Elon Musk

[Fake Messiah]

Another one!

[Fake Messiah]

Elon Musk All but Endorses the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory

Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa, kicked off 2024 with a slew of tweets attacking the Biden administration over immigration numbers and advancing the dubious argument that the president welcomes those who enter the country illegally, viewing them as “future Dem voters.”

Since the end of December, Musk has left a graph pinned to the top of his profile on X (formerly Twitter) that claims to show how more migrants are now arriving at the southern border than there are babies being born to American mothers. “Almost no one seems to be aware of the immense size and lightning growth of this issue,” he wrote in his post. But the data he’s quoting, as the Washington Post reported, is misleading: the number of monthly migrant encounters at the border is always higher than U.S. births, and besides, many of those migrants are turned away before entry, quickly expelled or sent to detention.

All told, then, the Tesla CEO and X owner has long been receptive to racist, far-right talking points alleging some erosion of Western white identity. In the past few days, however, he has embraced them more fully, to the point of seeing an orchestrated plot. On Thursday, he took to X to agree with Geert Wilders, a Dutch political leader notorious for harsh rhetoric against immigrants and Muslims, that “a collapse of our own culture and Western values due to open borders” and “an uncontrollable amount of non-western asylum seekers” was the “biggest problem we face today.” He also evidently accepted Wilders’ claim that “weak politicians advocating cultural relativism” shared in the blame for this imagined issue.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...234941337/

[Thumpalumpacus]

Billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday adamantly denied using illegal drugs, after the Wall Street Journal published a scathing report detailing purported concerns among some high-level company executives about the SpaceX and Tesla CEO’s alleged illegal drug use.

The Journal reported Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, including at private parties around the world, where nondisclosure agreements are sometimes required to enter. The outlet cited “people who have witnessed his drug use and others with knowledge of it.”

Musk has used marijuana in public and has said publicly that he has a prescription for ketamine, the Journal also reported.

The article emphasized concerns among “some executives and board members” at Musk’s companies and among some people close to him who the outlet reported have come to believe some of Musk’s erratic behavior is, at least in part, driven by his alleged use of drugs.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/43...-concerns/

[The Grand Nudger]

A prescription for ketamine eh? One assumes that's for the pain of setting fire to billions of dollars. Must be one tough son of a bitch, I think elmos life decisions might just kill a guy like me.

[Fireball]

I've seen video of him smoking rope and drinking vodka(?) during a meeting. Given the level of his drug issues, it's amazing he has a security clearance. Then again, "world's wealthiest person"...who's going to blackmail him, and he doesn't need to hold or flash classified info to impress people.

[The Grand Nudger]

Who's gonna blackmail him? His advertisers, apparently..or at least that's how he chooses to communicate his business reality. Can you imagine how quick a cashier would get fired if they sat around smoking dope and hammering liquor while shit-talking the customer on camera?

Honestly, I think he really does feel the need to do mystifying stuff to try to impress people. He did buy twitter thinking it would make people like him more, after all. Like, if they just saw him, and heard his unfiltered thoughts on his platform......whoops! Seriously though I can't even think too deeply about losing this much money...I'd obviously go into cardiac arrest if it ever happened to me. Just the shame. Even considering it gives me angina.

Does ketamine work for angina?

[Pat Mustard]

I've seen video of him smoking rope and drinking vodka(?) during a meeting. Given the level of his drug issues, it's amazing he has a security clearance. Then again, "world's wealthiest person"...who's going to blackmail him, and he doesn't need to hold or flash classified info to impress people.

Lots of people could blackmail him. His "worth" is tied up in highly leveraged* Tesla stock that if he were ever obliged to liquidate in significant numbers would kill the company's share price and his "worth".

*By this I mean that his personal stock holdings are collateral for a lot of loans he is having trouble honouring.

[The Valkyrie]

Who's gonna blackmail him? His advertisers, apparently..or at least that's how he chooses to communicate his business reality. Can you imagine how quick a cashier would get fired if they sat around smoking dope and hammering liquor while shit-talking the customer on camera?

Honestly, I think he really does feel the need to do mystifying stuff to try to impress people. He did buy twitter thinking it would make people like him more, after all. Like, if they just saw him, and heard his unfiltered thoughts on his platform......whoops! Seriously though I can't even think too deeply about losing this much money...I'd obviously go into cardiac arrest if it ever happened to me. Just the shame. Even considering it gives me angina.

Does ketamine work for angina?

No.

[The Grand Nudger]

Well, there goes one theory.

[Silver]

Elon Musk is not entitled to landmark compensation package awarded by Tesla's board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion, a Delaware judge ruled Tuesday.

NPR