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Elon Musk Enrages a Grieving Nation with a Flippant, Disgusting, Tweet: ‘Jack Off the Board’

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This guy.

As we have reported in the past, it’s difficult to think of someone who’s fallen in stature, and wealth, as far and fast as Elon Musk. It is almost an after-thought when you say that Musk has lost $112 billion since November and still has to figure out a way to come up with $44 billion to pay for a platform that is in the middle of a nosedive itself precisely because Musk is making it less and less valuable.

But Elon lost something money cannot buy or, at least, he cannot buy it back. He has lost a lot of respect he’s earned doing “big things” throughout his life. He was one of the first to realize that this new internet thing would need a way to move money around. He sold Paypal and instead of retiring as many of us would, he nearly lost his entire fortune doing two other “big things,” kicking off the whole new “electric car” thing and the new “private rocket company” thing.

He was going to make humanity a two-planet species. That’s big. It may be moronic with today’s technology, almost laughable, but it’s really big and, hey, if anyone could, right?

But he looks small now, diminished in a way one doesn’t see on a balance sheet. He looks petty. He looks whiny. He also looks pretty stupid. The Right hates Bill Gates but they don’t call him petty. They don’t call him whiny, and they know he’s not stupid. Elon just isn’t “getting it.”

And so it should be no surprise that as the nation tries to live through its latest failure, Elon decides it is time for a crass joke.  Are we surprised? He’s misread everything else for the last six months. Elon tweeted this:

What? Did he just say…?

Two minutes later, Elon tweeted:

What? What the fck is he talking about? Oh, former CEO and founder Jack Dorsey is stepping down from the board. And Elon was having some fun and showing why commas are important.

Oh, that Jack. A person, not a verb. It only took Elon 20 minutes to figure out that no one knew WTF he was talking about and probably told him, “Do you know what that looks like, “Mr. I Exposed Myself to an Employee and Touched Her Thigh”?

Elon didn’t put the phone don and kept going ith self-absorbed “small” things:

People were NOT in the mood and a lot of pent-up anger came raging down at Elon.

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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