Musk breaks silence calls ‘Hands Off!’ crowds puppets for political elites
www.irishstar.com
Elon Musk broke his silence Sunday on the massive "Hands Off!" protests Saturday, dismissing them as orchestrated political theater by unseen elites manipulating clueless, possibly paid demonstrators.
  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    A “puppet master” organizing millions of people across an entire nation…

    Kind of sounds like a real politician unlike his unelected ass.

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 days ago

    He’s just salty because he knows that every single person in that massive crowd would cheer as the blade came down on his neck. In fact, they’d cheer louder for him, than almost any other person…except for one.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Man who was literally giving people $100 to repeat his political rhetoric earlier this week says people who disagree with him are puppets, very reasonable cool and not projection /s

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    Who are the puppet masters, Elon? Some shadowy cabal of oligarchs with even more money than you? Are they in the room with us right now?

    I’m sure they pay those protesters quite well 🙄

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      12 days ago

      That’s the thing I don’t get from Fox News and other conservative outlets.

      Who is paying these protestors? Why is this never a follow-up question? Why isn’t anyone from Fox or any other “journalistic” org investigating this? Or at least pretending to?

      Let’s assume that these protestors are paid. The most conservative estimate of the number of protestors is 2 million. Let’s halve that because, you know, conservatives want to downplay this whole thing.

      Assuming everyone was there for no more than two hours, and assuming minimum wage, we’re talking $7,250,000 for everyone. Let’s assume half were paid and half “followed along”.

      $3,625,000 just for paying the protestors. Ignoring web site domains, salaries for organizers, etc.

      Let’s call it an even $3 mill.

      Who the fuck is paying that?! This isn’t chump change. This is “journalism 101 follow the money trail” kind of money.

      I mean, I know, and you know, why they aren’t investigating. They just need a boogyman.

      But damn even the most cursory look at this excuse falls apart.

      • Null User Object@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Who is paying these protestors? Why is this never a follow-up question? Why isn’t anyone from Fox or any other “journalistic” org investigating this? Or at least pretending to?

        Because they know it’s bullshit. It’s not journalism. It’s state media propaganda. It all makes more sense when you’re not expecting them to be journalists, much less, investigative journalists.

    • DarkDecay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Musk wouldn’t just break wind though. He’d start by farting then quickly shitting all over himself. Followed by intense whining and blaming the corporate elites for buying someone to shit in his pants

  • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Puppet masters? All while he’s puppeting that orange clown in White House. He’s so far out disconnected from reality he doesn’t even know what the fuck HE is doing. And he’s projecting like a fucking lighthouse.

    • Suite404@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      He’s been manipulating people for so long he can’t imagine people doing anything without a puppeteer.

    • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I dont like elon damaging ketamines rep and trying to coopt it for himself

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I wish he was chased out of the U.S like that time Springfield chased out the monorail guy. Literally a lynch mob as he runs like a caricature.

    Or maybe Trump, Vance and Musk running away like the end of a three stooges episode.

  • SSNs4evr@leminal.space
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    12 days ago

    I love how a billionaire “puppet master” can think so low of everyone, like nobody is intelligent to think for themselves, instead, relying on some unnamed “puppet master.” Yet he cannot name any alleged puppet master leading the over 1000 protests. What a freaking Muppet. Sorry - I don’t mean to insult the Muppets.