RNC was 'searing reminder' that Trump has 'obvious mental deficits': former Republican

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Re: RNC was 'searing reminder' that Trump has 'obvious mental deficits': former Republican

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"Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America." - Elon Musk

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I guess not too old for a $45 million-dollar-a-month allowance.
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Kishkumen wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:03 pm
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 7:01 pm
"Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America." - Elon Musk

- Doc
I guess not too old for a $45 million-dollar-a-month allowance.
It'll be fun to see if Trump's (and MAGA) anti-EV rhetoric stays the same. I'm guessing that Trump's little statement that "we have to make life good" for Musk is a preview. Because being the richest person in the world apparently doesn't make for a good life, without extra welfare from Uncle Sam.
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Doctor Steuss wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:06 pm
Kishkumen wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:03 pm
I guess not too old for a $45 million-dollar-a-month allowance.
It'll be fun to see if Trump's (and MAGA) anti-EV rhetoric stays the same. I'm guessing that Trump's little statement that "we have to make life good" for Musk is a preview. Because being the richest person in the world apparently doesn't make for a good life, without extra welfare from Uncle Sam.
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Doctor Steuss wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:06 pm
It'll be fun to see if Trump's (and MAGA) anti-EV rhetoric stays the same. I'm guessing that Trump's little statement that "we have to make life good" for Musk is a preview. Because being the richest person in the world apparently doesn't make for a good life, without extra welfare from Uncle Sam.
Does anyone fail to see the insanity of the idea that good governance somehow includes subsidizing the wealthiest of the wealthy, and helping them to become even wealthier and more powerful? Unlimited welfare and tax cuts for the already rich and powerful, and little or none for those who actually need a hand up? Isn't this the antithesis of what Christ taught? Yet these far-right Republicans and MAGA types claim to be devout Christians! Absolute BS!!
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Doctor Steuss wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:06 pm
It'll be fun to see if Trump's (and MAGA) anti-EV rhetoric stays the same. I'm guessing that Trump's little statement that "we have to make life good" for Musk is a preview. Because being the richest person in the world apparently doesn't make for a good life, without extra welfare from Uncle Sam.
Most societies reward the wealthy with extra advantages, even though they are the least in need. It is mysterious why this should be the case.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
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Doctor Steuss wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:06 pm
Kishkumen wrote:
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:03 pm


I guess not too old for a $45 million-dollar-a-month allowance.
It'll be fun to see if Trump's (and MAGA) anti-EV rhetoric stays the same. I'm guessing that Trump's little statement that "we have to make life good" for Musk is a preview. Because being the richest person in the world apparently doesn't make for a good life, without extra welfare from Uncle Sam.
And now we're hearing Musk back off of his 45 mil promise. Sup with clowns, can't be surprised when you get a circus.
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Gunnar wrote:
Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:41 am
Does anyone fail to see the insanity of the idea that good governance somehow includes subsidizing the wealthiest of the wealthy, and helping them to become even wealthier and more powerful? Unlimited welfare and tax cuts for the already rich and powerful, and little or none for those who actually need a hand up? Isn't this the antithesis of what Christ taught? Yet these far-right Republicans and MAGA types claim to be devout Christians! Absolute BS!!
You know, when I was young, the wealthy were not worshipped like the are today. They had a reputation for being miserly and cruel. We had a much healthier view of people accumulating more than they needed. Then self-help gurus came along and told us those attitudes were preventing us from becoming rich. No, actually, those attitudes helped us keep money in perspective.

We need to reclaim those attitudes and quit admiring people for being hoarders. It's insane.
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Xenophon wrote:
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And now we're hearing Musk back off of his 45 mil promise. Sup with clowns, can't be surprised when you get a circus.
Musk is a clown. Glad he is backing out, though. I am sure Li'l Donny will have other willing billionaire caricatures willing to donate lots of money to the cause.

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And now we're hearing Musk back off of his 45 mil promise
Are you sure about that? Seemed to be click bait -- he said he wasn't supporting a cult of personality. He's supporting the Republican party in general, not Trump. more of a clarification.
We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have. They get rid of some of the people who have been there for 25 years and they work great and then you throw them out and they're replaced by criminals.
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Gadianton wrote:
Wed Jul 24, 2024 2:27 pm
And now we're hearing Musk back off of his 45 mil promise
Are you sure about that? Seemed to be click bait -- he said he wasn't supporting a cult of personality. He's supporting the Republican party in general, not Trump. more of a clarification.
Highly possible I'm reading it wrong. It just seems with the timing of the Tesla earnings report Musk was aiming for his usual "over promise under deliver".
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