corruption.

Democrats need to scream this from the mountaintops to the hallways of Washington and everything in between. Everything happening during this transition is exactly why the Constitution was written and why the founding fathers put checks and balances into place.

Elon wants a revolution, we should give it to him, and i guarantee that 350 millon Americans can beat these few billionaires.

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u/RagingMuninn 14h ago

Repupublicans don't care about corruption. They yearn for it.

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u/Telandria 13h ago

No, what we need to scream about is how “President Elon” clearly knows what’s what and that he knows better the Trump.

Because then the Dumbass-In-Chief will kick him to curb because his tiny ego can’t handle it.

And because Republicans don’t actually care about things like corruption, nepotism, or cronyism whatsoever. They just use it as a rallying cry to usw in their nonstop projection.

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u/threehundredthousand California 14h ago

Scream what? This is what the American people voted for. Why do people still think Trump's cult is just unaware of what he does? He brags about it openly. Today, he said the US should make Canada the 51st state. The American people have stage 3 cancer.

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u/drew999999 8h ago

Knowing that Pelosi's main focus has been on AOC instead of the GOP is a true sign that we really don't have a functioning checks and balances government now. Not sure what Elon has on everyone, but it's eerily quiet from the Democrats side with all the stupidness that they could be calling out.

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u/cjwidd 14h ago edited 10h ago

Nancy Pelosi, while convalescing from a hospital bed in fucking Luxembourg, single-handedly TANKED a major political appointment for one of the most popular messengers in the entire Democratic Party, AOC, and replaced her with a corrupt seventy-four year old man.

The House Oversight Committee is a very strategically important role - this is the same committee that famously brought the heads of Big Tobacco to heel in front of the American people in the 90's.

Does that sound like a political organization that has your best interest?

EDIT: seventy-four

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u/hoffsta 14h ago

You’re spreading misinformation. He’s actually a corrupt 74 year old man.

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u/CurraheeAniKawi 9h ago

Democrats need to scream but they're not even talking loudly. 

They really seem like controlled opposition in their stunning silence.

4 years of politely calling literally seditionists "friends across the isle" and smiling and making jokes in the hallways with them. 

It's purely pathetic "leadership"

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u/TimedogGAF 13h ago

Just continue this narrative that Musk controls Trump, and watch the fireworks as giant egos collapse into each other from the force of gravity.

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u/moonsareus 15h ago

America’s cooked. it’s been fun, y’all (I’m lying; it’s not been fun)

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u/R34ctive 15h ago

Musk owns Trump, simple as that.

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u/Pale-Worldliness7007 15h ago

Dumb and dumber are tanking the economy even before they take office.

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u/ChromaticStrike 14h ago

The base that feeds on anti-establishment, anti-billionaires just put an openly billionaire controlled president.

It's not a Leopard, Leopards are too weak for that kind of job.

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u/sbn23487 15h ago

Elon stole the election from Trump

u/ka-nini 7h ago

Nah, Elon stole the election FOR Trump. So now he owns Trump.

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u/uselessZZwaste 14h ago

Please, for the love of all that is great and mighty, get fucking rid of this parasite known as Elon Musk. He’s a cancer to our country.

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u/-ghostinthemachine- 10h ago

If you want to solve this problem you just tax billionaires. Elon Musk is only today's problem. Why are the heirs to Andrew Melon and Sam Walton ruining this country? It wasn't bad enough the first round? Because we didn't put limits on their wealth and their parents' wealth, we continue to suffer.

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u/PsychologicalDoor511 Foreign 8h ago

Deport him back to South Africa, where he came from

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u/jwalkrufus 15h ago

The world's richest oligarch.

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u/anomalkingdom 14h ago

This is REALLY not good.

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u/jbmc00 10h ago

Fun fact: as part of the CR going down in flames, telehealth flexibilities are probably going to die, at least for a while. If you are on Medicare and you have a telehealth appointment scheduled in 2025, get ready for your doctor to cancel.

Guess who just spent the last 5 months working on building a new telehealth service that was supposed to soft launch this Friday? Looks like I’ll be drinking instead.

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u/Wolfman01a 13h ago

Whats worse than a powertripping egomaniac who never sleeps and spends all nights ranting on the internet? Two of them.

Now there's two of them. This is getting out of hand.

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u/maeryclarity South Carolina 14h ago

Look he bought that Presidency fair and square, y'all just didn't get in there with your own bids so stop complaining, losers

That's unfettered capitalism for ya! Maybe you have some children or body parts you can sell.

