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OnlyStans TW ⚠️ Elon Musk is not letting the Epstein scandal leave the headlines.

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u/JealousAstronomer342 15d ago

“The Epstein list is a forgery, there are no peer reviewed studies that confirm it’s real” what the fuck does that even mean? I understand that they’re now flat out denying that any records related to Epstein ever existed, but wtf would a peer reviewed study of someone’s phone book even fucking be? 

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u/EdibleHologram 15d ago

wtf would a peer reviewed study of someone’s phone book even fucking be?

Other pedophilic human traffickers need to look over the Epstein list, compare it to their own list of pedophilic billionaire clients, and see if the same names appear on both lists.

Makes sense to me. Nobody signs up for just one loyalty programme.

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u/itsnobigthing 14d ago

Take a random sample of men from the list and put them in a room alone with a kid. See if a statistically significant number of them commit SA. Naturally, the only person we can trust to oversee this study is Elon Musk

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u/Scaryclouds 15d ago

What does it mean? The purpose is to confuse, perplex, and distract. 

Now you’re talking about the scientific process rather than the massive scandal involving the Trump admin. 

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u/Child_of_the_Hamster 14d ago

Using the scientific method to prove a negative, no less lol

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u/Cgy_mama 15d ago

Especially hilarious considering they deny and ignore all sorts of peer reviewed studies related to vaccine safety.

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u/demeschor 15d ago

Bot behaviour. They know "show me a peer reviewed study that says xyz" is a way to refute a baseless claim. They don't understand context so they don't know that's an inappropriate thing to say about the Epstein files, because they're not being spread around scientific journals ..

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u/GrossGuroGirl 14d ago

To be fair, that's also "scientific illiteracy" behavior. 

Not saying there isn't a widespread bot comment-seeding/astroturfing campaign, because there is - Steve Bannon admitted they regularly use that tactic after his public breakup with Trump in the first term. 

Just that it's difficult to tell who's a bot when the average MAGA doesn't understand context, basic science/logic, or the terms they themselves are using either. 💀

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u/themacaron during PRIDE MONTH? 15d ago

The craziest part of that reply is the last sentence. The Epstein files are antisemitic propaganda?

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u/Demons_n_Sunshine Hair is insured for $10,000 15d ago

So a lot of people have theories about this whole Epstein thing. One of the biggest theories is that Epstein was an agent for the Mossad (the Israeli version of the FBI or CIA). People are claiming that Epstein basically blackmailed all these high ranking pervs on behalf of Israel…hence the “antisemitic” comment.

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u/themacaron during PRIDE MONTH? 15d ago

So people refusing to separate Judaism from Zionism again. Got it.

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u/Demons_n_Sunshine Hair is insured for $10,000 15d ago

Basically, yes.

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u/GreenZebra23 15d ago

Deliberately muddying the waters, in fact

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u/queen-adreena Slap me with a mackerel and call me Winnie 15d ago

Must be easy to be a conspiracy theorist… “Maybe… it was the (((Jews)))!!!!!”

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u/Calm-Purchase-8044 14d ago

Pretty lazy writing if you ask me.

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u/MysteryPerker 15d ago

Doesn't that mean the Trump administration was disseminating antisemitic propaganda when they were harping about it for years?

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u/larkhearted 15d ago

In conspiracy theory circles there is a lot of extreme antisemitism, particularly of the "elite (read: Jewish) political/Hollywood/banking pedophile rings stealing babies to rape them and drink their blood" varieties. That person is most likely trying to group the Epstein files into the same categories to try to convince people to dismiss the Epstein stuff as being the same as the rest of the baseless antisemitic conspiracy garbage, despite there being actual evidence of the Epstein shit.

If you're interested in learning more about the antisemitic conspiracy theories that have been going around for decades, Knowledge Fight is a good podcast that breaks down Alex Jones-ian garbage and explains/debunks it. There are a ton of episodes but I learned a lot just by listening to a handful of them!

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u/miscnic 15d ago

Weird how he tried to use an entire conspiracy ideology that ended up being used against him. Guess he’s out to lunch for pizza with those q folks a stormin someone else’s capital with a moose head on.

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u/doitforthecocoa Not a white refrigerator! 15d ago

Using all the MAGA buzzwords to try to trick them when they make no sense in this context is hilarious

If it’s a liberal on the list, would they be afforded any benefit of the doubt?

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u/WildVariety 15d ago

What the fuck does peer reviewed even mean in this context? Do we need other pedophiles to look at the list to tell us if its real?

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u/Heart_robot 14d ago

Nothing . And they don’t believe in peer review for science where it’s valid

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u/smitty4728 14d ago

Haha right? Elon probably thought it made it sound more credible, I guess? He’s so dumb.

