Tech tycoon Elon Musk joined a call between US President-elect Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the day after the presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

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    Remember when they used to try to keep corruption somewhat hidden and deniable? Now the richest man in the world is just going to be walking around the White House, tugging the government’s leash on full display.

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    God, I feel for Zelensky… Imagine fighting for your existence against Russia and having to talk to these morons for help.

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      Remember when we had a whole impeachment hearing against Trump for withholding aid to Ukraine so he could get a political hit piece on Biden? I’m wondering how long it will take before a quid pro quo scenario pops up again. Either in Ukraine or elsewhere. So ya, we’re all feeling for Zelensky in the next few years.

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        There will be no agreements.

        trump is going to change US policy to excluding all intelligence and military support and will “leak” all known military intel to putin.

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      Zelensky probably spent the whole call wondering if it would be faster to just hand deliver everything they talked about directly to Putin.

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      He’s going to be on the cabinet while getting billions in government contracts. The richest man in the world just got a job where he gets to to shovel more government money to himself. And that’s what Trump calls ‘draining the swamp’ and ‘sticking it to the elites’.

      And somehow, instead of democrats calling that out, they decided to find their own elites to trot out.

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    Musk’s whole “slash government spending” schtick is such a farce. Tesla wouldn’t have domestic manufacturing facilities without a DOE loan. SpaceX survives off of government contracts.

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      Maybe Germany France Italy Spain Sweden Finland Poland … and the UK could step up?

      I mean let me dream a little.

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        Germany, LMAO. Didn’t they have their lips around putin’s pipe that got blown up?

        I bet the “russia is a trade partner” shtick will come back real soon.

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    5 days ago

    A scammer gets reeled into a phone call between a president and a mobster wannabe.

    Great timeline