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Why stop with leaving politics? Heck you make rockets, why not just leave earth altogether?
See? Bullying fascism works. It's the only thing that works. Fascism is fought with violence (physical or otherwise) as it's the only language that it understands.
When an opponent doesn't care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
We did have a little part in this, but otoh he's been playing that game for years on his platform, I don't think it is what drove him out. Him blaming the Left is just - well, it's what he would do isn't it?
But now, even MAGA is against him. DOGE is such a blatant fuck-up on all levels, he probably doesn't even want to do that anymore. It won't bring his stock back up.
Yeah. We can assume he gave himself an insane amount of extra cash through his access (like the surprising-wink-wink gov contracts his companies have now), but we don't know truly know how much and he'd be stupid to let anybody know.
He has to get the fuck out now though because obviously him gaining a few more billions cost the american state + public hundreds of billions in long-term damage, if not trillions. It also made swaths of the american government dysfunctional, things like veteran aid etc.
No, they aren't. Just the other day I saw idiots on Facebook calling for DOGE to come investigate our (Democrat led) county. They think he's doing great work saving them money.
As I said, idiots.
When an opponent doesn't care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
I think the first step is to stop calling out disinformation when it's against Drump and Co, let that shit ride
My take: He's been told to pack his shit and doesn't wanna admit it. He knows full well "the Left" isn't gonna forget what he's done.
So there's that, but also the position of "special counsel" or whatever dumb title he holds is time limited. You can't be an unelected government official indefinitely (although I'm sure the current administration would change the rules if they cared enough to keep him). He's making it sound like he's bowing out, when it was the plan to step down in May from the beginning.
All the rules this administration has chosen to ignore, i refuse to believe this is the one they're going to follow. He could always stay on as an outside contractor or whatever other bs they want to tell us. If he's leaving, there must be a reason.
It's far too late for that, Elon; we want your fucking head now.
Entered the kitchen, complained about it being too hot
Entered the kitchen, set fire to the trash can, complained about heat
Entered the kitchen, took some ketamine, shat his pants, took some LSD, set fire to the trash can, complained about the heat.
What does he mean he wants to leave politics? He is not in politics, he did not run for any office and was not voted for by anyone. He is free to leave whenever he wants.
Snowflake.
Elon is a weird duck with delusions of grandeur who can't understand the left's disgust. It was the nazi salute, Elon. It'll always be the nazi salute. All your other dank shit runs secondary to that.
No, he just wants back into the background and do shady things in obscurity again. We all know the rich can't and won't stop meddling.
He's broken the departments investigating him and it isn't fun anymore, he doesn't have to be there at this point to win.
There's really nothing he can do about it at this point short of completely disappearing from the public eye. He's so thoroughly fucked his reputation that anything associated with him is fucked by extension.
Even if he completely leaves any interaction with politics at all, he still has SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla that will all maintain his status as a public figure. He's not going to de-Nazify twitter. Telsas aren't going to suddenly become good cars without a reputation of being swastikcars.
The only way he could stop being bullied by "the left" is if he sold off every company he owns and disappeared into obscurity. Even then, he'll still get roasted online all the time. But if he avoids social media he could probably ignore it.
But that would all go directly against his nature. So there's nothing he realistically would do that could get "the left" to stop being mean to him. It's the rest of his miserable life.
SEE?! Bullying bad people DOES work. I've been trying to tell people FOR YEARS.
We all know Musk is lying. He doesn't plan on leaving. There's too much power.
What's kind of amazing is that so many articles don't point this out in the title or the first sentence. I really wonder why. When you know the person is a liar and they are in a situation like this, with a strong motive to lie, why in heck would you not make that the subject line?
Or, if you want to be polite about it, you could write a headline that says something like "Musk supposedly considering retiring, but actions speak louder than words".
When it comes to Elon and Trump, what I assume is:
Whenever they say they are going to do something bad, it is the truth.
Whenever they say they are going to do something good, it is a lie.
It would be a real shame... if leftists stopped attacking him after he leaves politics.
elon: slams dick in door
elon: oh man i'm tired of my dick being slammed in the door
So we're winning? I'd still love for him to meet his Luigi. Is that enough hate to get you to quit before you do any more damage? I can go more extreme if it isn't.
I haven’t heard of any attempts on his life yet, so folks still have more work to do.
Musk is the Mike Lindell of this second season of the (cursed) apprentice....
Fuck this baby. Go overdose on ketamine. We will all mourn. Zzzzzzz 😢😣☹️😰
The bully doesn't like being bullied, poor baby Mukus 😢
What a snowflake
Get fucked. I hope he's given flak the rest of his goddamn life. Nazi piece of shit billionaire.
Musk: shoots self in ass Musk: WHY R BULLETS SO MEAN
EVERYONE in this Thread needs to be DEPORTED for TERRORISM for HURTING Elon's feewings!
"I'm not fired, I quit!"
-Musk, probably.
Classic "I can dish it out, but I can't take it" energy.
He's going to the back of the motorcade and he doesn't like it. He got used to try to do the dirty work of break put government and I will call my electeds to make sure we fix the damage he did and also hold him and the other tech oligarchs responsible for the rest of my life. Fuck this asswipe.
Good! Get fucked Musk!
Awww, is the Nazi tired of being hated? Too fucking bad. Our grandfathers (great grandfathers for the young folks) killed people like him, so he ought to be happy he's upright and able to ruin millions (or more) of people's lives.
Snowflake Nazi bitch.
