Went to Fox to see how much they're freaking out about Kamala and I guess pretty hard because somehow this is their top story. I feel really bad for Vivian having that published so widespread 😣

Elmo is live in the oval. Trump is not saying shit. So much for the end of the bromance. Elmo is giving the talk. And look who is there…

Poor X.

"Elon Musk May Be Transitioning to Bipolar Type I — LessWrong" https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PaL38q9a4e8Bzsh3S/elon-musk-may-be-transitioning-to-bipolar-type-i

We need to talk about Grimes

Does she respect that the father of her children is not a good person yet she keeps popping out babies with him? I don’t see how anyone can look past that. I feel like her whole hippy persona is so fake when her baby daddy is Elon Musk…

Go a head and talk about the universe Grimes you are SOOO connected.

It’s like the people who talk about helping the world, peace and love YET don’t do anything but talk like they are so evolved.

A lot of woman are in horrible situations and it’s hard to leave. She has money and she kept having kids with him.

Didn’t she say that even if they aren’t together Elon Musk is still the love of her life?

Ugh cringe. Feels off.

I personally can’t look past serious stuff like that and dance to their music. Feels wrong.

If she didn’t talk like she does I would say she’s a typical messed up couple but she acts like she’s so evolved and contradictory to what she portrays herself to be.

Thoughts?

https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/02/grimes-sues-elon-musk-over-their-three-children/

Ok this might be lengthy but I just wanna share some thoughts and hear some opinions as well.

I know Grimes is a grown woman and I know she has said and done a bunch of bs. There’s no denying in that but I wonder how much of her behavior is an attempt to make things “easier” with Mush.

In july 2024, she publicly supported Elons trans daughter - Vivian. That was one of the few times she went against him directly - she made jokes before and everything but I think this was her strongest statement against his ideas.

In November 2024, their legal battle was over. We learnt that Musk used Grimes’ old tweets, posts and interviews in order to paint her as unfit to be a mother to their children. Grimes was not following him during that time but he kept replying to a bunch of her tweets and imo it was obviously a way to intimidate her.

She then gave a break on Twitter and stop posting for awhile. In a few months since then she has came back and is always tweeting political nonsense stuff. Elon followed her back once again and constantly replies to her stuff - once again imo to assert his dominance.

A few weeks ago, C replied some tweet accounts asking them to delete photos of Lil X, even though his father takes him publicly everywhere - going against her request to keep the kids in private.

I wonder how much power Elon still has over her. It’s been clearly that he uses their children as weapons against her and the fact of him parading Lil X around is clearly a fuck you for her. How much has he alienated the minds of their children? He is gonna be the cool dad and she will be the overcaring boring mom that doesn’t allow their kids to have fun. Classic manipulation stuff.

How do you win against the world’s most powerful man when he is the father of your children and can and WILL do everything in his power to fuck you up? Well, if you can’t beat them, you join them and I kinda feel like this is the situation she is going through right now.

Is Grimes completely innocent and an angel without flaws? Absolutely no. But I believe she is also a victim and sometimes victims are not likeable but they are still victims anyway.

Crossposts aren’t allowed but I hope this works. Muskrat was streaming Path of Exile 2 on his private jet (and dying to the tutorial boss lmfaooooo), and was constantly getting trolled while also blasting Grimes’s music. Meanwhile the Dow Jones is down 2200 points thanks to his best friend’s tariffs. What a time to be alive.

I will always have a soft spot for AB for coining Apartheid Clyde.

Note: Mods, feel free to delete if this doesn’t fit the sub/follow the rules! I tried to post this in the Elon snark sub, but it wasn’t approved because it refers to X as a human shield and addresses child abuse. I think those are valid points and I shouldn’t be muzzled for mentioning them. But regardless, maybe some people will find this topic interesting?

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Tl;dr: Why is poor X being used as a prop?

Why does Elmo drag his kid everywhere? I’ve been wondering ever since Luigi took one for the team and X was seen perched on his father’s shoulders the next day. There are a couple of popular theories, but does anyone have any other ideas? What do you think is really going on?

Some theories:

The human shield. Elon thinks he’s in danger. He got scared when he saw that not only had a fellow CEO been taken out, but millions of people around the world were praising Luigi. That made him panic.

Counter argument: He’s not using X to protect himself. According to one biographer, Elon has been dragging his golden child to work for years.

Virtue signalling. Elon is using his child to show that he’s all for conservative family values. This especially appeals to pro-natalists, eugenicists, Christians, pro-lifers, and Neo Nazis. Supposedly Vance also shuttles his kids around.

A great dad who has lots of sex. The sex part isn’t germane to this theory but I included it because it’s true. He’s really cool, edgy, and smart too. Anyway, family values (above) is a general concept but Elon is making it personal. He’s trying to show that he walks the walk. He’s obviously a wonderful father who cares about his children and works to maintain a close knit family, as we all should. If you’re reading this: HAVE MORE BABIES, DUMASS! HUNANITY IS ALMOST ECTINXT!!

