Elon Musk needs to be stopped.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by jaydogbones

If you ask me Elon needs to concentrate on playing with Rockets, Cars, Digging Tunnels, launching satellites and making Flamethrowers and leave Politics to the Grown-ups.

The fool's a Steve Jobs-wannabe, with the only exception that Jobs focused ONLY on his products, never on politics.
Oh, and he NEVER gifted his products/tech to any terrorist regimen/group, unlike Musk, which he DID sold his Starlink tech to Iran and countries which the USA is always keeping a close eye on (Russia and maybe even China, who wants to invade Taiwan).

He's an anti-American fool, if you ask me.
He doesn't give a single fuck about the American constitution, nor its values and morals, other than playing the dictator in its crappy X platform.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by BooBootheBear

I'm really curious about exactly what Trump has on Musk to make him flip flop so dramatically.

And do look up the video of Musk at the Trump rally. Bowing and scraping like a child meeting royalty for the first time. I'm only surprised he didn't drop to his knees and hold his mouth open for communion of one sort or another. It is one of the single most nauseating displays of the last few years.

I suppose that's how greedy assholes show their love/affection for eachother.

Bruce Springsteen (The Boss) was way more cool in showing his support for Kamala.
Like a true Rock & Roll star he is.
At least he's a true American, and he knows what is talking about when he talks about America.

He's Born In The USA, Musk isn't.
I bet Musk doesn't even know what the hard-working, middle class of America is.

[ViceLikeEye]

Being born on the spectrum and with a silver spoon in your mouth, doesn't make you a genius, like everyone thinks. It makes you a rich entitled asshole and people think you're smart, because why else would you have money? It's certainly not from Daddy's emerald mines and slave labor in South Africa, right?

[jaydogbones]

Originally Posted by BooBootheBear

I'm really curious about exactly what Trump has on Musk to make him flip flop so dramatically.

And do look up the video of Musk at the Trump rally. Bowing and scraping like a child meeting royalty for the first time. I'm only surprised he didn't drop to his knees and hold his mouth open for communion of one sort or another. It is one of the single most nauseating displays of the last few years.

Didn't one of Musk's Kids go full on Woke, going so far as trying to get a sex change?

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by ViceLikeEye

Being born on the spectrum and with a silver spoon in your mouth, doesn't make you a genius, like everyone thinks. It makes you a rich entitled asshole and people think you're smart, because why else would you have money? It's certainly not from Daddy's emerald mines and slave labor in South Africa, right?

True.
Jobs was adopted, and he built his wealth through sacrifices and all sort of ways famous people of the Silicon Valley did.
He invented something, just like Bezos and Zuckerberg.

But, Musk?
He came to America, only to take what others before him created (ie. Twitter), fired people all over the place, and just destroyed the meaning of the American dream.

What's even more funny is that he supports a Tyrant who's anti-LGBT, while he has a daughter who is a Transgender.
You wouldn't support an anti-gay-transphobic asshole if you had a gay or a trans daughter, wouldn't you?

[jaydogbones]

Originally Posted by SynchroDub

True.
Jobs was adopted, and he built his wealth through sacrifices and all sort of ways famous people of the Silicon Valley did.
He invented something, just like Bezos and Zuckerberg.

But, Musk?
He came to America, only to take what others before him created (ie. Twitter), fired people all over the place, and just destroyed the meaning of the American dream.

What's even more funny is that he supports a Tyrant who's anti-LGBT, while he has a daughter who is a Transgender.
You wouldn't support an anti-gay-transphobic asshole if you had a gay or a trans daughter, wouldn't you?

I think you're missing the point SynchroDub, Musk has gone crazy Hard Right probably because he feels the crazy Hard Left stole his daughter from him. I have a nagging feeling that he's going all Trump-Bum-Buddy to make his Shemale mad.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by jaydogbones

I think you're missing the point SynchroDub, Musk has gone crazy Hard Right probably because he feels the crazy Hard Left stole his daughter from him. I have a nagging feeling that he's going all Trump-Bum-Buddy to make his Shemale mad.

More like Make Shemale and LGBT+ people great again.
LOL

[BooBootheBear]

I don't think it matters where someone was born. It's far more relevant, if a person chooses to live in a new country, whether they support that country or oppose it from within.
Musk's allegiance has always been to himself, which in business is to be expected, but now he has entered into the realm of politics, and is a self proclaimed "champion of free speech" which only seems to apply as long as that free speech expresses views he agrees with.

Frankly I am amazed no one with a bit of cash has launched a new social media platform (what we used to call newsgroups and forums back in the day") to rival the shitshow Musk has made of Twitter, restoring to the masses the values that were once prevalent on that platform and which the wider population there valued so highly.

It's a modern phenomenon that western societies adulate those with huge perceived wealth only to discover they are far less than the Demi-gods that adulation made of them.
Think of Epstein, Madoff, Weinstein, the big rap stars like West and Combs, even Trump himself whose transgressions and failings almost brought a country with a 2 Century heritage of freedom and democracy to its knees. These are the kinds of people America has adulated and for some reason of them Trump is the one whose betrayals everyone chooses to ignore, and who Musk has now subjugated himself to.

Ripping off your employees, clients and business partners? Meh
Defrauding your own country out of millions in taxes? hah
Molesting women? pfff
Publicly expressing an incestuous interest in your own daughter? blah
Cozying up to USA's historic enemies while dismissing its greatest allies? Feh
Inciting an insurrection and subverting the very democratic foundations of your nation to seize power after losing an election? Ho-hum

This is what the Great Elon is now bowing and scraping to. I find the whole thing baffling.

If, as I suspect, Trump does have something very big on Musk, which is the only reason I can think of for that stomach churning display of subordination from such an arrogant bully who was once among Trump's most vociferous opponents, then eventually that too will come out. When it does, the Musk fall from grace will be among the most spectacular.

My only comfort in the meantime as I look at the complete dumpster fire the influence of these two powerful morons is making of the world's democratic union is that this too will eventually pass.
I guess we'll find out tomorrow if that passage will be fairly swift, or be dragged out for another four years, And what the repercussions of it all will be in the short and long terms.

Christ Almighty...

[emale]

Originally Posted by BooBootheBear

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If, as I suspect, Trump does have something very big on Musk,

One of the things tRump had on Musk was the knowledge that Musk entered the US on a student visa and never entered Grad school and started working. That is a clear violation of immigration laws and many people get deported for that reason every year. Yeah, he is a US citizen now but if his naturalized citizenship is based on fraud it can be revoked. He should have remained neutral and not drawn that kind of attention because his fraudulent beginnings in the US are now public knowledge.

[SynchroDub]

Originally Posted by emale

One of the things tRump had on Musk was the knowledge that Musk entered the US on a student visa and never entered Grad school and started working. That is a clear violation of immigration laws and many people get deported for that reason every year. Yeah, he is a US citizen now but if his naturalized citizenship is based on fraud it can be revoked. He should have remained neutral and not drawn that kind of attention because his fraudulent beginnings in the US are now public knowledge.

Oh, yeah.
I bet $1 that if I came with a student visa in the USA and started working, after only a day of being in the USA I would've probably got deported for violation of the immigration laws.

I wonder who "corrupted" in order to being able to stay in the USA, illegally, with no consequences.
And now he wants to go against Puertoricans and Mexicans who try to come to the USA for living the American Dream, because some of them also come from terrible life situations, and probably deserve more protection (such as ch1ldren or women) and cannot obtain even a temporary protection visa.

Funny, isn't it?