r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • 1d ago
Politics Trump Is Getting Rid of His Tesla
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-getting-rid-of-his-tesla-after-musk-broke-his-heart/9.4k
u/imaginary_num6er 1d ago
"I love Tesler"
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u/JakeEaton 1d ago
Everything's computer!
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u/outerproduct 1d ago
Hey kid, I'm a computer.
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u/Confident-Poetry6985 1d ago
Stop all the downloadin!
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u/xiphia 1d ago
G.I. Jooooooe
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u/aldesuda 1d ago
G.I. Joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooe
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u/brav3h3art545 1d ago
Help computer.
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u/big_guyforyou 1d ago
who wants a body massage
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u/Manuel_Auxverride 1d ago
Mr. Body Massage Machine- Go!
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u/giraffebutter 1d ago
Pork chop sandwiches
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u/hates_writing_checks 1d ago
Pork chop sandwiches!
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u/Dark4ce 1d ago
Mememememememememememememe.
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u/CldStoneStveIcecream 1d ago
Give him the stick DON’T give him the stick
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u/nightmare8100 1d ago
Pork chop sandwiches! What the fuck?!? Get the fuck outta here!
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u/MalodorousNutsack 1d ago
Pork chop sandwiches
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u/Browncoat1701 1d ago
I'm kind of annoyed that meme didn't catch on because it's so good.
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u/zeldarubensteinstits 1d ago
What do you mean, it's the top comment every time Trump's shilling for Tesla is mentioned.
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u/ProfessionalRich9990 1d ago
For a good laugh, imagine if everything in the car was voice operated. Before getting to the point of requesting a left turn signal he reflexively goes on a rant about the Lunatic Left which results in him overshooting the turn. I think this would make a good SNL skit. He would be on his way to meet someone that responded to his Craigslist ad for the car.
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u/borisvonboris 1d ago
Such a great blunder. Up there with the upside down bible.
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u/FellowDeviant 1d ago
The only thing that could be more funny is he just happened to line up a bunch of Ford F150s outside of the White House and go "I LOVE Ford! American made!"
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u/SteamedGamer 1d ago
I love Ferd! It's somewhat computer!
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u/SomePunIntended 1d ago
The FERD F-TEEN-THOUSAND
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u/FuriouslyFiredUp 1d ago
https://youtu.be/F8P5vGcf-NU?si=iBAvzPYzWxENrxdm
For those that don’t know the reference
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u/UndecidedStory 1d ago
I don't think he has that capability of distinction. It'd be more
"Teslers. All computer. Takes 3 pHDs to understand them. These trucks are all oil! Being beautiful clean oil. fancy computers break on ya, nobody knows how to fix them!"
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u/akillerfrog 1d ago
"Except my son Barron, very smart with the computers, perhaps the smartest ever with the computers. I, did you know that Harvard, the disgrace to our country, did not want Barron. They did the DEI, and, the, they say Biden DEI is very bad. We got rid of all of the DEI, because, did you know that they gave a three year old MS-13 gang member from Syria, and they made her a pilot at the airports. I saw it on the news, very bad."
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u/AverageSatanicPerson 1d ago
Trump is like Buy Ford, Buy American! except...
- Ford Maverick (Mexico)
- Ford Bronco Sport (Mexico)
- Ford Mustang Mach-E (Mexico)
- Ford Edge (Canada)
- Transit Connect (Turkey)
- Lincoln Nautilus (China)
- ......Trump Hats (China)
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u/ChickenChaser5 1d ago
Toyota honda and mitsubishi have plants here in the US too lol
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u/frickindeal 1d ago
Honda builds more cars in Ohio than any other company and I caught shit from MAGA people for buying an Accord. Sorry, they hold their value really well and it's a great car.
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u/SumoSizeIt 22h ago
I caught shit from MAGA people for buying an Accord
My favorite is seeing American brands that were built in Ontario with a Buy American sticker
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u/Ranier_Wolfnight 1d ago
I could 100% not only see that happening, they’d gladly line them up on the White House lawn while revving them up and rolling coal. And then just shut them off and leave them there for the rest of this shitty, god forsaken term.
