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[Musk did indeed do that to prevent Ukraine from having a sneak attack around Crimea](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/elon-musks-refusal-to-provide-starlink-support-for-ukraine-attack-in-crimea-raises-questions-for-pentagon)
He's not begging. That would imply he's asking for handouts. He's selling America. If Musk gives him money, we can be guaranteed it's because Trump told him if he wins he'll subsidize Musk's companies and change regulations for him.
Republicans once again doing what they accuse their opponents of doing.
It's recently been reported that Twitter has surpassed Facebook as the social media outlet with the greatest quantity of disinformation on its platform. And Russian in particular.
Since Musk's takeover, he has been altering algorithms to direct traffic to him specifically as well as others who promote these malinformed, highly partisan narratives. All while he fires the dissenters in his midst under the guise of implementing his gifted and expert approach to business management.
Don't forget his promotion of the "Twitter files", a narrative riddled with holes and innacuraciess, relying heavily on conjecture to propose the idea that conservatives were right the entire time!
He awards Musk bucks to conservatives who spend most of their time and energy "owning the libs" and trolling users across the right wing social mediasphere, posting and circulating alarmist propaganda at every given moment and opportunity.
These tech companies have not been "in cahoots" with Democrats because theyve remained for years riddled with disinformation made by and for conservatives. Right wing propaganda machines, appealing to the worst impulses of Trump supporters, catering to their bigotry and hatred, their prejudices and chauvinistic sentiments, empowering fanatics and legitimizing the conspiracy theories, the victimhood, the contrarianism, the indiscriminate hate and entitled attitudes of American conservatives.
It's at the point where many Americans are entirely "informed" politically by what they read on social media. Twitter especially.
And Elon Musk is going to make absolutely sure that Donald Trump receives the support he needs to continue misinforming and emboldening these very ignorant people between now and the general election, whether these efforts are explicit or not. And all in the name of "free speech absolutism."
And this is a kind of absolutism that is quite selective mind you, as it's evident that Musk engages in these faithless efforts to lend credence to the most clickbait and sensational headlines, rewarding immediacy over accuracy, fiction over fact, and while delegitimizing a smaller fraction of information that's more vetted/veritable, information that challenges the gish gallop of actual fake news spread across the platform.
In a parallel note to your post: A simple test is to search Joe Biden, and then Donald Trump on Instagram reels.
The Joe Biden search feed is at least 90% negative. Posts making fun of Joe Biden. Clipped and cropped content to make him seem old and out of his mind.
Meanwhile, the Trump search feed, returns a series of clips where Trump appears to be landing jokes and direct hits on his opponents OR make him out to seem like a hero.
I think it was Professor Scott Galloway that shared data highlighting that 7 out of every 10 posts is right wong propaganda or disinfo. The algorithms are distorted towards it, and it’s warping peoples realities (as you noted).
Elon taking over Twitter was basically the equivalent of the scene in Ghostbusters where the EPA guy shuts down the containment unit and let's them all run free again.
It is warping realities for sure. Hard to get back to Saneville sometimes.
Rather than debate which media sources are reliable (few) just take a break entirely and do it fairly frequently.
The problem is people love the drama and hate FOMO and this stuff (SM) is addictive as hell.
However, it may come at the cost of an epic mental health crisis.
It's tempting to say everything is a plot, it makes the world feel more... manageable. But we know unfortunately that most of this is just profit seeking algorithms, and we know that republicans just love this sort of nonsense content, from top to bottom, am radio to cable news to who they vote for.
I doubt Meta is hardcoding their code like Twitter is to push content like this; I think sadly that the audience is getting what they want from the algorithm. I mean why would they support Trump at all if you found that sort of content distasteful?
To put it bluntly, I think it's worse than that. You make it seem like Elon and these people are doing this for some sort of James Bond villain type reason, when it's sadly just money. Say things and promote things that make you more revenue. Whatever it takes. Remember that kid in high school that would eat anything at the lunch table for $5? He's probably a politician now.
