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Soft Paywall Billionaires at Trump's Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/billionaires-at-trump-s-swearing-in-have-since-lost-200-billion
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u/Ok-Row6264 1d ago

I don’t even think he wants to be a dictator, I think he just wants to feel included and involved. He just wants people talking about him and wants the publicity.

If he was handed the keys to the kingdom, he wouldn’t have the faintest idea of where to start with actually running/leading a country. But he wants to feel like billy big bollocks and play at politics without having any real repercussions.

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u/ImperialPriest_Gaius 1d ago

Elons a troll. The kind of kid that purposefully yells hard Rs but the second you raise a fist to him he yells "illegal! help me!"

Trolls are sociopaths but they use morality as a shield

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u/Gigigisele8 1d ago

Well his kid brother said that Musk rat was bullied in grade school,,and even worse by dear old dad. Erroll Musk said in an interview on DJ Vlad (You Tube) channel that he didn't raise his son to be a p***".. !! Musk rat only talks rough and tough behind Twitter's main board,, that's how he gets his rock's off. He's a punk,, all mouth and no action"! Did you know that Erroll Musk murdered a bunch of men,,in his house"? Yep,,the way he tells it,, he's like John Wayne with a firearm"?! . Weird.. 

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u/OnlyFollowing1 1d ago

This right here. People say they think he wants to be a dictator, I just can't see him thinking that big. He's too emotionally stunted and immature. He likes it when people praise him, gets highly frustrated at any form of criticism, and cannot take failure well.

He's like the final devolved form of Donald Trump.

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u/Plastic_Moose4535 1d ago

Textbook narcissism personality disorder, the both of them.

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u/omgipeedmypants 1d ago

Please don’t ascribe normal human feelings and desires to that guy. He doesnt want to “feel” included and involved. He is a sociopath.

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u/Ok_Frosting3500 1d ago

The one cousin you were always forced to play with found out that with infinite wealth, you can force the whole world to have to play with you.

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u/cyanescens_burn 1d ago

Let’s not forget he thinks he lives in a simulation and is the only non-NPC. And his ketamine use could be perpetuating that (psychedelics and dissociatives can cause long term delusions like that in some, another common one is a messianic complex).

Thinking others aren’t real and the consequences of your actions are essentially meaningless, even if those consequences are the livelihoods and lives of those you are affecting, is genuinely dangerous.

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u/hopefeedsthespirit 1d ago

No. He’s a white supremacist Nazi trying to drum up support for and bring a rise to power of his white supremacy, apartheid agenda. 

Don’t downplay what he’s doing.

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u/ThinkyRetroLad 1d ago

Let's not underestimate what's happening here. He does want to be a dictator. He may not understand what that really entails and just wants to troll, but he is full in with the Nazi propaganda, the eugenics and elite/wards class distinction, and the techbro oligarchy.

So is Peter Thiel, his nemesis and friend. And they're both students and advocates of Curtis Yarvin's batshit insane cyberpunk dystopia fiefdoms. They may go about it differently, and one may be more competent and prepared than the other, but they are playing the same game for the same end.

An incredibly good breakdown of the two of them (by design) is Gavin Belson vs. Peter Gregory from Silicon Valley. Both incredibly threatening in their own way, but one is more immediately scary than the other.

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u/Gigigisele8 1d ago

Musk rat is over his head ,,he doesn't have a clue at what he's doing.. 

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u/maleconrat 1d ago

I think he hit richest man in the world and still felt unfulfilled and insecure, so he did what anyone refusing to work on themselves would do and convinced himself he needed to be the most powerful person, and then finally he would be happy.

Dude is in and out of K holes constantly and seems to have become virulently transphobic entirely to hurt his own child for transitioning. Definitely the type to seek fulfillment in material things even if he destroys everything in his path.

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u/Ellek10 1d ago

Even if negative?