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Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 09:54 AM Dec 2024

Elmo had a tantrum last night

Molly Jong-Fast‬ ‪
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social‬
8h
Elon seems perturbed


Josh Marshall
‪@joshtpm.bsky.social‬
Fuck yourself in the face is the mean kind, right? Not the when two people love each other kind?
December 28, 2024




Fuck yourself in the face is the mean kind, right? Not the when two people love each other kind?

Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2024-12-28T13:50:05.664Z
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Elmo had a tantrum last night (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Dec 2024 OP
So now we have 2 absolute monsters trying to take over the country and the world. milestogo Dec 2024 #1
Like Godzilla and Rodan meeting in DC for a showdown. Magoo48 Dec 2024 #27
Throw in JD, and you have The Madcap Dec 2024 #37
Oh shit, it's gonna get messy. Magoo48 Dec 2024 #84
Tell Ugly little Elmo to STFU. He is s boring already. Trueblue1968 Dec 2024 #94
He's a great example of a "bad billionaire." The Madcap Dec 2024 #139
Well, so much for that "Compassionate Conservatism" you heard about surfered Dec 2024 #2
That slogan's been dead for years Hekate Dec 2024 #104
Still-Born!!!!! BurnDoubt Dec 2024 #124
These people are hardly Conservative OKIsItJustMe Dec 2024 #128
Isn't the term "Compassionate Conservative" ReRe Dec 2024 #136
No, it is not. OKIsItJustMe Jan 2025 #141
You're right, of course ReRe Jan 2025 #142
I don't think so. I honestly don't hear the phrase much these days. OKIsItJustMe Jan 2025 #143
Just a hunch ReRe Jan 2025 #145
He's one filthy human being. I'll never buy anything he's involved with. Would like to see a allegorical oracle Dec 2024 #3
Well there... 2naSalit Dec 2024 #4
C'mon, Karma! buzzycrumbhunger Dec 2024 #31
Is Eloon trying to tell us he does this on a regular basis ? magicarpet Dec 2024 #65
There bdamomma Dec 2024 #102
What a nice guy.... NewHendoLib Dec 2024 #5
Let's discuss his H-1B gab13by13 Dec 2024 #6
I thought once info like that is revealed, the person is kicked out of the country regardless of the decades in the USA. TheBlackAdder Dec 2024 #9
Which is why Melania never had the "news conference" Tanuki Dec 2024 #32
... the proverbial "2 weeks" ... fierywoman Dec 2024 #115
A friend's husband was deported to Pakistan years after his student visa expired NickB79 Dec 2024 #25
+1. Musk committed immigration fraud. He should be denaturalized and deported dalton99a Dec 2024 #29
Thats what i was thinking... slightlv Dec 2024 #48
Had a friend decades ago who worked for Motorola SheltieLover Dec 2024 #69
Was it not Penn? Pachamama Dec 2024 #53
Seems like someone with a degree in physics would grasp the anatomical difficulty in doing so. tanyev Dec 2024 #7
He doesn't have a real degree in physics. travelingthrulife Dec 2024 #15
Ah, well there ya go. tanyev Dec 2024 #18
He does not have a real degree in anything, since he never matriculated niyad Dec 2024 #24
He "matriculated" to Stanford; that just means he enrolled. But he dropped out 2 days later. unblock Dec 2024 #33
He never enrolled at Stanford, since he had no undergraduate degree. niyad Dec 2024 #38
Interesting; the Stanford daily agrees -- no official record of him enrolling unblock Dec 2024 #50
Shhh.... Can't y'all see Mumps is busy geniusing. Hugin Dec 2024 #58
I'm confused - why was he at Penn? Pachamama Dec 2024 #72
Penn was undergraduate; Stanford was supposedly for a ph.d. unblock Dec 2024 #79
Thanks for filling in details... Pachamama Dec 2024 #91
Elon Musk is George Santos with $250B. sop Dec 2024 #60
EXACTLY!!! niyad Dec 2024 #70
THIS !!! uponit7771 Dec 2024 #76
Yup! berniesandersmittens Dec 2024 #85
And he did not invent Tesla cars mahina Dec 2024 #99
There once was a man from Nantucket NickB79 Dec 2024 #26
I laughed out loud when I read your comment. rhiannon55 Dec 2024 #119
I thought Elmo was an illegal entry. TheBlackAdder Dec 2024 #8
Illegal over stay, what most do. sunflowerseed Dec 2024 #11
No. He came in on a student visa and never attended school. travelingthrulife Dec 2024 #16
I knew someone who did that. milestogo Dec 2024 #21
Lying on an application? Prof. Toru Tanaka Dec 2024 #52
He attended the University of Pennsylvania LeftInTX Dec 2024 #129
Trump has turned the USA into a Junior High School feud between Geeks and Jocks. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Dec 2024 #10
Yeah this is totally normal. OrlandoDem2 Dec 2024 #12
Leon did more than overstay his visa, he violated it. gab13by13 Dec 2024 #13
As I understand from Seth Abramson's report, he never actually entered niyad Dec 2024 #30
He could have enrolled and quit after 2 days, gab13by13 Dec 2024 #55
See post 50. One actually needs, at least in most cases, an niyad Dec 2024 #67
Typical republican "exceptionism" intrepidity Dec 2024 #14
Incidentally ... 4th Dec 2024 #17
Every cloud has a silver lining. comradebillyboy Dec 2024 #36
Their usefulness has ended. yardwork Dec 2024 #46
Brown shirts. Iggo Dec 2024 #59
Fuck yourself in the face? ecstatic Dec 2024 #19
Ron Jeremy has entered the chat. TrumanTheTiger Dec 2024 #28
LOL! Took me a sec to get that statement! :) n/t slightlv Dec 2024 #51
LOL n/t Alice Kramden Dec 2024 #118
I have to say that a new one in me underpants Dec 2024 #49
He thinks he's Les Grossman, Tom Cruise's character from "Tropic Thunder". bluesbassman Dec 2024 #54
