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I think you're giving everyone too much credit.
Musk is a billionaire who controls Twitter. That's why he's around. If he takes too much limelight or outlives his usefulness he'll be gone.
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Yeah, hope so. I think they're a pair of basic swindlers but the supporting cast seems to take the authoritarian bit more seriously. Trump only ran to stay out of jail. I imagine with some of the shit they'll get up to this term, (Elon included) there will be an even more powerful motive to put the finger on the scales of the next election. Musk is Trump's conduit to monetizing billions out of Truth Social, still think it's likely there will be some sort of X / Truth / Tiktok tie up, that's going to take a while though.
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Musk is a billionaire who controls Twitter. That's why he's around. If he takes too much limelight or outlives his usefulness he'll be gone.
You'd hope so, but this may be optimistic. We're going to get unrestrained Trump now that the Republicans own congress, and he may have a lot of room for the lunatics he's gathered arond him to go fully mental. Even if he does fall out with Musk and wave him goodbye, there are more MAGA hats on Twitter than Truth Social and Musk will have their attention.
Jung
itsbruce
I think Trump will continue to use Elon as a chaos agent, floating balloons to see how much further right they can shift the Overton window, and administering the occasional slap down, all while bleeding him financially. He’s following the Putin model, and he only started defenestrating Billionaires when they crossed him politically (see Khordokovsky et al.)
No doubt he is ruthless enough to jettison Musk, but he won’t do it until he has solidified his grip on power and extracted a lot more dough from him. ETTD….