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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 124 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chronic abuser comes off bender, realizes he fucked up, begs for his main lady to take him back, promises this will never happen again.

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TACO threatening deportation probably helped. Oh and Tesla stock dropping 4 billion because he wasn't in the club anymore.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Tesla has fully rebounded, unfortunately.

The irrational exuberance never ends

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is this will happen every week?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

We can only hope

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Damn, imagine chickening out before TACO.

[–] korendian@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can some be more completely cucked? This dude somehow seems to find new levels of pathetic every day.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago

He cucked Steven Miller, so there's at least one person.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Its just a giant room full of musical cuck chairs; nobodies quite sure who is cucking who, but theyre 100% sure that someday it'll be them in the position of power if they stick around long enough.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So we had Romney, Cruz, Christie, Rubio... All humiliated by Trump. Now add Musk to the list. It's amazing how weak all the right wingers are. They all fold immediately before Trump. Trump is a baby, all other dictators laugh at him. Yet in US is the alpha politician. Amazing.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fucking hate Chris Christie, but I wouldn't put him in the same camp as scum like Rubio and Cruz. He genuinely appears to hate Trump.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 26 points 1 year ago

He hates him now because he didn't get a position in his administration. But when he still hoped for one he stood behind Trump like a nice little boy:

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago

In addictions and recovery culture .... this is known as a hangover and regret

[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone probably reminded his dumb ass that he's also in the Epstein files.

[–] outrageousmatter@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah, more likely, someone reminded him his citizenship could be taken away, meaning he could lose his citizenship even though that'll be questionable trump gives no shit and remember elon past is questionable but trump wants it make it fact.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

And the MAGA Nazis can cut off the government money tap, they can crack down on his many corporate and regulatory violations, they can even nationalize his space businesses. He wouldn't have to worry about it if a Dem was in office, they'd NEVER do that (even if they should), but he knows HitlerPig wouldn't hesitate, because they are exactly alike.

[–] KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago

That and y'know, many people are saying this was a distraction to hide judicial arrests.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He must have realized that apart from tech bros, there is not a single person in the world that likes him including his father and his step mother who also happens to be his step sister.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

It was the ketamine talking.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a sniveling little bitch

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

That fucking look he has on his face whenever he meets someone in a position of power. Head down but looking up with that shit eating grin, like real life is a Scooby Doo cartoon.

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zymagoras777@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Felon Cucksk

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Peter Thiel is pretty powerful for telling Musk to apologize.

He stole PayPal from him and he'll do it again

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It looks like someone had a good ol' classic "Come to Jesus meeting" in the Oval Office.

What a show that must have been, huh? Who was there? What did they say? You know HitlerPig took a breather after a while, and let the others beat up on him, while he sat back, entertained. That's his move, we saw it with Zelensky.

Maybe let the head of each department give a report on what their agency is doing to attack some arm of his empire. DoJ talks about investigating his drug use, Defense wants to take Starlink, NASA or the Space Force wants Space X, then Pakled Holman and Canine Killer Barbi drop the big immigration bomb at the finish.

By the end he'd be giving HitlerPig a big sloppy knob job in front of the crowd while Epstein films it ( oh, yeah, he's still around, he always brings the girls, or whatever).

[–] londos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

To be clear, he only wrote that he regretted posting them. He didn't say they weren't true. The key takeaway here to remember is that Trump is DEFINITELY in the Epstein files.

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

What an amazing example of sunk cost fallacy. Fucking idiot.

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

fucking coward

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Unless of course he managed to sink Trump.

In which case he'd be smug as fuck about it.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Republicans have no balls. All of these losers bend over to accept Trump's cock in the end like the little sluts they are. They have no respect for themselves, this country, or anything. Fuck all of these guys.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Sigh. So we're not rid of him yet?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

"Uh, hi. My name is Elon. I'm a, uh, uhhh, a simp."