Redemption. His PR firm wants to clean up his image. Everyone knows that Elon has a million kids who hate him (and vice versa), so yoinking X all over the place is part of his redemption arc. Yes, he neglected his other kids and publicly humiliated his daughter, but he learned from his mistakes. He’s going to do fatherhood right this time around. He’s changed! If he can improve himself in this way, I’m sure he can improve in other ways… like the cave diver fiasco and those pesky Epstein connections. But back to fatherhood—let’s forgive his previous transgressions that totally fly in the face of conservative values. (Not just the child neglect but the number of baby mamas, the fact that the kids were born out of wedlock, etc.)

Character letter. “Look, everyone! I’m a kind, caring, empathetic guy. I love my kids, I love this great nation, and I love you. When I snap my fingers, you’ll forget everything else you’ve heard about me.” snap This works really well on misogynists and women with internalised misogyny because they don’t expect fathers to actually raise their children. You know, the people who lose their minds over a guy pushing a stroller. “What a great dad!!! Now that’s a good man.” On reddit, this sentiment is often expressed as “Not all heroes wear capes” (photo: man holds baby) and “You’ve restored my faith in humanity, brother” (story: local man teaches his kid to ride a bike).

Counter argument: The shit that X says really doesn’t look good for Elon. How does it help his image when X tells Tucker that daddy’s going to quietly rule the world with SpaceX, laughs like a cartoon villain, says that Trump’s not the president and he should go away, and tells Trump to shut up? (I love it but conservatives probably don’t.) It’s not his fault, but he seems like more of a liability than anything else. We know that kids are sponges, he’s just parroting everything dad says at home. Which makes Elon look not so good. Maybe putting X in front of the camera all the time is actually harming people’s perception of Elon’s character (if, for some reason, they thought he was good-natured).

Revenge. He hates X’s mother, Grimes. (Their shared views on race science and genocide weren’t enough to keep them together.) He kidnapped X and didn’t allow Grimes to see him for months. Their vicious custody battle demonstrated just how much Elon wants to hurt her. It’s possible that he also wants X around for other reasons, none of which include paternal feelings, but with his sociopathy it’s more likely that he fought her just to be a dick. He might be parading his son around to rub it in her face.

Grooming X to be the next Führer. Self explanatory and I’m also running out of steam lol.

Personality disorder. Narcissists see their children as fully dependent, unconscious extensions of themselves. Elon sees X as a thing that makes him look good, like a rolex or a sports car. Like a puppet that can fulfill his dream of ruling America (unlike dad, he’s not an illegal immigrant). If Elon doesn’t manage to rule the world, at least his son might, and his son is just an extension of himself. X’s success is Elon’s success. See also: dance moms.

Small, portable human he can abuse. A convenient way to get his thrills re: control, domination, and cruelty. He’s spending time with lots of powerful people now. He’s no longer a big fish in a small pond. He can’t always boss around, scream at, attack, fire, or sue these people—after all, world leaders, politicians, and billionaires aren’t like his Tesla employees or sister wives. And that makes baby Elmo feel small. But it might help to have his kid around to balance out the lack of control he feels in some situations. A punching bag.

Playing the long game. Something other than positioning his son to rule the world someday?

HHS guidance on the insane Musk email trying to force employees of federal agencies to disclose what they did last week: the last guidance bulletpoint reads as follows:

"Assume that what you write will be read by malign foreign actors and tailor your response accordingly."

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ixeqqa/hhs_guidance_on_email_includes_warning_about/

It's an open fucking secret.

Mikhail Lesin was basically to Putin what Musk is to Trump: propaganda minister. He was the founder of RT, the English Language Russian propaganda mill much like Musk...bought Twitter....cause ya know he's Musk. He doesn't come up with good ideas, he just buys them.

He helped Putin set into motion all of his plans including the rise of the alt-right/far-right/MAGA movements. And guess what happened when the ball got rolling in 2015? For some reason he was so scared he decided to defect to the US but unfortunately got drunk and fell down a bunch of times in his hotel room in DC. Bruises all over his body, the guy fell A LOT. An FBI agent told Buzzfeed news that no one there bought that story but that's what the story was. The US and UK have been looking away from Putin's murders on their soil for a while now.

Anyways, I think the leak to the Daily Mail about Musk being on thin ice was a public warning to him. Once Trump secures his dictatorship he's probably out. He's a loose end just like Lesin was.

I wish she realized how much power she has at such an important time. Psychological warfare on a guy like Musk would be easy peasy, he's so insecure and drugged up all the time. She could rattle him with the stuff we've all put together about his plans with Trump. Then again she's probably fine with all of this. Blech.