I've heard the saying that the French fuck with their face... SunSeeker Dec 2024 #117
Who was the original target for his ire? Anyone know the comment & poster to which he was responding? hlthe2b Dec 2024 #20
Ok... I'm going in (plugs nose)... Dennis Donovan Dec 2024 #22
Oh, thank you for your sacrifice & service. It is a pit of disgust on that site... Apparently, hlthe2b Dec 2024 #23
Bookmark Pachamama Dec 2024 #66
Monumental assholes like Musk... GiqueCee Dec 2024 #34
Kick orangecrush Dec 2024 #35
Steve Bannon is on Team MAGA: Dennis Donovan Dec 2024 #39
Corporate media will side with Musk. Bannon & Loomer will be put in the "unrepentant racist" corner dalton99a Dec 2024 #41
On a serious note - CPS should be called about the child that he carries around on his shoulders and to all meetings Pachamama Dec 2024 #75
It could be worse Emrys Dec 2024 #97
im agreeing with Steve Bannon now? mwooldri Dec 2024 #121
Bannon brings a lot of body odor to Captain Zero Dec 2024 #126
And you wanna be my government efficiency expert... Prairie Gates Dec 2024 #40
Musk & Ramaswamy want to fire federal employees and replace them with Indians dalton99a Dec 2024 #43
😆😆😆😆😆 underpants Dec 2024 #44
He sure can't take The Madcap Dec 2024 #42
He already has the top of the line security detail. gab13by13 Dec 2024 #61
Guess who had a bad christmas with his mountain of children in his compound in Texas. Mr. Sparkle Dec 2024 #45
"F yourself in the face"?! WTAbsoluteF?! Clouds Passing Dec 2024 #47
Is there any way to revoke that H1B? TBF Dec 2024 #56
Not sure S Africa wants him back. Guess that's why he wants to build in TX so he'll allegorical oracle Dec 2024 #89
I really need to find a way to leave TX. nt TBF Dec 2024 #96
He's also a Canadian citizen. He's lucky. He can be deported to Canada. LeftInTX Dec 2024 #133
I'm sure bdamomma Dec 2024 #105
He's a US citizen and if his citizenship is revoked he can be deported to Canada since he's also a citizen of Canada. LeftInTX Dec 2024 #132
Another psychopath. Irish_Dem Dec 2024 #57
Why are you even in a position to address Americans with that dirty mouth? Hope22 Dec 2024 #62
RWers are busy banning books, but Musk's disgusting posts are fine with them. nt allegorical oracle Dec 2024 #109
True words! It's a form of abuse and I'm full up on it. Hope22 Dec 2024 #110
Space X is completely founded on our tax money Blue Full Moon Dec 2024 #63
We spent too much time focusing on the wrong guy. 3825-87867 Dec 2024 #64
I am generally in favor of H1B visas genxlib Dec 2024 #68
snork AllaN01Bear Dec 2024 #71
No, maybe u are thinking of tesla, he founded SpaceX EX500rider Dec 2024 #140
Gonna cost Elmo money. He ain't happy about it. paleotn Dec 2024 #73
"I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend." Go to war with whom, Elon? sop Dec 2024 #74
He's threatening Americans? 3825-87867 Dec 2024 #80
The USA needs more humans, not more TechnoKrauts bucolic_frolic Dec 2024 #77
H1b obviously needs an update. Mblaze Dec 2024 #78
MAGA's counterargument: LudwigPastorius Dec 2024 #81
there are not enuff diapers in the WH to go around.... samnsara Dec 2024 #82
Just reeks of entitlement Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2024 #83
Positively Churchillian, isn't he? PCIntern Dec 2024 #86
Omigawd, a nerd threat. marble falls Dec 2024 #87
Tim Pool's not falling for any of it because it's "an op." Dennis Donovan Dec 2024 #88
By the looks of Mump... he already did that to himself. Cha Dec 2024 #90
Bwaahahaha... Pachamama Dec 2024 #92
lol Cha Dec 2024 #93
If the next few years weren't going to be so devastating... jmowreader Dec 2024 #95
Emo Elmo is having a sad? Aussie105 Dec 2024 #98
"War...the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend" MadameButterfly Dec 2024 #100
republicons can be so NASTY BoRaGard Dec 2024 #101
If you did that there'd be nothing left Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2024 #138
The man with the punchable face said what? Hekate Dec 2024 #103
This is a professional working in our government who we will pay with our tax dollars? Trueblue Texan Dec 2024 #106
It's tempting to say that we have a "two-tiered justice system." Straw Man Dec 2024 #107
This will be a fun fight to watch LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2024 #108
His language is pathetic Unladen Swallow Dec 2024 #111
Oooooh I'm trembling with fear Blue Owl Dec 2024 #112
Awww Sylvermoon Dec 2024 #113
Trump will ForgedCrank Dec 2024 #114
Or vice versa RVN VET71 Dec 2024 #137
SpaceX and Starlink should be considered of interest to our National Defense Lithos Dec 2024 #116
I totally agree! No H-1Bs for our space industry, national defense etc. LeftInTX Dec 2024 #134
Good thread Alice Kramden Dec 2024 #120
This is not going to end well for someone. Exactly who remains to be seen. Wiz Imp Dec 2024 #122
Funny 😹 Meowmee Dec 2024 #123
GOOD, Elmo, you DO that.... I especially like the part where your lap-dog Trump Jack Valentino Dec 2024 #125
So what he's saying, immigrants made this country great tulipsandroses Dec 2024 #127
Oh, geez. Now he's going to unleash his incomprehensible Musk powers on us. Buns_of_Fire Dec 2024 #130
Coming to a theater near you: "Elon Musk vs. Steve Bannon" Don't miss it!!! C0RI0LANUS Dec 2024 #131
He can't even curse like a normal person. Buddyzbuddy Dec 2024 #135
republicon billionaires threatening war on America BoRaGard Jan 2025 #144

