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    3 days ago

    No he won’t. This is just an old man with dementia and a ketamine addicted Nazi having a terrible rap battle to commit market manipulation.

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    I fucking hate this dude with all my heart but if he actually does it then I’ll take a cautious “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” stance.

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    One of the rare times Elon and I are on the same side

    The Big Beautiful Bill bans all legislation that regulate AI and more importantly, bans Transgender Healthcare for all but the very rich.

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      No. He isn’t going to do shit unfortunately. Bannon, Carlson, Musk, MTG, they’re all full of shit. They never stray too far.

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        The difference is that Musk doesn’t depend on Trump to remain relevant (or solvent). All those others absolutely do: They were nothing before Trump, and nothing without him.

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          The fact that musk apologized within 48 hours of his outburst and has all but hidden away with his tail between his leg legs for the most part the last few weeks is all we need to know man. A few token lines about opposing this bill so he can look sensible to his cult followers who swear he’s not a Trump sycophant unfortunately doesn’t change that

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          Musk definitely depends on government contracts for his companies. If Trump cancels those all his companies will take a big hit which in turn will take a big chunk off his net worth which is propped by shares in those companies. If his net worth substantially goes down he may run into issues getting credit which will affect him directly. Elon Musk uses his stock to take loans to fund his personal expenses among other things.

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            He could always try living within his means, you know, like rich republicans always say poor people should do.

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    He’s gonna be the first person denaturalized for his “nazi rhetoric” as a theatrical farce of normalizing deporting US citizens. It’ll be in a “this is what u dem’s asked for” way with tv propagandists showing hand selected tweets calling for musk’s deportation from liberal pfp accounts.

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    I do not like that Elon Musk.

    Never uttered a word I believe or trust.

    He has fathered and fled more kids than Nick Cannon.

    With a soul and heart more grotesque than Steve Bannon.

    When he goes to jail the world will dance.

    Until then we can smile as he pisses his pants.

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    Excuse my ignorance, but what does this mean? He threatens to ‘primary’ members of Congress?

    I’ve tried searching, and that wasn’t much help, employees of said member are to quickly start looking for another job. Something happens at the end of term… And a Time magazine article, which was beyond useless in explaining what it is.

    I’m none the wiser… 🤷

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      Congress members in the US are elected in constituencies. For each constituency each party typically fields one candidate. Before the actual election, the parties hold primary elections to determine the candidate for the constituency for that particular party. Pretty much anyone can run in these primaries. Your chance of winning very much depends on the support, i.e. funding you have. If Elmo decides to fund candidates that would challenge the incumbents in the primaries, he could likely unseat quite a few of them on account of having a lot of money. And yes, this is all deeply undemocratic.