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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

We live in stupid times… where oligarchs fight each other on twitter

Is stinky out of Special K again?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

This man is an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT who needs to Be Deported!

-People who Gargled Elon's Balls yesterday!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

LOL!!!

This is amazing!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Just going at it like two whores at the great capitalist gangbang.

[–] [email protected] 102 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

The silver lining to the shit show of the last 9 months is that the Republican drama has finally gotten entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I think Trump might deport this African immigrant for being part of some plot against the government.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He's just so nutty.

Is it really as simple as the bill being unfavorable for Elno?

So as long as the bill had not harmed US car manufacturers for example he would've continued his bullshit loyalty?

I just don't really understand what's happening or why.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He also tweeted a few hours ago that he's thinking of starting a new political party (for the 80%?). Imagine if he Ross-Perots the next election. Either that or he becomes so petty he starts primary-ing Trump supporters in the House. He has a lot of options. Though I don't expect much is gonna come out of it. Probably throw a few more shots to Trump to repair Tesla's image and take a break from politics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Ah yes, the 80% and they all support white genocide. /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Imagine thinking his voice matters more than Thiel's voice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I mean I agree but what a little piss ant, lol.

Very "Kick me out of your club, huh? Well see about that ..."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Woah, woah, dial it back Ketamine Elmo. You gotta save some for tomorrow.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Lmao, two idiots fighting. This seemed kind of inevitable, they’re not compatible personality types to work with each other.

Elon definitely thinks he has more influence with trump’s crowd than he actually has, but I also think his position at twitter makes him dangerous to trump by undermining his ability to reach a lot of people who haven’t fully crawled down the maga conspiracy pipeline.

I don’t think he’s going to be able to shift much support to Vance ether. Vance and his ilk are just to weird for most trump supporters.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

I wonder what all the conservative virtue signallers are going to do with their fully-loaded foundation edition cyberbeast cybertrucks now?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Sadly enough, this won't escalate into anything because Musk didn't exactly have a lot of friends in the GOP even when Trump's head was crammed shoulder-deep in his ass. He was only tolerated because the GOP had no other real choice, and they didn't want to risk him funding a primary challenger. He has lots of money but no actual political clout. Which means I doubt there's going to be a bunch of Republicans suddenly jumping to Team Musk.

He'll probably go the Liz Cheney route of just being ostracized by everybody. But hey, it'll be a hell of a lot of fun watching all this shit in the meantime.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I don’t know. He’s got tons of money and politicians are like flies to shit with money.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And leave JD Vance in charge?! Are you mad?! Can we just nuke the line of succession?

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[–] [email protected] 250 points 5 days ago (7 children)

This scenario is quite the best outcome. Two narcissists fighting each other, hopong for a homicide/suicide ❤️

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I kept seeing people saying that this is all performative and that they're both in on it, but idk, I was raised by narcissists and this is basically the exact same fight playing out on the global stage that played out weekly in my childhood living room.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Alien vs. Predator.

Whoever loses, we win.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The war of the attention whores has begun...

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 5 days ago (9 children)

It's already happening...

Musk was the bank that got MAGA elected in places they'd pissed off voters too much to keep winning.

If musk and trump split, the Republicans in the house and Senate need both musks money and Trump's cult. They can't win with either alone.

They're already past the point of no return, their egos are too big to make up.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

I don't understand. This was quite possibly the most predictable thing that could have happened. Trump has a 40 year history of stiffing creditors and vendors. There has never been anything transactional about him, he just does this same thing over and over. Like there's a reason that people have been saying, "a Trump never pays his debts" since like 2015.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 days ago (2 children)

their egos are too big to make up

That's where you're wrong. They both constantly rewrite the past in their own memories. Shit one takes massive doses of disassociatves and the other can't be bothered to digest a single thought. They can make up and act like nothing ever happened and they're both the greatest. To hold a grudge you need to be able to hold a coherent opinion on anything and not exist in a perpetual stream of consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While both are wildly irrational and one is downright mentally incompetent, if they have one thing in common it's holding on to grudges.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago

Reasonable thinking, expecially when we talk about the two actual main persons in the country and all the people and responsibilities around them.

Narcissists surround themselves of yes people, let's see if those guys has cleared the area properly.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Why am I rooting for Elon Musk in 2025?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago

The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy. But they can still be useful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

Mommy and daddy are fighting. 🫠

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Pretty sure he can’t, actually.

Too much Special K.

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