• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I predict this will be an ongoing but toxic thing, like a really bad relationship between two people who just won’t break up.

    They’ve essentially married themselves to each others’ power… But also, they literally need entire media platforms to stroke their egos.

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    It would be helpful to constantly remind Donnie that Musk is about 100 times richer than him, too.

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    Oooooooo, President Elon is gonna be pissed at poor man Trump and cut off his funding.

    Trump better shape up and kiss the ring.

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      Yeah, how dare Trump talk to his superior, Elon Musk, like that?? It’s unconscionable!

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    Sounds like he might be easy to manipulate by the media.

    Did you hear that Trump is just following orders from the religious right, that Christian nationalists are the true president? All his anti abortion and anti socialism stuff is just following orders from his master.

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    I predicted this a while back: Having two thin-skinned megalomaniacs working together never works out in the long run. Trump and Elon are both too dysfunctional even to be able to work individually with patient people without it going off the rails. Having them working together with each other is doomed to explosive failure eventually.

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      The funny part is Trump doesn’t even take office for another month, the relationship might fall apart before he’s even inaugurated and actually in power, let alone lasting “long term”.

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        Can we not insult bears with this comparison, even the weakest, dumbest, most cowardly bear is still leagues better than them. Except Koala but they arent even real bears so fuck em, Nazi punks of the bear world.

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    I had this discussion with people IRL recently, wondering who the real power behind the throne was, because when they let him do interviews on his own, it’s clear the orange figurehead is too far gone with dementia to be this organized and focused on the transition. I hope that the real power behind the throne is Leon, because he’s so stupid. Dangerous, yes, but not as insidiously dangerous as somebody smart.

    In any case, I want this to be true. It’s exactly what I would’ve predicted, so I’ll keep calling him President Musk.

    • wondering who the real power behind the throne was

      prolly the more blatant, dirty-handed millionaire, billionaire, if not trillionaire powers that be

      Eg. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Donald Trump

      Though I would say political power has now been divvied up like stocks to shareholders

      Then again, Biden’s admin still holds ground (under the other power), until January 20-21st, of course

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        He has always been an idiot but he isnt able to focus much anymore. Its hard to tell though since he was always running at half cylinder and is now running at a third.