Summary

During a meeting with House Republicans, President-elect Donald Trump publicly mocked Elon Musk, saying, “Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him,” as Musk has spent extensive time with Trump recently.

The comments were seen as an assertion of Trump’s dominance, with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell noting the uncomfortable laughter from the room.

Musk has been tapped to co-lead the new “Department of Government Efficiency” (nicknamed “DOGE”), a role critics describe as superficial.

Observers predict Trump and Musk’s alliance may sour due to their clashing egos.

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He’s fucking your wife, turd. That’s why he won’t go away.

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Oh, that would be hilarious to watch, especially if they both sick their fanbase at each other.

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Like, watching the consequences… Right?
Not the actual fucking. Right?

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No kinkshaming!

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I would sooooo love that. I would think all the fanbois of the broligarchy would not know quite what to do. They worship donvict and all of his thugs; if Elon and donvict turn on each other and get really nasty, it will be like Mommy and Daddy getting divorced! Who will they choose to live with?

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I’m not sure either Must or Trump can get it up at this point. It explains their constant need for attention and validation.

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That would be funny, but is she even at mar-a-lardo? I would think she’d be several states away, banging her tennis instructor or whatever.

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Holy hell that’s disturbing.

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45 points

That’s a bit of an exaggerated headline.

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Sounds pretty humiliating to me. Fuck both of them

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Yeah, it was a light joke.

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100%.

I agree with the assertion though. These are the two biggest egos in America, and there’s no way they get along for long.

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Yeah can we not do this again? We don’t need a news article any time Trump blinks. Like, there’s plenty of bad and crazy shit he’s doing as-is, no need to mountain all the molehills.

This is part of the reason the “90% of stuff you hear about Trump is bullshit” narrative currently being pushed by right-wing social media is working so well.

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co-lead

The department of government efficiency

This joke writes itself…

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Department Of Government Efficiency. DOGE

The name itself is a fucking joke about Elons pet Cryptocoin.

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Elon can get fucked. Doge doesn’t belong to him.

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Do only good everyday…fuck musk and trump

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The most annoying thing is that in most acronyms two letter words are usually ignored. Thusly it would be DGE but musk is a brain dead Saxon African deserving of little more than a shotgun enema, so why should I expect any ammount of intelligence.

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Look, they don’t give a damn about actually following their own philosophies so let’s drop the tired gotchas. They don’t give a flying fuck about the gotchas.

We are really letting the right wing dictate the nature of reality with bullshit takes like this.

That you need one single leader to solve it all is a conservative position. That you need many people working together is a leftist position.

When you try to hit them with this gotcha you’re actually affirming their beliefs in singular strongmen and are normalizing it for the left.

Cooperation shouldn’t be vilified. Cooperation isn’t a joke.

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Oh hey, someone with a brain! I was beginning to think non-morons on the internet were a thing of the past.

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Keep up the gotchas, just pair them with emphasis on how weak and ineffectual they are. Both are required. One is insufficient.

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Assistant TO the Government Efficiency Director

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He’s into it.

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Best case scenario for the country would be that these egomaniacs trip over themselves before they can accomplish too much harm.

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