As the de facto head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Musk has deployed this brand of tactical callousness to maximal effect. He has boasted about throwing the United States Agency for International Development into a “woodchipper” and stumbled around the stage at CPAC with a chainsaw. He has presided over the dismantling of the administrative state and the harassment and mass-termination of federal workers—all while flaunting his lack of concern for the lives he has upended. Fired government employees, he announced last Thursday, with the laughing/crying emoji that’s become his calling card, will now have to “get a real job.”
This kind of depravity is a prerequisite for Musk’s new line of work. Dancing on the graves of lifesaving programs for kids is not something you can easily do with a conscience. But there is one set of feelings Musk is uniquely attuned to: his own. On Friday, the same day foreign service officers around the world received notices from a DOGE flunky alerting them that they would soon be out of a job, Musk—sans sunglasses—sat down with Fox News’ Brett Baier to ask for a little sympathy.
“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price has gone in half—and he is overjoyed,” he said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”
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Stay out of the kitchen then
Aww, little Afrikaner nepo-baby’s pwecious fee-fees hurt? It’s almost like being right-wing also means you’re a special little snowflake who can dish it but can’t take it.
south afrikaner.
Afrikaners are an etnic group specifically from South Africa so “South Afrikaner” would mean an Afrikaner from the south part of South Africa.
(The word Afrikaner is derived from the Dutch word for “african”, because most Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch Colonists who went there centuries ago, so maybe that’s a source of confusion for people who speak Germanic languages!?)
A very well written article…how refreshing.
Concerning
He’s a sociopath
“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price has gone in half—and he is overjoyed,” he said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”
We all derive joy from watching the villain get their just deserts.
A jerk? On twitter he calls everyone retards. Not such an edgelord when you’re talking to real people huh?
Someone who is tired of your bullshit, that’s who.
It’s no where near what his just deserts would be, but it’s a start. At least it’s one area where the people have a little bit of power over him. Owning a Tesla (I’ve always hated that he stole the inventor’s name for his company) should be made anathema, unacceptable, unthinkable. We should keep up the pressure in every possible way.
Its not even his company. He claimed the company that claimed a name
Oh right, I forgot about that!
Natural consequences, Muskrat.
He should get a real job. 😂😂😂
But what else is a slime mould qualified to do?
Please don’t insult slime mold by comparing it to Elon Musk.
Apologies. That was thoughtless of me. I was thinking of another substance that needs to be scraped off the souls of ones shoes…
Who derives joy from that?
-Man who was gleefully swinging a chainsaw on stage, deriving joy from stealing taxpayer dollars and cutting government services.
with the amount of alcohol and ketamine he consumes, he probably havnt felt joy in a while.
This sums it up
I know a MAGA like this. Constantly tells people their feelings are just made up mental things and not physical facts.
But then when he talks about how something is affecting him that isn’t a physical fact, he gets animated and literally says he is upset that people don’t listen to his feelings and that makes him feel bad.
These people are lost in their own worlds. They are the main and most important character and other people are simply NPCs to them. They haven’t learned to relate their own experience with the experience of others. They don’t consider there other genuine experiences outside of their own. Empathy is an abstract concept that means nothing but weakness to them.
They can learn to see the world and the people within it differently but it takes an inner awakening and personal effort that they are unlikely to muster the longer they exist as an isolated entity.
OMG, yes. I’m glad someone else understands.
The way I describe it is this person sees the world as a stage that was put there to entertain them. Like the world is their personal TV.
When they talk about other people, they use phrases like they were entertained watching so and so. Or there was something happening they didn’t agree with so they closed their eyes. Or it makes them happy to watch some people do something.
And whenever they see something bad happen or about to happen to someone, they just watch and turn away once they are bored. They never warn or help anyone. To them, it’s just a blooper real or a slapstick TV show episode.
Please tell me you mock him roundly for it.
Not anymore. That just turns into a long diatribe about how it is different and they are actually smarter, so their feelings really do matter.
I do have to see this person often, and I now just want that interaction as short as possible.
Wouldn’t matter, that kind of person is incapable of self-reflection.
Please tell him his feels make him gay
But they ARE capable of misery, and that my friend is worth something
Could you help me understand something? Is this person also… dumb? I don’t mean to be disparaging or judgemental, but I’m trying to navigate all this and I’m having a hard time understanding how someone can lack this much self-awareness and still function in society. Unless, they can’t do that either? Thanks.
Unfortunately this person reasons just fine. Lives normally. Just has a warped view of the world. It doesn’t make sense how people can be so blind to themselves.
I’d be surprised if any MAGA isn’t like this …
I hope Tesla goes bankrupt
Dear sane Americans, please keep on going in that direction!
Musk cannot take the heat. He has not just the taste and sensibilities of a boy, but the temperament of one. He throws a fit out when things don’t go his way. He wilts. This is someone who can be beat. In another context you might call this terminal inability to take a punch a “glass jaw.” The term “keyboard warrior” comes to mind. But I can think of another word for something that’s so ostentatious and in-your-face except for when it needs to be—a symbol of decadence and insecurity and deregulation that boasts bulletproof toughness, but which breaks into pieces at the first sign of stress.
Elon’s not unstoppable, Wisconsin voters showed on Tuesday. When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.
Well put. Elon is not a tough guy. Make him uncomfortable.
He’s afraid, all the time - armour vest not well hidden under his shirt making him look even weirder - holding his kid in front of him when he enters or leaves places.
I’m glad he lives in fear - he must pay his guards a lot not to shoot him at any moment.
I think that most billionaires are clueless to how savagely hated they are by the larger population.
I think Musk is actually fairly unusual in his degree of cluelessness about that. You don’t really ever see billionaires getting onstage with popular comedians so they can be booed like Musk did with Dave Chapelle. The super-wealthy generally know to keep a low profile and surround themselves with armed guards.
Boo-urns!
Oh they know, it’s why they like to build bunkers and hire private security.
When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.
I must admit, I too derive great joy from watching reaping what they have sown.
I say we deport him to Mars.
He has literally said he plans on dying on Mars.
Let’s oblige him.
send him to mars in his own rocket
Now I need the video with Tim Walz to get my share of the joy!
Time for him to get out of the kitchen and out of our country. Gitmo is the best place for him.
