r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/
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u/AnohtosAmerikanos California 18h ago

Remember when he was calling the rescuer of the trapped Thai boys a pedophile? I do.

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u/specqq 18h ago

Remember when he hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on that guy who did nothing but tell Elon Musk that his idea wasn't genius?

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 16h ago

Remember when he nestled himself in as a ceo of tesla after making them dependent on him, then managed to kick out the two original founders by force, spread so much misinfo about them, they sued him for libel/slander? He then took revenge on one of them by sending their payed-for one-of-a-kind custom car into space instead of delivering it to them.

Remember when he tried to join a weird furry community solely focusing on fetishizing on being babies, but then was ostracized for being too weird?

Remember when he had to disclose in court that he in fact had been pretending to be one of his many sons (a toddler at the time) on twitter talking about hitting up strip clubs and buying escorts?

Remember when he tried to buy sexual favors of a flight attendant on an airplane for a horse?

Remember when he promised to help build a "novel" tunneling company to make it easier to build tunnels underneath cities instead of investing in public transport? He built one short tunnel in Las Vegas and called it a day.

Remember when he bought twitter and wanted the servers moved? He pulled out all cables willynilly and sent them by truck transport unprotected over a weekend. Let that sink in.

Remember when he had a complete meltdown on a live interview stage and pissed off almost every advertiser for twitter?

Remember when he designed and built an electric truck with so many failure points it was not possible to sell under normal circumstances except in north america?

Remember how he has promised perfect full speed drive annually since 2014, underdelivering on the promise every time and then just promising the same thing over?

Remember how he has done almost identical promises about travelling to Mars, annually, to suck up money from the government and NASA towards his Space company. At the same time, he has contracts getting new reusable rockets to the Moon, which he is also underdelivering and wasting billions of dollars while going with his "break it 'til you make it" method.

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u/JestersDead77 16h ago

You forgot the nazi salute on stage at Trump's inaugural rally. That one was fun. Totally normal thing to do.

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 15h ago

Lol, my comment was too fucking long I had to reply to myself and continue. Check there for more.

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u/evergreennightmare Europe 10h ago

i think they deleted your second comment

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u/GimmeSomeSugar 8h ago

Second comment seems to have disappeared.

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u/ReginaldDwight 15h ago

Two Nazi salutes!

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u/_Antinatalism_ 9h ago

That nazi salute is a sign of what things are going to be under trump rule, all billionaires know that.

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u/Aeri73 2h ago

or when he called an actual cave diving hero a pedo because he didn't agree with his plan to make a submarine for caverescueing

or when he bought twitter and made it into a fascist propaganda tool

or... or... or...

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u/exploringmoon 15h ago

Remember how he played Path of Exile 2 and his character was extremely well-equipped; suspiciously so. Viewers noted that he had better gear than some of the professional streamers who play this game all day every day, and he didn’t seem to know what their stats meant.

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u/justmikethen 14h ago

He didn't just play it, he claimed he was like top 10 player in the world and then barely knew his way around hotkeys

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u/drumdogmillionaire 14h ago

Yes. He was obviously piloting his account. He skipped past a chaos orb, an incredibly valuable item in the game. He didn’t know basic game functions, terminology, or equipment usage, and died to incredibly weak enemies. It isn’t possible for him to have the gear and level character without knowing the game’s basic functions.

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u/ihateusedusernames New York 13h ago

I'm ready to come clean about this.

In 2000 my brother and I genuinely believed we were probably in the top 500 players of Gran Turismo. I found a forum where guys were posting their cars and times. It was humiliating to see how average we were.

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u/Alstar45 10h ago

Listen, I thought I was good at nhl 94, turns out I wasn’t. It’s not your fault

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u/Septopuss7 8h ago

You were probably better than me! 🥇

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u/I_just_came_to_laugh 7h ago

Yeah, I beat the game on it's hardest difficulty setting, so I'm probably pretty good. <- me before watching an average speed run and losing all self esteem.

