Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee to fund the Republican candidate,” Fortune reports.

Said Musk: “What’s been reported in the media is simply not true. I am not donating $45 million a month to Trump.”

He added: “I don’t prescribe to a cult of personality.”

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    That’s smart, Elon. First, pledge money to Trump so progressives hate you. Then go back on your word and piss off conservatives.

    But this doesn’t make any progressives go back to liking you. You just pissed off everybody possible. That idea is right up there alongside “I should buy Twitter”.

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        My respect for him tanked in 2014 when I first met someone who worked for him, and heard what working for him is like. Abusive managerial style sounds… too gentle. Somewhere during the Trump administration I lost my last ounce of respect for him, and somewhere in the last few years I started losing respect for people who still think positively of him.

        Between his sense of humor that reads as ‘15 year old on 4chan’, his aggressive bigotry, and abject lack of redeeming qualities, I’m not sure what he could do to change my mind at this point. If he gave a billion to the Trevor project and apologized for the bigotry, I’d be skeptical about his angle.

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          I’ve never liked that guy.

          But then I had the opportunity to meet the actual founders of Tesla; so when he started pretending he founded Tesla, it seemed pretty douchey to me.

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            Yeah I didn’t know about the “purchasing the right to call himself a founder” thing until fairly recently. I probably would have started in a similar place if I had

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              Oh. He didn’t just purchase it.

              There was a lawsuit. Bought in with 6.5mil (10+ with inflation,) then sued them for the right to be called “co-founders”

              Edit: whoever his PR team was before he fired them; they were insanely good. That’s when people started realizing how awful he was.

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                  Yup. before his fall, it’s best if you just assume everything you read about him is pure propaganda. because it pretty much is.

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          Prolly have to soak your hand in lab grade HCl, and then run it through an industrial sandblaster just to get the smell out

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    He doesn’t actually deny giving the money to his PAC though… He just says it’s a lie that he’s giving it to Trump

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      It’s all just weasel talk. He’s still donating $45 mil/per month [unspecified amount] to the Republican Party, but probably realised he’d be in legal trouble for doubling down on what he literally said on his own platform.

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            True, but this also prevented the President Schwarzenegger timeline.

            While I used to joke about that a decade ago, in retrospect I think this would have been faaar better.

            There are practically no Republicans that actually give a shit about the environment, and while Arnold did make some cheeky quips at his opposition… I would greatly, greatly prefer a timeline where he, instead of Trump, or some corporate fuck or evangelical nutjob, is the face of Republicans after Obama.

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        Luckily that shithead is constitutionally barred from running. He was born in South Africa.
        It’d be interesting to see the birthers from 15 years ago do a complete 180, though.

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        But all he can achieve with the current constitution is the title of Oligarch and Chief Twat.

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    Congratulations! Now you’ve made Trump and yourself both look like dumbasses!

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    Sure you do, you’re just too much of a coward to stand behind your shitty beliefs in the face of public backlash.

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    HA HA HA HA HA HA AHA HBAAHAHAHAHAHA

    Bro. Trump sue his ass. Make him give that money to your failed campaign.