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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Early Results Suggest 473 Million Dollars’ Worth of Buyer’s Remorse for Elon Musk

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Early Results Suggest 473 Million Dollars’ Worth of Buyer’s Remorse for Elon Musk

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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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But don't worry. He can spare it.
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  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    Time to start the investigations, Elon. Might want to clear your schedule and make sure all your records are up to date. 🤣

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      Charge him in Canada, Diaper Don can’t pardon him here.

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        He can’t pardon him in the state of texas either.

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    Elon wants to fuck kids

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      Is that why he’s sired hundreds of them?

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        …possibly.

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    I just can’t stop laughing. I’m not even lying.

    I am seeing that shit everywhere – especially in all the battleground states he poured money into like water, such as Maine, Texas, and Michigan that are now winning historical upsets – and I literally can’t stop snickering and laughing.

    🤣 🤣 🤣

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      Dude just finished moving all of his shit to Texas too. I hope the meltdown is epic.

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        Seen on bluesky:

        Elon Musk and his entire operation now lives in a blue state with a Democratic attorney general. :)

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        Epic indeed. Toddler billionaire thought he could buy the elections he wanted and it didn’t work, and there are no refunds. Imagine the entitled fury.

        Oh god I can’t stop laughing, I’m gonna wake up the whole house 🤣 🤣 🤣

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    I’d glad to see it, but it’s barely anything to him. Equivalent of ~$100 to an average US adult.

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      I would say that although mathematically you are correct, the impact of losing $100 for the average American is greater.

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    If i was in charge but couldn’t make it illegal for people to donate money to political funds, I’d make it a requirement that for every single £ they donate, they must donate the same amount to charity.

    They dont pick the charity.

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      That’d be a significant change in the tax code, as political funds are §501c4 charities

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        That’s why I pick the charities.

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    He can spare it and so can all the California billionaires who won’t get taxed. I’m disappointed, but at least I have a nice big blue wave to cool my toes in.

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    I wonder if all the republican scumbags he bought looked at the money and thought “wait, why the fuck do I even need to bother being a politician? I can just take this imbecile’s money, lose, and go on a paid vacation for a few years. I’ll just call it a series of fact-finding missions in aid of the 2028 presidential election”.

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    That’s chump change for him. He’s a trillionaire. Your millions mean nothing to him.

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      True, but you just know he’s mad as hell. The money is not the thing, it’s how humiliated he is.

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        That’s true. His money has lost value.

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      He has a net worth of a trillion, it doesn’t mean he has that sort of liquidity all the time.

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        Can’t he just pledge his stocks to the bank?

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          Kind of, but his stocks are most likely already leveraged, plus it does incur an interest. Plus, the loan has to actually be paid back in full.

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    deleted by creator

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      The count has started to come in. I’m not seeing them doing very well at all. What do you mean?

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      How did that turn out for you?

    • Hegar@fedia.io
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      What do you mean?

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      Lol yeah the notoriously right wing West Coast 🙄

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      Cry more, bootlicker

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        If you read their comment history, they are not a bootlicker. They come off more like a depressed californian who leans left.

        I think their comment was refering to the ballot initiatives in ca, the wealth tax and the two counter-measures that billioniares bought.

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          I am bummed that the billionaire tax failed in CA.

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          Ah. I did not go that far. My b

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      They don’t call it the Left Coast just for geographic reasons.

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      Question for ya. Why do you moan when you wipe your ass?

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