milestogo

(23,098 posts)
1. So now we have 2 absolute monsters trying to take over the country and the world.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 09:57 AM
Dec 2024

And they have no hesitation about showing off how evil they are.

Trueblue1968

(19,257 posts)
94. Tell Ugly little Elmo to STFU. He is s boring already.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 02:32 PM
Dec 2024

I am do done with him. He is hideous and Deplorable.

The Madcap

(1,918 posts)
139. He's a great example of a "bad billionaire."
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 04:23 PM
Dec 2024

I'll take Bill Gates and Warren Buffett any day over Eloon.

OKIsItJustMe

(21,875 posts)
128. These people are hardly Conservative
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:02 AM
Dec 2024

Compassionate Conservativesdo exist.

Wead contended that the policies of Republican conservatives should be motivated by compassion, not protecting the status quo. He declared himself to be "a bleeding heart conservative," meaning that he cared for people and sincerely believed that a free marketplace was better for the poor.

OKIsItJustMe

(21,875 posts)
141. No, it is not.
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 12:36 PM
Jan 2025

I personally know “compassionate conservatives.” Investigate who (aside from the government) is feeding the hungry, clothing the poor and sheltering the homeless in your area. I expect, you will find “compassionate conservatives” at work. Whether it is the "Salvation Army," the “Y,” “Habitat for Humanity,” dozens of other organizations or individual churches who provide free meals.

Jimmy Carter was a “compassionate conservative:

❝I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. I’m free to choose that something. ... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can.❞


Half a century ago, a big question regarding Jimmy Carter was, “What does ‘born again’ mean?

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
142. You're right, of course
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 10:53 PM
Jan 2025

But wouldn't you agree that a majority of republicans have latched onto the term, when there isn't a compassionate bone in their bodies? Those are the "compassionate" conservatives I was speaking of.

