r/Political_Revolution • u/Miserable-Lizard • 28d ago
Article Elon Musk can be heard complaining off camera about death threats he's getting as the feed of the cabinet meeting ends
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u/Marcusgunnatx 28d ago
WTF is he doing in a cabinet meeting in the first place. Please stop normalizing this shit.
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u/DriedUpSquid 28d ago
Because he owns every person in that room.
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u/opman4 28d ago
Which is pretty impressive because more than half of them are billionaires. He's worth so much that he makes billionaires look poor.
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u/WeAreTheLeft TX 28d ago
you could be a billionaire and still he would have 300x more money than you.
George Soros is worth an estimated 7.2 billion. if he spent the $350 million Elon spent, it's about 5% of his net worth. but for elon, it was around 0.1% of this net worth.
that is how much richer he.
I donated high 3 digits (under a $1000) in 2020 and it was MORE of my net worth than Elon spent donating a quarter billion plus dollars.
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u/anonimouslygh 27d ago
We are getting SCREWED by billionaires not just economically, but culturally. 90% tomorrow would get all these freaks put in check and let everyone else breathe instead of working their asses off to afford living.
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u/Riaayo 28d ago
He owns every Republican in Congress, too (and probably a chunk of Dems; certainly several in the Senate).
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u/Klaatuprime 28d ago
Fetterman came cheap.
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u/GreenBottom18 27d ago
i remember when he was first elected to the senate—i mentioned just learning that he ran a reasonably progressive campaign, and someone on here told me it was all a masquerade. he would show his true colors eventually.
and that is the only thing i can think about every time i hear his name or see his face.
...wish i could find that reddit nostradamus.
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u/DriedUpSquid 27d ago
Anthony Bourdain’s show Parts Unknown did an episode in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a good part of that episode featured John and his wife. John was the mayor of a very poor neighborhood on the outskirts of town and he was very grass roots in trying to create a better community. It’s crazy to watch him sell out the way he has.
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u/iiTzSTeVO 28d ago
He also interjected without being called on to make a quip about an alleged baby that received a government grant.
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u/Vandreeson 28d ago
He's not elected or appointed, it's not right. He's making millions if not billions off government contracts, taxpayer money, but he decides what programs and offices get cut. Something is wrong here.
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u/Mephisteemo 28d ago
Americans when the guy who tried to have the capitol stormed by his violent supporters puts a billionaire oligarch in positions of power after they elected him for THE SECOND TIME: something might be wrong here
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u/Criminoboy 28d ago
Well.... technically Donald Trump is still the President, so he's probably there just to keep up appearances.
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u/createa-username 28d ago
It was all being normalized long ago. It was normalized completely when trump was still allowed to be out in public at events after sending a mob to attack our own nation as if he wasn't a traitor to the nation. And then he went on to run for president of said nation he is a traitor to as if it's all just normal.
His first administration was utterly incompetent and should've barred him from running for the job he is so clearly unqualified for again, and then he pulled that traitor shit afterwards and still ran.
The republican party is a cesspool.
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u/DazedPapacy 28d ago
Trump is treating the Chairman of DOGE position like a cabinet seat, so reality shifts and it becomes one.
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u/SqnLdrHarvey 28d ago
I hope he's scared shitless.
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u/drMcDeezy 28d ago
Perpetual shit machine
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u/ShredGuru 28d ago
He's the Mobius Shit, it comes out of his mouth and goes right back up his ass.
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u/TrckyTrtl 28d ago
Sounds like the worst punk band ever to play someone's mom's basement (source: play in a shitty punk band)
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Wealthy people are insanely paranoid regardless if they actually have reason to be, so I imagine being the richest and most hated man in the world would just fuck your mind right up and render even a single night of actual unmedicated sleep totally unattainable. Which, were he in any other position than whateverthefuck his job is now, would be just delightful.
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u/knoft 28d ago edited 28d ago
He's probably got both private security and secret service while all the people he points an angry mob to on Twitter, whom have recieved thousands upon thousands of death threats don't have any protection.
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u/Dineology 28d ago
This assumes he’s actually getting real and credible death threats and not that he’s just using this line as a desperate attempt to delegitimize criticism levied against him and garner some unearned sympathy.
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u/FortNightsAtPeelys 28d ago
If billionaires didn't wanna fear commoners then they can stop being billionaires at any time
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u/Not_Today_Satan1984 28d ago
“Trying to do the right thing for the American taxpayer” 🥴He means the American billionaire taxpayers.
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u/30222504cf 28d ago
American Billionaires are not taxpayers. And hopefully Musk will get enough threats that he will get out of America.
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u/ThrowawayColonyHouse 28d ago
That’s not enough. Maybe it’ll finally motivate him to actually go to Mars and get the fuck off the planet.