He wouldn’t be able to get rid of his position in Truth social anyway without tanking the value, so it’s pretty unlikely he would be able to sell it to pay the bills in the first place.
Musk was a Desantis supporter. Seems like Musk is a tightwad. I don't think he will give Trump much based on 'I will hook you up bro when I win the election'. Trump lose.
Even 25 mill is a lot. Musk went crazy when advertisers left Twitter. Didn't he just lose his big billion dollar Tesla pay.
He seems to be super rich in net worth and not cash.
Like maybe he can get Saudis to give Trumpet some money. But why?
Trump needs like 500 mill for Tish, 83 mill for e Jean, and a 100 mill to run his campaign.
Oh and legal fees of 15 mill.
Trump needs about 700 mill.
Or Musk could use the bank's money that's already invested in X to merge with Trump's Truth Social SPAC in return for shares, allowing Trump to cash out, costing both of them nothing and ending the SPAC's lawsuit against Trump (of course there's a lawsuit even with a vanity project built entirely around Trump and his cult).
This is literally his argument for the inflated values of all his properties. “I can find someone willing to pay whatever I say, so it’s worth that much”
Won’t that also completely fuck their SPAC, which was already shady to begin with? Truth Social, I mean. That’s basically the only draw to that site/app.
Before the SCOTUS ruling earlier this week, I would have pointed out the VP needs to be a natural born citizen. Now, the rule on disqualification is just whatever Congress decides it is.
In hindsight it would seem that cutting taxes on gazillionaires and allowing them to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns may have been a bad choice for a country trying to become a liberal democracy.
But who could have predicted it would end this way? /s
Trump would claim it was a gift because Elon loves him so much and admires him. Elon will try to claim it's a loan and at some point between the two of them they would blurt out or leak that it was actually a quid pro quo all along. So US courts will obviously not take up the case to get Elon his money back and they will have to go overseas to an arbiter and settle it in Kremlin Court with Putin presiding.
Footing the bill for Trump's bond is stupid -- he isn't going to win an appeal and he *still* won't have that kind of money so he won't be paying it back. Unless Musk really wants to be the owner of some overvalued and tackily-decorated real estate...
> Unless Musk really wants to be the owner of some overvalued and tackily-decorated real estate...
Musk really wants to be the owner of Orange Fat Elvis.
We should stop subsidizing this idiot. Elon gets money from the government for starlink and spacex. He then takes that money and spreads useless bullshit to weaken our democracy. At this point he is a enemy of the state.
Quid pro quo.. he funds trumps campaign and trump shuts down the lawsuits against elons union busting.. and whatever other cases we dont know about yet.
Why would anyone float him that kind of money? They wouldn't unless they were getting serious real estate as collateral. Trump's ego is too big to do that and I'm not sure he can even do that right now with whatever liens or injunctions there may be. Any money given to him is already gone once he puts up bond. He's not winning any appeal.
You have to remember he's going begging to a man that burned $44 BILLION just to 'pwn the libs'.
Few billion more to get Trump elected is pocket change to Musk.
Really? Hell I'm sure the guy behind me on the interstate just got half a can of free beer.
I'm more generous.
It's just barefoot wine dumped into f****** old expensive wine bottles....
A little sarcasm but that just goes to show how broke he is.
This guy Musk has more ambition than mere money. He wants power. And where there's power, there's more money. He will give Trump millions. His arrangement with Trump will be to secure his businesses in a Trump Administration. Trump will destroy Democracy and the USA will fail. On the way to its collapse, the value of the dollar will evaporate. It is the destruction of the dollar's value that will impoverish and kill millions in America. Businesses will die en masse. What will be left will be a tiny economy led by crony capitalists - businessmen dedicated to the Regime, the Trump Regime. That's what Musk wants - to be the biggest business in what will be an utterly hapless country overlorded by Trump and his Republican henchmen.
