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          They would have to commit more brutality than is already committed in the US every year to get people to stop celebrating this shit. It would literally be a year long, mass celebration that the world hasn’t seen since at least the COVID vaccines were finalized.

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    The grift!

    He paid for government access to shutdown all the regulators that were looking into his fraud. Quid pro quo classic corruption out in the open. He should already been in prison.

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      He’s a flight risk.
      Arresting him then chopping his arms and legs off would be a good way to stop him making a run for it!! (If he’s not guilty then give him back his appendages)

      Another alternative is my patented “feet first woodchipper slow dunk.” I can’t explain the basics about this option because I get too excited…

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      Wait to you learn that Tesla was never profitable because the reality was the majority of their profits were based on financial instruments like carbon credits. It was always a pump and dump scam.

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        Let’s keep it simple and sweet, everything musk does is a grift.

        He finds smart people so sometimes things get built by accident, but he’s ultimately just a grifter

        Like his flying car business… Instead of building a giant quad and making a real flying “car” (as many have done), he spent God knows how much to build an rc car that could never, ever, in any country, be allowed on the road

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    Shit… you don’t know the half of it. Trump has probably laundered a trillion dollars through this crapbag in the past two years.

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    That’s how he paid for that stupid car.

    You notice how the windows are all dark. Even the front ?

    That car had no seats or anything inside. Just the jet engines machinery. what a joke.

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      Not like it matters. That thing is a bomb on wheels. Even if that big rc car could still flip with a floppy human charging the center of gravity, you’d have to have a death wish to get inside that thing while it’s moving, let alone jumping

      200lbs of highly compressed air right behind the passengers… If it popped, it would be like the Titan submersible, except after it turns you into red mist it would also release shrapnel

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        I saw some video years ago about why hover cars are incapable of stopping. Which means they are pointless as a means for transportation, for the most part.

        When something is in the air, there is little you can do to put on the brakes.

        Even a jet has to land first, then brake the wheels.

        It’s just like a boat being in the water but worse.

        There is no way to quickly maneuver nor stop.

        The bigger it is, the worse this problem becomes.

        Also unlike a boat which still has some semblence of a plane to balance on. Something in the air can rotate 360° in every axis.

        Meaning it’s very easy for it to flip over.

        Unlike a wave making a boat rise a bit or tip a little to the side, a big gust of wind could flip a hover car over.

        The only way to fully resolve that problem would be multiple propulsion jets on every side.

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          If only there was a way to have 4 or more sources of thrust to balance, giving you full control over your orientation…

          I’m calling it the tetracopter. It’s my idea, no one steal it

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            But would such a thing work on a larger heavy vehicle holding weight that shifts around inside ?

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              By using multiple redundant gyroscopes and a chip to adjust the thrust to each propeller hundreds of times a second. I hear the wimote has cheap accelerometers that can work, but once it catches on I’m sure people will make specialized boards for this

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    The truly disgusting thing about this is $16 million is literal pocket change for this guy. It’s a rounding error. He did it because it’s his nature.

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        Yeah, knew that when I was typing it out. Even more sick that he probably wouldn’t notice $16 billion. Guy is an absolute crook and charlatan.

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      If you get caught stealing $16, then you have a problem.

      If you get caught stealing $16 billion, then the people who caught you have a problem

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    That old Bob Dylan line…“Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you King”.

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    On one hand, that’s $16 billion in contracts so not directly into his pockets.

    On the other, that’s one line item he’s acquired from the federal government over the last decade or so of intensively working contracts for the government.

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      He openly had communications with dignataries and leaders of other countries about how the U.S. should be changed and tried to enact such while not having permission to do so. It’s hard to not find this illegally immigrated now American guilty of several crimes. If he was worth 32 million he’d be in prison and possibly sentenced to death for treason.