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Elon Musk declares ‘If Trump is not elected, this will be the last election’ — says voting Trump is the ‘only way’ to ‘save’ democracy

www.mediaite.com Elon Musk Declares ‘If Trump is Not Elected, This Will Be the Last Election’ — Says Voting Trump is the ‘Only Way’ to ‘Save’ Democracy

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters during a Kamala Harris presidency to turn the US into a "one-party state."

Elon Musk claimed Sunday that electing former President Donald Trump in November is the “only way” to save the country from the tyranny of Democrats and illegal migrants.

The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters during a Kamala Harris presidency to turn the US into a “one-party state.”

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The billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and X CEO claimed the Democratic Party would naturalize enough non-citizens as voters

Naturalized non-citizens like... Elon Musk?
- And why would the Democratic Party need new voters if there won’t be any more elections?
  
  Hey hey no logic allowed here
  
  Well ackschuallllly what he meant was that no other party will stand a chance so it will effectively be a one party system as so many "liberal" immigrants will become citizens that they'll outnumber Republicans everywhere.
  
  And not only that, he is also projecting that dem voters are forever destined to vote dem… you know you can appeal to people still by changing what you offer…
- Sweet Jesus, I wish that Democratic voters and politicians were unified enough that if we had a solid majority in this country that we could be considered a one-party state. Even if we somehow did manage to finagle things such that we won the next election 60-40 or more, it's obvious to anyone with a brain that we would immediately celebrate by turning on each other like dogs. The neolibs can't stand the hippies. The hippies can't stand the tech liberals. Most of the people pushed left by identifying with one oppressed minority group or another are in a coalition approximately as stable as the Balkans in 1913.
  
  Democrats' favorite activity is infighting. We like it more than winning elections. The times when we actually manage to get our shit together enough to win are the exception to the rule.
Every GOP accusation is projection. If Trump is elected, this will be the last election. Trump says so himself:

"Speaking to the faithful, the Republican nominee repeated his ominous prediction, promising, “You know what, It’ll be fixed! It will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians,” he said as he shook his head and placed his hand on the pledge position on the left side of his chest." source
Fascists like elon musk don't just lie, they exactly invert the truth.

He knows that trump winning ends democracy, so he goes into fascist mode and says the opposite. They do it all the time.
- Projection. Goes great with obstruction and gaslighting.
  
  Projection. ~~Goes great~~ (puts on monocle) Pairs well with obstruction and gaslighting.
  
  ...and when you're rich, they let you do it 🧐
Can we deport this shit stain to Mars yet?
- ... too close ... deport him to the sun instead
  
  Either way: use a Boeing rocket to send him there.
  
  Takes too much energy. Deport him out of the solar system and let him spout his nonsense to Voyager.
  
  It’s hard to aim, it’s always moving!!
- The problem is, we want to go to Mars at some point, we don't need his toxic ass ruining it anymore than it has been.
  
  I vote expulsion from the known universe, sealed in a container similar to how we've stored nuclear waste.
- Or back to south Africa.
- The dusters won't take him. Better just leave him in space
These fucking people, nothing but projection.
"no u" declares world's most mature man.
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Voting Trump is the only way to save democracy”
~~George Orwell, 1984~~ Elon Musk, aspiring propaganda minister of Trump
Says the emerald mine nepo-baby from Apartheidland.
Can we just banish this South African immigrant? He can enjoy his home country and fuck right off with his authoritarian bs.
Elon getting so insane that if you simply do the opposite of what he says you will make the world better.
- I remember the whole cave rescue and calling the rescue guy a pedophile. I feel like that was the moment people realized he was insane and not some real life Tony Stark
  
  This right here. This was the turning point for me.
  
  I used to view him as a slightly eccentric billionaire using his funds towards positive progress... Boy howdy was I wrong.
  
  That was the moment I realized he was either going to be Tony Stark or Lex Luther.
  
  And then he goes and proves me wrong by being worse than ever imaginable.
  
  Yup I feel the same way, like that was the moment he snapped or the crazy finally came out. Before I was a big fan, but it went downhill from there pretty fast. Though I've heard him on the Lex Friedman podcast like a year ago, and then he came across pretty sane - he just acts insane a lot of other times as well.
  
  I think before then he had a good PR team. That was the moment when he thought 'What am I paying these guys for, I could do this just fine myself.'
Paging Pepperridge ~~mint~~ Farms.

