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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Man up and complain openly, chickenshit. Go on bite the hand that feeds

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 36 minutes ago

It's only a matter of time.

[–] himmyguap@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This means we all need to make the ‘President Musk’ joke A LOT MORE.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

But its not a joke.

Musk is president.

Trumps just the bitchy wife.

[–] DeadpanSlim@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Musk Puppet, king of Magastan

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

Ya know... You now have immunity to get rid of him...

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

who's joking?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 13 hours ago

I mean, he did sell himself to the highest bidder.

Now he is Elmo's pooch.

[–] ThaMunsta@sh.itjust.works 39 points 22 hours ago

With Facebook not fact-checking I really see this as an opportunity to galvanize the President Musk fact on as many posts as possible. Complaining about it only makes first lady Trump sound like a woke fake news puppet.

[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

first lady trump is big mad!

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

...I'm trying to decide if I'm more against the use of misogyny to craft insults or more for using a medium that is most likely to be perceived as embarrassing to the target audience here.

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 2 points 57 minutes ago

Look at this way, you're taking back the insults that they use and throwing back against them in a way that's effective because they are who they are. My interpretation are these insults are not actually meant to be an insult to women, just Trump.

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

I prefer 'second servant trump'

[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 day ago

Vice President Trump should do something about it then

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think we need to allow the wealthy to have pistol duels like in the past. Also they must be to the death. At least we will be rid of one problem regardless each time...

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

In the past, the aggrieved party got to choose pistols or swords. And I'm thinking swords would be much more fun to watch. I'd pay good money to watch those two bozos flailing at each other with cutlasses.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Musk can even bring his own sword.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

I give that the following odds:
33%: Musks sword explodes, Trump wins
33%: Musks sword works, Musk wins
33%: Musks sword works amazingly but explodes right (or during) killing Trump, everybody wins.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago

I would pay thousands to watch someone swordfight taint maid Trump to the death

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

They'd be winded in 30 seconds

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 84 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Joke? What joke? President Musk is proof that the American Dream is well and alive if a South African who isn't even legally a US American Citizen can buy himself a country as long as he works hard spending the money earned from his father's child-slave powered emerald mine.... Well there's hope for the rest of us*

  • = Provided we become sociopaths with large resources
[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

as long as he works hard spending the money earned from his father’s child-slave powered emerald mine…

I hate this misconception. Barely any of it is emerald money. His wealth is all based off defrauding his customers, investors and the US government, lying about everything, and doing tons of illegal stuff like pump n dumps.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Yes, but without the Emerald Mines he wouldn't have enough money to be in a position where he could tell lies on that scale. Stealing is a lot easier when you already have a ton of cash.

No one's going to listen to a crazed drunken hobo when he tries to sell you a timeshare, but if a guy tripping balls on cocaine wearing a nice suit with a proper haircut promises you the literal god damn moon... Well that's a different story now isn't it?

It's not the lie itself, it's the image you have while telling the lie.

If you see a man's face and name on a billboard, then see that same man telling you he can spin hay into gold, you believe him. Because how could he have that fancy billboard if he couldn't?

Also Pump and dumps aren't illegal anymore

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[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 21 points 1 day ago

So.... Literally no new content.

I hate both of these guys, but this article is repeating old news from a month ago and speculating on the fact that trump has never left anyone unscathed after working with him.

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