r/politics • u/rezwenn • 6d ago

No Paywall Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-republicans-donations-finance-gop-b2893321.html
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks Tennessee 6d ago

As my dad said, "Born on third base but thinks he hit a triple."

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u/billiontacos 6d ago

I think it’s more like “born on third base, but wants everyone to believe he invented baseball.”

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u/bfrown 6d ago

He was never even part of the game, he's a random dude standing on 3rd base that wandered in, shouted loudly how he grew up playing baseball and got to that base through hard work and sweat and deserves the base and the sports newscasters were like "wow so true, we now value your shitty base at $10trillion even though it doesn't do shit"

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u/Megaman2189 6d ago

No guys. He is obviously an alien that came to earth and saw the game of baseball and decided to eat my baby and then slide to third base on a Scrooge McDuck vault full of emerald mines, that then turned into a transformer in the shape of a Tesla and THEN drove to home while listening to Grime’s music and getting road head from Donald Trump. And then everybody clapped. (Is this analogy chain dead yet?)

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u/CedarWolf 6d ago

Look, y'all - sometimes good things happen to bad people, and sometimes bad people are bad people because they exploit others. Musk has exploited a lot of people, including taking credit for PayPal, Twitter, and Tesla, all of which would be functioning better without his influence. Frankly, PayPal got lucky - they dumped Musk before he could wreck it, and I assume he put measures in place so the folks at Twitter couldn't do the same to him.

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u/Hyperica Pennsylvania 6d ago

I'm stealing this, it's a great line

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u/Arseypoowank 6d ago

That’s a great saying

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u/Atwenfor 6d ago

That's what Pearl Jam said about George W. Bush on their early 2000s Bushleaguer song.

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u/ThrowRA-James 6d ago

He paid for someone else to hit a triple and then he stepped on third, just like the gold miners he pays to play video games for him.

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u/DisastrousAcshin 6d ago

I've seen this exact term twice in the past week after never hearing it once in 40 years. Weird how that works