Musk Donates to Trump, Tapping Vast Fortune to Swing 2024 Race

Whatever could be the politics of the tech billionaire son of a South African apartheid blood-emerald baron?

I wonder

It's spelled 'enema'

And he's the multibillionaire that actually wants to put microchips into people's heads unlike Bill Gates who's checks notes actually trying to cure malaria? (He's probably still not a saint though, every billionaire is part of the problem.)

Did you consider that you might not have the deep insight of a guy in a k-hole who spent 44 billion dollars to run a successful social media company into the ground?

"It's complicated". Nah, not really. An egomaniac, rich asshole took refuge in the right wing safe space because they kiss his ass and call him a genius. But they still won't buy his electric cars.

Send this fucker to Orania along with all his supporters and enablers and burn the goddamn whole town to the ground. The world and South Africans would cheer.

He's the white kind.

Right, sorry. Right kind.

What a fucking pussy, or so I'm told by conservatives that weigh in on this without his name being shared.

Unwashed deviant asshole who Putin holds kompromat over forced to help another pedophile, who Putin also holds kompromat over.

Both met with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell…

I agree and I drive a Tesla, unfortunately it's paid off so for the time being it just makes sense to keep driving it because it costs me basically nothing.

But I feel like a POS in public and it sucks.

I have a friend with a tesla who put on a bumper sticker along the lines of "I got this before he became a raging asshole"

He'll turn back to the left as soon as the he gets too clingy with his current audience and they turn on him.

Musk is worse, he doesn't care about his political leanings, he only cares about where he can have the most people simping for him.

Could say the same about any American made truck, except they've had the association with stupid rednecks for decades so it's just not talked about as much.

Because you seem to think, and my apologies if im mistaken, that people think about politics as much as your question suggests. Most people just dont really dont have the capacity to also factor in other peoples politics when making large practical purchases.

A minority of people vote in the us. I believe its around 39%

And slightly more than half of those people are deciding who the president of the US is.

You might be surprised to learn that most of the time, a car isnt a political statement or adorsement. It could be, and can be, sometimes it even is.

If you want an EV because you care about the environment you still want a good vehicle. Teslas are seen as the best EVs that most people have access to and are comfortable with... Inspite of why they might not be.

Maybe its a surprise to hear that practical benefits of EV ownership, whether it's due to not having to pay for gas, they want to support fighting climate change, or just enjoy cool new tech are likely why someone owns a tesla, not because they are fans of elon

How is owning a tesla car not just like walking around wearing one of those stupid red hats?

Because more than 90% of owners didnt buy their car to be political statements, but 90% of owners of those stupid red hats did buy them and wear them for the sole purpose of being political statementa

Do you understand where it leads to when there are two seperate economies? Its amazing how you dont realize we are in the "fucking around" point in american history.

It's the same. I can them Muskmobiles in my small town. Fuck anyone who owns them. I don't care when you bought your Tesla... Fuck you.

I was going to start listing other examples, like Rupert Murdoch and Sinclair broadcasting, but in reality billionaire conservatives own and operate all major legacy media outlets at this point. That includes CNN and NYT.

No one should be surprised that Pedo Guy is supporting a pedophile.

In a Citizens United world, there is no difference. Money is the only speech.

It's been clear for years now that Musk is is a full mask-off Nazi. I don't understand how anyone doesn't see it yet.

Mush is so paranoid about this, that he started his own anti-woke AI. Why? Because he believes that in the future, a sentient AGI will emerge and that if that AGI is trained on "wokeness" then it will cull white people in order to fulfill "diversity quotas."

“corporations are people / money is speech”

I don't know when they stopped teaching the novel 1984 in U.S. high school curriculum but that evidently happened a while ago.

Elon will be fine with his massive bonus that he totally earned for all the great work he's done for Tesla.

Elon doesn't care if Tesla succeeds, he's just using it as a way to launder financial gifts from other billionaires/millionaires and using poor people to help subsidize.

Eg if his friend, MBS from Saudi Arabia, has 2-5 people with trading algorithms and a few million dollars, they can inflate the stock. This makes it look appealing to regular buyers who think the stock is actually organically reaching that price. Then they invest more, increasing the price, and MBS can start to withdraw some of his money out, but Elon will still have that funding/money from the real investors. If the stock starts to deflate, they can just pump it again.

At some point, the stock will correct. Either when Elon stops convincing rich people (eg MBS) he can deliver on his promises, or when it becomes clear to the public it was a grift the whole time. I think Elon assumes it will be soon, which is why he took out so much recently (like 40 billion, right?) and risked removal from the company.

It's entirely possible Elon is worried about crimes he's committed and supports Trump explicitly for a pardon (which we know Trump is selling).

Better late than never.

You're not alone, I was in the same boat. I was not a fan of him or anything, but I had hoped he would do more good than.... whatever he is doing now.

I'll be completely honest: I was on board the hype train. I thought it was awesome that someone was investing in EV's and pushing them into the market. Hell, I was even fooled by the whole hyperloop thing...

I'm glad it's not too late to admit that I was terribly wrong about the guy.

At the same time, I don't blame those that were fooled back then, and I most definitely don't blame anyone for having bought a Tesla and keeping it even though the guy turned out to be who he is. Some years ago he honestly looked like he was trying to do a lot of good, at least for those of us that didn't look very closely.

I am Jack's raging bile duct.

Musk already was on 2 advisory boards in 2017, which he left over trumps decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement.

And a grifter like Trump never has any issues with taking money, no matter where it comes from.

Maybe...Dick to dick at Epstein's?