Tech tycoon Elon Musk joined a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day after the presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
Zelensky deserves better than these hosers
Maybe Germany France Italy Spain Sweden Finland Poland … and the UK could step up?
I mean let me dream a little.
If others followed UK donations, this wouldn’t be a problem.
Germany, LMAO. Didn’t they have their lips around putin’s pipe that got blown up?
I bet the “russia is a trade partner” shtick will come back real soon.
Musk’s whole “slash government spending” schtick is such a farce. Tesla wouldn’t have domestic manufacturing facilities without a DOE loan. SpaceX survives off of government contracts.
Oh that never includes the donor class.
Slash government funding for everything except the socialism for the rich.
The NPR article goes into this. Elon likely will award himself money without oversight while cutting programs like NPR and the SEC and other regulatory bodies etc.
Slash Social Security, add EV subsidies, make them so that only Tesla qualifies in practice.
Doesn’t he have like ten companies to run… into the ground?
The companies might do better if he’s there less to make decisions for them.
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When you’re a star they let you do it.
Not a surprise knowing Trump these days.
Do y’all think Elon’s looking to run for office one day? Or does he just find it exciting to be included?
He can’t be president, and I don’t see him interested in any other position.
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Until trump, supermajority in Congress, and a hand picked supreme court say so
It’s in the constitution. It’ll take a lot more than that.
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the constitution
…yeah that’s a couple months away from being slathered in Trump’s feces and filed securely into one of the whitehouse’s toilets.
Yep. Look up the standards of a constitutional amendment. (Spoiler alert: having a supermajority is a good start)
Constitutional amendments also have to be ratified by the states. That’s not trivial.
While it is a big standard that it has to be ratified by the states. What a lot of people don’t realize is the citizens do not get to vote on a constitutional amendment for the United States. It’s the legislators. The citizens get absolutely zero say. Didn’t know this until just a couple of months ago I actually thought it was the people who voted on it. Now let’s look at the political map of the United States. Do the Republicans hold more legislative houses in the states or did the Democrats? And how big of a percentage split does a given state have to have?
What I mean is, for example North Dakota, that legislative house, the Senate and the House of Representatives, how many senators have to vote in favor of to get it to pass for North Dakota? How many representatives have to favor in favor for pass for North Dakota?
Is there enough Republicans in that state in both the house and the Senate that would vote in favor this?
Now look at each state look at the difference in between Democrats and Republicans in each state.
I don’t know if we’re at the point yet where they could get The needed majority, I literally have not counted the Republicans in each state… But it would be an interesting question.
Yeah, you need 38 states to ratify it. If we go by governors (so I don’t have to do a ton of research, but it’s probably representative of legislatures), only 27 states are Republican controlled. Good fucking luck getting a partisan amendment through.
You really think the Trump regime will give a shit about state’s rights?
I think you’re right. It would hinge on the natural-born-citizen clause and that’s probably hard to “reinterpret” even for a loaded court.
The Constitution can be changed; it has been 27 times already, so I don’t see why everyone seems to think it’s set in stone.
He’s from South Africa. He can’t run for president.
Elon Musk is a fluffer, he’s the Gimp
Musk bought Trump and Trump won, musk already has the office.
Musk doesn’t need to run for office. He’s the richest man in the world. With Trump as president, Musk can just call him, offer a few million and get whatever he wants.
Musk has enough money to change whatever rules he wants and tie up all the government lawyers for years fighting over all the rules he might want to break.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
He’s not eligible, born in south africa
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Funny how this reflects exactly my train of thought.
Oh god, what if that asshat runs for president next?
Oh, wait, isn’t he from Africa or something?
pew
Wait, doesn’t his buddy run the country, his party and the supreme court?
*panic intensifies*
Hilarious that his administration is already leaking worse than a Russian submarine.
So Trump and Vance are outsourcing their jobs to Musk…?
Remember when they used to try to keep corruption somewhat hidden and deniable? Now the richest man in the world is just going to be walking around the White House, tugging the government’s leash on full display.
Love watching the oligarchs take over…it’s nowhere near as subtle as I thought it was going to be.
My prediction is Zelenasky will call for an ellection allowing Trump to fund the war without looking weak after the shut he said about Zelenasky.
It is a real possibility since iran and russia are working together and trump backs israel against iran. The logical next step is to back ukraine againts russia.
That’s a very uninformed thing to say. Trump is beholden to Putin.
I wouldnt be too sure of that. Trump is a businessman who will take what he can and give back as little as possible. Trump got the presidency why honour any agreement with putin?
Imagine putin started setting his trolls on the agenda of whatever kompromat they have on trump. I imagine it’s a lot. That would definitely make trump mad. First and foremost he protects his ego.
Because Trump is a narcissist and Putin has dirt on him.
He admires Putin. Just watch.
What a dilema for Ukraine! I feel their abandonment will be a microcosm for our leaving to the wolves.
I think a lot of Americans don’t understand that the USA hedgemony isn’t a divine right, it was a deliberate construction with tacit agreement of convenience from the western world.
Much like an economy, belief makes it so.
Much like the UK’s arrogance has driven them into geopolitical obscurity, so will the USA’s.
In 15 years, Americans are going to wake up and realize that their voices are irrelevant in the world. I don’t know how y’all are going to handle it.
I deeply, desperately hope you’re right. In the best case, the military (including the nuclear arsenal) gets as hollowed out as russias before that realization comes.
The USA became dominant by letting the world fight itself to ruins, then entering into the war late and declaring victory. TWICE.
Being the only mostly undestroyed nation after a world war is immensely profitable.
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Hedge money
I’m going to be bummed, but it’ll be deserved. Maybe future generations will stop being entitled assholes. Idk. Don’t want to live in a disintegrating country. Really don’t want my kids to. But I guess we don’t always get to pick.
Maybe future generations will stop being entitled assholes.
Look what’s happening with Gen Z right now. They showed a lot of promise, then showed up to vote and turns out they have just as many nazis as the rest of us. We’re going ride this death spiral all the way to extinction.
Not Gen Z girls
Wheeeeee…
Look at all this fun I’m having.
A scammer gets reeled into a phone call between a president and a mobster wannabe.
Great timeline
Said it before, I’ll say it again…we are, absolutely, without question…in the Biff timeline.
Marty failed. Wft.
Ukraine is f*cked now and soon Europe too.
Technically, a lot of NATO countries still have nukes. So they might be half as fucked.
“Look honey, the clown show already started.”
