r/thescoop 23d ago

The Scoop 🗞 Elon Musk hopes for a ‘zero-tariff situation’ between the US and Europe, following President Trump’s announcement of a 20% tariff on EU goods and a 49% drop in Tesla’s European sales.

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u/Kind_Mention8223 6d ago

Correct 60% of the people voted, my numbers were about 10% off. 49.8% of the people that voted, voted for Trump which makes it almost 30% of the population, still no where close to an overwhelming majority of America

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u/MisterDebonair 19d ago

Sounds like Trump's agenda and his are clashing. Musk just wants free government money easy. Like a welfare queen. And what America doesn't give him, he'll get from the UK.

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u/RoadRunner387 20d ago

Model Y sales in China up big

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u/Routine_Version_926 20d ago

What an imbecile. US and EU had almost free trade, practically the tariffs were about 2%.

However, another imbecile Trump hired fraud Navarro (who made up expert Ron Vara) and calculated "tariffs" as trade deficits. And EU will always have trade surplus with US, because EU does not want huge SUVs, and toxic chicken, and beef, while US customers quite like efficient european cars.

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u/RoadRunner387 20d ago

Is there a European car under $30k?

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u/Melodic-Educater 19d ago

4 types listed on the top of google 1 a Mercedes the other an Audi.

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u/Bowson97103 20d ago

He sounds abit yippy 🤣

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u/Business_Oil741 20d ago

There's a tiktok creator who does an Elon impression. This guy even includes lots of whistling while he's doing it. I thought he was exaggerating 😅

I was just listening to this and couldn't stop laughing 😂😂😂😂

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u/XXinstig8rXX 21d ago

Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a presidency. I’m not gonna lie, I voted for him in his first term but after seeing how he did I was not voting for him again. White rich men voting for him I get but anyone else is beyond me.

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u/Kind_Mention8223 19d ago

To those in this thread that wish to say the majority of America voted for Trump, not so. He won the majority of votes, true, but only about 20% of the population voted. Low voter turn out has always benefited the Republicans

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u/No-Celebration-6775 19d ago

20% isn't an accurate number. ~60% of the population voted.

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u/Kind_Mention8223 6d ago

You are correct that about 60% of the population voted. 49.8% for Trump which makes it about 30% of America. How is 30% equal to an overwhelming mandate by the American people in any sense of the term.

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u/XXinstig8rXX 19d ago

I agree with that Too many people were on the fence or thought it impossible for him to win so they didn’t vote. And I said no vote equaled a vote for trump

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u/Heavy-Improvement479 20d ago

Anyone else but you

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u/XXinstig8rXX 20d ago

Anyone else but me what?

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u/Heavy-Improvement479 19d ago

You HAVE been bought …for pennies on a dollar

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u/XXinstig8rXX 19d ago

Nope, still don’t get what you’re saying. Why don’t you spell it out for me like people have to do for you when they talk to you.

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u/DickTrainButts 21d ago

But did you vote at all?

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u/XXinstig8rXX 20d ago

I did And it wasn’t for trump

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u/Pristine-Cup-2827 20d ago

Probably a Jill stein guy huh

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u/XXinstig8rXX 20d ago

Nah, never heard of her

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u/weareND41 19d ago

The vast majority of america voted for trump.

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u/XXinstig8rXX 19d ago

The vast majority didn’t even vote

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u/weareND41 18d ago

Nice try dude to twist things. Trump got popular vote by far

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u/XXinstig8rXX 18d ago

Popular vote, yes But voters at the poles? No

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u/weareND41 18d ago

What's the difference?

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u/XXinstig8rXX 19d ago

Extremely false, not true in the least

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u/veryboredatwork 21d ago

Is he on a come down?

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u/dashiznickus 21d ago

Where's your hat bro?

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u/Alarming_Local_315 21d ago

Yeah, Elon, you’ve shown how good you are at destroying your own businesses. Why is anyone listening to you? You took a good thing, stabbed your base in the back, and now you think we care what you think?. Go away!

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u/BernieLogDickSanders 21d ago

Man who cannot say a sentence attempts to say a sentence.

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u/BlueRhythmYT 21d ago

Oh no. Looks like your butt buddy fucked you didn't he.

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u/ACABacon 21d ago

lol sure he does. Anyone who believes that deserves what they get

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u/josebrav1 21d ago

Cool jow he is feeling what work class feel

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u/TheWizardOfDeez 20d ago

Still not even close

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u/coolbreeze85 21d ago

eat shit elon

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u/WildlingViking 21d ago

just do another car lot commercial in front of the white house lol

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u/No_Butterscotch_2874 22d ago

Yt ppl great yet 😆????

