Everything has a price. We have found out America’s.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Yeah, cause Trump isn’t a good businessman.
It’s amazing that this “successful business man” has required government support for each business that he bought (didn’t invent) and the one that didn’t get support, Twitter, is a tire fire.
Wealth tax needed
His purchase of Twitter was the investment to take the White House ? How is that not obvious this was in the works for a while
I’m waiting for Elon’s inevitable spat with Trump, then Elon finding a way to evict Trump from Mar-a-Lago.
Just the jump in Tesla’s price since the election is enough to buy every politician. One person having the ability to spread that much influence is not healthy for a free society.
And he’s doing a bang up job taking them both to worthless!
Wish he’d bought himself a different country😒
The Supreme Court justices were cheap as hell.
It’s weirder still that Twitter will be a success compared to what he will do to America.
Merica is a cheap ass ho
Well. No. He bought Twitter to buy the election. That mass proliferation of con disinformation helped buy the election.
That’s only how much he’s paid out in the open. You have to include how much he’s paid behind closed doors.
Best ever private equity acquisition in history. Serious bang for the buck returns on this deal. Blackstone is pissed off that they weren’t thinking of the presidency as an alternative investment. I’m sure they would outbid Elmo at $250 million.
buying Twitter was the first step
Where are the really violent patriots at?
Our government has a price, but damned if I’m for sale. Ever.
Musk needs to feel a painful backlash. Back the fuck off our democracy. This ain’t your toy.
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Scary shit. Thanks for the unelected arsehole
Twitter at least worked when he bought it.
You could argue that Twitter was part of the cost of buying Trump/the country
Buying Twitter was part of buying America. He needed a propaganda machine.
Where is Mario’s brother when you need him?
Remember Liz Truss and the lettuce? Should take bets what will go bust first: twitter or the USA.
They were both worth something before he did too.
Yes weird, but surprising?
All I know is when they turn on each other and Trump eventually shitcans Elon and his lil made up department…I’m just gonna laugh and say “They’re eating the DOGEs…”
Welcome to the USX
What he paid for Twitter is part of what he paid for the government. It’s the same thing.
I have a theory that Elon may have paid Putin for whatever dirt he has on Trump, or found his own extremely illegal/embarrassing kompromat.
Musk gave Trump $280 million. Just remember, Musk could give $280 million to every single one of the 535 members of congress and still have $350 billion left in his pocket. Luckily for him, he doesn’t actually need to spend that money. He just needs to threaten to throw his weight around and they will fall in line without a penny changing hands.
hmmm, I’m not so sure. The thing about politics is that it’s a dangerous game. The more you stick your head out, the more likely it gets cut off.
Musk may have bought his way into the government for the next four years, but it’s really just paving the way for politics to retaliate on Musk once he’s not in complete control. Musk is not an entrenched politician and I really don’t think he could weather the storm of a hostile political scene.
He was already shit terrified of what a Democrat-run government would do to him if Trump lost, and after 4 years of being a Trump stooge there’s going to be way more targets on him than there is now…
Nah. Twitter is why it was so cheap to buy the rest.
The coming government will likely be the most corrupt in our history.
Elon ‘CEO’ Musk
I mean… buying Twitter is kind of what allowed them to coast into power so easily.
He bought Twitter and turned it into a mill for Nazi propaganda. But over the years it had already become how people get news. So it allowed them to get their messaging right into the mainstream. With algorithmic focus to get the right messages to the right demographics.
Combined with the comedy of errors that is… everything the DNC ever does. And they easily coast right back into power.
Hear me out, we need to get some other billionaire to start threatening to pay for senators to be ousted if they don’t vote against Elon Musk
If they’re willing to go against their own convictions for one billionaire, why not for another?
Damn, could’ve sworn democracy was worth more than that.
It’s kind of the opposite of a pump a dump.
He used the one to crash the price of the other.
Let’s hope he’s only renting the US
Ouch
Yeah good luck with that. More like money well wasted. People don’t like elmo
Pretty sure buying Twitter was part of buying the government.
AIPAC spent far less to get billions to commit genocide
Conway is another grifter piece of shit, but even a broken clock…
I hope other countries are learning from our mistakes