At a Wisconsin rally, Elon Musk complained about personal attacks and financial losses tied to his role as head of the DOGE.
He insisted he’s not stealing from Social Security, saying it’s actually costing him money—citing Tesla stock’s sharp drop.
Musk whined about Governor Tim Walz mocking the stock’s decline, calling him “a big jerk.”
Despite the criticism, Musk is pouring millions into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, while lamenting the pressure he faces for pushing controversial reforms.
My father-in-law has been divorced three times. Each of his exes have told him directly that they left because he’s too controlling. To this day, he openly and genuinely states he has no idea why he’s been divorced three times - “I try so hard in marriage. I just don’t get it.”
Some people can’t hear the truth even if you rubber stamp it on their forehead.
Cue: Elon Musk.
Never underestimate a human’s capacity for self-deception. I think it’s our most perfected trait.
Poor Elon. Rich people really do not understand. Even if they came from poverty backgrounds, they lose perspective. They think they did it all by themselves to get where they are and do not understand that chance and luck play a big part in determining which 'hard workers with an idea' get ahead. The working world is littered with smarter people who just didn't get the breaks to become super rich. Once they are rich enough to waste $25M on a judge's election they really do not understand that for the majority of Americans losing their job can mean a quick succession to homelessness from which they may never recover.
What made them rich is not paying attention to social clues. They were unable to read the room. But they were allowed to decimate it and alienate anyone with valuable feedback. They isolated themselves and never thought "maybe I drove them away".
What is so crazy is that at the same time I see a headline with "Tesla's sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows" and yet TSLA is up 4.72% at the moment.
The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk's personality cult. So now that it's been announced that he should be "leaving government and going back to his companies" it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.
The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don't really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don't really know much about anything.
What's amusing is that a lot of smart people were giving him sideeye even before he bought xitter and wayyyy before the Nazi salutes. It took the nonsense surrounding him when he bought xitter and after he seized power for me to realize he had no fucking clue what he was doing. And of course his magoff sympathies started to become more and more apparent...
When I saw other broligarchs wishing they could behave the way he did when he seized xitter (treating labor like dirt), the general problem here was obvious.
Who else has been making bank being paid to protest, I was just at a fundraiser where George Soros was jumping around on stage gleefully after dismantling our government services and leaving the country concerned for their future. George was also handing out million dollar checks for a few lucky folks.
I am so happy George decided to get so involved in politics.
Even given the most charitable reading that he was doing a Nazi salute to troll people instead of because he's an actual Nazi, the whole intention behind trolling is to piss people off.
And I'm not inclined to give this steaming coprolite any charity, because he acts like a fuckin' Nazi.
(I'm not going to play along with the whole "he said his heart goes out" bullshit. Other Nazis sure knew what he was doing and loved it.)
He uses all the Nazi secret code shit. Like his fascination with the letter X for example which is modern Nazi code for Heil Hitler. Saying that Hitler did not kill millions of people. He throws it right out there and expects the world to ignore it.
You don't even need this to have happened given what he's done with DOGE and his buying an election. People would have still hated him, just not as many.
Unrelated (completely related) : chatgpt refuses to acknowledge musk having anything to do with Nazis, even when presented with facts about his "memes" and his Nazi salutes. And will not write a story about musk and his Nazi associated acts.
He’s gaslighting so the people who hate him hate him louder, which he can then use as validation that they’re crazy or irrational.
It’s fucking disgusting and obvious as hell. He deserves all of the shit thrown at him and he knows it but doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to face any real consequences for it, so he escalates.
Everyone’s anger is his weapon against them, sadly because his supporters are dumb enough to go with it. He needs tangible consequences or else this will just keep getting worse.
The thing is that he is the defacto ruler of the US right now. So his words are important, regardless of them all being nothing but gaslighting whiney bullshit.
Fun fact, Solar City, a company owned by Elon musk, is infamous for signing people up for lengthy solar panel leases and refusing to repair them if they break.
Right now, without China, solar would be unaffordable by anyone but the rich in America.
People justify their own behaviour and responses, they build justification for why *it's ok when I do it because.. *. People with narcissistic personality disorders and the such, who do very bad things, perpetually see themselves as in the right, to a delusional extent. The bad guys, genuinely think they're the good guys. We all do it, to an extent, they double down, they go big.
Maybe he doesn't know because he refuses to listen to anyone who criticizes him, banning them on Twitter and calling them paid actors in public events.
Honestly histrionic wouldn't surprise me. He's got a combination of overinflated sense of self and obsession with what others think. And his childhood sounds like exactly the sort of emotional abuse to give a cluster b disorder and cptsd.
He acts like an absolute ass and expects people to like him. He really is a moron and I've known that for years. I could see through all his bullshit while rest of the world was still cheering his "brilliance".
If his critical thinking is proportional to the way he talks (and I'm not referring to his accent), it makes sense that he doesn't have any clue on the reason why
Why doesn't anybody like me? I don't understand.
Guess I'll have to crawl inside, and I don't know why
I'm sitting by myself, when the problem isn't mine
Love how we dedicate dozens of professional journalist staffers and editors to follow this asshole around with a microphone and queue up to hear him do Trollface into a camera and say "Why you mad, tho?" in a Ketted out South African accent.
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He's the physical embodiment of the Dunning Kruger effect. A walking, (awkwardly) talking nepo-baby man-child who is a self-proclaimed expert in everything despite knowing next to fuck all. He and Trump are like peas in a pod.