Summary
Republicans’ efforts to portray Elon Musk as a MAGA martyr are failing, as his victim narrative struggles to resonate with conservative audiences.
Musk’s controversial statements and perceived elitism, including his complaints of being targeted by Democrats, have alienated even right-wing supporters.
Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand, and Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings, especially on economic issues.
Attempts to rally sympathy for Musk, including his emotional Fox News appearance, have largely backfired.
I don’t know about want…. But if were to happen…. I wouldn’t lose sleep.
Musk a martyr? FFS, these people are so dumb.
If he were killed they would all give fake sadness and fake tears but in private they would all be ‘FINALLY’. The internet will be up in arms with celebration, and the simps will eventually forget they even knew the guy.
What a whining fucking maggot. Elon and that whole cohort of cowardly cunts are destroying education, Social Security, international relations, food safety, financial security, and any kind of safety net for the tens of millions of people who will fall through the cracks and die because of their greed. Yeah, no fucking shit people want you dead. It’s not out of spite, or jealousy, or political differences. It’s self preservation.
If he were killed, his killer would be more popular than Luigi.
It’s a pretty risky game he’s playing, being the public face of his business while also being an unelected president.
I think honestly it’s not just the conflict of interest threat that warrants someone in public office divesting themselves. We’re seeing that it’s better for the companies too - keeps them insulated from the impact of unpopular decisions.
It’s why he brings squishy children to hide behind
Musk and the other tech-Nazis who invested in Trump want to tear down the government and replace nations with individually owned territories, which each of these corporate criminals will run like a personal fiefdom. Think 13th century feudalism but with internet and cars. A bunch of lords owning everything including the people. “Freedom Cities” that will be wholly owned and operated by your corporate overlords.
You are pretty much describing the premise behind Max Berry’s book - Jennifer Government.
In the alternate present the novel portrays, the United States has taken over all of North and South America (except for Cuba) and dominates much of the rest of the world. The United States adopts “capitalizm”, a form of minarchy that abolishes taxation and privatizes government.
People take the names of the corporations that employ them as their surnames, and persons with two jobs hyphenate their name, e.g. “Julia Nike-McDonald’s”. Employees of the government, including the novel’s title character, take the surname Government.
Something tells me the ones who think they’d be in charge would be quickly disappeared in theses “self regulating” “cities”.
Also, who do they think is going to move there? Do they believe liberals will gladly join their psycho future vision? The maga people are already against cities in general. They’ll never move to one…… so who do these people think will live/work/support their cities???
I could be bought with a walkable downtown, commitment to the highest public education standards, affordable and accessible medical care, affordable housing, net zero buildings, xeriscaping, high speed rail, internet fiber everywhere, extensive parks and nature areas, diverse people and cultural events, shops and restaurants, and an effective technology supported town hall government …… and a good brewpub.
The tech bros are supporting all that, right? Right?
Their plan only works if the masses are desperate enough to move to their territory. That’s why their plan starts with dismantling the current economy and institutions. Then they can say “come live and work in TeslandTM where there are jobs and opportunities” but where you have to use TeslabucksTM to buy everything.
To be fair liberals probably would join with how useless they are.
Chuck will lead the way
So I wonder when Trump and Musk will have their falling out. Or have they really tied their fortunes so closely together that they’re stuck with each other?
Even expecting Trump’s narcissism and corruption, some of his choices have been rather bizarre…
When that happens, there’s not going to be enough ketamine ….
Even expecting Trump’s narcissism and corruption, some of his choices have been rather bizarre…
The bizarre is just being all over the place with stuff he doesn’t care about, while pandering to a bunch of interests that don’t make that much sense as a whole (Musk, Project 2025, Putin, Netanyahu, traditional GOP, other random folks).
