Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.
“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.
“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added.
Trump also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a feud between the two men erupted into public view earlier this week.
I think the democrats will face terrible consequences if Elon funds them.
They’ll happily take his money. That’s all they care about.
To any democrats paying attention: if you serve Elon, you don’t get my vote.
Fair enough. The money still gets got.
Money vs moral high ground. Anyone who says no to the money says no to having any say in politics. They would be considered an idiot in my book. There are 0 candidates who win elections from a moral high ground in the U.S.
Make sure there are no strings attached, take the money and make changes. The strings right now can be as simple as getting those people out of office. Anyone who thinks not taking his money would help them is an absolute idiot that SHOULD NOT ever be in charge. As they are completely incompetent and make horrible decisions. Musk is a horrible person. Not taking his money extends the fascist regime the MAGA crowd supports.
This isn’t a bowling league where you are trying to friends with the monster. This is a failing once Republic that needs saving. Take his money, get shit done. You don’t need to do anything he wants. You just need to fund your campaign.
So it was fine when he did it for Republicans?
For me not for thee
How unfitting for a prez to threaten people publicly. GOOP has no shame.
Quick! Someone explain Citizens United to Trump and how it will allow Elon to get away with this!
Someone should tell him that the best way to get back at Elon would be to start taxing billionaires.
Win win win
Sorry. Calvinball rules. Actually, donating to liberals is illegal.
Justice: weaponized
Party support: criminalized
Population: fuck yeah daddy oooh yeah this is ok fuck everyone else
By “fund” he means “rig election for”
I would have a very difficult time voting for someone who received funding from musk.
I would rather vote for someone who got spite funding by a nazi than to vote for an anti-America, nazi/terrorist. And that’s anyone supporting the current regime.
I would too, but I’d rather vote for people willing to tell them both to go fuck themselves
Vote for that person in the primary and hope he musk money person loses there.
But if they don’t, little choice after that.
Exactly, primaries are when you vote your conscience. General elections don’t benefit from anything but strategic voting.
Any Dem funded by a Nazi won’t get my vote for sure.
If a guy has a vote record of regulating industries, taxing the rich, expanding welfare, etc then he’s got my vote even if David Duke endorses him. Let’s clarify this for all the morons who think this is only effects the headlines they have to see for the next 4 years; we’re voting for legislators not personalities.
Who was it? Ro Khanna I think is already out there on socmed kissing his ass.
Why do they have to suck so goddamn much?
You got a lot of angsty democrats responding here with basically “c’mon bro, please, bro, you don’t understand, if we don’t take the money to do the Hitler, then the Republicans will do it completely for free, please, bro, be reasonable!”
Fuck that. I’m normally a pretty practical person, but if the dude who’s directly financing neo-nazism parties around the world like a one man CIA starts dumping cash into the democrats, it’s because he means to turn them into the neo neo Nazis, and they will not be getting my vote. Will the country burn? Yeah, but it’s going to do that because the democrats think fundraising is more important than having literally any principles or strong policy positions at all, regardless of whether I vote for them or not.
Exactly. American liberals have lost their fucking minds already sticking up for this guy after what he’s been doing.
And this is exactly why Trump won. Twice.
Do you have no principles? Like look what Musk has done. And you want democratic candidates in debt and aligned with him? He’s just going to continue what he started, he’s not going to do an about face.
We should be incriminating millionaires putting money into campaigns, not accepting them
Liberals will never admit that their lack of principals is a large part of why the USA is what it is right now.
Written as someone with truly no idea what the fuck they’re talking about
Taking Musk’s money and influence to make the world a better place isn’t a problem.
Letting him pick a direction for the party or make policies would be my red line.
People don’t give money without expecting something in return. And these spineless democrats will 100% let him run circles around them if he promised to keep them in office.
Those who side with nazis are no better than the nazis themselves.
There’s so much wrong with your little thought terminating sentence there.
Taking Musk’s money to get power isn’t siding with Nazis.
The level of naivety you have to have to think people give campaign donations while expecting absolutely nothing in return is just crazy man. I don’t even know where this logic line could even be coming from.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
Don’t accept money from Nazis.
The democrats are absolutely not good enough. Elon Musk is absolutely NOT GOOD ENOUGH. What an insane thing to say about a Nazi. THIS is why your country is where it is right now, not because of the people who refuse to side with nazis. It’s because of the enablers like you.
It’s because of your purity tests that we got Trump in the first place.