OKIsItJustMe

(21,875 posts)
143. I don't think so. I honestly don't hear the phrase much these days.
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 05:03 PM
Jan 2025

Other phrases which may sound like oxymorons, but which aren’t: Democratic-Republican, Liberal-Conservative, Republican-Socialist.

In my opinion, today’s MAGA movement, is not Compassionate, Conservative, or even Republican.

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
145. Just a hunch
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 03:39 AM
Jan 2025

but I imagine I am much older than you. I think I first heard the term "compassionate conservative" during the George H.W. Bush years. I later learned that there didn't seem to be a compassionate bone in any Republican. The only compassion I heard tell of was out of the Democratic Party. Compassion. It just sounds "socialist", don't ya know. That's where I was coming from.

I totally agree with your summation of the Maga movement, BTW.

allegorical oracle

(6,489 posts)
3. He's one filthy human being. I'll never buy anything he's involved with. Would like to see a
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:07 AM
Dec 2024

pressure movement to keep him as far away from our national security as possible. He's unsavory, probably dishonest, and should not be allowed to be involved with any classified information.

2naSalit

(102,908 posts)
4. Well there...
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:10 AM
Dec 2024

leon skum, you can fuck yourself in the face. I hope something really bad happens to him and soon. Something that destroys him in every way.

magicarpet

(18,556 posts)
65. Is Eloon trying to tell us he does this on a regular basis ?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:06 PM
Dec 2024

Is Stormy Daniels available to verify Eloons junk is actually long enough to pull off this stunt.

This brings self gratification to new lengths and heights. Did not think Eloon was so limber.

bdamomma

(69,533 posts)
102. There
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 07:32 PM
Dec 2024

will be roadblocks in his way. I'm sure there will be power struggle with this 1%, they will eat each other's faces.

gab13by13

(32,360 posts)
6. Let's discuss his H-1B
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:11 AM
Dec 2024

He was here on a student visa to attend Stanford and records show he didn't even show up, I believe, but for sure, he never graduated.

He violated his student visa and should have been deported.

Trump will not say shit about this if this is what Putin wants.

TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
9. I thought once info like that is revealed, the person is kicked out of the country regardless of the decades in the USA.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:20 AM
Dec 2024

Tanuki

(16,449 posts)
32. Which is why Melania never had the "news conference"
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:23 AM
Dec 2024

Trump claimed, back in 2016, that she would have in "a couple of weeks" to show all of her immigration records and clear up any remaining questions!

NickB79

(20,367 posts)
25. A friend's husband was deported to Pakistan years after his student visa expired
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:19 AM
Dec 2024

He was even married to an American woman and had a child with her.

But he was also a POS wife beater, so no tears shed when immigration finally got him.

slightlv

(7,795 posts)
48. Thats what i was thinking...
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:44 AM
Dec 2024

Knew he came in on a student visa but never graduated. Didn't know he didn't even show up at all!

And an H1B is a work visa, not a student visa, i believe. For a long while... like a decade or two... we IT types were losing our jobs to these people, many of whom we had to train for our positions if we hoped to get any kind of severance. I, personally, have no love lost for these people. If jobs had been made for them, that would have been one thing... but telling us we weren't as good as, or as smart as, these immigrants, and then having to train these smart people in what and how we do our jobs just really stuck in the craw.

And yet, beyond that, Elon can't even tell the truth about a lie everyone knows.

Guess this puts him on the opposite side of thought front T on deportation. This ought to be fun to watch! Now... where's that Potus Elon and VP Trump meme. With Elon flexing his muscles acting like a king, now is the time to start posting it everywhere multiple times a day, IMO.

SheltieLover

(80,656 posts)
69. Had a friend decades ago who worked for Motorola
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:08 PM
Dec 2024

She & her husb both, in fact. In IT.

They both had to train foreigners brought in take their jobs from them.

It was extremely traumatic for them because Motorola was like a city unto itself. All their socialization revolved around people from work. There wasn't much else around. I think it was in AZ.

What really frosted their asses though was when the immigrants they were training would say demeaning things directly to them about Americans in a snarky way, as if goading them.

I'm sure Motorola assured the immigrants nobody would hurt their fefes, & anyone who did would be terminated immediately.

Fucking sickening.

So you have my sympathy for what you had to live through.

tanyev

(49,318 posts)
7. Seems like someone with a degree in physics would grasp the anatomical difficulty in doing so.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:13 AM
Dec 2024

niyad

(132,565 posts)
24. He does not have a real degree in anything, since he never matriculated
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:18 AM
Dec 2024

from any of the schools he supposedly atttended. The "degree" he does "have" was purchased for him years later.

niyad

(132,565 posts)
38. He never enrolled at Stanford, since he had no undergraduate degree.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:30 AM
Dec 2024

Read Seth Abramson's substack about him.

unblock

(56,203 posts)
50. Interesting; the Stanford daily agrees -- no official record of him enrolling
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:44 AM
Dec 2024
https://stanforddaily.com/2024/11/11/elon-musk-stanford-work-status/

Making it even worse. He would have been here illegally as soon as he dropped out anyway, if that was what happened. But he could have argued that he changed his mind once he got to campus, so at least his intentions were good.

