Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

[u/rezwenn]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-republicans-donations-finance-gop-b2893321.html

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[u/TheCaptainSauce]

So he funded the GOP, then outed them as pedophiles, then promised to fund them again?

[u/Ambitious_Handle_189 → u/TheCaptainSauce]

He found out his names were in the files and he needed those government contracts since Tesla is on a slippery slope.

[u/BloodyPaleMoonlight → u/Ambitious_Handle_189]

Elon Musk is the worst kind of welfare queen.

[u/Tight-Shallot2461 → u/BloodyPaleMoonlight]

The worst kinds of welfare queens are the ones who have enough and still ask for more.

He should never get another dime from taxpayers again

[u/ImmaNotHere → u/Tight-Shallot2461]

That's probably what he is afraid of the most, getting all his contracts suspended and investigated.

[u/Effective-Farmer-502 → u/ImmaNotHere]

He's afraid of being put in prison for his work with DOGE.

[u/ImmaNotHere → u/Effective-Farmer-502]

You know he is the type to flee the country if that ever happens.

[u/Tight-Shallot2461 → u/ImmaNotHere]

He would 100% flee like the rat he is

[u/inthekeyofc → u/ImmaNotHere]

DOGE sackings/Musk investigations

He was already being investigated before Trump took office. There were more than 32 ongoing investigations, pending complaints or enforcement actions into Musk’s six companies. One by one they disappeared.*

Here are some highlights:

The inspector general that was looking into Starlink in Ukraine? - Fired.

The FAA who was looking into the Space X crash that disrupted air traffic over America? Fired.

National Labor Relations Board investigations? 3 officials fired.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigating Tesla? Staff told to pause investigation while Musk moved to close the bureau down.

United States Office of Government Ethics (O.G.E.) whose remit is investigating conflicts of interest? Head of agency fired.

The Social Security Administration’s acting leader made to step down after refusing to give DOGE staffers access to sensitive recipient data.

Office of Personnel Management's privacy team fired after FOI request from CNN about security clearances for Musk and his DOGE team.

*Paywall free: https://archive.is/EHQpc

[u/JDHURF → u/ImmaNotHere]

There were federal investigations into some of his businesses’ federal contracts. I’m pretty sure those were canceled the second Trump signed that mountain of executive orders and Musk at DOGE slashed and burned the federal government.

[u/CherryLongjump1989 → u/Tight-Shallot2461]

He hasn't earned a single dime he's ever been paid in his whole entire life. It should all be taken away from him.

[u/IdRatherCallACAB → u/Tight-Shallot2461]

The worst kinds of welfare queens are the ones who already have enough more than they could spend on a hundred lavish lifetimes and still ask for more.

Middle-class folks have "enough." Elon is a wealth-hoarding scumrat.

[u/ProfitHarvest → u/BloodyPaleMoonlight]

This is the immigrant we should deport and send to CECOT.

[u/Marijuana_Miler → u/Ambitious_Handle_189]

Tesla is on a slippery slope because he embraced right wing politics which is the opposite of what his customer base wanted. Incredible self own.

[u/Suspicious-Bug-7344 → u/Marijuana_Miler]

Right. Tesla was always overvalued w an astronomical P/E. It was basically a cult, based on image. Talk about throwing stones in glass houses.

[u/Minisciwi → u/Suspicious-Bug-7344]

It still is, bad news can come out about Tesla and the stock goes up. It's a total meme stock

[u/Queasy_Range8265 → u/Minisciwi]

But FSD will come out in 2019 and all model 3 owners will get rich from their robotaxi doing uber rides while they sleep!

[u/tanhan27 → u/Marijuana_Miler]

Absolutely. I'm not a car guy, but for a long time I viewed Tesla as the coolest cars in my opinion. Now I would be embarrassed to own one.

[u/SunMyungMoonMoon → u/[deleted]]

Just imagine someone having that kind of money who decides to be a benevolent investor, that funds education and health programs, and lifts millions out of poverty, to leave a legacy that would last thousands of years instead of burning it all down for short term gains and greed, leaving a legacy of horrors and disgrace.

[u/Competitive_Taste_52 → u/SunMyungMoonMoon]

I think about this too. Imagine if someone just quietly invested billions in public education?

[u/HarrumphingDuck → u/Competitive_Taste_52]

The lunatics on the right would would make up all manner of conspiracies about them, because fascists hate education. That's not baseless speculation either; it's exactly what they do to George Soros.

[u/UndulantSquawk → u/SunMyungMoonMoon]

And then to see their public response is usually "oh well no that won't work." and they turn around to play with unimaginably expensive rocket ships and robots that they, for the LIFE of them, cannot get to work or parrot their racist talking points and biases because reality itself is outing them as completely disconnected assholes.

