USA is just running a "Kingdom of Billionaires" reality show...
They're not going to face any real consequences whatsoever. They just want you think think they will just like a very predictable TV show.
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Steal all Americans sensitive data using DOGE, no big deal. Manipulate the stock market and get caught, that's a paddlin...
Man we are so fucked as a species.
First is a crime against the common folk. Second is a crime against other rich people. There's a difference!
A bullet would be faster and cheaper way of dealing with Elon.
Unfortunately, you can’t kill cancer with a bullet.
You can't cure cancer with a bullet, but you can definitely kill it with one.
Or, at least the host.
This kills the cancer. Not as quickly as it kills the host, but still pretty soon.
I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:
Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.
I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.
Clout? You mean money? He’s got plenty so he will be just fine with the Trump admin.
He paid off the president and controls all the data he stole from social security admin etc.
Nothing is gonna happen to him.
While that’s true, it seems as if Trump and Musk aren’t in the best terms after actually working together for a month or two.
Trump doesn't really have friends anyway, so as long as they are ideologically compatible, Musk is safe.
Trump doesn't give one flying fuck what Elon does, as long as it doesn't affect Trump, personally. This has nothing to do with Trump, be beyond that, Trump probably made a killing on the deal.
Those Social Security data are worthless as a bargaining chip because he would instantly go to jail if he disclosed that he actually had them.
(Don’t mess with the Boomers)
And if you can't think of a way it can be used, as if laws still matter to the wealthy, obviously, nobody else can....
I agree that those data are valuable, but just not forcing someone to do something in a public spat.
I'm convinced that some people who look up to the rich despite being dicks, secretly admire these rich individuals' underhanded way on how to get rich.
It's not about money, it's about power.
To be fair he deflated the stock also after purchase.
Ah yes all his horseshit about the bot problem and how he needed concrete numbers to solve the problem or "die trying."
Since he still hasn't even begun to solve it I really hope he just fucking dies... Trying? Yeah let's go with that.
Paging a Mr. Trying.
you are being paged.
I don't have the most fantastic memory, but as I recall the stock went up very high after he said he was going to buy it the first time, and stayed higher than it was before he said anything by quite a bit up through his purchase.
UHH, I SPEND A LOT OF TIME COURT. I’M BASICALLY A LAWYER. I DESERVE AN HONORARY JD BY NOW. THOUGH PROBABLY NOT, SINCE WE WONT BE ALLOWING LAWYERS ON ~~MARS~~ THE MOON.