Elon Musk has regularly talked with  Vladimir Putin — and faced 'implicit threats': report

Yes. He's trying really hard to be a D-list Bond Villain.

He's getting more government contracts.

There’s most likely some kompromat

Piss baby because of that ketamine bladder?

Eh, there's plenty of valid reasons to trash on Musk, but I'd probably be a huge bitch if the Russian government were blackmailing me(?) threatening me, too.

They don't need any dirt on him, he's a fucking coward. All they have to do is point to the window, ask him if he is familiar with the term "defenestration" and assure him he will become intimately familiar with it unless he starts behaving the way Moscow wants. Yet another reason billionaires should be taxed out of existence like they used to be.

The "I'm shocked" posts are never useful. They never add to a conversation. I understand you're frustrated, but this is a selfish impulse - If anything, the only thing a post like this can succeed at is sapping genuine energy/outrage building in a person that may have otherwise turned into the urge for deeper reading and/or righteous action. I don't think that's what you wanted from this post?

"I'm shocked" with nothing else added essentially says, "LOOK AT ME! I knew that already! If you didn't, you're kind of an asshole, because we all knew it already in this club you're not in it (because it was SO obvious)."

I'm sure you posted this innocently, but consider please that it sucks. You shouldn't post if you don't have anything proactive to contribute. If you're genuinely against the thing you are representing with this post, you would have done more to act against it if you didn't post anything (if this was all you had to say).

He’s not a danger, he’s an active threat. He and other billionaires are going to make us go extinct if we don’t stop them.

*or Tesla share price will fall slightly

Like genuinely,

If there are Epstein tapes, with video evidence of Musk or Trump or Prince Harry (or Gates or Soros or whoever) having sex with children, will there be any consequences?

I wouldn't be surprised if Putin had his own similar operation, only using state-level power instead of just money to recruit girls who could take the driver's seat and bring unsuspecting Johns back to hotel rooms rigged up with cameras anywhere in the world instead of needing to do it all on an island or at his home address.

Followed later by threats of releasing the footage (stick) vs promises for more similar episodes (carrot), though with the understanding that those carrots will be used as more sticks if they don't cooperate.

I think about that scene in Borat 2 where Rudy Giuliani clearly thinks the interview is really about sex and proceeds without a second thought about the camera. I also think about how he completely imploded his career, reputation, and maybe life by fighting a legal battle he knew had no merit (and maybe even deliberately sabotaged because, while he liked the sex, he might have actually had qualms about enabling a Trump coup... Like four seasons landscaping, seriously? Not knowing basic court procedures after his career was based on prosecuting the Italian mafia?).

Just a hunch anyways, probably nothing.

Edit: wording

Nah, Putin will hit him where it hurts: He'll fire a missile into space to destroy the Tesla Elon put up there.

Tbh I think it was more like eel on musk thought he was a hot-shit big boy and immediately got leveraged when he tried to play in Putin’s ballpark. That’s pretty much Putin’s MO, after all.

Plus something tells me manufacturing leverage on a drug-addicted autistic isn't much of a stretch for Mr. Polonium.

Not so difficult if your children already want nothing to do with you, and you don't care about them either.

It also explains this:

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-he-might-get-thrown-in-jail-if-trump-doesnt-win-2000508695