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Tesla CEO And World's Richest Man Elon Musk Parrots Weird Neo Nazi Pet Eating Propaganda, Says He'll Give Pop Star Taylor Swift A Child

Tesla CEO And World's Richest Man Elon Musk Parrots Weird Neo Nazi Pet Eating Propaganda, Says He'll Give Pop Star Taylor Swift A Child

It hasn't been a good few days for the extremely online billionaire

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It’s been a weird few weeks for Elon Musk since he decided to throw his politicaland financialweight behind Donald Trump’s campaign for presidential re-election. The thrice-divorced father of 12 has been shouting into his Twitter account with increasingly unhinged tirades. In just the last 24 hours he has parroted neo-Nazi propaganda that Haitian immigrants are eating cats in rural Ohio, and tweeted at Taylor Swift that he would “give her a child.” That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Whatever is going on in his brain, it’s not good.

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The algorithm he owns has been feeding the multi-billionaire South African opinions and narratives detached from reality, and in the face of the cold truth he retreats deeper into internet hell. If Trump wins his campaign in November, Elon Musk has earned himself a ticket to Washington as the head of a “government efficiency commission.”

Here’s a rundown of how the last few weeks have been for Elon Musk as a Republican Party operative.

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2 / 17

Grimes Likes Porsches

Grimes Likes Porsches

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Musk’s baby mama Grimes took to Twitter on September 8 to throw some shade on her former paramour’s electric car company on his own social media platform. Musk has three children with the singer; X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus.

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3 / 17

The Immigrants Eating Pets Thing

The Immigrants Eating Pets Thing

Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate and Ohio Senator Jance Dance Vance has spent the week spreading baseless racist lies about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. The claim, which appears to have originated from a neo-Nazi activist, accuses the migrants of abducting pets from their neighbors and eating them.

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There are no credible reports of anything like this happening. Police in Springfield have not found evidence of any pet abductions or anyone cooking and eating cats. After JD Vance started spreading the lie on Twitter, however, it took on a life of its own and inundated Conservative spheres within hours.

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4 / 17

From Elon’s Tweets To Trump’s Ears

From Elon’s Tweets To Trump’s Ears

‘Migrants are eating cats and dogs’ Donald Trump stuns panel with wild border claims

Not only did Elon parrot these disgusting lies, but Donald Trump used these talking points during Tuesday’s Presidential debate. The world’s richest man and a person seeking re-election to the highest office in the nation were both completely overrun by neo-Nazi lies because they’re both fucking stupid enough for fall for it.

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5 / 17

The Taylor Swift Thing

The Taylor Swift Thing

Following the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, American pop star Taylor Swift announced her formal endorsement of the Democratic Vice-President. Her Instagram post (she hasn’t used her 95M follower Twitter account since June) was signed “childless cat lady” in reference to Republican Vice-Presidential candidate JD Vance’s derogatory comments.

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Ew, Gross

Following Ms. Swift’s post, Mr. Musk took to Twitter with the creepiest response possible. Nobody asked for this.

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6 / 17

Denying The Holocaust With Tucker Carlson

Denying The Holocaust With Tucker Carlson

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Last week former Fox News host Tucker Carlson recorded and published an interview with “history podcaster” Darryl Cooper. The two discussed World War II and the Holocaust in a way that not only showed sympathetic assessments of Adolf Hitler’s actions, but actually painted Winston Churchill as the “villain” of the war. Cooper goes on to say that Nazis did not intend to kill millions, but those victims “ended up dead” because Hitler was unprepared for war. Some real fuckin’ wild shit.

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What does this have to do with Elon? Well aside from Tucker’s show being hosted entirely on X The Everything App, Musk retweeted the over-two-hour video interview with the comment “Very interesting. Worth watching.” Following political backlash from both sides of the aisle for posting pro-Nazi propaganda, Musk later deleted his retweet, though the original video remains on Twitter. It has been viewed over 34 million times.

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7 / 17

$600,000 Twitter Lawsuit

$600,000 Twitter Lawsuit

When Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, he sent an email to all employees demanding they shift into “hardcore” mode, and by not confirming their commitment to his vision were announcing their resignation. Gary Rooney, a Twitter employee in Ireland, took legal action against the company for firing him without cause, and the courts took his side, rewarding him $600,000 from Twitter’s coffers.

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8 / 17

Government Efficiency Commission

Government Efficiency Commission

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I can’t help but think that if Elon were put in charge of a Government Efficiency Commission, he would make it an extremely self-serving position. Elon has come to loggerheads with the EPA, NASA, FCC, and FTC among others. Much like he did with Twitter, if given his druthers, the billionaire would dismantle the power structure of several government agencies to benefit himself. Without the necessary guardrails in place to keep corporations from strip-mining the world of every resource for their own benefit, things could get significantly worse for American workers.

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9 / 17

Washington Post Hates The Idea

Washington Post Hates The Idea

A recent OpEd from The Washington Post’s Adam Lashinsky calls a Musk government appointment “one really bad idea.”

Most first-blush criticism of Trump’s typically slapdash proposal, aired in an economic policy speech last week in New York, has focused on potential conflicts of interest if Musk were to head a commission focused on eliminating inefficiencies in Washington. That’s because the certainty of conflicts, not merely their possibility, are many.

