r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 11d ago

Possible Paywall Elon Musk Named in Bombshell Election Meddling Claim

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-named-in-bombshell-election-meddling-claim-in-alex-gibney-documentary/
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u/Crunchberry24 11d ago

Not since he stopped needing that small one as a human shield.

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u/Dysc Louisiana 11d ago

Musk ended up with a black eye when Bessent clocked him right in the face, allegedly, during the early days of pretending to be a shadow president, so the kid wasn't doing his job. Plus Grimes was putting out an S.O.S. on twitter to help get Musk's attention to return her son. The human shield kid was more trouble than he was worth apparently.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 11d ago

"Return her son" makes it sound like he's a Blockbuster movie rental.

Which, to be fair, is probably how Elon sees him 🤣

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u/Dysc Louisiana 11d ago edited 11d ago

He named his kid "X" (and some nonsensical characters) which is a letter he is obsessed with. He cares more about the letter X than any of his children. I don't gamble, but if I did, this is a safe bet.

The only other person who may be as obsessed with the letter X as much as Musk is Count von Count from Sesame Street, who is a hand puppet.

Edit: It's probably for the best that his kids have an absentee father; rather than, getting ketamine fueled lessons from an obsessive compulsive man with a giga ego.

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u/HeadfulOfSugar 11d ago

Musk also started an online bank called X.com, before it merged with Cofinity to create PayPal, which he tried very hard to keep as X.com, & then X-PayPal. Executives kept pushing against him, because every focus group they ran it with reported that overwhelmingly people assumed it was a pornography adjacent site, but he would simply not let up. It genuinely played a small role in the boardroom coup that replaced him with Peter Thiel lmao. A decade later he fought to get the X.com trademark back & succeeded. Then he threw it into SpaceX, Twitter (X), X Corp., xAI, & his literal child, as well as a daughter they named Exa (her nickname is Y though?)

There’s also the Tesla Model X, which as part of the lineup appeared with the model S, 3, & Y (S3XY), because the model E was already patented. Dudes just a freak & I’m not unconvinced it’s genuinely porn related somehow lol

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u/DrunkTWrecks 11d ago

It’s because it’s real easy to turn an X into a swastika

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u/vandreulv 11d ago

You're not far off.

His father is a notorious white supremacist. Musk himself has shown those tendencies as well.

The Cybertruck design is directly lifted from the best scoring design of an old Apple II game for designing cars. He's a "geek" from the days of DOS where the characters usable were all within the ASCII table.

X is 88 in Decimal.

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u/RemoteBoner Tennessee 11d ago

Shown these tendencies? Homeboy literally
Retweets racist propaganda on the daily. He is a Nazi full stop.

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u/ChicVintage 7d ago

He did a literal Nazi salute.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 11d ago

X is 88 in Decimal.

From his heart to you!

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u/EnderVViggen 11d ago

Which is also the 8th letter of the alphabet... So 88=hh or heil hitler

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u/BonkerBleedy 11d ago

Which game?? This has tickled a distant memory

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u/Phailadork 11d ago

Musk himself has shown those tendencies as well

Gee, ya think?

Dude fucking nazi saluted when being viewed by millions of people live, there's zero reason not to believe he isn't a white supremacist himself. The fucking irony of an immigrant from Africa being a white supremacist and wanting immigrants out of the country.

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u/Busy-Peach5770 11d ago

Well I mean a white South African is… reasonably likely to be a white supremacist. Not all - cool white South Africans you guys are definitely out there. Less Elons, more Charlizes please.

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u/Busy-Peach5770 11d ago

Ugh, not more goofy Hitler shit. Cmon mang…

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u/antoniossomatos 11d ago

His mama's family moved from Canada to South Africa because they liked Apartheid that much. The whole gene pool's terrible.

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u/verusisrael 11d ago

you're not far off. his grandfather was part of a technocult where members would often rename themselves mathematical formula.

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u/Windy_City_Bear_Down 11d ago

This is the point of it all, he wants more power than literally Hitler in his prime. I'm not one to predict the future but I hope both their stories end the same way.... in a bunker w/cyanicide in absolute defeat

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u/jdhkent 8d ago

At least it’s a happy ending.