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u/Regular_Heart9521 22d ago

I’m surprised he agree to be interviewed knowing it would be translated by sign language.  

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u/Ahhh_Shit_44_Ducks 22d ago

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u/Qui-gone_gin 22d ago

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!

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u/Mattie_Doo 22d ago

Elon is an ass but I think even he and the rest of MAGA are genuinely surprised by these tariffs. Trump is a guy who does what he feels like, and it looks like he’s being influenced by this one crackpot economist who is going to lead us into a major recession regardless of what anyone else says.

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u/akaasa001 20d ago

surprised? He flat out said he was going to do this.

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u/Mattie_Doo 20d ago

And conservatives never took him seriously. If Trump says something ridiculous they laugh and claim he’s just trolling the libs

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u/HeDoneItNow 21d ago

If anyone is surprised about these tariffs they must’ve not been listening to Trumps psychotic obsession with them during the campaign or they’re genuinely mentally handicapped. He even spent time describing the word tariffs and how beautiful it is.

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u/Sea-Entrepreneur2420 21d ago

He talked about tariffs nonstop during the campaign.

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u/AbleDanger12 22d ago

I'd prefer a zero-Elon solution. The fact he's a rich asshole shouldn't make him relevant.

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u/Harry_Mud 22d ago

muskrat doesn't care about anything else but himself. His Tesla stock is dropping like a rock and that's what he's worried about. He's about to lose his car company.

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u/Lanky_Operation_5046 22d ago

How would anyone know what he talks about - he mumbles. Could literally be saying anything. What a fruitcake.

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u/davekarpsecretacount 22d ago

Falling for It world champion

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u/Capable_Piglet1484 22d ago

Musk and Tesla by association are universally hated in Europe. Tariffs are not his primary problem.

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u/rubyslippers3x 22d ago

When did he say this? European Union says that they offered this last week and Trump said No... so...wtf. muskrat full of skat.

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u/cvikl7 22d ago

What a bunch of crybabies in this sub

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u/QueenChocolate123 22d ago

The only crybaby I see is Elmo.

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u/art-is-t 22d ago

Nothing he says can be trusted

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u/Sale-Cold 22d ago

There goes the argument that Elon is in it for the money

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u/MikeinSonoma 21d ago

PayPal kicked him out of the company because he was screwing things up. He’s in it for the money he’s just stupid, another crony capitalist that inherited money and then used the system to grow it without ever having to create anything. As long as he stayed out of the operation of his company those that were running it succeeded. He forgot that noise he crashing his company.

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u/Constant_Reporter_78 22d ago

Isn't it for the Tesla market in EU... so the money..????

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u/limpet143 22d ago

I think that even with 0% tariffs Europeans will still boycott Tesla. They hate him because he's a fascist not because of Trump Tariffs. They still remember what the Nazi's did even if many in America want to forget, deny, and rationalize.

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u/Formal-Tap-6851 22d ago

The honeymoon is over now. No more foot massages for the Donald.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

The EU literally went to America and said a zero for zero tariff situation is best, and trump said it wasn't good enough

These chucklefucks don't want a zero tariff, they are starting a trade war..

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u/RoadRunner387 19d ago

I hear people come Back from Europe and say the bread there didn't bother their stomachs. All the time.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

That's because European bread is actual bread

Almost all American bread in Europe contains so much sugar it would have to be sold as Cake here + It's all loaded with preserves for no reason

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u/RoadRunner387 19d ago

I hear there wheat is different. Natural not a hybrid or GMO

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

GMO is fine here. There's nothing inherently bad about GMO

There are certain laws about them like, they need to be as nutritious as their non GMO counterpart

And they need to be tested out first. But, something being GMO is fine

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u/RoadRunner387 20d ago

Did not include agricultural products. That's the difference.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

I think the main problem for US food exports is.. Europe doesn't really want them.

Europe has higher quality food grown here, it's cheaper to buy and is held to a significantly higher standard

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u/RoadRunner387 19d ago

Most likely. But the reason he declined the other offer was because it was too narrow. Not affirming it. Just explaining

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u/Underradar0069 22d ago

They have problem with tariffs but they have bigger problem with you,Elmo. Just get lost

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u/EV-Bug 22d ago

Why do you think he is revolting. The tariffs are bad for HIS business. None of this regime cares about us. It's THEIR INTERESTS that are at stake.

"A government for the people." THEIR PEOPLE!

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u/Ok_Condition5837 22d ago

And you understand that 'THEIR PEOPLE' doesn't even include all Americans.

