He's such a dork. 250M to get Trump elected and now he's basically bought himself a presidency. I wonder if Trump hates the idea he's second fiddle. He's got to be grumpy about all the spotlight being on his new puppet master.
Elon strikes me as a mix of Howard Hughes, John McAfee, and Henry Ford: brilliant, eccentric, and volatile. I hope I'm wrong here, but I believe he might lose his mind within the next decade. Fortunately, SpaceX will manage without his direct involvement, and his role in advancing humanity’s path to Mars will be remembered. I'm willing to bet this is a net positive for us. His greatest strengths lie in securing government funding and getting seemingly impossible companies off the ground against all odds. But there will come a point when adult leadership will need to take over as he becomes distracted by culture wars or veers into fascism.
Trump has a simpler task: avoid starting a third world war over the next four years. After that, his power is gone and someone even scarier is likely to take his place.
Remember Trump has vowed to primary Republican reps who don't get in line with the current party agenda. Musk has vowed to fund these alternative candidates, even funding moderate democrats in blue districts. Trump will need Musk's money to make these things a reality.
From my reading of the news, its seems more of a made up "rift" than an actual thing, though I get the impression opposition badly wants to sell it as a factual thing. The more the left tries to sell the narrative that "Trump is Elon's bitch" the more they look desperate and afraid of the power the two of them working together represents. The Left appears to be properly terrified of this, even from my far off point of view just having access to The News. They're not scared because they're winning and I can see that from here, so surely the main people involved can see it too.
Its a pretty good life rule that the person screaming the loudest is generally losing. This is really just a variant of the ole "Putin has dirty pictures of Trump and he owns him!" narrative all over again.
Do you hate the “woke” left so much that you’ll let some guy sell everything good about America to its enemies?
My point in a nutshell is simple; calling Trump names didn't work the first time and may have even helped him get reelected. If he is to be hampered, its too late to totally stop him, is this really the way to do it? Quadruple down on a losing strategy yet again?
Attacking Trump as a person failed. Attacking Trump on policy didn't seem to fare much better. Whats left at this point? 77 million people looked at the charges levied against him, and then voted for him anyhow. The rational response to this from his opponents is to continue down the same failed path? Its just performative theatrics at this point I think. The die has been cast.
It doesn’t change the facts though. He’s a bad dude. (Convicted of sexual assault remember) A transactional dude. A guy who doesn’t care about America or anything. He just wanted to stay out of jail and make his friends rich.
Now we have weirdo right wing folks from silicon valley going to run things with a guy who admires our enemies and who has “a concept of a plan” on how to solve things.
It never ceases to amaze me how folks on HN saw Trump as their coming out moment: “oh it’s cool now I can let my friends right wing techno libertarian flag fly, the real estate tv mogul from NYC is now president and is allied with white supremacists and mysoginy. I like those things!” ;-)
I think people again didn’t have a viable alternative, didn’t think he could be so bad (he will be), and are just apathetic to enough and (erroneously) thinking that Biden’s policies on the economy — they blamed him for inflation — were so bad the tax cut and spend guy is going to do anything good for the economy.
82M people voted for Biden in 2020…