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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is all distraction, while the shitballs in Congress pass the Big Beautiful Bill, which is engineered to destroy what's left of society.

Americans love them a shiny object.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I mean allegedly Elon doesn't like that bill, but we all know it's bc they took out the EV tax credit, not because of the tax cut / impact to the budget. Though he claims its because of the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

We know. This isn’t new or news. They were friends. There’s a trump quote about Epstein liking “younger girls” just like Trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Can’t wait till trump hits back with blacked out files showing only Elon’s name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

in other news, elon musk claims water is wet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, duh, they were both Eiffel Towering a 12 year old.

[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Musk knew this and gave him a quarter billion smackers to become president.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He'll just claim he only just discovered it in the DOGE files.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Which is also harder because... that's admitting that dodge is sifting through classified data that they are very far from authorized to have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is it really classified or just sealed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even if it is... would that negate the overall gist that clearly dodge is siphoning up stuff they aren't supposed to have. If they are pulling up sealed crime records they aren't supposed to have, could we even assume one of the dozens of offices they raided with classified information didn't.

Once they start proving they are getting shit they shouldn't have, and were in the room with classified shit they shouldn't have, those dots become hard not to connect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There might finally be consequences.

Narrator: There weren't.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (3 children)

So you're admitting that you support(ed) a pedo?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Musk is absolutely also a pedo. His projection many years ago with that rescue worker was insane.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Well at least in elon's case the s*** didn't fall far from the horse's ass. His father was a grooming pedophile as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

An incest pedo at that

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He brought his young child to the office of a guy he knows is a pedo.

[–] OutlierBlue 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That wasn't a young child. That was his meat shield.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago

duh.. they were like best friends for 15 years when they lived right beside each other in Miami, he met his bloody child wife Melanomia through Maxwell at an Epstein party ffs.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First of all: zero surprise.

Second of all:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

But instead of giant monsters it's just Stan's dad and Kenny tripping balls on cat piss and slap-fighting in a park sandbox

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I see two possibilities:

  1. Musk finally realized that the main buyers for EVs are more left than right, and is now trying to rescue TSLA from collapse.

  2. He’s a drug-addled raging narcissist with poor impulse control and worse judgment who loves being in the headlines.

It’s actually kind of hard to apply Occam’s Razor here.

Edit: Another possibility is that Elmo learned that Trump’s people leaked (heheh) the ketamine bladder damage story to the NYT.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's no reason both can't be true.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, I mean, 2 is for sure true, but 1 may or may not be in the mix at this point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's not coming back from the Nazi salute thing. I guess in the US there's limited options for electric cars, but in Europe and Australia BYD is eating Tesla's lunch.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

What was his next big reveal? That he's not 6' 3" and weighs more than 215 lbs?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] WizardofFrobozz 26 points 1 week ago

But they're both Drake.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't put Kendrick's name anywhere near these fools.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

That would be in line with what we already know.

https://youtu.be/Jpstc9r_esA

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf

COMPLAINT FOR RAPE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACTS, SEXUAL ABUSE, FORCIBLE TOUCHING, ASSAULT, BATTERY, INTENTIONAL AND RECKLESS INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, DURESS, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND DEFAMATION

Plaintiff Jane Doe, proceeding under a pseudonym, brings this action against Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, and alleges that...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I thought we already knew that?

But either way, this is what we need: for the Right to balkanize and start publicly attacking each other. The Democrats are totally ineffectual at this sort of thing and the news will only report on it if the right wing does it anyway.

Edit: I got my wires crossed, we havent seen the epstein files, but we do know he [most likely] raped a 13 year old girl at an Epstein-related function https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

This is about as news breaking as Elons drug use. We all know. Bring some fucking proof.

But really, this all probably just more stock manipulation. Tank that Tesla stock before these two have some wild makeup sex.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Somehow I don't think the people who voted for a felon rapist traitor conman are going to care if he fucked some kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Well, one of them did, but he should have bought a scope

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

...and in other news...

DUH.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I thought the Musk-Trump feud was political theatre but this sounds like it has actual venom in the words.
Maybe the honeymoon is really over

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hm. Well, before Musk said this, I 110% believed for certain that Trump was in the Epstein files. Now that he's the one who's saying it, I'm...not so sure.

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