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    Of course he is. Though, to be fair, it’s not the first time he called someone he’s mad at a “pedo guy”.

    On the other hand, I’m sure he knows a thing or two about Epstein’s associates.

    The only way this could get funnier is for the White House to release the Epstein files containing Elon out of spite.

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      The only way this could get funnier is for the White House to release the Epstein files containing Elon out of spite.

      …and fail to redact DJT properly

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        I’m actually surprised they haven’t done the classic yet, of releasing a “redacted” document where you can just highlight parts to reveal the text.

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          A bit more than friends of Epstein. She was the one who got Epstein women and girls to traffic wasn’t she?

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          the vast majority of articles and posts about her being maxwellhill a reddit mod and high karma poster have been removed?

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          famous redditor, cant find anything on google which is weird because ppl posted it on reddit a lot

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        Epstein and Maxwell went out of their way to get photos with every celebrity possible, I’m assuming for blackmail reasons, there’s photos of them with so many people where the photo they’re in was their first and last interaction - not to defend musk cause I have no idea the depth of their relationship, or potential lack there of, but this seems more like she snuck into the photo and he’s not even aware she’s there. I don’t personally believe musk is a pedo

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          Honestly, he looks fucked up and is standing quite a bit in front of her. For this photo, I might believe he didn’t know she was even there.

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            What’s interesting is that almost all the people involved with Epstein are people who suck, but probably most of them weren’t really aware of the child sex trafficking. Epstein’s “day job” was basically being the guy who introduced people to each-other. Rich and powerful people wanted to be part of his social circle so they could be introduced to other rich and powerful people. Because Epstein introduced people, he knew about deals early, which let him make money from them.

            Sure, Epstein had young-looking women around him, but that’s always true of rich guys. I’m sure he vetted the people he introduced to the really young ones carefully because he didn’t want the whole thing to blow up.

            Now, most people assume that everybody who had anything to do with Epstein is a pedophile. So, they’re hating the right people for the wrong reasons… and I can live with that.

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      “Elon, were you able to meet up with Ghislaine at kung fu practice on Saturday?”

      Allegedly an actual text between musk / Epstein

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      What’s her name used to moderate a major subreddit. I think it was r/worldnews but maybe my memory is failing me.

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          That much overvaluation isn’t comical, it’s scary. That bubble bursting is going to mess up some retirement funds.

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            if your retirement fund is in tesla stock you only have yourself to blame

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                as someone who is very far from retiring i have no idea about how people manage their retirement funds or how that whole system works. youre right, that would indeed be quite terrible

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                  The majority of people with 401ks don’t actively manage them, it’s usually generic broad based index funds or similar, which at this point almost assuredly includes Tesla

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        How TF can it be still positive YoY is beyond my understanding. Sales outside of US are tanking, the brand reputation ODd and died, the CEO will follow soon and he’s hated by everyone except tech bros.

        I guess publicly fighting orange Hitler should be the last nail in the coffin, but I don’t even know what to expect.

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    Beside the facts that everyone already assumed this:

    Musk apparantly knew this for certain AND still decided to support him.

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      Yeah but on the positive side, there are some people on the right that are dubious of Trump and yet still dumb enough to be fans of Musk - hopefully this will speak to them.

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    Oh, sweet. Nazi infighting, that’s a plus; AND does this mean he just very blatantly leaked classified information? In a functioning legal system (shut up, let me dream) this means he’s facing serious convictions, and lost his government contracts! Fucking yay!!

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      even worse. it means that he knew for a while and held that info until he got on trumps bad side.

      he was cool with pedofilia, but not cool when it’s by someone he no longer as use for.

      also, who wouldn’t be surprised if Musk hasn’t participated in rich people pedofilia

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        I’d almost believe that he didn’t because he’s so supremely weird about wanting a lot of children and that didn’t seem like a “to term” operation Epstein was running. But I could be wrong, I have no idea; I never dug into details about pedo island.

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        Not so sure this time. Trump has been trying to avoid that shit like the plague. He also had clear ties to Epstein. If he didn’t manage to make it to kangaroo court every time… There would be a significant amount of evidence to convict someone else in this case. I genuinely hope musk puts his weight behind it. Not that I like him either.

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          Not for Trump, but for Musk. He achieved his goals, so is trying to salvage his reputation before Tesla’s board kicks him for ruining the company’s profits.

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      Unfortunately, Elon Musk almost certainly wrote this tweet not knowing or being too high to realize that it was slander (or libel?) and if anything happens it will probably be Elon getting roasted in court.

      Still cool to have Elon get humiliated but Trump is the one who deserves justice handed to him for his ties to Epstein.

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        He called a rescue worker a paedophile because they refused to use his useless hypotethical drilling machine during a delicate rescue operation. Nothing happened.

        Nothing will happened this time either.

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      I always love this meme. The way that dude is simultaneously smiling, hitting weed, and in an action stance in case shit comes his way just makes me laugh.

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        I always assumed it was meth instead of weed. I’m not a meth-smoking expert though.

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          Nah, meth is usually smoked with a bowl pipe. It liquefies and boils when heated, so you need a bowl that will hold it once it liquefies.