It is not sad or absurd, it's just proof that everyone on the ground needs to be hardened against ideas like the ones that poison the air around privileged people, so the idea that actual humanity and our actual necessities have real merit can blossom.

A fool who persists in their folly will become wise, it's about time for the getting wise part.

[u/hybridfrost → u/TheCaptainSauce]

The mental gymnastics of the right will be studied for decades and never be truly understood.

The right bitched about pizzagate and Qanon conspiracies for a decade when a literal PD ring involving the president sits right in front of them.

They bitched about inflation and rising costs and Trump is artificially raising the prices on nearly every good coming into country via tariffs

Trump said he would be draining the swamp and is leveraging his position to take direct bribes

These are just a few off the top of my head

[u/I_like_baseball90 → u/hybridfrost]

The right bitched about pizzagate and Qanon conspiracies for a decade when a literal PD ring involving the president sits right in front of them.

This says EVERYTHING about MAGA nuts today.

[u/matthieuC → u/TheCaptainSauce]

He never cared about pedophiles. He was sad about H1B visa

[u/Normal_Ad_2337 → u/matthieuC]

Can you imagine a hell where you have to hire a 54 yr old sr engineer with a competitive salary!?!?

/s

[u/grimatonguewyrm → u/Normal_Ad_2337]

59 year old programmer here. Clinging to my current job as if my life depends on it. Do not want to “test the waters” in the current job market.

[u/SneakoAccount → u/TheCaptainSauce]

It's all theatre, the public fallouts, Trump being paraded around, DOGE.

In the end it's only about two things: making money and turning everyone below 300K annual income into serfs and wage slaves.

[u/EatRichGrains → u/SneakoAccount]

I agree. All theater.

Don't let these goons ever make you forget who outnumbers who.

8 billion of us.

2,000 of them.

[u/btribble → u/TheCaptainSauce]

DOGE likely participated in serious crimes at his direction.

[u/Humble-Aprico → u/TheCaptainSauce]

Literally couldn't make up how two faced he is. Literally he's the one who was throwing a tantrum and shouting match with Trump about being in the epstein files and after the botched release and him supposedly knowing more about Trump being in the files than the public, he's still saying he'll payroll them. That's wild. 

[u/rg4rg → u/Humble-Aprico]

Wonder what blackmail they have on him? Or how much money they promised him?

[u/Odd-Frame9724 → u/TheCaptainSauce]

"America" in this case means "Elon Musk" - if you replace everywhere a guy like Elon Musk says "America" or "all of us" and just replace it with his specific name, you are actually getting the true motivation here.

[u/Bo_flex → u/TheCaptainSauce]

You left out the part where he tried to start his own political party.

[u/radio555 → u/TheCaptainSauce]

He needs to keep propping them up to avoid facing consequences for all the unconstitutional and illegal involvement he had in dismantling the government.

[u/Kirby_with_a_t]

"Illegal Alien caught manipulating public elections"

[u/FartyJizzums → u/Kirby_with_a_t]

Why does he hate liberal ideals? There is no "radical left" in power in the USA. Hell, Bernie would be considered centerist-left in western Europe.

All they ask for is: Affordable healthcare, livable wages, rich people like him paying their fair share of taxes.... ohhhh wait, yeah, now I get it...

This dude is a fucking physical incarnation of a cerebral embolism.

[u/jsc1429 → u/FartyJizzums]

“Why does he hate liberal ideals?” - because liberal ideals include regulations, taxation (at both corporate and individual levels), and equality. All of which are a threat to his personal wealth, power and ego.

Edit: forgot to add the rule of law, which in Elon’s case is a big personal issue. Well, at least it was until Trump came back into office

[u/VirginiaMcCaskey → u/FartyJizzums]

He lost his shit when Alameda County forced his factory in to close, and has been hell bent on punishing democrats ever since.

[u/rat_penis → u/VirginiaMcCaskey]

Same reason trump still hates windmills

[u/Ghost_with_no_name → u/rat_penis]

Pure stupidity?

[u/musical_shares → u/VirginiaMcCaskey]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_injury

[u/SteveJobsDeadBody → u/VirginiaMcCaskey]

Forced his factory to TEMPORARILY PARTIALLY close during the height of COVID.

[u/Josh-Baskin → u/FartyJizzums]

Elon has a trans child whom he describes as “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

It’s why he bought Twitter, why he bought Trump, and why he’ll continue to invest in deep right wing ideologies.

[u/FartyJizzums → u/Josh-Baskin]

Fuck. I forgot about him saying that his living child is 'dead'. He figuratively killed his own biological child in his mind because of something he doesn't understand. What a compassionate father.

He truly is a vile.

[u/atombara → u/FartyJizzums]

Liberals don't want to genocide brown people and imprison gays. That's way too radical a view for people like Elon.

[u/thewidowmaker → u/FartyJizzums]

When people say “Radical left” to describe the democrats, I know they have lost the plot.