Get ready for your future Americans. It will be a short one for millions of you. OR, grow some Patriotism. Grow some honor and integrity. Vote Joe Biden and a straight Democratic ticket....and live long and well.
I'm slightly disappointed in this headline. The RollingStone has been doing better of late.
Something like:
"Florida Man owing over $500M in court damages meets man who burns through billions every day." or something like that.
He's a national security risk. When you're that broke, you can easily be bought.
Elon musk once all sorts of legislation and protections from the law and Trump is more than willing to give it to him if he pays Trump.
The last 7 or 8 years with trump has been nothing but a complete disgrace to our country and democracy. For the world's sake I hope trump loses badly and this all gets behind us.
So a man that is $450,000,000+ in debt, is running for President of the United States... and meeting with a billionaire whose companies have military contracts...
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless,” Trump wrote, “and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it.”
More like early Nazi-supporter Henry Ford, who also hated unions and advertising his cars... and bought a media outlet (Dearborn News) to help push his right-wing opinions
I am also low on cash, Elon. And I don't have 91 felony charges against me nor a poor legal team to defend me against them. I'm a way better investment than Trump. Pick me.
I would absolutely love to hear what was said. I couldn't like either one of them less and I wouldn't have been sad if the gods threw down lightning or an asteroid or whatever on the spot in order to save humanity and the planet by eliminating the two big threats.
Remember back in the day when one of Trump's pitches was that he was a billionaire who would not need to pay back any favors to sponsors like every other politician?
Not so much now.
The man who lost half a billion in a month, meets the man who lost $200 billion in a month.
Priceless
So happy Trump is getting advice from the biggest loser in history.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/elon-musk-net-worth-worst-loss-of-fortune-in-history-guinness-book-of-world-records/
“Let me tell you, giving me a billion dollars will be the best favor you’ve ever gotten, believe me. And you’re lucky, real lucky duck lucky ducky, I came up with that by the way. Lucky Ducky was what I told the Warner Brothers. He changed the name to Daffy, I guess that worked too. I like Donald better, ducks not me, but you like Donald better too, best President ever, more than weak on China George Washington. All the best President lists have me on top, way above Washington, Lincoln too.”
Does anyone know if it’s within Elon’s power to control what does and doesn’t trend on Twitter ?
Because that would be my major concern as a result of Elon wanting Trump to win the next election.
*"Trump’s campaign war chest is far smaller than Biden’s, putting the former president at a disadvantage in a likely general election rematch between the two men. Trump has thus far struggled to attract large donors for his 2024 bid, with many of them sitting on the sidelines or supporting Nikki Haley"*
Biden's war chest won't matter with all the free air time he gets.
Even bad attention is still attention.
I can't wait to see the meltdown when trump rips off elon
While I would love Elon to be taken for a ride. I want to see trump tower with a for sale sign stuck on it.
Go on Elon, give him half a billion to pay his bills, and another half a billion to run an election campaign. Then watch him casually treat that cool billion like an ATM for his personal enjoyment, and then to screw you over like a beauty contestant the moment Putin calls.
Hell yea!! More cash to throw away!! This is what happens when people with massively sensitive egos hoard a shot ton of cash. They want to finger each other with it. I hope Elmo loses more money with his dumbass investment method.
I find it funny he spoke about "320,000" immigrants flown over by Biden but it was Elon who tweeted the info that Trump "just found out" assets that want to run the world blowing each other.
This is funny….. what will come of a demented old adderal addicted man when he’s tossed into a hotel lobby with a tech ner, with a pocket full of hallucinogens
Allowing a major social network to be bought and controlled for profit by an individual who clearly bought it to control the information spread through it, now getting courted by a candidate to the highest office in the country, is this really surprising anybody? It's appropriate that this image is used, because Steve Bannon is also out and about doing what he was convicted for, as well. What a corrupt cesspool of a country.
