Summary
Democratic strategist Chai Komanduri claims Elon Musk has “taken over” MAGA and the Republican Party, likening it to how Trump originally took control of the GOP.
Musk, a former Biden supporter, shifted to Republicans over disagreements on free speech, immigration, and public health.
Now a close Trump ally, Musk has donated $75 million to pro-Trump groups and will co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency” to reduce government waste.
His rising influence in GOP politics is seen as positioning him as a potential MAGA successor.
I hate it when journalists do someone’s propaganda work for them. Musk could [not] care less about the issues. He thinks he can get more money out of a Trump presidency. Maybe some power too. Using his infrastructure and wealth to boost GOP issues was just his buy-in.
I dunno. I am sure musk thinks all of his ideas are amazing, just like trump. I am not sure it is about getting more money, just about enabling him to make his “amazing” ideas happen. The money enables that, but I think he has reached the point where money isn’t whats blocking him. And power… trump wants it because it makes him feel important. Musk I think wants power to simply be able to do whatever he wants to make his ideas happen. Of course his mental state has been shifting. He could have developed a taste for more wealth and power or something. But I am still betting not.
Either way. It’s definitely not about free speech and immigration.
No doubt there.
Now blow it the fuck up like you did Xitter and lose all your money in the process please thanks
If only he remembered that he used to care about climate change. Or at least pretended to.
I have a thought that perhaps he’s done the meth, realized how far off the mars goals are, looked at the state of climate and how far gone it is regardless of intervention and decided to hell with all of it.
That’s something I don’t get. The amount of work and change required to make Mars livable for humans is insane and we still don’t even know if it is possible. The amount of change required to fix our planet’s climate is minuscule in comparison. They want to terraform a planet that is completely hostile to human life and yet we can’t even get our own planet’s average temperature down by 1 degree.
Musk is the type of guy who thinks the key roadblock in any problem is that he isn’t in charge. It’s harder to be in charge of Earth than it is to be in charge of Mars.
If they were serious about mars then they should be building very large scale very long term habitats deep in the ocean. It’s a lot closer than Mars so if something goes wrong they can improve the design faster. A trip to mars is expected to take nearly 2 years!
I think it’s cocaine, not meth.
It was always a grift with these guys. It’s almost comical to think they ever cared about saving/helping humanity at this point.
He made everyone think he did, what he cares about were the government subsidies.
BTW: I still see bots on various social networks promote him as some kind of genius, a lot of us got fooled.
Musk, a former Biden supporter, shifted to Republicans over disagreements on free speech, immigration, and public health.
Let’s be honest here, if Biden/the Dems weren’t so vocal about taxing the rich he’d never have switched. The freeze peach stuff was just a convenient excuse
I think it’s more like he felt like Republicans were more likely to punish his child for daring to be themselves and Grimes for daring to leave him. He’s got big divorced-guy vibes.
Nah, fuck no. Sure, he’d been self-radicalizing for a while but Musk declared his change of allegiance literally hours after the story broke about him propositioning a SpaceX employee to join the Mile High club with him in exchange for a horse. He saw the #metoo train coming for him and decided to throw in with the guys who see that shit as a badge of honor, simple as.
Apparently he felt snubbed when he/Tesla wasn’t invited to some EV summit (the other big 3 were).
Just start referring to him as president musk. That’ll go over well with trump.
Thankfully Elon will never be a MAGA successor, and is ineligible to run for president. Let’s deport this felon immigrant back to where he came from.
Thankfully Elon will never be a MAGA successor, and is ineligible to run for president.
You’re also ineligible to be president if you’ve engaged in an insurrection against the United States, and look how that turned out.
Well, that is a political and hard thing to “prove” in court, but the no foreign-born presidents thing is pretty clear.
He is not a “Trump ally”, he is a trump puppeteer, paying for the government that suits him and makes him more money.
Trump has one puppeteer and he isn’t Elon.
Elon Musk is a right-wing darling with appeal for both white nationalist types and libertarian deregulators. But no one can take over MAGA. Trump is top dog, to the degree that I have no clue what they’ll do once he’s gone from office.
At least he can’t be president…yet
Saban & co$ did it way before for the democrats.
Listening to my small town chatter, where there are many mega enthusiasts, I can promise there there is no love for Musk. I think this guy is out of touch or my community is special.
And that strikes a nerve about how my area was double abandoned by the Democratic Party. Not only are they unwilling to talk about cheating by Republicans in elections here, but the party does understand or wish to understand the people.
Is it any wonder many here are seduced by lies? They are not dumb, just desperate.
They are not dumb, just desperate
The two are not mutually exclusive. I’d say they’re most definitely dumb and desperate
Musk and other bad-news big tech dweebs want to end the concept of countries altogether.
If they get good enough AI and drones on their side, they might legitimately be able to take down a major military.
The military is not going to fall to a bunch of drones unless we spend an entire decade ignoring an arms build up.
But yeah they’re ancaps because they know they’d be the new kings.
Reduceincrease, or in the best case, have no effect. Either way he’s richerAutistic nerds rejoice
Autistic nerd here. Not enjoying a single bit of this asshole assholery.
Not enjoying either your blatant bigotry.
Nerds know he’s a charlatan. We’re nerds.
We’d know!
Elon is friends only to idiots who don’t know he’s a snake oil salesman. Roganites.
^ this is one of the main reasons I fucking loathe Elon so much.
Because of assholes like Elon, the epithet “tech bro” is now being applied to anyone and everyone in IT, most especially if they are white males, and that’s fucking bullshit.
