Summary

Elon Musk’s frequent presence at Mar-a-Lago and his involvement in sensitive conversations have raised concerns among Trump’s longstanding advisers, who view Musk as overly assertive and self-promoting.

Musk’s push for influence, including voicing policy ideas and taking credit for Trump’s win, has raised concerns about his motives and loyalty.

106 points

I can’t really see 2 egos of that size coexisting. I’m terrified of being wrong about that in this case though

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60 points

Did you see Don’s face when Elon was doing his jumping shit? Don’s already sick of him, and only keeping him around because he’s worth so much.

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22 points

Donny always needs about tree fitty.

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10 points

“So I said, ‘monster, what are you gonna do with tree fitty?’”

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0 points

“Oh Lawd, they’d didn’t bring a sacrifice chile.”

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23 points

My coping fantasy plays off of their arrogance. Imagine it. On the day of Trump’s inauguration, he admits that climate change is real and shouts, “good luck, suckers,” as he and Musk board a SpaceX rocket bound for Mars.

A guy can dream. lol

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24 points

And it explodes on the launchpad?

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13 points

Is that dream too big?

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5 points

I like to imagine them running out of oxygen and food on Mars after weeks of nonstop arguing, expelling their final, hateful words at each other.

Either way, it’s like having a warm cup of tea under a blanket while I wait out the storm that is my mind.

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1 point

You don’t understand though, by being visionaries who disregard accepted margins of safety, they lowered the cost per (attempted) launch by almost 3%!

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0 points

Let em both get eaten by Brontorocs.

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1 point

They can’t get too close, or the masses of their egos will rip spacetime a new blackasshole.

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38 points

Oh please let Trump’s first dictatorial move be to strip Elon of his wealth. We’re all going to suffer some shit but let at least one oligarch stuffer too

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It can start by denaturalizing him since he lied on his immigration forms and was in the country illegally when he first came here. That’s not even dictatorial, it’s the letter of the law.

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“First they came for the Oligarchs and I did not speak out - because I was not an Oligarch, and really because wage inequality is the core problem facing our society so coming for the Oligarchs seemed like a pretty good idea to me.”

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1 point

And piss off all the all the billionaires? Not going to happen.

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8 points

You do realize that all the billionaires don’t have the same motives. A lot of billionaires would love to get rid of some of their peers.

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0 points

Would be next to impossible to wound the king billionaire without negatively affecting the others.

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5 points

It’s not to piss them off, but to send a message. Just like Putin, he’s going to put the screws to somebody wealthy to send the message “I did it to them, I can do it to you.”

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135 points

Please let them be too busy fighting amongst themselves these next four years they just are unable to get anything destructive done.

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62 points

I am 100% in favor of teenage drama derailing their efforts to remove bodily autonomy from women.

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18 points

That’s the plan. But while the government is ineffective, big businesses will have free reign to fuck us over.

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6 points

True…but big business still needs us to buy their products, so we are of some use to them

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6 points

At least that wouldn’t be some new dystopian nightmare. Just the same old run of the mill dystopian nightmare we’ve already been living in.

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Maybe Elon is playing a 5D chess long game to reduce Trumps harm and help humanity

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2 points

Normally I would find humor in this statement. Not this regime, bro

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5D chess to reduce harm done by Trump by… Getting him elected??

I’ve actually had similar thoughts but the logic just doesn’t add up…

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-2 points

It doesnt add up yet

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7 points

He a) isn’t that smart and b) would have fucked that plan by handing him all the power with all that money and making the weird incel vote even more guaranteed.

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-1 points

Maybe my 20yo mini dachshund is planning on producing a flux capacitor, but I’ll believe that before i believe your fantasy.

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2 points

Hopefully it’s only 2 years if dems can win back seats during the midterms

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I’m sorry for being harsh, but the only reason the democrats exist is to slow down the fascists ever so slightly and then just peacefully hand over power to the fascists when they gain control again.

We need real change, the kind of change that only comes from a revolution. The democrats do not give a shit about you. They serve only the wealthy.

Stop believing their lies. Go out there and unionise!!

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27 points

The only redeeming feature of this whole sorry mess will be watching those hyaenas constantly tearing each other apart.

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who view Musk as overly assertive and self-promoting

… that’s one way to put it.

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16 points

Over assertively impregnates employees as a hobby

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