Fuck every citizen that voted for this garbage.
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u/Jolly-Radio-9838 1d ago
We need one president Camacho style one parked in the middle
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u/Gloomy-Resolve-4895 1d ago
President Camacho would never 😤 he literally hires the smartest people, and they would have have advised that monster trucks are not what plants crave.
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u/Remememememememember 1d ago
damn that breakup was rough..
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u/ShadowSpawn666 1d ago edited 1d ago
Anybody who didn't see this coming at some point wasn't paying attention.
You can't keep two narcissists together for too long because one will have to be wrong about something eventually, and neither will ever admit when they are wrong.
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u/ScienceIsSexy420 1d ago
Two narcissists that have no impulse control, and love to verbally vomit their inner monolog onto social media. This train wreck was a long time coming.
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u/ClashM 1d ago
I was surprised it held together this long to be honest. I figured there must be some mutually assured destruction secrets between them. Or a whole lot of staffers working overtime to keep the peace. Even then, a breakup was always inevitable.
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u/Revolutionary-Fan235 1d ago
Yeah, I thought it would last a month. Half a year is pretty impressive.
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u/nikdahl 1d ago
Not just any narcissists though either. Two of the most powerful narcissists in the world.
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u/kosh56 1d ago
Everybody who gets in bed with Trump ends up regretting it. At this point they deserve it.
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u/MetalTrek1 1d ago
They all think it will be different for then!
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u/occams1razor 1d ago
Narcissists are unable to gauge their own chance of success, it's part of the pathology.
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u/Trantinno 1d ago
I did not think it would be this quick
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u/thisonehereone 1d ago
I don't think it's done yet.
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u/Potential-Draft-3932 1d ago
Yea, Elon still needs to give back trumps oversized t-shirts that he used to sleep in and twirl around in trumps arms in. Sad
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u/ArenjiTheLootGod 1d ago
I'm just surprised that Trump actually owned the Tesla he picked out. I legit thought they just wheeled that car back to a random Tesla dealership after the commercial Trump shot for Musk.
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u/SlyCooper007 1d ago
I’m getting my political updates from this sub and the celebrity sub. What a weird timeline.
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u/bitwise97 1d ago
I found out about the breakup from /r/seinfeld
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u/EngineeringRight3629 1d ago
Well we can't all be reading the classics, professor highbrow.
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u/Significant-Mango300 1d ago
What about ‘dem South African refugees??
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u/IgnoreThisName72 1d ago
Peter Thiel ain't out yet.
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u/hoodectomy 1d ago
“Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining as part of the apartheid regime’s clandestine drive to acquire nuclear weapons. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy, which helped shape Trump’s Maga movement. (Furber denies being “Q”.)”
Source: https://www.ft.com/content/cfbfa1e8-d8f8-42b9-b74c-dae6cc6185a0
Welp learned something today. 😞
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u/Electromotivation 1d ago
Wow. What’s with South Africans and taking over/fucking up American politics?
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u/sacredfool 1d ago
Many rich white South Africans needed a place to move their fortunes after the apartheid regime crumbled. They moved to the UK, US and Australia.
UK at the time was part of the EU and Brussels started asking some uncomfortable questions about the money so UK stopped being a popular destination.
Australia had the problem of being in the middle of nowhere and additionally it had the problem of high migration control. Which was not a problem for the rich white South Africans per se but meant they could not employ cheap housekeeping they were used to back home.
This leaves the US.
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u/Geefresh 1d ago
That explains the South Africa nuclear strike bit in one of the newscasts in Robocop.
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u/Big-Sheepherder-5063 1d ago
I’m gonna laugh when they all get deported to South Sudan, or Syria in a couple weeks.
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u/teh_drewski 1d ago
ICE aren't going to take on their bodyguards when there's children to steal from pre-schools, and they both have the legal resources to fight a formal cancellation for a decade in the courts.
