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[–] Hubi@lemmy.world 149 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] carlytm@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago

This photo doesn't even look real lol, Elon looks like he's photoshopped in

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CheesyGordita@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s real, July 12 2022 on truth social. I would post the link but I don’t want to give that site more traffic. Here’s a screenshot.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/60a63705-bba8-42ab-8239-3c59acd86ed0.png

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Thanks! And holy cow!

[–] huginn@feddit.it 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post the link to the archive.org mirror obvi

[–] CheesyGordita@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Good call, didn’t cross my mind for some reason. Will do that in the future, thanks!

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy fuck he really wants people to suck umm up to him. What is it, he really needs to feel powerfull?

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Lmao I wonder how he reacted to seeing this.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He's trying to have Elon Musk endorse him instead of Kennedy because he knows he needs every single billionaire bootlicking and/or conspiracy theorist voter he can get.

He knows Musk is still pissed at Biden for snubbing him.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump said he would ban ev sales so idk

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump says whatever he feels that at the moment would get a positive reaction from the audience at the time with zero regards to consistency or truth.

At the moment of saying that, he wanted to gain Musk's support.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Musk is pretty much fucking Tesla into failure at this point, so he’d just have a convenient excuse for its fairies if the sentient cowlick banned EVs.

Edit: that was supposed to be failure, is it just me, or it’s autocorrect getting worse?

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a convenient excuse for its fairies

No, no... Tesla's have gremlins, not fairies

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

They warned you not to charge them after dark.

[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, architect is betting much worse

[–] jerryh100@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

He just licenses an engine from GM, then put that into the Teslas. Maybe even rename the company to Otto.

[–] urquell@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jerryh100@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

3 wks ago: Trump ‘offered to block electric car rollout’ as he asked oil bosses for $1bn (Telegraph) https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-says-hell-stop-144231560.html

2 mos ago: Trump amps up attacks on electric vehicles, a major Biden priority (The Hill) https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4544902-trump-biden-electric-vehicles-attacks-2024-election/amp/

[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, I really wanna hear musks opinion on this…..

Because trump has promised to kill electric vehicle sales……so like, musk is going to support that?

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Trump would probably just say he only meant Chinese electric cars or something.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago

No, it just means that Elon gets a big government paycheck due to the government forcing him to close his 10 Trillion dollar business (Trump math)

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

He's made several statements that Tesla is a AI company. So after the mocking he got for the Cybertruck he maybe he want to pivot Tesla into... I dunno making Grok sound like more of a smug douchebag or something? I mean it's fairly common knowledge that he's on a lot of drugs, so who knows what he's thinking?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago

2Clowns1Office

[–] readbeanicecream@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How in the hell do I get off this timeline? Can someone find Prof. Maximilian Arturo and Quinn Mallory please?!

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Hey, maybe the next leap will be the leap home?

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't leave until we fix this one. Quantum Leap rules.

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've been rewatching quantum leap lately and it has me wondering what would happen if Sam failed to save the day. His missions were time sensitive, so once a given event would have passed without Sam fixing it, would he have been stuck in that place and time forever?

If so, would his lifespan be his age/body or that of the person he leaped into?

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 25 points 1 year ago

I think we can all agree that what the world really needs right now is more utter fuckwits in charge of everything.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

seems like that dystopia ain't done fleshing itself out just yet

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was his advisor in the first term. But he did quit, I guess the orange fuck was too much even for this asshole.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not that, it's more that two raging narcissists can't occupy the same space at the same time.

You end up with a kind of NPD supercriticality.

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Two body problem.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 year ago

I would resubscribe to netflix to watch a show where the two of them try to solve problems together.

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Once he lets these shit bags in it will take a revolution to get them out. Remember that when you go vote. With Democrats we can kick them out because they’re weak shit bags. But the rule now is to never allow republicans back in the room ever again. Let their cults die.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

He's just trying to grow his base. I think if you were looking to Musk for your guiding light on voting, you were probably already voting Trump.

[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Just what we need, more billionaires in charge.

[–] snownyte@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, he's already been working around the clock to make an even more scummier administration. I think he even wanted Vince McMahon involved too. Just more cushy jobs for people he finds friend in, through his fractured world perspective.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Vice President McMahon adds new context to his ring entrance

Fun fact: If the government would at least at minimum do something as mundane as locking up the rapists, we wouldn't have to talk about Trump-McMahon 2024.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

headline legit made me do a spit take. wtf.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you ever needed more evidence that Mush is dumber than shit, here it is. After Trump's constant backstabbing of his allies, one of the richest men in the world immediately scrabbles up to lick the boot. Surely it will work out this time!

Honestly if a Trump presidency did happen, I have no idea where this will stand.

https://qz.com/donald-trump-evs-electric-car-sales-1851504052

But it'll probably be on the BUILD THAT WALL level of promise.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I'm already against Trump, you don't have to insist.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is this why musk seems to have put on a few pounds?

[–] meleethecat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Quid pro quo, of course.