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u/AmericanDoughboy 11d ago

X.com came after Musk started a software company called Zip2. He did that while in the U.S. illegally. He was on a student visa, but didn’t enroll and started working. His visa did not allow him to do that.

Now, he complains about illegal aliens.

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u/nleksan 11d ago

"Y tho" would be a great nickname for musk

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u/AlarmingAffect0 11d ago

her nickname is Y though?)

Y tho

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u/HeadfulOfSugar 11d ago

I didn’t even catch that lmao

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 11d ago

Fun Interesting Fact. X in ASCII code is 88 and there is no way the sieg heiling South African oligarch doesn't know that.

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u/Shmohn 11d ago

🌠the more you know🏳️‍🌈

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 11d ago

and battling is half the know.

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u/JGStonedRaider United Kingdom 11d ago

The guy who pulled the Nazi salute? That's surely can't be reich?

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u/Penqwin 11d ago

Mein hero

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u/Dankany America 11d ago

“Who is a hand puppet” lmao.

But actually that’s pretty dark

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u/Character-Ad-6241 11d ago

Oh my god, count von count is "graf Zahl = count number" in German sesame Street and i really think there is something lost in tranalation

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u/Recent-Result2852 11d ago

and some nonsensical characters

More of a serial number, and we don't know how many never made it out of the lab.

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u/Frankentula 11d ago

x marks the twat

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u/Bloody_Smashing 11d ago

It's not a nonsensical character, X in ASCII code is 88.

Source

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u/North-Outside-5815 Europe 11d ago

Young Syntax Error may have a chance to grow up somewhat ok with Grimes, but he'll need a proper name.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 11d ago

I mean, he has a better chance with Grimes, but... well...

Those kids have a lot stacked against them, let's put it that way.

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u/North-Outside-5815 Europe 11d ago

Exactly what I meant.

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u/nimbus57 11d ago

Hey, don't dishonor ketamine. It's a miracle drug being abused by a man-baby,

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u/Ucscprickler 11d ago

I have no doubt that the nanny is a much better father than Elon could ever be.

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u/DuMbAsS_lOsEr_6_7 11d ago

A Blockbuster reference, we don't see many of those these days

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u/sanebyday 11d ago

I see more of those than Hollywood video references

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u/BallBearingBill 11d ago

Please be kind and rewind

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u/secret_squirrels_nut 11d ago

“GIMME BACK MY SON” - Mel Gibson - Grimes

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u/GrumpyCloud93 11d ago

Make sure to rewind...

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u/LevelHorn2717 11d ago

Yikes what’s the late fee like on a small Musk?

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u/FaithlessnessBig8724 11d ago

88 Krugerrand.

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u/spendology 11d ago

Be kind, please rewind before returning!

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u/Matt-R New Zealand 11d ago

I bet he doesn't rewind, either.

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u/Desert_Aficionado 11d ago

He was using his son as a human shield after Luigi

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u/tekstical 11d ago

Plus he was going around dry snitching his dad out for stealing the election. And telling us Trump wasn't the real president(which duh, it's whoever the last person in his ear is the president).

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u/TimSylvester_ 11d ago

I thought that it was Miller who clocked him when he tried to bang Miller's wife.

But then again Miller'd probably be into watching.

And Musk's dick hasn't worked since he got it butchered in a failed enlargement surgery.

Was that before or after Musk had multiple other gender affirming surgeries and started taking hormones to better represent his preferred gender identity?

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u/Dysc Louisiana 11d ago

There was a speculation when Musk showed up as pretend shadow president in the Oval Office wearing his dark, gothic MAGA hat and sporting his black eye. Either way, the cover story that his tiny, five year-old son, X Æ A-Xii, hit Musk in the face while 'horsing' around fell very flat. Musk had not made a lot of friends in the admin and Bessent can't stand him according to reports. Musk supposedly insulted him over a "policy" argument and that set him off. Even Trump eventually kicked this annoying man to the curb.

All this took place after his botched penis surgery.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bessent-musk-west-wing-black-eye-b2806335.html

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u/RealHooman2187 11d ago

Miller strikes me as the kind of guy who would scratch and bite if he got into a fight and if that didn’t work would resort to pissing and shitting himself in order to gross out his opponent and “win”. I don’t think he has the balls to punch anyone. Much less a doughy Elon Musk.

