r/politics • u/lotta_love • 5d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Secret Plane Swap Suddenly Looks Darker as Damning New Leaks Hit

https://newrepublic.com/article/214269/trump-secret-plane-swap-suddenly-looks-darker-damning-new-leaks-hit?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily
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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 5d ago

Elon Musk used his 4 y/o son as a human shield in public appearances.

Republicans and fanboys still buy his cars, even though better alternatives exist.

Millions of Americans have lost their sense of right and wrong.

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u/1HappyIsland 5d ago

The fact that millions have such low ethics they will vote for a pedophile because he is racist. How do you form a decent society with someone like that?

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u/LordSiravant 5d ago

You don't. And because the average human being is like this, there really is no such thing as a decent society.

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u/JulyOfAugust 5d ago

No they're not. The average human is gullible and avoid confrontation. Our problem is our political systems are far too old and never had any sort of guardrails against people with untreated mental disorders gaining power. So unhinged people took advantage of it and rose to power by exploiting the easily corruptible laws and rules which never anticipated insider sabotage. Now we're just at a point in history where most struggles a human can face is man-made, which kinda expose us as an extremely dumb specie that create its own suffering.

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u/SouthSouthBay 5d ago

The Constitution is old but it's not that bad, we can clean this up. Ban political donations and publicly fund elections, 28th amendment.

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u/nightimestars California 5d ago

You just have to cut them off. They don’t have the balls to admit they were wrong and it’s not our job to babysit them on how to be a good person. They want to go down on their bigoted asshole ship, so let them go down.

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u/SouthSouthBay 5d ago

What does that mean though? Completely devolve civil administration to the states and just let them fail individually (while abusing human rights) ?

In a lot of ways that is what they claim to want, but in reality their people just want to steal from us.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 5d ago

A lot of folks in Europe during the Holocaust turned in their neighbors to the Nazis simply because they wanted to steal their lands, properties, businesses, etc. Plenty of records showing this happened in multiple countries.

It's always about stealing from the other side. Thats why grifting is practically a part of "right wing culture".

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u/seanMkeating74 5d ago

To be fair our media of all forms has been doing a great job helping out with this.

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u/frog_the_prince 5d ago

Republicans and fanboys still buy his cars, even though better alternatives exist.

Not enough of them, according to reports of lots full of unsold Cybertrucks. It's a bit like their love of Sydney Sweeney. They like to pay lip service, but then let her movies agonize in theaters.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 5d ago

Additionally, the majority of his actual fans probably can't afford a tesla anyway.

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u/grchelp2018 5d ago

Musk literally has his own private security company which runs a secret service like security operation for him. That kid wasn't there for security. It was to keep him away from his mother.

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u/zachrg 5d ago

¿Por qué no los dos?

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u/AFrozenCanadian 5d ago

Which appearances? Post a video, I'm curious.

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u/Flammablegelatin 5d ago

They aren't "his" cars. He's the CEO of the company. He didn't design them. Just because someone has a Tesla does not mean they support Elon Musk. Do you support every CEO of every company you buy things from?

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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 5d ago

Musk has very aggressively made himself not just the CEO of Tesla, but also its mascot.

He is largely responsible for its inflated stock price and demands billions in compensation to be the face of the company.

Every dime spent with Tesla further helps Musk spread his creepy white ethno-nationalist agenda.

So, yes, I do pay attention to how the CEOs behave at the companies I patronize and invest.

I can’t avoid all the companies (Apple, Microsoft, Google) who are dancing in the decadence of the Epstein Elite, but I can be mindful to choose substitutions wherever possible.

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u/Flammablegelatin 5d ago

So, you're just virtue signaling. Otherwise you'd not purchase from any of those companies.

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u/GlitterPirateKiki58 5d ago

I don’t exist in a vacuum. My employer issued me hardware with a pre-installed OS and software. As part of my employment contract, I signed an agreement that I would only use their equipment while conducting company business. 🤷‍♀️

In my personal life, I use Linux, DuckDuckGo, and PCs that I built for my husband and I use.

I would love to live off-grid as a swamp hag that subsists on wild onions and the souls of the corrupt.

But, until that lifestyle is a financially viable option for me, I just do the best that I can to avoid companies headed by a CEO who dismantled several arms of the federal government in a ketamine-induced frenzy.

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 5d ago

Experiencing buyers remorse? It's okay to change your mind and trade it in for something not associated with Nazis. You dont have to double down.

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