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FlyingSquid ,
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Translation: “give me enough money and I’ll promote whatever you want.”

Most presidents at least pretended they couldn’t be bought.

RamblingPanda ,

He on the other hand is haggling openly and then brags about it.

And his moron followers are proud of him 🙄

FlyingSquid ,
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He’s going to “drain the swamp” and replace it with an auction house.

adespoton ,

I thought he was draining the swamp so he could sell swamp water?

Dultas ,

Build condos on it.

boydster ,
@boydster@sh.itjust.works avatar

Turns out “playing 4D chess” is just MAGA politikese for “broadcasting our corruption loudly and assuming enough people are also either too corrupt, ignorant, or disaffected to do anything about it.”

LilDumpy ,
@LilDumpy@lemmy.world avatar

Nah. Imo, this is him telling oil company that they need to step up and fully fund his requests for money “or else”. Didn’t he recently ask the oil industry for an insane amount of money at the beginning of his campaign or something?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That’s not really contradicting what I’m saying.

LilDumpy , (edited )
@LilDumpy@lemmy.world avatar

No, you’re right. But I think this is specifically a message to the oil industry.

Randomgal ,

Fr wtf, the shamelessness adds insult to injury.

Buffalox ,

No translation needed, since he is saying it outright.

return2ozma OP ,
@return2ozma@lemmy.world avatar

Bought and paid for politician Trump is.

kent_eh ,

Except he doesn’t sell himself to the highest builder, he’ll sell out to any and all of them at the same time.

NegativeInf ,

Little quid, little pro, lots of quo.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world avatar

The best quo. Lots of smart people are saying it’s the best quo. The quid? Not so good. But the quo is good.

capt_wolf ,
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Dude’s made a living selling his stupid face every opportunity he can to get attention, why would he let a little thing like presidential integrity get in the way? It certainly didn’t when he was actually president!

TriPolarBearz ,

Did someone say frijoles?

Trumps and Beans

aeronmelon ,

“Some fok’ll never tip their hand, but then again some fok’ll. Like Donald the Slack-jawed Yokel.”

Trump: “It wasn’t my fault, he had a LOT
of money.”

octopus_ink ,

OK, LGBTQ organizations, Librarians, Pro-Choice organizations, and Satanic Temple - you know what to do now. He’ll have no choice but to support you and then what will his base do? Checkmate magas!! ;)

SatansMaggotyCumFart ,

Trump endorsed EVs for $180 million, I wonder what his rock-bottom lowest price is?

Twenty bucks?

Fuckfuckmyfuckingass ,
@Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world avatar

There’s an anecdote I’ve seen a few times on the Internet about a newspaper in the 80s sending rich people checks for tiny amounts of money, like $.15, just to see who’d cash 'em. Trump was the only one who did.

DmMacniel ,
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5 Cheeseburgers.

lechatron ,
@lechatron@lemmy.today avatar

hamberders

someguy3 ,

Goya beans v2.

AmidFuror ,

What happened to "bigly?" This was a missed opportunity to use his formerly favorite adverb.

sp3tr4l ,

God damnit, yesterday I explained to someone in another thread what Trump meant when he said he could get Elon to kneel and beg, that Trump as President could revoke EV subsidies and/or heavily influence or defund NASA such that they stop funding SpaceX.

I did not expect this goddamned moron to just actually say as much, directly, out loud, 12 hours later.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

He actually said the opposite here.

IronKrill ,

What the parent comment is saying is the implication is that without Elon’s money, he wouldn’t consider EVs. So same meaning.

nemith ,

Imagine being so blatant on bribery.

Makeitstop , (edited )

There are no EV mandates. The article presents Trump’s statements about repealing an EV mandate that doesn’t exist without ever noting that no such mandate exists.

Without seeing video of the statements it’s hard to say how much that was Trump selling policy for donations and saying the quiet part out loud vs just making a joke. But either way, I’m pretty sure it’s based on a flawed premise because at this point I don’t think Elon gives a shit about electric cars either.

And finally, the talk about the cost of charging infrastructure is framing the issue in the stupidest way possible. How much did it cost to build infrastructure for ICE vehicles, to have gas stations all over the place and a supply chain to keep them running? A hell of lot more than it will take to add charging infrastructure, that’s for sure. But we don’t talk about that cost because no single entity paid for it all, and those that did mostly did so as an investment, which generally paid off. People will pay for public chargers. We don’t need public funds to cover everything, they just help get the investments rolling in faster.

What we do need is a rule forcing apartments to add charging of some kind to all residential parking. Even a standard wall outlet for each space would be enough to solve the majority of the charging problem.

sylver_dragon ,

Just waiting for MAGA idiots to start buying EVs to “own the libs”. I mean, I’d rather people shift to EVs because it’s less damaging to the environment; but, a win is a win, I guess.

EnderWiggin ,

If that started to happen I’d gladly just play along.

hperrin ,

Quid pro quo.

meleecrits ,
@meleecrits@lemmy.world avatar

MAGA nut jobs: wtf, I love EVs!

ohlaph ,

So he was bought? Got it.

Reverendender ,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGZ10kZ4lmE

Cadeillac ,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

The same Elon Musk that permanently deleted this image off the internet forever?

Totally Deleted Forever Permanently I’m Super Serial

Zahille7 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4e4aab30-524d-4037-9b45-400c7aee1470.jpeg

aesthelete ,

Eeeeh heeee yooooow

Billie Jean is not my looover

credo ,

I thought you were supposed to not admit to the bribe.

The argument has always been, “No, we just give to candidates who support our cause.” Of course everyone knows that’s BS, because the support always follows the cash. But then here comes this dumbass and just- up and admits to corruption.

floofloof ,

It’s OK, the Supreme Court has confirmed that bribes are totally legal now.

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