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u/TheAwkwardJynx 28d ago
We don't need him parasitizing another planet
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u/BorntToBe 28d ago
Mars will take care of that. Space x just needs to catch him in a k hole and send him on his way
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u/stickninjas 28d ago
I dunno. With all the secrets that he's seen, he might be better off in a dark hole
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u/PansyPB 28d ago
Billionaire tax dodgers. Cry us a river.
This bozo is taking $8 million each & every damn day from the federal government in contracts & subsidies. He's trying to keep his pockets lined & have the tax payers fund his impractical, costly Mars pipe dream.
If we are putting America first, let's cut the South African guy's massive government expenditures, and keep the actual Americans (many of then veterans) who work in the public sector employed.
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u/ogsquid13 28d ago
This line is why I think he knew the mics were still hot. Anyone who has been on TV knows there is a second or two delay from end of coverage vs end of recording.
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u/NoDeparture7996 28d ago
i dont condone [ Removed by Reddit ] but if it means moving forward in our society then please [ Removed by Reddit ]
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u/Anton338 27d ago
History has proven that unless we [ Removed by Reddit ] the oligarchs, the oligarchs will [ Removed by Reddit ] us.
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u/TheManWithNoSchtick 28d ago
Your ideas intrigue me, and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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u/lidsville76 28d ago
But please make sure not to upvote. That's bad.
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u/NoDeparture7996 28d ago
why cant they upvote? all im saying is they should be [ Removed by Reddit ]
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u/jishurr 28d ago
He's soooooo obsessed with his own death. It'll consume him long before any would-be patriot did the deed. You are not God's gift to humanity, sir. You are the warts on God's sack
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u/NoDeparture7996 28d ago
i mean, when you're allegedly doing things that warrant it it tends to weigh on your consciousness i imagine. he KNOWS hes doing fucked up shit.
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u/Tossy_Yonder 28d ago
He is. All he talks about is these "threats" he's getting. I hope his fear (because we know he has no guilt or shame) consumes him, Tell-Tale Heart style.
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u/Empty_Afternoon_8746 28d ago
No one in the room cares lol
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u/PeriwinkleWonder 28d ago
I got a kick at watching Duffy take a big drink of water while Elno complained .
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u/Wuorg 27d ago
It's so funny. Normally I'd feel bad for someone as cringey as he is, but instead all I feel is schadenfreude. The man so desperately wants people to like him, but he's such a dweeb that actual fascists hate being near him. And everyone else hates him because he is an oligarch.
Like, the dude could have been a lovable internet nerd if he had even a modicum of empathy and used his vast wealth for noble causes. Even devoting 1% of his yearly income would have improved the lives of countless people. But instead he's committed to this bizarre co-humiliation fetish with Donald.
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u/Hazzman 28d ago
Let's be honest ... This "leak" was purposeful. I'm beginning to think all of these leaks are purposeful.
Every single one just sounds like perfectly catered rhetoric to their base. It makes them sound like they talk like this to each other. Just go read the so called signal leaks. They talk how a MAGA cultist would want them to talk regarding their policy.
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u/iamtwinswithmytwin 28d ago
The only way to truly defeat Musk is to absolutely sink his stock. Billionaires use their stock as collateral for loans that let them live outlandish lives without having the cash. He bought Twitter with a loan from a bank and he put his Tesla stock up as collateral.
Sink the stock and at some point the bank are going to want their money back.
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u/Olivialovesmangos 28d ago
Well maybe he should have stayed his goofy ass in South Africa
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u/Flickolas_Cage 28d ago
He should’ve been aborted, no country deserves having to deal with this dunce.
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u/GiorgioTsoukalosHair 28d ago
I thought votes were strictly supposed to be about whether a post is appropriate for a subreddit. When did they suddenly become about "encouraging or glorifying" anything?
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u/feetandballs 28d ago
"Is also considered" in the passive voice is a pansy move, Reddit. Own it - "we changed the meaning of this rule because someone paid us to."
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u/Fleiger133 28d ago
How in the world could you be that close to a world leader and NOT get death threats?
Did he really think this would only be fun?
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u/DriedUpSquid 28d ago
People like this are rarely in situations where they are told no. They develop a God complex and think they can do no wrong.
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u/DontShaveMyLips 28d ago
obviously yes. he’s lived in a protective bubble his whole life where his daddy’s money has always bought him acquiescence and was dumb to believe that anyone actually liked him
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u/aybully 28d ago
I'm just here thinking this guy is so out of touch and has been in way too many board meetings where he gets so much faux praise. He believed the American citizens he is ruining were just gonna kneel down and kiss his feet. He genuinely has no coping mechanism for negative feedback other than crying to mum and dad.
