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Elon Musk Complains About 'Paid' Protests on Call About Tesla's Poor Earnings
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Leon Hitler can piss in the wind.
Dude literally tried to buy elections. Even if they were paid (they aren't) he would have no right to complain
He doesn't get that most of us aren't bigoted pieces of shit and we hate him for his actions. He probably doesn't know what righteous anger is. So our protests have got to be paid for. More projection from a right winger.
Remember that it's always projection with these fucks.
HE is paying people to steal the election for him & paying people to play games for him so he can claim he is the best
so he assumes others must be doing the same...NO.
During a call with investors Tuesday, Musk blamed “paid” and “very organized” protesters for his electric company’s remarkably weak earnings so far in 2025. “They’re obviously not going to admit that the reason that they’re protesting is because they’re receiving fraudulent money, or that they’re the recipients of wasteful largesse, they’re gonna come up with some other reason, but that is the real reason for the protests,” said the billionaire.
Y’all were gettin’ paid to protest? That girl who got caught setting fire to Teslas, she was paid too? All the people protesting.. paid? Uh huh That’s my first nope 🙂↔️
My second nope: you literally have been paying people to vote in your favor.
He’s so full of it 🤣 He’s regurgitating his own excrement and totally dim to the absurdity or irony of what he’s defecating.
Let not thy heart be moved with mercy for this man; for he reapeth the fury of that which he hath sown. -ChatGPT, not the Bìblé
Projection. It's always projection with these cunts.
I hope some of these investors tell him why he's getting such hate. Maybe he'll listen to them.
Paid by who?
Paid by who, you little dust bowl
"The elite wealthy who secretly run the whole government"
Oh, you mean you? YOU MEAN YOU ELON???
George Soros, obviously. He's their favorite rich bogeyman.
Dipshit immigrant buys a presidency and then cries about "paid" protests.
Loooooooooser.
Richest man on Earth whines about other people being able to afford to buy protestors?
Funny that's how he thinks immediately, that movements can be bought and sold... almost makes you wonder huh...
So, like the usual double-speak rhetoric from this party, just gotta invert what he says:
Elmo Muskrat pays for protestors, and is sad that his paid protestors aren't as effective as real ones.
That's rich coming from someone that bought Trump the election.
Man's so insulated from the working class he doesn't know how money works for real people.
He still can't understand that people actually hate him.
Describing the left as "very organized" is the funniest thing I've read all year.
That should have investors chomping at the bit to have him replaced.
"They all showed up at around the same time." = "very organized" :D
that’s much more organized than any leftist group i’ve ever seen
compared to KetaMusk that's probably impressive
Who the fuck has all this money to pay for protesters?
Wait it must be the same people who can afford to give away drugs in Halloween candy....
How dare you use our tactics against us.
This is the same guy who wanted to buy votes?
Pretty crazy how the richest man alive can't out pay the protestors current employers. So even in his narrative, he still ain't paying people.for.shit
If President Musk would be so kind as to post a link to the website or app where I can sign up to get paid for displaying leftist views and hating on oligarchs, I would really appreciate it. I could use some duckets.
For future reference, it's ducats.
Ducat was a "trade coin"(not usually a legal/single state currency) that started in the late 1200s Italy, and was still used by Austra in the early 1900s.
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Exactly, I'm ethusiastically trashing him on a daily basis for free, I'd LOVE to get paid for it. I'd be so good at it, I'd probably get promoted.
The richest guy in the world, and he is so horny for any love and respect that the smell of desperation fills any room he is in. You can even see it anytime he makes a media appearance. The guy actually exudes a breath-taking level of anti-charisma. He's truly revolting to anyone who sees him.
All that money, and he has to rent wombs to manufature his DNA Storage Units/ Organ Donors/ Human Shields because no woman will go near him. I've heard his dick doesn't work anyway, due to a botched wiener enlargement surgery.
So he thinks the gamers are his peeps, and they'll love him, right? Nah, all those great toys, and still none of the neighborhood kids want to play with him, because he's so fucking wierd.
It fills me with such glorious schadenfreude to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying "Money can't buy happiness."
Yup. Richest guy in the world also wants to be the most popular and loved too. He could have easily continued that image by not actively damaging his "brand" for no reason with his immature outbursts. He also could have given money to those that needed it, not going to happy as it seems those were never apart of his core values. He loves pretending that they are though.
There was a post yesterday or so that he was extremely depressed after getting booed on stage with Dave Chappelle. That made me quite happy.
Than stop paying for people to show up on your side and then you won’t have a problem. The people against you are doing it for free.
These guys can't even come up with an original excuse.
Surprised he didn't invoke George Soros.
Who's paying them? Genuinely, who, in his grandiose delusions, wants his demise and is paying people to protest, just to lower his stock prices. Who does he actually think is "out to get him".
George Soros, maybe?
Just remember, every accusation is a confession. Musk pays protestors, so he believes others do as well.
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I can get paid to tel Elmo henvan gonfuxk himself?
Why did nobody tell me?
Sounds to me like he’s lying to investors about the true nature of a risk to the company
‘Member when the SEC existed? I ‘member!
Fair point, though individual investors also have a right of private action to sue, likely as a class action, for misleading investors
He’s conflating paid and organized in an attempt to make them synonymous. Basically, anyone you ever see holding a sign is just an actor and their message is not worth acknowledgement. Don’t think too hard about how much you’re getting utterly fucked, Billy. That’s what a “globalist” would do!
Classic, straight out of the fascists playbook. Everyone who supports the fash is grassroots movement, everyone who opposes fascism is a paid shill from the scapegoat du jour.
Just hire counterprotestors? You have the scratch. Show us how logistically plausible it is to hire an enormous group of people to congregate and chant your ideas.
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