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Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report
(www.independent.co.uk)
Ooh. Let me try. “Fuck your feelings snowflake”.
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Hahah too fucking late. You can't just "get out" of the public eye whenever you want loser
Thanks for the nightmares, I guess 🤷😬
Watch this video of Elon Musk being booed for 7 minutes straight at a Dave Chappelle show https://mastodon.social/@LupoLaLupo/114242322785596710
Elon would be very depressed if you saw it https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/elon-musk-almost-needed-sfpd-wellness-check-after-breakdown-getting-booed-at-dave-chappelle-show/
Do your part!
Its working guys!
what a fucking baby
Right wing nutjob can't help but be a right wing nutjob even on his way out.
Why stop with leaving politics? Heck you make rockets, why not just leave earth altogether?
See? Bullying fascism works. It's the only thing that works. Fascism is fought with violence (physical or otherwise) as it's the only language that it understands.
When an opponent doesn't care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
We did have a little part in this, but otoh he's been playing that game for years on his platform, I don't think it is what drove him out. Him blaming the Left is just - well, it's what he would do isn't it?
But now, even MAGA is against him. DOGE is such a blatant fuck-up on all levels, he probably doesn't even want to do that anymore. It won't bring his stock back up.
Yeah. We can assume he gave himself an insane amount of extra cash through his access (like the surprising-wink-wink gov contracts his companies have now), but we don't know truly know how much and he'd be stupid to let anybody know.
He has to get the fuck out now though because obviously him gaining a few more billions cost the american state + public hundreds of billions in long-term damage, if not trillions. It also made swaths of the american government dysfunctional, things like veteran aid etc.
No, they aren't. Just the other day I saw idiots on Facebook calling for DOGE to come investigate our (Democrat led) county. They think he's doing great work saving them money.
As I said, idiots.
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My take: He's been told to pack his shit and doesn't wanna admit it. He knows full well "the Left" isn't gonna forget what he's done.
So there's that, but also the position of "special counsel" or whatever dumb title he holds is time limited. You can't be an unelected government official indefinitely (although I'm sure the current administration would change the rules if they cared enough to keep him). He's making it sound like he's bowing out, when it was the plan to step down in May from the beginning.
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Entered the kitchen, complained about it being too hot
Entered the kitchen, set fire to the trash can, complained about heat
Entered the kitchen, took some ketamine, shat his pants, took some LSD, set fire to the trash can, complained about the heat.
What does he mean he wants to leave politics? He is not in politics, he did not run for any office and was not voted for by anyone. He is free to leave whenever he wants.
Haha. Good point! He thought he bought the country the moron.
Snowflake.
Elon is a weird duck with delusions of grandeur who can't understand the left's disgust. It was the nazi salute, Elon. It'll always be the nazi salute. All your other dank shit runs secondary to that.
to be fair the nazi salute was among the least nazi things hes done recently.
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No, he just wants back into the background and do shady things in obscurity again. We all know the rich can't and won't stop meddling.
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- Elon: goes full nazi
- Elon: goes full corrupt
- Elon: destroys government and thousands of lives
- People: angry, outraged
- Elon: feelings hurt, "why don't they like me"
"they must be paid protesters. There's no other explanation" ~nazi fuck
Says the guy who buys voters. And who lacks basic brain functionality to understand people hate him for being a nazi asshole who destroys people their lives by disrupting fragile systems made to protect lives and support the poor and ill. "they must be paid by terrorists"
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He's broken the departments investigating him and it isn't fun anymore, he doesn't have to be there at this point to win.
There's really nothing he can do about it at this point short of completely disappearing from the public eye. He's so thoroughly fucked his reputation that anything associated with him is fucked by extension.
Even if he completely leaves any interaction with politics at all, he still has SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla that will all maintain his status as a public figure. He's not going to de-Nazify twitter. Telsas aren't going to suddenly become good cars without a reputation of being swastikcars.
The only way he could stop being bullied by "the left" is if he sold off every company he owns and disappeared into obscurity. Even then, he'll still get roasted online all the time. But if he avoids social media he could probably ignore it.
But that would all go directly against his nature. So there's nothing he realistically would do that could get "the left" to stop being mean to him. It's the rest of his miserable life.
SEE?! Bullying bad people DOES work. I've been trying to tell people FOR YEARS.
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We all know Musk is lying. He doesn't plan on leaving. There's too much power.
What's kind of amazing is that so many articles don't point this out in the title or the first sentence. I really wonder why. When you know the person is a liar and they are in a situation like this, with a strong motive to lie, why in heck would you not make that the subject line?
Or, if you want to be polite about it, you could write a headline that says something like "Musk supposedly considering retiring, but actions speak louder than words".
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It would be a real shame... if leftists stopped attacking him after he leaves politics.
So we're winning? I'd still love for him to meet his Luigi. Is that enough hate to get you to quit before you do any more damage? I can go more extreme if it isn't.
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elon: slams dick in door
elon: oh man i'm tired of my dick being slammed in the door
Musk is the Mike Lindell of this second season of the (cursed) apprentice....
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I haven’t heard of any attempts on his life yet, so folks still have more work to do.
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Fuck this baby. Go overdose on ketamine. We will all mourn. Zzzzzzz 😢😣☹️😰
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