He’s now so unlikable/unliked that if he wants to keep buying votes he’s going to have to do it quietly. His public endorsements will have a negative effect on a candidate.
Trump isn't toxic to everything that he touches though. He just won a damn reelection. His cult of personality clearly has power.
Yes, Dems had 300k more votes than in the comparable 2023 Supreme Court election..but the GOP also had 250k more votes than in 2023. Trump supporters are still mobilized. Thats how they won last year, and it isn't going to change. They will show up until the day Donny dies. Remove Elon's clear antagonism and this is a MUCH closer race and there is no victory lap.
They just lost some elections that are pretty good indicators on how the midterms will go. If Musk was winning Trump wouldn’t have put it out there that he’ll he leaving the administration soon.
The only thing that will pull him out of the limelight is a nervous breakdown - both he and Trump are pathological attention whores that narcissistically confabulate narratives via psychological projection to defend their ego/self-image.
Yeh! What this guy said! Confabulate! Sad part is that they get a nervous breakdown, they go and take a 4-week break on their yachts etc. Me, I'm told to put some ice on it.
He will because he’s a classic narcissist. Trump had the same effect on the 2018 elections but somehow became president again so I’m sure there’s a similar plan for Elon. More than likely just reality distortion with picking easy-win candidates that are already a foothold for republicans and then claim victory to build momentum on larger elections.
The old king is surprisingly not so delusional about the South African welfare queen evidently. No doubt he’s well aware the sponger just killed his brand.
Of course. "The only valid election is my election", or if the person they prefer wins.
Then if they do win, they call anyone voicing displeasure at the outcome "sore losers". I guess they don't realize that making bogus claims about a "rigged" process is still being a sore loser, or they don't care.
It’s amazing how true that is world-wide, for the whole Trump admin.
The one silver lining of America getting so fucked up right now is it seems to be bringing the best out of the rest of the world. Vance endorsed the German far-right party AfD and it hurt them badly in the polls. The Canadian conservatives took a huge hit once Trump took office and started being all crazy. Poland’s right leaning populace seems to have looked at America and gone “ok, but not like that!” Europe pushing for partnerships and more being more serious about self defense. Hell crazy shit like China, Japan, and S. Korea all saying they’ll work together (to oppose American tariffs). It’s wild stuff.
Well the Afd was the second largest party and for them it was a historical growth given that they are most recent party. it's okay to be enthusiastic but keep your words in check and don't spread misinformation, let events play out rather than prying and falling into the rabbit hole. As for poland they have been shooting and arresting at the border for some time now, which america began with again. So yeah saying that tip of the iceberg is the whole thing is wrong.
Perfect response. Musk called people who receive social security, Medicare, and Medicaid “the parasite class.” But his companies have received $38 billion in taxpayer subsidies and handouts. His companies would have gone bankrupt without taxpayer money, but now he’s trying to cut the social security that we pay for. Musk is a parasite. r/parasiteclass
LOL he'll never do that. Making people love him is one of the main reason he's out there jumping like a jackass on stage. He wanted crazy fanboys like Krasnov.
He needs to be doing it publicly because he's trying to catch a bunch of fish with the same net. It's just like the lottery bribe to vote for Trump back during the election: it's a bribe he doesn't actually have to pay. Is it corruption if you lie about your corruption? Or does that mean there was no corruption in the first place? These are the kind of questions Elon Musk supporters ask themselves, then shrug in confusion and line up for the next fake lottery. If there any total fucking gullible assholes left.
I mean there is no point in doing it quietly. The million dollar checks go to vetted people that already greatly support what Musk is doing, so it's all fake. And the idea of telling people he's giving away money is the whole point so he can get people out to vote for whoever he supports. If he did it quietly then he gets no benefit so he might as well just not do it.
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u/scriptingends 2d ago
He’s now so unlikable/unliked that if he wants to keep buying votes he’s going to have to do it quietly. His public endorsements will have a negative effect on a candidate.