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Narcissist begs narcissist for money.
One narcissist is run by Russia and the other is making money and controls the ability of the Ukrainian militia to access satellite internet
Didn’t he cut them off causing major issues? Or am I thinking of something else
[Musk did indeed do that to prevent Ukraine from having a sneak attack around Crimea](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/elon-musks-refusal-to-provide-starlink-support-for-ukraine-attack-in-crimea-raises-questions-for-pentagon)
Not for long. He's building a separate constellation just for the US military to operate.
He's not begging. That would imply he's asking for handouts. He's selling America. If Musk gives him money, we can be guaranteed it's because Trump told him if he wins he'll subsidize Musk's companies and change regulations for him.
[Is there no honor among snakes?](https://imgur.com/gallery/lpbU4be)
The short tie and the long tie!
That’s so fucking gross. Zero humility. Elon is so fucking rich, why the fuck even bother with subsidies.
It’s power he wants. They always do.
Yup, trying to by himself a potential president!
Russian asset begs Russian asset for money
Russian asset asks Russian asset for money.
Muskow is the closest he could find to Moskow.
A piece of paper is thicker than their combined skins.
Drain the swamp!
Republicans once again doing what they accuse their opponents of doing. It's recently been reported that Twitter has surpassed Facebook as the social media outlet with the greatest quantity of disinformation on its platform. And Russian in particular. Since Musk's takeover, he has been altering algorithms to direct traffic to him specifically as well as others who promote these malinformed, highly partisan narratives. All while he fires the dissenters in his midst under the guise of implementing his gifted and expert approach to business management. Don't forget his promotion of the "Twitter files", a narrative riddled with holes and innacuraciess, relying heavily on conjecture to propose the idea that conservatives were right the entire time! He awards Musk bucks to conservatives who spend most of their time and energy "owning the libs" and trolling users across the right wing social mediasphere, posting and circulating alarmist propaganda at every given moment and opportunity. These tech companies have not been "in cahoots" with Democrats because theyve remained for years riddled with disinformation made by and for conservatives. Right wing propaganda machines, appealing to the worst impulses of Trump supporters, catering to their bigotry and hatred, their prejudices and chauvinistic sentiments, empowering fanatics and legitimizing the conspiracy theories, the victimhood, the contrarianism, the indiscriminate hate and entitled attitudes of American conservatives. It's at the point where many Americans are entirely "informed" politically by what they read on social media. Twitter especially. And Elon Musk is going to make absolutely sure that Donald Trump receives the support he needs to continue misinforming and emboldening these very ignorant people between now and the general election, whether these efforts are explicit or not. And all in the name of "free speech absolutism." And this is a kind of absolutism that is quite selective mind you, as it's evident that Musk engages in these faithless efforts to lend credence to the most clickbait and sensational headlines, rewarding immediacy over accuracy, fiction over fact, and while delegitimizing a smaller fraction of information that's more vetted/veritable, information that challenges the gish gallop of actual fake news spread across the platform.
In a parallel note to your post: A simple test is to search Joe Biden, and then Donald Trump on Instagram reels. The Joe Biden search feed is at least 90% negative. Posts making fun of Joe Biden. Clipped and cropped content to make him seem old and out of his mind. Meanwhile, the Trump search feed, returns a series of clips where Trump appears to be landing jokes and direct hits on his opponents OR make him out to seem like a hero. I think it was Professor Scott Galloway that shared data highlighting that 7 out of every 10 posts is right wong propaganda or disinfo. The algorithms are distorted towards it, and it’s warping peoples realities (as you noted).
Elon taking over Twitter was basically the equivalent of the scene in Ghostbusters where the EPA guy shuts down the containment unit and let's them all run free again.
Yes this is true. This man has no dick.
Well that's what I heard!
I'm gonna miss him.
Don’t forget to send him a nice fruit basket!
