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kentuck

(112,948 posts) Sat Oct 5, 2024, 10:44 AM Oct 5

Why Elon Musk is teaming up with Donald Trump? [View all]

It is part of the Putin strategy.

If Trump is defeated, they will need someone to pick up the pieces of the MAGA movement and keep it alive. They believe Elon Musk is the person to do that.

We have to believe that they are both working for Putin in order to believe this premise. I happen to believe that they are both working for Putin.

Musk is the perfect person to lead the MAGA movement if Trump is defeated, in my opinion.

That is why he has signed on to the lies.

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Why Elon Musk is teaming up with Donald Trump? [View all] kentuck Oct 5 OP

Musk has no charisma cyclonefence Oct 5 #1

I agree Musk has no charisma Wiz Imp Oct 5 #16

Well, don't call it charisma cyclonefence Oct 5 #17

I'll agree with that Wiz Imp Oct 5 #18

We're in a new reality. The other side isn't just competing for the Presidency. They're a movement. They're here to stay Dennis Donovan Oct 5 #2

They are primarily driven by a cult of personality. D23MIURG23 Oct 5 #4

He's been a defrauding investors for ages. The FBI really should be looking into that. n/t D23MIURG23 Oct 5 #3

Who needs Putin when orthoclad Oct 5 #5

Or krawhitham Oct 5 #6

I don't believe Musk is working for Putin. Musk wants power for himself and will cooperate with highplainsdem Oct 5 #7

Yep, they are obsessed with antidemocratic ideologies like Distributism, Neo-Monarchism... keep_left Oct 5 #10

Yep, Elon wants to buy the country on the cheap gulliver Oct 5 #14

Remember who financed Musk, mostly Saudi money but also Qatar and Russia. Bev54 Oct 5 #15

I would normally agree, but one small thing is in the way: the Constitution Polybius Oct 5 #8

Leon would make the perfect power behind the throne if JD takes over in a couple of years after Walleye Oct 5 #9

Musk wants tRump to do his bidding Blue Full Moon Oct 5 #11

He's an oligarch trying to protect his money. Swede Oct 5 #12

Do you actually want the answer? WarGamer Oct 5 #13