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5 Jan
7:23pm, 5 Jan 2025
18,292 posts
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jdawayinamanger
Maybe now Farage is calling out Musk's idiocy, Starmer will be prepared to do so?
I'm not holding my breath.
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5 Jan
8:12pm, 5 Jan 2025
46,831 posts
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SPR
Musk basically saying Farage isn't extreme enough. I presume the right leader is Tommy Robinson?
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5 Jan
8:33pm, 5 Jan 2025
7,156 posts
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paulcook
I might be wrong, but I'm fairly confident Robinson, sorry Yaxley-Lennon, is disqualified as standing as an MP not once but for two different reasons.
Then again Musk is likely an unelected political US heavyweight now, so he'll just expect Reform to operate the same way.
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6 Jan
8:14am, 6 Jan 2025
452 posts
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deslauriers
Possibly Musk will start to champion Rupert Lowe. Amongst that circle of people, he is seen as "outstanding" (comment I saw on Reddit).
When Musk called the guy who planned the rescue of the kids trapped in the caves in Thailand a "pedo", just because his stupid submarine plan was rejected, the veil fell.
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6 Jan
9:29am, 6 Jan 2025
18,295 posts
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jdawayinamanger
Yes anyone still making excuses for him beyond that point was a poor judge of character IMO.
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6 Jan
9:30am, 6 Jan 2025
7,157 posts
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paulcook
Errol Musk, seriously (?!), already touting Rupert Lowe.
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6 Jan
9:41am, 6 Jan 2025
18,296 posts
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jdawayinamanger
Musk now calling for violent overthrow of the tyrannical govt of….the UK.
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6 Jan
9:41am, 6 Jan 2025
22,549 posts
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Chrisull
Doesn't matter - Farage is the one with traction as a personality in UK politics.
When Tice led Reform, they were going nowhere. I know Musk thinks he can throw money at everything and it works out, but he's drunk on his lucky success in the US and is learning the wrong lessons. He will come unstuck, only trouble is that his billions shield him from misfortune and stupidity in a way that even Trump could only dream of.
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6 Jan
9:49am, 6 Jan 2025
7,158 posts
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paulcook
Don't think it's about his billions shielding him, moreso trying to increase those billions. He doesn't care about any other nuance.
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6 Jan
9:55am, 6 Jan 2025
22,550 posts
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Chrisull
Anyone else would have crashed and burned by now. He's shed millions of followers on X/Twitter, he single-handedly lost most of the major advertisers, he's made the platform borderline unusable, he tanked Tesla's stock price and made them toxic in Europe (although since the election their stock price is now soaring). He was ousted previously from Paypal for such behaviour - when he wasn't as rich, even his own AI thinks he's nazi adjacent (we asked it yesterday). His money has made him untouchable.
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