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[–] 253 points 1 year ago (10 children)

This scenario is quite the best outcome. Two narcissists fighting each other, hopong for a homicide/suicide ❤️

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  • [–] 88 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It's already happening...

    Musk was the bank that got MAGA elected in places they'd pissed off voters too much to keep winning.

    If musk and trump split, the Republicans in the house and Senate need both musks money and Trump's cult. They can't win with either alone.

    They're already past the point of no return, their egos are too big to make up.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    their egos are too big to make up

    That's where you're wrong. They both constantly rewrite the past in their own memories. Shit one takes massive doses of disassociatves and the other can't be bothered to digest a single thought. They can make up and act like nothing ever happened and they're both the greatest. To hold a grudge you need to be able to hold a coherent opinion on anything and not exist in a perpetual stream of consciousness.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Reasonable thinking, expecially when we talk about the two actual main persons in the country and all the people and responsibilities around them.

    Narcissists surround themselves of yes people, let's see if those guys has cleared the area properly.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    While both are wildly irrational and one is downright mentally incompetent, if they have one thing in common it's holding on to grudges.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oh I'm not saying that they don't engage in extreme attacks on who they consider their enemies. But Trump rapidly flips on who his enemy and who his friend is based on the situation. He's had that relationship with most of the GOP. Without the staff I honestly don't think he'd be able to keep it together. Sometimes he shifts based straight up on who he's in the room with and how they're treating him at that exact moment. What I'm trying to say is there's no actual calculation or payback in his mind. It's entirely binary and subject to rapid shifts. Classic black and white thinking/cluster b splitting.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    I don't understand. This was quite possibly the most predictable thing that could have happened. Trump has a 40 year history of stiffing creditors and vendors. There has never been anything transactional about him, he just does this same thing over and over. Like there's a reason that people have been saying, "a Trump never pays his debts" since like 2015.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I kept seeing people saying that this is all performative and that they're both in on it, but idk, I was raised by narcissists and this is basically the exact same fight playing out on the global stage that played out weekly in my childhood living room.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yep, same, exactly.

    This is way, way too in depth to be an elaborately staged, intetional hyperreality performance.

    These two just actually are this stupid, this self-centered, this insecure and ego driven.

    If this is some kind of an act, it would require both of them to have been method acting at Daniel Day Lewis levels for about a decade with no breaks.

    Its 'performative' in the sense of intentionally being catty, shit-disturbing, dramatic, old men acting like the cast of the Mean Girls... but it is not performative in the sense of 'entirely staged to fool us dumb rubes.'

    That being said, this all still does function as a grand distraction to any other person or kind of nefarious nonsense... but no, these two are having the messiest, most high stakes, most public breakup in probably the history of the world right now, and they are both totally genuine.

    ... It is also arguably the funniest way concievable for the American Empire / Era to end.

    How in the fuck do you write a history book about this in 20 years?

    ... I don't fucking know, but I do know I want Larry David to write a script for a 'The Death of Stalin' style movie about the last 9 months.

    EDIT: Wait! Mel Brooks is still alive somefucking how, get in him in the writing room too!

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    [–] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Anybody have any idea what they're trying to hide with this puppet show? Is the big bill getting too much attention or is it something else?

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    [–] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So let me get that straight, you spent hundreds of millions of dollars to get a guy, who you think should be impeached and is guilty of underage sex, to be the president of the United States?

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I have this feeling that JD Vance is way worse than Trump

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    [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is this a massive gamble by Elmo to rebuild his brand image by forcing me to agree with him on certain issues? Let’s not forget this was the same guy Nazi saluting this dude at his Inauguration a few short months ago.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, its not. Musk is just salty Trump used and discarded him. You have to understand, these are just children who stumbled into power and never really grew up.

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago
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    Can we have both of these? Please please please?

    • Trump impeached
    • Musk deported
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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I know there is some clause or stipulation that allows for the seizure of assets obtained by illegal immigrants.

    Musk is an illegal immigrant who pursued business ventures in violation of his school visa and lied about it.

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Consider this, JD Vance is Peter Thiel's Acolyte, who desperately wants to bring about a global technocracy. What if all of this hasn't been a genuine attempt yet. What if it's merely theatre that has been setting the stage for Vance to take over. Trump gets to enrich his family beyond their wildest imagination, then he peaces out and the real horror begins.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't see Vance flags on people's trucks. I see Trump flags. I just don't know that Vance gets the backing Trump does. I think the Rs capitulate to Trump so much because of his rabies base, and there's this concern they'll be replaced by someone who Trump endorses.

    I do think it's all a game for wealthy people, and we will just pay for it one way or another, regardless.

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    [–] 32 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why am I rooting for Elon Musk in 2025?

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    Who could see this coming said that one clueless guy who didn't.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 18 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What I really love about this is that Trump is so narcissistic that he earnestly believed that Elon liked him. That he believed in his vision for the country and that he wouldn't want anything in return, like a load more juicy government contracts, a bill to mandate that petrol cars would be phased out, or all safety regulations about self driving cars to be torn up.

    Bless his cold dead heart for being exactly what everybody knows he is. Everybody except those idiots who jump into bed with him, because all those other people he betrayed were losers who just weren't smart enough.

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    What a absolutely wild timeline we are living in

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Mommy and daddy are fighting. 🫠

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

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

    -People who Gargled Elon's Balls yesterday!

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