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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.

https://archive.ph/M6g1C

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I need to figure out who's giving out all this free money because I'd really like for some to come my way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

He believes his own lies? Not that surprising really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I dream of musk reduced to working at a cell phone accessory kiosk in a forgotten mall, peddling glittering iPhone cases and rambling about how he made comedy legal again.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

It's always projection.

Start asking MAGA who paid them to be MAGA.

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

Great photo, he looks like a frog

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

Time to wake up, Mister Musk! Wake up and smell the coffee!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago

My payment is Musk's tears.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Leon Hitler can piss in the wind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

sore loser.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Dude literally tried to buy elections. Even if they were paid (they aren't) he would have no right to complain

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder if any of those people on that call had the guts to point this out to him. These people are never called up on their bullshit and that's how they get ahead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I hope some of these investors tell him why he's getting such hate. Maybe he'll listen to them.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Projection. It's always projection with these cunts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Man's so insulated from the working class he doesn't know how money works for real people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

He still can't understand that people actually hate him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

That's rich coming from someone that bought Trump the election.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Paid by who?

Paid by who, you little dust bowl

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

"The elite wealthy who secretly run the whole government"

Oh, you mean you? YOU MEAN YOU ELON???

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

George Soros, obviously. He's their favorite rich bogeyman.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Dipshit immigrant buys a presidency and then cries about "paid" protests.

Loooooooooser.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

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....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not everything can be bought buddy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

We need to be paid to afford the tariff/national sale tax.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

How dare you use our tactics against us.

This is the same guy who wanted to buy votes?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hating Musk is one of the few things we can all agree on.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"They all showed up at around the same time." = "very organized" :D

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

that’s much more organized than any leftist group i’ve ever seen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

compared to KetaMusk that's probably impressive

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The only money involved for the protesters was what they are going to lose because of this f-ed up governments policies.

No need to pay anyone who does protest out of sheer pain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I can get paid to tel Elmo henvan gonfuxk himself?

Why did nobody tell me?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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