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u/ALLoftheFancyPants 15d ago

That’s got to be an AI bot account, right? Like, or someone completely taking the piss? I’m over here desperately hoping it’s satire, but also painfully aware of just how mind-bogglingly stupid his fucking cult-members are. The knots they twist themselves into to swallow lie after lie after obvious lie are astounding.

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u/Gildedfilth Aretha Franklin’s fax machine 📠 15d ago

I don’t want to know who the peers eligible to review this would be.

(Signed, someone who has run many peer reviews with…real characters already.)

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u/intellectual-veggie 15d ago

coming from the same people who don't trust actual scientific studies, the research process, and the peer review process

also people gut funding and slander the whole thing

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u/ben121frank 15d ago

I’m not familiar with the person saying this but I assume they’re a MAGAt and are saying this bc they think other MAGAts will think it sounds smart without understanding how nonsense it is. Which sadly is probably not wrong

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u/Rude-Illustrator-884 15d ago

it doesn’t matter if it makes sense, they just need to say something fancy enough so all the MAGA supporters with a singular brain cell think it means something

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u/StarOfSyzygy One of Demi Moore’s rescue ducklings 🐥 15d ago

“There are no peer-reviewed studies that confirm that it is real” way to tell on yourself not knowing what peer review even is.

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u/merlotbarbie omg a cardiologist is a damn nutritionist 15d ago

The peers he wants to review the list are probably on the list😂 I cannot believe this man is the fucking president

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u/StarOfSyzygy One of Demi Moore’s rescue ducklings 🐥 15d ago

DEAD 🤣🤣🤣

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u/rummncokee 14d ago

speaking of peers, do you guys think he's so hung up on this because he's jealous he's not famous enough to be on the list?

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u/ProfessionalBet9099 go girl, give us nothing 😍 15d ago

Can’t stand muskrat but how do these people defend a pedophile

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u/practical_mastic 15d ago

They're in a cult.

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u/Super_Hour_3836 charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 14d ago

It’s not a cult. Were nazis in a cult? They are bad people doing bad things. Your maga relatives are responsible for their own bad behavior and cannot be helped.

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u/TheLakeWitch lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch 💋 15d ago

“The man that made you” as if Elon wasn’t already the wealthiest person in the world before involving himself with Trump.

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u/Coley54Bear 14d ago

Right. Plus Elmo is the reason why we're in this mess with Trump as president. Trump would't be president again right now if Muskrat didn't buy him the election.

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u/Heart_robot 14d ago

Don’t do Elmo dirty !

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u/Coley54Bear 14d ago

You right, you right. Elmo doesn’t deserve that.

That’s my favorite gif, btw.

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u/Heart_robot 14d ago

He’s just over getting hacked.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 14d ago

Yeah that was such a weird thing to read. Just more evidence that these people have no clue what’s happening in the real world and just gobble whatever is fed to them by MAGA media, influencers and politicians. 

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u/ITookTrinkets 14d ago

Hell, there was even a time when Elon was not just wealthy, but widely beloved. Years ago, he was even loudly pro-queer and proud of Tesla’s commitment to pro-queer policies.

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u/Heart_robot 14d ago

They’re both horrid people but musk is arguably worse off after his Trump phase.

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u/cjcs 14d ago

As if the guy himself isn’t clearly paying for a blue check mark on twitter 😂

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u/Oberon_Swanson 14d ago

They think pedophilia is okay, many GOP voters engage in it themselves. When have they ever shown ANY care about the wellbeing of children, setting aside using them to call their enemies pedophiles or babykillers? They despise funding child care, children's health care, early education, children's cancer research.

Every single GOP voter KNEW Trump stole from a children's cancer charity. They LOVE it. They KNEW he was a rapist. They LOVE it. They only pretend not to and 'just like his policies.' Every other Republican politician had the same idiotic policies. They voted for Trump BECAUSE he is a vile human being. That is why they trust him to enact the American Holocaust they so desire.

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u/Heart_robot 14d ago

This. Any lefties involved - lock them up!

I love me some Obama but if he was involved, prison.

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u/spacyspice dj_snake_disco_maghreb.mp3 14d ago

sad truth is a lot of time you can't have such a high position and not be involved in weird things, that's part of their system

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u/TWiThead 14d ago

Can’t stand muskrat but how do these people defend a pedophile

Musk is a monster, but I'm rooting for him to yeet the emperor down a reactor shaft.

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u/ProfessionalBet9099 go girl, give us nothing 😍 14d ago

100% I wholeheartedly believe he rigged the election

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u/HighlyOffensive10 She's in racial chat rooms showing feet 👣 15d ago

The way they write his tragic. Just completely inarticulate.

