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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 9, 2025 at 1:03 pm
(June 8, 2025 at 5:24 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (June 8, 2025 at 1:40 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Imagine if President Biden, from the White House, had publicly threatened to level “very serious consequences” against the richest man alive if he *dared* to give any money to the Republican Party.
Depending on who's crunching the numbers, Musk is worth around $400 billion (because crime, does, in fact, pay). I don't think he's really worried about Trump's empty threat.
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The Galaxy Nazi's wealth is debt secured on his Tesla shares, it would be extremely easy for TACO to push him underwater financially. Just revoke all the grants and carbon credits and Tesla's in a death spiral.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 9, 2025 at 1:16 pm
(June 9, 2025 at 1:03 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: (June 8, 2025 at 5:24 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Depending on who's crunching the numbers, Musk is worth around $400 billion (because crime, does, in fact, pay). I don't think he's really worried about Trump's empty threat.
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The Galaxy Nazi's wealth is debt secured on his Tesla shares, it would be extremely easy for TACO to push him underwater financially. Just revoke all the grants and carbon credits and Tesla's in a death spiral.
The trouble with that is, Trump wouldn’t be able to keep his mouth shut about. Elon could divest for half the share price and still be unimaginably wealthy. And if Trump went after the companies at that point, Musk could still afford to pull a Trump and tie the orange one up in court until one of them dies or Trump is out of power.
Trump doesn’t hold as many cards in this fight as he thinks he does.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 9, 2025 at 1:47 pm
(June 9, 2025 at 1:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (June 9, 2025 at 1:03 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: The Galaxy Nazi's wealth is debt secured on his Tesla shares, it would be extremely easy for TACO to push him underwater financially. Just revoke all the grants and carbon credits and Tesla's in a death spiral.
The trouble with that is, Trump wouldn’t be able to keep his mouth shut about. Elon could divest for half the share price and still be unimaginably wealthy. And if Trump went after the companies at that point, Musk could still afford to pull a Trump and tie the orange one up in court until one of them dies or Trump is out of power.
Trump doesn’t hold as many cards in this fight as he thinks he does.
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No. If the shares fall that far, the debt gets margin called and he doesn't have the liquidity to cover his losses. And after that it's a hot date with MBS's wood chipper.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 9, 2025 at 1:56 pm
(June 9, 2025 at 1:47 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: (June 9, 2025 at 1:16 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The trouble with that is, Trump wouldn’t be able to keep his mouth shut about. Elon could divest for half the share price and still be unimaginably wealthy. And if Trump went after the companies at that point, Musk could still afford to pull a Trump and tie the orange one up in court until one of them dies or Trump is out of power.
Trump doesn’t hold as many cards in this fight as he thinks he does.
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No. If the shares fall that far, the debt gets margin called and he doesn't have the liquidity to cover his losses. And after that it's a hot date with MBS's wood chipper.
Fair point, but I still can’t imagine that Elon hasn’t already taken steps to protect himself.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 9, 2025 at 10:06 pm
Now Trump is sending the Marines to LA.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/liv...rcna211757
This is absolutely insane. The Marines aren't for keeping order while respecting people's civil rights; they're for killing people. That's what they're trained for and that's what they like. This will not end well.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 9, 2025 at 11:15 pm
Doechii at BET Awards: “Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 10, 2025 at 1:51 am
California sues Trump.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 10, 2025 at 4:24 am
(June 9, 2025 at 10:06 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Now Trump is sending the Marines to LA.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/liv...rcna211757
This is absolutely insane. The Marines aren't for keeping order while respecting people's civil rights; they're for killing people. That's what they're trained for and that's what they like. This will not end well.
It's not only insane, it's probably illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 10, 2025 at 6:36 am
He's not disclosing serious health issues, is he?
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
June 10, 2025 at 7:12 am
I have reached the point with Trump that I don't really blame him for all the insanity. He is unstable and spiteful and quite mentally ill.
I am, instead, seething with anger over the highly compensated politicians who are sitting with their thumbs up their butts and not doing a damn thing to stop this shit.
The things going on in LA are just another version of a parade ordered by, and for, Trump's fragile ego to be further stroked.
This is not the America I had been proud of for most of the last seven decades.
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