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    Of course he is. Though, to be fair, it’s not the first time he called someone he’s mad at a “pedo guy”.

    On the other hand, I’m sure he knows a thing or two about Epstein’s associates.

    The only way this could get funnier is for the White House to release the Epstein files containing Elon out of spite.

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      The only way this could get funnier is for the White House to release the Epstein files containing Elon out of spite.

      …and fail to redact DJT properly

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        I’m actually surprised they haven’t done the classic yet, of releasing a “redacted” document where you can just highlight parts to reveal the text.

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      What a terrible tailoring job. The bottom half looks alright, but the tailor cut the top of that dress way too roomy. Her boobs aren’t big enough to fill it, so it makes her look small. She should fire her tailor.

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        if this comment was made on reddit 10 years ago shed be in the replies defending herself, or more likely moderating and deleting the comments (I just think its funny she was a top redditor)

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      “Elon, were you able to meet up with Ghislaine at kung fu practice on Saturday?”

      Allegedly an actual text between musk / Epstein

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      Omg, I thought she was crossing her arms in the top part of her dress. Like she was cold and needed to warm her arms.

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      What’s her name used to moderate a major subreddit. I think it was r/worldnews but maybe my memory is failing me.

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    Beside the facts that everyone already assumed this:

    Musk apparantly knew this for certain AND still decided to support him.

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      “I can excuse paedophilia, but I draw the line at kicking me out of the super special people club!”

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          Except if the perpetrator is a rescue scuba diver trying to save kids stuck in a cave, apparently. BUT ASIDE FROM THAT…

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      Yeah but on the positive side, there are some people on the right that are dubious of Trump and yet still dumb enough to be fans of Musk - hopefully this will speak to them.

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    thanks for saying shit we already knew, and confirming that you also knew yet still supported him while knowing he was a pedophile.

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            if your retirement fund is in tesla stock you only have yourself to blame

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                as someone who is very far from retiring i have no idea about how people manage their retirement funds or how that whole system works. youre right, that would indeed be quite terrible

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                  The majority of people with 401ks don’t actively manage them, it’s usually generic broad based index funds or similar, which at this point almost assuredly includes Tesla

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            What the functional profitable technology giant that is often the worlds most profitable enterprise building future systems year after year after year?

            Probably overvalued, but not comically. This dipshit fired the entire infrastructure charging group last year because he was out of adderall for twenty minutes. There is no comparison.

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            If it helps i put the kibash on Disney and Apple. Ever since i bought both of them, neither has netted me a positive return.

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        How TF can it be still positive YoY is beyond my understanding. Sales outside of US are tanking, the brand reputation ODd and died, the CEO will follow soon and he’s hated by everyone except tech bros.

        I guess publicly fighting orange Hitler should be the last nail in the coffin, but I don’t even know what to expect.

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    Everyone should remember that Elon doesn’t care about political parties. He could give a shit less about the right or the left. He’s in it for the money.

    He played the right, getting an idiot elected who would allow him to gut the agencies auditing his companies. Now when he’s done with them and his base is upset with him for selling out, he’s pivoting back and trying to appease them.

    It has always been about the money. Fuck Elon Musk.

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    The big bomb would be a paper trail showing how they rigged the election.

    We’ve already seen the documents that say trump is a rapist paedophile.

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    Oh, sweet. Nazi infighting, that’s a plus; AND does this mean he just very blatantly leaked classified information? In a functioning legal system (shut up, let me dream) this means he’s facing serious convictions, and lost his government contracts! Fucking yay!!

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      even worse. it means that he knew for a while and held that info until he got on trumps bad side.

      he was cool with pedofilia, but not cool when it’s by someone he no longer as use for.

      also, who wouldn’t be surprised if Musk hasn’t participated in rich people pedofilia

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        I’d almost believe that he didn’t because he’s so supremely weird about wanting a lot of children and that didn’t seem like a “to term” operation Epstein was running. But I could be wrong, I have no idea; I never dug into details about pedo island.

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        Not so sure this time. Trump has been trying to avoid that shit like the plague. He also had clear ties to Epstein. If he didn’t manage to make it to kangaroo court every time… There would be a significant amount of evidence to convict someone else in this case. I genuinely hope musk puts his weight behind it. Not that I like him either.

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          Not for Trump, but for Musk. He achieved his goals, so is trying to salvage his reputation before Tesla’s board kicks him for ruining the company’s profits.

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      Unfortunately, Elon Musk almost certainly wrote this tweet not knowing or being too high to realize that it was slander (or libel?) and if anything happens it will probably be Elon getting roasted in court.

      Still cool to have Elon get humiliated but Trump is the one who deserves justice handed to him for his ties to Epstein.