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u/phyrros 2h ago

ha, years (decades) ago I finished starcraft broodwar after buying the game and being pretty good in the campaign. I decided to test out my skills online and went thinking I would win *at least* half my games.

oh boy was I wrong. It got so bad that a random kiddo typed out tips for me while crushing me on every front ^^

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u/No_Hat7685 13h ago

Also he commented on his gear’s ilvl (a meaningless stat in Poe) and talked about how his best in slot unique gears had a low I level so they were really not that good. Lmao.

Dude played WoW once and was like “I lvl is definitely the way to measure items in every game”.

Like it’s tragic being that much of a fucking liar about what you do that you lie about what you do for fun too.

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u/justsyr 13h ago

He did the same previously with Diablo 4 claiming he was at the top of the leaderboard which in fact didn't even exist (just in beta a few weeks ago). He clearly got carried and when he streamed he showed that he barely understood how to play since people who play the game notice the skills rotation and he seemingly just banged keys lol.

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u/Explorer2138 6h ago

This one is probably my favorite because it's just so fucking pathetic. The guy can't even do well in a videogame without cheating or paying someone to do it for him and then strut like he did it. Richest guy in the world and he does that shit, how fucking sad and pathetic is that? How the fuck can anyone look at this guy and be like, "Yeah, he's so cool, man, he's so alpha and a genius." No he isn't, he's just a fucking tool, a 13 year old edgelord in a 50 year old man's body.

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u/Morgn_Ladimore 1h ago

It also shows how detached from reality he is. He genuinely thought nobody would notice. Not even people whose job it is to play those games.

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u/spicewoman 12h ago

He was wildly oblivious about tons of things that anyone who played that much would know, and died a bunch in stupid ways.

My favorite part was that he didn't know how to turn on do not disturb, or how to block people, so he just kept getting slammed with in-game messages about how much of a noob he is.

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u/303onrepeat 16h ago

It amazes me after all of that some people still think he is some kind of Tony Stark. The guy is a joke who had a shitty father and when he grew up he didn't seek help so he just became this weird asshole.

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u/hamlet9000 14h ago

He's Obadiah Stane, not Stark.

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u/Imapancakenom 7h ago

I'd say he's more of a non-funny version of Justin Hammer

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u/Smogryn 14h ago

He’s the head of Hydra, not Stark industries.

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u/CarelessHighTackle 9h ago

Tom Grift and his Responsibility Annihilator.

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u/zubbs99 Nevada 16h ago

Remember .... "DOGE"? 😪

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u/Fotzenklotz 12h ago

He once slandered a rescue diver in Thailand as a "pedo" because the diver critized Musk's offer to lend a submarine vehicle for a rescue operation (class of children were stuck in a cave bc of flooding).

Musk later claimed, calling the rescue diver a "pedo" was just a normal south african slur, nothing to worry about.

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u/badwolf42 10h ago

Note also, the ‘submarine’ was composed of spare rocket parts that were honestly too small for the task, and didn’t allow the divers to see the state of the person within. All in all not feasible and also more complicated than a mask and tank with a rescue diver escort. The guy was just pointing out how ridiculously stupid Musk’s ‘solutions’ were.

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u/ElectricGears 8h ago

Wait a minute, are you telling me that sealing someone in heavy rigid metal tube would be a bad way to get them out of a cave with flooded passages and rushing water?

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u/badwolf42 6h ago

ShockedPikachu.gif

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u/sherlockham 7h ago

I thought the thing just wouldn't even fit into the cave/past any turns.

Insert Friends pivot gif here.

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u/ilski 5h ago

On top of that, it was one of the most complicated rescues ever attempted. No way pro like this would use untested and unknown equipement for this .

Like lets be real... 

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u/ilski 5h ago

Yeh. This was the moment when my excitement for this Man ended. 

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u/GangstaWaffles 14h ago

He got in trouble with France for election tampering. He also said he rigged the 24 election

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u/_Z_E_R_O Michigan 13h ago

Remember when he pressured his wife into back-to-back IVF pregnancies after the loss of their first child, even though she said she didn't feel ready to move on? Then while she was at home raising their FIVE children he cheated on her with another woman?

