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Hazel-rah's avatar

You've seen one narcissist, you've seen them all, and seeing other people obsess over the insides of their heads is boring AF.

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Brent Giannotta's avatar

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy my article. Hopefully, I'll post one in the future that you'll enjoy more. Also, I'm sorry to hear about your family.

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Lillian Holsworth's avatar

Musk has a engulfing malefic adherence to Fascism..he reveres Hiter & the Nazi regime. ..and he waa a international Nazi provacutuer before he became the Nazi who bought the Whitehouse.

Musk is aligned with Yarvin, Theil, Vance in the goal to destroy ALL Democracies .

This break with Trump is a desperate ploy to try to redeem his horrific reputation- remember he was recently exposed & accused along with his DOGE that Musk was the culpricit THAT DESTROYED USAID - which resulted in the deaths of many many children in Sadan & it is a on going tragedy.

Musk will indeed change his pattern & eat gobs of crow to try to regain some respectability.

Musk is a Nazi..and his manipulating the press will not change that.

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J Circosta's avatar

Very well articulated view of one of the most deplorable persons doing incredible harm to our country. Agree with Raissa. Having never studied either Asbergers or autism I can’t comment on the accuracy of Gimmes, Ghosts, & Dims comment. Such harsh, seemingly medically based, comment really requires some citations or at least in-text references.

Musk, like Trump, is a ruthless schemer & scammer. Musk tried to hide his mostly self-serving motives under the guise of government reform. It was mostly a failure. Trump, used Musk because he is always money grubbing & Musk could be a good cover for his ambitions to be a dictator, like his main role models Orban & Putin.

This a sprawling, aggregate of a society so it will take time for the damage the Trump/Musk scam machine has done to hit home to many people. By then it may be too late to restore much of the good our government provides - especially with the Project 2025 power players’ insidious efforts, & the grandiose, soulless goals of the tech billionaires to rule over us, aiding in the destruction. Most people do not follow politics closely - they have busy lives, many don’t take it seriously (oh, that’s just DC politics), and many are on board because government is their scapegoat for any number if ills. If we ever can restore sanity, checks & balances, rule of law, such a renewal of democracy would be a monumental task that’s hard to imagine carrying out in a four-year term. It will take decades- if it is indeed possible. Trump and Musk both deserve prison time for the wreckage they’ve caused but given that we’re in the verge of a lawless dictatorship, that’s not likely to happen. That alone is a huge blow to the rule of law.

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Gimmes, Ghosts & Dims's avatar

Good article, aside from pathologizing autism, reanimating the outdated eugenic term Asperger’s, equating autism with low empathy, misunderstanding what empathy actually is, and conflating empathy with care and concern. Autistic folks show a wide range of empathy levels, and those with lower empathy aren’t necessarily uncaring shitheads like Musk. In fact, there’s evidence that high empathy can actually inhibit care. Feeling someone else’s feelings isn’t the same as giving a fuck

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Brent Giannotta's avatar

I'm sorry you felt my descriptions were careless. I tried to specify Musk's behavior stemmed from his personal story early on, and that these conditions do not connote a lack of empathy or caring. Perhaps my conflations were clumsy. I had no idea Asperger's was outdated. I recently worked in mental health and never heard that. I'll research these further. Did not mean to upset.

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RAISSA's avatar

Excellent essay and well researched with facts to support your overview as to how Musk failed to change things for the better. The similarities drawn between Musk and Trump are spot on; but what I think is missing is that to me the strongest tie they have to each other is they are both master class con men.

And Trump is not a successful businessman by any stretch. He went thru his inheritance versus building upon it. He has a history of not paying his bills. I remember reading during his first campaign he did not pay up for the security provided to him by local members of if I recall correctly police; but it may have been firemen. Left them in the lurch.

Bottomline he is a lying cheat and a crook and a thief. He has taken down big banks conning them into loaning him money based on false representation of his wealth and the value of property.

It is all on paper now for he has been judged a felon. And the only reason he is where he is now is because he was elected by those who were conned by him.