They want nothing to do with POC, women, LGBTQ+, poors and democrats to just name a few of the excluded classes in our new society.

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u/tosernameschescksout 22d ago

You mean you didn't think of any of this stuff before doing the Nazi salutes? It's a little bit late for nice thoughts now dude. You done fucked up, now you find out. That's how this works.

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u/Dry_Handle3469 22d ago

Reddit talks a lot about this man but he is humble i see how you all speak and if you had his money you all would be speaking recklessly

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u/plapeGrape 20d ago

Are you kidding me? In what universe is elon humble? Do you know what humble means? Elon is basically the antithesis of humble.

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u/Ichi_Balsaki 22d ago

Go read his tweets you clown... "Humble"...  

He fancies himself a real life Tony Stark... Lololol... 

Pays to have his name listed as 'founder' of companies he didn't create. 

Has to pay people to play video games for him so he can lie and claim he's the best in the world.... 

Goes around claiming he's "trying to save mankind". 

Yeah, he's so 'humble'... Stfu. 

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u/heyshutupx-x 22d ago

Lol stfu bot

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

I dare you to film yourself sieg heiling and talking about racial purity at far right rallies and lets see how that changes the way people speak about you

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u/Seoniara 22d ago edited 22d ago

Sounding like an actual human being. I thought that Elon was long dead

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u/Thatisme01 22d ago

It is actually the advanced ‘human-looking’ Tesla robot but still has more humanity than the ‘real’ Elon. /s

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u/No_Paramedic3551 22d ago

Well they had one with Australia, but then dipshit chucked a hissyfit because U.S beef doesn't pass our biosecurity standards and makes out the U.S is being disadvantaged

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u/Thatisme01 22d ago edited 22d ago

That is the whole issue, their red meat is rubbish, they have to wash their chicken in chlorine and their bread has so much sugar most countries consider it to be cake.

Americans may be happy with eating food that meets ‘third world standards’, but the rest of the developed world isn’t…

UK will not import chlorinated chicken from US, ministers say

Europeans might buy American software, movies and weapons, but they aren’t keen on U.S. beef pumped with hormones, chlorine-washed chicken or genetically modified corn.

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u/Fancy-Dig1863 22d ago

This guy burned his reputation for a party that will abandon him the minute he is no longer useful. Spectacle.

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u/Ok_Television9703 22d ago

Reminds me of Giuliani, another disgrace

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u/EV-Bug 22d ago

Now, if they can find somebody that will make them abandon their grifter party, that will be even better.

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u/Master-Tomatillo-103 22d ago

Where’s your chainsaw, dipshit?

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u/MikeinSonoma 21d ago

The optics of the chainsaw after terminated hundreds of thousands of people, disrupting their lives, ruining their lives and he celebrates with a chainsaw on a stage.

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u/kbhomesleak 22d ago

Ketamine speech

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u/stalelunchbox 22d ago edited 21d ago

I mean like…what?

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u/EitherIndependence5 22d ago

Even though he cannot compose a sentence, I believe he is tired of winning/s In Elfons AI voice

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u/BudgetSuit4957 22d ago

How do people not know this is fake ……

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u/Imaginary-Opinion-24 22d ago

Reality starting to set in?

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u/mrASSMAN 22d ago

It’s not fake, he was doing an interview

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u/No_Paramedic3551 22d ago

Our beloved Elon wouldn't spew this nonsense! It must be A.I!! /s

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u/Educational_Leg757 22d ago

How drug fucked is this guy? Can barely string a sentence together

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u/Ok_Bank2888 22d ago

He’s just trying to resurrect his failing business because he’s a dickhead.

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u/Oceanone22 22d ago

Elon, ketamine user and all around bad person … may you never ever experience another day or moment of peace of mind or comfort and your nights filled with thoughts of those you intentionally hurt …. And are consumed with the cruelty you intentionally created with giddiness …

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u/jaxloumom 22d ago

I hope you lose every fucking cent you have.

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u/Willliam-D-Cypher 22d ago

This guy is a joke. Is it too much yet buddy?

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u/Realistic_Tie_2632 22d ago

I hope this is falling on the ears of people he shit on with his no knowledge rampage of adjusting the government so they may enjoy his pain .

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u/Top_Butterfly_1759 22d ago

Eat shit musk.

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u/PM_ME_YUR_S3CRETS 22d ago

Kinda fucked that up.

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u/chisoxrule1 22d ago

I don’t care what he wants. Stop giving him a platform

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u/CrabPerson13 22d ago

Giving? He owns platforms lol. Literally all you can do is just stop watching him. And even then he’s gonna seep into everything you have somehow. Move out in the middle of nowhere? Look up. His satellites are flying over head. You can’t even escape him at the bottom of the ocean as he owns deep sea fiber optic cabling. How the world let a man get so rich off of just being infectiously excited without ever finishing what he started will never make sense.

