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Firstly, "President Musk" isn't a joke.
Secondly, half the reason everybody says it is to piss off Vice-President Trump.
Secondly, half the reason everybody says it is to piss off ~~Vice-President Trump~~ First Lady Musk.
Fixed it for you. Trump doesn't even have the prestige or influence of a vice president (and that alone speaks volumes) in this situation.
Edit: no offense meant to women/trans folks.
Hey, just so you're aware, a lot of women and trans people find this joke pretty misogynistic and transphobic since it implies that it would be more demeaning for Elon to be a woman or queer than it is for him to be his regular cringey self. Something to keep in mind so we don't friendly-fire on our allies!
Edit for anyone still struggling with this: if 👏 you 👏 misgender 👏 ANYONE 👏 on purpose 👏 then 👏 trans 👏 people 👏 will 👏 not 👏 trust 👏 you 👏
ThePowerofGeek, you're great and appreciated and I hope you don't read anything below from the people who want you to have a worse reaction so their feelings don't get hurt vicariously.
I don't think you, or the people you're claiming to represent, understand the joke. First Lady Musk refers to Trump, not Elon. The implication isn't that it's demeaning to be a woman or queer, but that the spouse of the President has no real power or authority. This has nothing to do with their gender, and everything to do with the fact that they are the unelected spouse of an elected official.
The only ones who benefit when you misinterpret things in a way that implies unintended and unsubstantiated bigotry, are those who can use it to reinforce their claims of a misguidedly hypersensitive left, and thereby undermine justified recognition of intended and substantiated bigotry.
Then simple question, why not use First Gentleman? Kamala Harris' husband was Second Gentleman and would have been first if she had won.
You're speaking with a lot of confidence about the validity of the feelings of a group of people who, I'm guessing, you are not apart of.
Because those terms will not aggravate trump. The intent is to aggravate trump not denigrate femininity. Focus ffs. This isn’t about insulting trans people or women, it’s about fighting back on someone who is trying to hurt them. We will struggle to maintain allies if we cannot focus on the speakers intent and not a willing misinterpretation of their words.
Then simple question, why not use First Gentleman? Kamala Harris' husband was Second Gentleman and would have been first if she had won.
Going by your logic, that would be offensive to me, as a gay man.
But this kind of hypersensitivity, especially when applied regardless of context or intent, is one of the main drivers of the reactionary sentiment that is allowing the right to win elections all over the world. It's one of the reasons why the "free speech" argument has worked so well in their favor.
Currently, the only ones benefitting from this "moral high-ground" stance are fragile little baby egos like Musk and Trump who can rest assured knowing their opposition would never stoop as low as them, while they get to freely spew as much intentionally evil shit as they want.
A society where no one is ever offended by anyone is a utopia. It's as desirable as it is unattainable. I think the best thing we can do at the moment is focus on fighting back, not fighting against each other.
why not use First Gentleman?
Generally, jokes aren't funny when you convolute them with a distracting term that people don't know.
Kamala Harris' husband was Second Gentleman and would have been first if she had won
This is probably the second time I've read that term in 4 years. Still had to think about what it meant. I am getting the impression you don't make a lot of jokes or find them as vital as I do. I say that because I wrote several paragraphs about jokes, why they are important, and why I think it's bad if people stop making them. At no point did you respond to a word of that, and here I see you prioritizing "being PC" over a joke landing at all.
Hmm, good to know. Thanks.
The intent is to say something that will antagonise Trump. The intent is not to demean women.
Attacking someone who shares your moral platform because you purposefully misinterpret their words to suit a separate agenda is friendly fire.
Transphobia and misogyny are not to be tolerated, do you really think that someone attacking turnip (autocorrect, I’m leaving it) online doesn’t share your views on this?
Stip trying to police speech among your allies. Focus on intent. Stop with the nonsense infighting we are at war rn.
Trump isn't even vice president. He is "guy who has to sign papers."
Rubber-stamp Don
Be careful Don. If President Musk sees this, he may become upset with you and cut off your funding.
I don't know what everyone is bitching about, the US is finally getting their first African ~~American~~ president
FTFY
I don't know what everyone is bitching about, the US is finally getting their first African ~~American~~ president
Oh man, President Musk isn't going to like this. Good thing Trump is too chickenshit to voice this more publicly.
He can't voice it publicly or he'll get fired!!
What joke? He bought the presidency, and Thiel bought Vance for the vice presidency. It's the Musk/Theil ticket featuring the old guy who signs bills, and the guy who will replace old guy when old guy does.
With Facebook not fact-checking I really see this as an opportunity to galvanize the President Musk fact on as many posts as possible. Complaining about it only makes first lady Trump sound like a woke fake news puppet.
I think we need to allow the wealthy to have pistol duels like in the past. Also they must be to the death. At least we will be rid of one problem regardless each time...
In the past, the aggrieved party got to choose pistols or swords. And I'm thinking swords would be much more fun to watch. I'd pay good money to watch those two bozos flailing at each other with cutlasses.
Vice President Trump should do something about it then
This means we all need to make the ‘President Musk’ joke A LOT MORE.
What are you going to do about it, Mr. Vice President? You going to let that foreigner steal your spotlight? Pansy.
Man up and complain openly, chickenshit. Go on bite the hand that feeds
“hates ‘President Musk’ joke”
I mean… isn’t that the whole point? Wouldn’t his “big brain” understand that most obvious of ploys?
...don't really give a shit if he's annoyed with Musk. Please put him in prison.
So, is President Musk going to shove his hand up Dumpy's ass or just use strings?
Ya know... You now have immunity to get rid of him...
So.... Literally no new content.
I hate both of these guys, but this article is repeating old news from a month ago and speculating on the fact that trump has never left anyone unscathed after working with him.
I mean, he did sell himself to the highest bidder.
Now he is Elmo's pooch.
You love to see it!
Musk Puppet, king of Magastan
Hurt his widdle feels.
who's joking?
It's not a joke if it's true.
President Musk and first boyfriend Trump, what a combo.
Or first bestie?
