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[–] Bwoj@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Not the same. He doesn't have to worry about loved ones getting kidnapped.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 44 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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...

[–] EisFrei@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You think there is a chance that he might actually fall in love with someone?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 14 hours ago

Until the ketamine wears off.

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 11 points 23 hours ago

I mean, he'll likely just make more. Pawns, really. Meat shields.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ha! Joke's on you! Elon doesn't love anyone but himself, and I'm not even sure about that.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There's one thing I can think of that would solve all these problems for him

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

If you're talking about ketamine, he's waaaaayyyy ahead of you.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Cmon man just OD already please, you know?

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

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.....

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

'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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 42 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Oh he totally gives a shit about the people. The white people. The white male people who agree with him.

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Drugs is a helluva drug

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 25 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Decent person + drugs = fun/funny Insecure asshole + drugs = DOGE + Nazi salute + inflated ego.

Probably missing some terms but you get the idea.

[–] Zezzoz@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

You had to add "male". In reality so many women voted MAGA.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah but Elon doesn't give a shit about them.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

He doesn't care about men either though

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 23 hours ago

Elons consideration of women ends at baby incubator.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

A depressing amount.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

Trump is illiterate and has advanced dementia, so it makes sense.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought the list was sitting on her desk waiting to be reviewed prior to release?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 day ago

Once you redact all/most of the names, there's no real list anymore.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then tell us what you know elon

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Well how many would trust Elon over Donald

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

The same thing he always knew, nothing.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 45 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Did Musk not pay attention to the last 8 years of how the orange keeps dodging consequences?

It’s honestly his most impressive trait

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Comedians used to joke how nothing could ever stick to Bill Clinton. Trump is making him look like an amateur.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

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".

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Slick Willy

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 36 points 16 hours ago

She's pretty close to the top of the list for the American Nuremberg trials.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 35 points 18 hours ago

Bondi didn't shut anything down, she just denied it because that's what Trump wants.

[–] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

But the administration has now confirmed there’s no evidence

Oh, well I guess that's case closed then. lol

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

They'd never lie!

[–] EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago

Stupid story from a shoddy source.

Clickbait ineptitude dominates News

[–] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 7 points 20 hours ago

why is Rawstiry accepted as a source here?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

Clickbait article. This is nothing.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

When are they going to release all the information?

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