The Secret Service has launched a probe into an X post by Elon Musk in which he tweeted that “no one is even trying” to kill Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.
The tech billionaire deleted the post on his X platform and passed it off as a “joke.” However, the White House did not find it funny and instead called it “irresponsible.”
“Violence should only be condemned, never encouraged or joked about,” the White House said in a statement. Now the Secret Service is involved.
Tech billionaire realises that saying things on the internet can be taken differently than expected… in 2024. Is this guy a complete moron?
Yes.
Yes yes
Is this guy a complete moron?
I hope it’s a rhetorical question and you didn’t just now realize it.
Haha nice of you to ask. I knew in some areas for sure but to think someone could stumble into success so effectively with actually nothing to contribute is too depressing to accept.
Step one, inherit daddy’s South African emerald mine and child slaves.
Step two, use that blood emerald money to fund lots of insane projects.
Step three, wait until the engineers make some of them work. Be very vocal about successful projects, and silent about failures.
Alternative: infest a promising independent project (something cool and futuristic like electric cars), buy yourself the title of “founder”, and act like it was your idea all along.
Step four, offer a completely insane idea to rescue children inside rocket fuel tanks, then accuse your largest critic of pedophilia.
I think he’s a bit(a lot) crazy, but I’m not sure whether he’s actually a “complete moron”?
This was taken exactly how he meant it. He absolutely was not joking.
Revoke his security clearance you cowards.
He controls SpaceX and the internet over Ukraine.
We need to take those, too.
SpaceX and American allies’ Internet access could be considered to be of national importance
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Ah, right, the thing that would get normal people put on a list and held in custody if the president traveled through their region just gets the Muskrat “probed”
People make comments like this all the time. Nobody is held in custody for it.
Every normal person is on several lists now regardless of guilt. We just consider that a reasonable search and treat Snowden like a traitor.
He also controls the satellites used for communication on battlefields and has already turned them off unilaterally during an important Ukrainian operation in the Black Sea.
He can run Twitter and Tesla into the ground, but SpaceX needs to be nationalized. Its compromise is a national security threat.
I still don’t understand how anyone here (or on the internet in general, for that matter) is still asking “Is Elon stupid? Is he a moron?” in response to stuff like this.
Elon’s a jackass, but he clearly knows what he’s doing with this. He’s inciting political violence and then acting like it was an edgy joke as a way to give himself probable deniability. Dude’s an asshole, but he’s not literally brain dead.
This is what he was doing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F
Wow, I’d never heard of this before! Interesting, thanks.
It’s all everyone talked about sitting Trump’s reign especially about how he talked about Mueller
You’re so nice about it. Let’s be real. He’s a Narcissistic predator with too many means to destroy humanity itself and his motivation to do exactly that is transparent, claimed even.
S T O C H A S T I C T E R R O R I S M
Idk why we need to say we are certain about someones intention. It could just be a mental stability thing, like many people have problems with. His tweets are just far more consequential than a regular persons. He might not be as strongly shaped by social norms due to his fortunate circumstance.
(Im not defending anything. I just want truth and theres no point in extrapolating the situation further than what we see on the surface… just punish him according to what he did, or become a journalist and get relevant details to judge him further)
Why? He’s Rich? It’s ok?
Fuck Elon Musk.
Not even with a 39 and ½ foot pole!
Not even with Tayler Swift’s dick.
Where’s all that left wing rhetoric inciting violence?
What a giant pussy Trump and Vance are.
Talk about leopards eating your face. This is the leopard eating its own face. This is the violent rhetoric you dumbass motherfuckers.
Eat the rich! Time for the guillotines.
I mean I can say some things, problem is I didn’t buy a 44 billion dollar megaphone.
Where’s all that left wing rhetoric inciting violence?
I think we can all agree that not enthusiastically agreeing with every stupid thing Trump says is exactly the same as calling for violence. In fact, not rolling over and letting Trump have whatever he wants is the greatest sin and makes the (insert bad descriptor) Left the REAL fascists!
Now it’s funny— or, at least, I’m laughing
I REALLY hope Taylor Swift finds some legal way to sue him for threatening to forcibly impregnate her against her will.
I think the guy is terrible but threatening to forcibly impregnate is not how I read that tweet. Didn’t he say “okay I will give you a child” or some shit. That doesn’t imply non consent, it sounded to me as an offer, which was gross. Could maybeee be considered harassment, but 1 tweet would be hard to classify as that as well. It would be like trying to make catcalling illegal. It’s gross, but by no means would it ever make a law that wouldn’t be abused.
Ya we should leave making stuff up to Musky
Well, yes…
But I also hope she finds some diabolically genius way to foil him a la Real Genius. I wanna see lasers make a house explode full of popcorn!
#genxdreams
It’s funny/scary how quickly people abandon the first amendment the minute somebody says something gross.
Guess you haven’t seen this one?
Guess you missed the part where the person was talking about seeking a legal result not just shitting on Elon?
Guess you missed the part where two private citizens involved in a lawsuit is not the government.
What part of Leon Musk and Taylor Swift are the government in this violation of First Amendment rights?
“One lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” Musk wrote after deleting the tweet.
“Turns out that jokes are way less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is in plain text"
Wrong lesson learned Elon, people who laugh at your joke are ass lickers whereas people on X are not
It’d be so cool if it was found out that Musk was an illegal immigrant and he got deported back to south africa.
Even if he’s legal, I saw him eating cats.
I sort of feel like the CIA should already have a file on him filed to the brim with juicy nuggets they haven’t really been able to act on until now.
No doubt various TLAs have compiled dossiers on various very important people. It would be irresponsible of them not to. People who have so much power and access are intrinsic security threats, and that’s no secret to the spy agencies.
Of course they might frame it differently. They might say that they compile information so that they can make sure that the powerful person doesn’t get blackmailed, for example. It’s easy to try to phrase things in a way that suggests you’re protecting them, when the actual theoretical goal is protecting us from what they could do if things went sideways.
You’re talking about the NSA. The CIA totally doesn’t do that.
Sure, cia, sure
Why not both? CIA’s files probably focus more on his foreign dealings, the NSA’s more on his national dealings.
You mean “their” files.
There’s no way a killing joke could ever involve tragedy.
Elon was just having one bad day.
What exactly are they probing? It took me 5 seconds to read the tweet.
Probably for evidence of intent
Musk is a proven weirdo nutcase. What a collection of weird crazies - Elon, RFK Jr, JD Vance and the orange felon, along with little “Moses”, Johnson and the entire House “freedom” caucus.
What’s wrong with his wrist?
too much circlejerking with his neonazi buddies