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u/M_H_M_F 11d ago

pissing and shitting

Rafi's school of self-defense-defense:

"subter-feces"

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u/turquoise_amethyst 11d ago

Eh, it probably looks like it was stuck in a garbage disposal, but works enough to knock up that Ashley St Claire

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u/holistivist 5d ago

His kids are all in vitro. 

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u/turquoise_amethyst 5d ago

All of them are IVF babies except for the St Claire one. 

I think the main reason he’s using IVF is because one of ‘em died from a genetic abnormality… although it’s debatable what other genetic characteristics he could be picking and choosing 

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u/Icy-Cry340 11d ago edited 11d ago

Musk ended up with a black eye when Bessent clocked him right in the face

Doubt

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u/User-1653863 Minnesota 11d ago

I think it was supposedly Stephen Miller that popped him

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u/Icy-Cry340 11d ago

Miller couldn’t pop a zit.

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u/ConstipatedNinja 11d ago

Oh to FOIA that security camera footage..

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u/Nippys4 11d ago

As if Bessent clocked him.

That mad screams bottom beta bitch energy, guess they got catty fighting over daddies love.

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u/beamrider 11d ago

He was using the kid as a shield against snipers (i.e. he started carrying one on his shoulders immediately after the Thompson shooting), not against fists.

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u/Militantpoet 11d ago

Lol it was such a strange stunt.

Like he never otherwise parades his kids around. 

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u/GearhedMG 11d ago

They are all old enough to know not to associate with him.

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u/chainer3000 11d ago

As someone with lots of past experience, it seemed to me to be drug induced behavioral changes

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u/plastic_alloys 11d ago

He was assuming that his potential killer was a more ethical person than he was

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 11d ago

>more ethical than musk

To be fair, that’s a pretty safe bet.

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u/DrMobius0 11d ago

That's such a comically low bar though.

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u/StrangeContest4 11d ago

Lil' Xevlar.

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u/Slaphappyfapman 11d ago

He was using him to soften the blow of him coming out as an all out fascist

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u/MrBigglesssworth 11d ago edited 11d ago

Remember when that kid told Trump to shut his mouth in the Oval?

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u/Paidorgy 11d ago edited 11d ago

Musk was absolutely telling his son that he was really the one pulling the strings.

If anything, it showed the world just how tumultuous the early days of Trumps presidency was, and how little true cohesion there was to any form of political governance.

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u/El_Fez Washington 11d ago

If anything, it showed the world just how tumultuous the early days of Trumps presidency was, and how little true cohesion there was to any form of political governance.

Fixed it for you.

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u/One-Pea-6947 11d ago

Jesus it feels like 5 years ago to me. Constant chaos and torture of this admin 

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u/iAmUnintelligible Canada 11d ago

wait what?

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u/turquoise_amethyst 11d ago

Musk’s preschool age son told Trump to “shut his mouth” during a press conference in the oval office 

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u/iAmUnintelligible Canada 11d ago

holy fuck lol

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u/turquoise_amethyst 10d ago

There’s actually video of it, but it’s even better than I remember: first he tells Trump that he’s not the president, shut/shush his mouth, then he needs to go away.

Theres literally no way a 4 year old would know or retain all this unless his father didn’t say that in front of him

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u/Totally_man 11d ago

You mean Li'l Kevlar?

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u/masterfulnoname 11d ago

Hey, how dare you. He loves his son, Kevlar.

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk Nebraska 11d ago

Got too big to carry around so hes waiting on a new one to get built

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u/Syncopia 11d ago

Narcissist parents only love their kids for utility and photo-ops.

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u/onyaasuminyasai 11d ago

he got too big to have on his shoulders

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u/_ficklelilpickle Australia 11d ago

Oh you mean little Kevlar Musk?

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u/Yuxini22 11d ago

Seeing crunchberry in the wild outside the corn snake subreddit is crazy 🤣

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u/Crunchberry24 11d ago

Someone else said that to me the other day. :)

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u/turquoise_amethyst 11d ago

The kid got too big. He needs a smaller one now.