Elon Musk Mysteriously Backpedals on Kamala Harris Murder Fantasy
It sounds like somebody finally budged the immovable object.
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When yet another psycho was taken down after pointing a gun in Donald Trump’s direction, the online right up to and including Trump’s own son immediately broke into celebratory adulation. Surely this absolutely assures Trump’s victory in November! Voting against somebody who survived an assassination would be reprehensible, but voting against somebody who survived two assassinations is illegal. It’s actually one of the constitutional amendments. I dunno, number 12 or something.
All of the standard conspiracies and revenge fantasies came out. The usual stuff. The Libertarian Party casually tweeted that somebody needs to murder Kamala Harris.
Why would Elon Musk allow such dangerous rhetoric on his website? That’s a rhetorical question because we all know why. Musk has spent the past year repeatedly insisting that Harris winning this election will mean the actual end of America and/or human civilization depending on how deep of a ketamine hole he’s in at the time so he’s not exactly closed-minded to the idea. Shortly after the Party of Freedom posted their call for assassination, Elon chimed in:
What happened next requires some context. See, throwing a statement like this about a president or vice president against the wall is kind of what the government calls an actionable threat. One of my bosses at Cracked once had his ass hauled in front of the FBI just for writing a fictional comedy article that mentioned kidnapping the president’s daughter. And he didn’t have a massive platform complete with an army of die-hard sycophants.
With that in mind, consider when this Farzad guy lightly warned him to watch his footing and Musk responded by doubling all the way down.
Elon then took an almost unheard of break from tweeting before mysteriously deleting his tweet. This is speculation, but we can only assume that he started receiving phone calls and door knocks from so many three letter agencies that we haven’t even heard of some of them, because the next thing we know he’s pulling the old “haha j/k” gambit.
It’s okay guys, he was just telling a funny joke about killing Kamala Harris. It’s one of those dry jokes that skilled comedians play absolutely straight without smiling. You know, like Andy Kaufman or somebody.
Assuming he’s telling the truth about what was really going through his mind (he’s not, btw) it kind of makes you think—isn’t it just as bad when a powerful man in charge of a not insignificant chunk of the nation’s commnications and security apparatus jokes about killing the Vice President?
He was probably shocked at how fast federal agents were ushered into his presence, & how none of his flunkies stopped or slowed down any of it.