Trump can get away with what he does because of his cult, historically cults typically fall apart after the founder dies even when there's a planned line of succession
I'm calling it now so I can link to it in 3 years, Musk is wanting to make a presidential run.
like @peoplebeproblems@midwest.social said, this show has a purpose and I think Trump is planning on going even harder and now they have someone they can pass the torch off to since they've already vetted his ideology and love his money. Gotta distance yourself at some point so you can swing in and be the "savior". He can lay the whole DOGE think on the current administration getting in the way and will totally be a conservative this time. The comments and rhetoric around Elon are already starting to be softer now that he's in this feud with Trump.
He can't be president, he wasn't born here. They already tried that with Ahn-old, and he actually stood a chance of winning. No way anybody with enough juice will back Skum's presidential bid.
Clearly, since Trump is the healthiest president ever to hold office, he will outlive Musk. That is just a given. Therefore, this statement by Musk can only be take as a threat against the life of the president, by an immigrant no less. Send in ICE, SWAT, Seal Team 6, and Space Force to grab him and deport him to Mars.
/s mostly, but I really would like to see Musk shot off in the general direction of Mars.
I would say “where’s the lie” but he’s universally hated and he just injected like $20 million into the Wisconsin election and they lost because he’s toxic
He also lost because, in his mind, money = influence. He didn’t realize that even conservative Wisconsin voters do not react well to people throwing money at them to win.
We border Illinois and constantly deal with FIBs coming to our state, utilizing our parks, lakes, and woodlands, while acting like they are better because they have money. This is particularly common in the north woods where a lot of the conservative voters are.
Illinisians also think money makes them important. The difference is that we tolerate them because they are our neighbors, and we have a long history of hating on each other but also relying on each other - similar to siblings who disagree with how the other lives their life. Musk is a complete outsider and people were not happy about it.
So there's this radio editorial from 1973 called "America: The Good Neighbor", written by George Sinclair. I think a lot of what Sinclair described has been lost, unfortunately, but this line always pops into my head:
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.
I feel like this part is still true. For better or worse, as a nation even when we feel shame due to the behavior of our politicians we don't try to hide it, pretend like it doesn't exist. Our politics is theater and we all know it. It's on display for everyone to see.
It is an artifact of history, and just... keep in mind that it needs to be read and understood in the context of the time it was written. The Apollo program had just ended the year before, and US troops had just withdrawn from Vietnam. The Watergate scandal was current news and is specifically what Sinclair was referring to in the quoted line above. Martin Luther King Jr. had been murdered only 5 years prior, and the civil rights movement of the 1960s was a recent memory. It had been only a decade since John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
And there was video and live discussion of all of it just on display for everyone to see on the still quite new platform of broadcast television.
You should read the mental gymnastics being performed either by republicans or by AI bots for republicans.
A giant circle jerk of Elon isn’t our enemy he just doesn’t understand politics and Trump does. On repeat.
And, Congress sucks, and because they suck so badly and won’t pass hardly anything, this big beautiful bill is the best bill to fix the debt we can get right now. On repeat.
Those two bylines are everywhere. It’s probably going to stick too.
I know Death doesn't care about fame, but if you could roll in and take this mf....man. you would be a hero. Throw the hood on, grab the scythe and have some political fun!
the headline is trash-tier reporting. what he said was that trump has 3.5 years left in office but that he (Musk) would be around for "40+ years". literally nothing at all about trump dying.
i hate the motherfucker too but this verges on being an out and out lie.
that's a quote from musk you nonce, it even begins "Musk replied..." and the rest is in quotation marks. there's plenty of legit things to criticize about this outlet and this article and you go for nitpicking the truth value of the contents of a quote from the subject of the article? get some damn literacy, this is just embarassing.
Elon Musk told MAGA activist Laura Loomer she should side with him amid his public feud with President Donald Trump on Thursday, as he would live longer than the president.
I suppose with the amount of drugs allegedly used by the person a few decades younger, it's a non-zero chance the younger dies first. It's still rage bait.