Putin said that about Trump last week. Obviously it stung, because he's saying the same thing about Musk today.
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they're trying to establish a dominance hierarchy When all you care about is power and flush ethics, honesty, reason, law, empathy, respect, comptence, decorum, thoughtfulness, etc down the toilet, humans behave like these dumb apes.
It's especially funny because Trump's team's best idea for de-escalation is a 1950s husband telling everyone their wife is just hysterical.
Elon said that trump would have lost the election without him, and that democrats would control the house.
That sounds an awful lot like an admission of election tampering.
Check out Election Truth Alliance and SMART, they have several lawsuits already in a few states
No, it sounds like he donated a shit ton of money.
Hmm.
It's almost like his election lottery bullshit was also illegal!
Weird!
Silly, it's not illegal if you're rich enough.
Lol, now Trump is accusing Elon of "TDS" even though they spent 3 months playing house with each other and Elon funded his reelection. World is being run by a bunch of fucking idiots.
"unfortunate episode"?
That sounds exactly like what Putin would say about someone before he throws them in the gulag....
Adult man children run this country while many people struggling day to day or living paycheck to paycheck. Food and water supply poisoned with "forever chemicals". Plus a myriad of other issues that remain unaddressed (climate change).
Their bickering is news worthy because it’s "entertaining". We prefer to be medicated with entertainment rather than deal with real issues. The billionaires have us fighting a culture war with ourselves rather than having a class war against the billionaire class that run this country.
it’s “entertaining”. We prefer to be medicated with entertainment
Panem et Circenses.
Sadly we are missing the bread, luckily we are missing the bread.
Now all Democratic leadership need to do is not align with Elon, challenge impossible?
There i$ no way Democratic politician$ would ever $uccumb to Elon'$ lure$.
It’d be interesting to see liberals try and defend Musk again if he sided with the democrats.
This is a distraction. Look more carefully at what else they are doing right now.
I'm game, but what? The Cronenbergian spending bill? That's the trigger for this entire fight, doesn't exactly put it under the radar.
Just saw another lemmy post that said it’s the sanctioning of ICC judges who opposed Netanyahu and US war crimes in Afghanistan.
Yeah, I saw that. Seems like the bill is the bigger story though, to be honest. The bill is trying to Trojan horse a lot of worse things in.
That's my point we don't know because it's not reported on as the media is too busy with this infighting. Reporters need to do their job.
This entire country is having an unfortunate episode
The dispute rapidly escalated through Thursday, with Musk claiming that Trump would have lost the election without his support, and created a poll on X, asking if it was time to create a new political party in America "that actually represents the 80% in the middle?"
Kelmo starting a "moderate" party that shares his extreme social issues would just split maga and get the last of the neoliberl voters out of the Dem party while almost guarenting Dem victories everywhere he runs a candidate.
And knowing him, he'll field terrible candidates everywhere.
This could end up with D super majorities, a progressive president, and no excuses not to actually fix shit when we get the chance.
more bullshit excuses from a bullshit administration
This country is having an “unfortunate episode,” thanks to what’s in the White House.
Did anyone notice that when trump explained how former aides have a 50 50 chance to develop that made up symptom that this was the first time in years that he uttered a somewhat coherent sentence. Still bullshit but different delivery
My litmus test is checking out the reddit rconservative to see how this is affecting them. But I would make no mistake, Project 2025 and the MAGA GQP are extremely corrupt and haven't batted an eye for worse things, and Musk represents only a fraction of the power and wealth Trump has his hands on. MAGA was never too keen on Musk, who was always a liability for it.
These people also have a lot of experience acting and saying what's beneficial to them, and Musk probably knows that he can't just leave and have things go back to normal, he has to find a way to "switch sides" to get people off of boycotting Tesla. Nothing Musk has said had any degree of weight or surprise, and Trump has remained surprisingly diplomatic if this was a true standoff. Whether people consider it a small possibility, trust actions more than words on the TV personality cult sideshow.
The entire Trump regime and possibly this timeline are an unfortunate episode.
Unfortunately it is an Episode with a lasting Impact in the people and the Planet as a whole (think climate crisis acelerating, ecoelogical collapse etc)
We all have.
Runs in the family I guess, and by family I mean Republican caucus.