WOW! "ELON MUSK DIDN'T BUILD TESLA. TAXPAYERS BUILT ELON MUSK. He didn't found Tesla. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning did. Musk bought his way in with a 2004 investment and rewrote the story. In 2010, Tesla took a $465 million Department of Energy loan to survive. Your money kept the lights on. Since then the taxpayer tab has exploded: $8 billion in Pentagon contracts, a new $1.6 billion Space Force order, a $946 million NASA boost, and a Golden Dome role worth an estimated $185 billion. He now co-chairs the Pentagon project that decides which weapons America buys, while his companies sell them to America. He claims DOGE saved $200 billion. The GAO checked: most of it was fiction. 2,503 contracts worth $27.4 billion were never terminated. He's not a self-made genius. He's the biggest government welfare case in American history, and the checks are signed by you.

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He also cheats at video games and hung out on Epstein Island. Elon is a scumbag.
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His aiding of Trump getting elected has paid off bigtime.
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Sounds like facism to me: merging corporate and government power together. If you design all this crap for them, they'll give you a blank check. Maybe you can even become the world's next trillionaire? They've already blown 40 trillion, what's one little extra trillion going to matter?
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Another fraud with money… we can’t vote this one out of office because he doesn’t have one… remind me…. What is he DOING here in our government..??
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@grok How much govt money has Elon Musk's enterprises received without paying it back and/or providing a service via competitive bid. Compare to how much money has Elon Musk's enterprises saved US governments by providing goods & services at lower bids than its competitors. Just the bottom line, please.
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"He decides which weapons the Pentagon buys while selling weapons to the Pentagon. Totally fine. Nothing to see here."
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Americans should’ve never given that much power to one person
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One day it will all come to an end. A thief, liar and conman will get caught. I hope we all will be here to tell the story.💯
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Such a misrepresentation of reality. If the Biden administration puts in place, things like $7500 for every electric car and it just so happens, Tesla was the leading electric car company in sales. That's not a government graft or handout. He had nothing to do with it , but his customers took advantage of it. Tesla was the first to pay back the financial crisis loan in two thousand thirteen , along with penalties for early payment. GM on the other hand went bankrupt, never repaid their full loan. Why don't you complain about them? Every other claim you made could also be explained in a very logical way. The man has been nothing but a net asset to this country's job market as well as consumer goods that have helped millions. It's just a man like the rest of us. He is not perfect but go look in the mirror my friend. There you'll see more imperfection inside and out without all the benefits that Elon has created.
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Musk is a crook, and as crooked as they come. America is his bankroll, because only Americans will make a racist, corrupt asshole like Musk a winner, and a trillionier.
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"He didn't found Tesla. He bought the title in a lawsuit settlement. Look it up."
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A genius con for sure!But we know dealing with cons in govt less smart than him: ‘scratch my back, I scratch yours’! Scam arrangements to funnel $$ out of Treasury (taxpayer$$$) straight into their own pockets in broad daylight,no questions asked! Instead praise for the cons!
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Yes he is a con man just like dumpty. He became a billionaire on our tax dollars.
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We know that he’s a fraud
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Try as you will, you'll never make this dissappear: Elon Musk has created 170,000 +jobs with 5 companies He is the way we get back and forth to the space station + what they eat. He has revolutionized the manufacturing assembly line. He is stabilizing the internet and making it avaliable for rural communities. He will make cellphones work anywhere. He and neurolink will help the blind to see and the paraplegic to walk. He is changing industry for the better. He paid back his loans early, with interest. He saves the US $100s of millions by recycling rockets; maybe billions. And all you have is smear, defame, and trash and I'm guessing, ZERO accomplishments. Envy is ugly.
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This guy has figured out things that the entire NASA budget could not make work. So to a Dem, he's an idiot. I sell my products to the govt too. A lot of people do, pop lib.
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Tesla was started by two men elon musi didn't start create anything elon musk profits off of others
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I knew this from the jump. One of the founders ran his Roadster next to me everyday M-F on the Bay Bridge. His lic plate was 'NoFuelin'. Elon is a construct of DARPA. He showed up to PayPal with no experience like maybe 25 yrs old. He said his 'seed money' came from a program he developed to track newspaper delivery. The problem with that was the newspapers already had this. Thiel didn't like him but had to make him CEO of PayPal. Thiel later fired him. This is all marketing everything that comes out of Elons mouth is marketing all the time 24/7.
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There is no doubt government assistance helped Elon build and grow. But what’s obvious and overlooked is most of government assistance is from democrat policies and assistance. Perhaps this is why they feel betrayed. So, Democrats, thank you for your generosity on pushing policies that built one of your biggest enemies. Just remember he does run for profit and keep costs down. The democrats that America is an unlimited bank. They have been going unchecked for to long. It is time for accountability.
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Correct & the American tax payers are fucking ignorant that a South African immigrant became America’s first trillionaire by their own hands and they don’t find this veryYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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He is nothing but a fraud.
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Master player on the flip.. how many of his supporters made his dreams happen.. is it really just him.. or the massive number of people that support him..
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Return him to South Africa after we take back all of the "Grant" $ he's taken. This making wealth off the back of the working people is old news & then IF u r a Billionaire then u can be an "Advisor" for the "Regime". ENOUGH wtf is going on? I have the right 2 b CONFUSED:)
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The difference to most other companies though, his businesses actually paid back all their loans. The same can’t be said for most using government handouts. I’m not really sure what your point is with this post 🤷‍♂️
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Who built SpaceX and everything else? Yes others were involved with Tesla, it’s no secret.
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I've ordered myself an EV which is definitely not a Tesla.
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@grok please address these insinuations by stating the facts.
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Managing the best companies, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, building EVs, batteries (you know, those big thingies that make solar work at night, if you install more solar) and STRATEGIC things that traitors against their own country hates... That isn't welfare. However, you hate on Tesla and SpaceX because welfare doesn't pay you enough to be a hater (you're awake now, you can go back home to China).
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He did buy Tesla, however without him it would have gone completely bankrupt. The ev credits where an easy sell, why? Other car makers where slow to build their own evs. And dor spacex, well that only saves the gov money.
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