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

Maybe he can set his best engineers on building one

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

That aughta do it! pats dust off hands

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

Fund me Elon. I'll start it for you. Willing expropriation is the greatest good you can do for this world at this point.

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

Maybe one that supports renewable energy and c

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gee I wonder what his new political party’s salute would look like?

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

I hope all these nazis follow their leader.

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

Last time I jumped into the band wagon cheering the Cheeto's entrance into politics and almost instantly regretting it, that's when we got Cheeto. I was thinking in my head, if only some rando piece of #$@@$@ candidate could come and help Hilary win. And bang! Hilary lost and we got Cheeto. Like we all ended up assuming nobody would actually vote Cheeto because he was a celebrity and we hadn't had one of those in a while. But nah. So here we are, Cheeto vs billionaire nazi asshole. Who would ever vote nazi asshole right?

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

Monkey's paws. Not even once.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!” Musk wrote on X and ketamine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

What a username you have. My god 😩

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Elon could bring the whole regime down if he chose to do so.

Twitter isn't completely dead, and he could gear all propaganda on it to suit his whims.

He could slice this administration to ribbons if he chose to apply himself to the goal.

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

No he couldn't. Trump would cancel his government contracts. Musk already backed off pretty fast when he threatened to do that last time he ran his mouth. If he kept going then Trump would just deport him, he even has the pretext for it if he wants to use it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/26/elon-musk-illegal-immigration

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

That would be extremely funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Dear God, please let this happen because it would be so fucking funny, amen

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You forget that he's a drug addicted narcissist who's not as bright as his PR team.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

You know his chirping might be good. Inform the voters the GOP is fiscally irresponsible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I can't wait for the whole lot of them to implode

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He may do some good on accident.

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

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Elmo found his phone before the hit wore off again

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The most likely outcome is nothing.

The second most likely outcome is a fracturing of Trump’s opposition, further weakening their ability to impede him.

If they weren’t such fragile idiots I’d suspect it was a ploy to create a controlled opposition.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The second most likely outcome is a fracturing of Trump’s opposition, further weakening their ability to impede him.

Why would MAGA follow Elon Musk? Better question. Who would even follow Elon Musk? He's hated by one side for being a literal Nazi and the other side for for going against Trump. I guess he still had his tech bro and crypto toadies but those people aren't really a reliable voter base.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who would even follow Elon Musk?

Candidates looking for funding.

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

Why do you think that? Do you think Republicans can't get mad enough at each other's words and actions that voter turnout for them wont drop or that some may get pissed and actually vote against someone the hate?

If you go numerically the majority of people who like Musk are Republicans, not Democrats. His views aren't going to suddenly flip and make more people left of MAGA like him.

It seems more likely it would fracture MAGA to me. Let them fight each other. We could definitely use the stalling of shit if there is anything left to save in 2029. The 2026 elections and reactions to by the current legislature before 2027 will play a huge role in figuring out if anything will be salvageable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can’t see a significant percentage of Trump’s MAGA supporters abandoning him in favor of Musk. But I can see Musk being a divisive figure among the non-MAGA Republicans, with some refusing to work with him while others are happy to take his money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

You only need ~5% of Republicans to not vote or hate Trump enough to say maybe unknown candidate will be better and vote for them.

Can he get 1 in 20 Republicans to think Trump and co are bad? Not sure, but when your enemies want to fight each other, let them

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Please please please please pleas

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Man... Just shut the fuck up already and go away...

I'm all for him hurting the GOP and Trump's image, but he is the absolute furthest fucking thing from what a political leader needs to be... He's just doing this because he's an attention whore who's pissed that everyone hates him. He needs needs to be forced into the cave of mundanity and nothingness like the dispicable little troll he is.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, if he pushes hard enough, he might get deported.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hopefully not before having all his holdings and assets seized...

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[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 day ago

A little late there champ. You enabled the (other) fascists already, not sure there is coming back.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

Do it. I dare ya.

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