Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

Money vs moral high ground. Anyone who says no to the money says no to having any say in politics. They would be considered an idiot in my book. There are 0 candidates who win elections from a moral high ground in the U.S.

Make sure there are no strings attached, take the money and make changes. The strings right now can be as simple as getting those people out of office. Anyone who thinks not taking his money would help them is an absolute idiot that SHOULD NOT ever be in charge. As they are completely incompetent and make horrible decisions. Musk is a horrible person. Not taking his money extends the fascist regime the MAGA crowd supports.

This isn't a bowling league where you are trying to friends with the monster. This is a failing once Republic that needs saving. Take his money, get shit done. You don't need to do anything he wants. You just need to fund your campaign.

He's got away with everything so far.Why should he start caring about the law now? Legal, illegal, that's for the poors to worry about.

Trump can say and do whatever he wants. It's his lawyer team to make sure he doesn't under court oath. For example, Trump's entire life and the amount of days he hasn't been in jail.

Not like it really matters anymore:(

Cool, people not voting out of principle because they didn't like the democrat enough is how the USA got here, but go ahead, keep trying that method.

At least Trump fixed all the overseas problems those people cared so much about, right?

AIPAC doesn't leave a lot of names available.

He would probably fuck this up too.

“They would have been worse! Kamala would have had higher tariffs!!” - my dad. He doesn’t believe me that tariffs are only a Trump thing… he doesn’t even watch fox. He mostly listens to news from Russia and Ukraine. And that guy on YouTube who sounds like a cartoon character.

Kamala and Taylor Swift would have killed each other by this point, no doubt

I don't get it either. And the only thing I've come to conclude is that I should hold those in my life who in any way provided support for Trump or to what led us here accountable. I don't know what that fully means either. Just that they'll be hearing from me that which should be directed at the president or others, but because they won't ever do it themselves they'll get it from me. Kick me out of your life then. On these grounds. They've already made their choices anyway.

They spent years saying that Obama was going to declare martial law and end elections.

Then, Trump supporters literally stage a coup and there are no consequences. They made Carter give up his peanut farm, but Trump can keep all of his shady illegal businesses?

Stop taking them seriously. Stop meeting them in the middle. Pacification and reaching across the isle is over (not that they ever participated in it), and they've dropped any pretense of believing in the constitution; that was only ever a political expediency to keep the left in check. Start demanding real changes with teeth, and if they whine, well, piss on em, those dumb fucks want Donald Trump to be king, who gives two fucks what those jerkoffs think?

The DNC leadership isn't afraid. The DNC leadership is doing exactly what it's paid to do.

Walz, AOC, Bernie? They are the real threat to the billionaires. I think it was MLK Jr who said that the greatest evil in America isn't a single side - it's the moderate. It's someone who doesn't actually care. The DNC is entirely and purposely made up of "moderates" to kneecap it. Any attempts to remove that moderate makeup get rejected.

It's controlled opposition. It's how tyranny thrives in the modern age. Make your opponent look weak, ineffective, but with people you control, so they don't happen to make any changes should they get any piece of legitimate power.

It was always so. But now we can see it more clearly.

And some of the effects are much worse now than in the past.

Speaking of cyberpunk, think all his random kids are just bodies he's sure he can download his brain into when he gets old? 🤔

Amen, fellow MAGA! Let's also block his ability to fund the Dems with a campaign finance reform amendment! Then, when we really have Musk on the ropes, we'll hit him with a one-two punch, overturning citizens united and codifying the fairness doctrine into law. If he thinks he can steal the next election, he's got another thing coming! We'll slam him by replacing the electoral college with a ranked choice voting (or other better) system! He'll never know what hit him!

[Me, to myself]: "God, I hope this works."

I don’t get it. Assassination weapons?

Even a multi billionaire has nothing on the power of the state if it decides otherwise, and the Supreme Court made sure Trump is above the law. The state has all the goons with guns and can literally decide that you can't sue it, among so many other things.

I just don't believe this is a real fight, and I won't until one of them eats a bullet.

He's all about that, but consequences for others. That's why he told all his dipshit supporters he is their "retribution".

Retribution for what, who the fuck knows.

They are angry about a lot of things, most of them made up horse manure from Bullshit Mountain, aka, the Faux News Cinematic Universe. But they expect donvict to dole out consequences to people who are not them. The dog whistle that is not all that much of a dog whistle is that the people who need to be hurt are mouthy women, LGBTQ, POC, liberals, people with an education, experts they don't like, etc...