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Elon Musk says Saturday's protesters were "paid puppets." That's not what I saw.
(www.motherjones.com)
Every accusation is a projection.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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i was going to say something like this; he literally paid people to vote the "right way" in wisconsin.
And the conservative candidate still lost by 10 points despite that
People are pissed
Wait…where do I pick up my check?!?
No shit, I could use that.
Says the man literally signing million-dollar checks for votes.
Elon’s ketamine brain is having a very difficult time processing reality.
He can't remember who he paid to protest.
It's all a big blur.
The khole is a place where one finds some profound truths/insights about the mind, the universe, and life. You have to be a special kind of evil to have those moments and then still decide to be the villain.
Just look at his bitch mother and his nanny grooming father.
The nut 🌰 doesn’t fall far from the rotten tree
cocaine does make you hallucinate, he probably takes it regularly too.
Lol, right, 3 million paid protestors at over 1000 protests. Must be Soros again.
/s obviously
If they were paid $100 each, that's 300 million dollars. Your think that would be super easy to track. It would only take one person to leak the received payment.
Stupid people believe stupid things.
I doubt Elon really believes that. He's just trying to convince the gullible Magats, and I bet it's working to some extent.
IIRC, one of the critical things that caused the Sandy Hook families to get such a high payout from the Alex Jones/Infowars suit was the tearful testimony of one of the Sandy Hook victims, who was injured in the shooting, explaining to the jury that their own father accused them of lying and being a “crisis actor” because of Infowars bullshit conspiracy misinformation.
So yeah, it works. Shockingly well, even in situations where people have every reason to know better.
Jfc
Every accusation is a confession.
When is this clown going to understand that just because he has to pay people to be around him doesn’t mean that others have to do that too.
Paid?!?
Alright I'll bite, where's my fuckin check huh???
I don't think Mr Musk understands how expensive it would have been to pay that many people, especially at actor rates
Of course he does.
Obviously he knows that they weren't paid, he's just saying it because the word will spread and his idiot followers will eat that up, because they're fucking morons.
For anyone that thinks he might be telling the truth, who do they think are paying these thousands of people, and how much? To get random people to mobilize, I'm guessing it would take an average of $50-100 per person to make it worth their time. That's a lot of money for one protest let alone all of them.
It takes 2 seconds of critical thinking to understand that he's either blow smoke or he's so dumb that he thinks it's true.
I think stuff like has a chance to backfire. Similar to the town halls where Republican party called all the unhappy grannies and veterans "Soros plants" and "paid aggitators". Those are life long Republicans voters who until now believed all the propogranda but now that they themselves been called that they are starting to question it.
It of course won't matter for cult members, those are are beyond reaching, but it's something.
I hope that you're right. I have a hard time believing that a large chunk of these people will change their political alignment because their current ruler and his ilk insult them. If we make the assumption that elections continue relatively normal in 3.5 years and Trump hasn't found a way onto the ticket, I think these people will vote for the next Republican candidate because even though they've been burned, the next guy is different, but he still hates the browns, so they'll continue shooting themselves and everyone else in the foot.
I think best case with the insult victims is they don't vote out of apathy, because I don't think many of them will ever vote for a Democrat.
It's really up to the voters. I don't think you can convert these people into Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or another corporate Democrat voters, but some anti-oligarchy pro middle-class candidate would have a chance. Because while Republicans love their racism and bigotry, when polled on individual issues they all support that economic agenda. They can still be racist and bigots while not having to live paycheck to paycheck.
I think as long as it's the "Democratic" party, in name only, these people won't cross the line. Maybe if a far left party were to emerge and the Democratic party was more publicly viewed as the conservative party they are, some people might switch. That I think would unfortunately benefit the Republican party shirt term unless that new party gained traction extremely quickly.
I agree that Democratic party is toxic, but I disagree that those voters wouldn't cross the line for the right candidate, since we know they can. They already did that for Bernie Sanders, but sadly he was intentionally sabotaged by the DNC at the time. In the current environment I think it's even more likely where actions of Luigi Mangione were universally praised, you have cross-party hatred of robber barons and the myth of "Republicans are good for the economy" being shattered.
Did people cross the line for Bernie or did people show up for Bernie?
I just think the dem party is poison right now, with very little to suggest that that will change any time soon.
They showed up and crossed the line, yes
I think he actually believes his statement, i believe him and his assistant to the regional president helper actually believe that 'the average person' is at most a lesser being that doesn't have the level of awareness they have. And so many of the republican elected representatives of the people are willing to throw away their congressional oath to support them in their actions that it just proves their own skewed worldview.
This is the Arrested Development banana scene.
It's one banana, how much could it cost, $10?
Paid protesters? Damn it I want to find those jobs. I looked all over the place, even Facebook marketplace and Craigslist but nothing. If these guys are going to claim f****** paid protesters they need to bring the receipts cuz I need to see them
Another dogwhistle from the right.
You mean projection, I think
Why not both?
Yeah? Where's my George Soros check Elon? Where's my fucking money Elon? WHERE IS IT?
That's a lot of paid puppets, Felon. Also rich coming from someone paying voters.
Must feel weird to see people "paid" to do something political actually show up after he dumped millions in Wisconsin and still lost
So this is why we need to do this again and again
I say when we finally have Musk executed for treason, we do it by strapping him down directly underneath the firery end of one of his giant flying dicks. Let him see a launch up close. REALLY close.
Tbh I think that would be too fast, I'd make him drive a cyber truck till it catches fire (which might be faster actually)
Should one even share such statements by him, and be it just in the form of an article reporting critically on them? We know already that he is going to say deranged things and plain lies 24/7. So it's probably better to keep our feeds mostly free from his bullshit so that we can focus on learning useful information and growing the resistance.