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Other than them both being dickheads

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow. Reading the comments, it's amazing how uninformed people here are.

Read the news, folks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

What?! Only fools believe what the professional journalists say! Dintcha hear? It’s all fake news! The only real news is the stuff you see online, in random and especially backwater Internet forums, because why would some random, anonymous person lie or have things wrongly worked out? Trust in the obscure and unverifiable!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Neither one wanted to be top when nobody was watching.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Eel-on-musk saw a ray of daylight from the bottom of his k-hole and had a crisis of conscience…? Idk man everyone’s on drugs. And I do mean that literally, for this regime.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

They're both raging self obsessed narcs who can't stand anyone else getting attention. It was just a matter of time.

Tl;dr: housecats

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I find Bell Of The Ranch usually summarizes these sorts of political situations adequately.

Disclaimer: She's not a news source. But, you know, neither are we here, so..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

TL;DW: She doesn't really talk about what they fell out over, instead she latches on to what she thinks is the main issue people are overlooking: (she claims) Musk is basically telling the GOP that Trump has only 3 years left, he's old news, but he "will be around for 40 more years".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Musk was taking all the attention and jumping about like a dick.

First rift was musk was going to get classified briefings on China and Trump put a stop to it.

Also Musk had a fall out with Bessent and Trump sided with Besset.

Also rumoured he fucked Steven Millers wife (who is a lefty and would blacken a right eye with a hook).

Nothing to do with the bill at all IMO. He does not give a single fuck about that in any form. Just a pain point he knows he can drive a wedge through a big part of Trumps base.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

What are the chances they are working together and creating a distraction?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Less than 1%.

People vastly overestimate these bozos.

They aren’t lying. They actually believe this shite. They aren’t playing genius 5d chess they are just reactive morons. Look at the leaked Signal group chats.

No doubt Vance is a bit smarter and is acting a bit, given all the ‘Trump is americas Hitler’ stuff. But this is unspoken between them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see your point, but I'd be cautious of underestimating them.

Regardless of their own shortcomings, they have more resources than virtually anyone else on the planet to compensate for them. They certainly have teams of incredibly smart, and incredibly well paid people scheming for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Different kind of smart. I dont underestimate them I just see right through them.

It’s us leftists projecting reality onto them, thinking they must be lying. But after a lot of prodding, nope. Cognitive dissonance.

They have people who are Ben Carson smart. Domain-specific. Not in general reasoning, critical thinking, or capable of maintaining such a façade. Anyone smart would've distanced themselves along time ago unless they are grifting them. And generally those types of smarts don't end in MAGA to start with. Just like how MAGAts don't end up as artists. (Name one conservative artist who isn't shit)

And Trump cannot lie. Yes, all he does it lie. But he also cannot lie. If you ask him if he commited a crime he'll straight up admit to it. Everytime. He rejects the premise of guilt. The lies he does tell are done out of a mix of unconscious strategic self-presentation and the fact he is just thick as shit and believes whatever he sees on the TV.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Until the Epstein post, I had the same question. Now, not so much.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Who cares? You ever take a shit, turn around and say "hmm.. I wonder what that shit is feeling". No. You flush it down the toilet where it belongs with the rest of the shit in the world

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

With you in spirit, but they have too much control over too many lives to just be dismissive about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately, by that metaphor, the world is constipated.

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