Musk threatens to primary members of Congress who vote for Trump's megabill
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Oh, this is going to get good, isn't it?
No. Its going to continue getting worse unfortunately......
Might as well have some entertainment while civilization is collapsing
That’s why I am high
All day, every day. I'm glad weed is legal now cause it's the only way to survive this nightmare reality.
Yep, one of the only things keeping me going
Gallows humour and schadenfreude is all that most people have left to enjoy.
Meh, I can see no harm from Republican infighting.
"The story of America"
No. Trump will threaten NASAs contracts with SpaceX and musk will say "sorry daddy".
That's the neat part, NASA has already been severely cut by this bill.
MACO!
The difference is that Musk doesn’t depend on Trump to remain relevant (or solvent). All those others absolutely do: They were nothing before Trump, and nothing without him.
Musk definitely depends on government contracts for his companies. If Trump cancels those all his companies will take a big hit which in turn will take a big chunk off his net worth which is propped by shares in those companies. If his net worth substantially goes down he may run into issues getting credit which will affect him directly. Elon Musk uses his stock to take loans to fund his personal expenses among other things.
He could always try living within his means, you know, like rich republicans always say poor people should do.
An explosion of dumpster fires.
(settles back and puts feet up with a giant bowl of popcorn)
No nothing is good about two asshole like this going head to head.
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Bad example because I’d eat Jennifer Connelly‘s ass like it was my last meal.
If Elonazi actually manages to maintain the attention span to see this through over the next 1.5-2yrs, I'm all in and here for it...
But, the reality side of me holds little to no hope this particular tantrum will last. Especially given Mafia Don Mangolini holds the checkbook for all Elonazi's gov't "income". 🤡 🖕 💩
I do not like that Elon Musk.
Never uttered a word I believe or trust.
He has fathered and fled more kids than Nick Cannon.
With a soul and heart more grotesque than Steve Bannon.
When he goes to jail the world will dance.
Until then we can smile as he pisses his pants.
Oh, you don't like Elon? I couldn't tell, @JailElonMusk. 😆
Beautiful
Took me a long time to figure out why you didn’t rhyme the last word
Good, also fuck him
I wish they fight to the death
And both loose
Win win.
I fucking hate this dude with all my heart but if he actually does it then I'll take a cautious "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" stance.
The enemy of my enemy who is also my enemy gets shot after one of them kills the other.
Ahh. The Sun Tsu approach to war.
Hey any action is simplified greatly if you wait for it to partially resolve itself before your own involvement. Worked great for the Turks when the Romans killed each other the night before battle.
This is another point that can be used as an argument against Machiavelli's philosophy. It was well-written, but I'm not sure a prince should trust the advice of a guy his family threw in prison. The Prince might be chock full of intentionally written bad advice for all we know. ...such as always take a side to form allies, rather than Sun Tsu's approach of allowing them to exhaust themselves without interfering.
That's at least partially because of Italian philosophy as a whole, picking sides is great when you are the biggest monster on the field like say the Romans but once you aren't? Well better to bunker down and focus on other things like say trade. Worked great for Denmark, Switzerland, and historically Scotland.
Democracy is when the richest man on Earth can help elect the politicians he likes.
"Look, democrats, I'm on your side again! Please buy my cars"
Elon's only concern is those government handouts his companies have been getting.
He doesn't care about the trillions in US debt, people losing health insurance or anything that doesn't affect him.
He didn't say that... He wants a third party.
Thats a much better scenario for dems than him pandering to dems
The best use of a Tesla, is having it on fire and blocking ICE traffickers.
...honestly, that might actually be a good way to protect our communities. Teslas would make for a decent gatehouse barricade at anti-trafficking checkpoints. Nothing of value is lost if a ICE vehicle tries to force their way through.
He's gonna be the first person denaturalized for his "nazi rhetoric" as a theatrical farce of normalizing deporting US citizens. It'll be in a "this is what u dem's asked for" way with tv propagandists showing hand selected tweets calling for musk's deportation from liberal pfp accounts.
