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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by UlyssesT@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

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King Bazinga wants this shit bad, too.

From the comments where I found the above picture:

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1frcy0c/this_guy_is_addicted_to_ai_images_of_himself/

During Elon's conversation with Trump on twitter, the one that came after he endorsed him and started sucking his dick and felt like he actually forced him into a live conversation on twitter spaces.

He was leading the conversation quite effectively, and he led Trump into this corner where he was asking REPEATEDLY if Trump would make a new area of the government.

"So really we need to reduce our government spending, and I think we need a government spending commission"

From the twitter spaces, Elon floats the idea of the government spending efficiency department and how much we need it. Then Trump starts rambling about gasoline. Again a few minutes later Elon comes back AGAIN to this government efficiency department thing.

"So would you agree we need to take a look at government spending and have perhaps a government efficiency commission that makes the spending more efficient"

Trump goes off on a tangent on to talk about jets and air force one and its paintjob etc etc etc.

But then ELON AGAIN comes back to this efficiency department, literally DRAGGING Trump back again to the subject.

"So again I just think it would be great to have a government efficiency commission that takes a look at these things and just shows that the tax payer money is spent in a good way. I'd be happy to help out with such a commission"

Trump says "I'd love it, you well you're the greatest cutter. People go on strike and they are gone, theyre all gone".

So Elon basically cornered Trump into this interview and then repeatedly brought up this new government department that he wants to run, managing to get Trump to agree to it.

Then low and behold, september 5th

"Trump pledges to tap Elon Musk to head government efficiency commission"

https://aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/trump-pledges-to-tap-elon-musk-to-head-government-efficiency-commission

The Republican presidential candidate says the commission would audit the entire federal government and suggest ‘drastic reforms’.

Yeah yeah be funny if the imperial core collapsed because of this expanded circus fire and all that and lol accelerationism, but I also don't want me or my family to get poisoned from toxic waste from upstream so it's hard for me to cheer for that.

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[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Watching him throw himself at Trump and beg for his approval is so fucking pathetic.

"I made a meme of us, do you like it? 🥺"

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't wait for medicaid to get destroyed so I lose access to the meds that keep me sane because people like Elon make me crazy.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like I'm failing (at least) a Rorschach test, but I can't unsee The Juggernaut in Trump's chin/neck

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

can't wait to see these boys get pissy at each other over some perceived slight.

it's gonna be the cattiest, messiest shit ever.

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm surprised Musk is still trying to pick up new grifts, like, one would think that he'd be trying his best to find a way to salvage his twitter purchase and pawn it off to someone else, what's the point of trying to get inside the US government?

The best idea I can think of is getting a job in a Trump cabinet, de-regulating something that allows him to then make a ton of money, use it to clear whatever debts he has or holes he got himself into, and then dip out.

[–] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

If this guy gets anywhere near any position in government,you better get the hell out of D.O.D.G.E

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

A department of cost efficiency in Musk's mind would look like exactly what he did when joined Twitter and cut 80% of the staff.

In practice in governmnet this would provide Musk with the power to cut anyone he doesn't like for political purposes. In function it would be used to perform mass purges. He's looking for the power to be head of the purges.

Really think about it. That's what it is.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nothing says ‘meritocracy’ quite like introducing the latest patch for the spoils system.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

It's actually incredibly concerning to me. I think people are really blind to what it materially means when a person who is promoting nazism is trying to gain the power to be head of mass government purges.

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

It's so silly that real adult people treat this man seriously.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What's going on with the Whitehouse in that pic?

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Just a classic AI image thing, where if an object is behind another object, it loses track of how far into the rear object it's supposed to be drawing.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Would you believe, it's AI generated

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

This is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you Musk for killing the stupid dog meme.

God I would much rather have smug Pepes at this point.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Doge is dead and buried for over 2 years when NAFO apropriated it. This isn't even a nail to its coffin, it's a shit taken on tombstone.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

That wasn't funny even the first time he did it.

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

incredible AI-generated neckussy, thank you Elon sir

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)

A doge (/doʊdʒ/ DOHJ,[1] Italian: [ˈdɔːdʒe]; plural dogi or doges; see below) was an elected lord and head of state in several Italian city-states, notably Venice and Genoa, during the medieval and Renaissance periods. Such states are referred to as "crowned republics".

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

That's kinda fitting though, USA is more or less what we would get if we inflated La Serenissima few hundred times.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I'm begging someone to just blow up Twitter

[–] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lmao he made himself taller than trump in the ai edit. Both of them are so sensitive about their height. I can't remember if elon musk got the tech bro surgery that extends your shins to make you taller, but I certainly wouldn't rule it out.