Elon Musk claimed Sunday that electing former President Donald Trump in November is the “only way” to save the country from the tyranny of Democrats and illegal migrants.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters during a Kamala Harris presidency to turn the US into a “one-party state.”


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      He’s in profile pretending to pour it in his mouth like a sloppy sleight-of-hand artist, but it’s very clearly spilling all over his shoulder down his pants into his socks.

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    We all know that social media can encourage extremism in some people, but it’s surprising when it happens to the richest guy in the world

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      He has all the time in the world to be on X as opposed to running his other companies straight into the ground. He’s basically a lolcow at this point, and he has the pull and capital to drive the world into ruin.

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      I honestly think thats why Trump acts like he dose. His demented peanut brain could not handle the unfiltered power of the internet.

      He’s spinelessly pandering to the loudest voice he hears and latching onto the first thing that draws attention. Extremist follow him as he’s saying what they like. He say more extreme shit to get more cheers, more Nazis show up and cheer him into another extreme statement. Trump can’t form a coherent view on his own and goes with the crowd, he just attracted a horde of monsters smelling second hand power.

      Musk sees a weak old man that can easily be swayed with a little bit of dick sucking and donations.

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    Oh no you guys, Ketamine Karen is speaking, we should all listen to the ‘genius’. LOL! Fuck off elon!

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      Money.

      His twitter money is from Russia, they make him say this shit to destabilise the election

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        If that’s true, it’s more than money. If you take money from the mafia and don’t deliver, it’s about your life. That could be one of the many reasons he tried to back away from the purchase. I don’t get why CIA isn’t all over this.

        And it’s not just about the election. They’re trying to destabilize everything in the west.

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          Yep, every single right-wing party gaining traction in Europe, every single one, has connections to Russia. Im the case of Germany, left- and right-wing.

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    Every GOP accusation is projection. If Trump is elected, this will be the last election. Trump says so himself:

    “Speaking to the faithful, the Republican nominee repeated his ominous prediction, promising, “You know what, It’ll be fixed! It will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” he said as he shook his head and placed his hand on the pledge position on the left side of his chest.” source

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    And here I didn’t think I could hate this guy any more. Truly a vile piece of shit. I’m glad I never bought one of his cars and well he’s at that company, I never will.

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    He doesn’t actually believe this nonsense he spews, just like all the other conservative propagandists.

    The problem is all the people that believe this idiocy. One of progressives biggest hurdles should be to drastically improve education to teach logic and critical thinking skills at a young age. This would be a cure to a lot of this dumbest of dumb propaganda. It’s just so stupid it’s obvious. But many people will actually believe it, and spread it.

    Unfortunately, we’re losing. Public education is not getting better, funding is being cut, and tax money is in some places starting to go to religious private schools. This is all being pushed by conservatives. Keeping the populace stupid is how they stay in power, and wealth.

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    This is a prime example of how big business can cozy up to authoritarianism. Of course in the name of offering a service to the nation or saving something precious to all, I guess it’s “democracy” in this instance. Deep down I think it’s about asking a simple question: which regime will be most accommodating to fulfilling my ambitions, i.e. sustaining and growing my business empire with the least amount of oversight or regulation? Who is more likely to be anti-union? Who is more likely to employ migrants without granting them political rights? Who is less likely to tax the rich? Who is more likely to give me more power to influence public opinion and public policy? Elon is, in some respects, correctly betting on Trump. Of course it is a risky bet, and a marriage of convenience; one will sooner or later lose favor with the other. It would probably be wiser of Musk to stay out of the limelight and play Democrats against Republicans whenever and however it suits him. But I guess he can’t help himself. To be honest I don’t even know whether it’s possible for a major business figure to remain neutral in a country where perhaps the best predictor of a presidential candidate’s success is the amount of donations their campaign receives.

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      Of course it is a risky bet, and a marriage of convenience; one will sooner or later lose favor with the other

      Someone didn’t learn from history, every fascist government to date, be it the Nazis, the Fascisti or even Franco have shown that the capitalist and the fascist work well together, after all the standard corporate structure already shares a model with fascist power structures (surprising how many people fail to realize that a top-down authoritarian structure with stark consequences for disobedience and that cultivate collective ignorance as to what you are doing and how it impacts people, that you systematically dehumanize), not just because the fascist power structure was literary built on the idea of the company structure of the time

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    What elon is saying that if you elect trump it will be the last election and he is fine with that.

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    The only person you can trust with your car is the same person that tried to steal it from you.

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    Can we have that man forcibly removed from our country please? He’s already proven to be threat to our democracy. If he wants to say dumb shit like this, he can do so from far away where our taxes aren’t paying for the services he’s using to circumvent it.

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      (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠メ⁠) Please, no! I don’t think anyone else wants him… we only have one Tesla factory in this country and it’s on the news on a regular base. And it’s never good news.

      Maybe we can try to make him want to sit in the next bar he sends to space himself