Musk needs smart people to exploit. It's now Trump's job to suck him off
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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Are we not slamming anymore? We're now stabbing?
For a brief irrational second, this headline gave me actual hope.
Yeah, the headline sucks, but I still thought it was worth pasting for the info.
Legitimately, I'd argue that it makes more sense than "slammed" since it likely alludes to backstabbing. I don't think I was ready for that sharp of imagery this morning, but I won't argue with the wording.
Anyway, what's with your obsession with US politics, you damn foreigner?? (Congratulations again)
Hey, I'm still a U.S. citizen too! Actually, I didn't qualify for a "communications officer" job at the Royal Mint because I have dual nationalities.
Because, you know, they might tell me something secret that they want the public to hear, what with it being a communications officer position.
And thanks again.
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Knifing, dude.
Stabbing implies there was a puncture and knives can be used to slash or puncture.
Good point! They can also be used to spread butter, but context clues make me think this is unlikely what they meant.
For sure. I’m just being sassy. 😋
Getting sassy with a knife? Now you're just describing me telling my wife to get out of the kitchen while I'm cooking dinner
🤣
At least stabbing has the whole Brutus thing and depicts additional information; "Knifes": betrays as well as attacks. But why not just say "betrays"? If there's one thing Americans seem to universally hate, it's syllables.
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First, Acting President-Elect Musk kicking the Maga-Brains in the balls with his H-1B dreams, now Good Little Boy Trump biting at Bannon. I love them coming apart like that. Let the fight begin!
It's going to come down to moneyed interests, I think. How they keep the racist interests happy is the real question.
They are going to need some major distraction for the people that will not benefit by and/or be actively harmed by H-1Bs taking American jobs...I just wonder what it will be. It was a pretty big mistake for Musk/Bannon to give away the job-stealing game so publicly. It's like they are rubbing magabrainz noses right in it by this public slapfight. The magabrainz are not really known for their long-term memory, but this is really close to home for a lot of jobs and it was in the headlines for days....I bet more than a few remember and so MurdochCo is going to need one helluva distraction to keep their minds off of this, most especially if they do lose their jobs and/or have a hard time getting a new job with similar compensation due to the H-1B scam.
The ultra-rich in his base, whether they are racist or not, are most likely delighted by the prospect of destroying American jobs.
Donwvoted because no fascists were actually stabbed
Don't worry, it has just begun. Blood will flow in time.
And Bannon is why Trump is where he is.
May the MAGA civil war completely halt their ability to get anything done.
There is one thing I'd like to see them accomplish in the MAGA civil war, and that is the absolute and utter destruction of the MAGA klans.
Vice President Trump has to get on board with President Musk's policy platform in public even if they disagree in private.
That should be, First Lady Trump. Vance is Vice President.
Vance is the presidential dog that humps the furniture.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Trump trying to tighten H1-B visas in his first term to make it harder to import foreign workers?
You're looking for consistency where there is none.
"I don't stand by anything." Donald Trump, 2017
Good point.
His supporters generally have a memory span of about 3 days
You see, that was before Musk bought him.
It seems donvict is quite flexible on his positions. Kinda like his view on TikTok...
The flexibility of the rights platform is actually one of their greatest strengths.
They are happy to flip-flop on things that they kinda care about in order to keep people onside and get what they really care about.
We on the left should learn from this. Less purity tests and trying to die on every hill or we're fucked.
The core problem is that right wing ideology is inherently authoritarian, right wing voters find their figurehead and toe the line. Left wing ideology is inherently individualistic, left wing voters find their personal ideologies and seldom compromise. The Right huddles into their big tent while the Left endlessly splinters into feuding sub-factions.
Elon Musk manages to make some pretty cool sunglasses look not cool.
And lo, America realized the foreign Nazi techbro had control of the whole country once he had the leader chosen by the neophytes and bigots cucking for him.
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Trump: Musk's bitch
This administrations alliances are easy to figure out
Who has the most money? .... that's who they'll support
He thinks they are talking about credit cards.
I'm betting that President Elect Musk pulled some election BS and is holding it over Taint Maid Trump's head for leverage.
South African apartheid, coming soon to a state near you
I mean, he literally did. Are you forgetting the part where Musk was straight up buying votes in swing states? It was all public corruption, the U.S. just isn't doing shit about it.
Pretty neat little conspiracy. Musk tells Don, I can rig it, Don takes the deal, monkey paw outcome: Musk blackmails Don with proof of cheating. I don't know how plausible it actually is, but it's interesting as a story.
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Isn't that how he got his newest wife? Or was it "I'm a smart foreigner" visa she got?
His newest wife was one of those illegal immigrants he hates.
But yes, eventually she did get an EB-1, aka an "Einstein Visa." Helps to be fucking a rich guy I guess.
“Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.”
How the turntables
They love being rich.
Bleh, not loving this. Flooding the place with indentured servants is not going to go well for this country or for Americans.
However, maybe it WILL wake a few BothSiderists and maybe even a few of the magabrainz....donvict is not that into you and he does not GAF about you or your livelihood.
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