President musk clicked his fingers and his trusty hound Trump bounded to his side
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Because in Trump's mind you can deport them after you burn through them. The shocking part would be if Trump wants to give them citizenship.
Hilarious, south african oligarch imports talent to exploit instead of hiring American and the people who voted for his puppet are shocked. Literally everyone tried to tell them it was a grift, so if we all gotta suffer I'm going to be laughing at them the whole way.
Sadly, it will not really register with most voters, not just because they're largly ignoring political news:
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/26/politics-cable-news-ratings-trump-ap-poll
But because everyone is stuck in their own little filter bubble of podcasts, algorithmic feeds, influencers and such that color everything.
President Musk wins again.
Its actually very worrying.
He's already killed a budget bill and defied a MAGA bread and butter policy issue, for his obvious benefit, back-to-back with zero real pushback. His bounds seem basically unlimited.
Trump was always going to side with moneyed interests. Though he is certainly racist, he doesn't care about his supporters or what they want. His in-group is crass wealth.
Defied MAGA bread and butter
Lol, he's done with MAGA. He got his term, he has no further use for his supporters or their agenda. Discard them like toilet paper.
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I'm predicting that Musk will be fired within a year of Trump's reign.
Didn't r/legaladvice have an ongoing betting pool of who was going to get fired next?
Maybe we need to start one here.
It's not obvious Trump can fire him. Musk didn't only contribute to the Trump campaign, but also brought in tech billionaire friends. Earlier in the year, the GOP National Convention was running on pocket change. It's quite possible Musk brought in the cash they desperately needed, and they expect a return on that investment.
Trump might have needed a reminder about who is actually in charge.
That's the thing isn't it? You can't actually buy political influence, the closest you can get is the wink and nudge.
The only lever they have is threatening to not donate again.
Trump doesn't care if they donate to the GOP again. He's not running again. Musk and friends have served their purpose, or very nearly so. The promise of their donations can be leveraged to get the votes needed to ensure appointments that can help keep trump in power or out of jail at the end of his term, be they administrative, judicial or military.
Money can be useful to power, but it's not itself power.
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Trump doesn't care about the Republican party. Nor does he honour agreements. Hell use them while they benefit him, financially or otherwise. Then dump them when it suits him to. He expects loyalty, he doesn't give it. The question is will this happen before or after musk gets what he wants. Or if musk just wants power and has not got a single objective.
He can ignore the little people. He can't ignore the people who saved his campaign. Even though this is his last term (probably), they can chew him up in other ways if he doesn't fall in line.
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They can expect whatever they want but they have nothing to offer anymore. Trump will keep grifting the rubes and can't run in any elections where funding would matter.
Unless musk has some blackmail or some other leverage.
What would stick on Teflon Don?
The guy is literally a pedophile, serial rapist, felon, obvious idiot, demented and drug addled. He could be the lovechild of Hitler and Stalin, born in the Congo, openly sworn fealty to Xi, Putin and the Satan, it wouldn't matter.
Money is hardly their only lever.
Unless it’s a bullet, Trump is going to be inaugurated on Jan 20.
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America's ultra racists crying in tears
They'll forgive him as soon as the deportations start.
Followers aren't abandoning Trump over one issue. TBH Elon will probably tamp this down by manipulating Twitter.
But this is a preview of things to come, as Axios notes.
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Oh, so technically this is a repost of https://lemmy.world/post/23634989
The URL has already been posted, but Axios ninja edited the article as events unfolded, as they tend to do. I'm treating this as a new development, but mods, please delete if you think that's prudent.
Thanks for the follow up