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cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Elon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Money

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Elon Musk Made Off With $16 Billion of Taxpayer Money

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cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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In theory, contractors are legally barred from political giving because that smacks of bribery. In practice, Musk gets a 2,200 percent return on his investment.
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    Is he gonna be slammed?

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    Shit… you don’t know the half of it. Trump has probably laundered a trillion dollars through this crapbag in the past two years.

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    We are going after the wrong immigrants.

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    No it’s the immigrants or other brown people on welfare just to survive that are the problem

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      I mean the fuckboy is an immigrant /s

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        Gaslight.
        Obstuct.
        Project. <-- You are here.

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    Other countries have executed elected leaders for far less, and he not even elected, nor a leader!

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    The grift!

    He paid for government access to shutdown all the regulators that were looking into his fraud. Quid pro quo classic corruption out in the open. He should already been in prison.

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      He’s a flight risk.
      Arresting him then chopping his arms and legs off would be a good way to stop him making a run for it!! (If he’s not guilty then give him back his appendages)

      Another alternative is my patented “feet first woodchipper slow dunk.” I can’t explain the basics about this option because I get too excited…

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      he should not be allowed to set foot in a orison, except as a comfort billionaire.

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        Show him doing his little salute on every TV in the prison, and then chuck him to the wolves

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    and in exchange hes rigging the elections. there i completed the loop for anyone still out of it…

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      Beware the trillionaire-electoral complex.

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      and in exchange he is rigging the elections again

      There, ftfy

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    i know someone who got life for less

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      If you get caught stealing $16, then you have a problem.

      If you get caught stealing $16 billion, then the people who caught you have a problem

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      Molesting children obviously.

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    That old Bob Dylan line…“Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you King”.

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    I assume this means his companies were paid 16B in contracts to the government?

    Still scandalous as he’ll, but worth mentioning.

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    Elon’s head is held to his torso by only but a neck.

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      someone needs yo make elon musk say “if you’re reading this, you’re gay.”

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        Gay is not something bad. It’s just different. (Unless you’re gay, and then it’s the same.)

        Elon, on the other hand, is just an evil, aberrant pretender to humanity in a skin suit.

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      Wait to you learn that Tesla was never profitable because the reality was the majority of their profits were based on financial instruments like carbon credits. It was always a pump and dump scam.

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