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Billionaire compares Minnesota governor to clown emoji: ‘Saving the American people from the torture of hearing you speak for four years was worth it’

Elon Musk went on a late-night attack against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz after he called the billionaire a “dips***” during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.

“Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dips***,” Walz said on Tuesday, referring to Musk as former President Donald Trump’s “running mate.”

Musk initially appeared alongside Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against the ex-commander-in-chief less than two months previously. The videos of the billionaire jumping on stage when Trump called him up quickly went viral.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also:

The billionaire also posted a meme of Walz with the words: “Who am I, Why am I here.”

I'm guessing most people, even a lot of people here, did not get that reference.

That's because it's a reference from a vice presidential debate in 1992.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Stockdale-Stanford-vice-president-debate-1992-15427467.php

I don't even know why I remember that.

What a dipshit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1w3FgB0Ohc

Not gonna lie, that humility/candor would've made me more likely to vote for Perot/Stockdale.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem with Perot/Stockdale wasn't Stockdale, it was Perot. He was nuts. He would have been almost as bad as Trump. His understanding of the economy wasn't much better either.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Perot did have a stronger charts and graphs game than mister Sharpie, though.

Also, as bad as a Perot presidency might have been, he wasn't openly hateful like Trump, nor as obsessed with breaking the system if the results didn't go his way. It was kind of a Diet Populism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It just shows you how far we've fallen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Trump manages to be worse than Goldwater in a variety of areas. Goldwater was supposed to be our low point (post Lindbergh)