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You can talk about achieving smaller government while also rejecting the corrupt billionaire looting the federal government for personal gain while throwing around literal Nazi salutes

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I've heard so much about Hitler and Nazis for 10 years now. If there is an actual Nazi around, no one would care any more thanks to incessant crying wolf. Which is a shame. And it didn't win the election, so it's time to drop it.

I would agree with you if anyone else had gone in to look at the books at places like USAID and other departments before now. No one else did it, Elon is competent and if he ensures the other 99,999 of grifters are off the books that were bankrupting him, and he gains in some way that's still a huge win. It wouldn't bother me if him and Trump received some form of financial reward, if they clean up this mess for us. It has to be stopped going forward at all costs and no one else did anything for decades while the country went bankrupt.

One thing I've learned in life, never let perfect become the enemy of better. Support Trump, support Musk, even if both men are imperfect.

this would all make an inch of sense if they actually cared about what is bankrupting the country. of course they are not in any way, going after USAID is just entertainment for the gullible (won’t use worse adjectives here…) people eating this shit up. not to mention going after CFPB which costs $800m to run while bringing in $15bn in return.

if they really cared about this and were not in the entertainment business while stealing every penny they can they would start at the Department of Offense :)

I don't buy your narrative that contracts that never stop getting paid etc are not a problem, but they are going to look at the DoD as well. We'll see.

why start in places with least impact that will fuck up tens of thousands of lives (those are also all voters who come 2026 can bring all this to a crashing halt much like Trump’s previous term he angered so many people that he got crushed at midterms and then absolutely demolished in general election in 2020). if you was really after cutting government waste (he is not) you don’t start where you have absolutely least amount of impact other than fucking up A LOT of people (and many of them who voted for him). he doesn’t give two shits about government waste, he is just here to entertain you while he is doing shit behind this facade

We'll see, but we've heard so much crying of wolf from his detractors that even if they are somehow after 10 years correct finally... no one is listening. Only the ones already dead set against him. When you throw the Hitler jab at someone for 10 years and they become the President, you screwed up. I quit paying attention during the Mueller investigations, I knew that if they had something- they'd just charge him. But they never did because it was all a sham. He was growing on me and then the assassination attempts happened, where I lost the "just a rich man's son" impression I always had of him. He has true strength and character. I follow true strength and character. You can't fake his reaction. He's worthy of our support and we should stand behind him.

Basically I don't think anyone else was going to do anything better than he is. Trump is the best we have. He's definitely worthy to be our leader though, and his opposition has been proven over and over again to be absolutely pathetic. Liars, cheats, and pretty much everything they call him.

You say no one would care about a nazi... have you seen the recent German tesla sale numbers, or for the rest of europe? Just because you dont care, doesnt mean that others will turn a blind eye.

> Elon is competent

You fundamentally misunderstand reality. The other wrongs of your comment flow from that.

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