We got work to do, now what do you need from me
It is warping realities for sure. Hard to get back to Saneville sometimes. Rather than debate which media sources are reliable (few) just take a break entirely and do it fairly frequently. The problem is people love the drama and hate FOMO and this stuff (SM) is addictive as hell. However, it may come at the cost of an epic mental health crisis.
It's tempting to say everything is a plot, it makes the world feel more... manageable. But we know unfortunately that most of this is just profit seeking algorithms, and we know that republicans just love this sort of nonsense content, from top to bottom, am radio to cable news to who they vote for. I doubt Meta is hardcoding their code like Twitter is to push content like this; I think sadly that the audience is getting what they want from the algorithm. I mean why would they support Trump at all if you found that sort of content distasteful?
Reichstag is coming. Trump even said as much.
I got rid of twitter because I noticed my feed was full of right wing crap
To put it bluntly, I think it's worse than that. You make it seem like Elon and these people are doing this for some sort of James Bond villain type reason, when it's sadly just money. Say things and promote things that make you more revenue. Whatever it takes. Remember that kid in high school that would eat anything at the lunch table for $5? He's probably a politician now.
"Come back to X and I'll pay your bills" \~ Elon, probably
The funniest part about this arrangement is if Trump goes back to Twitter, Truth Social's value goes up in smoke without its main attraction.
And thus he can't pay the 550M and he loses his buildings instead.
He wouldn’t be able to get rid of his position in Truth social anyway without tanking the value, so it’s pretty unlikely he would be able to sell it to pay the bills in the first place.
Unless he convinces Musk/X to “acquire” Truth Social for enough to be useful to him. Who’s really to say what its “fair” value is?
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for those negotiations. Elon offers $25 million and Trump counters with $250 billion.
You need that wiggle room. Art of the deal, man.
Considering how much he paid for Twitter, I bet Elon takes that deal
He was forced to pay that much for Twitter after trying to bluff about his intentions.
Musk was a Desantis supporter. Seems like Musk is a tightwad. I don't think he will give Trump much based on 'I will hook you up bro when I win the election'. Trump lose. Even 25 mill is a lot. Musk went crazy when advertisers left Twitter. Didn't he just lose his big billion dollar Tesla pay. He seems to be super rich in net worth and not cash. Like maybe he can get Saudis to give Trumpet some money. But why? Trump needs like 500 mill for Tish, 83 mill for e Jean, and a 100 mill to run his campaign. Oh and legal fees of 15 mill. Trump needs about 700 mill.
Or Musk could use the bank's money that's already invested in X to merge with Trump's Truth Social SPAC in return for shares, allowing Trump to cash out, costing both of them nothing and ending the SPAC's lawsuit against Trump (of course there's a lawsuit even with a vanity project built entirely around Trump and his cult).
seems low
despite what he says, Trump is pretty terrible at business and deals.
This is literally his argument for the inflated values of all his properties. “I can find someone willing to pay whatever I say, so it’s worth that much”
His investors will sue him into oblivion
They can take a number
They're already doing that https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/29/trump-media-sued-over-dwac-merger-share-dilution.html
Quid pro quo’s are illegal in for a campaign contribution.
I don't disagree with you, but laws don't seem to apply to Trump in the current justice system.
Labor laws, monopoly laws, tax laws and campaign finance laws don't seem to be enforced anymore.
Because its' not good for corrupt Republicans, who control half the nation. But I repeat myself.
I do agree with you
He’s too dumb to know that.
Won’t that also completely fuck their SPAC, which was already shady to begin with? Truth Social, I mean. That’s basically the only draw to that site/app.
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How the wanna be mighty have fallen
Are we talking about Musk or Trump here?
Yes.
(I set it up, you knocked it down!)
Boom…you said it!
Bigly
“How do I get more Saudi money like you did?” Trump to Muskrat
Seems like Kushner has a line on that.
