The richest man in the world, who also happens to be a U.S. defense contractor, is being criticized on social media on Sunday after questioning why people aren’t trying to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump over the weekend was tackled by his own Secret Service after an individual was reportedly spotted hiding on the former president’s golf course behind a bush with an AK-47. Authorities say they fired at the man, who was later apprehended and is being questioned.
A graphic designer posted a question, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” Elon Musk, who owns the social media company that he renamed from Twitter to “X,” posted a controversial statement in response.
“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” Musk wrote with a “thinking face” emoji.
The comment did not go over well.
This is the most poorly worded title…
I had to reread it multiple times because it initially seemed like the FBI was being flagged as a “major government contractor”
My response initially was no shit its the fucken FBI… wait contracter? Did they fucken privatize them?!
Then I realized the actual meaning.
I think the goal was to tell the story in a way that doesn’t seem as familiar to point out just how crazy it is that we have become used to these headlines every single day.
Just saying elon musk tweeted a dumb thing is whatever. But keep in mind who he actually is despite… who he is.
It just needs commas. Having watched the “no child left behind” generation grow up, this is absolutely not out of the ordinary.
Padme: So they’re going to cancel his defense contract, right?
SpaceX is beating the pants off every other domestic launch provider unfortunately. All because Musk took some fantastic risks with his own money, and they paid off handsomely. And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.
You may have heard about ULA having a wee bit of trouble with some capsule thrusters. They have lost some truly epic amounts of money on that program.
I wish we had a legal way to force musk out of spacex. I want spacex to succeed, I think it’s in our nature as humans to want to explore beyond our own planet. I don’t think it should be under private control of fascist billionaires with the interests of building feudalist space colonies
We do.
Nationalize SpaceX.
Ooo what if we had a federal administration that covered the national aeronautical and space needs of the country…
What are we going to fund them with, our billionaire yacht money? Isn’t that communism?
Sorry, should have specified “a realistic way to legally…” I think I would shit out actual gold before the Supreme Court voted to nationalize anything, much less spacex
This would send shockwaves through the market that it may not recover from. If rich people think their assets can be nationalized for any reason they will panic and bail
Good. Contribute to the society that allows you to be successful or gtfo. There’s bound to be growing pains associated with that but I don’t think that would be worse than what is happening now.
The assets they have in the United States would not go with them, and they would no longer have access to the US consumer and corporate market. Good luck.
I only see positive benefits in this comment.
Maybe arrest him for encouraging assassination of the president?
Defense production act hangs over their head like the sword of Damocles though if they get out of line in actually following through on their contracts.
And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.
Not like the Tesla or Twitter shareholders are doing much good anyhow.
The company formerly known as Twitter is also a private company
Sadly he’ll likely be able to assert a first amendment defense, so nothing will happen. One can always hope, though…
Apparently he’s trying to play this one off as a joke as well. You know like the “pedo guy” one. Just a funny joke.
High time this dipshit got to the finding out stage of fucking around.
After reading the article about 24h worth of his tweets, this isn’t surprising. No lessons will be learned. I just want him to get run over by one of his full-self-driving cars and go away.
It just occurred to me to wonder: does he even drive one of his own company’s cars?
Well he doesn’t take high speed rail. I know that much.
It doesn’t say if he drives all of them, but according to this he has at least 3-4 Teslas along with several other cars that he really shouldn’t be driving. Apparently he uses the Model Y as a “family car.”
This article is about his poor decision making skills regarding McLarens specifically.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spent-1-million-213715650.html?guccounter=1
Family car
What family? His partners and children are all done with him.
What’s insane is that million dollar McLaren was about 0.0004% of his net worth. He could buy 250,000 vehicles that I could never even dream of affording.
We need to eat this motherfucker.
A graphic designer posted a question, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?”
That ‘graphic designer’ is literally Musk’s alt account on twitter. It’s commonly known.
Edit: I’ve now read somewhere it’s some Indian guy simping for Musk. I honestly don’t know what to believe anymore.
“Adrian Dittman” Is his well known alt. He also has that alt where he was pretending to be his baby son wanting to go to strip clubs.
But yeah Doge Designer is likely some simp from India.
Could it be that it’s because Harris isn’t a fascist piece of shit and the most pressing threat to democracy in American history? Could it be that Trump is an Un-American dumpster fire, and likely a full fledged asset of Russia and Vladimir Putin? Could it be that he traded nuclear secrets? Could it be that he received $10 million from Egypt’s president? Could it be all the rapes? Could it be the belittling of American armed forces? Maybe it was the violent coup attempt, or just the general courtship between Trump and angry uneducated whites?
Durrr, what could be the reason?
Wouldn’t it be something if Trump got killed by his own weapon? Like if he had been successful in removing the metal detectors from the mall on January 6th, and somebody had smuggled in a gun and killed him with it.
Trump and his supporters are this country’s weird ex-boyfriend that won’t stop stalking her and threatening her for attention.
I’m GLAD my Taxpayer Dollars are going to someone who Wants to Assassinate the Vice President of the United States INSTEAD of Feeding Starving American Children!
Of course, it’s not an entirely unreasonable question to ask, and if they were asking it seriously, it could lead to some self-reflection and improvement.
For example, maybe people are trying to assassinate Trump because he’s made it clear that he approves of assassination as a political tool, and he’s also made it clear that he is a worthless piece of slime. Maybe Harris just isn’t quite bad enough to rise to the level of murder to a bunch off morons.
Also Harris hasn’t really disappointed anyone. I don’t think anyone who plans on voting for her believes she’s the second coming of Christ or any bullshit like that.
However Trump is not leading a political movement. He’s leading a cult. When you find out your god is just some asshole, you might snap.
The stupid just keeps going deeper.
Is this title missing a noun or something!? Very hard to parse…
Replace ‘major government contractor’ with Elon Musk.
It is a shit headline though.
…The FBI is flagged as Elon Musk? When did that happen?
The FBI is flagged (notified) as Elon Musk does something stupid.
At first read, I thought that the Trump campaign had flagged the FBI as a major government contractor and thus part of the Deep State 😄
Also, given the state of Twitter now, this is the part I find hardest to believe:
the comment did not go over well
