I find it weird, even comic, that musk feels the same impotent powerlessness in the face of trump’s perfidy as the rest of us.
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Not the same. He doesn't have to worry about loved ones getting kidnapped.
Yet...
Oh, he never will. For his loved ones to be in danger he would need to be capable of feeling love in the first place.
If trump/the fbi gave him a sufficiently exhaustive list of all of his children, I could see it. musk needs to get clean piss and spare organs from SOMEWHERE and it hurts his (father's) life goal of single handedly making the (white) human race significantly balder in future generations.
In all seriousness, the "noveau rich" (of which the child of an emerald mine owner considers himself to be part) tend to be obsessed with their children. They think they are feudal lords who are going to use their children as bargaining pieces. So they might openly hate their families even more than the "old money" families, but they consider them their strongest bargaining pieces. And since musk is both...
You think there is a chance that he might actually fall in love with someone?
Temporarily, sure
Until the ketamine wears off.
I mean, he'll likely just make more. Pawns, really. Meat shields.
Ha! Joke's on you! Elon doesn't love anyone but himself, and I'm not even sure about that.
There's one thing I can think of that would solve all these problems for him
If you're talking about ketamine, he's waaaaayyyy ahead of you.
Cmon man just OD already please, you know?
That's too easy. I want him to expose all the things and continue ramping his feud with Herr Führer until they both take each other, and all of their sycophantic supporters, out.
It's times like these I think back to when Saddam Hussain was captured and tried for crimes against humanity.....
'big beautiful bill'
'big bomb'
Who is naming this shit?
And sorry Elon, I don't believe your sudden spin back into UBI after the whole DOGE saga, you're a POS.
Oh he totally gives a shit about the people. The white people. The white male people who agree with him.
Drugs is a helluva drug
Drugs I feel is a convenient excuse he's backspinning.
Plenty of people take drugs and don't decide to make DOGE.
Plenty of people in power do drugs and also didn't decide that DOGE was a good idea.
It's not drugs, it's not the result of them.
It's just him.
It's not drugs, it's not the result of them.
They're affecting him and his decisions. How they are is open to debate. If you're nodding out on camera in the Oval Office, maybe you have a problem.
Decent person + drugs = fun/funny Insecure asshole + drugs = DOGE + Nazi salute + inflated ego.
Probably missing some terms but you get the idea.
You had to add "male". In reality so many women voted MAGA.
Yeah but Elon doesn't give a shit about them.
That doesn't change the fact that women voted for them in droves.
The narrative that is just men voting for these people is stupid.
Elons consideration of women ends at baby incubator.
A depressing amount.
He's using those people. He doesn't give a shit about them.
Like I keep saying, the cons are very weird and are very keen on the baby talk (meaningless and completely undefined googoo/gaagaa words like "maga", "maha", "big beautiful bill", and just about everything out of Taco's mouth on virtually any topic), although "big bomb" is just being kind of bombastic in my view and is less baby talk.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?" -- George Orwell (book link)
Trump is illiterate and has advanced dementia, so it makes sense.
Big Balls
I thought the list was sitting on her desk waiting to be reviewed prior to release?
Once you redact all/most of the names, there's no real list anymore.
Then tell us what you know elon
Literally nothing that everyone doesn't already know - that Trump was super close with Epstein for years and is obviously a predator.
The evidence is already public, making noise about one list is a waste of time.
Exactly. I’d also say that evidence of Trump’s crimes don’t matter to the people who support him because his crimes don’t matter to the people who support him.
Conservative morality is generally based on one's place in the hierarchy. They see him as a moral person for being higher in the hierarchy than them, actions don't come into account.
Well how many would trust Elon over Donald
The same thing he always knew, nothing.
Did Musk not pay attention to the last 8 years of how the orange keeps dodging consequences?
It’s honestly his most impressive trait
Comedians used to joke how nothing could ever stick to Bill Clinton. Trump is making him look like an amateur.
Yeah, in the case of Clinton, it was mostly about a stain on a dress, and everything else was one gigantic nothingburger, in spite of all the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy's efforts to make it otherwise...
The proto-qons and the proto-teabaggers (in their pupa phase between Bircher and teabagger/qanon nut) lost their fuckin' minds over both of the Clintons. Hillary drove them absolutely apeshit with being the stand-in for every 60s feminist they had hated for decades up to that point, and mostly because she did a bit more than just arrange flowers and have other women over for tea and meaningless meetings at the WH. And Bill drove them nuts for getting a blowjob.
It still makes me chuckle to think about how some of them got so grrr mad that Bill couldn't be removed for getting some lollipop love from Monica. One of them was huffing about this and squealed - "but Bill is MARRIED! This is infidelity!" I asked, "yeah, but is it illegal?" I've never seen one of these type look so impotent in my life when he sagged into his chair, red-faced with rage, and quietly said...."no".
they call him tricky bill
It's got nothing to do with him, he's just a loser.
It's the cloud of losers around him, constantly embarrassing themselves, trying to help him, that off themselves constantly, in trying to help him for absolutely no gain or benefit that do it.
It's only a measure of how pathetic the Establishment Party types are.
She's pretty close to the top of the list for the American Nuremberg trials.
Bondi didn't shut anything down, she just denied it because that's what Trump wants.
But the administration has now confirmed there’s no evidence
Oh, well I guess that's case closed then. lol
They'd never lie!
Stupid story from a shoddy source.
Clickbait ineptitude dominates News
why is Rawstiry accepted as a source here?
Clickbait article. This is nothing.
When are they going to release all the information?