Wow, imagine Elon whispering policy ideas into Trumps ears and then waving a little clip of bank notes infront of him.
"Make it a crime to track a planes location..."
The thing is, Trump would just take his money and then fuck him over. Elon is simply a mark to con in this situation.
The only context in which Trump is ever deferential - indeed, the only context in which Trump can ever be considered a reliable partner - is if you have some serious dirt on him, and you constantly threaten him with blackmail. Which essentially describes Putin’s relationship with him.
Why con him, they have similar interest? Trump being jealous might be a thing but otherwise they are after the same thing.
Primarily, because Trump is a psychopathic narcissist, and that’s just how is brain works.
I'm not so sure that's a viable reason. Trump could literally kill someone in public and I don't see him going to jail over it. Rape, misappropriation of campaign funds, selling national secrets, Insurrection, etc haven't done anything to him yet.
I think what Putin really has is money and the promise of more money. That's what gets Trump's attention.
Which someone like Musk can dangle in front of him, too. Though Trump also likes having his ego stroked, but he's not going to pay for that.
Musk has an ego big enough to ask to be VP.
Can you imagine what a dumpster fire that would be?
Can Musk be VP? Want he born in South Africa to South African parents?
That's actually brilliant. That would almost automatically guarantee Trump a victory. Trump is already very likely to win based on current polling, but Musk as VP would push that likelihood even higher. No boot-licking Trumpet would change their vote away from cheetolini because of it, and Musk would add other weirdos.
I know what you're thinking: Musk is ineligible to be VP. But that's only until SCOTUS decides that only applies to individuals that a supermajority of congress declares ineligible. Crazy world.
As was said elsewhere, this now makes Donald Trump 'for sale' so anyone can get favors to help him financially.
He always has been.
We've moved into clearance garage sale territory
clearance garage sale territory
I first saw this as "Clarence Thomas", then realized it means the same thing either way.
He knows the art of the deal.
Now?
He was always up for sale. Now you can get him at a discount.
Hah! Good point!
It's funny but it makes me die a little inside too. We need aliens to just take over. I'm starting to fear us humans can't handle ourselves.
Oh we definitely can’t.
It’s 2024 and fully grown adult morons have more rights to safety through firearms than students have FROM them in our schools.
It’s 20204 and a convicted rapist and insurrectionist is eligible for presidency. Not only that. But the Supreme Court upholds his right to be a rapist and insurrectionist- and remain eligible for presidency.
It’s 2024 and one half of the American government is aggressively trying to remove many of the rights of women, minorities and the LGBTQ+.
We absolutely cannot manage ourselves anymore.
And should not.
Both are sell outs to Putin and national security risks.
I imagine that's exactly why they're meeting.
Yep. The fix is in.
“i’M a biLLiOnaaiRe”
—Donald John Trump
He stopped pretending to run on his own money since he knows how his base doesn't care and will give him their life savings
I always wonder how much money was/is actually being duped out of ‘his base’.
I think his base is just the washing machine cover story mechanism used for laundering foreign money.
ps— love your username and Sublime
If I was in the room with these two i'd do the world a huge favor.
I'd give them the hugs they never got from their daddies.
Would said hugs involve both thumbs on their esophagus?
Oh how the turn tables:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-feud-history.html
I wonder if Musk told Trump to drop to his knees and beg, and I wonder if Trump did it.
I don't believe he has the flexibility to do that
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