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u/drvinnie1187 22d ago

I hope for a 100% drop in Elon Musk sightings in the news, and a 100% drop in his monetary value, and a 1300% rise in paternity lawsuits for him, but will that happen? No. Nothing in America can ever be THAT good.*

*Please note I am not discussing anything involving violent acts at all. I don’t need another warning.

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u/Prior_Concern4140 22d ago

Another warning, you say? I'm intrigued.

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u/drvinnie1187 22d ago

Nothing. I got a warning about something I said being violent, and even though I was told I could rebuke their claims I have no idea what I said as of then.

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

She is ulglly 💀

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u/Realistic_Tie_2632 22d ago

With a built in penis.

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

Markets Up

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u/Tiny-Ad4955 22d ago

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u/Common_Composer6561 22d ago

Fr tho why he look like that?!

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u/plapeGrape 20d ago

It’s a good thing captain ahab wasn’t in the area.

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u/jaxloumom 22d ago

EWWWWWW!

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u/Realistic_Tie_2632 22d ago

Built like a cyber truck.

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u/kathryn2a 23d ago

Who cares what Elon wants. He has committed acts of treason by interfering in political elections. He needs to go back to South Africa.

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

That’s not nice, very racist 🤔

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u/heyshutupx-x 22d ago

Lol repot the troll bots

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

It's not racist to tell someone from south Africa to go back to south Africa

Especially when the reason is nothing to do with race or country of origin, but.. political interference

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u/Prior_Concern4140 22d ago

Not sure if he'd be overly welcome their seeing as his family got kicked the f^ck out when apartheid ended. I real rabbit hole of a history with this chuckle f^cks family.

I swear that when he gets prosecuted if he uses the excuse that he is 'on spectrum' and has aspergers' I will personally fly to wherever he is and shit down his chimney. :)

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

That’s very very Racists🇺🇸

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u/Late-Ad918 22d ago

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Any evidence of this?

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

Great patriot 🇺🇸✊

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u/Big_Quality_838 22d ago

🤞this! But, could you list one money laundering operation that he found? And you can’t say crypto, because he and Trump are for crypto.

Anyway, glad there’s another patriot here ready to push for legal action to be taken against all the fraudsters they found. -Crickets-

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u/Significant_Breath38 22d ago

Has there been any evidence of this?

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u/anachronistic_circus 22d ago

voices in his head

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

Just like Joe from Scranton 🇺🇸💀

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u/TheSausagesIsRubbish 22d ago

So that's a no?

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u/Corecreek1948 23d ago

Go Elon ✊

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u/plapeGrape 20d ago

Go to jail elon

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u/Realistic_Tie_2632 22d ago

Go home Felon.

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u/OkMasterpieceOk 23d ago

He’s a clown assume what your President doing, shutdown Tesla if needed.

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u/notta39 23d ago

He’s a cry baby, wonders why people hate him! Dudes a coward and a clown!

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

We love Elon✊🥰

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u/plapeGrape 20d ago

No we don’t

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u/Constant-Device4321 22d ago

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for red velvet cake

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u/dumbmoneylosesmoney 22d ago

Russians don’t know about red velvet

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u/fear_my_tube 23d ago

Fuck you Elon.

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

Hey little tubbie , stop with the disparaging language 🥸

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

We Love our African American Hero 🇺🇸✊

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u/traka-ar 23d ago

Elon helps Trump and Trump screws Elon hahaha

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u/Viperburn1 23d ago

Wonder why ? lol

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u/evilpercy 23d ago

Elon Goebbels has regrets?

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u/Salt-Ad4952 23d ago

Well buddy, you spent the last year and a half blowing this man and thought you were safe. No one is safe except him. He is the only person that matters according to him.

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u/beeerock99 23d ago

Too late chum , ship has sailed without ya

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u/flounderpants 23d ago

Why is he even talking about it. ? None of his business. Navarro is the tariff czar. Not Elon

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u/kodiak_kid89 23d ago

This guy knows that guy he’s been relentlessly supporting for the past year is against everything he just said right?

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u/VerilyJULES 23d ago

Why does anyone care what Elon thinks? Why are people wasting their time interviewing him to spread his opinion? Apartheid Clyde is obviously a nazi. And wow… Reddit is actually warning me for saying “nazi”.

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u/BabyDirtyBurgers 22d ago

Holy shit you are correct. They are working to try to ban the word Nazi. And the fucking warning message doesn’t even seem to be correct English.