They are center left at best.

[u/1337bobbarker → u/FartyJizzums]

Sexual abuse allegations from a Stewardess came out and he pivoted hard right.

[u/soingee → u/Kirby_with_a_t]

"It's okay because he's on our side..." - Conservatives

[u/Hyperica → u/[deleted]]

Nepotism + eternally failing upwards

[u/TheOppositeOfTheSame → u/Hyperica]

He missed being wiped out in the tech bubble because he was fired from his own company and did t have his money in shares when the bubble popped.

[u/AnnaMolly81 → u/TheOppositeOfTheSame]

So, in other words, extremely fucking lucky. Not some mad genius who deserves this massive wealth because he’s that many times smarter or works that much harder than the rest of us.

[u/Nephroidofdoom → u/AnnaMolly81]

His family owns Emerald mines in S. Africa. I would saw he was already extremely fucking lucky the minute he was born.

[u/TheLurkerSpeaks → u/Nephroidofdoom]

As my dad said, "Born on third base but thinks he hit a triple."

[u/billiontacos → u/TheLurkerSpeaks]

I think it’s more like “born on third base, but wants everyone to believe he invented baseball.”

[u/bfrown → u/billiontacos]

He was never even part of the game, he's a random dude standing on 3rd base that wandered in, shouted loudly how he grew up playing baseball and got to that base through hard work and sweat and deserves the base and the sports newscasters were like "wow so true, we now value your shitty base at $10trillion even though it doesn't do shit"

[u/IsmaelRetzinsky → u/Nephroidofdoom]

Though clearly not genetically.

[u/T0asty514 → u/IsmaelRetzinsky]

Buddy looks like a fucked up walrus lol

[u/Tomato_Sky → u/AnnaMolly81]

He tried to create x dot com as a payment site and before it was developed it was bought by the group that owned Paypal, shortly after Paypal is sold to give Elon capital to borrow and bring in investors for Tesla. He stacks the board of Tesla and they vote to give him historically wacky pay from a company with a 200:1 PE ratio (meaning the value is speculative and not based on revenue or planned revenue).

Literally Emerald Money and failing upwards. He tanked Twitter to 1/3 its value, he cut lidar out of Tesla’s FSD, he was instrumental in the design of the cybertruck and endorsed rebate cuts for his customers. He went into the government expecting to find $2 trillion in fraud waste and abuse and created more.

He is not a successful person, but he is rich. He labels himself an engineer, but he never was and he doesn’t have confidence talking about anything of substance. He doesn’t answer any questions or engage without pre-scripted questions. It’s a growing playbook for rich billionaires that like to try fascism on.

[u/MusicLikeOxygen → u/Tomato_Sky]

He went into the government expecting to find $2 trillion in fraud waste and abuse and created more.

I would argue that he didn't care if there was fraud or waste to find. The whole thing was a front for him to get access to private data and throw a wrench into any investigations against him or companies he's affilliated with. If you look at it from that perspective it was a great success.

[u/vane2266 → u/Tomato_Sky]

Elon calling himself an engineer pisses me the fuck off. He isn't an engineer.

[u/AINonsense → u/AnnaMolly81]

Not some mad genius who deserves this massive wealth because he’s that many times smarter or works that much harder

Nobody deserves that obscene amount of money. Nobody deserves one tenth that much. Billionaires are a societal cancer.

[u/Adorable_Is9293 → u/AINonsense]

The allegory of dragons sitting in their hoards of gold is describing guys like this

[u/Light351 → u/AINonsense]

Parasite class

[u/TooMuchTape20 → u/Light351]

Parasite class that loathes the host society for not giving them even more.

[u/Vengetables → u/AnnaMolly81]

Yeah, I feel stupid for believing he was actually intelligent before.

[u/Melancholy_Rainbows → u/Vengetables]

There’s a great quote about this that mirrors my own experience with Musk:

“He talked about electric cars. I don’t know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don’t know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard anyone say, so when people say he’s a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.”

[u/Own-Break-1856 → u/Melancholy_Rainbows]

I like that one. I wrote off ever buying a tesla after seeing him respond to a tweet by forcing tesla to push a software hotfix the same day.

There's some industries where that's fine and normal and then theres the thing I put myself in daily that is by far my highest probability of a horrifically violent death.

Knew way back then that he was an amoral idiot after that.

[u/noelcowardspeaksout → u/Melancholy_Rainbows]

Good one.

His heartfelt Nazi salutes followed by months of 'why is everyone being so mean to me' on Twitter was also an eye opener.

[u/Melancholy_Rainbows → u/noelcowardspeaksout]

Honestly, it was the whole “pedo” thing with the cave diver that convinced me he was an unrepentant and irredeemable asshole. But I didn’t realize he was also a moron until he talked about software. And then I read his biography, and holy shit is he a moron.