Voting for the lesser of two evils eventually gets you the greater evil due to apathy. Your vote feels lesser when your options are always shit vs shittier. We literally saw that happen yet democrats learned nothing. Especially when they constantly go after the shittier voting demographic
No, you guys got Trump by American liberals not doing anything of value to steer their country away from fascism for decades and then blaming literally everybody but themselves. Your do nothingness and trying to pretend it’s activism is just so tiring. Every time your democrats were in power you increased defence spending, increased US caused civilian deaths around the world, increased the US’s stranglehold on world politics, and then you try to shame people in countries that are affected by this for not liking you. It’s not a purity test from where the rest of the world stands, it’s just the fucking reality.
Your not even American?
Kindly shove your election opinions up your butt.
My principles don’t matter. Your principles don’t matter. The principles of every single voter doesn’t matter. What does matter is the principles of the President of the United States of America.
The functioning of the US government isn’t just for you. Or your principles. Your principles are never on the ballot. Don’t be selfish.
This is brain dead. We live in a representative democracy. They’re supposed to be reflections of us. Public servants that carry out our will and nothing more.
If you think the US is any kind of meaningful definition of representative democracy then you don’t know what you’re talking about and shouldn’t be taken seriously when talking about these things.
Then enlighten me, what is it? We elect people to represent us, to vote in our favor. Not to rule over us with autonomy. Like I said, they are public servants, nothing more than DMV workers but with more responsibility.
It’s a fascist oligarchy masquerading as a democracy.
You insult because your brain is dead. Take a moment. Read my comment again.
You sound like you want a dictator that rules as THEY see fit. Not for us.
Welp, that commits my mental map of the next 8 years, here comes a Musk-funded Democrat to divide all of us again for another Conservanazi win. Yippee.
Which is why I favor succession through usurpation.
so fucking do it, you won’t
I have insufficient resources.
insufficient to find some group to join?
Any successful usurpation plan requires sufficient quantities of Cadmium, Astatine-210, Tetraphosphorus, Flourine Gas, and Sulfur. I have none of those, and I doubt any will ever come into my possession.
“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.
I wonder how many times his attorneys have explained to him the concept of incriminating yourself in advance of retaliation.
He’s got away with everything so far.Why should he start caring about the law now? Legal, illegal, that’s for the poors to worry about.
Not like it really matters anymore:(
Trump can say and do whatever he wants. It’s his lawyer team to make sure he doesn’t under court oath. For example, Trump’s entire life and the amount of days he hasn’t been in jail.
I’m sorry, I will not vote for any Democrat that takes money from a fucking Nazi.
AIPAC doesn’t leave a lot of names available.
Cool, people not voting out of principle because they didn’t like the democrat enough is how the USA got here, but go ahead, keep trying that method.
At least Trump fixed all the overseas problems those people cared so much about, right?
I feel like the people not voting made it 100% clear what they were looking for. If they’re the deciding factor in who wins the election, maybe it was a massive fuck up to ignore them?
If it’s too small a group to matter, then stop focusing on them as the reason Dems lost. If they’re a major factor in the election, Dems should treat then that way.
They did make themselves clear and I respect them sticking to their principles if nothing else. I just hope it was really worth it to them if the republicans actually pull off a dictatorship like they’ve been promising. Like good job sticking it to those dems in the one election they might not ever get to rectify it.
And I hope it was worth it to them the people getting caught up in all the bullshit, such as having their lives ruined, being sent to prison for life, and dying, in the next 4 years regardless of whether they stay in power.
Again, at least the genocide they were worried about was averted, right.
We got here because Harris cared more about continuing the genocide than beating Trump. It’s Democrats’ fault for choosing to lose. He only got 49.9% of the vote, after all.
So you’d better make sure Musk doesnt make Liz Cheney the next Democratic nominee or I’ll vote PSL again, because I’ll choose to die before I vote for fascism.
Not voting for the Dems WAS voting for fascism in 2024.
Harris’s stance on Israel.was bad. You know who is much, much worse? The person assholes like you empowered by throwing away your vote. And yo7 do this all the fucking time.
If 1% of the Green Party voters in Florida in 2000 had voted for Gore, Bush would never have been President, and all the bullshit that’s resulted from that nightmare wouldn’t have happened, and the country wouldn’t have shifted to the right.
It’s never Democrats fault that they lose, it’s only the voters fault for not being loyal enough.
Democrats can never fail, they can only be failed.