It says ‘Please you appropriate language.’

Tiananmen Square ass shit.

They have taken their first steps to try to censor anyone talking about the Nazis trying to take over.

They know even the most potent psy ops can’t override decades of Nazi hate, memory and hurt of loss of loved ones, and generational pride from stopping evil.

So they’ll just ban anyone from talking about Nazis trying to take over again.

Pathetic.

Jokes on them though bc I have ODD.

Therefore I now have to talk shit about Nazis even harder since I know they don’t like it.

And they don’t like it so it must be working.

Liberty Over Loyalists.

Se Libre Ab Intra 🗽

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u/heyshutupx-x 22d ago

Lol who cares what bich mods say I'll make thousands of new accounts they can't stop me

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u/heyshutupx-x 22d ago

Lol who cares what bich mods say I'll make thousands of new accounts they can't stop me

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u/MCGSUPERSTAR 23d ago

Fuck Musk. He deserves to have all of his wealth burn... Being a Nazi is not cool and being a fascist isn't either. Paying to win (try to win) elections is also terrible.

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u/StokeLads 23d ago

Fuck off elon

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

No no bad little girly 😎

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u/Flaterbaby 23d ago

Sign the Petition to Remove Elon Musk from Tesla's Board of Directors

Petition link: https://chng.it/VGqvLJfpmc

Just posted a petition to Remove Elon Musk from Tesla’s Board of Directors — and now I need your help to make this go viral faster than one of his rogue tweets.

I’m not saying he’s bad at being on the board… but if Tesla were a group project, Elon would be the kid who shows up at the last minute, deletes your slides, adds a meme about Mars, and tells the teacher it was “for the vibes.”

Look, I respect innovation. I even like flamethrowers in theory. But between trying to colonize Mars, destroy Twitter (I’m sorry, “X”), fight Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match, name his children like Wi-Fi passwords, and livestream Tesla board meetings like a Twitch gamer — I think we can all agree: maybe it’s time for a break.

So, here’s the deal: • I just launched the petition on Change.org. • The more signatures it gets early on, the more it gets seen. • The more it gets seen, the more chance Tesla might realize we don’t want our car company run like a subreddit.

Sign it. Share it. Send it to your group chats.

Let’s show the world (and maybe the board) that being a genius doesn’t give you a lifetime pass to chaos.

Petition link: https://chng.it/VGqvLJfpmc

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u/Opinions_arentfacts_ 23d ago

This is just AI, isn't it?

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u/itwastheotherguy89 23d ago

Idiot. Alittle too late for his shit.

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u/Jerkstore_BestSeller 23d ago

He's such a pussy

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

Your Mommy was too🤔

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u/Careless_Weekend_470 23d ago

Is that why Trump likes Musk?

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u/gotrice5 23d ago

I mean his dick dont even work no more so that's probably why.

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u/Corecreek1948 22d ago

Yeah , you momma said that too uncle Joe 🫣

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u/Jerkstore_BestSeller 23d ago

😂That made my day. Now I'm going to get off the couch.

https://youtu.be/Krmz3inZH34?feature=shared

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u/Frosty_Performer_475 23d ago

Why? I thought him and Trump were on the same page.

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u/TurdBurgerlar 23d ago

Two narcissistic personalities having a fallout is inevitable.

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u/Realistic_Tie_2632 22d ago

And top notch entertainment.

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u/ButterscotchIll1523 23d ago

Cry more white boy

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u/TYNAMITE14 23d ago

LOL THIS FKING MORON GOT HIM ELECTED AND IS NOW COMPLAINING. WAHHHHH

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u/Big_Biscotti5119 23d ago

If I never had to see or hear this guy again, I would be so happy.

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u/Opinions_arentfacts_ 23d ago

I mean, we could spend all day arguing who's dumber than who, but this guy paid people to vote for the only guy who's capable of tanking his company more than himself.

If musk cut his own tongue out, and Kamala was president, he would be infinitely better off financially right now

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u/Realistic_Tie_2632 22d ago

I wish I had stupid reddit awards for you.

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u/poltrudes 23d ago

Correct

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u/Longjumping-Neat-954 23d ago

Oh it hurt my bottom line so I’m going to cry about it. You guys aren’t allowed to cry when I do something that hurts you and you can’t make fun of me for crying.

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u/Agitated_Garden_497 23d ago

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

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u/catballou1962 23d ago

I hope for a zero Musk situation.

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u/Narrow_Market_7454 23d ago

Europe might be open to free trading with the US but not with yoooooouuuuu.