Twitter, owned by Musk, fought for months for the right to tell Trump about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for his account.

Twitter, owned by Musk, fought for months for the right to tell Trump about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for his account.

  • athos77@kbin.social
    1041·
    11 months ago

    I’ve said this before, but Musk just never grew beyond adolescence. [Tesla models S3XY! 42069 amirite! Ligma! Tesla fart noises! hahahahaha!] Which is a real problem because he was raised as a socially-ignorant rich white boy in full-apartheid South Africa.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      66·
      11 months ago

      The main reason is destroying evidence. This is a guy that would literally eat memos and flush paperwork down the toilet while in the white house.

      • athos77@kbin.social
        24·
        11 months ago

        You forgot that they (Trump’s people, maybe Trump himself) repeatedly burnt government documents in the White House fireplaces.

        • chaos@lemmy.world
          6·
          11 months ago

          White House fireplaces

          One of my favorite West Wing episodes

          Mr. President, you know how you told me not to wake you unless the building is on fire?

          • athos77@kbin.social
            2·
            11 months ago

            [White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told White House staffers to keep some Oval Office meetings “close hold” during the transition period, potentially leaving meetings off the books […]. [Mark Meadows’ aide Cassidy] Hutchinson also testified that there “were certain things that had potentially been left off” the Oval Office diary. […] Additionally, she told the committee that she saw Meadows burn documents in his office fireplace around a dozen times – about once or twice a week – between December 2020 and mid-January 2021.

            Source

        • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
          17·
          11 months ago

          I and at least literally ‘ones’ of others figured he’d be off to Russia or more likely Saudi Arabia as soon as he left office because he was scared shitless of being thrown in jail.

          Now, naturally I’m a bit pissed he hasn’t been held, at least on the Jan 6th charges, if not the damn espionage act indictment. “Two-tiered” justice, indeed.

        • Hubi@feddit.de
          14·
          11 months ago

          I had always hoped that Trump would try to escape to Russia. It would’ve been the icing on the shit cake.

    • hogunner@lemmy.world
      25·
      11 months ago

      I’ve been convinced for a while now that if Trump felt he was actually headed to jail his last desperate act would be to try to flee to North Korea to hide behind his crazy bestie Kim (who would absolutely love the drama of having an ex-POTUS as his puppet to parade around and try to shame the US with).

      • Godric@lemmy.world
        22·
        11 months ago

        Nah, he’d go for Russia. Not enough diet Coke or well done-steaks with ketchup for Donnie in NK.

        • hogunner@lemmy.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          I don’t doubt that Trump would want to go to Russia but Putin would never agree to that when he could have all the same benefits if Donnie was in NK and none of the negatives of having him in Russia. Kim is crazy enough that he wouldn’t care and would enjoy all the extra scrutiny and attention.

          • QHC@lemmy.world
            54·
            11 months ago

            Kim isn’t crazy. He was raised from birth believing he is the divine ruler of a people and received a modern education. He is acting in the best interests of the state he leads. It just happens that most of us on this platform likely live in a part of the world where those interests don’t make sense or are hard to see or just don’t seem important. But that’s an “us” problem.

            His public persona in the West is a combination of propaganda from multiple angles, much like we see around Russia and China, too.

            I’m not saying that he is a good leader or has the health of North Koreans in mind, but be aware that not everything you hear about living in North Korea is necessarily accurate (and not necessarily due to outside actors, either).

            • BCsven@lemmy.ca
              2·
              11 months ago

              Anyone believing they are a divine ruler has delusions, and can’t operate in anyones best interest as he believes he has no peers

      • QHC@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        How long would Trump actually survive if he lived in North Korea? Do they have McDonalds and Diet Coke?

    • QHC@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      I wonder why the prosecution team thought that was a “mistake”, or if it was intentionally included and then retracted? Maybe it’s standard language?

      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
        9·
        11 months ago

        Not a lawyer but lawyers write draft arguments and then choose the ones they think are the best. It’s possible they put the flight risk argument in a draft but ultimately decided to remove it, but then sent it out before actually removing it.

      • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee
        5·
        11 months ago

        The “standard language” thing sounds right to me. A lot of court filings templates and attorneys just plug in the facts for their particular submission.

        Which unfortunately reminds me of Mad Libs, and now this is all getting pretty absurd in my head

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        I think being under constant secret service protection would make it hard to flee the country. They’d have to go along with it.

        • QHC@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          Is that mandatory? Pretty sure it’s a service offered to former Presidents, but Trump could probably just say no.

          He hasn’t (and probably won’t) do that because he likes feeling important, and because he ain’t paying for their services.

  • Elderos@lemmings.world
    35·
    11 months ago

    There is a lot to hate in that pic.

    Crazy how coke and aderall make these 2 morons believe they should get to decide what direction the planet spin.

    Why people worship idiots born in wealth will always be beyond me. If any of you ever suffered imposter symdrome, think of this picture in the thumbnail.

  • MisterMoo@kbin.social
    202·
    11 months ago

    Because Elon Musk is just Donald Trump with business sense. I get roasted every time I say this, but I’ve never been more sure of anything in my life.

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
      13·
      11 months ago

      Lol, Musk has had his bad ideas shot down since he tried to rename PayPal to “X”. He was just lucky enough to buy valuable companies and have capable people stop him from ruining them with his terrible ideas.

      I honestly think if you gave a random person a billion dollars and told them to buy a company to run they could do just as well as Musk

    • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      Not roasting, but don’t really agree. I mean, look at what’s left of twitter. He was never directly controlling Tesla and certainly not SpaceX, just had the money, practiced bullshit artistry, and made specific orders if it suited him.

      I can almost certainly thank him for the ability to make my car fart from my phone, but that’s about it.*

      *Disclaimer: Comment author (hereby “jerkface”) fully acknowledges jerkface has no insider experience in the Tesla product pipeline, and jerkface carries hopeful bias in that Musk has very little to do with the success of Tesla in order to assuage jerkface’s emotional guilt for loving the absolute shit out of jerkface’s Model 3 Performance because it’s awesome.

      Edit-crap, no superscript with ^ I guess.