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Elon Goes Full Sieg Heil In Clarifying Moment
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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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It's a little more nuanced than that, but it does heavily imply that Elon Musk had some kind of insider knowledge on how the voting machines worked (which, as a private citizen with no connection to the manufacturer of the product, he should not have access to) and Trump credits him as the reason he won the state in a landslide... Highly, highly suspicious phrasing. It could be that Trump is just giving Musk credit for his knowledge of tech in general, but given Trump's known history of attempting to influence the outcome of elections through nefarious means, I wouldn't put it past him to have actually done something. Especially something like using the resources of the richest man on the planet to get what he wants.
Of course, spineless Dems will never challenge him on this. I expect him to fully get away with it, like he does everything.
Combine this with 'you don't even have to vote' Would love to see some journalist digging into this.
On one hand I am certainly inclined to believe that all the shrieking they did last time about dominion and rigged votes was projection as usual and their own justification to do it this time. But on the other, I am perhaps more likely to believe that a 78 year old on the precipice of dementia and who has a very clear and prolific history of being a fucking moron just confused it with Musk being a tech bro and his scheme of paying millions of dollars for votes in PA that was actually technically just a glorified lottery but that clearly was intended to pay for votes, which was actually argued to not be a lottery because the whole thing was rigged itself to pay out to right wing influencers. That might also explain why and how musk seems to have his ear and influence over his stances and what he says.
I would like to believe the former, but unfortunately I think the latter is more likely and that trump did actually win by the margin he did because so many people are so stupid. Because it would have had to be a nationwide hack to change the totals in nearly every state, versus just another gaffe from the non stop geyser of verbal diarrhea.
Of course. I always look at claims such as this with a healthy degree of skepticism, doused with a generous splash Occam's Razor for good measure. A skeptic's simplest explanation would be that nothing happened and Trump is being an idiot as usual. But still, it's worth looking into I would imagine. A subpoena to get Trump and Musk on record about this statement and what Musk does or does not know about the voting machines, at the very least, would be prudent.