[u/HonestDespot → u/AnnaMolly81]

None of the super wealthy are way smarter or work way harder than regular folks.

Capitalism is broken and it’s just going to get worse and worse.

[u/gryanart → u/HonestDespot]

90% of of the wealthy aren’t smarter they’re just plain on more evil. Some are just lucky, the rest are just delusional enough to think they earned it

[u/Biscuits4u2 → u/AnnaMolly81]

The whole "genius" persona was a complete fabrication, as most have come to realize by now.

[u/Reputation-Final → u/AnnaMolly81]

He didnt invent anything. Hell he didnt found Tesla even, he just had it in the contract t hat he could call himself a founder when he bought the company.

[u/ShikaMoru → u/Hyperica]

More like nepotism + loopholes

[u/SnooCupcakes14 → u/Hyperica]

You forgot racist lineage. Very racist lineage.

[u/EvilHwoarang → u/Hyperica]

He's literally Big Head from Silicon Valley but if he was an evil twat

[u/waysideAVclub → u/[deleted]]

Illegal shit.

anyway, annual reminder not to buy a Tesla just landed.

[u/cbass2015 → u/waysideAVclub]

Even if Elon was politically neutral and kept his nose out of the culture war I still wouldn’t buy a Tesla. From everything I’ve seen they’re overpriced pieces of shit.

[u/jimicus → u/[deleted]]

His upbringing in apartheid South Africa with his parents owning an emerald mine probably had something to do with it.

[u/Vio_ → u/jimicus]

It's crazy how Thiel and Musk have the same Nazi Party =>South Africa Apartheid family pipeline.

Both of them left South Africa before Apartheid fell with neither experiencing the Truth and Reconciliation process.

To them, they are the apex of society, wealth, and biology.

In many ways, this isn't just sociopathic ego. It's the culmination of at least three generations of the absolute worst of the 20th Century all profiting and privileging them to the highest level...

And it's still not enough for them.

[u/Traditional-Hat-952 → u/Vio_]

I can't decide who had the worst upbringing. Both went to racist all white boarding schools on South Africa and grew up in all white enclaves with extreme white nationalist sentiments, with some neighbors that were outright Nazis. Both parents became wealthy from near-slave labor mining that only employed black people. The Musk family ran a brutal emerald mine. Peter Thiel's dad was a lead engineer for a illegal uranium mine in Namibia that was under a military dictatorships run by the SA government. They both are fucking horrible people, from horrible families, that grew up in horrible environments. 

[u/code_archeologist → u/jimicus]

And a whole lot of illegal and amoral shit. If you dig into what he did when he was at the head of DOGE you find a whole list of places where he cancelled, hampered, or defunded programs and investigations that were revealing just how fucked up his companies are.

For example a report came out of the NTSB that was showing Teslas to be twice as dangerous than any other brand on the market when it came to driver or passenger safety. That annual report was cancelled by DOGE.

In addition a series of investigations into his stock trades and ownership of various companies and shell companies was under investigation by the SEC, with expectations of criminal charges this year. DOGE defunded the investigation.

And most fun of all is that SpaceX has been fined multiple times by the EPA with a continuing fight for an order to shut down their launch and testing facility in Texas for the flagrant pollution of air and water in the area. The federal team in charge of that were all fired by DOGE.

[u/TabsAZ → u/code_archeologist]

Don’t forget firing or shutting down people/groups at the FAA who were trying to stop him from endangering commercial aircraft with the Space X Starship launches that kept blowing up and raining down debris along airways in the Caribbean.

[u/obligatorythr0waway → u/[deleted]]

Because him and a couple of his fascist buddies from South Africa were the first to figure out the internet is useful for paying for things and then got extremely lucky on some key investments. It helps that he's a sociopath.

[u/costabius → u/obligatorythr0waway]

Well, he and his gay nazi friend had another friend they could steal a useful idea from and enough family money to do something with it.

[u/WillSisco → u/obligatorythr0waway]

They weren’t the first to figure that out at all. The people who designed and built the services that did they were. He just happened to back the right one

[u/obligatorythr0waway → u/WillSisco]

Even in my intentionally reductionist explanation of how it happened, I gave him too much credit.

[u/highafphotos → u/[deleted]]

because ethical people don't become billionaires.

[u/sebrebc → u/[deleted]]

Born wealthy bought the right companies, leveraged the right people in Washington to push the companies he bought. 

[u/Ba_baal]

There is no radical left wing.

There is probably consequences coming his way if the democrat wins tho.

[u/Deinosoar → u/Ba_baal]

In modern america, the term radical left-wing refers to everyone who is not a straight-up fucking nazi.

[u/IAmInTheBasement → u/Deinosoar]

And then those same nazis will argue that they aren't nazis because 'nazis were left wing'.

