Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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JCTarheel82 said:
While railing against big government. Every aspect of MAGA is beyond parody.
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I still think it is hilarious (in a terrible way, I guess) that Musk is apparently STILL smarting from posting a "joke" (why doesn't anyone assassinate Harris) that he claims all his entourage got and totally thought was hilarious is not actually funny. He keeps saying it like everyone will eventually get it and praise him for the comic genius his entourage assures him he is.

Otherwise, would love for someone to point out that people also tried to assassinate George Wallace and Hitler. Having someone try to kill you is horrible but doesn't mean you are some great person. And I even get that his response would probably be well, at least they were important enough for someone to try to kill. But what about all the women murdered by significant others? What about the poor guy behind Trump who got killed by the assassin? Ordinary people are murdered all the time.
 
nycfan said:
I still think it is hilarious (in a terrible way, I guess) that Musk is apparently STILL smarting from posting a "joke" (why doesn't anyone assassinate Harris) that he claims all his entourage got and totally thought was hilarious is not actually funny. He keeps saying it like everyone will eventually get it and praise him for the comic genius his entourage assures him he is.

Otherwise, would love for someone to point out that people also tried to assassinate George Wallace and Hitler. Having someone try to kill you is horrible but doesn't mean you are some great person. And I even get that his response would probably be well, at least they were important enough for someone to try to kill. But what about all the women murdered by significant others? What about the poor guy behind Trump who got killed by the assassin? Ordinary people are murdered all the time.
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I heard this interview one time with a newly minted billionaire and he was very introspective reflecting on how his life changed. One of the first things he thought about was that he was never going to tell an unfunny joke again. He did not consider that a good thing.
 
The trump campaign is even sending out weird flyers now:

Got this in the mail. It's sort of disturbing.

Had to crop out my address, so you can't see all of the weird shit.

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UNCatTech said:
The trump campaign is even sending out weird flyers now:

Got this in the mail. It's sort of disturbing.

Had to crop out my address, so you can't see all of the weird shit.

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My husband said he saw an actual short tv ad with this message today. He couldn’t believe it.
 
Paine said:
He got lucky with his PayPal bet (who would’ve ever thought that we’d be sending money over the internet? What a novel concept and innovation) and now the rest of us have to pay for it by dealing with his influence on our politics and government.
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How much did you make off the obvious PayPal bet?
 
gtyellowjacket said:
I mean his dad owned an emerald mine. What more evidence do you need on the internet. Case closed.
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I grew up in the southeast USA. That’s pretty much all you need to know about what a terrible person I am. No emerald mine in the family though so maybe I’ll get a pass?
 
I mean. His father emigrated to South Africa from Canada two years after the implementation of apartheid, and wrote that “With no Whites here, the Blacks will go back to the trees,” in a letter Elon showed to his biographer, so ... At least we can say his father is virulently racist.

Judging by how quickly Elon turned Twitter into 4chan, I don't know if the apple fell far from the tree.
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
I grew up in the southeast USA. That’s pretty much all you need to know about what a terrible person I am. No emerald mine in the family though so maybe I’ll get a pass?
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I grew up in Duplin County and was born in Truman's administration. I understand the inference. Otoh, if you are comparing the styles of racism of a predominately majority white culture with every means of power, including sheer numbers to the aggressive racism of the minority white ruled countries, you're comparing apples to oranges. Not that any racism seems justified to me, but the minority ruled countries had the full weight of government and full force of law behind every racist piece of legislature, something never true in the US. I don't know how old you are but I lived through the first generation of major changes in the South. He lived through the first generation of changes in his entire country. I know the impact I saw and I can't begin to understand what filtered down to him through his family's telling who felt forced to flee the changes.

I suggest your inference was a bit hasty and misguided.
 
nycfan said:
My husband said he saw an actual short tv ad with this message today. He couldn’t believe it.
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It's sort of a dystopian way to encourage voting. What is he insinuating they will do if you don't vote.

But it fits, everything I see or read from the Trump campaign is based in fear.
 
finesse said:
I grew up in Duplin County and was born in Truman's administration. I understand the inference. Otoh, if you are comparing the styles of racism of a predominately majority white culture with every means of power, including sheer numbers to the aggressive racism of the minority white ruled countries, you're comparing apples to oranges. Not that any racism seems justified to me, but the minority ruled countries had the full weight of government and full force of law behind every racist piece of legislature, something never true in the US. I don't know how old you are but I lived through the first generation of major changes in the South. He lived through the first generation of changes in his entire country. I know the impact I saw and I can't begin to understand what filtered down to him through his family's telling who felt forced to flee the changes.

I suggest your inference was a bit hasty and misguided.
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The irony of the OP seems to be lost in the following replies. The internet allows such inferences to be accepted as true without more supporting evidence.
I don't know if Musk is personally racist or not. What matters is that he's pouring his resources into supporting the candidate who plainly is.
 
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