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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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

[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)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Oh I just assumed he just defaults to it as an insult whenever he's flustered, like when he called some hecklers in a crowd Soros agents

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why not both? He then probably felt really smug about saying it to an actual former Soros associate this time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

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He's an antisemite, so of course he accuses hecklers of being Jewish subversives trying to undermine him, a right and proper white man!