Elon Musk says he has no clue why people hate his guts
Summary
At a Wisconsin rally, Elon Musk complained about personal attacks and financial losses tied to his role as head of the DOGE.
He insisted he’s not stealing from Social Security, saying it’s actually costing him money—citing Tesla stock’s sharp drop.
Musk whined about Governor Tim Walz mocking the stock’s decline, calling him “a big jerk.”
Despite the criticism, Musk is pouring millions into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, while lamenting the pressure he faces for pushing controversial reforms.
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it's a mystery for sure
Even given the most charitable reading that he was doing a Nazi salute to troll people instead of because he's an actual Nazi, the whole intention behind trolling is to piss people off.
And I'm not inclined to give this steaming coprolite any charity, because he acts like a fuckin' Nazi.
(I'm not going to play along with the whole "he said his heart goes out" bullshit. Other Nazis sure knew what he was doing and loved it.)
the nazis were trolls. they would have loved 4chan
What do you mean "would have", they're there right now.
You don't even need this to have happened given what he's done with DOGE and his buying an election. People would have still hated him, just not as many.
Unrelated (completely related) : chatgpt refuses to acknowledge musk having anything to do with Nazis, even when presented with facts about his "memes" and his Nazi salutes. And will not write a story about musk and his Nazi associated acts.
It will happily tell you stories about Hitler.
He uses all the Nazi secret code shit. Like his fascination with the letter X for example which is modern Nazi code for Heil Hitler. Saying that Hitler did not kill millions of people. He throws it right out there and expects the world to ignore it.
I think there's also the possibility that he genuinely believes a significant majority agrees with him.
Confirming he's not as smart as he pretends to be
To stupid to realize how stupid he is
I know you're engagement-farming, but "too"*.
I wish the media would stop giving this asshole an audience.
I support freedom of speech, but it does not mean that you are automatically entitled to an audience.
The thing is that he is the defacto ruler of the US right now. So his words are important, regardless of them all being nothing but gaslighting whiney bullshit.
Earn friends by firing tens of thousands of people. It should have been so simple, what could have possibly gone wrong?
I don't remember that chapter from How to Win Friends and Influence People.
I'm not certain that's true. Even if he knew it was bullshit at some point. If you surround yourself with bullshit you stop being able to smell it.
You can come to believe a lie you tell yourself long enough and hard enough. He is surrounded by enablers who are also lying to themselves.
It doesn't matter what he believes. He does need consequences.
I wonder if that's actually true, because I think that he is to some extent literally psychotic. What happens when someone who actually has enormous wealth and power still goes through manic phases or experiences something like grandiose delusions? He might really believe that he's saving the nation and the world, and that this should be obvious to all.
It's like those movies (I can't remember which ones but I'm sure I've seen some) where the king thinks of himself as good and is genuinely surprised and confused when he learns that the common people feel oppressed by him. Except in this case the king does not (and probably can not) learn a heartwarming moral lesson.
Emporer's new clothes
How dumb can this jerkoff be?
No matter stupid you think he is, I guarantee it's more than that.
That makes it so much more fun to hate his guts.
Cry about it you fuckhead.
Maybe he doesn't know because he refuses to listen to anyone who criticizes him, banning them on Twitter and calling them paid actors in public events.
This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
It truly is a mystery 🤷♂️
It still surprises me someone with that complete of a lack of self awareness manages to get dressed without injuring themselves.
i have no reason to believe he puts on his own clothes and doesn't have an assistant to do that for him
I kinda assumed it was more of a Prince of New York scenario, really.
It'll all be great again, wait till the end of Term 3.
That guy hears loving cup and knows he can’t
Run and jump and fish or fight
Or fuck
Dude can’t fuck. lol
His sex organ is mangled after a botched gender affirmation surgery.
I am not making this up.
This is a real story the media reported on until it abruptly went quiet on it.
What
Yeah, I'm gonna need a source on that one.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/musk-penis-implant/
There were stories on regular traditional media websites. For a few hours.
Then it disappeared to rumor status lol.
All them kids are ivf.
His dick doesn’t work. lol.
If there was any real evidence of that being true, it would definitely have been reported on way more widely.
Real journalism doesn't report rumors as though they're true.
He literally rigged the election and the news didn’t cover it lol
Again, if there was verifiable evidence, it would have been reported.
Truth is hard.
There has been reporting on irregularities.
When you have a literal billionaire who bought one of the worlds largest social media platforms and has the other ones fellating him - when late stage capitalism has effectively killed journalism and most news is shared primarily through social media, truth is hard.
