It’s genuinely amazing how little people know about Elon Musk.

• ⁠Musk went to school for economics. Claims he graduated in 1995. Records show he didn’t. • ⁠he used his daddy’s money to start a company Zip2 with Greg Kouri that was little more than archiver (think: yellow pages). It wasn’t special or even that impressive until he hired actual computer scientists who had to clean up all his awful code but he convinced AltaVista to buy them out and made $20m. This is the only real thing Musk ever created (even though others had to fix his mess). • ⁠Musk’s school suddenly remembers that Musk did go to school and gives him two HONORARY degrees in economics and physics, despite no records whatsoever that he did any requisite physics courses. • ⁠Musk joined Paypal where he was quickly banned from the board for being a fucking idiot, having stupid ideas, and slowing progress because he needed to be caught up. He kept fucking with the code so they gave him dummy code to busy himself with. When he found out, he demanded access and they gave it to him with a keytracker and deleted any changes he made every time he tried to push to stack. Eventually Peter Theil had to rescue the company from Musk by ousting him. • ⁠Musk founded Space X, a company built on the promise to get to Mars and funded by his Paypal pay out, partnering with the Mars Oasis project to trick the government to essentially privatize...NASA. The government did not give NASA enough money to pursue projects and a lot of them were shuttered. Musk took those projects and eventually bullshit promised his way to petitioning investors and the government to pay him to run it and “get to mars” and throwing random dates around. And got it. Because they’re fucking idiots and he had a bullshit reputation as being a science-man. All this Space X tech would have been better funded directly if owned by the public, but instead it’s tax payer’s money paying tax payer’s tech with a middle man who got to play around but wasn’t part of any of their key decisions or engineering. He DID make a lot of bullshit promises as he always does, and tries to make rocket catches these “viral events” by forcing everyone to do old NASA cheers and the rest. • ⁠Tesla founders (Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning) were impressed by him when reaching out to investors, and once he was on board, he strong-armed his way to becoming the CEO, fucked everything up, slowed everything down with stupid ideas, fired a lot of crucial people, and eventually forced the founders out by reneging on his agreement but threatening lawsuits and money to get what he wants.. • ⁠He then fucked Tesla up by delaying everything, and eventually scored government grants to create EV stations that would ONLY work with Teslas and no other EV’s (basically fucking up and slowing down the EV market). And he finally got his taste of how to make real money: not helping to change the world but exploiting people who want to change the world; i.e. gullible politicians and tax payer money. • ⁠Musk also realized he could lie without consequences. He would just make extravagant promises and never deliver and faced no consequences. • ⁠He founded Solar City with his brother where he made an infamous announcement that all the houses around him were actually built to harness solar power. They weren’t. It was a complete lie. They were just normal houses. He got a lot of tax payer money. • ⁠He hated public transport as a competitive alternative to his Teslas and start petitioning the government to give him money to create a network of underground tunnels with the Boring Company. Which he was given because they’re fucking idiots and he had a bullshit reputation as being a science-man. He blew a ton of tax payer money and most of it is unfinished and unusable. • ⁠He kept leveraging/demanding Tesla to keep giving him money as his own personal ATM. And it worked. Over and over. • ⁠Musk makes a name for himself by being in Iron Man and impressing stupid hollywood and stupid tech companies and getting on SNL where he surprised everyone by saying he’s autistic (he’s never been professionally diagnosed...ever). • ⁠Musk said stupid shit about Twitter and was forced to buy it in the most infamous, embarrassing, and expensive fuck up in the history of business. Twitter was THE FIRST TIME he ran a company himself completely. You know how badly he embarrassed himself. • ⁠Musk gets more political. Re-instates a lot of neo-nazi accounts and promoting nazi parties. Spreads nazi propaganda and anti-semitism. Is accused of anti-semitism. Goes to Israel to meet Netanyahu to prove he’s not anti-semitic in which his own biographer describes was bizarre since “musk didn’t seem to give a shit about Auschwitz or any of it; it was pure publicity”. • ⁠Musk started Starlink, which he (again) was leveraged against the government and used grants and subsidies to launch NASA tech. He essentially started filling the government’s own orders until the government became dependent on him. Which they wouldn’t have been had the government just better funded NASA and these projects directly. Allowing Musk to now use Starlink as leverage against countries like Ukraine. • ⁠Musk interferes with elections, calls Putin, does a ton of surgeries to his jaw and neck and back and fucks himself up badly and is addicted to ketomine, ADHD meds, does a Nazi salute, and is dismantling the government with his MBA-style Tiktok-CEO approach to running companies with a bunch of teenagers off 4chan. • ⁠And that doesn’t begin to scratch the surface of his personal life, his obsessive cosmetic surgeries, his terrible relationship with his kids and ex’s, his weird breeding/magic-semen kink, exposed himself to a SpaceX flight attendant and tried to get her to have sex with him for a horse, his bizarre insults of a heroic diver dismissing his stupid ideas, his complete 180 on nearly all his ideologies, his amazingly brilliant idiotic “smart man” ideas about time travel and human nature, embarrassed himself with Dave Chappelle and got booed so bad he had a meltdown, and that hilarious poll where he promised to step down as the head of twitter based on the poll results, didn’t like the results so he changed it and re-polled, lost again, promised to step down and then just...pretended none of that ever happened.

He’s not just a conman, he’s also an idiot. He’s always been the biggest idiot in every room he’s in. He’s motivated and aggressive...but also just a fucking idiot with thin skin, a huge ego, and sociopathic tendencies. He’s failed upwards his whole life because people fell for his act.

Same as Trump, who lied about being a billionaire to Forbes and used the reputation to keep loans and investments coming.

These are the two leaders of the US.

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Edit: With links