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Are conservatives really just seeing this stuff now? Cuz the rest of us have known about this for years.
Right-wing media is a Hell of a drug.
Anyone else see this as more of Trump's usual "flooding the zone" tactic of generating enough stupid headlines that people don't notice he's continuing to increase the wealth gap?
Elon knew as well as anyone who Trump associates with and that didn't stop him from backing him. The guy is a deadbeat dad, doge was a complete failure run by college dropouts, he's so high all the time that he talks like a retired boxer with an 0-15 record now. If someone told me Elon and Trump were working together to distract people from the ongoing issues I'd probably say "no shit"
I don't think he's bothering to do a "tactic". Why would he care? he's just surrounded himself with sycophants and morons because anyone else wouldn't work with him, and so there's a lot of bizarre drama.
Humans want there to be order and control in their world, so we look for the plan behind the discord.
They're not hiding anything because they don't need to. The people in power who could stop them have no interest in doing so.
The man with a long history of fucking over and alienating everyone who works with him teamed up with the fragile billionaire who finds success when his employees tiptoe around him and manage him to avoid his shitty temper, immature attitude and tendency to call people pedophiles the moment they offend him.
Shockingly, with their powers combined and no one to effectively manage them....
Yes, this is all but objectively it. The idiotic admin were taken as off guard by this as anyone else, and everyone not under a rock predicted this fallout would happen. Somehow, now it's too convenient. It's the dumbest, conspiracy- minded nonsense you can imagine.
Musk is just this transparent, and trump is just this stupid. They can't even destroy the government from the inside right!
Unfortunately it's confirmed that he is told to make a bunch of noise
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-policy-blitz.html
Jan. 28, 2025
That's both unrelated to this, and a different tactic entirely.
Making policy changes so quickly that it's difficult to make press releases about or legally challenge is very different from "get someone to publicly accuse you of pedophilia".
They don't need to distract you, because you don't matter. They do need to make it difficult to address the issues by people with the power to stop him.
So no, that article doesn't confirm that he's been told to make a lot of noise in the least.
Yeah sure, this is definitely 64D chess move and not a public lovers quarrel.
They are distracting people from increasing the wealth gap by having very loud public argument about the bill that's close to being passed that does that?
Polling indicates that "Big Beautiful Bill" is very unpopular... to the people that actually know about it. A lot more people know about this unpopular bill now than a couple of days ago.
So your theory is that they're trying to distract from this bill by bringing to more people's attention?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes miserable assholes behave miserably to each other simply because they're miserable assholes.
Directions from their handler.
None of this is a new.
But somehow it is now spamming all of the news and socials. It is amazing how they can keep rehashing this topic, nothing happens.
Then dust it off later, do the same, nothing happens.
But here we be yet again, duking it out in the comment section
what are they distracting us from?
If i knew, i would prolly be rich and not shit posting with the rest of the unwashed masses lol
but this entire thing just comes out, spams my feed everywhere. i been through this before, it is a shill op.
Attention citizen, you have been assigned work duty to run on a treadmill and recharge EV batteries. Report to the Tesla Power Floor in your neighborhood. Objectors will be deported to Guantanamo. Make America Greed Again.
but damn it I … I am hrm. no excuse.
Indeed
The same thing happened with the flight logs. They came out and lots of people freaked for a minute before things about it were explained. Then months later all the morons I work with start talking about it because their news finally found a way to spin it in their favor.
Musk: Vader is Luke's father..!
Maga: no fucking way! I don't believe it!
Everyone else: ...wait. You're serious..?
Its sad that I dont have enough faith that a damning video being released would move the needle. Ppl will just claim its AI
Last I checked, blackmail is still illegal. Either blood-emerald nepo baby deadbeat dad gives up the goods in full or goes away.
It’s not blackmail if there’s no demand attached
The demand need not be explicit.
https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/white-collar-crimes/blackmail/
A defendant may argue that they did not make a threat. Perhaps the alleged target of the threat has a grudge against the defendant and brought a false accusation to get them in trouble. Often, little evidence other than the accusation supports a charge, since the alleged incident may have involved a conversation with no witnesses or documentation. Challenging the credibility of the accuser thus can go a long way toward defeating the charge.
In other cases, the defendant might not have intended to force the alleged victim to do anything. Suppose that Patrick in the second example above told Veronica that he would tell the landlord that she does drugs in a separate encounter from when she refused to give him her car. She might have assumed that this was implicitly meant to coerce her into giving him the car, while Patrick might have meant it as retaliation for a complaint that she made about his playing loud music.