The richest man in the world, who also happens to be a U.S. defense contractor, is being criticized on social media on Sunday after questioning why people aren’t trying to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump over the weekend was tackled by his own Secret Service after an individual was reportedly spotted hiding on the former president’s golf course behind a bush with an AK-47. Authorities say they fired at the man, who was later apprehended and is being questioned.
A graphic designer posted a question, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” Elon Musk, who owns the social media company that he renamed from Twitter to “X,” posted a controversial statement in response.
“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” Musk wrote with a “thinking face” emoji.
The comment did not go over well.
This is the most poorly worded title…
I had to reread it multiple times because it initially seemed like the FBI was being flagged as a “major government contractor”
I think the goal was to tell the story in a way that doesn’t seem as familiar to point out just how crazy it is that we have become used to these headlines every single day.
Just saying elon musk tweeted a dumb thing is whatever. But keep in mind who he actually is despite… who he is.
A graphic designer posted a question, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?”
That ‘graphic designer’ is literally Musk’s alt account on twitter. It’s commonly known.
Edit: I’ve now read somewhere it’s some Indian guy simping for Musk. I honestly don’t know what to believe anymore.
Padme: So they’re going to cancel his defense contract, right?
SpaceX is beating the pants off every other domestic launch provider unfortunately. All because Musk took some fantastic risks with his own money, and they paid off handsomely. And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.
You may have heard about ULA having a wee bit of trouble with some capsule thrusters. They have lost some truly epic amounts of money on that program.
I wish we had a legal way to force musk out of spacex. I want spacex to succeed, I think it’s in our nature as humans to want to explore beyond our own planet. I don’t think it should be under private control of fascist billionaires with the interests of building feudalist space colonies
And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.
Not like the Tesla or Twitter shareholders are doing much good anyhow.
After reading the article about 24h worth of his tweets, this isn’t surprising. No lessons will be learned. I just want him to get run over by one of his full-self-driving cars and go away.
It just occurred to me to wonder: does he even drive one of his own company’s cars?
It doesn’t say if he drives all of them, but according to this he has at least 3-4 Teslas along with several other cars that he really shouldn’t be driving. Apparently he uses the Model Y as a “family car.”
This article is about his poor decision making skills regarding McLarens specifically.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spent-1-million-213715650.html?guccounter=1
At first read, I thought that the Trump campaign had flagged the FBI as a major government contractor and thus part of the Deep State 😄
Also, given the state of Twitter now, this is the part I find hardest to believe:
the comment did not go over well
