Endorsed Donald Trump for president

Elon Musk: “As you can see I am not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA,"

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/34853600-elon-musk-%E2%80%9Cas-you-can-see-i-am-not-just-maga-%E2%80%94-i-am-dark-maga-

Elon Musk heralded Donald Trump on Saturday as the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America."

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla who also purchased X, Musk joined Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the former president survived an assassination attempt in July. He warned “this will be the last election” if Trump doesn’t win and, clad in a black-on-black cap bearing the “Make America Great Again” slogan of Trump’s campaign, appeared to acknowledge the foreboding nature of his remarks.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/election-2024-trump-musk_n_6701d713e4b0f85b87eefcf0

IF I was political, which I'm not, and IF I gave these candidates a rating, kamala is 0, trump is .5 on scale of 1 to 10, I guess trump would be the better choice from these two of the shittiest options.

But I don't care, I don't vote in the stupid rigged games.

Elon Musk goes all-in for Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/05/elon-musk-trump-twitter-x-election-00187467?cid=apn

Elon Musk is mounting a full-court press for former President Donald Trump today, deploying his platform X to get out the vote for Trump, shout down the “legacy media” and predict a “landslide” for the GOP in Pennsylvania — giving Americans a look at what happens when a global social media platform throws its weight behind a single party and candidate.

In the past 24 hours, X users have opened the app to immediately see a heroic-looking animated Trump striding across the top of the “trending” section as part of a #VotedForTrump campaign “Promoted by Team Trump.”

Musk himself has used his 200-million-follower account to promote his pro-Trump podcast episode with Joe Rogan; post quasi-edgy QAnon-baiting memes promoting his brand of macho, retrofuturistic Trumpism; and boost accusations that Google and ChatGPT are favoring Vice President Kamala Harris. The platform temporarily suspended (but then restored) the account for “Swap Your Vote,” a project led by a progressive PAC that’s meant to connect Harris voters in deep blue states who want to swap votes with (presumably left-leaning) protest voters in swing states.

As other social-media companies have taken pains to seem less political, Musk is tacking hard in the opposite direction.

“What Elon Musk is doing with X seems far beyond any of the accusations Republicans have tossed at, say, Facebook and Google in the past,” said James Pethokoukis, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Musk is specifically using X to make a closing argument directly to the young male voters who he believes he can uniquely inspire to support Trump in his bid for another White House term. Shortly after noon today, he posted: “The cavalry has arrived. Men are voting in record numbers. They now realize everything is at stake.”