Make up your mind.
Wait there's proof that Musk actually tampered with voting machines?
There was no forensic audit
Yeah, they aren’t going to investigate shit. They spent two decades shrieking about voter fraud, that’s always entirely been a horseshit excuse to make it more difficult for women and minorities to vote.
This should be on the news everyday. This is a bigger fucking deal than the “hanging chads” were, but since no one is watching the watchmen the best we’ll ever get is this kind of analysis.
O so not "literally" literally, literally figuratively
Wtf news do you read? His crimes of election manipulation and payoffs were and are being heavily covered by the news.
Only one way to be sure he’s using the right bathrooms.
Let’s inspect his junk.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaking-down-rumors-musk-penis-230000612.html
seems iffy at best though i 100% believe the hair implant stuff no one comes back from the balding he had.
The fuck, this comment makes no sense.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nryc7h6TCIE
The stones wrote a song about being a functional man who loved a woman.
Elon is not a functional man.
Only ivf babies for him.
Normally I wouldn’t laugh at impotence but Elon isn’t a human. He deserves no empathy.
Maybe we can focus on the fact that he's a corrupt Nazi who's destroying the USA, instead of unfounded rumours about his penis.
I can focus on both.
But I believe the broken penis is what drives his revenge cruelty
It doesn't sound real at all. He's a narcist who had a good PR team before. What makes more sense, come on? This conspiracy is wacko even by conspiracy theorist standards.
https://gizmodo.com/that-tweet-about-elon-musks-botched-penis-being-real-is-fake-2000583511
I heard from a reliable source he has a terrible penis injury.
The only way he can prove otherwise would be to show off his that he’s got one and is capable of getting it to full hunter Biden readiness.
Until then it explains everything :
His anger
His joylessness
His relentless pursuit of neuralink and creating the perfect environment to do unrestricted human testing on disappeared people in El Salvador so he can finally figure out a way to make himself get off.
All the ivf kids with hot women. <—- this is the biggest tell
His hate of trans men. A trans man has a more functional penis than he does.
I could go on. But you get the point.
I can be convinced he has a non botched penis.
But I need better evidence than what I have right now.
Because what I see right now, says botched penis.
Let’s see it Elon. Show it or how do we know you’re not using the wrong bathroom?
This is more believable than trickle down economics and really does explain a lot about him.
I'm convinced.
This dude has the whole collection of type B personality disorders
Checks cluster b list
math checks out
He also ticks the boxes for the dark tetrad.
Honestly histrionic wouldn't surprise me. He's got a combination of overinflated sense of self and obsession with what others think. And his childhood sounds like exactly the sort of emotional abuse to give a cluster b disorder and cptsd.
My father-in-law has been divorced three times. Each of his exes have told him directly that they left because he’s too controlling. To this day, he openly and genuinely states he has no idea why he’s been divorced three times - “I try so hard in marriage. I just don’t get it.”
Some people can’t hear the truth even if you rubber stamp it on their forehead.
Cue: Elon Musk.
Never underestimate a human’s capacity for self-deception. I think it’s our most perfected trait.
And he'll keep pretending to wonder why until a mob executes him live on Twitch
We could only dream such an ending
Like a seagull says?
What is so crazy is that at the same time I see a headline with "Tesla's sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows" and yet TSLA is up 4.72% at the moment.
W T A F
Sales plummet 13%. Stock goes up nearly 5%.
The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk's personality cult. So now that it's been announced that he should be "leaving government and going back to his companies" it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.
The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don't really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don't really know much about anything.
Too many people shorting?
Shorting would drop the price.
Not always, right? Like if there is a short squeeze.
That is a very specific and unusual circumstance.
Shorts have to be bought back after the term. You borrow it, sell it, and buy it back after so much time and give it back to the lender. You think the stock is shit so when you buy it back it will be lower cost than what you sold for and you keep the difference.
Too many shorts all at the same time and now everyone is buying it back and driving up the price, but that just rarely happens, and when it does happen it will work itself out in a few days or weeks.
He acts like an absolute ass and expects people to like him. He really is a moron and I've known that for years. I could see through all his bullshit while rest of the world was still cheering his "brilliance".
Hitler probably said the same
Ironically, Hitler was a very charismatic man who people felt had a honest interest in and a magnetic personality.
You can feel something if that when listening to the Mannerheim tapes, the only recording of his actual speaking voice. When not shouting through a tinny PA system that warps his voice into the shrill shrieking that most people know, he had a lovely warm voice.
