That's the most unsurprising news I've seen in a long time. Was there ever any universe where he wouldn't?
The guy is fucking insufferable 😅
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2024
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he thinks he is daddy's special boy. he also probably has the mindset "I made Trump win with money so everyone has to listen to me". Well he is about to find out just how annoying people with his personality type are.
Yeah, but Trumps team might FAFO with "Now we have to keep the worlds richest man happy or he can turn the propaganda machine against us."
A battle of narcissists
Oh no! Anyway…
Giant Turd Poured Into A Suit And Shoes:
leaving for work in the morning "First day of work... See you later, babe! Can't believe I'm gonna meet Elon Musk today!"
returning home "Holy shit! He's such a moron! Can't believe I'm gonna have to work with Elon Musk every day..."
Probably not for much longer. You'll be an unpaid volunteer to help cut government spending for 80 hours a week.
When his new Nazi besties discard him in the same way that affluent, performatively eco-conscious liberals and sci-fi/“geek” culture fans who weren’t at least fascism-curious did, where’s he going to turn?
My money’s on Scientology.
He's pissing off everyone everywhere else, too.
He’s going to soon find out exactly how expendable he is. I’ll be trump ditches his ass within the first year.
Shit, he's been pissing me off too, and I never even met the guy.
"...And the president is indebted to no one,” they added
What? That's a joke, right?
Obviously he’s indebted to the blue blooded, red meat eating, totally straight Americans who decided enough is enough with these pansy socialists. Hahaha just kidding
Well, um ... I ... errrrr, hear me out. Trump doesn't have to do ANYTHING he doesn't want to just because someone gave him money. He doesn't even really have to do anything because he wants money from anyone. He has no political career to protect and he has plenty of people who want to give him money willingly for practically nothing, just to be near him.
Now that last part is important because I'm not saying money won't influence his decisions; only that the operating theory isn't "I paid you now I own you!" it's "I'll give you more money if you do what I want." And heck they don't even have to give him money, they just have to flatter him and tell him he's a big boy now!
So he's really not indebted to anyone. What will they do? take the money back? Threaten him with what?
Blackmail / kompromat is an entirely different conversation, but let's also be clear, "47 took money to do this thing" is not blackmail that will work. Nor would be the release of the pee pee tapes if they exist. At this point I'm really not sure what he actually could be blackmailed with other than the literal smoking gun that is big enough to get him impeached by a republican congress and thrown in jail. And I don't know if that smoking gun exists.
tl;dr he's worse than a lame duck because previous lame ducks cared about their legacy, their party, and their country. He cares about nothing but his own personal gain. He can't be bought, be he sure as hell can be sold.
Standard sovereign citizen behaviour. If someone claims you owe them money, you plug your ears and run away yelling “lalalalalala”. This erases all debt.
The great orange answers to no one.