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Lol, that was quick. Effectively, “Thanks for your supporters but we’ll be fine without you”.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I guess we now know how crazy you have to be for Trump not to want you around. Like "WORM ATE MY BRAIN" crazy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Nah, "Brain-eating worm tried to eat my brain and died from it," crazy.

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

Hopefully the doublecross comes soon and they hang him out to dry before they get into office.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

pharmaceutical companies probably made some lucrative deals with Trump to be pro vaccine. This guy learned from first hand why he should not suck up to a guy who worships money and power

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Evil companies pressuring an evil man... equals a positive result?? I'm surprised at the way that math math'ed out

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But bear meat stocks are at an all time high

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

I was thinking about this the other day - dimbulbs like ronnie desatan outlawed clean meat in his state - as did Alabama - meanwhile, one of their own apparently eats actual roadkill and had a brain worm?

Cannot make this stuff up. The right wing is just so unhinged. Every time I see one of them doing something dumber and dumber, including to themselves, I think of the state of America in the book Rapture of the Nerds. It was supposed to be parody, but.....

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would love nothing more than for this to be true and to hit that one RFK fan we have on lemmy with it, but the article doesn't really give much evidence to support the title.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

hit that one RFK fan we have on Lemmy with it

Idk why, but this made me laugh so hard. I know I have seen the elusive Lemmy RFK fan in a thread somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If you think RFK's whiplash is bad, wait until Musk finds out Trump has no more need for him either.

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

I'm kind of surprised because Tesla and Trumpnis pro coal and gas. Is Elon eating his own face? Or is he willing to cannibalize Tesla because he has government contracts and Trump will probably hand him any government contract he wants?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Musk has most of his wealth in Tesla stock. That will skyrocket if his substandard self-driving tech is allowed to be used in unattended autonomous taxis.

Instead of selling cars, he'll sell a service. Instead of selling a car costing $40,000, each car will make that in a few months.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Didn't Musk find that out the first time too? He was advising Trump in 2016 and had a falling out after Trump left the Paris climate agreement.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Musk has money to give Trump

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Musk doesn't want to give money to Trump.

Must wanted Trump elected so he could make his self driving systems road legal for robotaxis. He's hoping to get all that money back and then some. If he gets what he wants, he'll be most of the way towards being a trillionaire.

But Trump is not a man who pays his debts and I'm here for the inevitable betrayal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Also, he doesn’t want Trump to ban EVs, or otherwise put up roadblocks to their adoption.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I see nothing in the article that indicates Trump himself feels this way. What his "advisors" think is irrelevant.

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

The advisors are what makes this time different from last time. This time, they have a plan. Turnip loves when other people come up with plans, because he can't.

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

Turnip loves when other people come up with plans, because he ~~can't~~ can just ignore it and do what he wants anyway

That's like the one silver lining I'm seeing out of this whole situation, is that Trump can't stick to a plan if his literal life and freedom depend on it. We saw that in action in the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit. It doesn't matter how well the plans are laid by his mice and men, he's not going to read them. And if we're lucky that by itself will be enough to prevent a total enactment of P2025.

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

"The guy with the brain worm? I never met him!"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He doesn't need RFK to run the FDA, because Trump is going to just scuttle it entirely.

Science bad! Doctors bad! Let the drug companies do what they want! Freedumb y'all!

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

You spelt ruin incorrectly.

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

Type means writing on a keyboard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Averages are for heights.

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

Now hopefully he drops Elon as well!

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