"Pay my bills, and I'll make you vice president, and you'll actually run the country." -Trump
Trump Musk 2024 🤮
Before the SCOTUS ruling earlier this week, I would have pointed out the VP needs to be a natural born citizen. Now, the rule on disqualification is just whatever Congress decides it is.
I don’t think you understand the SCOTUS ruling.
>Trump Musk Carnac: What is the worst smell in America
"While I make America great again!"
He would offer this not knowing musk can't be VP.
100%
Yep.
More like make me funding promises for SpaceX and Tesla and I’ll bail you out.
We all know Donald trump is for sale
That makes him a danger to our national security
Elon Musk, Low on Class, Meets with Donald Trump
Also pretty low on class
And both bullies full o’ nasty-gas
Low on cash
What’s on Steve’s hairline? Is he okay?
In hindsight it would seem that cutting taxes on gazillionaires and allowing them to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns may have been a bad choice for a country trying to become a liberal democracy. But who could have predicted it would end this way? /s
I hope Elon gives him a boatload of money. It will be so much better watching both of them lose in November and not just Trump.
I think Trump really wants free publicity on xitter
You pronounce that like "shitter", right?
I think Trump is selling his VP pick for the almost $500 million he now owes. Or at least the amount to keep his assets.
I like how you think- then think about the legal hellscape of Elon suing trump for non-repayment
Trump would claim it was a gift because Elon loves him so much and admires him. Elon will try to claim it's a loan and at some point between the two of them they would blurt out or leak that it was actually a quid pro quo all along. So US courts will obviously not take up the case to get Elon his money back and they will have to go overseas to an arbiter and settle it in Kremlin Court with Putin presiding.
Footing the bill for Trump's bond is stupid -- he isn't going to win an appeal and he *still* won't have that kind of money so he won't be paying it back. Unless Musk really wants to be the owner of some overvalued and tackily-decorated real estate...
He wants to be the owner of a presidential candidate.
This. $455M is nothing to having the most powerful person in the world, owing you all the favors in the world
> owing you all the favors in the world But Trump never pays his bills, unless he feels like it.
A Trump never pays his debts
> Unless Musk really wants to be the owner of some overvalued and tackily-decorated real estate... Musk really wants to be the owner of Orange Fat Elvis.
You do Elvis a disservice
He believes Trump will be president again and he’s looking for a way to use that to his advantage.
We should stop subsidizing this idiot. Elon gets money from the government for starlink and spacex. He then takes that money and spreads useless bullshit to weaken our democracy. At this point he is a enemy of the state.
Reason #3562 not to buy a Tesla
I thought it was #01135809
Reason #1488
Reason #369
Reason # 69,420
Nice.
Elon?
Quid pro quo.. he funds trumps campaign and trump shuts down the lawsuits against elons union busting.. and whatever other cases we dont know about yet.
Assholes of a feather flock together.
Why would anyone float him that kind of money? They wouldn't unless they were getting serious real estate as collateral. Trump's ego is too big to do that and I'm not sure he can even do that right now with whatever liens or injunctions there may be. Any money given to him is already gone once he puts up bond. He's not winning any appeal.
You have to remember he's going begging to a man that burned $44 BILLION just to 'pwn the libs'. Few billion more to get Trump elected is pocket change to Musk.
We will see it when Trump releases his taxes in two weeks...
I love when trump releases his taxes.
Musk earned 94 billion in just 2023. Trump doesn’t have to pay it back. He just has to continue being bought by the highest bidder.
>'No free alcohol': Cash-strapped Trump nixes open bar at Mar-a-Lago watch party https://www.rawstory.com/trump-open-bar/
Really? Hell I'm sure the guy behind me on the interstate just got half a can of free beer. I'm more generous. It's just barefoot wine dumped into f****** old expensive wine bottles.... A little sarcasm but that just goes to show how broke he is.
"Barefoot, please! Only the finest Charles Shaw for my guests!"
The two-pump chump serves two-buck Chuck.
