Musk has become an increasingly powerful figure within the GOP.

Summary

Democratic strategist Chai Komanduri claims Elon Musk has “taken over” MAGA and the Republican Party, likening it to how Trump originally took control of the GOP.

Musk, a former Biden supporter, shifted to Republicans over disagreements on free speech, immigration, and public health.

Now a close Trump ally, Musk has donated $75 million to pro-Trump groups and will co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency” to reduce government waste.

His rising influence in GOP politics is seen as positioning him as a potential MAGA successor.

  • adarzaEnglish
    39·
    11 days ago

    hopefully they just bitch slap each other for four years and nothing of consequence actually gets implemented.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      232·
      11 days ago

      Nah, if Musk pisses off Trump he loses hard and fast. Trump could easily get away with making it an official act to strip Musk of all his wealth and instead of turning it over to the state, turn it over to the GOP. Use the guise that it is not communist because they are turning it over to a private company, not the government and it was all done for security reasons after Musk commited treason in dealings with Putin.

      The GOP controls the house and Senate, so they wouldn’t vote for impeachment, it checks the boxes for being pro capitalism, and anti Russia. And they make buckets off of him. The penalty they set for his Treason, execution. To show they are hard on crime and believe in the death penalty.

      Doubt they would even need to fabricate any evidence, it is already there.

      • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        11 days ago

        No expropriation necessary. All hes got to do is knock out Tesla’s subsidies and SpaceX’s government contracts…maybe have the DOT and FAA take a reeaaal close look at their safety records just to put the final nail in their coffins. Trump is petty though, my bingo card say he also threatens to strip him of his citizenship and have him deported before this is all over.

        • shuzuko@midwest.socialEnglish
          17·
          11 days ago

          The day he deports musk will be the only day I ever wholeheartedly support something cheeto mussolini does.

          • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            11 days ago

            I doubt he would actually be able to do it. Even if he had a solid case, Musk has the money to drag this through the courts until long after Trump is gone. However, Im pretty sure hell make a big show of the threat when they inevitably have their falling out.

            • toddestan@lemm.ee
              4·
              11 days ago

              If Trump wanted to deport Musk, he’d just do it. It’s not like the courts have ever stopped Trump from doing whatever he wants.

              • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 days ago

                What? No, they stopped him all the time. They never hold him accountable, but they stopped all sorts of crazy shit.

            • GraniteM@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 days ago

              Trump makes it an “official act” to send the Army division of his choice to Musk’s mansion, battering ram the door down, throw him in the back of the nearest C-17, and drop him naked at the gate of Camp Lemonnier.

                • mriguy@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  11 days ago

                  Or without one. SCOTUS already ruled that Trump just has to say “official act” and there is literally nothing he can be held accountable for.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        21·
        11 days ago

        Use the TikTok ban on Xitter. There’s no judicial process or appeal, and the evidence is a state secret that they don’t have to show anyone.(TikTok is contesting the law itself right now, if they lose then it’s going to be very hard for social media to get out from under that law)

        It would be the height of irony.

        • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 days ago

          The ban is on foreign ownership of media being spread to our population. So long as the majority owner is Musk, it’s legal unless he was deported.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            51·
            11 days ago

            Oh no. People massively misunderstand this point. It doesn’t have to be a foreign owner. It has a catch all in the definition of “Controlled by a Foreign Adversary”. (link)

            © a person subject to the direction or control of a foreign person or entity described in subparagraph (A) or (B).

            And the evidence is classified. This is literally where they can point at someone and claim they are controlled by Putin or Xi and there’s nothing you can do but try to get the law declared unconstitutional again.

            Edit - because I realize the Congress page isn’t updated for some reason, if you want to find the actual law as passed, it’s Public Law 118-50. The section I reference is absolutely still in there. Even the wiki misses this crucial part of the definition.