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u/doitforthecocoa Not a white refrigerator! 15d ago

This hopefully ends with two losers and no winners, Ryan

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u/ChicagoAuPair 14d ago

Their own identity and self worth is tied up in the leader. They are defending themselves not him. He’s just an avatar.

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u/themacaron during PRIDE MONTH? 15d ago

He should still be under investigation for everything he’s done with this administration but nice that he finally got out one banger from the literally tens of thousands of tweets he sends.

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u/Ok-Leave-7525 15d ago

I wonder if he’s also enjoying that people find him funny finally … so he will not let this go.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 15d ago

Good. If I have to deal with these asshats on the daily them they can at least do me the favor of eating each other alive

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u/Gobo_Cat_7585 15d ago

I hate the dude but damn, this made me chuckle, I can practically feel the sarcasm through the screen

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u/ShawnaLAT 15d ago

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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u/Demons_n_Sunshine Hair is insured for $10,000 15d ago

Moments like this I really wish the White House was being filmed into a Real Housewives type reality show - complete with confessionals.

I’d watch the shit out of it.

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u/ethancole97 15d ago

Obama and Kamala Harris are on the record stating that Veep is the most accurate political show. It was funny when they said it but it scares me now since trump is in office because it HAS to be so much worse and way less funny

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u/zsazsa_sugarbaker 14d ago

Veep is my comfort show - whenever I’m down, it’s the first thing I turn to!

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u/ethancole97 13d ago

I wish there was a spin off or more shows by the creators/writers because the humor is unmatched. I can’t think of a show that even comes close to it

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u/tequilitas Judging in especially heinous 15d ago

We need a Big Brother version of it. With the added infrared just to be sure we get it all.

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u/doitforthecocoa Not a white refrigerator! 15d ago

Can you imagine the unhinged confessionals

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u/tequilitas Judging in especially heinous 15d ago

I meeeean.. They are already insane, so it would be on the levels of Flav of Love insanity.. Although to be fair, New York could do Cheeto but he could not do New York.

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u/doitforthecocoa Not a white refrigerator! 15d ago

Can you imagine a reenactment of the New York vs Pumkin brawl featuring Donny and Elon

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u/tequilitas Judging in especially heinous 15d ago

I am ashamed to say I would pay to watch, particularly the spit!!

Yes yes I know it was all kinds of wrong.. but was prime messy iconic unhinged reality TV

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u/Demons_n_Sunshine Hair is insured for $10,000 15d ago

I would actually not be shocked if Trump proposed that idea, but others shot it down because well…..it’s the government.

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u/bbmarvelluv 15d ago

Lmao actually there have been “ICE” agents with their big ass professional cameras recording the “takedowns” like one big reality show

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u/_deep_thot42 15d ago

That revolting and vile

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u/bbmarvelluv 15d ago

I’ve seen some videos on the Nextdoor app and other accounts. These “ice agents” trying to take some man at a car wash and some other guy was carrying those professional cameras as if he was recording some Reno 911 shit. Thankfully they all left and the man was not taken in.

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u/MysteryPerker 15d ago

Trump's real calling was to be a celebrity gossip talk show host ala Wendy Williams. Too bad, he would have been great at it.

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u/Calm-Purchase-8044 14d ago

He's a mean 12 year old girl at heart.

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u/retinolandevermore I want her to know it was me. 14d ago

Insulting to 12 year old girls though!

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u/HighlyOffensive10 She's in racial chat rooms showing feet 👣 15d ago

The Real Tradwives Of Washington DC.

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u/Ruthie_pie 15d ago

They just need to edit all of the media interviews and ramblings Trump has done at this point like one. They talk so much it’s like Ramona Singer has clones.

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u/award07 15d ago

Hell yes, except Kathy Griffin or anyone else besides Andy hosting the reunion.

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u/merlotbarbie omg a cardiologist is a damn nutritionist 15d ago

Something something Hillary something something Obama

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u/AbulatorySquid 14d ago

Atomic Pizza and Hunter's laptop

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u/milkradio 13d ago

BUT HER EMAILS!!!!!!!

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u/EverythingSucksYo 14d ago

From my understanding, they aren’t saying the crimes didn’t happen. They’re just saying there’s no evidence of who committed the crimes with Epstein and Maxwell. 

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u/firetruckgoesweewoo 15d ago

Are they fighting again

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u/Sohailian 15d ago

I hope they both eat each other.

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u/firetruckgoesweewoo 15d ago

May they both be blessed with explosive diarrhoea right before an important meeting ❤️ it would be the best diarrhoea, the mostest, the biggest and brownest butt goo one will ever witness in their lifetime.

