Musk straight-up stealing the United States from Trump who assumed he'd just brought Musk on as a money-guy is absolutely in keeping with Musk's entire universe of prior acts. - ThreadSky

ajaxsinger.bsky.social • 50 days ago

Musk straight-up stealing the United States from Trump who assumed he'd just brought Musk on as a money-guy is absolutely in keeping with Musk's entire universe of prior acts.

Reposted from Dana Houle

Guys. If Elon Musk controls communications with the entire civil service, & he controls the payment systems of the US Treasury, he’s quite a long ways in to running a coup.

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iwantyoustudio.bsky.social•48 days ago

soyweiser.bsky.social•50 days ago

Remember when he wanted Apple to buy Tesla but he wanted to become a CEO of Apple. (Now he denies it happens of course as joking not joking joking is part of his thing).

jeremyke.bsky.social•49 days ago

You imagine Trump doesn't want what's happening

graver0byn.bsky.social•49 days ago

Maybe they'd better hurry up with the plan of installing Vance. He may have enough egotistical mania to fight off Musk

experimental22.bsky.social•50 days ago

Musk has no official position. Musk has no sufficient security clearance. We are literally letting an avowed Nazi control all federal government systems.

penguinpopup.dev•50 days ago

If we get out of this even partially intact, I will be so happy that someone finally scammed trump

nexuscupcake.bsky.social•50 days ago

You nailed it!!!

inthebagg.bsky.social•49 days ago

Trump doesn’t care about anything aside from not being in jail and punishing his enemies. Doesn’t give a single fuck about anything else.
Will be interesting to see if/when Vance and the Heritage Foundation goons try to wrest power from Musk.

deboraht.bsky.social•50 days ago

Interesting thought experiment: once Musk has control over the computer systems he’s moving on, he doesn’t really have any further need for Trump. What do you think his next move will be? Demands? A transfer of the entire wealth of the US into his bitcoin wallet?

azzyfgc.bsky.social•50 days ago

I gotta wonder what Musk will do if Trump decides to say "Hey, wait a second. I'm the president." I get the feeling the honeymoon is kinda over between those two.

watch him try to deport him or something

lovewinzalways.bsky.social•50 days ago

Disastrously, that's the best thing we can hope for.

anywayyouwantme.bsky.social•49 days ago

Sometimes people have no leverage over the dictators that ruin their lives. Other times they do. Seems like some people are making their feelings known: https://ibb.co/FLBh9j94

midwestern.bsky.social•50 days ago

Like, obviously Musk is taking a fair bit of power and control that Trump doesn't care about... but I don't really see the cross-over point where Trump can't end him in a sentence or two if he cares to.

deboraht.bsky.social•50 days ago

I’m starting to think it’s going to be the other way around. Once Musk controls the money, what does he need Trump for?

midwestern.bsky.social•50 days ago

All other considerations aside, it would take a much deeper collapse of norms than we thus far have had for that not to be instantly resolvable by Elon and his close loyalists being arrested.

deboraht.bsky.social•50 days ago

Arrested by whom? I’m not convinced, but I’m listening.

midwestern.bsky.social•50 days ago

Take your pick. Federal government has a lot of security services. Your hypothetical requires the majority of them to lose their institutional norm of “the elected president is ultimately in charge”.

midwestern.bsky.social•50 days ago

And to do so in favor of an unelected foreigner who is making clear his lack of respect for federal employees every day.

foundlingstein.bsky.social•50 days ago

Exactly! I‘ve said this from the getgo.

dyl057.bsky.social•50 days ago

Trump is a sucker but I'm admittedly surprised he hasn't had a "hey wait a minute asshole, I'm the president" moment with Musk yet

bryanfichter.bsky.social•50 days ago

I'm glad I'm not the only who sees this.

erinslick.bsky.social•50 days ago

Trump doesn’t give a fuck about any of it as long as he gets the check. He’s lazy AF and senile anyways and just wants to do pressers and sit in the big chair

booktweeting.bsky.social•50 days ago

also Trump’s innate suckerhood

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