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Obscenities were apparently hurled as Mr Bessent ridiculed Doge’s work and Mr Musk dismissed the Treasury secretary as a “Soros agent”.

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The Elon/Trump fallout saga is going to be awesome

  • Cimbazarov [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Obscenities were apparently hurled as Mr Bessent ridiculed Doge’s work and Mr Musk dismissed the Treasury secretary as a “Soros agent”.

    my-hero really needs to get new material. Calling people Soros agents only work when you’re among chuds

    • AstroStelar [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      2 days ago

      [Scott Bessent] joined Soros Fund Management (SFM) in 1991 and was a partner there throughout the 1990s, eventually becoming head of the London office. In 1992, Bessent was a leading member of the team whose bet on the Black Wednesday collapse of the British pound garnered over $1 billion for the firm. His bet against the Japanese yen in 2013 brought additional profit.

      He absolutely meant it in an antisemitic way though, there’s no other reason to use that as an insult (maybe for anticapitalist reasons I guess, but to specificy Soros specifically would be sus, also we’re talking Elon here)