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Even I'm not impressed by Elon Musk's PR team pushing a narrative of him being a victim of drug addiction in order to shift responsibility for his actions and also give him an opportunity to repair his public image by getting clean.
^ the real headline. There isn't an amount of ketamine you can take to make you do a sieg heil on stage
Yep! Nazism isn't a fucking side effect of sustances
Seems to be a side effect of being a billionaire, though.
Or maybe being a Nazi is just a prerequisite since you have to exploit a lot of people to get to that point, and the kinds of people who become Nazis are sociopaths who desire power above all else.
It's so fucking embarrassing to watch him, and I hated him before. It sets my nerves on fire like the visual equivalent to nails on a chalkboard. Keep posting it. For every right-winger who sees it and cheers, there have to be four more who feel deeply ashamed to cast their lot with him.
Implying there are right-wingers who experience shame
He still hasn't figured out he was always gonna be the first fall guy...
They'll blame all the damage on him before midterms to try and trick the rubes that it's not Republican's fault.
Trump always blames others
TUBO. Pronounced like tub-oh because he's a fat lard-ass.
Trump Unilaterally Blames Others
Trump Unsurprisingly Blames Another
TUBA
Curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal!
Mime is an evil laugh.
Trump Was Always Trump
Trump Wrecks Everything Really Promptly
You win! Give this person a TACO
Trump Always Censures Others? Chides? Condemn? Criticize? Charges?
Edit: trump always rebuffs onus?
Edit 2: taro was not the goal... I'm a goof
Easier for something to catch on when all the words are at a 4th grade level or less.
Trump Always craps oneself ?
Diaper Don
before midterms
We're not going to wait that long. DOGE cuts are already affecting people and this summer is going to hit some people HARD.
Some of the cuts will be reversed, at great expense, and next summer will hopefully be better. Then Trump will take credit for partially fixing the problem he created and declared victory.
Hopefully people aren't idiots but...
I meant that's when they'll start blaming Musk to try and keep Republicans in office.
Damage is being done right now, but it takes a while for people to feel it.
And I'll be there every step of the way to enjoy his downfall. Petty? Sure, but so was killing ~150K people for nonexistant savings.
His drug use is the least concerning thing about him.
I'm going to be irked if it's his ketamine abuse that takes him down, but not upset
I'm just annoyed the fucker is ruining ketamine's good name
Maybe ketamine will fix that issue for us.
It's a shame he didn't get addicted to something more dangerous, like heroin
How can you take this much E and still have zero empathy.
Be a sociopath and/or an extreme narcissist. Drugs can't overcome personality disorders.
Ketamine and Ecstacy are two different drugs.
Yeah he was apparently using both.
And psychs.
But yeah, drugs can't give someone empathy if their brain isn't wired that way. Sociopathy (without any actual evidence to point to this conclusion) is potentially genetic.
It is possible to somewhat overcome this with the though process that "helping others will personally benefit me".
This video is a great eye-opener for this type of mindset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTWNnmymMc4
Step 2 in trying to make Musk the sole fall guy for the misdeeds of the entire Republican party/leadership. Musk is one of many anti-American criminals, we can’t let the rest get away with their roles. They are ALL complicit, not just Musk. All of them.
I'm not sure his businesses will be glad to welcome him back. Sure, they want him away from the DC spotlights, but the guy is still an addict with a depression.
No, he won’t be welcomed back. But he’ll be back.
His board of directors is glad to have him back. He has singlehandedly tanked his companies' brand image and sales with his irresponsible ego bender, and there has to be serious talk of a shareholder lawsuit in the works, especially after that last disastrous earnings report. The Board probably convinced them to hold off until the next earnings report, hoping things will improve, but it won't. Once a bubble pops, it doesn't reinflate again.
The only thing holding up the stock at this point is that it is a major holding in many institutional funds. As future earnings report remain poor, or even get worse, those institutional funds will start dumping it, and then it will fully crash. At that point, the lawsuit will go forward.
The Board is just hoping that by forcing him to get back to work, and not tolerating his nonsense any more, they may be able to avoid being named in the lawsuit as well.
Tesla will be bankrupt within two years.
The propaganda machine needs him to fall before they can try a redemption arc to help recover his image.
If we ignore all the other context for a second: the "drugs are bad" angle is kind of hilarious if he's on multiple hallucinogens, uppers and downers and the only identified issue was he had to pee a bit more than usual.
the bladder issues from ketamine make it so you cannot pee, and from what i read elsewhere is that issues present after long term or heavy use.
Eventually you'll pee red, that's your bladder lining saying bye-bye
Watch Elon Musk of 2012 vs 2025.
Long term drug use clearly destroyed his brain. He never was very smart but 2012 Musk is a fucking genius in comparison
"No, Elon. Let's not move on. Answer the damn question." Fuckwit.
He's even starting to look like a strung out addict...
"Starting"?
Speedrun extreme right fascism on ~~meth~~ Ket. What could possibly be on the far horizon?
I’m sure meth is in there somewhere.
If I’m not mistaken it’s in the chocolate
Elon, meet bus wheel. Bus wheel, Elon.
Oh boy! He looks so tired! How wonderful
"I'm here for the drugs"- Nash Bozard, 2025
This is nothing compared to the alleged 3some with Stephen miller and his wife. The going theory is Elmo got punched in the face by Miller and that’s how he got the black eye.