Instead, it looks even more that he lied from the get-go and his entry into the u.s. was a complete fraud.

Hugin

(37,849 posts)
58. Shhh.... Can't y'all see Mumps is busy geniusing.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:55 AM
Dec 2024

Right now he’s contemplating anatomically autonomic sexual positions. Maybe he should get GROK on it.

unblock

(56,203 posts)
79. Penn was undergraduate; Stanford was supposedly for a ph.d.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:27 PM
Dec 2024

I'm not up on all the details, but I think he was legally here for an undergraduate at penn, then dropped out before graduating to supposedly go to Stanford for a ph.d., but never even enrolled and started being a business conman.

A couple years later, he negotiated a degree from penn. maybe he actually completed coursework, or maybe he bought them a swimming pool, who knows.

travelingthrulife

(5,214 posts)
16. No. He came in on a student visa and never attended school.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:40 AM
Dec 2024

Then lied about it all for his naturalization application.

milestogo

(23,098 posts)
21. I knew someone who did that.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:57 AM
Dec 2024

Came here from Germany. He got some kind of graduate school physics scholarship. He enrolled but only went to the first week of classes. After that he travelled around the US, always sleeping on somebody's couch.

He had a chance at a really good education, and instead he squandered it.

LeftInTX

(34,352 posts)
129. He attended the University of Pennsylvania
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:03 AM
Dec 2024

Musk arrived in Canada in June 1989, connected with a second cousin in Saskatchewan,[38] and worked odd jobs including at a farm and a lumber mill.[39] In 1990, he entered Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.[40][41] Two years later, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied until 1995.[42] Although Musk has said that he earned his degrees in 1995, the University of Pennsylvania did not award them until 1997 – a Bachelor of Arts in physics and a Bachelor of Science in economics from the university's Wharton School.[43][44][45][46][47] He reportedly hosted large, ticketed house parties to help pay for tuition, and wrote a business plan for an electronic book-scanning service similar to Google Books.[48]

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,054 posts)
10. Trump has turned the USA into a Junior High School feud between Geeks and Jocks.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:20 AM
Dec 2024

This shall surely get the price of eggs down.

gab13by13

(32,360 posts)
13. Leon did more than overstay his visa, he violated it.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:34 AM
Dec 2024

Elon Musk entered a Ph.D. program in physics at Stanford University, but he left after only two days.

niyad

(132,565 posts)
30. As I understand from Seth Abramson's report, he never actually entered
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:22 AM
Dec 2024

any graduate program, at Stanford or anywhere else, since he had not graduated from any of the three colleges he supposedly attended.

niyad

(132,565 posts)
67. See post 50. One actually needs, at least in most cases, an
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:06 PM
Dec 2024

undergraduate degree to enroll in a graduate program, and he had none.

yardwork

(69,375 posts)
46. Their usefulness has ended.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:39 AM
Dec 2024

They should have bothered to learn more about what Hitler did with useful fools.

ecstatic

(35,081 posts)
19. Fuck yourself in the face?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:46 AM
Dec 2024

Never heard of that. That must be a white South African expression.

Also, it appears he's threatening to start a war in our country. Isn't that grounds for having his citizenship revoked?

underpants

(196,586 posts)
49. I have to say that a new one in me
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:44 AM
Dec 2024

I’ll remember that for the golf course except I’ll turn it back on myself.
I always thought this was a Sam Snead saying and I use it all the time “Boy, I looked like a monkey fucking a football on that one”

bluesbassman

(20,384 posts)
54. He thinks he's Les Grossman, Tom Cruise's character from "Tropic Thunder".
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:52 AM
Dec 2024

Tom was way more believable when he said it, and a helluva lot funnier too. Muskoil just sounds pathetic and lame.

SunSeeker

(58,288 posts)
117. I've heard the saying that the French fuck with their face...
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 09:53 PM
Dec 2024

"The French they are a funny race; they fight with their feet, and fuck with their face!"--Winston Churchill https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Unquotable:Winston_Churchill

hlthe2b

(114,018 posts)
20. Who was the original target for his ire? Anyone know the comment & poster to which he was responding?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 10:52 AM
Dec 2024

I hope it was a "barn burner"...

Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
22. Ok... I'm going in (plugs nose)...
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:06 AM
Dec 2024

(*breaks surface*) Cough! Gak! God, I can't get the taste out of my mouth!!

Anyhow, here's the original tweet. It looks like he was talking to an ally:


hlthe2b

(114,018 posts)
23. Oh, thank you for your sacrifice & service. It is a pit of disgust on that site... Apparently,
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:15 AM
Dec 2024

when it hits home directly with Elon's own situation and past, he melts down. That might be a handy thing to know and use in the future.

GiqueCee

(4,305 posts)
34. Monumental assholes like Musk...
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:25 AM
Dec 2024

... always self-destruct eventually, but the damage they do in the interim can be catastrophic in direct proportion to the resources they can bring to bear on the object of their wrath.
The math is pretty simple on this one. Neutralize this psychopath somehow, or God help us all.

Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
39. Steve Bannon is on Team MAGA:
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:30 AM
Dec 2024
News Eye
‪@newseye.bsky.social‬
MAGA are currently eating their own on a range of other platforms - and they haven’t even made it to the inauguration. Magnificent.

It’s a DOGE eat DOGE world out there. 🍿

December 28, 2024 at 2:20 AM


Heh... "toddler"

MAGA are currently eating their own on a range of other platforms - and they haven’t even made it to the inauguration. Magnificent.

It’s a DOGE eat DOGE world out there. 🍿

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 2024-12-28T07:20:35.530Z

dalton99a

(94,274 posts)
41. Corporate media will side with Musk. Bannon & Loomer will be put in the "unrepentant racist" corner
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:33 AM
Dec 2024

Trump will talk out of both sides of his mouth

Rank-and-file MAGA will revolt.


Pachamama

(17,565 posts)
75. On a serious note - CPS should be called about the child that he carries around on his shoulders and to all meetings
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:15 PM
Dec 2024

That is scary what he is doing to endanger this child

Emrys

(9,103 posts)
97. It could be worse
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 05:35 PM
Dec 2024

He could make poor wee X wear a T-shirt with a target on it.

It would at least be honest that he's just being used as a human shield. Musk has reportedly hired a hefty bunch of personal security guards, after all.

dalton99a

(94,274 posts)
43. Musk & Ramaswamy want to fire federal employees and replace them with Indians
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:37 AM
Dec 2024

That is their real plan in a nutshell


The Madcap

(1,918 posts)
42. He sure can't take
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:34 AM
Dec 2024

being made fun of or attacked in any way. Unfortunately for him, the more he does this kind of thing, the more he will have to cloister himself and hire even more bodyguards, as he will eventually say this to the wrong person out there who will go all out to do him harm. And, like Howard Hughes, isolation will only further isolate him from reality. He is making way too many enemies.

gab13by13

(32,360 posts)
61. He already has the top of the line security detail.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:59 AM
Dec 2024

You need to take into account that Musk is Putin's right hand man, Trump is 2nd fiddle.

TBF

(36,723 posts)
56. Is there any way to revoke that H1B?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:53 AM
Dec 2024

Seems like we could save everyone a lot of trouble if we do just one key deportation ...

allegorical oracle

(6,489 posts)
89. Not sure S Africa wants him back. Guess that's why he wants to build in TX so he'll
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 01:45 PM
Dec 2024

have a home after TX secedes. There's also Mars.

LeftInTX

(34,352 posts)
132. He's a US citizen and if his citizenship is revoked he can be deported to Canada since he's also a citizen of Canada.
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:09 AM
Dec 2024

My family committed fraud to become citizens. It's common.

Hope22

(4,767 posts)
62. Why are you even in a position to address Americans with that dirty mouth?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:00 PM
Dec 2024

This man needs to be removed to a jail cell. I cannot believe the abuse these imposter politicians dish out! Incarcerate and remove him from any position of power. Yes he has us over a barrel with SpaceX but that is a poor decision that we will have to clean up.

Hope22

(4,767 posts)
110. True words! It's a form of abuse and I'm full up on it.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 08:39 PM
Dec 2024

Fake religious people judging us. More than over the top! Take care! 😊

3825-87867

(1,945 posts)
64. We spent too much time focusing on the wrong guy.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:05 PM
Dec 2024

Looking at if from a different angle, looks as though Putin had his tryst with musk and played trump.
trump is a puppet.
musk doesn't want to be president, he wants to be king of the world...anyway he can...at least the west, half of Europe, South America, Australia and Vlad gets Asia, Africa (but not Musk's South Africa) and the rest of Europe...until Putin is no longer needed, like trump. But trump's too stupid and egotistical to see or accept this. And with Putin's help, musk'll get there unless SOMEONE decides to...

