Jfc- Elon Musk just tweeted this

[JoanofArgh]

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In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.

But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.

Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … 🍿






Musk is a troll who loves drama.

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[HipChick]

1. something about to drop?

[Cracklin Charlie]

32. Sounds a little like Madison, don't it?

Elroy is such a robot. Why does he have to give us his opinion about everything?

No one cares what you think, Elroy.

[MontanaMama]

45. "Elroy"

[sop]

75. "Tesla Booted From S&P 500's ESG Index Because of All the Bullshit and Chaos"

"Tesla is having a tough day in the stock market, but not because of its stock price. While the automaker’s stock is down more than 7 percent today, the biggest news comes from the fact that Tesla has been removed from the S&P 500 ESG Index. As you may have guessed, Elon Musk isn’t thrilled about this."

"The S&P 500 ESG Index evaluates companies’ environmental, social and governance data to rank and recommend them to investors. According to CNBC, the ESG Index uses criteria that includes hundreds of data points related to how companies handle their environmental impact and treat stakeholders like employees, vendors, partners, neighbors and customers. Each company in the Index is given a score based on these parameters."

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-booted-from-s-p-500s-esg-index-because-of-all-the-1848944760

[rpannier]

110. Sexual harassment complaint by an employee of Space-X

Pretty bizarre. In the Louis CK realm

[Captain Zero]

111. I'd say something dropped when he TOOK IT OUT.

Why are Republicans such lechers?

[SunImp]

2. Still a fan Hoyt?

[Hoyt]

5. Hey, he voted Democratic and contributed until he got bashed for no reason.

[NickB79]

7. LOL, "no reason"

Poor persecuted Elon.

[AZProgressive]

9. No reason?

He has been trolling the left for a long time on Twitter. I blocked him a long time ago.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Nice punchline (nt)

[SunImp]

14. He was probably a ok guy during the Obama years, but I guess after that he became a full dudebro

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-nlrb-labor-law-violations-tweet-retalition-rehire-2021-3

https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/28/elon-musk-tweets-unleash-racist-abuse-on-female-twitter-employee-16551767/

[Doc Sportello]

16. Still hero worshipping

Bezos demeaned Biden this week. Imagine you worship him too. Strange the people you admire - for a Democrat I mean.

[tenderfoot]

29. Supply Side Guthrie

eom

[oioioi]

38. LOL - Bob Roberts...

?t=4

[Carlitos Brigante]

83. .

[Doc Sportello]

96. Hhahaha

Now that is clever.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

47. Lol. People were mean to me so I'm gonna vote against women's rights, gay rights and voting rights.

Makes total sense… for a sociopath.

[demmiblue]

63. Yeah, no kidding.

[Hoyt]

95. If he in fact votes for GOPers and contributes to them. I remember people who gave us trump

saying they'd never vote for Hiliary Clinton (after their guy lost in the primaries) . . . . . and enough of them didn't.

[Doc Sportello]

97. You keep pushing this false meme to cover your butt

In fact, the number of Sanders voters who did not vote for Hillary in the primary was estimated by several polls at between 6 and 12 percent. That number is dwarfed by the number of Hillary voters who voted for McCain over Obama, which comes in at 24 percent, and the number in 2016 is about average for a presidential general election. And this analysis below shows that not all the Sanders voters were even Democrats in the first place or, in your smear, that they are even liberals. Who in your mind are ot blame for everything; guess that's easier than blaming your hero and others like him whose wealth and income inequality they helped to create has made the robber barons of the late 19th Centruy look like pikers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/

[Hoyt]

99. Sorry, it's not a false meme. In the end, after Comey, Russia, etc., Democrats protested Clinton.

Without that, we wouldn't have trump. Probably wouldn't have had the hack here on election night, either.

[Hoyt]

103. 12% of those who voted for Sanders in primaries voted for trump. That's true.

