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As has been well-established for years now, Elon Musk fancies himself both the smartest and funniest person in the room. He is, of course, neither. Because he’s been surrounded by “yes” men for his entire life, I genuinely think he was surprised when he found himself outwitted and out-trolled after buying Twitter last year. Space Karen’s latest grift for attention is parroting Russian or Republican talking points (is there a difference?), disguising it as concern for the American taxpayer.
On Sunday evening, Musk continued his Putin Puppet Show by posting a meme to The Artist Formerly Known as Twitter that mocked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The meme showed a picture of Zelenskyy with the caption, “When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t asked for a billion dollars in aid.” Cue the Ukrainian government and rest of the Internet pointing out, “When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t said or done something stupid on the platform that you managed to devalue by 90% within just one year of buying it.”
[Zelenskyy] and his top lieutenants have appealed to their allies throughout the war to secure billions of dollars of military aid to weather and push back Russia’s invasion. The speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, hit out at Musk’s jibe with his own post on X.
“The case when …(Elon Musk) tried to conquer space, but something went wrong and in 5 minutes he was up to his eyeballs in shit,” an apparent reference to SpaceX’s failed rocket launch in April.
Ukraine’s parliament, on its official page on X, accused Musk of spreading Russian propaganda, posting its own version of the meme with a picture of Musk and the caption: “When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t spread Russian propaganda”.
A Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, who has criticised some of Musk’s statements in the past, said in a post on X that being silent or ironic about Ukraine played into the hands of Russian propaganda.
“Unfortunately, not everyone and not always, while being significant media figures, but being thousands of kilometres away from the war’s epicenter, is able to realize what the daily bombardments and cries of children losing their parents are.”
Ukrainian officials criticised Musk earlier in the war for suggesting that they should consider giving up land for peace, a position that Kyiv has staunchly rejected.
That’s some solid burn from Speaker Stefanchuk and the Ukrainian parliament. Too bad Elno has no shame and continued posting more dumb sh– on Monday, like a conspiracy theory about the Deep State wanting to silence him, anti-vax nonsense, and a picture of two dogs that implied that he was “teabagging” the media. He thinks he’s been redpilled, but he is actually a deeply unserious moron being used by authoritarians to spread dangerous propaganda. Apartheid Clyde was way more fun when he was making a fool out of himself with the Zuckerberg cage match thing.
Meanwhile, Musk decided it was a good idea to visit Texas border town Eagle Pass in cowboy cosplay last Thursday. Eagle Pass is the town where Gov. Abbott cruelly placed coils of razor wire in the water. Musk posted videos from his trip and shared his opinion on immigration despite no one asking for it. Shockingly enough, he’s all for building a wall. Musk is one of the richest men in America and an immigrant himself, yet he still doesn’t know when to have a seat. Between the Zelenskyy post and the border stunt, Elon is getting high marks as the right’s newest rich, dumb puppet.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2023
bitch, your own companies have received more subsidies than Ukraine ever has… go ahead & take many seats https://t.co/lJ1qLXYn3Q
— LeGate 𝕏 (@williamlegate) October 2, 2023
— Ukrainska Pravda in English (@pravda_eng) October 2, 2023
As a Ukrainian citizen and a US legal person, I am outraged
Elon Musk mocks the Ukrainian president asking for help to fight off Russians murdering Ukrainians
I wonder if Musk would find asking for help funny if his country was invaded and his friends and relatives killed pic.twitter.com/Z70r0rCmez
— Tymofiy Mylovanov (@Mylovanov) October 2, 2023
I find Musk frightening. What he is trying to do to humanity is creepy.
And Putin must be stopped now, or he’ll never stop. It will just cost more later.
I am so glad I am not alone in thinking that. About 12 years ago, we had a party at our house and talk to the group got around to Elon Musk. The men were singing his praises, about Tesla and his mighty business acumen. I said, I found him creepy, and that his ideas could very well border on the dangerous. One fella became a tad aggressive towards me, as if I have insulted his father my son told him to not speak to me like he was and let him outside and put him in a taxi to go home. I couldn’t believe how some people are so devotion to him. I still find him creepy. And he’s a tossed. He needs a large dining suite of seats.
This is my partner. He is such a Musk fanboi and thinks he’s some kind of genius and is obsessed with watching SpaceX videos on YouTube. He gets quite defensive if I point out the reasons why Musk is problematic. But my partner is also a huge Joe Rogan stan, so there’s that (I know. So depressing)
I’m With the Band: your partner is wearing his red flags, loud and proud!
Related to Elon, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino gave a car crash interview recently. It was really something. In case anyone had any question that she was just a figurehead- that was completely proven out. She also seems kinda awful, so Twitter got the “CEO” it deserved.
Also Elon wore his cowboy hat backwards during that boarder town visit. *chefs kiss*
The Yaccarino interview WAS a disaster. If she lasts another week, I’ll be shocked. She will never head up a company again.
Every Elmo Touches Dies
It gives me great pleasure to see how the US is c*ckblocking Russia from taking Ukraine. It is Putin’s comeuppance for interfering in the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump. Elon Musk is a spoiled brat who has no idea what being in a war is like.
yeah, now we need to make sure no Republican takes office again, or Putin will do his best to make sure the US doesn’t cock-block him. Putin owns the Republicans, that much is clear with their pro-Putin talking points.
FYI this ass-hat wore his cosplay cowboy hat BACKWARDS.
Musk Is so creepy
Musk is proof we need to both raise the minimum wage by a lot AND have high taxes on the rich. Doing away with pass through corporations used for money laundering would also be nice. People don’t realize Delaware is one of the money laundering capitals of the world.
“he is of course, neither”–may someone please tell him?
Musk is such a doos. (If you’re South African or lived there for any length of time, you’ll understand).
I’m not sure if “Elno” was a typo or not, but can I petition for it to be a permanent change. It really hits home that he’s a muppet.
Maybe musk should go shake Putins hand, because he has a way of kllling everything he touches, just ask the people who worked at twitter and every other musky project
Elon Musk looks like the Flukeman monster from an episode of the X-Files. Pasty pale, zombie eyes, bottom-feeder. Sorry that was mean…I mean no offense to any monsters out there by comparing them to Elon Musk.
@Mireille lololol!!
That’s rich coming from the dude who was on his knees in 2010 to get a $400 M+ bailout from Obama.
He gets a ridiculous amount of bailout from the government for SpaceX and Tesla. And his companies get an insane amount of help from the government agencies. SpaceX (his most successful company) rockets would have never made it off the ground without the thousands of NASA employees who basically hand-held SpaceX all the way through it. Musk even admitted it in an interview.
So he can take a seat about “big government” because without it, he would be broke.
This man is vile and also pathetic. Truly, mocking Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s plight is so low and given how many bailouts and government support his companies have received, it is wild.
What a garbage human.
I mean he’s so rich he probably pays a couple of people to just follow him around and laugh at his stupid “jokes”.
How I wish he’d do that instead of trying to torture the entire world with them.
He is way too narcissistic not to do both.
He’s also being sued by Grimes bc he won’t let her near the three children they have. What a pathetic piece of shit he is. And how stupid is she to be with him? I remember one time she said he doesn’t give her any money. I mean, the fuck?