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Elon Musk says Saturday's protesters were "paid puppets." That's not what I saw.
(www.motherjones.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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Obviously he knows that they weren't paid, he's just saying it because the word will spread and his idiot followers will eat that up, because they're fucking morons.
For anyone that thinks he might be telling the truth, who do they think are paying these thousands of people, and how much? To get random people to mobilize, I'm guessing it would take an average of $50-100 per person to make it worth their time. That's a lot of money for one protest let alone all of them.
It takes 2 seconds of critical thinking to understand that he's either blow smoke or he's so dumb that he thinks it's true.
I think he actually believes his statement, i believe him and his assistant to the regional president helper actually believe that 'the average person' is at most a lesser being that doesn't have the level of awareness they have. And so many of the republican elected representatives of the people are willing to throw away their congressional oath to support them in their actions that it just proves their own skewed worldview.
This is the Arrested Development banana scene.
It's one banana, how much could it cost, $10?
Pretty sure they based that off of a real life press conference with "Governor Moonbeam" Jerry Brown where a reporter asked him how much a gallon of milk cost and he was like "$20?" after talking about how much of an average Joe he was or something similar. This was back in the 80s or 90s.
I think stuff like has a chance to backfire. Similar to the town halls where Republican party called all the unhappy grannies and veterans "Soros plants" and "paid aggitators". Those are life long Republicans voters who until now believed all the propogranda but now that they themselves been called that they are starting to question it.
It of course won't matter for cult members, those are are beyond reaching, but it's something.
I hope that you're right. I have a hard time believing that a large chunk of these people will change their political alignment because their current ruler and his ilk insult them. If we make the assumption that elections continue relatively normal in 3.5 years and Trump hasn't found a way onto the ticket, I think these people will vote for the next Republican candidate because even though they've been burned, the next guy is different, but he still hates the browns, so they'll continue shooting themselves and everyone else in the foot.
I think best case with the insult victims is they don't vote out of apathy, because I don't think many of them will ever vote for a Democrat.
It's really up to the voters. I don't think you can convert these people into Kamala Harris or Joe Biden or another corporate Democrat voters, but some anti-oligarchy pro middle-class candidate would have a chance. Because while Republicans love their racism and bigotry, when polled on individual issues they all support that economic agenda. They can still be racist and bigots while not having to live paycheck to paycheck.
I think as long as it's the "Democratic" party, in name only, these people won't cross the line. Maybe if a far left party were to emerge and the Democratic party was more publicly viewed as the conservative party they are, some people might switch. That I think would unfortunately benefit the Republican party shirt term unless that new party gained traction extremely quickly.
I agree that Democratic party is toxic, but I disagree that those voters wouldn't cross the line for the right candidate, since we know they can. They already did that for Bernie Sanders, but sadly he was intentionally sabotaged by the DNC at the time. In the current environment I think it's even more likely where actions of Luigi Mangione were universally praised, you have cross-party hatred of robber barons and the myth of "Republicans are good for the economy" being shattered.
Did people cross the line for Bernie or did people show up for Bernie?
I just think the dem party is poison right now, with very little to suggest that that will change any time soon.
They showed up and crossed the line, yes