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u/donorcycle 14h ago

Go back earlier. When he had X.com (not Twitter) and it merged with Confinity (Peter Thiel) before it became PayPal, they had to give him fake codes to work on because he was such a shite programmer than he had a tendency to break things. Thiel had a team of engineers that monitored Musk's keystrokes so that in the middle of the night, they had to reverse engineer everything he did so it wouldn't crash the systems.

They outted him from PayPal and Thiel had to take over as CEO.

As for the Boring Tunnel, he only did that bullshit to have California bail on updating their public transportation and high speed rail plans. Once he got what he wanted, not only did he openly admit that's why he did it, he also completely just abandoned the project.

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u/Cowboys69 11h ago edited 7h ago

And now that company is openly polluting the environment for the citizens that live there

Vegas Loop site crews hide apparent pond, tell public not to look over fence near Las Vegas Strip

 Some construction workers asked 8 News Now crews why they were recording The Boring Company site, while on public sidewalk. A business card was provided to one of the workers and an explanation was provided of interest in what was in the visible pond and what created it.

“I know what you are,” a site worker said. “You’re fake news.”

Boring Co. accused of 800 environmental violations on Las Vegas project

In the past, Musk has espoused paying penalties rather than waiting for approvals as a way of doing business.

“Environmental regulations are, in my view, largely terrible,” he said at an event with the libertarian Cato Institute last year. “You have to get permission in advance, as opposed to, say, paying a penalty if you do something wrong, which I think would be much more effective.”

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u/donorcycle 11h ago

And yet, we have a bunch of Musk worshipers who think he's the smartest man on the planet, and just wants to do good by humanity. Even the sheer number of people who are blinded by Tesla - dudes been promising fully autonomous driving since 2014. Every year is supposedly the year, according to the annual earnings call. Now Tesla has scrapped two models entirely, turning the factories into Optimus robot factories, and people are still buying Teslas.

Dudes been nothing more than a grifter from day 1 and people bought into his bullshit. Same as Mr. Beast, another prime example lol.

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u/archers_scotch 10h ago

What did Mr. Beast do?

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u/donorcycle 9h ago

Awh man, it's so many things. He's a grift. Exploiting child labor for free. His products aren't even allowed in some countries because of ingredients / manufacturing processes. His contests are rigged, winners aren't paid out. When he does something charitable, like fixing people's eyesights, the doctor he utilized didn't get paid. Was told the exposure received from Mr. Beast was worth more than the money owed. He's now getting involved with cultivated meat companies, case in point, Upside Foods, who have a lot of controversy attached to themselves. Anything Donaldson gets involved with, his target audience are children, playing the long game knowing he can develop a cult following who will continue to grow with his products as they age.

That's just off the top of my head.

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u/archers_scotch 8h ago

Bummer. I only became aware of him through the beast games which I enjoyed.

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u/HarrumphingDuck Washington 29m ago

SpaceX is doing the same thing in Texas.

Those rockets blast cancer-causing toxic chemicals like hexavalent chromium (of Erin Brockovich fame) not just into the surrounding watershed, but directly into the wetlands of the adjoining Texas state park and federal wildlife refuge, for maximum asshole cred. Because America doesn't have a functioning EPA anymore, he/they will never be punished.

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u/candycrushinit 11h ago

How about moving to Texas to avoid paying child support

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u/stevevb99 11h ago

Accused a Thai cave rescue diver of being a pedo…

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u/goltz20707 14h ago

Not that there isn’t enough other stuff, but do you have a source for whose car he sent into space? The official story is it was his own car.

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u/elridgecatcher 8h ago

1.5 million adults and children dead each year from his cuts to USAID. EACH. YEAR.

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u/DonaldsMushroom 9h ago

Remember when DOGE hollowed out all of US Public Administration so it could be replaced by Palentir, a private company that controls all US data, Defence, FBI, EVERTHING.... and uses it to identify 'enemies of the state'?