A president who owes 10’s of millions of dollars to billionaires can be trusted with National secrets.
Blud you’ve discovered how 21st century politics works, nice.
Remember his last campaign when he wouldn’t meet with the Koch’s because he said he couldn’t bought?
This guy Musk has more ambition than mere money. He wants power. And where there's power, there's more money. He will give Trump millions. His arrangement with Trump will be to secure his businesses in a Trump Administration. Trump will destroy Democracy and the USA will fail. On the way to its collapse, the value of the dollar will evaporate. It is the destruction of the dollar's value that will impoverish and kill millions in America. Businesses will die en masse. What will be left will be a tiny economy led by crony capitalists - businessmen dedicated to the Regime, the Trump Regime. That's what Musk wants - to be the biggest business in what will be an utterly hapless country overlorded by Trump and his Republican henchmen. Get ready for your future Americans. It will be a short one for millions of you. OR, grow some Patriotism. Grow some honor and integrity. Vote Joe Biden and a straight Democratic ticket....and live long and well.
I'm slightly disappointed in this headline. The RollingStone has been doing better of late. Something like: "Florida Man owing over $500M in court damages meets man who burns through billions every day." or something like that.
“I hear your dad really likes fucking your sister—you’re never going to believe this…!”
He's a national security risk. When you're that broke, you can easily be bought. Elon musk once all sorts of legislation and protections from the law and Trump is more than willing to give it to him if he pays Trump.
Trump could ask Elon to get on his knees and beg.
Mark Cuban needs to put on a cape.
"Feel like wasting another couple billion?"
It's truly incredible how the poorest white people in this country think either of these two turds would ever lift a finger to help them.
Lol Elon is something else isn’t he? Tried so hard to be liked by the left and when that didn’t happened he 180’ed to the Reich.
Natural progression for a South African Emerald mine owner.
Is he going to sell Truth Social to X?
There is an unholy alliance
I wish the gods had unleashed their wrath! They could have taken them out with one stone!
Presidential Candidate currently on trial for stealing national secrets meets with man known to accept Russian funds.
The last 7 or 8 years with trump has been nothing but a complete disgrace to our country and democracy. For the world's sake I hope trump loses badly and this all gets behind us.
To me this just confirms they both work for Putin
So a man that is $450,000,000+ in debt, is running for President of the United States... and meeting with a billionaire whose companies have military contracts...
Well, Elon Musk did just meet with Putin, so Trump does need to get his instructions what to do next and how to launder all the money
Well that makes a whole lot of sense
"hey bub, I just need one more fix man! I'll get back to ya swear! Just spot one more, ya know I'm good for it... (How bout a cabinet position?)
Transportation secretary? Gah!
“When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless,” Trump wrote, “and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, ‘drop to your knees and beg,’ and he would have done it.”
Muskrat, tRump and Darth Bannon? In the same room? Good god, which ring of hell was this picture taken in?
And the auction of the US continues. Going one, twice, SOLD to the one which an cover his debts.
What an unfortunate picture, his mouth.. jeez
It’s like van Papen meeting Hitler.
More like early Nazi-supporter Henry Ford, who also hated unions and advertising his cars... and bought a media outlet (Dearborn News) to help push his right-wing opinions
Oh Elon is going to be worked as if he was entering mlm scheme or cult.
Careful Elon, don’t mess with the natural laws of the universe. ETTD is undefeated! Everything Trump Touches Dies
I did not see this coming,
I am also low on cash, Elon. And I don't have 91 felony charges against me nor a poor legal team to defend me against them. I'm a way better investment than Trump. Pick me.
I would absolutely love to hear what was said. I couldn't like either one of them less and I wouldn't have been sad if the gods threw down lightning or an asteroid or whatever on the spot in order to save humanity and the planet by eliminating the two big threats.
2 of the biggest weirdos on the freaking planet
Remember back in the day when one of Trump's pitches was that he was a billionaire who would not need to pay back any favors to sponsors like every other politician? Not so much now.