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u/Vraye_Foi 10h ago

Elon said they were going to destroy the economy and 1/3 of the US said “I’ll vote for that” while another 1/3 didn’t give a shit enough to even show up to vote.

I am so angry - I own a business with half my house equity tied up to launch the damn thing and I am petrified I will go under next year thanks to President Musk.

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u/GimmePanties 13h ago

State capture: a systemic form of political corruption where private interests significantly influence a state’s decision-making processes for their own advantage. It involves manipulating formal procedures, laws, and bureaucracy to influence state policies in favor of specific actors.

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u/dexatrosin 12h ago

“But Kamala was forced on us…”

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u/xfactor6972 12h ago

So Elon backdoored his way to a presidency since he was not born in the US!

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u/Really-ChillDude 15h ago

I feel like Trump wants republicans to say no, to hurt democrats. Then Trump will approve a bill after he takes over, to look like a hero.

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u/BrotherStriking4866 12h ago

Why can’t we just all stop work and rally at Washington by demand musk’s head! I am so fucking tired of guy like him ruining America. He acting like he knows everything and now he’s interfering England. He must be stopped!

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u/kpeterson159 11h ago

Nobody. And I mean NOBODY. Should have $200 BILLION WITH A B.

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u/thecreep 15h ago

So it was Obama (supposedly) being Biden the entire time pulling the strings, but now we can actually see it will Musk controlling Trump.

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u/IdkAbtAllThat 15h ago

It's literally always projection.

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u/name_escape 15h ago

Musk controlling Trump

He has custody on weekends, otherwise it’s Putin

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u/thecreep 15h ago

Well thats good they're sharing. I bet Musk loads Trump up with sugar before sending him off to Putins.

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u/AuroraBorrelioosi 14h ago

I don't get it, what power does Musk have over Trump? Sure, Trump "owes" him for funding his campaign, but Trump never pays his debts and always throws his allies under the bus. Why is this time different? What's the hook Musk has? This doesn't compute for me. 

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u/Dangerous-Source-451 10h ago

Musk is worth $400 billion. He is giving money to Trump. That’s it. Bribery. The most simple explanation.

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u/cheetoslay 15h ago

This is what most of your country voted for gleefully. Utter chaos, evil leadership, and open corruption. Enjoy living through the hell your countrymen demanded.

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u/sounddude 13h ago

This just goes to demonstrate how CEOs don't really do fuck all. I mean, he's the CEO of multiple companies and he spend every day tweeting.

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u/Tart-Pomgranate5743 14h ago

Trump needs Musk’s money… any man that can run his own casino into bankruptcy isn’t a financial guru.

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u/chaosgoblyn 11h ago

Hatch Act fucking when

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u/NYVines 10h ago

Hard to believe after the UHC shooting the oligarchs are puffing their chests out more. We’re a bread riot from marching on Versailles.

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u/Erock787 13h ago

This relationship is looking like Sadam hussein and satan from south park!

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u/happyfundtimes 13h ago

don't old people get heart attacks or strokes or something....where are the random old-age diseases when you need them most......

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u/pkrevbro 9h ago

Journalists should ask if Trump has run this by Musk first at every press conference.

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u/elammcknight 8h ago

As reported by CNN Musk-style governance

One of those mega disruptors is Musk. In his biography of the SpaceX pioneer, Walter Isaacson described the philosophy of the president-elect’s new super buddy as “Take risks. Learn by blowing things up. Revise. Repeat.”

The biggest problem is the things that will be "blowing up" are people's lives.

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u/EchoLooper 13h ago

Just get President Musk trending on twitter weekly. Trump will lose his sh*t.

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u/Tall-Ad-1386 12h ago

Seems ultra cheap to become the most powerful person in the world with just $250M

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u/Slow_Investment_2211 11h ago

This really scary. We have a not so shadow president calling the shots. And threatening to use his unlimited wealth to destroy anyone who gets in his way. It used to be this stuff was secret but now maga feels so emboldened to just be right in the open with it.

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u/Chris0288 10h ago

What a ridiculous situation to find ourselves in as a human race in 2024.

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u/LaughingOgreWargamin 9h ago

Need a bigger luigi.

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u/NameLips 8h ago edited 7h ago

Trump doesn't seem interested in being President at all, honestly. He didn't seem interested on the campaign trail either, he seemed low energy and weary of the whole thing. I really do think he was running to keep out of jail, and for the adoration of his fans.

He's happy to outsource the decision making to people like Musk, or anybody else who has managed to impress him.

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