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Summary

Democratic strategist Chai Komanduri claims Elon Musk has “taken over” MAGA and the Republican Party, likening it to how Trump originally took control of the GOP.

Musk, a former Biden supporter, shifted to Republicans over disagreements on free speech, immigration, and public health.

Now a close Trump ally, Musk has donated $75 million to pro-Trump groups and will co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency” to reduce government waste.

His rising influence in GOP politics is seen as positioning him as a potential MAGA successor.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Listening to my small town chatter, where there are many mega enthusiasts, I can promise there there is no love for Musk. I think this guy is out of touch or my community is special.

And that strikes a nerve about how my area was double abandoned by the Democratic Party. Not only are they unwilling to talk about cheating by Republicans in elections here, but the party does understand or wish to understand the people.

Is it any wonder many here are seduced by lies? They are not dumb, just desperate.

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

I don’t think maga could ever accept Elon as anything more than an electric soyboy. He can’t just put on a belt buckle and some boots and change his image riding up in a cybertruck. He’s also from Africa, which is the butt of many jokes.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

At least he can't be president...yet

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

Thankfully, he can't. He was born in South Africa.

So, that's a good positive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Trump will sell him birthright citizenship status just like how he retroactively bought founder status at Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Very unlikely the US passes a constitutional amendment just to allow him to be. Constitutional amendments are hard to pass even when a majority of people agree on something, and a lot of people would not support allowing foreign-born presidents.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Musk, a former Biden supporter, shifted to Republicans over disagreements on free speech, immigration, and public health.

Let's be honest here, if Biden/the Dems weren't so vocal about taxing the rich he'd never have switched. The freeze peach stuff was just a convenient excuse

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's more like he felt like Republicans were more likely to punish his child for daring to be themselves and Grimes for daring to leave him. He's got big divorced-guy vibes.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He is not a “Trump ally”, he is a trump puppeteer, paying for the government that suits him and makes him more money.

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Don't worry everyone, i've worked for rich guys and I can assure you that two rich people are absolutely incapable of working together for more than a few months.

Trump and Musk are going to turn on one another, it's only a matter of time

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

IMHO this is just hopium.

There's no indication that they will not work together since they need each other for their own separate selfish reasons.

They will use each other as long as goals have not been met.

When those goals are met then they will have a falling out. And at that point it's too late for the rest of us.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 weeks ago

Trump getting Musk deported would be insanely funny

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

This is my dearest hope. Two narcissists fighting over the limelight.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

hopefully they just bitch slap each other for four years and nothing of consequence actually gets implemented.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Nah, if Musk pisses off Trump he loses hard and fast. Trump could easily get away with making it an official act to strip Musk of all his wealth and instead of turning it over to the state, turn it over to the GOP. Use the guise that it is not communist because they are turning it over to a private company, not the government and it was all done for security reasons after Musk commited treason in dealings with Putin.

The GOP controls the house and Senate, so they wouldn't vote for impeachment, it checks the boxes for being pro capitalism, and anti Russia. And they make buckets off of him. The penalty they set for his Treason, execution. To show they are hard on crime and believe in the death penalty.

Doubt they would even need to fabricate any evidence, it is already there.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

No expropriation necessary. All hes got to do is knock out Tesla's subsidies and SpaceX's government contracts...maybe have the DOT and FAA take a reeaaal close look at their safety records just to put the final nail in their coffins. Trump is petty though, my bingo card say he also threatens to strip him of his citizenship and have him deported before this is all over.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The day he deports musk will be the only day I ever wholeheartedly support something cheeto mussolini does.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The hyaenas are airway at each others' throats. It'll at least provide some entertainment throughout this whole mess.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Elon Musk is a right-wing darling with appeal for both white nationalist types and libertarian deregulators. But no one can take over MAGA. Trump is top dog, to the degree that I have no clue what they'll do once he's gone from office.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Elon is marking Trump, meanwhile Peter Thiel has his hand up JD Vance's ass. One way or another their agenda will get through.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. They're just waiting for Donnieboy to keel over, then their sockpuppet JD Couchfucker will do whatever they want.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Now blow it the fuck up like you did Xitter and lose all your money in the process please thanks

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He's too wealthy to fail. He already has more money than he had before buying Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Politics and corruption is much cheaper than buying out an established & popular company

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If only he remembered that he used to care about climate change. Or at least pretended to.

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

He made everyone think he did, what he cares about were the government subsidies.

BTW: I still see bots on various social networks promote him as some kind of genius, a lot of us got fooled.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It’s comforting to think that they’re all bots. The uncomfortable truth is that there’s a type of guy who made idolising Musk as the Visionary Techno-Genius his entire personality, and some of them are still around and posting.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I have a thought that perhaps he's done the meth, realized how far off the mars goals are, looked at the state of climate and how far gone it is regardless of intervention and decided to hell with all of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's cocaine, not meth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It was always a grift with these guys. It's almost comical to think they ever cared about saving/helping humanity at this point.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

That's something I don't get. The amount of work and change required to make Mars livable for humans is insane and we still don't even know if it is possible. The amount of change required to fix our planet's climate is minuscule in comparison. They want to terraform a planet that is completely hostile to human life and yet we can't even get our own planet's average temperature down by 1 degree.

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

To be fair, you dont actually have to terraform a planet to colonize it, theres nothing physics defying with having a civilization of people living in airtight buildings with controlled climate inside indefinitely. It still isnt a solution to climate change for any number of obvious reasons, but I dont know that anyone that seriously wants to see a mars colony start in their lifetime actually intends to terraform the place first. Terraforming gets thrown around casually in science fiction, but to actually reshape the entire surface and climate of a planet that way, even if we had the requisite technology and infrastructure right now, would be a process that would probably take millennia at best and be incredibly destructive to any infrastructure existing on the surface during that time. If you want to build a mars colony now, rather than at some point where we're ancient history after human civilization has finished what would be to them the largest and longest construction project ever, then you pretty much have to accept Mars's climate conditions for what they are and build around them rather than try to change them.

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

If they were serious about mars then they should be building very large scale very long term habitats deep in the ocean. It’s a lot closer than Mars so if something goes wrong they can improve the design faster. A trip to mars is expected to take nearly 2 years!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Coca-Cola's mission statement is 'to refresh the world'.

That sounds a lot nicer than their actual mission 'to make as much money as possible selling sugar water'.

Colonizing Mars is not his intention, it's just a cool sounding thing that he pretends he wants to do for social clout. He's interested making money and being popular, that's the extent of it all.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Musk is the type of guy who thinks the key roadblock in any problem is that he isn't in charge. It's harder to be in charge of Earth than it is to be in charge of Mars.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

he’s done the meth

A super accurate typo.

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