US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4996

On June 06 2025 07:57 WombaT wrote:

What can I say? I need a hobby. Bit disappointed I might have to find a new one

I think we’d all thought this was a possibility, indeed were hoping something like this might occur.

However, I felt it would be akin to losing your balance on the delicate tightrope between these giant egos. Instead they’ve both gone like, one step and decided ‘fuck it, let’s jump into this chasm below’.

I must confess I was wrong about Elon Musk. He is either dumber than I thought, more arrogant than I thought, or a bit of both. And I already scored him pretty high on those two metrics.

I’m not sure how in the name of almighty Zeus Musk is winning this one, or why he thinks he is?

I mean fuck me it’s hilarious, but what the fuck is he doing lmao? Trump is a man who’ll hold a lifelong grudge for anything other than 100% fealty at times, you’re going to Tweeting that Trump was on Epstein island territory? Really?

Does Musk genuinely not realise that it’s a pre-condition for some of his newer fans that you have to gargle Trump’s bollocks? Or at least not be actively hostile.

If Musk does manage to leverage this to his advantage, I’ll reconsider my perception of him yet again. He’d have to actually be some genius, because it sure as fuck doesn’t make any sense to me.

Or maybe I’m the idiot here? Maybe my suggestion of a more sensible exit plan like ‘Hey we did great work together but I disagree with this tax bill’ is the moronic position.

On June 06 2025 09:20 Razyda wrote:


"I’m not sure how in the name of almighty Zeus Musk is winning this one, or why he thinks he is? " He cant win this as long as Trump is president, at best he may wait it out, if he try to carry on he will have to fold.

On June 06 2025 09:52 WombaT wrote:

Well exactly, a genius doesn’t pick a fight they can’t win. Perhaps a genius can win a fight basically nobody else thought they could win through some magic plan.

Unless Elon Musk is Bisu to Donald Trump’s Savior I’m not seeing it

On June 04 2025 05:50 GreenHorizons wrote:
Trump and Musk being in ostensible conflict is probably worse than it seems at first glance.

Basically they are going to dominate the overton window so that what is "reasonable" and "in the center" will be what liberals can cobble together in between them. This is replacing the dynamic of Trump and Musk on one side and (the complete lack of) Democrat leadership on the other.

On June 06 2025 10:04 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:

How dare you make that comparison.



This is fine.

On June 06 2025 10:08 Razyda wrote:


If I were to guess (to reiterate: guess) I would say he doesnt see it as a fight. Probably something like unloading frustrations and trolling on the internet. Hella a lot though depends whether Trump see it that way. Again I cant stress this enough: a guess.

On June 06 2025 10:05 KwarK wrote:
Elon is in too deep a k-hole to understand how rabid Trump’s cult is. The Epstein files could (and probably do tbh) include a tape of Trump raping a child and oblade et al would call it a k-pop video.

On June 06 2025 14:56 oBlade wrote:

I live rent free in the head of a conspiracy theorist.

On June 06 2025 14:56 oBlade wrote:

I live rent free in the head of a conspiracy theorist.

On June 06 2025 07:51 micronesia wrote:

That is not how I would characterize Elon reaping the consequences of his horrible actions.

On June 06 2025 15:15 KwarK wrote:

I don't think you understand that expression or how to use it.

You use it when one party is getting angry at the thought of the other and the other isn't even participating in a conflict. The point is that the whole exchange that they're getting mad about is happening in their head. That's the "in the head" part of it. And you're not engaging or "paying rent".

You can't have an exchange with someone, say something incredibly stupid, and then when they mock you tell them directly that you're living rent free in their head. That's not how it works. If you have to directly tell them that you're living rent free in their head then you're not living rent free in their head, you're in front of them telling them things. You're engaging and therefore paying rent.

But clearly the k-pop thing has gotten to you and you're thinking about it and so I'm living rent free in your head making me the victor.

On June 06 2025 15:42 oBlade wrote:

What expression, conspiracy theorist?

You believe there is a video tape of Trump raping a child that hasn't been released or confirmed in the last 10 years.

This is after the alleged n-word tape that never materialized, the alleged golden showers of the Steele Dossier that was made up and funded by the DNC. This is after Snowden, after Manning, after we found out Iraq didn't have WMDs, after the ATF armed cartels and the government funded Islamic extremists and color revolutions all over the world for decades. After all those secrets got leaked, you think this one is tucked away.

How would nobody leak evidence of Trump raping a child over the last 10 years, assuming it existed - especially during the Biden administration when there was no cowering from arresting or charging Trump with any old thing they could cook up?

The only explanation for hiding such evidence is a massive conspiracy. Meaning not only is there evidence of Trump raping a child, there is evidence of Biden raping a child, of Kamala raping a child, there is evidence of so many people raping a child, that there is even evidence of the people who hold and keep and guard the evidence of child rape, also raping children themselves, which is why none of them can leak it even though it would be morally necessitated and politically worldshattering. Many in the CIA, NSA, FBI, have been very far from Trump fans. They would try to assassinate Assange but wouldn't be able to get evidence of an aggravated felony out?

Foremost in your mind is not to explain why you think that's the case, but to try to involve my name apropos of nothing (this is the rent free part - if you go "durr oBlade k-pop" for no reason, when I see it, I will think about it for a second and go hmm, wonder what caused such an asinine post and what he thinks he's talking about - otherwise when I'm thinking about a 0% chance hypothetical I don't incorporate "how would a specific TL poster react to this hypothetical which is impossible" into my thought process). In other words, equal to the child rape, that doesn't exist, of equal significance to that is the allegation oBlade a random forum poster, would obviously support the child rape that you have no evidence of. You have issues.

I'm also perplexed how someone who was yesterday is suddenly the keystone of an allegation of child rape against Orange Hitler. You're in a hard place with the two biggest Nazis feuding. Choosing Electric Hitler over Orange Hitler is an interesting, if inconsistent, move.