But we need to remember one important thing - there will ALWAYS be those who will willingly do whatever musk wants (jus like Nazi Germany - need I say it?) thinking they will be in his good graces and left alone. Mores the pity. We need to know who those people are before things get worse.

And the better anagram of elon musk is "lone skum!"

genxlib

(6,138 posts)
68. I am generally in favor of H1B visas
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:07 PM
Dec 2024

But Elon certainly makes a compelling case against them here.

EX500rider

(12,600 posts)
140. No, maybe u are thinking of tesla, he founded SpaceX
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 05:29 PM
Dec 2024

In early 2001, Elon Musk met Robert Zubrin and donated $100,000 to his Mars Society, joining its board of directors for a short time.[13]: 30–31  He gave a plenary talk at their fourth convention where he announced Mars Oasis, a project to land a greenhouse and grow plants on Mars.[14][15] Musk initially attempted to acquire a Dnepr launch vehicle for the project through Russian contacts from Jim Cantrell.[16]

Musk returned with his team to Moscow, this time bringing Michael Griffin, who later became the 11th Administrator of NASA, but found the Russians increasingly unreceptive.[17][18] On the flight home, Musk announced he could start a company to build the affordable rockets they needed instead.[18] By applying vertical integration,[17] using inexpensive commercial off-the-shelf components when possible,[18] and adopting the modular approach of modern software engineering, Musk believed SpaceX could significantly cut launch costs.[18]

In early 2002, Elon Musk started to look for staff for his company, soon to be named SpaceX. Musk approached five people for the initial positions at the fledgling company, including Griffin, who declined the position of Chief Engineer,[19]: 11  Jim Cantrell and John Garvey (Cantrell and Garvey would later found the company Vector Launch), rocket engineer Tom Mueller, and Chris Thompson.[19][20] SpaceX was first headquartered in a warehouse in El Segundo, California. Early SpaceX employees, such as Tom Mueller (CTO), Gwynne Shotwell (COO), and Chris Thompson (VP of Operations), came from neighboring TRW and Boeing corporations. By November 2005, the company had 160 employees.[21] Musk personally interviewed and approved all of SpaceX's early employees.[19]: 22 

Musk has stated that one of his goals with SpaceX is to decrease the cost and improve the reliability of access to space, ultimately by a factor of ten

paleotn

(22,261 posts)
73. Gonna cost Elmo money. He ain't happy about it.
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:10 PM
Dec 2024

" the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend " Yea, well, fuck off, Elmo.

sop

(18,685 posts)
74. "I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend." Go to war with whom, Elon?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:14 PM
Dec 2024

Musk is sounding more and more like Saddam Hussein threatening "the mother of all battles" or Osama bin Laden declaring "jihad against America." Somebody needs to fuck Elon in the face.

3825-87867

(1,945 posts)
80. He's threatening Americans?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:32 PM
Dec 2024

THAT alone should give Joe the SCOTUS ability to have him arrested, deported and seize any of his assets.
C'mon man, just becasue some of us are getting older and won't be around much longer, there are millions who ARE younger and will have to put up with shit like musk and trump et al.
Is a legacy worth ruining America?
You do have the power. Let them fight it out in court under a different administration.

bucolic_frolic

(55,220 posts)
77. The USA needs more humans, not more TechnoKrauts
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 12:19 PM
Dec 2024

For all the technology and convenience its products give us, we are becoming a cold, hard, crude people

Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
88. Tim Pool's not falling for any of it because it's "an op."
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 01:36 PM
Dec 2024
Art Candee 🍿🥤
‪@artcandee.bsky.social‬
Tim Pool calls the backlash against Elon Musk's own words about immigration and H-1B visas "an op."

Total clown.

December 28, 2024 at 12:31 PM




jmowreader

(53,219 posts)
95. If the next few years weren't going to be so devastating...
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 02:40 PM
Dec 2024

…they’d be fun to watch.

Sticking Elon Musk and Donald Trump together in the government will be like putting a wolf, a bobcat, an innocent bystander and a ton of rock in a mesh sack and throwing the sack in the river. The only thing those two assholes have in common is money. Elon Musk is everything Trump hates - Trump hates immigrants he isn’t sleeping with, electric cars, renewable energy… - all in the same person. And if Musk is truly interested in “government efficiency,” which I don’t think he is, he’ll figure out in about 15 minutes that Trump is its biggest impediment…come on, there are lots of golf courses in the DC area. Eventually they’re going to get sick of each other’s shit. The only question is how much devastation will they bring forth before they kill each other.