I think it's all theater to win over all the rightwing folx that he cultivated during this tour. These are the folx that are gonna be hurt the most from this bill and are just ignorant enough to buy a Tesla out of some weird culty appreciation. Mans trying to salvage a lagging brand.
I want this Nazi FUCK out of my country
*planet
I want him removed from the Space-Time Continuum
They’re fighting again? I thought they kissed and made up after musk told us that Trump…
After musk reaffirmed the facts we already know about trump raping little girls with Epstein?
Did he take it back?
As much as one can take something like that back
It's just a common insult from his youth in South Africa
I mean, go ahead Muskrat, but please also go the fuck away.
So almost all of them?
Nope. 51-50.
My brain in a sleepy state injected the word "Republican" in the title. Lol, oops.
That's the senate
Baby boy’s heart is still broken.
If I can't have him....
Ok so wtf?
“Why aren’t you as genocidal as my family!”
Next to….
“I’m trying to fuck my daughter as hard as I can!”
The rest of us….
Primary with who? They're all MAGA.
Pretty much my only hope at this point is that these two fuckers will take each other down.
If one wins the fight, I'd want it to be Elon because he doesn't have the following Trump does.
Elon's already on his way down from his pedestal, all he'd gain from attacking Trump is taking Agent Orange down with him.
Therefore who I root for in the feud is without question, Elon The Musky Husky.
Excuse my ignorance, but what does this mean? He threatens to 'primary' members of Congress?
I've tried searching, and that wasn't much help, employees of said member are to quickly start looking for another job. Something happens at the end of term.. And a Time magazine article, which was beyond useless in explaining what it is.
I'm none the wiser.. 🤷
Congress members in the US are elected in constituencies. For each constituency each party typically fields one candidate. Before the actual election, the parties hold primary elections to determine the candidate for the constituency for that particular party. Pretty much anyone can run in these primaries. Your chance of winning very much depends on the support, i.e. funding you have. If Elmo decides to fund candidates that would challenge the incumbents in the primaries, he could likely unseat quite a few of them on account of having a lot of money. And yes, this is all deeply undemocratic.
Agreed, and it's worth noting the Republican party has done the same thing to candidates who weren't far enough to the right.
That's essentially what they did over the last couple decades. Remember the Tea Party?
If the party isn't where you want it, drag it there.
Thank you. Every time I think the US election system couldn't be any more open to corruption, I'm proven wrong. Learning something new every day.
Wait until you hear about super-PACs.
Wait until they hear about AIPAC.
This is the reason he will be ignored. He has more money, but wouldn't be willing to spend it. Israel gets some it back with military deals, he wouldn't.
The ability to corrupt is inversely proportional to how active our citizens are in the political process.
Only like 10% of eligible voters vote in primary elections. That likely makes it far easier for money to buy enough name recognition via advertising to make a financially backed candidate a shoe in. But if you look at something like the NYC mayoral primary, a grassroots movement with support still beats moneyed interests.
That said, our country does a lot to discourage participation in our political process.
Alright, time to start primarying if you're not totally full of shit, elon.
One of the rare times Elon and I are on the same side
The Big Beautiful Bill bans all legislation that regulate AI and more importantly, bans Transgender Healthcare for all but the very rich.
Looks like Musk has been hitting the Ketamine again. He's going to be wearing a diaper permanently if he keeps this up. Not that anyone cares about him I guess.
Is he going to invent something worse than MAGA? !
Yes, the X party, most likely 🙄
Is ‘primary’ as a verb a thing?
People have been trying to make it a thing for a while. I don't know whether or not it started at a news outlet, but multiple news outlets have picked it up, so...
[Nods in English]
Has been for at least a few years, yeah.
thanks! i'm happy to be out of touch with Senate slang
It applies to any position which has a primary, not just the Senate.
Welp, the House of Representatives have already voted? Not much use cajoling them
Trump had been using it to threaten Republican politicians who didn't do what he wanted, said that he'd support their opponents in primary elections. I hadn't heard it prior than that.
Good!
that worked out great for wisconsin didn't it...?
Primary them with his own toadies he means
Do it if you're not a bussy.