"Fully 12 percent of people who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for President Trump in the general election. That is according to the data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study — a massive election survey of around 50,000 people. (For perspective, a run-of-the-mill survey measuring Trump's job approval right now has a sample of 800 to 1,500.):

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds

If only 100,000 in a few states, had controlled their misplaced anger, we never would have had trump.

And, there was another Democratic Senator bashing Obama and Clinton over trade right up to November 2016.

[Doc Sportello]

108. Wrong again

If you bothered to read the story it said between 6 and 12 percent so of course you took the higher number and ignored the part about many of them not being Democrats in the first place. And you're doing all this spinning and misleading simply as an attempt to deflect attention away from your hero - when the election of 2016 has nothing to do with him. Just stop it. You should be embarrassed but I guess your hero worship runs too deep. Truly sad.

[progressoid]

105. +1

[Hassin Bin Sober]

98. What does Elon musk have to do with 2016? And why are you refighting the primaries in a musk thread?

Are you saying he’s justified because someone else didn’t support Democrats?

[Hoyt]

100. Simple, people say chit. His history is not trumplican. Although, some bashers are trying to

force that.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

101. Oh poor little thin skinned billionaire. Good thing he has people looking out for him!

Is he going to be ok?

[muriel_volestrangler]

107. And yet, he supported Kanye Fucking West. He's a political troll, first and foremost

and as such, has an affinity with Trump. And is just as bad as any anonymous Never Hillary voter, but has a million times greater power.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200803183739/https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/07/elon-musk-kanye-west-president-support-again

He certainly never bothered to point out what a fucking awful human being, and choice for president, Trump was - because morally, he doesn't object to much Trump does (the only area Musk is clearly better about is climate change). He donates to people for strategic reasons, eg Rubio, because he wants government help for his space dreams.

[spooky3]

3. If he really believes this, he is painfully stupid. Nt

[Cha]

27. & if he doesn't believe it.. he's a

Gaslit POS Troll.. either way

💙💛

[spooky3]

28. Can't argue with that! :-)

Cha!

[Cha]

31. Hey Aloha, Spooky!

💙💛

[PatSeg]

51. I think there is something really wrong with the guy

His behavior and attitude are so consistently erratic and hyper defensive. Sane reasonable people do not act like that.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. He's taking direction from Trump

After all, Trump doesn't have the money to buy Twitter

[Claustrum]

8. I still think he did this whole thing in public as he manipulates twitter's stock price.

He has definitely taken that page out of the TFG administration playbook to profit himself and his friends.

I don't think anyone has ever been so public about their buyouts if they are serious about it. Why would anyone want to inflate the stock prices before they finalize the price of the takeover?

[Cracklin Charlie]

36. Is that the SEC's territory?

What do they call it…manipulation? He will claim it’s “the libs” persecuting him.

That other trumpy guy that runs overstock(?) tried to damage Wayfair. So, this Twitter nonsense is just to damage trumps competition for his lame social media venture.

Always cheating and calling it winning. Whiny ass crybabies.

[PatSeg]

54. I hadn't thought about that, but it makes sense

He now thinks he is God and can get away with anything it seems.

[madaboutharry]

6. He sounds unbalanced.

Another rich man who believes in nothing.

What an asshole.

[hamsterjill]

13. I think he is unbalanced.

He’s an unstable genius. He’s a genius in a limited capacity though - smart about some things and totally clueless about others.

[Claustrum]

39. I think he is self-interested much like a lot of republicans and Libertarians.

If electric cars make him a lot of money, he is all in. If space travel makes him a lot of money, he is all in as well. It was never about the environment as others thought it is. He just conveniently uses it as it's a good marketing tool.

[sl8]

10. "Please Like Me"

https://www.theonion.com/please-like-me-1848674003

Please Like Me

3/24/22 7:00AM
Elon Musk

It can be strange, sometimes, to be me. I’m the wealthiest man on the planet, for starters. Leaders across America, and indeed the world, look to me as a visionary driving technological progress in areas from transportation, to communication, to becoming a multi-planetary species. The kinds of projects I’m involved in would blow most people’s minds. To the outside observer, I’m sure it seems like I have it all. And maybe I do. Although I’d like to make one simple request:

Please like me.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, consider me clever and interesting.