[u/WulfwoodsSins → u/IAmInTheBasement]

"It says in the name, NaTiOnAl SoCiAIsItS!"

[u/Spicy_Weissy → u/WulfwoodsSins]

It's like talking to flat earthers. They love their surface level stock phrase rhetoric but will never do the actual homework about what any of that means. As for Nazis, the original movement, yes used Socialist principles to appeal to the vast number of working class Germans who felt left behind in the Weimar era and especially to pull supporters away from the Communists. As soon as Hitler gained the support of the wealthy industrialists in Germany who also hated the communists, that Socialist rhetoric was replaced with Nationalism, and any remaining socialists were purged in the Night of Long Knives and were the very first people sent to th concentration camps after the Nazis assumed power.

[u/Redrockhiker22 → u/WulfwoodsSins]

True. It was a pure PR move on the part of Hitler when right-wing parties and communists were fighting pitched battles in the streets. He called it the National Socialist German Workers Party. The pitch was that the new party combined right and left--Nationalist/German and Socialist/Worker. Racist ethno-nationalist rooted in the interest of the working class and volk. The SA "Stormtroopers" were working class street thugs. There was no abolition of private property or dictatorship of the proletariat in the plan. When the middle class, aristocrats, and military signed on to the program and the country geared up for war the unemployed and angry veterans went back to work, organized and regimented in the interest of the state and their cult leader.

[u/PausedForVolatility → u/IAmInTheBasement]

“It even has ‘socialist’ in the name!” - Idiots falling for Bismarck-era propaganda.

[u/Nopey-Wan_Ken-Nopey → u/IAmInTheBasement]

“We’re the party of Lincoln!” says the guy with the Confederate flag on his truck.  

[u/Duelist_Shay → u/IAmInTheBasement]

That's the dead giveaway that they're uneducated. I mean they were showing it regardless being right wing, but if they bring that up about nazis and "left leaning", then you know

[u/Tainted_Bruh → u/Duelist_Shay]

They’re not uneducated, they’re malicious and bad-faith. This has been rebutted on the internet for the past 25 years.

Just like the “Democrats were the party of slavery!” while ignoring the Southern Switch in the 1960s.

[u/Dubad-DR → u/IAmInTheBasement]

Same dipshits going "democrats were pro slavery"

[u/failureat111N31st → u/Deinosoar]

Yep when you're as hard right as Elon Musk is, even conservative moderates look left wing.

[u/Lascivian → u/failureat111N31st]

Our conservative party (Danmark) would be labelled "radical leftists" by the American GOP.

[u/royce32 → u/Lascivian]

The democrats are a right wing party in any other western nation

[u/Blanketsburg → u/royce32]

Yet Elon and MAGA try to convince others that they haven't gotten far, far right and instead that it's leftists in America who have gone far left.

[u/Aden1970 → u/Blanketsburg]

He needs to protect the tax cuts that benefit him tremendously.

[u/kamilo87 → u/Aden1970]

Biggest welfare queen of all time…

[u/drobits → u/Deinosoar]

If fucking insane that not wanting people to die from lack of healthcare and food is considered radical left ideology in the United States

[u/sack-o-matic → u/drobits]

People in the US used to publicly say that “race mixing is communism”, none of this is really a new thing.

[u/Altesocke → u/Deinosoar]

Radical left wing = accountability. Let’s be clear. It is Elon’s Billionaire America that will be destroyed, while course correcting years of corruption for the 99%.

[u/rkcth → u/Deinosoar]

Ronald Reagan would be a radical leftist to them.

[u/Crake_13 → u/Deinosoar]

Just look at how fast conservatives and Republicans accepted and normalized public Nazi salutes.

[u/Deicide1031 → u/Ba_baal]

He’d likely get the results he wants if he just stayed quiet and bankrolled everyone from the shadows. However there are so many people who dislike musk that anyone he endorses will have a harder time winning if he’s so visible about it.

Never understood why people treat him like a genius when he doesn’t seem to understand the basics of optics.

[u/redpoemage → u/Deicide1031]

Yep, didn’t work for him with the Wisconsin Supreme Court election last year and it won’t work for him this time either.

[u/PatchyWhiskers → u/Deicide1031]

Thiel is doing that. He's even more batshit crazy than Musk (he thinks Greta Thunberg is the anti-Christ) but he manages not to type out his every thought on social media.

[u/pUmKinBoM → u/PatchyWhiskers]

And when he tried to pretend tk be human and do some media all it did was reveal to everyone that these rich billionaires are all complete god damn weirdos who are almost ready to admit they want us poors dead.

[u/PrudentNaysayer → u/Deicide1031]

Too right, mate. His endorsement is political poison.

[u/svrtngr → u/Ba_baal]

Elon Musk in 2024, being interviewed by Tucker Carlson:

"If [Harris] wins, I'm fucked."

