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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    2 days ago

    He knows perfectly well why.

    He’s gaslighting so the people who hate him hate him louder, which he can then use as validation that they’re crazy or irrational.

    It’s fucking disgusting and obvious as hell. He deserves all of the shit thrown at him and he knows it but doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to face any real consequences for it, so he escalates.

    Everyone’s anger is his weapon against them, sadly because his supporters are dumb enough to go with it. He needs tangible consequences or else this will just keep getting worse.

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      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.

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    I’m surprised he’s even willing to indicate he cares. Well…cares about anything past his falling stock price and burning swasticars.

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      Because his ego is the one thing he actually does care about, it’s so painfully obvious and pathetic tbh.

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    18 hours ago

    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.

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      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”.

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    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

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    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%.

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            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.

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      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.

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    2 days ago

    This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.

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    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.