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Bro, what the actual fuck?
This twerp must have some absolutely devastating dirt on Trumpy boy. I'm coming to the conclusion that there's no other explanation. It can't possibly just be money; Trump has tons of other rich donors. What I'm struggling to predict, though, is just what he could possibly have to hold over Trump's head that's worse than selling classified documents, misusing campaign funds, trying to incite an insurrection, or failing to pay his hookers.
It's not like this. This is conspiratorial thinking.
These people are just .. weirdos. This is how weirdos are friends: transactionally, with little common ground. Trump feels like he has something to offer a friend that friend, even though he's richer, can't.
It's all fucking base and stupid and nowhere near the ideals we are supposed to aspire to as a nation.
They are both beholden to Putin, very likely afraid for their lives and rightfully so. Putin is a billionaire but he also has a state apparatus with global reach behind him that he is intimately familiar with. He has demonstrated repeatedly over the years that he is willing and able to use that apparatus to... make people fall out of windows, etc. And all of this doesn't even consider the possibility of kompromat - these are all deeply bad people.
I believe Putin is the real mastermind behind everything that is going on and also that he has realized that Trump is of limited value to him in the White House. Trump's cult gets him in, but he had four years already and really didn't make a lot of inroads (not to mention his visibly declining health).
So in my opinion, this is Putin shuttling in someone who can be more useful to him. The canary in the coal mine for whether or not this is true will be to see if the infighting everyone is breathlessly predicting ever materializes. I predict it will not. Elon Musk will not end up like Anthony Scaramucci.
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I would say they should block the gaming ports on the network, but Musk doesn't really play games anyway.
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Dystopian implications aside, I wanna see how long it takes for everyone to be absolutely sick of him. He's already insufferable when he's not even in the room.
It's not like you couldn't say the same thing about Donald Trump. Yet here we are.
I'm talking more about the other people in the Whitehouse. I've had my fair share of obnoxious and insufferable coworkers that I've been forced to interact with on a daily basis.
We're all watching this story closely as it unfolds. I encourage you to listen to the macro side of these decisions. A good podcast episode is: https://pca.st/episode/750eb48b-abda-4b5b-9e55-78137234c1c0 Essentially, the choices they make and when they make them, will affect the standing of the dollar, and will affect the efficacy of Trump's presidency.
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Does it mean Mar-a-Lago is the new WH or the other way?
This is a good thing. Familiarity breeds contempt. A middle school spat between these two prissy boys is imminent.
People were talking about a MAGA civil war. It will be over in a night if this is an indicator. Bannon is going to get such a long knife man. I assume, that is.
My question is why does Trump feel beholden to him now? It's not like he needs to win another election. Something else is going on here.
Trump likes and wants money?
Elon is actually rich from all his scams, unlike the traitor who is perpetually in debt.
That's all there is to it. The seditious, makeup wearing, draft dodging, lying, cheating, stealing little orange piss baby is just psychopathically greedy.
True, but what's doing my head in is Bezos and Zuckerberg are both bending the knee and doing what they're told, yet Musk can say what he wants and is still all cosy with Drumpf. Why is it that some money is good but other money doesn't get a say at all?
Unelected by the way
The article and the NYT one which it cites fail to mention if there's any historical precedent for this kind of arrangement. Is there?
No idea for the US but a few years ago South Korea dealt with a similar situation. It was revealed that the president had a friend who was acting as an unpaid, unelected advisor making decisions for the president, seeing classified information, and helping set national policy. They had million person protests in the middle of Seoul that culminated in the impeachment of their president and her removal from office. The advisor was also arrested and sentenced to 20 years or something.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Korean_political_scandal
Unfortunately most americans are too spineless to raise up and do anything about this bullshit so there will be no penalty.
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