*Bribed
Gratuity
It’s funny to see the aesthetic transformation of Tesla’s vehicles overlaid with the timeline of Musk’s weirdification. I mean he was always a shitheel fuck, but in the past he was a lot more confused about who to game and how to game them.
What aesthetic transformation?
Incredible way to openly admit that your policy agenda is for sale to the highest bidder.
Oh he’s never tried to hide that he’s for sale… e.g. https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/budget-finance-committees-launch-joint-investigation-into-donald-trumps-quid-pro-quo-offer-to-big-oil-
Translation: Elon musk is giving me money and is calling me a cool guy. I have to help him.
“He bought me fair and square.”
“Jared, remind me again: did this suitcase full of cash come from Vladimir or Salman?”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malandragem
Our society is crumbling into disrepair. Politicians openly solicit quid pro quo. This flagrantly corrupt culture needs a shock.
I don’t know about Trump and fast living
I like Presidents who make Decisions based off who pays them the MOST money!
Trump brilliantly outs millions of people with no sense of humor in one sentence.
God damnit, yesterday I explained to someone in another thread what Trump meant when he said he could get Elon to kneel and beg, that Trump as President could revoke EV subsidies and/or heavily influence or defund NASA such that they stop funding SpaceX.
I did not expect this goddamned moron to just actually say as much, directly, out loud, 12 hours later.
He actually said the opposite here.
What the parent comment is saying is the implication is that without Elon’s money, he wouldn’t consider EVs. So same meaning.
No, he said the converse.
“Opposite” would necessarily suggest a different outcome (i.e. Musk not beholden to Trump).
(Haven’t had a logic course in literal decades, so maybe someone can correct me if I’m misremembering. I forget how to draw those logic square thingies…)
Lobbying in action…
Nice cheap words. Nothing enforceable. Just like a car salesman. Look at the contract. Project 2025 to know what the real plan is
Imagine being so blatant on bribery.
What happened to “bigly?” This was a missed opportunity to use his formerly favorite adverb.
OK, LGBTQ organizations, Librarians, Pro-Choice organizations, and Satanic Temple - you know what to do now. He’ll have no choice but to support you and then what will his base do? Checkmate magas!! ;)
Trump endorsed EVs for $180 million, I wonder what his rock-bottom lowest price is?
Twenty bucks?
It’s one president, Michael. How much could he cost, $10?
Musk rescinded the $45 million per month offer.
5 Cheeseburgers.
hamberders
There’s an anecdote I’ve seen a few times on the Internet about a newspaper in the 80s sending rich people checks for tiny amounts of money, like $.15, just to see who’d cash 'em. Trump was the only one who did.
Not an anecdote - Spy magazine actually did this. Trump was not the only one to cash the tiny checks, but what Spy did was start with an amount like $1.86 to see who cashed them and then reduced the amount twice, finally ending at 13 cents. Trump was one of only two to cash the 13 cent checks. It was also apparent that Trump endorsed the checks personally.
But Musk has more recently embraced conservative politics, especially the issue of free speech. Musk bought Twitter in 2022, rebranded it to X, and has dismantled many of the checks and balances meant to limit hateful speech and misinformation on the platform.
Why is free speech a conservative cause nowadays? It should not be.
Because what it actually means is the freedom for them to spew their hate speech without consequences. Freedom of their speech, not others’. They hate being “punished” for their hateful ideologies and view it as censorship. Being able to spread their hateful beliefs to large groups is extremely important in propagating it to other people. Conservative created platforms are inherently limited by the fact that their audience is not only quite small but also everyone there already believes their bullshit. They want and need to place their hate in mainstream places where others will see it and hopefully come to believe it
There’s also the bonus effect of reducing both the amount and proportion of non-conservative voices.
It’s not. They want to be able to say slurs, while treating words like “cis” as a slur. Only an idiot would think the conservatives care about free speech, they care about victimizing themzelves, and trying to appear like victims when people point out the horrible stuff they say is actually what they want when they screech about their free speech.
