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mandown

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Jun 1, 2004
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No offence but that is one of the dumbest questions I ever heard. “Why does a narcissist want all this power?”
It is and isn’t. I suspect it was a meant to be mostly rhetorical. Obviously the power is attractive, but the dude has enough “fuck you” money to live his life as he pleases without being on a government task force. He’s clearly bored and disoriented with his vast wealth.
 

mandown

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If being a convicted felon, sexual abuser, and Russian asset didn't disqualify Donnie Boy what makes you think that being born in another country would disqualify Elon? The Constitution/law/cultural norms only apply when it's Democrats.
Someone could be hard at work figuring out how to couch the argument for a loophole that would specify which foreign born people can occupy the Oval Office.
 

jonKranked

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Nov 10, 2005
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On a recent Sam Harris podcast he asked - what could Trump provide as motivation for the richest man in the world to get so closely involved in this political situation the way he has? I think we’re gonna find out.
apartheid elon has a string of open federal investigations from various agencies for his various "businesses" that he'd like to go away.

also (personal speculation) this is the closest he can get to the oval office since he is not a natural born citizen
 

DaveW

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apartheid elon has a string of open federal investigations from various agencies for his various "businesses" that he'd like to go away.

also (personal speculation) this is the closest he can get to the oval office since he is not a natural born citizen
I can see him totally sock puppeting the orange idiot even more than Cheney did to Bush jr.
 

Changleen

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Jan 9, 2004
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Was just reading a piece about the possibility of a US government shutdown and it included this hilarious hypocrisy:

“Democrats accused Johnson of caving to pressure from an unelected billionaire.”

I mean. They did, but, like, c’mon guys.
 

rideit

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Aug 24, 2004
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I was thinking that a solution to this could be to have Musk, Trump, Bezos/etc ( + Repubs who vote for the shutdown) become personal guarantors to the shutdown costs. If the experiment ‘works’ (whatever the fuck that means, I can’t see an upside), they keep their money. (With no other fiscal/power gains whatsover). And if not, they pay for the whole debacle.
 
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SkaredShtles

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Sep 21, 2003
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I was thinking that a solution to this could be to have Musk, Trump, Bezos/etc ( + Repubs who vote for the shutdown) become personal guarantors to the shutdown costs. If the experiment ‘works’ (whatever the fuck that means, I can’t see an upside), they keep their money. (With no other fiscal/power gains whatsover). And if not, they pay for the whole debacle.
I don't think that's how government works... but I'm no gummint expert. :think: