BASH: One of the concerns is that Elon Musk has billions tied up in govt contracts. You don't see a conflict of interest? CHRIS SUNUNU: Everyone has a conflict of interest BASH: But that's a pretty big one SUNUNU: He's so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence
Any more twisted and the dude would be a pretzel.
He sold his soul a long time ago.
SUNUNU: He's so rich he's removed from the potential of incarceration for MAGA crimes against the nation by SCOTUS immunity decision.
What were Joe Biden's Kamala Harris's conflict of interest? I thought everyone had them.
Well of course, the uber rich should be implicitly trusted simply because of their great wealth. Why do Americans vote for these dangerous morons?
Racism, sexism, evangelicalism.
When did the Left first start turning Elon Musk into an evil villain? Think hard. A lot rides on this.
So, what he is saying is , that Musk is too rich to be corrupted by money, and too rich to fail. And, Chris figures Musk should be a role model for other lesser billionaires to step up and cough over some coin to help a government out…know what I mean? FFS America, get. a. Grip!
Translation: As long as you are a Republican, it’s okay.
No. Not everyone has a conflict of interest. Most of us can barely afford to survive even though we are working our asses off, every single day.
I can’t imagine EM liking any regulation or oversight that would imperil his projects. For someone like him the thrill of the chase and the power it gives overcomes the diminishing marginal value of dollars at his wealth level.
A fundamental truth about rich people is they always want to be richer. The promise of getting richer is the reason elon supported trump. And trump knows this. It's probably the only thing trump fully understands: greed.
Billionaires aren’t popular lol
What a crock of 💩!
His goal is to be the world’s first trillionaire, so, yeah, he’s definitely doing it for the money.
Please start referring to billionaires as hoarders. It's more descriptive because the amount they have is never going to represent what they actually think of themselves. The whole point is they need an external locus for identity. Need. It's pathological.
I consider them akin to alcoholics; instead of seeking alcohol, they seek money and power. Like the alcoholic, some is never enough. They are attempting to fill an emotional void within their souls. All of them are deeply flawed people with flawed morals and values.
marauders, more likely
This is an excellent qualifier to add, it is important to let others know the foundation is hoarding. It's important to label it as hoarding as it highlights their weakness, not something that others may see as a strength (🤮). Marauding is a great descriptive word for the trauma they create.
Oh yes, the well known phenomenon that rich people attain enough money and then no longer care about making more money.
If true… give everyone a billion dollars.
I wonder what the number is that allows that to happen. like I have 35B, I'm good.. But, 34,999,999,999.. You Need to make more?😜
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honestly, it would be kinda nice if rich people cared about money the way regular people care about money — as safety, comfort, the ability to plan for the future — rather than the way they care about money — as an endlessly-growing high score that entitles them to rule over other people
I was told that if we taxed them properly they’d sit on their thumbs and not create any of those sweet, sweet jobs for us. I’m so confused. It sounds like they are actually absolutely in love with the thing they hoard the most and are very influenced by it.
I know a number of billionaires. It's ALWAYS about competing with each other. Forgive the crudity but money is the dick measuring stick of their universe. A few want power, but that's usually just a means to get money. Most want women (not Thiel haha!). Power and money help them with that goal, too.
I read an article a few years ago about an extremely rich family ($$$ from oil); their financial advisors instruct family members to think only about themselves and how they can get even richer. Sad. 😞
One way to get even richer, according to the article: Lie about where you live. The article was about the family firing and suing one advisor because she refused to lie …
Surely once they have a billion dollars or more they won’t be as…Oh, wait, I’m being told that’s wrong and, in fact, being absurdly rich seems to make many of them even more rapacious.
Yes that's why they're so keen on paying taxes.
Yeah, that’s how it was with me for sure!
Same. Now Im like, meh. Same as Leon!
This exactly. They are so hungry for money the more they have the more they want. It’s obscene
Fuck elon and fuck sununu for enabling him.
I was unaware NH had any contracts with Musk...
This guy is corrupt
These people are insane
He's also not a god damn engineer. He's a rich narcissist who bought companies with daddy's money and as a condition of the sale needed his name listed as a founder. That's it. He's nothing.
Must be rich. Oh wait…
Chris Sununu wants a job in the administration.
He won’t get it, so he’s an even bigger failure than Christie and Giuliani (and Romney)
Sununu sounds compermised with that comment, yes?
"He's so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence"?????? Wow!!
The more they have, the more they actually are scared to lose it.
👆🏼This also. You’d think after Tversky and Kahnenman more people would know about this.
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I remember Trump making that stupid argument, and it was like people had never heard of a wealthy person who wanted more wealth.
Like all that wealth in the first place? Just luck, alignment of planets…. Something, something. Nothing to do with being highly motivated to accrue more wealth.
And highly situated to inherit it.
What??
So corruption is OK if you are rich enough. Going to be tough for the rest of us to compete.
When it’s one of them it’s okay. When it’s say Nancy Pelosi, THEN the gloves come off! Hypocrisy 101
What a fucking clown
“The unelected bureaucrat running the country is too rich to care” isn’t exactly the argument he thinks it is…
Right. Like the billionaire wouldn’t have better things to do if he wasn’t making a killing.
All this time to play CEO for multiple companies, do drugs, shitpost, and own a president. Because he wants to be the first trillionaire edgelord. Sununu should have been laughed off at that moment and told he's never coming back with that bullshit. CNN Is just platforming propagandists spewing BS
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Well… It is CNN🤷♀️
They are staring at their own demise. Putting on propagandists spinning cartoonish cult talking points is not journalism or objective. 9 years of this shit. Corporate media is not here to save us, it's just here to make profit.
For real!
Where does this BS come from that because someone already has gazillions of dollars that they don't care about more money or power????
How does he stand without a spine?
Right. Because the ultra-rich aren't on a quest to be even richer...When was Sununu born? Has he been potty trained?
We, ahem, older folks remember his dad being a prominent grifter. time.com/archive/6718...
newrepublic.com/article/1839...
Doubt it. Can’t stand that two-faced freak.
This douchebag will regret the side of history he's chosen. What a POS.
Cultists never admit it until it’s too late.
He’s too brainwashed to ever regret it.
And too rich. Money can't buy you love, but it can buy your way out of almost any problem.
No he won't. We've heard this for 10 years now and these shitheads have been rewarded over and over for their behavior
Family from NH, it’s actually pretty stunning how easily he caved. He was riding high locally as the anti-Trump Republican, now he’s an even poorer-man’s Christie
His transformation has sure been something
Sununu is a moron, son of a moron. Of course Musk will do all he can to protect his empire. Money is power. The only intelligent thing Sununu ever did was to avoid endorsing Trump.Now he is kissing his ass.
Dana Bash “Oh. Ok.” That’s not an interview. It’s an advertisement
Chris Sununu is so full of shit, he’s removed from reality.
Unfortunately, this is the reality right now....
Why can’t they at least be honest with their answers? It’s amazing!
Jesus fucking christ. Yes because we all know that once people have a lot of money they don’t care to acquire more! Who believes this shit?
Next ?, “ so what’s the number where you are NOT rich enough to be subject to a conflict of interest?”
The “too big to fail” argument has evolved into “too big to corrupt.” A 9.6 for the mental gymnastics.
"He's so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence." What an absolutely simple-minded and obnoxious thing to say. Financial influence is the core of Musk's focus.
Power moreso I think. He’s a megalomaniac. I honestly think he has visions of world dominance.
Like Sheldon Cooper. See the similarities? I know I know, not all autistic people are megalomaniacs. But Sheldon's character didn't just appear with no research being done.
Perhaps.
Elmo is an admitted aspie. Like Sheldon.
Agreed
That’s either naïveté in the extreme or just hiding the BS because he should know better
Just like how The Stain was going to be so effective because "he was not even taking a paycheck to be President!".
Dumber than a bag of hammers. If Musk were supporting Democrats, Sununu would be screaming about conflict of interest and potential corruption. Even without the long history of corruption that Trump brings with him like Marley's chains.
He is so rich was the magat excuse last time.
He’s such a piece of shit.
He really is!
Agreed
"SUNUNU: He's so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence"-- --Either Sununu has NO understanding of human psychology, or he's just spouting this obvious absurdity for the rewards he may get from the #MumpRegime.
That response is a magat deflection. No one has the level of financial interests connected to our government combined with the ear and and influence over the incoming "president." We're not talking garden variety congressional stock violations.
Just a reminder: Musk tried to infuriate the Democratic Party but they rejected him… don’t ever tell me Ds are more corrupt than Rs.
Chris is a weasel. I thought he had integrity. I was wrong!
These fucking people 🤬
Sununu is such a putz.
Holy Phuque, and CNN gives him airtime!
“Everyone has a conflict of interest” Let’s👏stop👏right👏there👏Governor.🧐
Ignoring the fact that musk is using his influence to further enrich himself.
Bad Sununu. We peasants need more pitchforks and torches?
Sununu thinks we are all dumb asses. He has no respect for us.
🤦♀️I can’t with this dude
LOL
What bothers me the most is Dana Bash just accepting those kind of shit answers.
It's what Dana Bash does
Cuz she's a shitty journalist on a shitty network???
What he said is the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Chris Sununu is always doing verbal gymnastics trying to support the worst. All he succeeds is showing his lack of a spine.
So in other words, just look the other way
Do you think Republicans get together and laugh their asses off about all the things they say that’s absolutely ridiculous but the MAGA train will immediately glom onto as “legitimate” talking points? Or maybe it’s a drinking game? Because this is some next level lack of awareness.
a couple of years back the uk tory governments internal whatsapp conversations were leaked to the press. we were horrified to discover that they talk the same baffling nonsense in private the way they do in public.
That we are currently about to become a top to bottom kakistocracy in the U.S. government is a stunning achievement for the “greatest country in the world” (the far right’s words, not mine). But thank goodness the far left stayed home because “morals” or whatever…
Sununu is unserious with most responses to legit questions…
Wow. It’s like a board game to them.
Do they ever get tired of debasing themselves like this? I mean this is really somethin.
Again and again Tons of opinions, zero principles
Ahahaha ahahaha ahahaha Do I look like a total idjit??
Trump was supposed to be rich but he's still being lifelined by Chinese money and Elon Musk
Oh…he doesn’t need the money. Gee, I never thought of it like that. Thinks we’re stupid.
Follow up question: Is there a level in legislation that lets the American people know who are “so rich they are removed from any conflicts of interest?” Or is this just something you are bestowing on Mr. Musk for convenience?
Follow up question: Is there a level in legislation that lets the American people know who are “so rich they are removed from any conflicts of interest?” Or is this just something you are bestowing on Mr. Musk for convenience?
Only applies to the #1 richest schmuck.
im old enough to remember when sununu was a reasonable person
Ugh. So glad Sununu is out of power soon here in NH. He’s just like all the rest.
Yes he sure did an about face awhile back. I wonder where he’ll resurface power grabbing. Next presidential run I’m thinking.
Just Chris Sununu doing his typical psychobabble. 🤦♀️
I can’t seem to find his lips, they are so far up Elon’s butt.
Why is Sununu on TV? He's a small state governor of no consequence. Seriously?
Now I see why Adam said he's dumb.
True bootlickers can look past any moral obstacle to get the job done.
Oh my god! Do you even hear yourself nunu???
“His level of conflicts are so great they transcend mere impropriety”. - Chris Sununu, Associate Apologist for the Oligarchy.
You gotta wonder sometime if these people even can hear themselves.
Sununu deserves to wallow in embarrassing mediocrity for the rest of his professional life.
Wut. No such thing as too rich to be removed from potential financial influence.
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Not everyone has a conflict of interest. He's wrong.
Wow! Just wow! 😳
What the actual fuck is he talking about? #Idiots #NeverForget #FuckElon
Elon is owned by the Chinese and several other foreign governments. He is stupid and cash poor.
Just start documenting corruption, everyone. Get every one of these moments down. Right now, a lot of people think that this doesn't affect them. They have no idea how much it will in the future.
The level of denial shown by these people beggars belief
uh, so it's ok then?
It literally IS the meaning of conflict of interest. This is where we live now.
No, not everyone has conflicts of interest One: It's counter-factual Two: It's no excuse
They are telling their Maga friends that if u have enough money the laws don’t apply to you. They are creating an oligarchy
Yes man
He’s not tho bc he wields that on the other side dingus
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works. 🤦🏻♀️
Billionaires don't care about making money. Get it. Query, how did they become billionaires?
It’s all they cared about.
what a complete and utter lickspittle
SUNUNU: He's so rich he's removed from the potential financial influence No! He is not not only that he got that arse about He's so rich he is not removed from wielding potential financial influence he is up & very close so he can influence outcomes to his advantage.
The idea that rich people don’t care about money is exactly backwards. Their obsession with money and always needing more of it is central to who they are.
One weird trick!
No follow-up question of "If everyone has a conflict of interest, what's yours?"
Give me a break, Sununu!!!
Musk is on a power trip, after he bought the presidency for Trump. Hello, anyone listening, Musk is now meddeling in the upcoming German election. This should all tell us something.
As well as the UK www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Oh god. Yes. We can’t deny what this freak is up to any longer.
I mean the AfD endorsement thing was just so wildly inappropriate and extreme, I can't imagine there could be any plausible deniability left. Even other far right parties in Europe don't want to be seen as allies.
The difference between Chris Sununu and a Parrot is that eventually, the Parrot quits pecking at the Mirror.
What a bunch of absolute tripe from Sununu. Muskrat’s in it for two things; self aggrandizement and lining his pockets with more of our money.
And then Dana Bash screamed back "We're talking about OUR government being influenced, not Elon. And your Dad would be turning over in his grave for you being this willfully stupid!" That's what she did, right @cnn.com?
He is so ridiculous. Why does media keep bringing on people like him and Lindsay Graham and others that cannot call a spade a spade let alone use their intellect. Both smart guys, but always dumb takes.
Sununu: "Musk's that rich he isn't bothered about making anymore money, in actual fact he is going to donate all his wealth to the great American working class".
That’s a scary perspective
WOW! What a crock of BS that is! Sununu is just a lackey for the likes of Trump, Musk and all the other RETHUGLIKKKANS and MAGAts!
Is anyone really buying that BS?!?
Oh look, another Republican politician making the case for an American oligarchy.
Guys like leon can never be too rich. They always want more. And more. They just want to add to their hoard.
We all know what happened to Smaug in the end.
He used his gold to take over the Laketown government?
This is why I no longer subscribe to @cnn.com . No push back on the blatant hypocrisy from the right!! Like really?!?!?!? How bout Soros???
😂 he’s so rich he can’t be influenced…the rich are often so greedy that they can never be satiated.
Fuckwit Logic, Corporate Math.
Appreciate these reminders of why no longer watch cable news.🤢
Translation: “We (contradicting conservatives) make the exception for him because he supports us, says intolerant stuff like us, and has lots of money to give us! but no one else is allowed to do anything similar including George Soros, Melinda gates, Mark Cuban, and etc.”
It wasn’t too long ago the GOP was crying about potential conflict of interest as it related to the Biden’s and Ukraine. Why does Musk get a pass? Every single contract he has should be cancelled.
Their hypocrisy is simply overwhelming!
Liar, Dupe or Both?
Ah yes, the old 'the only people we can *really* trust are the mega-rich' The wealthy being made virtuous by the fact of their wealth is an overt argument for oligarchy
He's an idiot
A skilled questioner would have had him cornered in ten seconds. “What are the financial conflicts of interest that YOU are flouting?”
Yes….this
An actual JOURNALIST would have . These ppl are fascist adjacent entertainment mongers nothing more nothing less for $$$
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social enters the chat.....
How hard are you laughing?
Textbook corruption is talked away. Sununu is a clever guy who wants us to think black is white and not to believe what we see. Why? Heartbreaking really.
People like Chris Sununu are the problem. He’s nothing but a bold faced lier that CNN continues to indulge.
She was provocative, flustered him, and showed the audience he has no answer and he reveres the billionaires just like Trump. Good job, Dana!
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No, that CNN exposes as a bold-faced liar.
CNN loves to pretend this guy is some sort of mythical moderate Republican. I saw Tapper interview him once before the primaries started and he was practically begging Sununu to run for President.
No he didn’t.
Uhh... yeah he did. He literally asked him multiple times if he as considering running for president.
He pretends to be different from his Daddy (SuNUKEnu), but he's every bit as slimy.
Ah yes. Dragons all eventually have an upper limit in the amount of gold they wish to hide away in their mountain, after which point they become pure effective altruists.
Not the brightest of the dim Sununu clan. Too bad Bash didn’t ask why CS bids no profit on his Govt contracts
This guy is an idiot
With Elon Musk it’s not money that he wants, it’s the POWER that comes with money.
wtf? he’s too rich to care about money?
What kind of an idiot is Sununu?
An expert idiot! Very useful one at that!
Are all GQP on crack.
Good lord. The one thing about people who accrue billions of dollars is that, like Monty Burns, they'd trade it all for just a little more. The accumulation is the point, and the person who accrues the most of it 'wins'. Elon's running the board right now and not gonna fold.
And yes, I know I mixed a metaphor. I honestly don't know what running a board means exactly, but as a poor, that's the one luxury I allow myself.
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I disagree some. Bill Gates, for instance, is not a threat to democracy
He’s literally doing it to protect his wealth, because VP Harris was going to take away their cash cow: unrealized gains.
Also, Elmo is the target of many investigations.
Could he be any more ridiculous when he's talking about a man who just BOUGHT an election? Clearly that man understands the power of money and is happy to suck up our tax dollars to go to Mars all while recommending cutting American's healthcare and social security. No financial conflicts all...
CS: “Everyone has a conflict of interest.” Follow up: ok, so what are your conflicts of interest?
CS, perhaps: “I don’t want to talk about that.” Follow up: why not? Is that because you think conflicts of interest are bad?
Journalism 101
I guess I’m foolish for thinking the Press should… press?
We’re all foolish for thinking the Press will press 😑
None of them do!! I'm always yelling at my tv. Well I was before I turned off all news and found my sanity.
These ppl are NOT journalists.
That good ol non existent invisible follow up we get for yrs now basically a decade bc of dump
Chris, how would you describe the taste in your mouth after that fatuous statement?
Why don't people & journalists especially,call out these logical fallacies? He's proven it's a game of more, more, more (re: $, power & influence) for him on the record. Challenge this b.s.!
Every Republican Party hack will debase themselves to execute the daily messaging memo.
One of the biggest fallacies they want us to believe, is that these billionaires would not engage in corruption because they don't need any more money. Even Musk is too poor to control all he will attempt to control.
This is the GOP making these frigging crazy statements. If you want to clean up inefficiencies go after the contracting process where waste is plentiful. Should be priority of both parties
Only poor people can be bribed, apparently
Narrator: No, not everyone has a conflict of interest. (But everyone in the incoming administration probably does)
And then she grabbed him, collar and belt, and threw him out the window, right? For being such an insultingly smarmy liar, right?
"Sununu" one of those families who benefited from chain migration, would you say?
Sadly, no
we can only dream
when Homer Simpson makes an argument that dumb, at least he does it honestly
Nah. She kissed his heiney & invited him back next week. As the"moderate, independent Republican " dontcha know?
Laughable on its face.
Huh?!!!
The guy who is neurotically obsessed with being rich is not interested in getting richer.
Had someone on Reddit try to mansplain this to me last month. No need to worry about turning over control of an obscene amount of money to a man obsessively addicted to accumulating obscene amounts of money. More gullible rubes have never existed.
Says a nepo baby who was handed everything he got... 🤣🤣🤣
They always need more. Pure Greed.
How many lies can one man tell? I guess the answer is blowin' in the wind.
looking at this bloviate and realizing those without spines like this guy are why we are here.
Sununu has proven again and again what a total snake he is; no morals, no principles. He should never be voted to run anything.
Chris Sununu, living so deep in the Trump closet he can see Narnia.
What? WHAT?!?!?! 🤯
And this is where Bash should have said "That makes no sense."
He’s looking for a position in trump’s administration.
The Bible warns Americans about evil doers like these guys
But not the folks spreading the gospel…
Evangelist MAGA don’t read books, including that one They learn everything they need to know from Trump and their TV preacher Then they send them checks
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Prosperity theology. Creepy thing and so very capitalist.
God wants you to have a Bentley 🙄
You got a Bentley, so God must love you. You are a Trump, God must love you. It's worth following you. etc.
My MAGA relative does. They also go to a church that teaches Christian nationalism and absolutely read the Bible and their church teaches that their one specific literal understanding of it is the only one true reading of it and everyone else is wrong.
Now that's sad.
Then starve and do without, all the while thinking he’s their savior.
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Too bad none of the fucks who always talk about the Bible have ever actually read it. Come to think of it, that applies to the Constitution too.
Or live by their tenets.
The Bible has nothing to do with this.
So did The Federalist
The Bible warned us of the Antichrist. He’s convinced millions of Christians to follow him. Trump is evil personified. He’s an idol god selling his Bible so MAGA will worship. Sadly, they will lose everything and still love him. What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul.
And they are all going to be the devils enemies.
Hell, they could just watch the past few Bond movies if it’s too heavy a read.
It mainly warns us about the rich. Who tend to be the biggest evil doers.
The US government is totally corrupt
No. The incoming administration is corrupt. Terminology.
I suppose that depends what you consider US government.
And too many people have no idea.
They're cowards at best, straight-up liars at worst. Sooo far gone mentally and morally... They're so used to accepting the smell of each other's shit that they no longer prefer clean air.
What government is not "totally corrupt"? What alternative do you propose instead of a government?
Tell that to the mandatory ethics disclosures I have to file every year
I think that is an drastic oversimplification of the situation. Please don’t throw the hard working Americans under the bus. Last time he was in Office there were a number of strong willed govt workers who became whistleblowers.
Right on
The US government is an amazing institution. It is not corrupt. There are people that are. Do not conflate the two.
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Not the "US government"...REPUBLICANS are totally corrupt.
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Another paid for sleazebag politician running to CNN to amplify their propaganda. And CNN says “thanks for coming on our show”. 🖕
Removed from political influence by being a major donor and subsequently a senior advisor to Trump? Exactly how does that work? Liar.
“The bigger vision”. Let’s explore that. “He (Musk) has so much money he is immune from financial interests”? Could a monarchy argue the same thing? Isn’t the point of democracy to actualize the collective will of the people rather than the vision of one or a few?
So glad NH gov Sununu decided not to run again.
Has he ever seen ONE goddamn movie? Read a goddamn book?
He's such a POS
I love most of your posts. You said you were on single parent duty today. Stick with it and spend this time with your kids right now. They are way more important than watching and reporting on this unserious garbage.
Translation: if you’re rich enough it’s okay to cheat and steal. Thus has it been for eternity.
When did Sununu become such a milquetoast POS?
We can just say anything and people will believe it.
Yeah, because wealthy people never do anything to expand and protect their wealth 😉
Truth!! As sure as water is dry!
Guys like him drool over muskrat.
Sununu is a POS
Did Leon tell this guy to go fuck his face?
