Summary

Republicans’ efforts to portray Elon Musk as a MAGA martyr are failing, as his victim narrative struggles to resonate with conservative audiences.

Musk’s controversial statements and perceived elitism, including his complaints of being targeted by Democrats, have alienated even right-wing supporters.

Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand, and Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings, especially on economic issues.

Attempts to rally sympathy for Musk, including his emotional Fox News appearance, have largely backfired.

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Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand

This is the narrative Musk and Republicans want.

The protests and vandalism aren’t hurting his brand.

They’re another consequence of him openly being a fucking Nazi, which is what’s hurting his brand.

It’s not that complicated, but a shit ton of people keep missing the point

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“I can excuse some nazism, but vandalism is where I draw the line!”

…you can excuse nazism?

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46 points

Won’t someone think of the stock market?!

-Neoliberals

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27 points

Protests and vandalism are the effects of a shitty brand, not the cause. Musk himself is the cause.

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Also “controversial statements and perceived elitism” is doing some heavy lifting…

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131 points

Hope he never has another moment of peace.

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by doubling his intake of ketamine binges, and downing expensive bottles of dom perrignon.

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112 points

I don’t want you dead, Elon. I want you to be penniless and without anyone willing to loan you money anymore.

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87 points

I don’t want you dead, Elon.

Let’s not be hasty, now.

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51 points

Nah, they’re right. Dead people can’t suffer.

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45 points

While he certainly deserves to suffer proportional to the suffering he’s causing, top priority is stop him from causing more - if that means he ends up taking a bullet in a manner that renders him incapable of processing what’s happening, I’ll still count that as a good start.

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I don’t care if he’s dead or not. I just never want to have to hear that stupid Twitter guy say another word. I’m at the point where a single sentence from him makes me cringe enough to throw my phone across the room. Dead or irrelevant makes no difference to me. Just wish he was gone. Go to Mars already idiot.

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Speak for yourself.

I don’t care what happens to him as long as I no longer have to hear about him.

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You’ll be heading about him for a long time. I mean Hitler is still taught about today as far as I know.

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Yeah if he’s dead, how will we revel in his failures?

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16 points

Posthumously.

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I remember about twenty years or so ago there was a tiny plaque in there parking lot the Soviets built over the fürerbunker. It gave me great calmness to pee there, against the sign

Now it’s a bus stop. So current and future generations are deprived of this simple connection with their anti-fascist ancestors.

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I want him to blast off on a self funded one way trip to Mars with his closest friends. Then televise him and friends trying to create a Mars society. It would be better than any reality show produced yet.

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What odds are they giving for “shitty rocket accidentally blows up on launch”?

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Gleefully

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93 points

I don’t want him dead. I want him poor enough to need a gofundme when his drug abuse takes its toll.

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“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”

-Clarence Darrow

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Always thought that was Mark Twain, but snipes does give Darrow the credit - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasure/

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Always trust Wesley Snipes. Always.

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I want

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So help crash his tesla stock so that the bank collects on his loan stock collateral, which will force him to to pay tax, too.

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I mean, ideally I’d like him to have an epiphany about what a terrible person he is and spend the rest of his life making amends for it. But I don’t expect that to happen, so I guess bankruptcy is the next best thing.

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How many times am I allowed to upvote?

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As many times as you want, but make sure its an odd number.

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DOGE wants to kill me, by taking away my insulin. I have good reason to want Musk and Trump to be trapped in a burning cyber truck.

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That sounds like self-defense to preserve your life.

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Would it be more fun televized like George Carling suggested? Naked upsidedown crucifixion? Or catapulted onto a brick wall?

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Drawn and quartered, via Tesla vehicles. It is a quiz show where every time Musk fails to answer, one of the vehicles move several feet. These questions, can be about how many people lost their jobs and lives to Musk, and what rules DOGE broke in order to ruin them. Upon 10 questions failed, all the vehicles run free, and Musk becomes a wishbone.

There might be a bear animatronic as the host to this event.

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Giant Tesla coil

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You could make the mush puddle twitch with a Tesla coil…the imaginary is getting to be too much for me. Maybe we just line them up and kick them in the balls once per evil deed? …56732…56733…56734…

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I vote catapult.

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Nah. Let the drama queen go out like a drama queen. Make him be the test dummy on the next Starship test flight. We could use more entries on the “Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions” Wikipedia page.

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I recall George didn’t go for that because you would need a lot of prisoners. But I have to agree. We have enough nazis for a few seasons on Netflix…

Okay, for our viewers watching at home, Kollin Johnson, a guy who erased 235 records from the ABC historical collection on Chinese BBQ of the ming dynasty just because he didn’t like the names…place your bets folks! How many teeth, which bucket!..a that’s a nice splat Bob! …ouch! Bob! With our slow mo splat-amera we can clearly see 5 teeth together on a chunk! Right into the blue bucket! And a piece of ear and hair! Folks you don’t see this every day!

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