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      How awesome would it be for him to get arrested and not pardoned because Trump blames him for tanking his poll numbers

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        trump controls the justice department in the executive, and GOP has firm control over the Judicial branch at the Supreme Court. Musk hasn’t made friends of the GOP Washington power brokers. So trump could vindictively railroad musk through whatever remains of the justice system, and there would be no one that would stand and fight for Musk (except maybe Putin).

        It might descend into one of those bizzaro world scenarios where “free market” Republicans call for and get the nationalization of SpaceX as a strategic asset (with its tight control of US military launch capabilities and Starlink network). Lefties would be uncomfortably cheering on the GOP for “seizing the means of production” in the form of Musk’s companies.

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      Thing is that Bronzo the Clown looks like a cuck even to a redcap when you watch fElon and Hannity talking over him, or fElon and his kid in the WH doing more talking than Bronzo as he sits there looking like he’s sundowning.

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        America follows the course of Nazi Germany. The US had their Machtergreifung, and if they might get the next Democratic elections in (1949-1933)=16 years, after the Americans came in and stopped the Nazis. Oh, wait…

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        How are they going to stop it? Republicans have been trying to stop elections since 2017, they’re not smart enough to figure out how. They couldn’t even figure out how to schedule a press conference about it at the four seasons.

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      Assuming they get off their asses and vote this time. Also they need to learn their lesson and focus on a few issues and more on working class American economic issues and less on identity politics.

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    So does “tanking” mean being laid in front of a tank and run over multiple times?

    Because I can get behind this.

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      Time to start a other shitty TokTik trend!

      insert shitty AI voice “Only billionaires can afford to do this challenge!”

  • That Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    does it matter? 1) he wasn’t even elected 2) he’s already in power, so he doesn’t give a fuck about ratings 3) he’s not going to give up that power for anyone.

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    Dictators generally don’t concern themselves with what their subjects think.

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    He doesn’t care what people think as long as he has power. He could steer a ship into rocks, sink and his die hard supporters would blame Biden/Obama or anyone else.

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    Oh no! Wormtongue isn’t popular amongst those that didn’t vote for him?

    Say it ain’t so!

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    If Trump thinks in ratings, spread the word that ever since this musk character got introduced the ratings for the old Trump character are plummeting. If Elon is in the picture there is no room left for an old deal making business guy and they should write him out of the script. Although I bet ratings would skyrocket on this show if they had an episode where the tension between Trump and musk boils over while they are isolated in a bunker stuck with each other. Talk about great TV!