Remember when trump said if he won they'd never have to vote again?
- "Hi, Pepperidge Farms? Yeah, this is Peter Peppermint at Peppermint farms. I think our lines got crossed again. Yeah. Yeah. It was a page this time. Yeah. Oh no, we threw ours away after that Lebanon thing. Anywho, just wanted you to know. Cheers!"
  
  Stupid pager. Always autocorrecting.
Can we have that man forcibly removed from our country please? He’s already proven to be threat to our democracy. If he wants to say dumb shit like this, he can do so from far away where our taxes aren’t paying for the services he’s using to circumvent it.
- Put Space-X into a form of receivership first though. National interests must be protected.
- (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠メ⁠) Please, no! I don't think anyone else wants him.. we only have one Tesla factory in this country and it's on the news on a regular base. And it's never good news.
  
  Maybe we can try to make him want to sit in the next bar he sends to space himself
When all else fails, just tell flat out lies. It's the Republican Way!
- When all else fails, just tell flat out lies.
  
  It's the Roy Cohen way. He "educated" the weak, weird, old orange felon.
funny. he also said if he wins there wont be anymore elections. so in the vision of the maga tards no more elections. did the simpsons have that?
- https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_VII#Citizen_Kang
Oh no you guys, Ketamine Karen is speaking, we should all listen to the 'genius'. LOL! Fuck off elon!
- Please send eye bleach!
This already happened in California many years ago, following the 1986 amnesty.

The only thing holding California back from extreme socialism and suffocating government policies is that people can leave California and still remain in America.

There are some other eye opening parts but this one jumped out at me. He really does see the world from only his viewpoint. He thinks California changed for the worse but he could leave to Texas and still influence California using money even though people chose a different form of government than what he wanted.

For him, the collective choosing to change the system is very dangerous and it has to be forever in a status quo so rich people can play both sides.

I honestly wish he was smarter than this.
- He made bank on California subsidies for tech and federal money for ev and space development by democrats and now he thinks they're evil once he has enough money...
  
  Hah, enough money!
  
  He just can't wring them for more, that's why he left.
Sounds like he is starting to panic, realizing that Donnies chances are slipping since the debate and his inability to gain traction since then
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- It's not a statement, it's a threat
He realizes his whole business is government contracts and he's backed a loser.
- Tbf, i doubt the gov would keep doing business with him if the country decreased privatization and corruption. So him backing the GOP is actually the best move for him to get the most power.
May he burn in Hell ...
- Id rather him freeze in Hel with the oath breakers since he is one of them.
He doesn't actually believe this nonsense he spews, just like all the other conservative propagandists.

The problem is all the people that believe this idiocy. One of progressives biggest hurdles should be to drastically improve education to teach logic and critical thinking skills at a young age. This would be a cure to a lot of this dumbest of dumb propaganda. It's just so stupid it's obvious. But many people will actually believe it, and spread it.

Unfortunately, we're losing. Public education is not getting better, funding is being cut, and tax money is in some places starting to go to religious private schools. This is all being pushed by conservatives. Keeping the populace stupid is how they stay in power, and wealth.
If you still bought a Tesla after Musk has shown his true self you are as much of a fascist as he is.
- Thank you for qualifying this. I bought one 6 years ago, back when he said he voted for Hillary and was a dick but not maliciously evil yet. I have the car and will never buy another from him. I never thought it would end up like this.
- Fucking muskrats
And here I didn't think I could hate this guy any more. Truly a vile piece of shit. I'm glad I never bought one of his cars and well he's at that company, I never will.
African Immigrant says what now?
This is a prime example of how big business can cozy up to authoritarianism. Of course in the name of offering a service to the nation or saving something precious to all, I guess it’s “democracy” in this instance. Deep down I think it’s about asking a simple question: which regime will be most accommodating to fulfilling my ambitions, i.e. sustaining and growing my business empire with the least amount of oversight or regulation? Who is more likely to be anti-union? Who is more likely to employ migrants without granting them political rights? Who is less likely to tax the rich? Who is more likely to give me more power to influence public opinion and public policy? Elon is, in some respects, correctly betting on Trump. Of course it is a risky bet, and a marriage of convenience; one will sooner or later lose favor with the other. It would probably be wiser of Musk to stay out of the limelight and play Democrats against Republicans whenever and however it suits him. But I guess he can’t help himself. To be honest I don’t even know whether it’s possible for a major business figure to remain neutral in a country where perhaps the best predictor of a presidential candidate’s success is the amount of donations their campaign receives.
- Of course it is a risky bet, and a marriage of convenience; one will sooner or later lose favor with the other
  
  Someone didn't learn from history, every fascist government to date, be it the Nazis, the Fascisti or even Franco have shown that the capitalist and the fascist work well together, after all the standard corporate structure already shares a model with fascist power structures (surprising how many people fail to realize that a top-down authoritarian structure with stark consequences for disobedience and that cultivate collective ignorance as to what you are doing and how it impacts people, that you systematically dehumanize), not just because the fascist power structure was literary built on the idea of the company structure of the time
i don't understand why he is doing this
- Money.
  