So Elon has very much less rizz than the Führer.
Ah I may have conflated him with von Mannstein. Ty, fixed!
Whether or not you consider Hitler legit charismatic is based entirely on personal perspective. There were people who met him in the early 1930s and thought he was the most bland person ever. Orson Wells in 1970 even said that when he met Hitler when trekking through Germany as a young man he said he was the most unimpressive person he ever met and could not fathome how anyone was swayed by him.
Yeah it's also a matter of taste, and I think most charisma dehydrates in the shade of Welles.
But there's no denying he had some type of amgnitism, a rockstar-like aura that very many people are sensitive too. With Elon he had a spell of 'cool nerd cred' due to him backing cool ideas. However he seems to repulse most people if they get to know him. Aside from money he has no people who want to be his friend.
narcissist never do. They are forever the victim and honestly believe it.
Love how we dedicate dozens of professional journalist staffers and editors to follow this asshole around with a microphone and queue up to hear him do Trollface into a camera and say "Why you mad, tho?" in a Ketted out South African accent.
American Journalism A#1. Liberty, Whiskey, Sexy. Most informed population on earth.
This. Feels like people are just rising to the bait.
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Who shot Hannibal?
If his critical thinking is proportional to the way he talks (and I'm not referring to his accent), it makes sense that he doesn't have any clue on the reason why
That's because, like every other egotistical rich asshole, he has surrounded himself with yes men who are only around to eat his crumbs.
Imagine living your life unaware that no one around you actually likes you.
He was always like this, BTW. Even back in the 90s his relatives wanted him to stay out of the spotlight because of his poor social skills.
What's amusing is that a lot of smart people were giving him sideeye even before he bought xitter and wayyyy before the Nazi salutes. It took the nonsense surrounding him when he bought xitter and after he seized power for me to realize he had no fucking clue what he was doing. And of course his magoff sympathies started to become more and more apparent...
When I saw other broligarchs wishing they could behave the way he did when he seized xitter (treating labor like dirt), the general problem here was obvious.
He suffers from Dunning Kruger
He's the physical embodiment of the Dunning Kruger effect. A walking, (awkwardly) talking nepo-baby man-child who is a self-proclaimed expert in everything despite knowing next to fuck all. He and Trump are like peas in a pod.
It's in a terminal stage.
The words terminal and Musk in the same sentence brings a smile to my face
Why doesn't anybody like me? I don't understand.
Guess I'll have to crawl inside, and I don't know why
I'm sitting by myself, when the problem isn't mine
I’m surprised he’s even willing to indicate he cares. Well…cares about anything past his falling stock price and burning swasticars.
Because his ego is the one thing he actually does care about, it's so painfully obvious and pathetic tbh.
Poor Elon. Rich people really do not understand. Even if they came from poverty backgrounds, they lose perspective. They think they did it all by themselves to get where they are and do not understand that chance and luck play a big part in determining which 'hard workers with an idea' get ahead. The working world is littered with smarter people who just didn't get the breaks to become super rich. Once they are rich enough to waste $25M on a judge's election they really do not understand that for the majority of Americans losing their job can mean a quick succession to homelessness from which they may never recover.
What made them rich is not paying attention to social clues. They were unable to read the room. But they were allowed to decimate it and alienate anyone with valuable feedback. They isolated themselves and never thought "maybe I drove them away".
Willful ignorance
Had to check this wasn’t a theonion com
Who else has been making bank being paid to protest, I was just at a fundraiser where George Soros was jumping around on stage gleefully after dismantling our government services and leaving the country concerned for their future. George was also handing out million dollar checks for a few lucky folks.
I am so happy George decided to get so involved in politics.
Self awareness, haven’t seen him.
I believe him, and sadly we cant fix his brain.
You can with a gun.
Well that escalated quickly...
He could be a modern day Phineas Gage.
Oh great suddenly he's grumpy.
No need. Just lock him in a tesla long enough.
Well, not everyone is a Tesla shareholder that he can abuse constantly.
Far out, I despise this idiot so, so much.
People are telling you why Elon.
Can't see reality through the fantasy of greed
May he be struck by... A flying ice cream truck.
Must have been fixed - it works now.
People justify their own behaviour and responses, they build justification for why *it's ok when I do it because.. *. People with narcissistic personality disorders and the such, who do very bad things, perpetually see themselves as in the right, to a delusional extent. The bad guys, genuinely think they're the good guys. We all do it, to an extent, they double down, they go big.
The ASD could explain the difference between him and the next narcissist