#Putin and musk

[rejectingrepublicans]

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[republikkkanorcs]

[strawlessandbraless]

November 5th is coming

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[chaoticace22]

i'm back on my bullshit hope it's okay

[justacynicalromantic]

Elon Musk was forced to reveal who financed his purchase of Twitter. Amongst owners are two Russian oligarchs close to Putin and sanctioned over the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich.

Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, which is one of the main wallets for Putin. Aven also attended a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 to mark the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

Vadim Moshkovich owns Russia's largest agricultural holding Rusagro. Naturally, he also attended the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 and, like Aven, did not protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[charlesoberonn]

Fascist and pro-Putin propagandists Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are trying to exploit the fact there're no good English sources on Gonzalo Lira to pass off their narrative that he's some brave dissident persecuted by a cruel tyrannical Zelensky.

Gonzalo Lira isn't a journalist. He's a YouTuber. He wasn't arrested for criticizing the Zelensky government (he's been doing it for years), he was arrested on suspicion of collusion with the Russian government.

The fact he's been spreading pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation since the before the war, appeared on Russian state-owned networks, and has a Russian official pleading on his behalf, makes me suspect the same thing.

As for the torture, that is just a straight up fabrication. No source for it whatsoever.

I know the Ukraine war has been bumped off the radar of a lot of people by newer flashier conflicts, but it's still extremely important to support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people against Putin's invasion and his many cronies like Tucker and Elon.

[fuck-u-maga]

[tomorrowusa]

Historian and writer on democracy Timothy Snyder says that there should be no question as to who is dominant in the Musk-Trump relationship.

Allies and aides to Donald Trump should be increasingly concerned by Elon Musk’s proximity to and influence on the US president-elect, the Yale historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder said. “Trump is a little guy, and Musk is a big guy when it actually comes to having money,” Snyder said. “And I think if you were a friend of Trump, you would be worried.” [ ... ] Snyder expects that Trump’s soon-to-be home, the White House, will be a stage for uncomfortable and damaging discord between the president-elect and his most powerful ally, the world’s richest man. “I think we overestimate Trump and we underestimate Musk,” Snyder said. “People can’t help but think that Trump has money, but he doesn’t. He’s never really had money. He’s never even really claimed to have money. His whole notion is that you have to believe that he has money. But he’s never been able to pay his own debts. He’s never been able to finance his own campaigns. “Musk, with an amount of money that was meaningless to him, was able to finance Trump’s campaign, essentially.” [ ... ] Since Trump’s victory in November, from Mar-a-Lago in Florida to Notre Dame in Paris, Musk has been constantly at Trump’s side, earning the satirical nickname “first buddy” but also an appointment with the biotech investor Vivek Ramaswamy to jointly head the “department of government efficiency”, or “Doge”, a group tasked with meeting Trump’s wildly ambitious campaign promise of slashing trillions from federal spending. Considering instances of Musk’s apparent influence over Trump as the president-elect has struggled to control congressional Republicans – an unruly party already split on how to continue funding the government they also want to defund – Snyder said: “All the threats that Trump is now going to issue – ‘I’m going to primary people, I’m going to sue people’ – Musk is going to pay for that, not Trump. And when Trump needs money for anything, he’s going to be asking Musk. “Unless Trump breaks it off right now, he’s going to be in this kind of dependent relationship for the rest of the way, because you get used to people giving you money … and I think if you were a friend of Trump, you would be worried.”

Prof. Snyder has invented a name for this peculiar relationship.

“So I thought about this dependency position,” Snyder said. “I was going to call it Muskotrumpovia, because I think Musk is a more important person, but Trumpomuskovia had a nicer ring to it. “And also, I wanted Muskovia because I wanted the idea of Russia to be there in the background, because a lot of smart Russia hands are saying this all the time: this is kind of like the 1990s in Russia. You have the doddering, rich-but-not-very-rich president [Boris Yeltsin], surrounded by more youthful, more active, ambitious oligarchs. That’s the kind of scenario [America is] in.”

Trump thinks he's Vladimir Putin but he's more like Boris Yeltsin – but stupid instead of drunk like ol' Boris.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

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[rejectingrepublicans]

Musk is so out of his league meddling in the affairs of state. Perhaps more so than Chump.

[inkstained-wretch]

ATTENTION ALL CANADIANS

IF YOU ARE CANADIAN AND ARE TERRIFIED THAT OUR COUNTRY WILL BECOME THE 51st STATE, GO DONATE (IF YOU HAVE EXTRA INCOME) OR VOLUNTEER (ITS EZ AF AND JAGMEET'S TEAM IS V. FRIENDLY AND ACCOMMODATING)

IF PP WINS, HE WILL SELL US ALL OUT TO USA AND RUSSIA, HE WILL JEOPARDIZE OUR SECURITY, HE WILL LET BIG OIL COMPANIES BURN OUR HOUSES DOWN FOR PROFIT, HE WILL TAKE AWAY ABORTION RIGHTS (MANY MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET ARE CHUDS WHO DON'T THINK WOMEN ARE PEOPLE) HE WILL AMERICANIZE OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND FORCE YOU TO PAY THOUSANDS FOR THE MEDICINE YOU NOW PAY UNDER 100$.

WE NEED YOU NOW, RIGHT NOW, TO MAKE SURE POLIVERE DOES NOT GET A MAJORITY GOVERNMENT

IF YOU ARE TURNING 18 AND HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE TURNING 18, CONVINCE YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE NDP. WE NEED YOUR VOTE! YOUR FUTURE WILL LITERALLY TURN INTO ASHES IF POLIVIERE WINS A MAJORITY.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

⠀ Elon Musk said his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries.” In other words, Musk is enjoying his new-found political power and plans to keep on buying elections. Responding to a report that he might fund challengers to GOP House members who don’t vote to confirm Trump’s nominees, even if they are obviously unfit for the job, Musk said, “How else? There is no other way.” Yes Elon, there is another way. Let politicians vote on what they think is best for America without any threats from you or Trump. During a recent visit to Capitol Hill, Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy delivered a warning to Republicans who don’t go along with their plans to slash spending. Marjorie Taylor Greene remarked, “Elon and Vivek talked about having a naughty list and a nice list for members of Congress and senators and how we vote and how we’re spending the American people’s money.” It seems they're making a list of whose political careers to ruin, and who should receive a Thank You (bribe). Trump’s second term comes with the specter of the world’s richest man serving as his political enforcer. Musk seems intent on pressuring Republicans to vote the way he and Trump want them to vote. When the richest person in the world is buying elections and openly stating that he is going to bully and threaten lawmakers to vote the way he tells them to vote, it's proof that America is no longer a democracy — it's an oligarchy. You can bet, somewhere in Russia, Putin is smiling.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

It’s no comfort that no matter how bad we think our problems are it’s always worse someplace else.

[republikkkanorcs]

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ Where three billionaires are moving the planet in 2025.