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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Liquidate Musk

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Good thing he's not elected then...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's not even good at wearing a hat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The dude sucks at everything but somehow has a mob worshipping him.

If I didn't have a moral compass or empathy I could probably lie my way to the top too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Does he really though? Or is it just a legion of bots? I don't know anyone that's directly said they even like musk, I've heard support for dogs, but not any "praise Elon", maybe I'm just in the right circles to avoid it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

...and that would matter if he was dependent on votes by an electorate. He is not.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good, the mofo should be stripped of US citizenship and flown back to South Africa in a Space X rocket. Make sure DOGE calculates the fuel load.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yea I don't get why he hasn't been deported yet if immigrants are so bad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuck him, send him to Antarctica instead or something, SA has enough problems without another rich poes fucking shit up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Send him to Mars, what did the penguins ever do to deserve that?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's cool a non elected, private citizen has an approval rating and a job in our government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Especially since he is a crusader against unelected officials. I guess it takes one to know one! /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When people shared that picture with his black maga hat i genuinely and unironically didn't know it was him. I thought it's so mean to make fun of that disabled guy, republican or not.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

A South African foreigner too, not even American

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Why does he even have an approval rating in the first place? He's unelected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

How many administrations have we been doing the unelected billionaire who bought the ability to run the government approval numbers? I'd like to see the trend numbers on that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Geez, did Tesla make the floor too?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad to hear Muskrat's approval ratings are falling through the floor. But I would be much happier to hear that Muskrat himself were falling through the floor, from at least 30 stories up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The good ol Russian elevator.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

A tesla "full self driving" elevator ought to be enough to take care of this problem.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unelected acting president has an approval rating should infuriate every American.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But he's rich, therefore a good person. -Americans

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I think this was a more commonly held thought in the past, but I'd say many started shedding it following 2008/9, and moreso in the 2020s. The classiest divide is getting harder for people to ignore, and billionaires on social media aren't helping themselves lol.

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