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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Musk threatens to primary members of Congress who vote for Trump's megabill

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Musk threatens to primary members of Congress who vote for Trump's megabill

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Monday said he would back challengers to members of Congress who vote for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill."
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    No he won’t. This is just an old man with dementia and a ketamine addicted Nazi having a terrible rap battle to commit market manipulation.

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    that worked out great for wisconsin didn’t it…?

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

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

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        Ahh. The Sun Tsu approach to war.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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          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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    So almost all of them?

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      Nope. 51-50.

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        My brain in a sleepy state injected the word “Republican” in the title. Lol, oops.

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        That’s the senate

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

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

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      No. Its going to continue getting worse unfortunately…

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        “The story of America”

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        Might as well have some entertainment while civilization is collapsing

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          That’s why I am high

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            All day, every day. I’m glad weed is legal now cause it’s the only way to survive this nightmare reality.

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              Yep, one of the only things keeping me going

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        Gallows humour and schadenfreude is all that most people have left to enjoy.

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        Meh, I can see no harm from Republican infighting.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      No. Trump will threaten NASAs contracts with SpaceX and musk will say “sorry daddy”.

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        That’s the neat part, NASA has already been severely cut by this bill.

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        MACO!

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      No. He isn’t going to do shit unfortunately. Bannon, Carlson, Musk, MTG, they’re all full of shit. They never stray too far.

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        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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          The fact that musk apologized within 48 hours of his outburst and has all but hidden away with his tail between his leg legs for the most part the last few weeks is all we need to know man. A few token lines about opposing this bill so he can look sensible to his cult followers who swear he’s not a Trump sycophant unfortunately doesn’t change that

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          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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            He could always try living within his means, you know, like rich republicans always say poor people should do.

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      An explosion of dumpster fires.

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      (settles back and puts feet up with a giant bowl of popcorn)

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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      No nothing is good about two asshole like this going head to head.

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        Requiem-for-a-dream-ass-to-ass.gif

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          Bad example because I’d eat Jennifer Connelly‘s ass like it was my last meal.

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    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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    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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    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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      Oh, you don’t like Elon? I couldn’t tell, @JailElonMusk. 😆

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      Took me a long time to figure out why you didn’t rhyme the last word

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      Beautiful

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    Good, also fuck him

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      I wish they fight to the death

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        And both loose

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    I want this Nazi FUCK out of my country

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      *planet

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        I want him removed from the Space-Time Continuum

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

    Win win.

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