  His twitter money is from Russia, they make him say this shit to destabilise the election
  
  If that's true, it's more than money. If you take money from the mafia and don't deliver, it's about your life. That could be one of the many reasons he tried to back away from the purchase. I don't get why CIA isn't all over this.
  
  And it's not just about the election. They're trying to destabilize everything in the west.
- He radicalized himself with his own algorithm. He's literally rotted his own brain.
I love this petty fatalism, like more immigrants voting is the apocalypse and the Republic Party can't possibly just... accommodate that? And adapt?

Same with a 51st state.

If they don't like it, well, they can lose more elections.
- Ah yes, pesky immigrants not voting for Musk's favorite candidate
  
  I'm a foreigner NOT living in the US, so my opinions may or may not be valid, idk:
  
  Musk, asshole as he may be, is an example of something that's always been going on in the US:
  
  Immigrants come there looking for better lives, work hard, and many lead exceptional lives. The US has always benefitted from this, and it's a key reason for its' economic dominance over the last hundred-ish years.
  
  However, he wants to close the door after him because other people improving their lives scares him. And people voting for slightly more humane conditions scares him too. Think about it, he'll have fewer billions added to his net worth if he has to treat his employees like people.
  
  He's simultaneously a symbol of everything that's amazing about the US and also of everything that is horrible about it.
I always wonder if it’s Musk or the ketamine talking.
- I fucking love that meme template.
- It's their pr team talking and you are getting fooled hard. Both the red and blue party use twitter/X and have no plans to use anything else.
Techno fascist says what?
Why aren't those clowns laughed out of the room as soon as they open their mouths?
- because the US has spent decades creating a culture that allows this level of stupidity in their national politics
  
  Stupid people saying stupid things in public is only considered acceptable if everyone that is listening in to all the stupidity are stupid themselves.
- Because they fucking bought all the rooms.
.... so he wants to avoid creating a "one party state" ... by electing someone who openly wants to develop a one party state
- Classic “we must do it cause the enemy would do it worse” tactic.
Lol. This guy is probably also upset that people pay more attention to taylor swift than to him.
Lolol. For HIS ass. Watch all these worms try to expatriate their money and businesses to Russia before the "librals terx my sterks".

Fuck you, Elon. I hope all the bad shit you're bringing upon yourself ends up being the worst outcome it could possibly be.
Man eel on musk is just so far down the rabbit hole these days it’s insane. It’d be fascinating to watch if it weren’t for the fact that he runs Twitter and is trying to use it to swing the election to Trump.
I honestly can't figure out if he's drinking the kool aid or trying to pour it.
- Pouring it into his own mouth, mostly.
- He's in profile pretending to pour it in his mouth like a sloppy sleight-of-hand artist, but it's very clearly spilling all over his shoulder down his pants into his socks.
The only person you can trust with your car is the same person that tried to steal it from you.
Sweet baby Elon. I look forward to this being your last election here immigrant.
Musk can go fuck himself.
Sounds a little desperate
We all know that social media can encourage extremism in some people, but it's surprising when it happens to the richest guy in the world
- I honestly think thats why Trump acts like he dose. His demented peanut brain could not handle the unfiltered power of the internet.
  
  He's spinelessly pandering to the loudest voice he hears and latching onto the first thing that draws attention. Extremist follow him as he's saying what they like. He say more extreme shit to get more cheers, more Nazis show up and cheer him into another extreme statement. Trump can't form a coherent view on his own and goes with the crowd, he just attracted a horde of monsters smelling second hand power.
  
  Musk sees a weak old man that can easily be swayed with a little bit of dick sucking and donations.
  
  Trump mostly just watches fox news
- He has all the time in the world to be on X as opposed to running his other companies straight into the ground. He's basically a lolcow at this point, and he has the pull and capital to drive the world into ruin.
Ya because if Donnie loses he will encourage his cult to do another coup and install trump as dictator for life
what a dumbfuck he is. koolaid is cheap but damned if he isnt trying to corner the market. fool.
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Trump wins, it will be the last election

Trump loses, also last election

Looks like we need to cause a draw... For democracy.
What elon is saying that if you elect trump it will be the last election and he is fine with that.
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