Jeff Tiedrich: Elon Musk refusing to accept the results of any poll he doesn't win is all the proof

[highplainsdem]

you need that he's a Republican

Link to tweet

[dchill]

1. "Republican" is just a slightly nicer way to say...

... "Apartheid Nazi." Which is what he actually is.

[Jerry2144]

2. Those are synonyms

Same meaning. Different words

[dchill]

3. "Republican" is the one with the very, very thin candy coating...

...that is still wet with Trump spit.

[plimsoll]

5. Gross, I can just picture that in the bowl.

"Hey, I didn't think they made white M&Ms."

[Tommymac]

4. Can't wait for the EU to ban twitter. You really don't fuck with their Privacy Laws.

I'm in IT and I know this. Fortune 200 Companies know this. Governments know this. The Financial Markets know this.

Obviously Karen, er, I mean Elon Musk doesn't believe it. Stupid fuck.

The EU don't fuck around. They have first hand experience with pitchforks and sharp surgical steel blades.

[plimsoll]

6. Well, it will be hard to actually "shut down."

As you know there are ways to get around stuff, so EU users will be able to get access. The bigger point will be the fines that accrue with each GDPR violation Elon permits.

[RainCaster]

19. What really matters is that European advertisers go away

Like that idiot doesn't have enough problems already.

[InstantGratification]

9. Karen

My current favorites are:

Space Karen

Apartheid Clyde

St Elmo's (Dumpster)Fire

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

12. Nice!

[DuranDuranDUme]

31. Space Karen first

But the 80s gurl says "St. Elmo's"

[samsingh]

10. musk is a more successful version of trump and desantis, and putin.

[FakeNoose]

14. You're only saying that because he hasn't actually filed for bankruptcy yet

[Wednesdays]

27. Not so successful anymore.

[republianmushroom]

7. Nailed it

[samsingh]

8. he's a huge disappointment

[Harker]

11. I liked him better before I'd ever heard of him. n/t

[MLAA]

13. Exactly

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. I used to admire him. Not that I knew much about him.

I assumed he had some technical skills and passion about electric vehicles. And also a sense of eco responsibility in bringing his first vehicles to market. Found out later he simply bought the company from the two who invented the first Tesla car.

Also liked him because he was spitting in the eye of both the mostly Republican resistors to any alternative energy development, and the big gas powered auto industry companies who killed the earlier electric car development attempt.

He was like a character out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel. A maverick who came out of nowhere to disrupt and punch a hole in the status quo. And almost single handedly pushed the other auto makers to get on board with EVs.

Because he pissed off a lot on the right, and the oil industry, I assumed also that he was at the very least neutral politically, if not leaning somewhat to the left. As left as a billionaire can be. Someone like a Warren Buffett at least. Boy was I wrong. i don't think he's too bright at all now. Easily fooled by disinformation from the extreme right. What a disappointment is right.

[SomedayKindaLove]

29. Musk

Thinks DeKlantis is center.

Easier to take the boy out of Apartheid than the other way around, I guess.

[Emrys]

23. I was vaguely aware of him, and immediately found him a tiresome oddball.

Last edited Tue Dec 20, 2022, 08:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Then he came to prominence over the Thai cave rescue and ensuing court case (which he won for some inexplicable reason) against the gratuitously maligned British caver, Vernon Unsworth, who ended up being one of the heroes of the episode.

I had Musk pegged as an utter arse at that point. I've seen no reason to revise my opinion.

[HuskyOffset]

33. Wasn't that the dumbest thing ever?

I was following that cave rescue, and when Elon offered his torpedo thingy to use in the rescue attempt, I had to scratch my head and wonder if I was missing something. I mean, the news people had been talking about all the tight passages and stuff, there was no way that thing was going to fit through them. It was just common sense.

[Emrys]

34. It was a techno-fix dreamt up by someone with zero experience of cave diving.

He was trying to turn a potential tragedy into a publicity stunt for his own benefit.

For pointing this out, Unsworth was subjected to disgusting repeated allegations of paedophilia and Musk set a private investigator on him! Musk then claimed in court (in a defamation case that he won because big lawyers, stupid court) that "pedo" was a run-of-the mill insult in South Africa and just banter.

I'm sure Musk will do some revolting things in future, but he'll have to go a long way to top that. (I don't intend that as a challenge.)

[Cha]

15. Well done, JT.. TY hpd nt

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Poll must have been rigged. Do over. Recount?? Sue yourself!

[TexasTowelie]

21. Impound the servers.

They were obviously hacked.

[Evolve Dammit]

30. Right! Must have been some error or plot..

[Hortensis]

18. Lol, at least proof that his views are anti-democratic, left OR right wing.

Or in him, maybe a situational scramble of all possibilities.

[Martin68]

25. I'd say this event demonstrated a great deal more than his anti-democratic tendencies. He has also

revealed himself to be a bald-faced liar, a manipulator, a narcissist, and a very clumsy fellow in the public an social sphere.

[Hortensis]

26. Agree. :) A man who uses his large brain would presumably

have integrated his various beliefs and impulses into a coherent, defensible whole before laying them out for the world like this.

[edbermac]

20. Sue him Jeff

He said he’d abide by the results of the poll.

[MontanaMama]

22. It might also be proof

that Mush went to tRump University.

[Martin68]

24. Wasn't it obvious from the beginning that he would not accept a negative result? He's all hat and no

cattle. He shares a great deal in common with Trump, personality wise.

[calimary]

28. Pretty much, actually. He doesn't care what anyone else thinks.

And his behavior is enough of a tip-off.

[Blue Owl]

32. A tRump Republican, and one of the very finest

[The Jungle 1]

35. This is our country

We the people need to put him out of business. His success is up to us.