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    My favourite thing about this is just how thoroughly predictable it was.

    And I don’t mean in hindsight either, tons of people called it the moment Elon started hanging around Trump.

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      How much money could Trump save the US government by cancelling starship funding? All its achieved is exploding on a suborbital trajectory.

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        How much money could Trump save the US government by cancelling starship funding

        Some people are saying “Billions and billions”?

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        It would save the government some upfront money and then result in losses in the hundreds of billions as others can’t come close to the cost to orbit that Starship can.

        There’s nothing being designed today by anyone that would compete with it if successful.

        Falcon 9 as it is saves the government billions of dollars.

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          Starship is the one that has never made it to orbit and keeps exploding

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            For all intents and purposes, starship has made it to orbit a few times. They purposely kept it sub orbital by cutting the engines off a few seconds early so it would re-enter the atmosphere where and as planned for their tests.

            You wouldn’t want a ship designed to survive re-entry to fail, and make landfall over a major city, but they have landed it as planned in the ocean in a controlled manner a couple times.

            (Edit: also the last 3 launches have been the V2 ship. It’s substantially different than the V1s they did land in the ocean and is having some growing pains)

            In the time SpaceX has designed, launched, landed, and reused two orbital boosters, no one else has done it once.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      There are few times when you can justifiably go after a person because of something a relation did. As much as I hate Elon, he’s not culpable for whatever his brother has or hasn’t done, unless he participated somehow.

      Let’s not stoop.

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        As much as I hate Elon, he’s not culpable for whatever his brother has or hasn’t done

        Elon is a known horndog and sex pest. I think it’s less “he’s responsible” and more “he’s just as mixed up in the Lolita Express gang as any of these assholes”.

        Incidentally, Gislaine Maxwell was at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. I don’t think that means Chelsea is a rapist. But I do think Bill is, and this kind of close relationship further illustrates the circle all these people ran in.

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          Sure, but that was about Elon’s brother. Surely if Elon was involved with Epstein there will be evidence; it’s not like he was shy about being photographed.

          This guilty by association stuff feels like an witch trial evidence, when there’s plenty of stuff to hang Elon with that he did himself.

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          Unless you know something I don’t, Monica was consenting the entire time.

          And don’t say “he used his position of power to force her”. She said in multiple interviews that she enjoyed it and felt excited. The only time she started to feel negative feelings is whdn Linda Tripp got involved and betrayed her.

          These are Monicas own words. It wasn’t rape.

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              Oh, sure. No arguement from me there. I just hate it when people diminish what words mean.

              Unethical? Sure.

              It was also unethical when Jerry Seinfeld at age 37 dated a 17 year old during the height of Seinfeld.

              Also not rape. Nor illegal. Both of which I’ve heard various people claim.

              It also deletes words like “awful” and “predatory” from conversations. Despite being objectively true, I never hear people say those words about Clinton, or Seinfeld, or any of the other similar situations.

              And on a personal note, I don’t believe Micheal Jackson did anything wrong with kids. As in, I don’t think any events actually took place. Only three people were ever said to be victims. Two of them were later proven to be parents looking for a payday. And the third was Macully Culken. And he’s directly said over multiple decades, both as a kid, and later as an adult, that MJ never did anything wrong or inappropriate.

              So I think Micheal Jackson had to live his whole adult life being falsely accused of being a pedophile and a rapist when he never was.

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                The children could have been molested and their parents were also looking for a payday. They could both be true. I have no idea, I’m just saying that one doesn’t cancel out the other.

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          The thing is Bill does not seem to be a kiddie diddler. Aside from Monica Lewinsky and a Miss America contestant they tend to be later twenties to whatever his current age was. They affairs tended to be with women who were pretty and young whereas his alleged assault victims are all adults too.

          He’s vile but not a pedo

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            The thing is Bill does not seem to be a kiddie diddler.

            How low is the bar that we’re at “sexual assault isn’t such a big deal if they’re over eighteen”.

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                Nobody was talking about pedophilia before they brought it up.

                Epstein trafficked and abused plenty of older women, too.

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                  Really? I didn’t know that, his pedophilia is more well-known I guess. Thanks for informing me. Either way, you’re allowed to bring up new topics in a conversation.

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        You gotta understand that Elon as a business person has never been just Elon — it has always been Elon and Kimbal. They are thick as thieves, friend, there isn’t much humanity to be sqwozed here.

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      I never even wondered if muskrat had any siblings, he has such an “only child” energy that it didn’t seem worth even thinking about. Gotta read up on them (he apparently has a sister too). Can only guess what weird shit will come up.

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    It kind of rings hollow when he was bringing his child around the guy while Donald wasn’t releasing the files, along with being one of his biggest cheerleaders.