Honestly, I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t like me. I do cool stuff. I make cars. People like cars, don’t they? I make stonks go to the moon. Isn’t that cool? Isn’t making stonks go to the moon something people like? Seriously, c’mon. Appreciate me. I was on Rick And Morty. Wubba lubba dub dub, right? People love that show! I like to hang out. I microdose acid, a cool drug. Remember that time I went on Joe Rogan’s podcast and smoked that joint? Who else would be crazy enough to do that but me?

[...]

[renate]

17. It must be so hard to write for the Onion these days

I can totally imagine this being real, especially the first paragraph and the "please like me."

[dchill]

50. Elon has Onion-breath.

[Carlitos Brigante]

61. This needs to be its own OP! nt

[msongs]

11. is musk grateful people are spreading his poison across the internet nt

[gratuitous]

15. Would ignoring him be considered a dirty trick?

Asking for millions of friends.

[OLDMDDEM]

18. I have said when he first announced he was buying Twitter

that the sale will never happen. This is a rich guy that is now flexing his muscles to see what else he can play with. SpaceX and Tesla are doing fine so he's bored and wants to delve into something to keep him busy.

He is a royal POS.

[JohnSJ]

19. He is upset because he is losing his ass on Twitter, and signed the dotted line to pay too much for

it, and needs to figure out a way to sell more of his over-priced cars, which mostly are progressives who are his customers, so in his infinite wisdom he thinks insulting them makes good business sense

[In It to Win It]

20. We don't care

We have higher priorities

[world wide wally]

21. Yeah, Elon.

Vote for the Republican party of peace, love, and unity.

[Mad_Machine76]

25. +1

[Cha]

22. Yes, Tiedrich is right & musky is a Gaslit POS

stupid Troll Fuck.

💙💛

[Mad_Machine76]

23. "Party of division and hate"

Sure, Jan.

[relayerbob]

24. Howard Hughes 2.0

Except Hughes stayed quiet publicly. This idiot porves that money can't paper over lack of class.

[Baked Potato]

26. Sounds like he's negative-fluffing to build a WWE style

phony war on Twitter.

As if he voted for “kindness.”

And, assuming just a little sincerity in his spew, is he simply angry Democrats are fighting back?

Such a simpleton’s clash he is putting together, trolling for Tweets. Sad.

[Meowmee]

30. He is bat shit

and NOT a genius by any means. A fascist all the way. I don't usually advocate it but I hope everyone half way normal leaves twitter and it gets run into the ground. I almost never pay attention to it unless something is posted here from there, which is all too frequent.

[PXR-5]

33. So he hates Dems now,

the party that gave him all the electric car incentives and breaks, also to his customers.

Meanwhile over at SpaceX he also received breaks, contracts and launch pad access.

Now conservatives will be buying electric cars, and will be onboard with climate change, we'll see...

[standingtall]

37. He going to make republicans Pro Choice too?

Sense he offered to pay travel expenses for any of his employees seeking an abortion. Of course I think he's lying about that, but okay.

[TexasTowelie]

71. FYI, Musk is upset because he is awaiting clearance from the government

for environmental issues at the Boca Chica spaceport on South Padre Island. The clearance has been delayed repeatedly over several months so it is beginning to impact the launch schedule for SpaceX.

[maxsolomon]

34. Doesn't he live in CA?

His vote won't move a single needle.

[PatSeg]

57. But he loves all the media attention

I think he values that even more than money.

[Carlitos Brigante]

35. OH NOOOO!!! Maybe his Twitter handle image should be him on a crucifix. Poor, persecuted billionaire

who is constantly fellated by the media........ GTFOH!

[Torchlight]

40. I'm guessing he did/said something seriously messed up very recently

and is doing this in an attempt to get in front of the story.

