• nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    Time’s decision to feature Steve Bannon on the cover in the early days of Trump’s first term effectively ended his romance with his top strategist.

    Maybe it will have the same effect with muskrat.

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      I don’t think he could. Musk and the techbros alongside him likely saved the Trump campaign from financial ruin. Trump can’t be rid of them if he wanted to.

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          11 hours ago

          I’ll copy pasta something I wrote a while back in a similar thread. These guys have plenty of levers over Trump.

          "Hey, Clarence, how you doing? Virgina doing OK? Good, good. Hey, I was just thinking, my wife and I were going to use the yacht this weekend, but we had something else come up. It’s all stocked and fueled, and it’d be a shame if it went to waste. Would you and Virginia like to get away? Ok, excellent, I’ll let the crew know.

          “Oh, and Thomas, you know that big ruling on Trump’s boarder plan? Yeah, make sure it doesn’t go the President’s way. Yes, of course, I’ll make sure there’s plenty of eyebrow torture porn on the shipboard theater.”