Nobody Voted for Elon Musk | A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
A self-interested, erratic megalomaniac has seized control of the US government.
It’s amazing that destruction of his reputation is going to go down in history as surpassing his destruction of the Twitter brand.
You have to have a good reputation in order for it to go down. He was always perceived as capitalist scum
Yeah, most of us didn't vote for Trump either. We need to reform the elections to establish an actual democracy
hmmm this was clear as day before the election... so a more accurate headline would be "the majority of people who voted, voted for Elon... the majority of the rest couldn't be bothered"
Putting that aside, I am holding predictions until the Feb 05 marches and I am willing to give the dormant populous of the USA a couple more weeks to go on a general strike and stop this madness... but it increasingly seems the people in the USA are now too numb, too busy, too stressed out, too ignorant to realize they are sheep being taken to the slaughter house
That's just it. Most people are too numb, busy, stressed or ignorant. I reckon it's by design
But they knew the close relationship, the money spent, the egos of all involved. How did they NOT see this coming? I hate to say it but it was inevitable that something bad was going to happpen, maybe not as fast as it has, but it was clear a vote for Trump was a vote for Musk.
I think less people actually knew than we think. Sure they saw Musk on stage with their mango mussolini, but they couldn't put two and two together.
I'm not in the US, but the news coming out almost daily since Trump took office has been pretty worrying to me. I encourage everyone to watch and spread this video: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America. I feel like a tinfoil hatter but, what's laid out in the video is very convincing after just a couple weeks into Trump's presidency.
Yeah, watching this unfold makes me wonder just how useless things like a constitution and laws and due process really are in every other country. Because apparently none of those things actually matter and some rich asshole that wasn't elected can seize power tomorrow if they want. While no one does anything about it. Makes it all seem like a big joke.
It's the result of over 50 years of chipping away at all the anti corruption laws. Trump wouldn't have been able to do this with the laws put in after Nixon, but there's been a concerted effort to overturn all of it through the Supreme Court.
You should listen to the Masterplan podcast that lays it all out, if you haven't yet.
Yeah it's crazy to me, over 300 million citizens in the US alone, but just a handful of billionaires is all it takes to destroy democracy and the government. It honestly feels like violence will be the only option to get at these billionaires as it seems there is no longer any way to cripple them financially. They are completely fearless in their meddling.
To be fair Elon was announced at the RNC aka the Break The Grindr party. Everyone was bummed that JD Vance had an Indian wife and he was barely a 6 (tho the talking heads kept shameless commenting how hott he was). All the pussy dried up and then Trumps crew started showing Musk off. He’s been a lovely item ever since. Guy is swept up in what little glamour there is for those swamp monsters. Now his tanks are tanking. The kardassians curse strikes again.
Damn straight! They voted for the other self-interested, erratic megalomaniac.
He didn't seize control. He was given it by the President. I figured the article would cover the nuance the headline missed, but it didn't.
And then I see others here making the same point and getting downvoted.
The problem is Trump and the very best people he is once again bringing in.
He purchased it from the president.
Well, purchased it from the person he made president.
And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for.
mother jones throwin hands.
I hate how ketamine is always catching strays over this idiot's behavior...
The best part is every one of those adjectives is also a hyperlink.
Ketamine-fueled
That's the important part. We have an adderall addict and a ketamine addict running our government.
Not enough IMO, he's no apologist after that Nazi Salute he did
the line between nazi apologist and nazi is there isn't one.
Deport Elon Musk
This isn't an deportation level crime. This is "hang for treason" crime.
More like a: "let's see if the peasants care and are willing to do anything about it and worst case, he'll get a pardon" crime.
Elon Musk should be deported to ADX Florence or Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
Nah. Seize his assets, but make him stay here. Make that Nazi bastard experience life the American Way™ - living paycheck to paycheck at a minimum wage job (cause the moment his net worth guess to zero, his political influence does as well - another trademarked advantage of American living).
Pipe dreams. Billionaires have beat the system. They'll never be on our level, even after "losing" everything.
It sucks. But unless some external force is involved, they'll never ever face repercussions for any of the bad they've ever done. This is the system they've built and designed for themselves.
Debone Elon Musk
Deport Elon Musk back to hell
Let him ‘occupy Mars.’
I'm 100% okay with using tax dollars to strap this fuckface to a rocket launching him at Mars
I was thinking of making bumper stickers for that. But someone already even has the domain for that....
To Mars.
Yes they did. Musk and Trump literally campaigned together, Musk was on-stage next to Trump at multiple rallies where he spoke too. It was clearly reported during the election that Musk was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get Trump elected.
Here's an article from September (before the election) with Trump saying he'd create DOGE and have Musk lead it. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elon-musk-government-efficiency-commission-e831ed5dc2f6a56999e1a70bb0a4eaeb
Anyone who voted from trump and didn't expect this is either lying, or intentionally being ignorant.
They’re fucking morons.
It’s odd though. The it guy at the company I work for is a trump fan, and he’s not stupid. I don’t understand this world anymore.
I retreat into my own world now.
Hard agree. My mom is not the most politically literate person, and never cared much about tech, EVs, or space flight, but this summer out of nowhere she started talking about how great this Musk guy was and all his business accomplishments.
The Trump voters have been have been fully prepped on how to feel about Elmo for quite some time now.
Elect a puppet, get a puppet. If anyone looked at Trump's bankroll for the election and thought, "Wow, what a bunch of great people donating for a better tomorrow," you are out of your fucking mind.
In this administration the Elongate will happen
But it can also be called as:
I'm sure Matt Taibbi will be right on top of that.
I read that as more of a "stretched neck" vibe then a political scandal that ended with a conservative pardoning a president of all his crimes
Nobody voted for Fauci either. What's your point?
That's literally his job worked and had worked for decades.
You know what didn't exist for decades and just began with Trump? Elon's DOGE, which is how he's running the entire country.
Fauci can't drain your bank account. Elon has all the data he needs to do it.
They have a point, tho. Doge was announced before the election, Trump told everyone he would appoint Musk. Presidents appoint thousands of unelected people to various positions at the start of an administration. When you're voting for a President, part of it is trusting their judgement as to who they'll pick. I don't think it should be a surprise to anyone that Trump would appoint a bunch of batshit crazy people to various positions, it's what happened last time.
Maybe Fauci isn't the best example of that tho, as he's been an apolitical career official for decades, as you said.
Fauci isn't a Nazi kleptocrat who is trying to dismantle the administrative state.
Reactionaries sure love to play dumb, huh?
Hey, what do we call Nazi apologists?
He had qualifications. What are fElon's qualifications?
Yet he’s there, and someone gave him that power, yet you’re mad at musk. So easily fooled. Focus on the reason he’s there, not what he dies
Don't focus on what he does? The fuck?
One can hope.