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.
  • KulunkelBoom@lemmus.orgEnglish
    7·
    16 hours ago

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

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
    48·
    24 hours ago

    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.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      1 day ago

      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…

  • mHtt@lemmy.ca
    1371·
    2 days ago

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

    • smeenz@lemmy.nz
      10·
      1 day ago

      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

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 day ago

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

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 day ago

      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.

  • atrizzy@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    14 hours ago

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

    Still scandalous as he’ll, but worth mentioning.

      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 days ago

        You’d have to find them first and then probably touch them. Who among us has the time and gastrointestinal fortitude to accomplish such a feat?

              • Bluedragon012@lemmy.world
                1·
                14 hours ago

                That’s cute,

                First you restrain him,

                Then,

                Feed him street spice, they type that makes you tense and extra sensative.

                Next

                Using an acid, desolve the surface layer of scrotum skin.

                Then, using another cup, a mix of lemon and lime juice, alcohol, ghost pepper, and most important, the suicide plant leaf from Australia, oh and pineapple, for good measure, immerse the already upset balls into this mixture.

                Spill some onto the penis for good measure.

                Next, hook him up with an IV, give him morphine, why?

                To make him beg.

                Then unleash bullet ant venom in his veins, tricking him into believing it’s morphine.

                All the while, have a live stream of the destruction of how businesses.

                Also make the room uncomfortably hot.

                And for fun, waterboard him while he cries out on pain.

                Then make him watch the slaughter of his parents, spilling the blood over his open wounds.

                Tell him, if he survives this, he can have jail cell.

                Then as he is released from the restraints, make him get stung by blue ring octopus and break all his limbs.

                Make sure you do this while he is alive.

                Stuff his corpse into a radioactive cannister and toss him into thar deep hole in Russia. Or make new deep hole to toss him into.