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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    18 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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    18 days ago

    This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.

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    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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    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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    That’s because, like every other egotistical rich asshole, he has surrounded himself with yes men who are only around to eat his crumbs.

    Imagine living your life unaware that no one around you actually likes you.

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      What’s amusing is that a lot of smart people were giving him sideeye even before he bought xitter and wayyyy before the Nazi salutes. It took the nonsense surrounding him when he bought xitter and after he seized power for me to realize he had no fucking clue what he was doing. And of course his magoff sympathies started to become more and more apparent…

      When I saw other broligarchs wishing they could behave the way he did when he seized xitter (treating labor like dirt), the general problem here was obvious.

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    18 days ago

    I’m surprised he’s even willing to indicate he cares. Well…cares about anything past his falling stock price and burning swasticars.

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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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    Love how we dedicate dozens of professional journalist staffers and editors to follow this asshole around with a microphone and queue up to hear him do Trollface into a camera and say “Why you mad, tho?” in a Ketted out South African accent.

    American Journalism A#1. Liberty, Whiskey, Sexy. Most informed population on earth.