• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    It’s hilarious to think that almost everyone thought this clown was real-life Tony Stark a decade ago. The people who worked with him knew better, but they were paid and under NDAs.

    I still think Trump is setting him up to be the fall guy. He’s the patsy for all the crimes they all committed the second the heat gets turned up.

    That or even earlier, Trump and his people get tired of dealing with him and decide it’s time to pull the plug. Make him the MAGA scapegoat for why his voters can’t afford the minimum payments on their credit cards anymore. Musk ran everything into the ground, and now some new plan with no details will save us all from his incompetence, etc., etc. The MAGA half of the country will believe it as soon as he says it.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s blatantly obvious that Musk bribed Trump with close to $300 million to allow Musk to dismantle any agency that was investigating him for malfeasance. He stupidly said so. He also wanted to scrape every single citizen’s data for his dumbass X PayPal revenge app. He’s never forgiven Thiel for kicking him out of PayPal. Lastly, Musk is colluding with Putin to dismantle the US government, for some yet unknown reward.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, it would be politically smart for Trump to just blame Musk for all the unpopular DOGE stuff after firing him, but I’m not sure he would just because he only respects people that are richer than him.