These Guys Are So Soft

All it took was a blowout loss in an obscure, off-year statewide election to end Elon Musk's hobby of total world domination.

Musk, in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race his fascist lackey lost by miles, got one taste of how much people hate his fucking guts and has since said he's strictly a rockets and cars guy now. Musk's bag of money, commonly known as Brad Schimel, was destroyed by pro-democracy candidate Susan Crawford. As far as swing state margins go – a swing state being a place where 50,000 of the dumbest people alive determine the course of history – Crawford's victory over Musk's human money pot was a total rout.

It was Jaguars 62, Dolphins 7. It was Patriots 59, Titans 0. It was every Jets game since the Carter administration. And there's every reason to believe Musk's involvement – which included illegally paying Wisconsin residents to vote for Brad "Huge Sack of Money in Human Form" Schimel – was the driving force behind a shocking level of turnout in Wisconsin's liberal strongholds. Most Americans don't like an oligarchical takeover of their government, to Musk's great surprise.

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Musk is reportedly ready to step away from his role as shadow president of the United States after his coup against the American government fizzled with the slightest pushback from other Trump worshippers within the regime who didn't particularly like Musk telling their agencies what to do. Musk is telling people close to him – including, presumably, the women who receive vials of his sperm at dinner parties – that he's grown tired of "attacks" from the left after staging the first successful coup of the U.S. government, unleashing digital pirates determined to take food out of the mouths of starving children, and collapsing entire departments with implicit threats of violence against anyone who stood in the way.

Poor little Elon, being attacked for such normal and acceptable behavior. All he wanted to do was replace the U.S. government with artificial intelligence programed with right-wing political and cultural dogma. Poor Elon, being forced to reap his fields of shit. The sowing was so much fun; Elon's dopamine receptors could hardly fire harder. Now those receptors are tired and malfunctioning, and it's all because Musk's preferred candidate lost one (1) election.

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Apparently regime officials decided weeks ago to ignore Musk's emails demanding government workers list their weekly accomplishments. Some federal workers, according to the Washington Post, have treated the "whole thing as a joke, such as by submitting replies in a foreign language." Government officials told the Post that "nothing" will be done with the information gathered from Musk's "five things" email edict. It was all a farce, like everything else Musk has done in his miserable life.

To say his influence has waned is an understatement; the man appears to be reviled even among the regime higher ups who showered the world's richest blackpilled man with praise during Trump's North Korea-style cabinet meetings.

Investors in Musk's various grifts, including Tesla, are all but begging him to go back to work and stop fucking around with the government. The looming threat of international public backlash against Musk's car company represents an existential threat to his fortune, and he knows that. It might be why he's suddenly so eager to back off all the coup doing. His companies are in peril. The code has never been redder for the talentless, fundamentally unlikeable confidence man.

Any American even remotely interested in pushing back against Musk's crimes against the republic – and boy, are there many – will keep showing him how despised he is among those who will suffer in the recession that Musk promised back in the fall. Whether it's via Tesla Takedown actions across the United States or in elections where Musk-funded fascists are on the ballot, this guy needs to be told again and again that we don't like this shit. In fact, we hate it. We reject completely.

Remember that Musk, like most techno-fascists, exists in an online bubble of his own creation. In that terrible bubble – which probably smells like shit – Musk is never challenged, never critiqued, and always praised as the savior of America and the world at large. He is universally greeted as a god-king. Even in the real world, Musk avoids all exposure to those who might tell him in so many words to eat shit. The guy spent $50 billion to make sure his ego was stroked endlessly online. It was a steep price but ego upkeep requires big investments once in a while. This doesn't mean he's not soft. He's softer than the toilet paper those bears on TV ads use to wipe their furry asses. Recall that Musk locked himself in a room for hours and nearly prompted a wellness check from local police after folks at a Dave Chappell standup booed him off the stage. Musk is soft, marshmallow soft, the kind of soft that can't withstand even the slightest poke. Musk, per the analytics, has no dawg in em. None. Zero. Check the spreadsheets, it's true.

For too long he has been under the impression that people love him, when in fact no one does. He's a pathetic man, one who might engender some empathy if he wasn't using his massive influence to preach against empathy.

In ninety days we've seen Musk go from planning the end of democratic self governance and a thousand-year regime ruled by the Great Men to retreating to play with his rockets and cars, like a scolded child. The scolding must continue until morale improves.

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