If you are unfortunate enough to have let a con man/woman, get close, you will lose everything that is near and dear to you. They glad hand and smile while their other hand is deep in your pocket taking everything you hold dear and precious including your soul.

Musk has exhibited the same distorted personality. He is a master class con man. While running DOGE he fired a government official who was investigating Musk's handling of government contract dollars, which was interfering with the granting of another billion-dollar grant Musk wanted.

So, he fired him and again during his overseeing DOGE and government contracts digging for fraud and abuse he manipulated the system and was enriched by more contracts that would have been denied except for the "inside job" Musk pulled off to release the funding.

And he has lied about his own success and his profile. So much of the hype is just a story he has created and a version of himself that gets him ahead on the backs of others whom he crushes and destroys.

He is a chameleon who changes color and adapts himself to get power and money and the agency to hurt others from the platform of wealth; a wealth he has obtained more thru trickery and our tax dollars and manipulation than genius for he is not a genius.

So much of American worker tax money has fueled these two-master class con men and now the seat of power which is POTUS which to them is a gravy train to being the most powerful, richest and cruelest fuckers known in our present time.

A person with Aspergers (and I doubt the diagnoses unless Musk produces a statement from a doctor that confirms it because he has a "silk tongue" and is a liar.) But in any case, Asperger's or Autism is not the issue here for those with that diagnoses certainly love and are compassionate. I know for I have in my line of work encountered them. It is not how they feel that is at issue but instead that they need help with communicating these feelings. Duh!

Musk is one thing and one thing only and that is not to be trusted due to his character. This must have been apparent to his family and his mother and siblings growing up.

He is "bad" absolutely nothing short of "bad." He is a thief and a liar, and a master class con man as is Trump. Believe nothing of what they say but learn to not trust them by what they do. They lie as much as they breathe, and they respect no one not even their own.

And I posit Musk does not have Aspeger’s or Autism. He says he does because it suits the faux narrative of being a genius (not) and scientist (not) and inventor (not) whose quirks (ketamine fueled) are attributable to Asperger’s (not).

And if he does not have Asperger’s, it makes him even more despicable to cop a diagnosis because it suits his goal of who he wants us to believe he is which he is not.

So, most certainly American people should not walk away from this thinking we need to screen for neurodivergent diagnoses when choosing a POTUS and those who are inside our government holding power.

What we need to screen for is thievery and con men! Duh!

Wake up, America! When you let a thief into your house you will be robbed. And if it is a master class con man you have encountered or chosen as a partner, POTUS, boss or customer you will be left with nothing.

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Brent Giannotta's avatar

Thank you so much for reading! 🙏🏻

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Jo's avatar
Jun 4Edited

Raises, Excellently said… I totally agree, musk/Trump are thieves and con man that slipped into the White House and easily have taken and filled their pockets and their millionaire buddies pockets with the American people’s money. And Congress has done nothing, they also have taken from the American People since they allowed musk/Trump to grab the taxpayer’s money without not even an “ouch”. All they’ve thought about is their position, power, money, and perks of being in congress.

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RAISSA's avatar

We must never forget for we will be subjected to “the con” again as many of these cowards start to “eat” each other’s faces off and change their tune trying to “use” us and gain favor with us for one purpose to stay in power and defeat whomever is their enemy of the day. Never forget! Once they show their colors remember and teach your children what we do in these times by showing up on June 14th.

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

Keep your elbows up, friends of actual (informed) freedom!

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Digital Canary 💪💪🇨🇦🇺🇦🗽's avatar

Well said on all fronts, Raissa.

It’s a fucking tragedy what the media has enabled with respect to both of these “stable genius[es]” — both words being brazen lies, as can be relied upon with almost all each of them says or does.

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RAISSA's avatar

what we have is not American freedom of the press and American born media outlets — for our press and our media outlets are now owned by oligarchs — there are a few but little known outlets and most Americans get their news in pictures with short biased articles of fiction — in order to support freedom of the press unbiased and fair one needs to subscribe — and not only are so few us unwilling or unable to afford it — most have no idea where to go for their news and/or like what they are being fed — it is frightening to me actually

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