The thing that I think is the most crazy in this whole election is trumps ability to get known people with clout or influence to stand up in front of him and then be swiftly thrown under the bus.
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Is it me or is musk looking way older lately.
Lots of drugs can do that to a person
I really really think he just became a drug addict and I do think a decade ago or so he was actually not so bad a person. Or at least hid it well.
He just hid it better, he was always a self-serving asshole. Like Trump he has just realized that the right side of the political spectrum are far easier to con out of their money. And both have shady connections to Putin as well, of course.
I get that Musk is a useless twat and not good for much other than punching, but he's not running for president. This all seems like a distraction from talking about Don's progressing mental decline.
Proxies are effective political attack vectors, see: politician's family like hunter biden, non running candidates like joe biden, talkshow hosts who speak positively about one or the other candidate
This kind of focal shift happens all the time, evidently to pretty decent effect, elon husk making himself the center of the R campaign brings his positive and negative baggage with it.
Side note
Husk isn't a US citizen so this is his peak political influence
Anyone still trying to argue Democrats are the party of rich elitists is out of their fucking mind.
In no way am I trying to defend the GOP, Musk, Trump, or dissuade voting for Harris, because Democrats are obviously the lesser of the 2 evils, and we are like days out from the election so nothing we can do about that now besides get energized for the next round of primaries.
BUT I'd say there are still plenty of valid arguments that the Democrats are a party of rich elites. It isn't mutually exclusive, both the GOP and Democrats can be this at the same time, and I'm not saying "BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE" because literal fascists are worse than neoliberals or however you want to characterize Democrats.
Am I out of my mind?
I would be much more open to the criticism that the "Democrats are a party of rich elites" if the other party was not wholly dedicated to stopping any and all progressive action taken by said Democrats. When they've had the actual legislative power to get shit done, they have. Last time they had control of both houses of Congress, POTUS, and enough votes in the Senate to bypass a GOP fillibuster they passed the ACA. That was with an absolute BARE MINIMUM number of votes that required compromise with Lieberman.
We literally elect enough people to stop them from doing anything that doesn't benefit rich elites. I don't think that's the same thing as being a party of rich elites, when there are plenty of progressive politicians with power in the Democratic party and they've put forward lots of decent policies that the GOP kills 100% of the time.
Projection for the 15 zillionth time by the GOP
You mean Dipshit Musk?
Alternatively, Space Trump
Space Karen vonTrump
Every one of these pictures of Musk looks like a kid tried to model a human head out of Play-Doh
That’s a mean thing to say about his plastic surgeon.
Look, I'm sure his surgeon did the best they could, but even masters can struggle when they're working with a subpar medium.
He's such an attention-hungry dork it makes him very easy to hate on.
Dork MAGA, too be precise.
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