Donald Trump on Saturday said there would be “serious consequences” if tech mogul Elon Musk funds Democratic candidates to run against Republicans who vote in favor of the GOP’s sweeping budget bill.

“If he does, he’ll have to pay the consequences for that,” Trump told NBC News in a phone interview, but declined to share what those consequences would be.

“He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,” he added.

Trump also said he has no desire to repair his relationship with Musk after a feud between the two men erupted into public view earlier this week.

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    How incredibly short sighted. Parroting the dumb shit the algorithms plastered everywhere. Don’t misunderstand, it was a choice between eating a turd sandwich and accepting fascism but you decided you’re too noble to eat shit so now we’ll all live in it.

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      If you would stop eating shit for even one election cycle the Uncommitted Movement would have been able to force the Democrats to break with Israel. Democrats love Israel, and genocide, but if they knew for sure that they could never win any elections by supporting Israel they’d stop doing it.

      Presuming they actually want to win, of course.

      But because voters keep eating shit the Democrats were assured they could ignore the Uncommitted Movement and still beat Trump. And then they lost. And now elections are probably over forever and we’ll have to do something else now, so this argument is pointless.

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        If it were a normal opposition candidate I’d agree, I’m completely fed up with Dem leadership and think they should all be removed. I’ll gladly vote for third party and am planning to vote for Working Families candidates wherever possible going forward. But this was the one time it really mattered more to just have anybody but the opposition in office. This wasn’t some theoretical would be dictator, he’d already showed his true colors on Jan 6th. The time to fight Dem leadership isn’t at such a high stakes election.

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          Doesn’t matter anymore, elections are over.

          My side failed to get Democrats to stop supporting genocide, your side failed to get Democrats elected. We both lost. I blame you for assuring Democrats that they didn’t need to stop supporting genocide to win, you blame me for not being a loyal voter, but it doesn’t really matter anymore because we both lost and elections are over. Probably forever.

          It’s time to get over it and do something else.

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            I’m not going to get over it. Hundreds of thousands of people are already dying from this motherfucker’s actions, he’s announced plans to entirely remove all Palestinians forever to build fucking resorts. He’s disappearing people and arresting judges. He deployed the military against protesters.

            We knew all of this would happen. He said he’d be a dictator starting day 1 and would devote his administration to revenge against his political opponents.

            Bet you still chose not to vote against this. You actively chose this outcome. There’s blood on your hands, and you don’t get to wash it off.

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            How did this person assure democrats of anything?

            Sounds more like you just fell for the propaganda you were spoon fed and you’re still out here defending your bad decisions.

            Think critically. Listen to what the candidates themselves say and do, then make the best choice.

            You did none of this last time.