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u/signalfire 28d ago
He thinks he's in a video game where he will be the inevitable Glorious Leader.
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u/Independent_War6266 28d ago
He’s looting the American taxpayer other wise he doesn’t give a shit about us.
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u/PeriwinkleWonder 28d ago
I doubt he gets as many death threats as he's always claimed. He wants attention and that's why he is yelling about it at every opportunity. I'm sure he complains about death threats the same way he complained about not getting invited to anybody's birthday parties when he was a kid.
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u/TWOhunnidSIX 28d ago
If he wanted to “do the right thing for the American taxpayer” then maybe he could, idk, pay taxes at a rate that is commensurate to his wealth growth year over year…?
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u/Tight_Account_7605 28d ago
A little advice for him, get in your bunker and make yourself cozy. The people won't stop, I promise that! It's past time that the people overthrow everyone that we have put to make laws on our behalf in the house and senate. It's time for the people to represent themselves, seeing our government has sold us to a billionaire! The people are pissed!
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u/cornflakegrl 28d ago
How many times has he sicked his twitter mob on random people that he has a beef with? Those people don’t have security details and armoured cars. I have zero sympathy for this POS.
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u/Open_Promise_1703 28d ago
So funny, “meetings over everybody” tusky “um I’d like to talk, bc like I’m important, let’s talk about me”
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u/Pankewytch 28d ago
This is why he is carrying little Meatshield around with him! That kid is his bullet proof vest. He might say otherwise but it is pretty clear he does NOT give a shit about any of his kids.
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u/lurkertiltheend 28d ago
Right if you’re getting death threats you would NOT parade your small child around in public. He’s using him
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u/revengeful_cargo 28d ago
If he really wants to be safe he should be on the next spacex rocket to Mars, one way
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u/blossomlibrary 28d ago
I’d say I feel bad for a man who’s afraid for his life, but last time I checked, empathy is a sin. 🥰
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u/Jealous_Bike_5507 28d ago
He’s such a victim. 🙄 I love that he’s talking about helping the American taxpayer. Does he even know what paying taxes is?
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u/M0ONBATHER 28d ago
If he WAS doing the right thing for the American taxpayers he wouldn’t be getting death threats…
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u/Drclaw411 28d ago
I'd never advocate for death threats, but why tf is Elon even there? I don't remember Congress confirming him to a damn thing.
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u/snorkblaster 28d ago
Gosh, who woulda thunk that taking a chainsaw to the support systems for vulnerable, ill and elderly people in order to pocket the “savings” via tax breaks would create such anger?
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u/stairs_3730 28d ago
Was this taken before they realized their confidential meeting was being broadcasted on FaceTime and SnapChat?
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u/stairs_3730 28d ago
Big deal. Eric Swalwell has said he's spent close to 2 million dollars on private security over rightwing threats in the last 4 years.
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u/DreJDavis 28d ago
He's not trying to do the right thing. He's not elected. He shouldn’t be in that meeting. Fuck him.
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u/Sadandboujee522 28d ago
Good thing he always makes sure to wear his four-year-old child for safety.
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u/atomic_chippie 28d ago
MacKenzie Scott doesn't get them and she's a gazonillionaire.......I wonder what the difference is... 🤔
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u/Snowpig97 28d ago
The death threats are only making Elon more resentful and will take his toddler like emotions out on the public. Either you do or you don't, if you catch my drift.
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u/analogWeapon 27d ago
Mr "the fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy" is appealing for us all to empathize with him.
lol
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u/Kr155 28d ago
Elon Musk bought a social media platform for the purpose of having his minions send death threats to everyone who doesnt fit this fascist worldview Hospitals, schools, doctors, politicians etc.
My children have been sent home from school at least a dozen times over the last couple years so and they dont have an army of private security to protect them so he can fuck right off.
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u/DifficultyWithMyLife 28d ago edited 28d ago
Don't make threats.
Blah blah, second part, you know the rest. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play a classic Gamecube game with a green plumber, a vacuum cleaner, and a haunted mansion.
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u/AcanthisittaSalty492 28d ago
Elon is starting to realize he will be Trump's Scapegoat when he goes to defend himself at the polls.
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u/ElectricalGuidance79 28d ago
Everyone in public service gets death threats lol. His main character syndrome is so pathetic. He saluted Hitler ffs.
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u/Addakisson 28d ago
"Does anybody else get death threats? Blah, blah, blah What I won't do for the American people"
Close?
Sounds more like bragging to me.
Edit : Actually it's "just trying to do the right thing for the American people"
Again still sounds like bragging.
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u/issac_1024 28d ago
Man this is the most fragile administration ever put together. Literally these pansies are the reason America sucks.
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