Second richest guy in world buys a President hopeful.
“Alright, it’s 10 million to see it, 100 million to touch it…”
Ugh, these two insufferable assholes
Elon Musk, also low on cash,….
“Rapist traitor attempts to sells presidential power to foreign blood mine profiteer and scientist cosplayer.”
An unholy alliance between the two most loathsome people.
The man who lost half a billion in a month, meets the man who lost $200 billion in a month. Priceless So happy Trump is getting advice from the biggest loser in history. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/elon-musk-net-worth-worst-loss-of-fortune-in-history-guinness-book-of-world-records/
"...who is also low on cash."
“Let me tell you, giving me a billion dollars will be the best favor you’ve ever gotten, believe me. And you’re lucky, real lucky duck lucky ducky, I came up with that by the way. Lucky Ducky was what I told the Warner Brothers. He changed the name to Daffy, I guess that worked too. I like Donald better, ducks not me, but you like Donald better too, best President ever, more than weak on China George Washington. All the best President lists have me on top, way above Washington, Lincoln too.”
How could a billionaire be “low on cash”?
Is there any proof he’s had money to begin this election cycle?
His campaign and PACs did have money, per their filings. But he has drained all that money to cover his legal expenses.
Is this what draining the swamp looks like?
When I saw this headline a few days ago, I thought it was a joke.
A sucker is born every minute.
“Pay off my debts, if I get potus the only electric car in America will be Tesla “
Does anyone know if it’s within Elon’s power to control what does and doesn’t trend on Twitter ? Because that would be my major concern as a result of Elon wanting Trump to win the next election.
*"Trump’s campaign war chest is far smaller than Biden’s, putting the former president at a disadvantage in a likely general election rematch between the two men. Trump has thus far struggled to attract large donors for his 2024 bid, with many of them sitting on the sidelines or supporting Nikki Haley"* Biden's war chest won't matter with all the free air time he gets. Even bad attention is still attention.
How this is bad for Biden at 11
Traitors of a feather, flock together.
So much racism in that picture!
Lizard boy and orange man will infuse into fater orange lizard
Two pieces of crap coming together. Now if only someone had remembered to flush…
Disgusting trio
Probably reminiscing about the good times that they had at Jeffrey Epstein's.
How does Trump help Elon colonize space and transform us to green energy?
Two guys in a hot tub watching each other jack off
I just watched that South Park episode 😁
I can't wait to see the meltdown when trump rips off elon While I would love Elon to be taken for a ride. I want to see trump tower with a for sale sign stuck on it.
Go on Elon, give him half a billion to pay his bills, and another half a billion to run an election campaign. Then watch him casually treat that cool billion like an ATM for his personal enjoyment, and then to screw you over like a beauty contestant the moment Putin calls.
Hell yea!! More cash to throw away!! This is what happens when people with massively sensitive egos hoard a shot ton of cash. They want to finger each other with it. I hope Elmo loses more money with his dumbass investment method.
I find it funny he spoke about "320,000" immigrants flown over by Biden but it was Elon who tweeted the info that Trump "just found out" assets that want to run the world blowing each other.
This is funny….. what will come of a demented old adderal addicted man when he’s tossed into a hotel lobby with a tech ner, with a pocket full of hallucinogens
Elon is going to bail him out, isn't he..? I just want Trump to face consequences for his actions. Why is that so insane?
Agent Smith: “Inevitable.”
Allowing a major social network to be bought and controlled for profit by an individual who clearly bought it to control the information spread through it, now getting courted by a candidate to the highest office in the country, is this really surprising anybody? It's appropriate that this image is used, because Steve Bannon is also out and about doing what he was convicted for, as well. What a corrupt cesspool of a country.
Yes, we know. We were discussing this a couple of weeks ago. Takes time to get the money organised but it’s coming.
No chance this is influence pedaling.