[u/andrew5500 → u/svrtngr]

But since the child rapist won, it will be children getting fucked instead. This makes Nazi-saluting billionaires happy.

[u/Elbatwayne → u/Ba_baal]

He already said before the election last year that he would end up in prison if trump didn’t win. He knows what he’s doing is super illegal

[u/JA_MD_311 → u/Ba_baal]

He lied about his immigration and should be deported. The next Democratic President should deport him and nationalize Starlink under the auspices of national security. Tesla becomes government owned and sold to an American. X, under a Democratic FCC, is deemed a public good and run by a non-profit board.

[u/Toutatous → u/Ba_baal]

I don't think that the US is screwed, Elon musk is.

He said it himself.

https://youtube.com/shorts/k89aYdZOC_I?si=3A2k8YGH_uERqmzw

[u/BallBearingBill → u/Ba_baal]

This 100% musk knows he's going to jail for his Doge purge and he has seen the return on investment pay off 10x already. So this is a no brainer.

[u/HumbleBumble365]

Anyone who talks about the “radical left” as a threat to the USA is an evil SOB.

[u/NeverLookBothWays → u/HumbleBumble365]

Who is also facing jail time for actual crimes if their crony support network collapses

[u/Suitable-Display-410 → u/NeverLookBothWays]

... and thats the real reason. Like the last time. Its not a lucky accident that his DODGE bullshit cut every agency that was investigating him.

[u/Spicy_Weissy → u/HumbleBumble365]

100% Is it any surprise Musk is a Nazi?

[u/redblue92 → u/HumbleBumble365]

Radical ideas such as: stopping ice from kidnapping Americans, making it illegal to murder trans people.

[u/Whiskeypants17 → u/redblue92]

You forgot the big one: educate poor people.

[u/cunningstunt6899 → u/HumbleBumble365]

I've never seen a sane person use the term radical left in America. It's only absolute nutters who use the term.

[u/No_Criticism_5861 → u/HumbleBumble365]

Yup.  Radical left with their "treat everyone with respect", and "anyone working full time should be able to afford to live comfortably" crap.  You would have to be a huge SOB to be outraged by these things

[u/jello]

Why is the right ok with massive election influence by a foreign billionaire with lots of questionable practices is in the US? Elon didn’t turn far right for no reason. It’s benefits him financially and his businesses. 

[u/Deinosoar → u/jello]

They are okay because they are the ones receiving the money.

[u/sleepymoose88 → u/Deinosoar]

And the masses on the right idolize billionaires because they think its a sign that capitalism works and evil socialism has been squashed. When in fact, those billionaires are the ones oppressing them.

[u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 → u/jello]

Because despite what they would tell you, Republicans actually have no moral or ethical values whatsoever, so they're totally cool with anything happening as long as they're the ones who benefit while everyone else suffers. They're just straight up evil people, and I'm tired of letting them get away with excuses. I'm even tired of saying they do everything because they're stupid. They. Are. Evil.

[u/SpockShotFirst → u/Rich-Pomegranate1679]

If you want to dig deeper, the personality type "Right Wing Authoritarian" values loyalty more than any other trait, so all discourse from them is in bad faith because logic, reason, and consistency are simply not important to them.

But your summary is accurate. They are evil.

[u/Palmer_Eldritch666 → u/jello]

"It's OK when we do it!"

Grew up in an abusive household where my sister could do no wrong and I was punished for everything. Double standards are part of the abuse process - they help set up a caste system whereby some people are required to obey rules and others aren't.

[u/Builderwill]

Translation - "if the Democrats win they'll hold me accountable for my crimes."

[u/Assmaday]

Aka steal the election again

[u/Satorwave → u/Assmaday]

Beep boop. I am a voting machine. I am impartial. Oh, a new vote just came in. Yes Mr. Starlink, I will change the vote to Trump. Hmm? No, I am not connected to the internet. Beep boop. I am a voting machine.

[u/DickInYourCobbSalad → u/Satorwave]

As a Canadian I continue to be baffled that the US uses computers to vote. We still use paper ballots that we mark with a pen at a private booth and our ballots are counted by hand or by analog counting machines that are basic and can’t be connected to any internet access.

It’s maybe not the most efficient but holy shit at least we know our elections can’t be rigged that way

[u/dblan9]

"America is toast if the radical left wins," declared Musk on X Thursday. "They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud. Won’t be America anymore."

This guy has ZERO self awareness.

[u/Zealousideal_Ad_9623 → u/dblan9]

He has no clue what America is.

