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27 Nov, 2024

Musk accuses Vindman of ‘treason’

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Musk reacts to a clip of Vindman accusing Musk of divulging state secrets to Vladimir Putin, saying:

Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty.

25 Nov, 2024

Musk criticises F-35 builders against drone swarms

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Referencing a viral video of a large-scale, coordinated, drone swarms, Musk says:

Meanwhile, some idiots are still building manned fighter jets like the F-35

Followed with a series of replies to X comments :

It’s a shit design…The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones anyway. Will just get pilots killed.

Crewed fighter jets are an inefficient way to extend the range of missiles or drop bombs. A reusable drone can do so without all the overhead of a human pilot. And fighter jets will be shot down very quickly if the opposing force has sophisticated SAM or drones, as shown by the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Fighter jets do have the advantage of helping Air Force officers get laid. Drones are much less effective in this regard .

Some US weapons systems are good, albeit overpriced, but please, in the name of all that is holy, let us stop the worst military value for money in history that is the F-35 program!

24 Nov, 2024

Musk confirms X link post deprioritization

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After Graham complains that the deprioritization of links in X posts:

The deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter’s biggest flaw. It bothers me more than all the new right-wing trolls. Trolls I’m used to, but what draws me to Twitter is to find out what’s going on, and you can’t do that without links.

Musk responds:

Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking.

Musk: UK is ‘tyrannical police state’

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In response to a post about an online petition that is circulation in the UK, asking for a new General Election to out Labour, Musk says:

The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state.

22 Nov, 2024

Musk, Trump Jr discuss buying MSNBC

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Quoting a post from an account that claims MSNBC has been put up for sale by Comcast, because “lying non-stop to your audience is a lousy business model,” Donald Trump Jr tags Musk, saying:

Hey Elon Musk I have the funniest idea ever!!!

In response, Musk writes:

How much does it cost?…The most entertaining outcome, especially if ironic, is most likely.

21 Nov, 2024

Bezos: Musk’s ‘sell Tesla, SpaceX’ claim ‘100% not true’

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In response to Musk’s claim that Bezos said Trump would win and that people should sell Tesla and SpaceX stock:

Just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that @realDonaldTrump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock

Bezos responds, saying it is not true:

Nope. 100% not true.

Musk then says he stands corrected:

Well, then, I stand corrected

19 Nov, 2024

Musk to Jaguar: Do you even sell cars?

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Musk responds to Jaguar’s new branding advert:

Do you even sell cars?

To which the company replies:

Yes. We’d love to show you. Join us for a cuppa in Miami on 2nd December? Warmest regards, Jaguar

Musk:

I look forward to seeing your new vehicle lineup.

18 Nov, 2024

Musk: ‘Britain is going full Stalin’

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Musk says the UK Government of going “full Stalin” by increasing inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million. Sharing a Guardian article on the plan, he says:

Britain is going full Stalin

Asked for a response to Mr Musk’s criticisms, a government spokesperson says:

[We will not] get into a back and forth on individual comments. We will continue to engage with the industry and explain how the process works, and it remains the case that we expect the vast majority to be unaffected by the changes.

17 Nov, 2024

Jones thanks Musk for helping restore Infowars

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Jones says Musk is helping him to stop Infowars being sold to The Onion, after Musk’s lawyers filed a notice of appearance at the bankruptcy court.

The only individual that’s done more to expose tyranny, promote liberty and team humanity, in my lifetime, who even begins to rival Donald Trump, is Elon Musk. Everything he’s done has been devastating to tyrants and corrupt institutions and has fabulously positive for freedom for the average person. So I wanted to take a moment out to thank Elon Musk. And to specifically point out that he send his lawyers to Houston in my corporate bankruptcy case.

Janja to Musk: F–ck you!

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Speaking at an event ahead of the Rio de Janeiro summit of the G20 group of largest nations, Brazil’s First Lady Janja Lula da Silva speaks about the importance of regulating social media to curb misinformation. As a ship’s horn sounded, she says:

I think it’s Elon Musk. I’m not afraid of you, f*** you, Elon Musk.

Musk responds with laughing emojis:

They will lose the next election

15 Nov, 2024

Milei praises Trump and Musk

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At the America First Gala at at Mar-A-Lago, Milei praises Trump:

The world is a much better place, and the winds of freedom are blowing much stronger. [The election was] the greatest political comeback in all of history, defying the political establishment even at the risk to his own life.

And Musk:

I would like to thank the great Elon Musk for the wonderful job he has been doing to save humanity.

Milei also criticised unfair tax systems that caused “the redistribution of wealth at gunpoint”.

Trump says it is an “honour” to welcome him to Mar-a-Lago – and calls Milei “a MAGA person”.

The job you’ve done is incredible. Make Argentina Great Again… he’s doing that.

Javier Milei Mercilessly Torches Communism, Blasts 'Social Justice' Policies, And Praises Trump

Stallone: Trump ‘second George Washington’

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At an America First Policy Conference at Mar-a-Lago, Stallone introduces Trump by describing the opening scene of the first Rocky film where the camera pans down from a mural of Jesus inside an old church converted into a boxing gym as the character gets punched by his opponent, with the word “Resurrection AC Club” shown in the background.

