Twitter, owned by Musk, fought for months for the right to tell Trump about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for his account.
I’ve said this before, but Musk just never grew beyond adolescence. [Tesla models S3XY! 42069 amirite! Ligma! Tesla fart noises! hahahahaha!] Which is a real problem because he was raised as a socially-ignorant rich white boy in full-apartheid South Africa.
Oh boy, the next few months are going to get exciting.
Initially, the government also claimed that another reason to keep the warrant a secret from Trump was the risk that he might flee the country, but the government later retracted that reason, saying it had been mistakenly included. Tellingly, the court agreed with this reason, as well, before the prosecutors retracted it as a mistake.
I’ve been convinced for a while now that if Trump felt he was actually headed to jail his last desperate act would be to try to flee to North Korea to hide behind his crazy bestie Kim (who would absolutely love the drama of having an ex-POTUS as his puppet to parade around and try to shame the US with).
Nah, he’d go for Russia. Not enough diet Coke or well done-steaks with ketchup for Donnie in NK.
Maybe Saudi Arabia. Russia’s too cold.
I don’t doubt that Trump would want to go to Russia but Putin would never agree to that when he could have all the same benefits if Donnie was in NK and none of the negatives of having him in Russia. Kim is crazy enough that he wouldn’t care and would enjoy all the extra scrutiny and attention.
Kim isn’t crazy. He was raised from birth believing he is the divine ruler of a people and received a modern education. He is acting in the best interests of the state he leads. It just happens that most of us on this platform likely live in a part of the world where those interests don’t make sense or are hard to see or just don’t seem important. But that’s an “us” problem.
His public persona in the West is a combination of propaganda from multiple angles, much like we see around Russia and China, too.
I’m not saying that he is a good leader or has the health of North Koreans in mind, but be aware that not everything you hear about living in North Korea is necessarily accurate (and not necessarily due to outside actors, either).
You’ve convinced me North Korea is a secret paradise. Booking a flight now.
Where did I say that?
How long would Trump actually survive if he lived in North Korea? Do they have McDonalds and Diet Coke?
You do know that just because a country is poor doesn’t mean the upper crust can’t scrounge enough money to buy a cheese burger right?
Just look at Kim, does he look like a man who goes wanting?
I wonder why the prosecution team thought that was a “mistake”, or if it was intentionally included and then retracted? Maybe it’s standard language?
I’m not a lawyer but my guess is that they didn’t want a court fight about it when their best reason was enough.
I think being under constant secret service protection would make it hard to flee the country. They’d have to go along with it.
Is that mandatory? Pretty sure it’s a service offered to former Presidents, but Trump could probably just say no.
He hasn’t (and probably won’t) do that because he likes feeling important, and because he ain’t paying for their services.
They can refuse it. Trump would be too scared to.
Because Elon Musk is just Donald Trump with business sense. I get roasted every time I say this, but I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.
Not roasting, but don’t really agree. I mean, look at what’s left of twitter. He was never directly controlling Tesla and certainly not SpaceX, just had the money, practiced bullshit artistry, and made specific orders if it suited him.
I can almost certainly thank him for the ability to make my car fart from my phone, but that’s about it.*
*Disclaimer: Comment author (hereby “jerkface”) fully acknowledges jerkface has no insider experience in the Tesla product pipeline, and jerkface carries hopeful bias in that Musk has very little to do with the success of Tesla in order to assuage jerkface’s emotional guilt for loving the absolute shit out of jerkface’s Model 3 Performance because it’s awesome.
Edit-crap, no superscript with ^ I guess.
“Twitter went to court because it wanted to tell Trump about the request despite the court-ordered secrecy.”
Musk told him. I guarantee it.
tl;dr musk is a free speech absolutist? I don’t really see an why in this article.
Anybody that says they’re a “free speech absolutionist” is just dog whistling that they’re a fascist who is only interested in hearing what they want to hear, and what they want to hear is usually Nazi shit mixed with any number of unpopular Right Wing talking points.
Also parroting Kremlin talking points
