Elon Musk, the billionaire king of bad takes, came up with a new one to cement his reign on Sunday night.
Responding to a second potential assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life, the X owner questioned why no one was trying to kill the Democratic president and vice president.
“And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” he posted, adding a thinking-face emoji.
A near-instantaneous firestorm of criticism predictably followed, with several people telling him to “delete your account” and others tagging the U.S. Secret Service’s X account.
The difference is of course obvious to anyone who’s not knee deep in MAGA. (Hint: being a threat to democracy can unfortunately invite this sort of thing).
Still, really? This is what political discourse has come to lately? I mean, what the …
Or why nobody’s trying to kill him, for that matter. Maybe he should question that.
If I threatened to impregnate someone and called for stochastic terrorism against a vice president, I’d be in a cell real quick.
But when you’re a slavery mine heir and tech tagalong, it’s just “bad takes” I guess.
The Internet is forever.
I mean maybe I’m a bit off the wall here but is it possible that - and I’m just spitballing here - but isn’t it possible that being an absolutely insufferable, repugnant, lying, manipulative, egotistical, repulsive, persistent, whining, cry baby asshole that has an almost impressive penchant for pissing off virtually every one, every single second of every single day, on top of being a disagreeable politician could potentially make you a more likely target than just being a disagreeable politician? Idk maybe I’m crazy.