• Hildegarde
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    7 days ago

    In what way would that benefit trump? Also the president can’t unilaterally authorize bailout checks through executive order, that would have to go through congress which is unlikely.

    elon is valuable at the moment because he’s rich, when that’s no longer the case, trump will have no use in tolerating him any longer. elon will be discarded. trump isn’t exactly loyal to those around him.

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      7 days ago

      Under normal administrations I would agree with you. But we are in end-times fascism bullshit.

      Elon literally has his hands on the very department that prints government checks. He can, without any approval, write a check to himself.

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        sure, but why would trump, now that he has the same access being the head of the federal government, use that access altruistically to help someone who is no longer useful to him? that’s not really his character.

        if it were as simple as writing a check using the access, why wouldn’t trump write checks for himself instead?