[empedocles]

41. Or, addicted to news coverage?

[Rebl2]

43. Okay

Where is my tiny 🎻

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

[Nululu]

46. White Supremecist Musk has no problems with racist violence

Notice he does this after Buffalo.

Seriously, a bigot and a couple of theocratics decide to buy twitter and teach the US about free speech.

Sounds like a bad joke.

[C Moon]

81. He's pissed at Biden's remarks about white supremacy.

Like trump, musk considers white supremacists good people.

[Nululu]

109. Yes

[dchill]

48. OMG! Tiedrich cleanly and succinctly NAILS HIM!

[TNNurse]

49. Well, Elon that is impressively self serving and quite ignorant.

[Scalded Nun]

52. Never have liked the guy. Treats his people like throwaway shit. GOP through and through.

[Caliman73]

53. Democrats are not the "kindness party".

Democrats are the party that believes that GOVERNMENT should be used as a force for good. To equalize and restrain the excesses of Capitalism and defend the vulnerable against the greed of the powerful.

Democrats believe that most perspectives are valid and that those which hold the least power in society should be protected from being marginalized.

Democrats believe that those who benefit most from society, should be able to and should shoulder more of the burden for that benefit. The wealthy have always gotten more from society than they put in. That is exactly how you get wealthy. Not just rich, but wealthy.

Musk switched to Republican because he realized that they fight hardest for people like him to be in control of everything. They bring confort to the comfortable and will fight for a hierarchy with people like Musk at the top. No other reason.

[PatSeg]

55. Yes and he cares more about his money

than he does "kindness". Meanwhile, I think he loves all the attention.

[ZonkerHarris]

56. Are you surprised Elon wants to vote with the torch carrying Nazi's and white hooded Klansmen that

make up the modern GOP?
Not me.

[sarcasmo]

58. Musk is the new Trump.

[NotHardly]

59. Elon who?

[Nixie]

60. It's no surprise that he is doing this. There has been an unfettered insult campaign against

billionaires and now he wants to join the fray and have his fun with his own insults. Note his popcorn emoji.

Recently he addressed AOC in a Tweet along the lines of her desiring him because she talked about him so much (something like that). He was apparently trying to mirror her general Twitter comment that the GOP talking about her so much means they desire her. So now he can strike back on his terms.

The Twitter wars are pretty childish all the way around, actually, and it's quite predictable that eventually this payback effort would surface in some form.

[AZProgressive]

62. She said she was actually talking about Zuckerberg

But Musk took it personally.

[Nixie]

64. Okay.

I was referring to AOC's recent tweet about the GOP "projecting sexual fantasies." I don't follow her, but I saw it here I think a few months ago. He mimicked/mocked her about that tweet.

[AZProgressive]

69. It didn't work out well for him

She was tweeting about a billionaire with an ego problem and mentions hate speech and Musk responds thinking it is about him.

[Nixie]

70. Yes, in that tweet he was definitely fishing.

But, in general, the insults about billionaires from her colleagues are one-size-fits-all. They are repetitive and often superficial insults about billionaires that we can all repeat from having been exposed to them, so he's not completely off base thinking he was being called out. That did tip his hand, though, on how he intends to proceed with this Twitter deal.

[AZProgressive]

84. Elon joined the fray a long time ago

I think he proves their point about billionaires. He said Democrats were the party of division and hate less than a week after the Buffalo shooting. Plus it would be like me trying to buy forum or social media site because I don’t like the content or how it is run. I’m not a billionaire so I don’t have that privilege.

[Nixie]

86. Everyone knows about Elon. He's a public figure for years.

He owns a major car company called Tesla that was headquartered in California but he moved it to Texas, so that’s when some of problems started.

Elon is a well known public figure, so I don’t need “them” to impose their billionaire hating agenda on me as I can judge for myself and see how he has deteriorated.

And, actually, he was specific about the extremists he was talking about in our party, but you left that out and we can’t talk about that here.

