• Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    It isn’t really an ‘agreement’, it is power. Money is power, and that makes Musk extremely powerful. He has shown that he can literally buy congress - either directly, or by threatening to back challengers. And while trump has the title of President, he doesn’t have the power: it has been shown that trump backing a person just isn’t enough to get them elected any more, unlike Musk’s money backing a person.

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.it
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      6 hours ago

      But people actually stormed Capitol Hill and went to jail for Trump, not Musk. I don’t see any backwater dispossessed citizen taking part in a coup for Temu Tony Stark.