Aussie105

(7,939 posts)
98. Emo Elmo is having a sad?
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 06:53 PM
Dec 2024

How terrible!
And now he is dishing out unspecified threats?
Bigly sad!

He wants to import a lot of highly qualified H1B people to be his underpaid and overworked slaves.

MadameButterfly

(4,055 posts)
100. "War...the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend"
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 07:09 PM
Dec 2024

This is what happens if there's anything he doesn't get his way on.

Everything is about his own financial interest.
He was just waiting for the president who wouldn't stop him. Because I guess he didn't have enough power and money to be happy without the rest of us experiencing "a little pain."

So the oligarchy begins.

Straw Man

(6,947 posts)
107. It's tempting to say that we have a "two-tiered justice system."
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 08:30 PM
Dec 2024

However, the reality is infinitely gradated. Simply put, the more more money you have, the fewer laws you have to obey.

LetMyPeopleVote

(180,054 posts)
108. This will be a fun fight to watch
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 08:30 PM
Dec 2024

Musk and Bannon are both assholes and it is amusing to watch them fight



 

Unladen Swallow

(491 posts)
111. His language is pathetic
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 09:17 PM
Dec 2024

but he's not exactly wrong.

Some lifetimes ago I worked for a large tech company. We had H1Bs there that ran circles around us Americans. They were vastly better educated. A lot worked harder too, though not all.

I don't have sufficient faith that our universities are doing any better than they were back then, and although I'm out of tech, I have friends in tech and similar industries who offer zero good news regarding the current crop of graduating college students.

H1Bs are necessary, IMO. I don't care where genius workers come from as long as they are genius workers. We need the best minds, and if they're not American, so be it. Trump definitely should not be mucking about with this, if that is indeed his plan.

I don't want any American worker displaced, but if someone from somewhere else is more qualified, then I'm game for at least discussing bringing in foreign labor.

ForgedCrank

(3,104 posts)
114. Trump will
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 09:21 PM
Dec 2024

be dumping Musk eventually.
You all know already, Trump is all about Trump, and he will not stand for having someone steal his spotlight. Musk will be but a MAGA memory before long. whether this this H1-B thing is the first incident or the final straw is yet to be seen, but eventually, it's going to happen. Trump will discard him

RVN VET71

(3,194 posts)
137. Or vice versa
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 08:45 AM
Dec 2024

Yeah, I know, I know, friggin ferner can"t be president because the constitution something something. But these fascists don't give a shit about the constitution and if Elon wants to be Prime Minister or Leader One, that's what he'll be.

But Trump is old and will soon be regarded by all but his most subservient sycophants as a cantankerous old fart. Musk will defend him, of course, but until there's an opening and Musk will then make his move, maybe throw Trump into a protective nursing home environment and then take the actual reins from figurehead "President" Vance . . . with Peter Thiel's cooperation, of course.

Maybe. Just sayin' it's not as preposterous as one might think.

At any rate, the South African Fascist will certainly not go gentle into that good night -- and Trump isn't smart enough to corral him -- and neither is Stephen Miller or Bannon the Unwashed.

Should be fun to watch the fracas . . . if you're Lrrr, watching from his throne room on Omicron Persei 8.

Lithos

(26,639 posts)
116. SpaceX and Starlink should be considered of interest to our National Defense
Sat Dec 28, 2024, 09:49 PM
Dec 2024

His use of H-1Bs should be made extremely difficult to use in these technologies. Think about what would happen if China, Russia, or any other country were able to backdoor Starlink's protocols like what happened to the SS-7 protocols which just happened to the Telcos lately?

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
123. Funny 😹
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 12:04 AM
Dec 2024

At least we’re getting some entertainment before the nightmare officially begins….

Jack Valentino

(5,066 posts)
125. GOOD, Elmo, you DO that.... I especially like the part where your lap-dog Trump
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 01:15 AM
Dec 2024

AGREES with you on this point.


Well.... I kinda agree with you on it, also---
but I have no reason to worry about what the maggot base thinks.


Gotta love civil war breaking out in MAGA-land.

If they break out the GUNS against each other---
I wouldn't much mind that either, if they can avoid taking out innocent bystanders....

tulipsandroses

(8,252 posts)
127. So what he's saying, immigrants made this country great
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 01:52 AM
Dec 2024

Anyone think MAGA will finally agree with that?

Buns_of_Fire

(19,165 posts)
130. Oh, geez. Now he's going to unleash his incomprehensible Musk powers on us.
Sun Dec 29, 2024, 02:04 AM
Dec 2024

22 days until the premiere of Maximum Stupid, a Trump Production.

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