“I’m no puppet! You’re the puppet!”
Translation: “give me enough money and I’ll promote whatever you want.”
Most presidents at least pretended they couldn’t be bought.
Little quid, little pro, lots of quo.
Dude’s made a living selling his stupid face every opportunity he can to get attention, why would he let a little thing like presidential integrity get in the way? It certainly didn’t when he was actually president!
Nah. Imo, this is him telling oil company that they need to step up and fully fund his requests for money “or else”. Didn’t he recently ask the oil industry for an insane amount of money at the beginning of his campaign or something?
That’s not really contradicting what I’m saying.
No, you’re right. But I think this is specifically a message to the oil industry.
Bought and paid for politician Trump is.
Except he doesn’t sell himself to the highest buidder, he’ll sell out to any and all of them at the same time.
He on the other hand is haggling openly and then brags about it.
And his moron followers are proud of him 🙄
He’s going to “drain the swamp” and replace it with an auction house.
I thought he was draining the swamp so he could sell swamp water?
Build condos on it.
Turns out “playing 4D chess” is just MAGA politikese for “broadcasting our corruption loudly and assuming enough people are also either too corrupt, ignorant, or disaffected to do anything about it.”
I thought you were supposed to not admit to the bribe.
The argument has always been, “No, we just give to candidates who support our cause.” Of course everyone knows that’s BS, because the support always follows the cash. But then here comes this dumbass and just- up and admits to corruption.
The same Elon Musk that permanently deleted this image off the internet forever?
Imagine being so blatant on bribery.
Lol so he just said that he can’t argue with being bought. Hmm, noticed the “drain the swamp” tagline coincidentally has faded out since 2015.
God damnit, yesterday I explained to someone in another thread what Trump meant when he said he could get Elon to kneel and beg, that Trump as President could revoke EV subsidies and/or heavily influence or defund NASA such that they stop funding SpaceX.
I did not expect this goddamned moron to just actually say as much, directly, out loud, 12 hours later.
Just waiting for MAGA idiots to start buying EVs to “own the libs”. I mean, I’d rather people shift to EVs because it’s less damaging to the environment; but, a win is a win, I guess.
MAGA nut jobs: wtf, I love EVs!
OK, LGBTQ organizations, Librarians, Pro-Choice organizations, and Satanic Temple - you know what to do now. He’ll have no choice but to support you and then what will his base do? Checkmate magas!! ;)
Trump endorsed EVs for $180 million, I wonder what his rock-bottom lowest price is?
Twenty bucks?
There’s an anecdote I’ve seen a few times on the Internet about a newspaper in the 80s sending rich people checks for tiny amounts of money, like $.15, just to see who’d cash 'em. Trump was the only one who did.
5 Cheeseburgers.
hamberders
Goya beans v2.
There are no EV mandates. The article presents Trump’s statements about repealing an EV mandate that doesn’t exist without ever noting that no such mandate exists.
Without seeing video of the statements it’s hard to say how much that was Trump selling policy for donations and saying the quiet part out loud vs just making a joke. But either way, I’m pretty sure it’s based on a flawed premise because at this point I don’t think Elon gives a shit about electric cars either.
And finally, the talk about the cost of charging infrastructure is framing the issue in the stupidest way possible. How much did it cost to build infrastructure for ICE vehicles, to have gas stations all over the place and a supply chain to keep them running? A hell of lot more than it will take to add charging infrastructure, that’s for sure. But we don’t talk about that cost because no single entity paid for it all, and those that did mostly did so as an investment, which generally paid off. People will pay for public chargers. We don’t need public funds to cover everything, they just help get the investments rolling in faster.
What we do need is a rule forcing apartments to add charging of some kind to all residential parking. Even a standard wall outlet for each space would be enough to solve the majority of the charging problem.