At that moment, he was a chosen person and that’s how I began the journey. Something’s gonna happen, this man is gonna go through a metamorphosis and change lives. Just like President Trump.

When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world. Because without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington.

14 Nov, 2024

Yousaf: Musk has a ‘whole team trying to besmirch my reputation’

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After Musk suggested he had been “racist” in his private communications, Yousaf says he checked his private messages:

It was more out of complete and utter confusion of what the heck he was talking about. A very pointed accusation that he’s trying to make, and most people who commented underneath are saying the same thing, you know, ‘Go on Elon, release his Twitter DMs’…I’m thinking, I’ve been on Twitter for a long time, have I made an off-colour joke? Have I said something in a private communication? So, I thought I better do the belt and braces thing, and as I say there was nothing there, and unsurprisingly so

And accuses Musk of targeting him:

But here is somebody who is basically saying to me by the way ‘you better watch out; I’m going to release stuff on you and it’s going to make your life hell…I am certain he has a whole team of people who are looking at any information they can gather on me and try to use it to besmirch my reputation.

Yousaf repeats his claim that Musk is a racist, with “far-right, white supremacist tendencies”.

Elon Musk could have trillions let alone billions and he wouldn’t have enough to shut me up.

13 Nov, 2024

Trump jokes he ‘can’t get rid of’ Musk

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At a Washington DC meeting of House Republicans, Trump jokes about Musk’s presence after the election win:

Elon won’t go home. I can’t get rid of him. Until I don’t like him.

Musk has spent most days after the election with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate, joined in Trump’s game of golf with his granddaughter, and sat in with callswith world leaders.

Musk supports journalist investigated for X post

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Musk responds to reports that the UK police visited the home a journalist for the Telegraph, to investigate her for a ‘Non Crime Hate Incident’ related to a year-old post she had posted on X.

This needs to stop.

12 Nov, 2024

Essex Police: Post was ‘likely or intended to cause racial hatred’

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In relation to Pearson’s case, Essex Police say that officers had opened an investigation under section 17 of the Public Order Act 1986 relating to material allegedly “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”. Spokesperson:

We’re investigating a report passed to us by another force. The report relates to a social media post which was subsequently removed. An investigation is now being carried out under section 17 of the Public Order Act. As part of that investigation, officers attended an address on Sunday November 10 to invite a woman to attend a voluntary interview on the matter.

Accused of non-crime hate incident

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As Pearsons is getting ready to attend a Remembrance Sunday event, two police constables from Essex Police come to her door. The police inform her that she had been accused of a non-crime hate incident (NCHI) related to ‘stirring up hatred’ in a post on X a year before. When she asks which post, the constable says he is not allowed to say. When she asks who made the complaint, she is told she is not allowed to know that either.

Pearson: You can’t give me my accuser’s name?”
Police: It’s not ‘the accuser, they’re called ‘the victim’.

Pearson responds:

Today, we are commemorating hundreds of thousands of British men, most of them roughly the age you two are now, who gave their lives so that we could live in a free country, not under the jackboot of tyranny. And you, YOU come here on this sacred day… You know, those soldiers, they could never have imagined that their country, our country, the country they died for, would ever become a place where the police would turn up at the door of a person who has done nothing wrong…

Pearson accuses the police of wasting time and asks them why it has taken a year to come forward, with no response. One of the constables asks for her phone number and email address in case they needed to call her in for an interview; She gives him her email only.

Fineman: Musk made me cry on SNL

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In a deleted TikTok post, Fineman says Musk made her cry at a table-read for the SNL show he hosted. The incident had previously been reported by co-star Bowen Yang, who had said that a male host had once made ‘muliple cast members cry’ because ‘he hated the ideas’.

OK, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being like butt-hurt about ‘SNL’ and his impression, but I’m, like, you’re clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about? And I’m like, you know what? I’m gonna come out and say at long last that I’m the cast member that he made cry. And he’s the host that made someone cry. Maybe there’s others.

I was like, I’m not gonna say anything. But I’m like, no, if you’re gonna go on your platform and be rude, like, guess what? You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch.

I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, ‘It’s not funny.’ I waited for you to be like, ‘Ha ha, jk.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page, being, like, ‘I didn’t laugh once, not one time.

According to Fineman, the sketch, which she thought was ‘fine’, made it onto the show, and she ‘actually had a really good time.’

I thought you were really funny in it. But, you know, have a little manners here, sir.

11 Nov, 2024

Claim: Musk used Starlink to ‘steal’ US election

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Left-wing conspiracy theorists allege the 2024 US presidential election was rigged through manipulation by Elon Musk’s Starlink network, with claims of 20 million votes disappearing and Starlink interfering with vote-counting machines spreading across platforms like X, Threads, and TikTok. There is no evidence to support the claims spreading on social media. US voting machines are typically disconnected from the internet in order to prevent interference.

10 Nov, 2024

Musk reponds to Carvey SNL impression

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In response to Carvey’s Musk impression on SNL, in which Carvey says:

Check it out – dark MAGA – but seriously, I run the country now. America’s gonna be like one of my rockets: You know, they’re super cool and super fun, but there’s a slight chance it could blow up and everybody dies.

Musk responds:

SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality.Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further…They are so mad that @realDonaldTrump won….Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.