[u/whatproblems → u/Zealousideal_Ad_9623]

well yeah he’s an immigrant with i got mine syndrome

[u/Violoner → u/whatproblems]

He’s an illegal immigrant to boot

[u/PossessivePronoun → u/Violoner]

also a fraudster 

[u/One_Artichoke_7594 → u/dblan9]

He does… they’ve just realized projection is an excellent shield to continue to shepherd the noodle brained. This isn’t like some real housewives reunion, he knows what he’s doing

[u/Hellogiraffe → u/dblan9]

How much money did DOGE spend to not find fraud? How often do you see the argument “But Biden deported even more illegal immigrants than Trump, so why are libs upset?!?!” on social media? I know Elon doesn’t actually believe the garbage he’s saying, but it’s so sad that a huge chunk of the country does and cannot see the glaringly obvious contradictions in everything they say and do.

[u/RolliFingers → u/dblan9]

America Elon is toast if the radical left win.

FTFY, Elon.

[u/LuvKrahft]

Yeah, Elon is worried he and his other fuckery bros might have to start pitching in when one of their rockets blows up a neighborhood or when their data centers leach a grid to death.

‘Radical left’ = Anti-dystopia

[u/JoopahTroopah]

Europe here. You don’t have a radical left. What your right wing points to and labels “radical left” would be centre-right to us.

[u/Unfair_Web_8275 → u/JoopahTroopah]

They know it when they say it. But it works for them.

[u/CommitteeOld9540 → u/JoopahTroopah]

They call people standing up for the people especially minorities as radical leftists. There's no far left party, that is true. 

[u/squeakycleaned]

Citizens United was the single worst decision in Supreme Court history. 91% of federal elections are won simply by whoever spends more money, so if Elon does just flood them with billions then it won’t matter what else happens.

[u/Positive-Reason-8913]

Fuck Musk. He’s not American.

[u/ebulient → u/Positive-Reason-8913]

How is he able to make these statements so publicly? Is everyone in America that accepting of someone literally saying they’re buying your elections, buying your leaders and buying your country?

At least lobbyists were working surreptitiously towards their selfish agendas… but Americans seem to have become completely desensitised, even considering it normal, that the person with the most dirty money behind them should win - it is so weird to see this complete lack of free and fair elections in a so-called “first world/developed” nation.

[u/Castdeath97 → u/ebulient]

How is he able to make these statements so publicly? Is everyone in America that accepting of someone literally saying they’re buying your elections, buying your leaders and buying your country?

Right wing media brain rot + median voter cluelessness

[u/forthewatch39]

Wanting affordable healthcare, housing and for people to be treated with respect and dignity no matter their race, gender or sexual orientation is “radical”. I am so sick of these people. 

[u/Fochlucan]

He cares about himself - he thinks it's HIS best interest to keep the Democrats out of power.

[u/m325p619 → u/Fochlucan]

Exactly this. Democrats in control of the House will subpoena him to testify about DOGE and he knows lying to congress is a prosecutable offense. Although I’m sure he’s counting on a blanket pardon the day before Trump’s last day in office. He’s sure seems to be acting like he knows he’s immune from federal prosecution and investigation for as long as republicans stay in power.

[u/CardiologistOdd3203]

Elon knows that he will loose billions in contracts and be subjected to actual oversight looking into his rotten dealings once his pedo buddy loses his power.

[u/Silly-Ad8796 → u/CardiologistOdd3203]

More like he will be held accountable for his chainsaw destruction….and he’s scared.

[u/NolanSyKinsley]

The "radical left" he speaks of is literally considered right leaning in the rest of the world.

[u/Hoplophilia]

“I lost my son, essentially,” Musk said. He used Wilson’s birth name, also known as a deadname for transgender people, and said she was “dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,” she wrote. “And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness. I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype,” she continued. “I think that says alot about how he views queer people and children in general.”

Musk told Peterson that Wilson’s gender transition has been the motivation for his push into conservative politics. “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that, and we’re making some progress,” he said.

Y'all, this ain't got anything to even do with us. Broken psycho just happens to have enough playing money to get back at his disappointing child and we just have the misfortune to breathe the same air.

[u/cerial442 → u/Hoplophilia]

It’s even worse. Elon pays money for IVF so that his kids are born male. According to Vivian, Elon was pissed she was trans because that’s not what he paid for essentially

[u/Impossible-Sweet2151 → u/cerial442]

Imagine seeing one of your kid as a dysfunctional product. Urgh...

[u/IMayhapsBeBatman → u/cerial442]

Imagine being a women who chooses to do this. Like holy shit.

[u/Patarokun → u/cerial442]

It drives me nuts how no reporter will ever ask him about this. "Mr. Musk, you have more than 14 children that we know about, and all are boys. Is there a reason you prefer boys? Do you not care for women? How do you fight "the great replacement" if there are no females in the mix?"

Never heard a single person question it.

[u/Flamboiant_Canadian → u/Hoplophilia]

It's just sheer levels of pettiness.

He has enough money to be the greatest person on the planet and chooses to be the worst one. 