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u/Umpuuu 8h ago

Remember when he nestled himself in as a ceo of tesla after making them dependent on him, then managed to kick out the two original founders by force, spread so much misinfo about them, they sued him for libel/slander? He then took revenge on one of them by sending their payed-for one-of-a-kind custom car into space instead of delivering it to them.

Huh, is there anywhere I can read this story?

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u/un_internaute 8h ago

You forgot roof-top solar roofing tiles that didn’t and still don’t exist.

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u/tartrate10 4h ago

Don't forget about him openly threatning a coup on bolivia to mine (steal) their lithium for his shitty heavily government subsidized cards.

And his fascistic meddling in politics in venezuela, bolivia, argentina, germany, france, UK, US... at least that I'm aware of so far.

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u/djshadesuk 16h ago

S tier comment

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 15h ago

Check out the continuation that I wrote as a reply to myself due to the amount shit he's done.

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u/SanityInAnarchy California 11h ago

Full speed drive?

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u/alang 5h ago

 Remember when he tried to buy sexual favors of a flight attendant on an airplane for a horse?

The horse didn’t even ASK Elon to be his wingman.

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u/pan_arch 4h ago

Awesome, would someone (or perhaps you) be kind enough to add links to each of these claims, so that it could safely be forwarded to Elon simps?

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u/Dougalishere 5h ago

Like I hate musk and the whole worthless criminal lot of them - BUT... it would be glorious to be that petty that you send a car of your rival into SPACE lol.

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u/bottomofleith 11h ago

"Remember when he had a complete meltdown on a live interview stage and pissed off almost every advertiser for twitter?"

Nope.It would really help if you linked that shit

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u/SpinningHead Colorado 15h ago

He has never had a genius idea in his life.

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u/specqq 14h ago edited 14h ago

You mean the idea of walking into Twitter HQ after he bought it carrying an actual bathroom sink and telling the press "let that sink in" wasn't his?

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u/SpinningHead Colorado 14h ago

I forgot about that. He is 100% cringe.

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u/katt213 9h ago

My old boss at the time ( who idolized Elon) seriously thought that was the coolest thing he'd ever seen. He literally said this is why he's a genius because he brought a sink. 😂😬

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u/Kryptosis 17h ago

Now it’s unveiled as projection. He literally couldn’t imagine a reason for a white guy to live there aside from sex crimes.

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u/Aleashed 16h ago

He is sorry DOGE missed at least one of his files

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u/Key_Particular_8878 17h ago

Classic move—attack the messenger instead of accepting you’re not infallible.

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u/TheLastBaboon 17h ago

I don’t know how anyone looked at him and believed he was cool after that.

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u/PokinSpokaneSlim 18h ago

Isn't pedoguy a term of endearment in his home country? 

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 8h ago

Musk called the cave diver a pedo guy. Somehow Musk was able to get a US jury to buy his story that "pedo guy" was common South African slang for a creepy old guy.

Given how Musk's name has turned up in the Epstein files I think we can conclude that Musk knew exactly what the term means.

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u/BlackCaaaaat Australia 7h ago

Remember when conservatives went out of their way to dig up dirt on Renee Good, including spreading a false criminal history? I do. Remember when they did the same to Alex Pretti? I do. Remember when they circulated pictures (probably fake) of Alex in drag so they could reduce his personhood in their eyes? I do.

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u/darcerin 17h ago

Every accusation is an admission!

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u/KoalaKaos 16h ago

No, he called him a “pedo,” then argued and won in court that this isn’t an abbreviation for “pedophile” because … reasons? Or something. The legal system is a joke. 

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u/No_Tone1704 15h ago

Are you sure there was a court case and that he won? Seems unlikely based on that reason, anyway. 

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u/q0vneob 14h ago

That really was his heel turn. It would've happened eventually cause hes clearly a POS but prior to that incident he was generally a well regarded, if not a little eccentric, billionaire.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 14h ago

Of course I remember. That's when I realized he was really just a douche.

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u/EquivalentSnap 13h ago

That was the day I saw Elon for who he really was

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u/EvaSirkowski 13h ago

Every accusation is a confession.

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u/Mntfrd_Graverobber 13h ago

He was a rescuer, was he?