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Billionaire compares Minnesota governor to clown emoji: ‘Saving the American people from the torture of hearing you speak for four years was worth it’

Elon Musk went on a late-night attack against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz after he called the billionaire a “dips***” during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.

“Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dips***,” Walz said on Tuesday, referring to Musk as former President Donald Trump’s “running mate.”

Musk initially appeared alongside Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against the ex-commander-in-chief less than two months previously. The videos of the billionaire jumping on stage when Trump called him up quickly went viral.

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[–] FlyingSquid 124 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If he was trying to prove he isn't a dipshit, I think he failed.

[–] FlyingSquid 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also:

The billionaire also posted a meme of Walz with the words: “Who am I, Why am I here.”

I'm guessing most people, even a lot of people here, did not get that reference.

That's because it's a reference from a vice presidential debate in 1992.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Stockdale-Stanford-vice-president-debate-1992-15427467.php

I don't even know why I remember that.

What a dipshit.

[–] grue 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1w3FgB0Ohc

Not gonna lie, that humility/candor would've made me more likely to vote for Perot/Stockdale.

[–] FlyingSquid 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem with Perot/Stockdale wasn't Stockdale, it was Perot. He was nuts. He would have been almost as bad as Trump. His understanding of the economy wasn't much better either.

[–] wjrii 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perot did have a stronger charts and graphs game than mister Sharpie, though.

Also, as bad as a Perot presidency might have been, he wasn't openly hateful like Trump, nor as obsessed with breaking the system if the results didn't go his way. It was kind of a Diet Populism.

[–] FlyingSquid 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It just shows you how far we've fallen.

[–] captainlezbian 5 points 1 month ago

Trump manages to be worse than Goldwater in a variety of areas. Goldwater was supposed to be our low point (post Lindbergh)

[–] CitizenKong 24 points 1 month ago

He proved he was a dipshit when he accused a cave diver risking his life saving children of being a pedophile.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Dipshits gonna dip shit

[–] MehBlah 75 points 1 month ago

Every time Walz opens his mouth I like him more. Every time musk brainfarts I like him less.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What kind of sheltered people get offended by "dipshit" to the level they have to censor it?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some people just don't like swearing. Nothing wrong with that. The publisher's goal is to get readers so it's an easy way to not reduce numbers.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Nothing wrong, just puritanical and immature.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Some people just don't like swearing.

To those people I say, "What the fuck‽"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This wasnt censored in the lemmy post, but in the original headline.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What kind of person is offended by masking swears in an article?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The kind who's disappointed in people for believing in magic words.

[–] MehBlah 4 points 1 month ago

For many its still one of seven dirty words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

[–] EleventhHour 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The same guy who bought Twitter just to shut up his critics

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

Sorry, thin-skinned dipshit.

[–] PugJesus 39 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a typical dipshit move from Musk.

[–] TheDemonBuer 28 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk is a dipshit, though.

[–] hardcoreufo 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Musk is just butthurt a good father is insulting him.

[–] captainlezbian 10 points 1 month ago

Hey, it might also be because Walz can keep a wife

[–] kokesh 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It makes me said that muskshit doesn't want to fly to Mars himself. We should have gotten rid of that cunt once and for all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I say send all the billionaires on a one way trip to Mars. All these billionaires think that civilization needs them, well go build a new civilization. We'll all sit back and watch them fuck up.

[–] hardcoreufo 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you imagine if one of them had to screw in a light bulb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They would give some sort of motivational speech about how back in the day; they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and screwed the lightbulb in themself.

Meanwhile completely omitting the fact that they were born into generational wealth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like a reverse Golgafrincham situation.

[–] MushuChupacabra 20 points 1 month ago

Typical dipshit response.

[–] RedditReject 20 points 1 month ago

It hurts him because he knows it is true

[–] disconnectikacio 8 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Lol, get mad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well, that’s the gamer vote lost for the Dems…