U.S. President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC News on Saturday, said there would be “serious consequences” if billionaire Elon Musk funds Democratic Party candidates to run against Republicans who vote for Trump’s sweeping tax-cut bill.
Trump declined to say what those consequences would be in the phone interview, and went on to add that he had not had discussions about whether to investigate Musk.
Asked if he thought his relationship with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO was over, Trump said, “I would assume so, yeah.”
JFC
Reality is fucking stupid as fuck right now. I think I’m going to mentally check out for a bit
that’s how you got into this. 86 million people checking out.
Fuck off, I voted for Harris
ok? still, that’s how you got into this, with people checking out. i didn’t say you did, since it wouldn’t make sense after you said you wanted to check out now. my point is that these cunts want to tire people enough to make them check out so they can do whatever they want without any pushback.
Well I didn’t need the comment from you. I’m well fucking aware.
dude, go fuck yourself. this is a public thread. if you don’t want comments don’t make public comments online.
Aww someone’s upset they weren’t the hero they were expecting
the what? what does being a hero have to do with anything? and “someone’s upset” is rich coming from the dude who immediately took things personally and started cursing defensively.
Direct action is working. Don’t let up!
Because in a functional democracy, threatening opposition is encouraged and often leads to a healthy society. /s
He’d sorta have a point about people shouldn’t be able to just dump a few millions on elections to influence them, but since Elmo did literally that for trump it’s not only too late, it’s also hypocritical as shit
Which makes sense because for Republicans it’s always them accusing Democrats of what they are doing themselves
I’m starting to think his goal might not be a healthy society.
Beginning to think he isn’t very honest, either.
Or a good businessman.
If any Democrat accepts funds from Musk they’ve lost my vote.
If they take his money and then release a public statement calling him a nazi piece of shit who will never have any influence in their office I’d allow it. Bonus points if they promise Musk they won’t do that before doing it.
Otherwise, yeah. Musk needs to be a Kanye level pariah at least for what he’s done.
I’m mixed on this. I understand the sentiment, but it probably depends on who they’re running against. If it’s a red state and they’re running against a republican, I would be fine with them taking the money.
Musk is a nazi, as evidenced by his nazi salute earlier this year.
Any democrat that accepts nazi money, it’s saying they’re fine with nazis, which makes them a nazi, because the only scum that’s fine with nazis, are other nazis.
You can’t condemn nazi behavior while taking money from nazis, and allowing them to support you. You tell them to fuck all the way off, because the only thing a nazi deserves is the comfort of a grave.
I see what you’re saying, but taking nazi money from a nazi to spend and then using it to do good in the world? It’s like an ethics trolley problem.
Taking nazi money by seizing his assets is how you go about using nazi money, not by accepting the support of a nazi. If you’re accepting the support of a nazi, you’re no better than conservatives currently accepting the support of nazis.
I feel like that’s the best option and you’re right. I just don’t see that happening in America now or in the near future. The next best option is to do what the other poster said and say they will not be bought and won’t be doing anything he asks before they take the money. Also, again, they’re not going against another democrat.
By accepting money from a nazi, they’re saying they can be bought by a nazi. It’s lobbying, and it’s why we file taxes for a return every year, why climate change is ignored, internet isn’t a utility, weed is federally illegal, and the fairness doctrine got chucked out the window.
That will win you a moral high ground and lose you an election thereby extending a fascist rule. Money wins elections. You can’t “sieze assets” when you aren’t in office. It’s delusional to think someone will be able to turn down money from the biggest donors and get into any position that will change something meaningful at this point. They need to make sure the money doesn’t have any strings attached to it, and get into office. Then make changes.
It’d be acceptable if they also invited him on stage and shot him dead. Take advantage of his comfort towards what he assumes is moral duplicity and stroke his ego a bit, then well kill him.
I wouldn’t say I’d be “fine” with them taking the money under any circumstance. But it’s never going to lead me to voting for repugnacans either directly or indirectly through abstaining.
That’s what I’m afraid of, that this would lead people to vote 3rd party or republican. Republicans being split up would be great too.
I’d go so far as to say Musk donating to a democrat candidate may be done explicitly as a poison pill to reduce support from the base.
The fact that a billionaire bought an election and can easily buy it again is so plain for all to see and it is repugnant. The rich shouldn’t be.
That last sentence, I parsed it 2 ways and both are appealing.
I’m sure billionaires will be funding Democrats hard, which is why we need to treat the party like neo-feudalists from now on. No matter what they say, they cannot be trusted to do anything but further raid the working class. They’re more of a long term enemy than Trump, and we cannot give them an easy time. They will never be saviors, only new masters.
Musk is going to fund Republican candidates in the primaries, non-MAGA Republicans. The idea he would fund Dems is laughable. It will be interesting to see which way the Republicans go, money or MAGA.
Trump doesn’t want to get blamed when Democrats start winning elections. If it happens Musk will gloat for credit and the finger pointers will say Trump should not have pissed off Musk.
I bet this is the right answer. D’s are already winning more.
And, since the Supreme Court has ruled money = speech with the Citizens United ruling, Trump has just set Elon up for a First Amendment case if anything happens. One that the taxpayer will likely foot the bill to defend.
I gotta say, I don’t think I can trust any candidate that takes money from this guy
I double dog dare you!