In Scotland we have a word for people like Elon, cunt
People cheer at the news that Tesla dealerships are burning. That isn’t because they hate Tesla, it’s because Musk is an insufferable piece of shit. He solidified his legacy of trash when he went alt-right. He’s now the villain and always will be
And the fucker revels being a villain. CPAC appearance on stage with a chainsaw, telling Bob Iger to go fuck himself, Nazi salutes, the list goes on… His brain is obviously mush, but I kinda wonder how he thought this was going to play out for his companies any other way than it has.
“DARK GOTHIC MAGA”
He thought he was going to be second in command in Trump’s cult, and every MAGAt would be buying Teslas and using Starlink for Internet. He thinks he’s a Hero and he thinks everyone will support whatever he does just because he’s the one doing it.
He didn’t read the fine print before he aligned himself with Trump and now he’s paying the price & crying about it which is having the effect of making him look weak & stupid, when he thought it would make him a martyr.
This is what I don’t understand: did felon truly believe that average magas (so not fascists tech bros and nepo babies) are going to give up gas cars and buy EVs instead?
How are they going to lord it over cyclists if they can’t even spew out black emissions as they speed by?
God that looked as dumb as a door knob, wouldn’t even fit for WWE show
I own a Tesla and I cheer at the news. While I don’t particularly want someone to burn mine before it sells, I wouldn’t begrudge whoever did it.
Just make sure you’ve got insurance, and they’ll be doing you a favor.
My thoughts exactly!
Get rid of it sooner rather than later, friend. It’ll only depreciate more. That or body swap it with something more innocuous like a camry
I kinda want to swap a classic car onto a Tesla chassis, while removing anything with Tesla code. No idea if it’s even possible.
Paint it in an LGBTQ+ rainbow flag. Even if it’s with rattle cans from Home Depot.
Elon Musk and Trump are both traitors to Americs and deserve the maximum sentence for treason.
At this point they might as well go back to trying to make a martyr out of the United Healthcare guy who’s name I remember about as well as Elon Musk remembers what compassion is.
DOGE wants to kill me, by taking away my insulin. I have good reason to want Musk and Trump to be trapped in a burning cyber truck.
That sounds like self-defense to preserve your life.
Would it be more fun televized like George Carling suggested? Naked upsidedown crucifixion? Or catapulted onto a brick wall?
Drawn and quartered, via Tesla vehicles. It is a quiz show where every time Musk fails to answer, one of the vehicles move several feet. These questions, can be about how many people lost their jobs and lives to Musk, and what rules DOGE broke in order to ruin them. Upon 10 questions failed, all the vehicles run free, and Musk becomes a wishbone.
There might be a bear animatronic as the host to this event.
I vote catapult.
I recall George didn’t go for that because you would need a lot of prisoners. But I have to agree. We have enough nazis for a few seasons on Netflix…
Okay, for our viewers watching at home, Kollin Johnson, a guy who erased 235 records from the ABC historical collection on Chinese BBQ of the ming dynasty just because he didn’t like the names…place your bets folks! How many teeth, which bucket!..a that’s a nice splat Bob! …ouch! Bob! With our slow mo splat-amera we can clearly see 5 teeth together on a chunk! Right into the blue bucket! And a piece of ear and hair! Folks you don’t see this every day!
Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings
Wow, you have to be a special kind of shitty to actually hurt Trump’s image, rather than the other way around.
Truly the Ticketmaster of people.
I don’t want him dead. I want him poor enough to need a gofundme when his drug abuse takes its toll.
I mean, ideally I’d like him to have an epiphany about what a terrible person he is and spend the rest of his life making amends for it. But I don’t expect that to happen, so I guess bankruptcy is the next best thing.
“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
-Clarence Darrow
Always thought that was Mark Twain, but snipes does give Darrow the credit - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasure/
Always trust Wesley Snipes. Always.
So help crash his tesla stock so that the bank collects on his loan stock collateral, which will force him to to pay tax, too.
I want
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As many times as you want, but make sure its an odd number.
“They basically want to kill me”. Quote from people discussing their american health plans?
Tbf, I do want to see him dead.
