before the election, i predicted that trump wouldn't get much because he's a tired old man. it is increasingly obviously that i wildly underestimated how fucking tired he is. he's just goddamn sundowning while elon upstages him. - ThreadSky

sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com • 12 days ago

before the election, i predicted that trump wouldn't get much because he's a tired old man. it is increasingly obviously that i wildly underestimated how fucking tired he is. he's just goddamn sundowning while elon upstages him.

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Asked to respond to people who say he's orchestrating a hostile takeover of government, Elon Musk lies that "a majority of the public voted for President Trump"

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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com•12 days ago

i also thought elon would be one of the first people out of the circus because his ego would conflict with trump's. obviously i whiffed pretty hard on that one, but then i also didn't really properly grasp that trump is fucking senile

grudgie.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’ve said all season Musk would be destroyed by Trump unless Trump is just completely washed. A with it Trump will hate being upstaged more than anything. And we are seeing he’s just completely done, letting Musk cuck him to his face.

roland00.bsky.social•12 days ago

Trump’s job has been to be a circus-master since his first bankruptcy in year 1991, if I recall* correctly.

*banks let him keep more stuff for it was better to license out his name than to fight for a larger share of the pie in court

so in this metaphor old man Trump may see Musk job like a boxer

roland00.bsky.social•12 days ago

whose job is to bring tickets into the casino / the stadium 🏟️

turtlebee.bsky.social•12 days ago

right after this shot the camera zoomed into musk for a while until president naps was able to start pretending he had any idea what was going on

snythe.bsky.social•12 days ago

Same.

revan.social•12 days ago

Same

mousebsky.bsky.social•12 days ago

His posts about the flight crashes convinced me that he doesn't know he's president. His brain is totally gone.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•12 days ago

Absolutely all of us on here who try to be savvy at all assumed that the Musk Moment would be all over within a week of the election. I sure did. I was like "eh, Trump likes Elon's money fine but he doesn't MATTER at all". Just very very wrong. Trump made some calculation that this could work.

brandonbird.bsky.social•12 days ago

I assumed Elon dicking around with the government would be more like a hobbyhorse, something he gets bored of. Not something he's actually really into.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•12 days ago

As God is my witness I thought he'd walk around buildings like big shot, ask stupid questions, take a bunch of notes, then make some PowerPoints. Maybe throw some press conferences. NOTHING real at all. But here we are!

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•12 days ago

It could be just what you're saying. He's older and more tired than he used to be (me too) and he was just overawed by Musk and just went with it. Or just some other political instinct of his. (We can't say he doesn't have any.) But of course it could still all explode at ANY time.

lucystag.bsky.social•12 days ago

You were not alone in thinking that.

djdunclive.bsky.social•12 days ago

To be fair: the circus is still shockingly young and we haven't seem many ejected just yet. Would've expected that ego issue to have been resolved already, yes, but Trump's just a lot slower now.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•12 days ago

Heh yeah, this kind of fits with what I was typing. The whole thing could STILL go sideways at any time. But for now Musk has just kinda walked over everyone and so far is defying gravity.

djdunclive.bsky.social•12 days ago

Well, he's definitely getting pretty high, that's for sure.

fwordleproblems.bsky.social•12 days ago

Heh, so it would seem. And of course that's just been conventional wisdom among our type forever. Like, "of course Musk's on all kinds of drugs, everybody knows that, blah blah." But maybe that notion starts to catch on with the broader public?

sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com•12 days ago

talk about woodrow wilson 2.0, goddamn

greaterlaker.bsky.social•12 days ago

Doesn’t matter to all the low-tier retards who voted for him. Twas an awesome little double standard Biden had to deal with. And then, a younge-OH NO ITS A BLACK WOMAN! *MUST SELF DESTRUCT*

wanderlib.bsky.social•12 days ago

Melania.

Melania..

Save us Melania.

sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com•12 days ago

does anyone else remember how the media spent months screaming that age and mental competence was the defining issue of the campaign

leastactionhero.bsky.social•12 days ago

i remember that it suddenly stopped being an issue once it wasn't favorable to the republican nominee

areidross.bsky.social•12 days ago

funny how that worked out... then it started being about the "jittery" and "nervous" young woman running for president

schroedinger.bsky.social•12 days ago

But Biden wouldn't give them a big interview.

rainsurname.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yet in the interviews he did after the debate that everyone ignored, he was clearly fine.

schroedinger.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yeah I was panicking debate night, but in hindsight I'm pretty convinced Biden just has something making it hard for him to speak that just LOOKS bad on TV but isn't an indication of his mental acuity.

foghorn453.bsky.social•12 days ago

Look, the primary responsibility of the President is to yell about how performers at the Kennedy Center are terrible and then admit that he never sees them. This is what the marginal voter cares about

anniewalsh.bsky.social•12 days ago

He's still going to get the hook. He's going to take the fall for the failure of Russ Vought's agenda

yelladog.bsky.social•12 days ago

Putin is the owner, muskrat is the overseer, orange stain is the performer.

enceladusty.bsky.social•12 days ago

Think I found the wealthy elite controlling government, big business, and the media.

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