NASA is the largest customer for Musk’s rocket-ship company, SpaceX. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulates an often contentious and dismissive Tesla, Musk’s electric-vehicle company. The Federal Trade Commission keeps watch over Twitter, which Musk bought and renamed X. The Food and Drug Administration plays a critical role in deciding whether Musk’s start-up Neuralink can implant computer chips in the brains of paralyzed humans. (Note to conspiracy theorists concerned that Anthony S. Fauci and Bill Gates wanted to inject chips into people’s heads: They didn’t. Musk does.)

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Wall Street Journal Loves The Idea

Wall Street Journal Loves The Idea

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (C) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk (C) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC.
Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (Getty Images)

Meanwhile the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is all-in behind Musk running the government like a business. They call it a “very good idea” and say it “deserves more attention.”

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11 / 17

Spreading False Voter Fraud Claims

Spreading False Voter Fraud Claims

Meet the county official debunking & dismantling Elon Musk’s election lies

Back in April Elon retweeted a false claim that as many as two million noncitizens had been registered to vote in Texas, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. This false and misleading rhetoric has spread from his online persona to voting officials across the nation. The Washington Post recently dug into the claims that Musk made on Twitter, and the knock-on effect it has had on real everyday Americans supporting democracy.

“Experts say Musk is uniquely dangerous as a purveyor of misinformation because his digital following stretches well beyond the political realm and into the technology and investment sectors, where his business achievements have earned him credibility.”

“In the two years since he bought Twitter, now X, Musk has transformed it into a primary source of false election rumors, both by spreading them on his own account, which has 197 million followers, and lowering some of the site’s guardrails around misinformation.”

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Musk later claimed that Arizona is “awash” in illegal non-citizen voters, despite Arizona being the only state that requires documented proof of citizenship to cast a ballot.

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12 / 17

“This Feels A Bit Fucked Up”

“This Feels A Bit Fucked Up”

Kate Conger & Ryan Mac — Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

Excerpts from a new book, Character Limit, about Elon Musk’s 2022 accidental and overpriced conquest of Twitter, were published by Vanity Fair this week, including the saga surrounding the financing and payout. Apparently in a call with Twitter executives, Musk’s private equity investor Antonio Gracias told the Twitter team that it needed to wire transfer the entirety of the company’s reserves to Musk with immediate effect. When the assembled executives divulged that nobody on the call had the power to make that happen, Gracias allegedly got mad and shouted “You’re not going to wire me the fucking money? Are you saying no to Elon Musk?”

As the call ended, Twitter’s finance executives gossiped amongst themselves about the demand, which they found inappropriate. Musk had agreed to find the funds, independent of Twitter, at the price he set himself. They couldn’t move Twitter’s cash around in some corporate shell game just to appease him. “This feels a bit fucked up,” one member of Twitter’s C-suite told Julianna Hayes, the senior vice president of finance. Others thought it was potentially fraudulent and criminal.

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Because Musk had already tried many times to back out of his purchase of Twitter, at a price he publicly set, Twitter was understandably cautious about sending Elon billions of dollars of company funds prior to the transaction officially closing.

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The Tennessee Supercomputer

The Tennessee Supercomputer

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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has built and opened what will allegedly soon be the world’s largest supercomputer structure in the world. The facility is located in Memphis, Tenn, to the surprise of the City Council. The goal of this computer is allegedly to “understand the universe” and “accelerate human scientific discovery,” but for now it’s being used to power Twitter’s chatbot Grok, which burns electricity and water to produce terrible images of Mickey Mouse in a Nazi uniform.

The facility occupies 217 acres of land, with the potential to add 580 more acres in the coming years. The main building is nearly a million square feet, and fully air conditioned. Right now the facility is running on power from 18 portable methane gas generators, as it requires significant electricity demand. NPR estimates that these generators are robust enough to supply power to 50,000 homes, and will potentially emit 130 tons of nitrogen oxides into the local air. EPA and county Health Department reports indicate xAI does not have permits for these turbine generators.

This facility is putting unprecedented strain on the city’s power grid, already consuming at a rate of 50 megawatts, and xAI has requested access to 100 further megawatts. The facility also requires around one million gallons of water per day to cool its servers.

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Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Advises U.S. To Cut Ties With SpaceX

Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich Advises U.S. To Cut Ties With SpaceX

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In a recent column for the Guardian, Reich elucidated the following:

In deciding upon which private-sector entities to contract with, the US government is supposed to consider the contractor’s reliability. Musk’s mercurial, impulsive temperament makes him and the companies he heads unreliable. The government is also supposed to consider whether it is contributing to a monopoly. Musk’s SpaceX is fast becoming one.

Why is the US government allowing Musk’s satellites and rocket launchers to become crucial to the nation’s security when he’s shown utter disregard for the public interest? Why give Musk more economic power when he repeatedly abuses it and demonstrates contempt for the public good?

There is no good reason. American taxpayers must stop subsidizing Elon Musk.

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15 / 17

Brazil Banned Twitter

Brazil Banned Twitter

Elon Musk’s X under pressure amid Brazil ban | BBC News

The Brazilian Supreme Court blocked Twitter within the country’s borders because Elon explicitly refused to comply with court orders to suspend certain accounts. The company closed its offices in Brazil after a judge threatened employees with arrest for ignoring the orders to close accounts that broke Brazilian law. Brazil, prior to the blackout, was Twitter’s fourth-largest market globally with more than 25 million downloads of the app.

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“Just because someone has money doesn’t mean they can do whatever they want,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Friday. “They must accept the country’s rules.”

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Going All In

Going All In

He was a guest on the All In podcast, I guess? They make dick jokes about Boeing, it’s uh, it’s really something.

In conversation with Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
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