President Donald Trump threatened to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance escalated into a public feud Thursday. The world’s richest man responded in kind, saying he’d decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station.

Shares of Musk’s electric vehicle maker Tesla fell 14%, knocking about $150 billion off the company’s market valuation.

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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When they make up tomorrow, they’ll both be a few billion dollars richer.

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

    Hoping this ages like milk, but I'm personally not putting much stock into these theatrics. I feel like the past decade has time and time again shown that schadenfreude only happens in movies, and that every interaction these people have with each other are Neanderthal-level grifts that successfully siphon them more even money from the lower classes.

    Color me jaded.

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

    😂 🤣 😂 🤣

    😍 You love to see it!!

    Fight, bitches, fight!! Take each other down with you!! Fucking unrestrained impulsive toddlers...

    🤡 🙄 🖕

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

    Like kids on a playground.

    "I'm not going to help you with your electric cars."

    "Fine, I'll take my spaceship away then."

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Like kids on a playground.

    “I’m not going to help you with your electric cars.”

    “Fine, I’ll take my spaceship away then.”

    "Fine. I won't help you with those, neither! Neener Neener!"

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    Apparently, Trump didn't say thank you to Elon for his election.

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    I hope this drags on for months.

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

    Dooo it. Musk must not be too savvy if he didn't think trump would turn on him.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm guessing that Musk is now finding out that Trump doesn't actually pay his debts.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Trump got paid up front with a guaranteed annuity and Elon got completely vulnerable popularity and volatile old-money. While Trump piggybacks on the bro marketing to do crypto for the fam.

    Gonna give him Art of the Deal on this one I guess.

    What a timeline. I like the Star Trek reboot movie, but holy shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Coin flip between it just being yet another case of musk lashing out because his ego hurts and him trying to distance himself from the trump admin when the closeness has caused catastrophic damage to his companies brands (too little too late, but still)

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Trump is weaker than his fingers are short. He's always throwing tantrums of threats that everyone just laughs at.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    musk can go scorch earth and direct xitter to attack the magats, and funding non-magat gop in the upcoming elections. musk and thiel never seem eye to eye, so they will be clahsing eventually.

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    Does Musk not understand that the US government can say fuck you give us the Dragon tech and give it to NASA. No questions asked, what are you going to do?

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