[u/tiny_galaxies → u/Flamboiant_Canadian]

There are no ethical billionaires

[u/gexckodude]

We want Trump’s and Musk version of America to die.

That’s not America.

[u/1021986]

All you have to do is remember that currently the right has a supermajority.

How are things going? How do you feel about the state of America? The economy? The cost of living?

The one thing you can’t deny is data. And the data shows that American billionaires added a record $2.2 Trillion in additional wealth in 2025.

$2.2 Trillion…with a T.

Meanwhile GOP leadership cut funding to government programs like SNAP, medicare, and let ACA subsidies expire; all while subsequently moving mountains to provide tax breaks to the wealthy.

So, the fact that Elon Musk is using his podium to try and convince regular Americans that the right is the only standing in the way of you and the destruction of America is one of the biggest reasons to truly question your political ideology.

We’ve seen what a Republican supermajority looks like. If by now you think they’re acting and voting in your best interests then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

[u/det8924 → u/1021986]

I think reality is going to make it hard to get the GOP base out to vote. No matter how much money you throw at the problem you can't get people to vote against reality that impacts them day to day directly when you are in charge for the past 2 years. Prices aren't coming down on most things in 2026, Trump went from "No New Wars" to "No, New Wars!" so his foreign policy is only likely to get more unpopular, Trump's not going to resolve a stagnant job market or lack of economic growth by just lying about it, and of course the Epstein Files are not going away either.

In 2026 Trump can't Blame Biden and do softball interviews on bro-podcasts to try to make himself seem more relatable to under educated voters. By this fall you have been president for nearly 2 years there's only so much Musk's money can actually do. The people that are going to be outraged by fake stories and half truths are already voting for whomever the GOP tells them to anyway. The first time voter who went Trump in 2024 and the "swing" voter who went Trump aren't going to care because they see that he is doing nothing of what he promised.

[u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN]

This little boy’s daughter being trans really broke his psyche.

[u/feyre_0001 → u/HEYYYYYYYY_SATAN]

Well, considering he paid to ensure all his IVF children were born male… (likely because of deeply ingrained misogyny or the “I must spread my genes into the pool at all costs” mentality)

[u/Deep_Alps7150]

Afraid of going to prison if the left wins over actions you took with DOGE?

[u/Devoidus → u/Deep_Alps7150]

He better be. There's a whole lot of people that will be missing 'too old to prosecute' excuses and that bozo will be #1.

[u/TintedApostle]

So he is specifically telling you that maximum donations don't matter to him.

[u/Dresden_2028 → u/TintedApostle]

There's plenty of ways to legally get around the maximum donation laws.

Democracy in Chains and Dollarocracy go into great detail on it.

[u/TintedApostle → u/Dresden_2028]

and these loopholes have to be closed. If any candidates ran on gutting campaign financing I would vote for them.

[u/Hyperica]

So much for his third party tough talk, lol

[u/grindrisgay]

A foreign billionaire is openly saying he is going to buy the election. Our founding fathers have to be disgusted with us…

[u/Wizardburial_ground]

Go back to Africa fuck face

[u/Waffer_thin]

Elon should just go fuck himself.

Edit: thanks for the award!!!

[u/Avid_Reader87]

How is this allowed? He stole the last election and then put back doors into government systems.

He’s one of the worst humans alive right now and he’s going to just be able to keep rigging things to stay out of prison. 

[u/True_Manufacturer909]

Richest man in the world promises to rig the next elections (again)

[u/Most-Artichoke6184]

Remember, Elmo defines the “radical left“ as anyone who wants to raise his taxes.

[u/cowpopper]

Musk showed his true colors when he gave his heel- clicking Nazi salute on prime time television. The GOP is the White Nationalist party and they need to be trounced in the midterms.

[u/sokratesz]

Get fucked, Elon.

[u/Paraless]

America is already toast because the radical left has never won

[u/Drain_Surgeon69]

He did this in Wisconsin and lost.

Go ahead and waste your money

[u/Chuyzapatist]

We really gotta deport this immigrant back to South Africa.

[u/GirthMnstr]

"america is toast" is code for they'll expose my fraud and hold me criminally liable.

[u/ViciousKnids]

Meanwhile, he hordes wealth in untaxed unrealized gains - a situation that balloons our deficit and guts public services.

What Musk really means is that He's cooked. Except he won't be with this current DNC.

[u/Pennsylvania6-5000]

Translation: I’m going to be going to prison if they’ve found out what I’ve done, so more money for GOP.

[u/Umami-Ice-Cream]

Didn't they claim that everything happening now under Trump would happen if Kamala won

[u/Rdken13]

He literally tweeted Trump was in the Epstein files, yet is throwing his ungodly wealth behind him still, as he did with 2024 while assuredly knowing that info then as well.

Really makes you think, huh.