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Was he lying back then and is truthful now, or did the pandemic just break him?

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[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wasn't there also the thing where he offered a horse to a masseuse if they'd give him a happy ending? A couple days before the story broke he made some statements supporting Republicans then said "watch the left come up with a story to take me down now that I'm a Republican," or something like that. All his political shit has been downhill and ever more unhinged since.

He was always saying side-eye worthy shit, but in a generic rich guy way. His political stuff, before the horse thing, was always progressive-ish. Whether that was what he ready thought, or as the biggest shareholder of an electric car company he knew which side his bread was buttered on, I'm sure I don't know. But it seems like trying to preempt the horse story was the turning point for his public persona.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

One does have to wonder how the horse came up. I can only come up with raunchy pythonesque logic based bartering.