Summary

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.

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    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

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    20 days ago

    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.

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    21 days ago

    That guy hears loving cup and knows he can’t

    Run and jump and fish or fight

    Or fuck

    Dude can’t fuck. lol

    His sex organ is mangled after a botched gender affirmation surgery.

    I am not making this up.

    This is a real story the media reported on until it abruptly went quiet on it.

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    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.

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    21 days ago

    Earn friends by firing tens of thousands of people. It should have been so simple, what could have possibly gone wrong?

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    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.

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      i always thought it was a little hyperbolic to call these people narcissists… like, they were similar to narcissists but not actually pathological…

      i think musk is actually further out on the narcissistic personality disorder spectrum, it actually seems like he can’t understand how people could be mad at him even when it’s extremely obvious, front page news, people have hired airplanes with messages to tell him… massive protests… multiple websites and forums dedicated to exactly why they’re mad at him….
      he’s literally targeting the poorest people possible, and any organization investigating him….

      all of this and i think he’s really just not capable of understanding when people are mad at him….

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        he can’t understand how people could be mad at him

        The ASD could explain the difference between him and the next narcissist

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    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.

    W T A F

    Sales plummet 13%. Stock goes up nearly 5%.

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      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.

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            That is a very specific and unusual circumstance.

            Shorts have to be bought back after the term. You borrow it, sell it, and buy it back after so much time and give it back to the lender. You think the stock is shit so when you buy it back it will be lower cost than what you sold for and you keep the difference.

            Too many shorts all at the same time and now everyone is buying it back and driving up the price, but that just rarely happens, and when it does happen it will work itself out in a few days or weeks.

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      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.)

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

        It will happily tell you stories about Hitler.

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    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.