Does anyone has a logical explanation of why Elon is supporting Trump? Why is he going to this length, alienate many of his supporters by supporting an political party. What’s is the end goal, since nothing makes sense right now.
Money.
Democrats are pressured by their base (see overwhelming majority of Americans) who wanna see the rich be taxed more and pay a fair share as well as delve into the very clear financial corruption in our government.
Musk, Trump, Bezos, and the other rich fucks like Peter Thiel or Miriam Adelson actively lose if this sort of policy is passed. Trump is literally the rich person candidate
It’s money always is.
I don’t believe money is a driver for him. Power maybe.
Not money. He doesn’t GAF about that compared to his lust for power and also, very importantly, not going to prison for crimes already committed.
Ego. Ok also union busting but largely ego. Around the same time one of his children who happens to be trans from his first wife (who also publicly denounced him) publicly disowned him and his long term on again off again partner left him for a short lived fling with Chelsea Manning, a trans woman famous for going to prison for leaking human rights abuses by the military in the Iraq war. And around that time democrats started getting anti billionaire talking points going very mainstream. And so he began courting the right. He was already addicted to twitter and he found himself deep in the alt right pipeline.
Elon is a far-right nutjob surrounded by sycophants.
Because Vivian Jenna Wilson transitioned.
It really is that simple.
Before that event Apartheid Manchild was a dick, but mostly of the poorly-socialized technonerd variety. Still a dick, but not perceived by most as being a threatening dick.
After that event, where he coined (to my knowledge) the phrase “the woke mind virus”, he jumped deep into the MAGA swill.
Before that event he was kinda/sorta hailed as a “real world Tony Stark” but never really particularly accepted. People liked his products (well, let’s be honest: product) and otherwise didn’t give much of a shit about him.
After he went Full Metal MAGAt he became the object of worship and adoration of fellow MAGAts on Twitter (before he bought it, even), getting the uncritical acceptance he’d always craved and never really got.
And it turns out he wants to feel like he “belongs” more than he wants to sell shit.
I think after breaking up with Grimes, he became really unstable. Similar to Kanye and how he broke up with Kim Kardashian.
Best way to enable your grifts while also evading jail time for being a con artist and pedophile.
Shitbirds of a feather, randy.
He basically lost his marbles after his daughter disowned him and Biden didn’t invite him to some electric car event a few months after he was elected. I think his drug use also plays a big part. It’s just the typical trajectory of someone who obtained a lot of power and then just shuts out all criticism and just thinks he’s the smartest and knows everything best. History is full of examples and it never ends well.
He’s been known as a Republican donor for a very long time, even back when he was pretending to be decent.
He was always a major asshole, but he wasn’t always completely off his rocker.
Drug use? Like what? Never seen anything about that.
Edit: Oh… Ketamine.
He was openly high when he committed to buy twitter
Yeah, why so you think that is?
The world’s richest man is supporting the guy that’s gonna appoint him to some “efficiency” position that will let him squash any investigations into his businesses and will cut the amount of taxes he owes.
Don’t be so cynical, he also wants to promote his ideals of misogynism, transphobia and creepy natalism.
That’s just the GOP platform.
He’s eyeing the position in government, something the GOP was calling along the lines of Head of Technological Efficiency or whatever.
Once he’s there, he can set some rules for his own companies and companies favourable to him, almost however he likes. He’d have more power if he starts a slapfight against foreign courts like he did in Brazil and lost last time.
Maybe this is overly generous, but I kind of feel like Elon genuinely believes he’s a special genius who can “save” the world and usher in a nominally benevolent techno-oligarchy with him at the helm. So he supports trump because a) trump will let him do whatever he wants without regulation or enforcement, and b) Harris won’t, and she might take a look at his accounting and government contracts.
Also maybe because Ketamine
This saviour complex is a big part of it. That said, all these big “self made” billionares suffer from it. That’s why they all refuse to pay taxes but will instead make a charity foundation so they can choose which public interest is best served by “their” money. Like another poster said, Elon’s public interest is apartheid, which aligns with Trump.
This really ticked all the boxes. Except for the box where Putin has asked him how he feels about windows.
He’s gonna make more money
No he isn’t. Do you seriously believe Trump’s economic “plan” is going to make anything better? I mean sure, they can exploit the plebes even harder, but if no-one can afford your products, you don’t have a viable business.
His major product is SpaceX. His major customer is the government for the launches and contracts he sells, and his major detriment is government regulation of these launches.
Being on the good side of the government benefits both.
But if you have a company whose only customer is the government then you don’t need to worry about the plebs buying your shit.
I suspect Elon is in deep shit. Everything he has been doing with Tesla and Twitter has been blatant stock manipulation. The latest stunt is self driving taxis. I suspect he knows that the SEC have a big case on him that they will pursue if Harris wins.
Favors. And a cabinet position.
It’s starting to look like he might just be a real dipshit.
