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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Musk knew this and gave him a quarter billion smackers to become president.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He'll just claim he only just discovered it in the DOGE files.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Which is also harder because... that's admitting that dodge is sifting through classified data that they are very far from authorized to have.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And it'd be breaking the law by revealing the info itself.

He would have had to found out via some other means that didn't involve access to classified information.

Edit: what if he sues for Libel forcing Elon to show proof and the proof elon has is from classified info hah.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 month ago (3 children)

So you're admitting that you support(ed) a pedo?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well at least in elon's case the s*** didn't fall far from the horse's ass. His father was a grooming pedophile as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

An incest pedo at that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can say "shit" on this website, buddy. It's okay to use creative language

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I often do. However the google a speech to text itself is shit and automatically censors all that, and i've yet to find a way to disable it. So one will always slip through now and again without getting fixed.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He brought his young child to the office of a guy he knows is a pedo.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That wasn't a young child. That was his meat shield.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Musk is absolutely also a pedo. His projection many years ago with that rescue worker was insane.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

duh.. they were like best friends for 15 years when they lived right beside each other in Miami, he met his bloody child wife Melanomia through Maxwell at an Epstein party ffs.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First of all: zero surprise.

Second of all:

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I see two possibilities:

  1. Musk finally realized that the main buyers for EVs are more left than right, and is now trying to rescue TSLA from collapse.

  2. He’s a drug-addled raging narcissist with poor impulse control and worse judgment who loves being in the headlines.

It’s actually kind of hard to apply Occam’s Razor here.

Edit: Another possibility is that Elmo learned that Trump’s people leaked (heheh) the ketamine bladder damage story to the NYT.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's no reason both can't be true.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, I mean, 2 is for sure true, but 1 may or may not be in the mix at this point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's not coming back from the Nazi salute thing. I guess in the US there's limited options for electric cars, but in Europe and Australia BYD is eating Tesla's lunch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I agree. I mean it's a pretty consistent 90 degree nosedive for him and has been for a while lol

Love to see it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think 1 would be more accurately phrased that the shareholders have told him that in no uncertain terms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I'm sure that has happened at some point.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

What was his next big reveal? That he's not 6' 3" and weighs more than 215 lbs?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

But they're both Drake.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't put Kendrick's name anywhere near these fools.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why not? Kendrick ain’t anything special.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bruh he won a fucking Pulitzer

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hardly listen to any hip hop (middle aged white guy) but I dove in when he did the superbowl and really enjoyed his music.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

That would be in line with what we already know.

https://youtu.be/Jpstc9r_esA

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf

COMPLAINT FOR RAPE, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACTS, SEXUAL ABUSE, FORCIBLE TOUCHING, ASSAULT, BATTERY, INTENTIONAL AND RECKLESS INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, DURESS, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND DEFAMATION

Plaintiff Jane Doe, proceeding under a pseudonym, brings this action against Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein, and alleges that...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I thought we already knew that?

But either way, this is what we need: for the Right to balkanize and start publicly attacking each other. The Democrats are totally ineffectual at this sort of thing and the news will only report on it if the right wing does it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somehow I don't think the people who voted for a felon rapist traitor conman are going to care if he fucked some kids.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

...and in other news...

DUH.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hm. Well, before Musk said this, I 110% believed for certain that Trump was in the Epstein files. Now that he's the one who's saying it, I'm...not so sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

/s, but seriously, this guy lies a lot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I thought the Musk-Trump feud was political theatre but this sounds like it has actual venom in the words.
Maybe the honeymoon is really over

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is all distraction, while the shitballs in Congress pass the Big Beautiful Bill, which is engineered to destroy what's left of society.

Americans love them a shiny object.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These guys deserve each other.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

oh, I thought musk would be in the epstein file too. I thought it was mutually assure destruction. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Can’t wait till trump hits back with blacked out files showing only Elon’s name

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I don't like that Musk is the one 'revealing' this news. It seems like MAGAs opinion has soured enough that he could easily be considered just another part of the 'woke media empire'.

I hope I'm wrong, but this seems like it could be used to fuel misinformation quite easily.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Musk needs to fuck off forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We know. This isn’t new or news. They were friends. There’s a trump quote about Epstein liking “younger girls” just like Trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Someone ran out of Ecstasy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

What a petty diva Musk is. FFS, every jab Musk tries to land on Trump circles 'round to him. As he, himself stated he got Trump elected despite credible accusations that Trump palled around with and knew about Epstein's PDFilia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://youtu.be/xvOhgtSiza4?t=192 same drama queens, but some have too much power.

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