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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago

This is like hearing the school saying the two biggest bullies are going to fight in the yard after school

Everyone knows that one of them can't hit any thing harder than a pillow and the other always chickens out against any opponent unless the person they'll punch is held down by four guys.

The entire school knows that this shit show is a circus that will just be full of drama and no fighting .... but we're all going to head out onto the yard anyway to laugh at how stupid these idiots are going perform.

I'll see you all on the yard after the last bell at 3pm

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Elmo the degenerate mass murderer can get fucked.

They are both corrupt degenerates that lack humanity and should be dealt with in a way that accounts for their lack of humanity.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Pretty sure he can’t, actually.

Too much Special K.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Why am I rooting for Elon Musk in 2025?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

The enemy of my enemy is my enemies enemy. But they can still be useful.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because he spent the last 4 months balls deep in everything relating to the government and probably has access to all the information he could ever want to take him down. I fucking hate the guy, but it's one of those "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" kinda situation.

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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was waiting for those two to fall out. Two egos this big were always going to clash sooner or later. This will be entertaining and hopefully damaging to both of them.

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I wonder what all the conservative virtue signallers are going to do with their fully-loaded foundation edition cyberbeast cybertrucks now?

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago

What a absolutely wild timeline we are living in

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

There's some major schadenfreude in this, but never forget all of the damage that DOGE did to the government & countless numbers of its loyal employees.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He also tweeted a few hours ago that he's thinking of starting a new political party (for the 80%?). Imagine if he Ross-Perots the next election. Either that or he becomes so petty he starts primary-ing Trump supporters in the House. He has a lot of options. Though I don't expect much is gonna come out of it. Probably throw a few more shots to Trump to repair Tesla's image and take a break from politics.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Mommy and daddy are fighting. 🫠

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 week ago

This man is an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT who needs to Be Deported!

-People who Gargled Elon's Balls yesterday!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 13 points 1 week ago

Imagine thinking his voice matters more than Thiel's voice.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really loathe narcistic billionaires and hate paying any attention to them at all. But 2 narcisstic billionaires fighting each other? That I like to watch.

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[–] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

If anyone could make a conviction happen, it's Musk. He need only threaten to fund primary challengers for 10 Republicans in the house and ~15 senators.

He's got the money to do it.

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Lmao, two idiots fighting. This seemed kind of inevitable, they’re not compatible personality types to work with each other.

Elon definitely thinks he has more influence with trump’s crowd than he actually has, but I also think his position at twitter makes him dangerous to trump by undermining his ability to reach a lot of people who haven’t fully crawled down the maga conspiracy pipeline.

I don’t think he’s going to be able to shift much support to Vance ether. Vance and his ilk are just to weird for most trump supporters.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Next week headline "musk dead from ketimine overdose, that caused him fall on some bullettes"

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[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Did the simulation break?

This is so fucking bizzare.

Some truman-show shit to see how we (the non-actors of this world) react.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And leave JD Vance in charge?! Are you mad?! Can we just nuke the line of succession?

[–] Anonymaus@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lol like they are gonna do that. Usa are the most incompetent nation in the world, they just watch as their 'democracy' disintegrates into fascism

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