Intimidation much. But it’s fine.
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I think the democrats will face terrible consequences if Elon funds them.
They'll happily take his money. That's all they care about.
To any democrats paying attention: if you serve Elon, you don’t get my vote.
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"Funding candidates" should be impossible in a real democracy.
This is oligarchy and trump knows it.
How unfitting for a prez to threaten people publicly. GOOP has no shame.
By “fund” he means “rig election for”
Quick! Someone explain Citizens United to Trump and how it will allow Elon to get away with this!
Sorry. Calvinball rules. Actually, donating to liberals is illegal.
Someone should tell him that the best way to get back at Elon would be to start taxing billionaires.
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“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.
I wonder how many times his attorneys have explained to him the concept of incriminating yourself in advance of retaliation.
He's got away with everything so far.Why should he start caring about the law now? Legal, illegal, that's for the poors to worry about.
Trump can say and do whatever he wants. It's his lawyer team to make sure he doesn't under court oath. For example, Trump's entire life and the amount of days he hasn't been in jail.
Not like it really matters anymore:(
I would have a very difficult time voting for someone who received funding from musk.
Any Dem funded by a Nazi won't get my vote for sure.
If a guy has a vote record of regulating industries, taxing the rich, expanding welfare, etc then he's got my vote even if David Duke endorses him. Let's clarify this for all the morons who think this is only effects the headlines they have to see for the next 4 years; we're voting for legislators not personalities.
I would rather vote for someone who got spite funding by a nazi than to vote for an anti-America, nazi/terrorist. And that's anyone supporting the current regime.
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I'm sorry, I will not vote for any Democrat that takes money from a fucking Nazi.
AIPAC doesn't leave a lot of names available.
Cool, people not voting out of principle because they didn't like the democrat enough is how the USA got here, but go ahead, keep trying that method.
At least Trump fixed all the overseas problems those people cared so much about, right?
I feel like the people not voting made it 100% clear what they were looking for. If they're the deciding factor in who wins the election, maybe it was a massive fuck up to ignore them?
If it's too small a group to matter, then stop focusing on them as the reason Dems lost. If they're a major factor in the election, Dems should treat then that way.
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When is one of these fucking dipshits going to have the other killed?
My fantasy is that Trump tries to have Elon killed/arrested but fails because he's rich and has very good guards. So then Elon sends someone to kill Trump, which is successful. Then Elon dies from some drug complications right after. If we're lucky, they both die after shitting their pants.
In this scenario, I would like Thiel, Yarvin, Marjorly, and the rest of the fascist gang to die in a freak aeroplane crash.
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You're on the wrong track, I've seen this particular abusive relationship before.
This is Trump saying "If I can't have you, no one will!" and it ends with a murder/suicide...
Noblemen typically don't kill each other.
In what universe? Because it certainly isn't this one.
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Justice: weaponized
Party support: criminalized
Population: fuck yeah daddy oooh yeah this is ok fuck everyone else
Sometimes I think about how if any previous president had done, over the course of their entire career, the things Trump does in the average week, or sometimes even just a single day, it would have immediately ended their career. If a previous president had openly stated that if a specific person funded their rivals there would be serious consequences, that'd be it. They'd be done. Impeached on the spot, out of office, blacklisted by their own party, and shamed for all of history.
The news cycle crucified Obama for wearing a tan suit. They raked him over the coals because he was so out of touch that he asked a burger place if they had Dijon mustard. What do you think they'd have done if he openly promised retribution against those who dared disagree with him like this?
And Donald motherfucking Trump does this crap all the godamn time, and he just gets away with it because the Republicans like that it's their tyrant, the Democrats are afraid of actually doing anything, and by the time the public can mobilize against one thing he's already done three more things that make the past look trivial.
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Also, golly gee thank god we avoided BidenSoOld/"GenocideJoe" and Kamala the Cop, because they would have been Just As Bad (TM).
Trans people, immigrants, etc fearing for their lives, being kidnapped to a foreign death camp, and going full conservationist on climate change is a lot bigger of a difference than 1.3%.
I would still be in the US if Kamala had won. I'm trans, latina, and in a w4w relationship. But in retrospect, I'm so glad I left
I'm still fucking tired of being treated as a political pawn by so called "leftists" who don't actually give a shit about intersectionality
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It's insane that we've reached a point in the normalization of open corruption that he can now say something like that and not be immediately impeached by overwhelming majority of both parties. Even 6 years ago this alone would have never been seen as acceptable.
The consequences will be we have a Nazi party and a White Supremacist Apartheid party.
This isn't a threat. It's saying the quiet part out loud.
Money controls both parties. Elon Musk is just rich enough that if something slightly goes against his wishes he can fund something to support his wishes.
We're in a super fucked up cyberpunk dystopia where the richest fight for the worst outcome
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