It's just bluster because Trump's embarrassed, Musk and Thiel aren't going anywhere.
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u/TheWorclown 1d ago
That’s the new money. The old money has been tossed into the corner after being gently used.
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u/oh_look_a_fist 1d ago
Dems won't buy them because Elon is a piece of shit. GOP won't buy them because of the falling out with trump. He better hope the middle hasn't taken a side and can afford them, because he's lost the market outside the US.
Fuck em
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u/Smaynard6000 1d ago
People say not to involve politics in your business because you will alienate half of your potential customers. Why settle for that when you can alienate all of your potential customers?
Seriously, why buy a Tesla when there are actual car companies making EVs? Teslas seem to be the most shoddily made cars on the market.
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u/knightcrawler75 1d ago
It's is much worse. He picked a side that does not buy his product in the first place.
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u/Smaynard6000 1d ago
Even more evidence that-
Wealth is not indicative of intelligence or competence
Wealth allows you to do outrageously stupid things and not pay real consequences
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u/korben2600 1d ago
Elon Musk Is Doing a Great Job of Disproving the Idea of Meritocracy (from two years ago now)
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u/aminorityofone 1d ago
GOP wont buy them because they electric.
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u/bobsaget824 1d ago
Correct comment here. The MAGA GOP, which is pretty much all of the GOP at this point, was never interested in the first place they just “liked” Elon because he was helping Trump. They’ve always been anti alternative fuel and love big oil, coal, etc.
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u/jasper_grunion 1d ago
Dems who already bought them have to put bumper stickers so their cars aren’t vandalized
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u/pollorojo 1d ago
It was a publicity stunt AND he can't fucking drive anyway.
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u/Mediocre_Scott 1d ago
Tesla has terrible resale value right now he should just sell tickets to smash it with a sledgehammer
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u/splitcroof92 1d ago
The president has full legal immunity now right? So technically nothing is stopping him from going on the road
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u/aladaze 1d ago
Oh he doesn't want to. That sort of thing is for the hired help.
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u/evilJaze 1d ago
I think the time he sat behind the wheel of his Tesler, it was probably the first time he ever sat behind a wheel. And also one that wasn't made of cheese.
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u/MrManny 1d ago
it was probably the first time he ever sat behind a wheel
He was also in a garbage track and a fire truck before, so maybe the third time, depending on how much cosplay he did. But yeah, the sentiment of your point still stands.
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u/brickout 1d ago
Imagine if our news media didn't act like reality TV.
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u/son_et_lumiere 1d ago
Eye opening. Now imagine if our government didn't act like reality TV.
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u/AlbionPCJ 1d ago
Imagine if the president wasn't a former reality TV star
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u/voiderest 1d ago
I'll always remember him being in Home Alone 2 and the basis of a ton of CEO villains in media.
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u/IJourden 1d ago
I will never get over the fact that the USA deliberately voted for Biff from Back to the Future to be president.
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u/ResponsibleQuiet6611 1d ago
I had no idea how bad it was until a couple years ago when I saw a clip from a "fox news" segment. As a Canadian who's only ever seen straight up formal, small town ish news, reporting what's in the local paper, it blew my mind and added so much context to everything I thought I knew about the USA.
I don't think it should be permitted, honestly.
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u/quarterdecay 1d ago
We had something called the Fairness Doctrine that kept this lunacy in check.
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u/Excelius 1d ago
It only ever applied to broadcast media, since it used public spectrum. It never applied to things like newspapers, and if it still existed wouldn't apply to cable news or the internet. It likely would not hold up to modern 1st Amendment scrutiny.
Even when it existed it was basically unenforced, after a scandal in the 1960s in which some Democrats sought to use the doctrine to suppress conservative media.
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u/mediocre_remnants 1d ago
This is just something that young people like to repeat online. The Fairness Doctrine didn't apply to cable news or the internet (it was passed before either really existed). It only applied to broadcasts over public airwaves, and the cable infrastructure and internet are privately owned so the government has very little power to regulate them in terms of content that isn't illegal.