How incredibly short sighted. Parroting the dumb shit the algorithms plastered everywhere. Don’t misunderstand, it was a choice between eating a turd sandwich and accepting fascism but you decided you’re too noble to eat shit so now we’ll all live in it.
If you would stop eating shit for even one election cycle the Uncommitted Movement would have been able to force the Democrats to break with Israel. Democrats love Israel, and genocide, but if they knew for sure that they could never win any elections by supporting Israel they’d stop doing it.
Presuming they actually want to win, of course.
But because voters keep eating shit the Democrats were assured they could ignore the Uncommitted Movement and still beat Trump. And then they lost. And now elections are probably over forever and we’ll have to do something else now, so this argument is pointless.
If it were a normal opposition candidate I’d agree, I’m completely fed up with Dem leadership and think they should all be removed. I’ll gladly vote for third party and am planning to vote for Working Families candidates wherever possible going forward. But this was the one time it really mattered more to just have anybody but the opposition in office. This wasn’t some theoretical would be dictator, he’d already showed his true colors on Jan 6th. The time to fight Dem leadership isn’t at such a high stakes election.
I’m in Australia so I don’t need to make sure of anything over there, but I wish you all the best.
Why are you even here?
America can’t be world police for 60 years and then be surprised when other countries have opinions
Well, yeah, the US did coup Australia’s government that one time.
What I mean is, why are you commenting on voting? You know basically nothing about it. For instance, did you know Trump only won 49.9% of the vote this time? And the Republicans are calling it a mandate!
When is one of these fucking dipshits going to have the other killed?
You’re on the wrong track, I’ve seen this particular abusive relationship before.
This is Trump saying “If I can’t have you, no one will!” and it ends with a murder/suicide…
Maybe Elon already tried to do that… Twice.
My fantasy is that Trump tries to have Elon killed/arrested but fails because he’s rich and has very good guards. So then Elon sends someone to kill Trump, which is successful. Then Elon dies from some drug complications right after. If we’re lucky, they both die after shitting their pants.
In this scenario, I would like Thiel, Yarvin, Marjorly, and the rest of the fascist gang to die in a freak aeroplane crash.
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I have discovered bodies in various stages of post mortem, from recent to rigor. Shitting of pants is not a given. And I was an EMT, not just a crazy person.
Yes, I too saw that episode of South Park.
Can they shit their pants very publicly and in the most embarrassing way possible?
There’s a lot of quick and seemingly painless deaths here!! Unacceptable.
Ok, here goes:
The overbloated satsuma sends in the gravy seals to kill him, however they only maim him leaving muskrat in excruciating pain…but alive.
For now.He escapes and goes in to exile somewhere (Moscow? Somewhere embarrassing.) but it doesn’t matter as he can’t leave his bed due to the searing pain etc etc.
muskrat realises he’s going to die a slow painful death so in turn takes a leaf out of putlers’ book and smuggles some polonium in to Fatboys big mac. Mr Chunky CheesePaint eats said poisoned big mac and starts to deteriorate nice and slowly, but painfully.
Now there are both slowly dying. They both have weeks or a few months at best to live. And even with pain meds they’ll both experience the horror of the agony, AND the knowledge that death is coming for them.
Not my finest work but the essence is that they both get taken out and endure the pain they so rightfully deserve.
Nationalize his businesses that’ll teach him
Amen, fellow MAGA! Let’s also block his ability to fund the Dems with a campaign finance reform amendment! Then, when we really have Musk on the ropes, we’ll hit him with a one-two punch, overturning citizens united and codifying the fairness doctrine into law. If he thinks he can steal the next election, he’s got another thing coming! We’ll slam him by replacing the electoral college with a ranked choice voting (or other better) system! He’ll never know what hit him!
[Me, to myself]: “God, I hope this works.”
That’s actually a pretty solid way to pose those ideas to a MAGA person
Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with it. It’s old news.
Might not be the persuasive endorsement he thinks it is.
Both of these men are so stupid, it’s a shame we reward liars, criminals and cheaters so much.
It’s insane that we’ve reached a point in the normalization of open corruption that he can now say something like that and not be immediately impeached by overwhelming majority of both parties. Even 6 years ago this alone would have never been seen as acceptable.
The consequences will be we have a Nazi party and a White Supremacist Apartheid party.
This isn’t a threat. It’s saying the quiet part out loud.
Money controls both parties. Elon Musk is just rich enough that if something slightly goes against his wishes he can fund something to support his wishes.
We’re in a super fucked up cyberpunk dystopia where the richest fight for the worst outcome
