Musk, the billionaire owner of X, formerly Twitter, and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, joined Trump onstage in Butler on Saturday to show his support for the Republican and state that he is “not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA.”

A number of people have mocked Musk’s appearance at the Butler rally on Saturday on social media, as well as criticizing his public speaking efforts.

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I’m surprised Newsweek didn’t explain why he said “Dark MAGA.”

Because it was a crypto scheme.

https://crypto.news/dark-maga-coin-spikes-elon-musk-trump-rally-speech/

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8 points

I assumed it was a weird reference to the Phoenix Force from X-Men.

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28 points

Considering this is the man who thought that the name of the main character in Blade Runner is “Bladerunner,” I doubt it.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner

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15 points

I don’t want him associating with my favorite movie. Secondly, he probably thinks the theatrical cut is the canonical one.

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7 points

I assumed it was the equivalent of “dark enlightenment”.

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10 points

“X-MAGA” would have sent mixed signals

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9 points

I thought it was in reference to Dark Brandon.

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2 points

As did I. Though if it was, I think he’s misunderstood what Dark Brandon even meant.

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66 points

Yet another Musk pump&dump.

Fun fact: if the law applied evenly to billionaires, he’d still be in prison for his previous two market manipulation schemes (the doge coin pump and dump and the pretending that he was about to take Tesla private to boost the stock), sexual harassment, and much more.

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28 points

i am not having fun after hearing that fact

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31 points

Sorry about that. Allow me an attempt to rectify that.

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68 points

The US government should seize all of Musk’s companies and most of his money.

Just leave him with a billion dollars

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46 points

Leave him a billion pennies and he’d still be doing just fine.

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23 points

How about $3.50?

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14 points

I said, “Get the hell outta here, you damn monstah!”

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3 points

“Oh Lord, they didn’t bring a sacrifice chile.”

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I think he might actually be worse off with a hundred billion pennies for the full billion dollars. Not only would dealing with that many pennies in one place legitimately be challenging, but having that percentage of the total pennies in circulation suddenly removed could be enough to get the US Government to reconsider deprecating them, leaving him with the bag.

I say give him the full billion in pennies.

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If it’s like the old half-cent coins, then pennies will be worth more as collectibles after they’re discontinued.

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48 points

Shamelessly stolen from bidens campaign, so very original.

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41 points

Not even, it’s a crypto shit coin. Unless the crypto scheme copied that.

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It did, according to the article linked in @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world’s post.

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11 points

It’s not like Musk does anything new

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27 points

The dark Brandon thing doesn’t even make sense applied to maga. All maga is dark maga.

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237 points

Musk is truly the king of cringe.

Remember when he sued those advertisers for leaving Twitter after he told those advertisers to, and Im quoting here, “Go fuck yourselves”? He is basically 14.

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141 points

“Your honor these companies won’t give me money despite the fact that I want it!”

Did you ask them politely and provide a service worth advertising on?

“I told them to go fuck themselves and banned everyone that was mean to the neo-nazis.”

???

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I said out loud while watching it that he’s got all the charm of an awkward 12 year old boy

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30 points

Surely not all of it.

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4 points

Maybe all of it except the young boyishness

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No wonder Trump likes him. He must think he’s like Jeffrey Epstein reincarnated or something.

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22 points

Musk and Trump are people who never developed. They seem like children because they stopped growing somewhere in elementary school.

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6 points

Facing challenges helps us to grow, they faced few until they opened their mouths on the public stage.

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13 points

Being financially insulated from the consequences of their own actions via their wealthy parents seems to have an effect on stunting their emotional development prematurely. Trump and Musk are both sad losers with more money than sense.

The billionaire class must be abolished.

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Dork MAGA. Price Is Right-ass motherfucker jumpin’ around like he’s gonna bid on a Broyhill bedroom set with fresh white sheets. Zooted the fuck out on ket, dancin’ around on stage like a 7-year-old with glioblastoma at his very own MAGA-Wish event.

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102 points

Goddamn that is the type of insult that needs to be printed and framed.

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I dunno. A friend’s kid has glioblastoma. It hurt a bit to see their child compared to Elon Musk.

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22 points

You had me in the first half

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62 points

Every once in a while, a comment like this comes along and makes me wish Lemmy had awards.

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27 points

Here, hand out some of these instead:
🏅🏅🏅🥇🥇🥇🎖️🎖️🎖️

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3 points

Not exactly that but reactions like MissKey/SharkKey had

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96 points

have some lemmy gold

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19 points

He looks like he wants to use my cars air filter for its nest.

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35 points

if you remove the gold foil its also lemmy chocolate

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29 points

OMFG I haven’t laughed this hard at an Internet comment in years.

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12 points

This is, by far, the best insult I’ve seen all year

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4 points

When I bought broyhill this weekend

ow man

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31 points

I want you to write my eulogy.

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5 points

Brother I’m dead after reading that 🤣

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1 point

Well done. 🙌

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7 points

I know some of those words!

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17 points

This guy just rolled a natural 20 for Viscous Mockery

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