          And if it’s a straight glass pipe instead of a bowl, that’s for crack. You shove some steel wool into it to act as a filter, then pack the crack in front of the steel wool. Because otherwise, sucking on the pipe would just suck the unlit crack straight through the pipe.

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      How much money could Trump save the US government by cancelling starship funding? All its achieved is exploding on a suborbital trajectory.

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        How much money could Trump save the US government by cancelling starship funding

        Some people are saying “Billions and billions”?

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        It would save the government some upfront money and then result in losses in the hundreds of billions as others can’t come close to the cost to orbit that Starship can.

        There’s nothing being designed today by anyone that would compete with it if successful.

        Falcon 9 as it is saves the government billions of dollars.

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          Starship is the one that has never made it to orbit and keeps exploding

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            For all intents and purposes, starship has made it to orbit a few times. They purposely kept it sub orbital by cutting the engines off a few seconds early so it would re-enter the atmosphere where and as planned for their tests.

            You wouldn’t want a ship designed to survive re-entry to fail, and make landfall over a major city, but they have landed it as planned in the ocean in a controlled manner a couple times.

            (Edit: also the last 3 launches have been the V2 ship. It’s substantially different than the V1s they did land in the ocean and is having some growing pains)

            In the time SpaceX has designed, launched, landed, and reused two orbital boosters, no one else has done it once.

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    Everyone should remember that Elon doesn’t care about political parties. He could give a shit less about the right or the left. He’s in it for the money.

    He played the right, getting an idiot elected who would allow him to gut the agencies auditing his companies. Now when he’s done with them and his base is upset with him for selling out, he’s pivoting back and trying to appease them.

    It has always been about the money. Fuck Elon Musk.

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      Elon is so incompetent that he thinks he is playing poker but shows everyone his hand.

      We see you, Elon, go ahead. The world is watching as you wanted. We will watch you lose to yourself.

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        He shows everyone his hand, but in his hand he holds a royal flush, 5 black lotus, a Mega Mewtwo, and half a trillion dollars.

        The problem is that the cards are stacked so much in his favour that he doesn’t have to hide his hand. We see him allright. But what good does this do? Can we un-elect him? Can we impeach him? What can we do? Pretty much nothing.

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            True, but the one who gets inconvenienced the most is the poor minimum wage fool working at the dealership.

            Seriously: That guy is worth half a trillion dollars. Even if he looses 99% of his wealth, he wouldn’t actually notice. It wouldn’t change one thing about his living standard.

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        Started with daddy’s Emerald mine money and lots of pump and dump schemes. We all know it now. The FTC knew it when they forced him to buy twitter.

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      I never even wondered if muskrat had any siblings, he has such an “only child” energy that it didn’t seem worth even thinking about. Gotta read up on them (he apparently has a sister too). Can only guess what weird shit will come up.

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    My favourite thing about this is just how thoroughly predictable it was.

    And I don’t mean in hindsight either, tons of people called it the moment Elon started hanging around Trump.

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    We already knew this. This isn’t hidden information. They released the manuscript of everyone who visited the island. Half his family went there multiple times.

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      The actual message doesn’t have anything to do with any facts about what he said, it’s more just that he thinks it’s a “really big bomb” to drop.

      The actual message is just “I am turning against this guy in a way that I think is a big deal so anyone who has more loyalty to me than him should know that you have to pick a side now.”

      It’s a really big bomb for Donald Trump to see that Elon is taking staking a position.

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        He’s playing the Qanut card. trump has been told that’s his card. It’s gotta hurt.

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    It kind of rings hollow when he was bringing his child around the guy while Donald wasn’t releasing the files, along with being one of his biggest cheerleaders.

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    Damn please tell me this is a real tweet, I’d love a good pyrrhic victory for one of these two assholes

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    Yeah obviously, but so what? The guy was convicted of 34 felonies and was still allowed to become president. Unless there’s a consequence for any of these scum (and no, Elon losing some money while still having more than every single person on this site combined will see in a hundred lifetimes doesn’t count) who gives a shit about any more proof of Trump’s crimes?

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      The only reason he hasn’t gotten away with shooting someone on 5th avenue is from lack of trying.

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    The big bomb would be a paper trail showing how they rigged the election.

    We’ve already seen the documents that say trump is a rapist paedophile.

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      That’s a massive claim, so it’ll require some substantial evidence. However, there are many statistical irregularities in swing states and other anomalies that haven’t occurred for 100+ years.

      There are already several SMART and ETA lawsuits in a few states to demand recounts/audits.

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      There’s no way the election was rigged, this is 2020 election denial bullshit. The election results were in line with what the polls were showing, and it also shows in his approval ratings. The reality is that the people really wanted Trump again for some reason.

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      The election wasn’t rigged (in the sense you’re hoping for, or that MAGAs were alleging for the 2020 election). On a federal level it’s deeply broken because of state administration, voter suppression, loopholes allowing for billionaires to fund election campaigns and first past the post.

      On a state level from what I can tell it’s much the same with a few exceptions.

      I kinda doubt Musk had to do anything illegal to influence the election.