he doesn’t respond conventionally to negative feedback, so things will get worse until someone intervenes, and he’s especially immune to intervention as a narcissistic paranoid billionaire, and around and around we go
It takes a very special kind of brain to be the world's wealthiest person standing on a stage where you are literally buying votes and simultaneously complain about the clandestine behavior of the world's 479th wealthiest person
It's funny because Trump does all his corruption in the open which makes it seem more normal and less pernicious, but Elon is basically The Uncanny Valley In Human Form, so it has the opposite effect for him
It's even stupider, he gave the two checks to pre-selected right wing influencers to avoid election regulations, so instead by saying it was a lottery he committed fraud
Trump sorry of does the same thing but it just works out fine for him. Elon's problem isn't his blatant corruption, it's his personality. He's an archtype of every offputting nerd villain
Honestly this is the best part of Trumpism in general, they say all this shit out loud because they are too dumb to know any better. Although that has changed some with project 2025 folks, they seem to be at least a little more "professional"
Even if Musk becomes less forward facing, the Dems should continue to emphasize his involvement with Trump's administration, given what an organically despised figure he is.
In the back of my mind I wonder if this was all just a scheme to launder money to Wisconsin College Republicans and/or their backers for some astroturfing campaign. At the very least it feels like this was a contingency plan in case Schimel lost.
Like, can student orgs at state institutions accept out-of-state money? I would presume not, but I'm not familiar with Wisconsin law. Giving to an individual via a "contest" or "lottery" seems like a way of circumventing such a rule.
elon musk is going to leave the trump admin very soon and then spend the rest of his life telling whiney little stories to podcasters and anyone else who will listen about how everyone in america was so unfair to him
Who’s going to force him out? Trump? What position will they fire him from? I think they are stuck with him until he gives up voluntarily, and his defining trait is he’s oppositional and stubborn
The Cybertruck is a vehicle designed by a man with no ability to conceive of empathy in a way that potentially kills pedestrians. It's fine to drive one here but Europeans said no because their laws state that vehicles need to be designed to give someone struck by them a fighting chance to survive.
I've long likened our latest batch of conservative politicians (and hangers on) to that episode of South Park where Randy creates his own musical and its so overt about being about blowjobs it threatens to give the whole game away. Trump, Boris Johnson etc.
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Elon Musk: Will you vote republican for...
Now I just pray we can learn things as a nation
Elon: [does extremely unlikeable things]
The conservative funds spent to depose both of them were ten times what Soros had donated.
Every accusation from the right is a projection.