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Richard Greenfield's avatar

Musk has, perhaps, put himself in the position of allowing Trump do to him what Putin did to many oligarchs in Russia. Knock off some big ones and the rest come to heel. Trump can totally destroy Musk through contract cancellations, subsidy cancellations, DOJ investigations and IRS audits and anyone who thinks for a second that Trump won’t do it doesn’t understand Trump.

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John Quiggin's avatar

Amusing to watch, but in the end none of it matters. The Republican base is so morally corrupt that none of this matters as long as Trump keeps bashing their domestic enemies (liberals, blacks, feminists etc). Trump said he could shoot someone dead on Fifth Avenue without consequences and he was right. It's great to see vile underlings like Musk get their comeuppance, but it's not as if shooting Ernst Rohm on the Night of the Long Knives was a step back to democracy for Germany.

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