• Yeldarb12@toast.ooo
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    7 hours ago

    I think this is hilarious. I wonder if they have some kind of agreement that trump can’t just back out of. Maybe it was a handshake deal and he’s just now getting annoying enough?

    • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 hours ago

      It isn’t really an ‘agreement’, it is power. Money is power, and that makes Musk extremely powerful. He has shown that he can literally buy congress - either directly, or by threatening to back challengers. And while trump has the title of President, he doesn’t have the power: it has been shown that trump backing a person just isn’t enough to get them elected any more, unlike Musk’s money backing a person.

      • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.it
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        4 hours ago

        But people actually stormed Capitol Hill and went to jail for Trump, not Musk. I don’t see any backwater dispossessed citizen taking part in a coup for Temu Tony Stark.