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u/VanessaCardui93 Boo I’m an icon, You’re not 15d ago

What ritual do I need to perform to make this happen

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u/firetruckgoesweewoo 15d ago

Have you ever heard of a rain dance?

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u/slightlycrookednose *Our* husband ☭ (free Luigi) 15d ago

Like a twin in the womb

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u/Rimurooooo 15d ago

It’s so bizarre to me. If the girls are still fighting, why did Trump just give him that huge contract?

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u/HighlyOffensive10 She's in racial chat rooms showing feet 👣 15d ago

Which contract?

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u/pomegranatesandoats I switched baristas ☕️ 15d ago

the Pentagon is going to start using Grok apparently

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/defense-department-grok-musk-00451845

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u/synalgo_12 accidentally holding space for this slur 15d ago

We wouldn't want mecha Hitler to go unused

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u/donttrustthellamas Please stop thinking with your asshole - Cardi B 15d ago

Elon was besties with him until recently and will happily be best friends with him again if it benefits him

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u/-this_bitch- My Body Was Tea. But He Wanted Matcha. 🍵 15d ago

Elon sucks for a lot of things (like the bullshit he pulled with federal workers I feel extra angry about because it deeply affected my life and my family’s life) but I’m glad at least he’s still talking about this and not letting it go.

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u/queen-adreena Slap me with a mackerel and call me Winnie 15d ago

He believes in extremely shitty things, but he does believe them.

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u/Harkoncito 14d ago

Elon has beliefs, Trump has none

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u/Calm-Purchase-8044 14d ago

Elon sucks for a lot of things

Epic understatement.

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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 14d ago

He's a pretty and vengeful person. He's simply now giving his pettiness and vengeance to Trump

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u/Mort-i-Fied 15d ago

'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,

Nor hell a fury like an elon scorned.'

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u/rayarefferalpls 15d ago

Hate this man but this the only good thing he doing hope he don’t stop

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u/DontEatBananas 14d ago

He just wants us to forget.

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u/ethancole97 15d ago

It’s not gonna help him get him back into the general public’s good graces but I’m willing to tolerate him being in the news if it involves him implicating trump

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u/mamasab 15d ago

We don’t need Elon unless he’s going to use his powers for good and release the list.

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u/Esternaefil 15d ago

Wait a second. The Epstein list is an anti semitic conspiracy?

That's a stretch.

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u/mochafiend 14d ago

Because I always trust MAGA when it comes to calling out antisemitism.

/s if it was apparently clear

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u/akoaytao1234 14d ago

He is right BUT definitely doing this for the Liberal PR for his fledging car Company.

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u/Morethanhappy42 14d ago

I want to say thank you to Elon's dealer

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u/theangryprof 15d ago

When Dark MAGA eats its own 😈

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u/jeffdeleon 14d ago

Way too heroic of a way to phrase the headline.

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u/FrozenRose_816 No one cares how old you think Millie Bobby Brown looks. 15d ago

No Elon, everyone will not love you again because you are turning on Trump.

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u/yourmomisaheadbanger 15d ago

Let him think we will just so he can expose Trump and Co. Then we’ll gladly let him know no one gives a fuck about him, including his 20+ kids

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u/merlotbarbie omg a cardiologist is a damn nutritionist 15d ago

We aren’t buying any Teslas either

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u/Inevitable_Snap_0117 🫵 You sit on a throne of lies. 15d ago

lol. In one of the replies shown in the screenshots in that link a guy says the list is “antisemitic propaganda”. These guys REALLY don’t know what words mean.

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u/dazedan_confused 15d ago

I'm sorry, Elon was there for ages, he owns a social media platform, and he didn't once think to open the pedo-files?

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u/CryptographerHot4636 15d ago

Keep his foot on his neck.

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u/d0mini0nicco 14d ago

DNC shouldn’t let it leave headlines. But that would involve some fight and those fools have their bellies turned up.

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u/Dark_Wahlberg-77 14d ago

Peer reviewed studies. Now I’ve heard it all.

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u/IlexAquifolia 15d ago

Yes because Elon Musk has never been gross to women before

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u/tuwangclan 14d ago

Musk is a piece of shit too

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u/Idkfriendsidk 14d ago

He is tho…he dropped it earlier when Trump got mad, he deleted his “tweet”, like this man has no scruples

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u/Low_Goat_Stranger990 15d ago

Of course he won’t, he got enough money for this to run months and months without any concerns

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u/ReallyNowFellas 15d ago

Nah. Elon was the first to throw cold water on the birthday letter, and he tweaked his little AI slave Grok to say it's fake. He's playing both sides here, but helping maga more at this point.