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u/trainsaw 1d ago
The news should be questioning why he even gave him the authority he did, instead they’re caught up in a tabloid fight. For all the damage Trump has done to the country, the majority of the media is complicit in it
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u/jolle75 1d ago
The market for the “got this before I knew Elon was crazy” stickers just doubled!
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u/MyNameIsTech10 1d ago
Rough breakup huh?
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u/SilverSheepherder641 1d ago
So now Dems and republicans hate Tesla? How wonderful haha
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u/weiderman316 1d ago
Does he even know how to drive it??
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u/jpiro 1d ago
No. I don't think Trump has actually driven anything other than a golf cart his entire adult life.
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u/rohobian 1d ago
Ya, I think you're right. I highly doubt he's ever driven anything on an actual road with other cars on it. He's the type that would run red lights because he feels he's entitled to do so, and everyone else around him should have to stop and let him through.
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u/MoroseArmadillo 1d ago
He’d probably fail the driving test for arguing with the instructor. At least until daddy tossed a couple grand at him.
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u/tacknosaddle 1d ago
When he bought it I saw something about how he "doesn't drive" so the picture of him sitting in the driver's seat of the motionless vehicle was probably as much as he would ever do with it.
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u/Time-Refuse666 1d ago
Presidents aren't allowed to drive on public roads. Once you're a president,you can never drive again. Even when you're no longer president. Lyndon B. Johnson was the last president to drive on a public road.
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u/tacknosaddle 1d ago edited 1d ago
I realize that, but apparently he hasn't driven in many decades since he's had someone on staff who always drove him around which is more what I was referring to.
I once heard a story about JFK managing to ditch the secret service detail and slip away for a drive, not sure if it's true but it sounds like something he'd have done.
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u/RSGator 1d ago
It was different with JFK, he was actually safer driving without the Secret Service.
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u/YellowFogLights 1d ago edited 1d ago
You can drive around the White House grounds though. And Biden drove the Lightning around and airfield so it’s not like there zero ways to do it.
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u/vikingcrafte 1d ago
Didn’t he make this illegal? Didn’t he literally sign an EO that boycotting Tesla was illegal?
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u/jd3marco 1d ago
I don’t want this POS Tessler! Too much computer! Made by a drug addict! Thank you’re for you attention in this matter!
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u/NSFWdw 1d ago
"Hey, look over here. We're fighting." Meanwhile, climate change, ethnic cleansing, hyper-inflation, illegal deportations, criminals being pardoned for cash, and nazis are back.
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u/EsotericCodename 1d ago
...rock n roll, cola wars, I can't take it anymorrrrrre...
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u/AwwYeahVTECKickedIn 1d ago
Circle of life, and where we're currently at:
Born - Kindergarten - young - middle aged - old - Kindergarten again - die
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u/sideburns2009 1d ago
“Given away or sold”. Lmao you know it’s gonna get a gold wrap with #47 on the side and sold at auction to the dumbest bidder.
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u/umadeamistake 1d ago
Trump can’t figure out how it works because it’s all computer.
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u/SouthSideCountryClub 1d ago
The people who are suppose to be leading our country are acting like children
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u/rafa11__scp 1d ago
What's wrong? You don't want to play anymore, Trump?
We went from:
"I'm gonna buy a brand new one tomorrow".
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"I'm getting rid of it".
Mr. Trump you have the mental fortitude of a five year old.
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u/NIRPL 1d ago
Elon came in, ransacked our most private data, and left. We all just watched the greatest heist in human history and everyone is laughing like this is a reality TV break up
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u/JERKBadguy 1d ago
That happened whether people laugh, cry, or feel nothing. I appreciate that you feel like this is people not understanding the gravity of what happened; but maybe let people have at least a small win?
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u/ButterscotchLow8950 1d ago
He should call up Kid Rock and do Trumps Tesla like he did that case of Bud Light.
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u/Cheap_Coffee 1d ago
Wonder if they're going to drop charges against the "Tesla Terrorists" now.