Thanks for agreeing with my observations—he is ready to insult “them” more and can do it all through buying Twitter. Hence my reference to his popcorn emoji. What he is doing is very predictable. Predictable doesn’t imply “fair,” it just means predictable. The insults about billionaires are associated with one group in particular since around 2016, so it’s not hard to see why he is targeting them back.

[AZProgressive]

87. I have seen his memes

Link to tweet

IMO the right wing has moved far to the right while the left supports mainstream things like universal health care, cannabis legalization, and taxes on the wealthy which is what Musk is most worried about.

He is from apartheid South Africa, his company his accused of racism, and he complained about a “woke mind virus” which is a dog whistle. I don’t blame anyone but Musk for supporting Republicans.

[Nixie]

90. It's clear from his Tweets who he was targeting and what he

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means by the far left and it’s not rank and file Democrats. Although it started in California where he didn’t like the regulations.

One of his detractors drives a Tesla, a company founded by Musk.

[betsuni]

78. +1

[Mr. Sparkle]

65. Texas turns good poeple bad.

we should give it back to the Mexicans before it can do any more damage

[betsuni]

66. He needs a puppy dog.

Somebody should give him a puppy.

[AZLD4Candidate]

67. Voted Democrat? Sure you did, you narcissistic, megalomaniacal turd.

[iemanja]

68. It's time to quit giving oxygen to that narcissist

He lives for it. Most people would simply vote and be done with it. Musk thinks himself so important that all he has to do is announce his intentions and the world will fall at his feet.

[jcgoldie]

72. fucking pathetic troll

"Please pay attention to meeeeeeee!" He's a slightly smarter Trump. Have fun selling electric cars to Maga assholes, fool.

[thesquanderer]

73. He sells environmentally friendlier cars, then publicly disses a group who tends to buy green...

...what a business move!

[AlexSFCA]

74. might as well run for president

[Mr.Bill]

76. He can't. He wasn't born here.

He'll have to buy one.

[bluestarone]

77. OK! I guess if you think like a RETHUGLICON, (which YOU DO!)

Then i have no fucking problem if you sleep with them. (SAME FUCKING BED) WE do not need this ASSHOLE anyway!

[BannonsLiver]

79. Where's the idiot

Who told me on this forum last week Elon is doing so many things for the good of humanity? I hope you're shutting your pie hole somewhere.

[MerryBlooms]

92. Hanging out with the folks who keep telling us we're

All just jealous? The defense of musk reminds me of the putin defense a few years ago. Something weird going on.

[dalton99a]

112. No shit.

[C Moon]

80. "Did I do good, master trump? Did I? Huh? See? I can lie, too. Did I do good?"

[moondust]

82. Right. The party of "replacement theory"

fostering deadly domestic terrorism, censoring education, building walls to keep the "others" out, Muslim bans, calling Nazi marchers "good people," working to MAGA like it was in 1950 or 1850, etc., etc., etc. That's NOT the party of "division & hate"?

Maybe he figures he has sucked all the money he can out of the "clean energy" party and is moving on to the "profits over people" party of tax cuts and deregulation.

[struggle4progress]

85. "I really can't remember how I ever voted but I think I was always a member of

Revolutionary Communist Party until I realized that the window-smashing GOP insurrectionists could help me grift my way into the Federal Treasury"

[hunter]

88. That guy is going to burn it all down.

Anyone who wants to save Tesla, SpaceX, etc., should be figuring out how to kick this racist narcissistic piece of shit to the curb.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

89. Poor Elon lost 12 Billion Dollars today so he's a little cranky...

Link to tweet

[Initech]

91. Are you fucking kidding me?

Have you seen the MAGA party lately, Elon? They're nothing but division and hate!

[WVreaper]

93. Yea right!

Fucking idiot!

[bigtree]

94. lol

[highplainsdem]

102. Egotistical idiot.

[BootinUp]

104. Jeff nailed it in my humble opinion. I wish Elon would stay off my radar for awhile

the guy is out-of-control at this point.

[Diablo del sol]

106. Spoiled little prick is trying to make excuses

And there are plenty of DUers who support this spoiled little prick.