Rattled Elon Musk goes on late-night attack against Tim Walz after ‘dips***’ comments

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-tim-walz-jumping-on-stage-b2634652.html

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Elon Musk went on a late-night attack against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz after he called the billionaire a “dips***” during a rally in Madison, Wisconsin.

“Elon’s on that stage, jumping around, skipping like a dips***,” Walz said on Tuesday, referring to Musk as former President Donald Trump’s “running mate.”

Musk initially appeared alongside Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against the ex-commander-in-chief less than two months previously. The videos of the billionaire jumping on stage when Trump called him up quickly went viral.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 124 pts · 1y (8 replies)

If he was trying to prove he isn't a dipshit, I think he failed.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Also:

The billionaire also posted a meme of Walz with the words: “Who am I, Why am I here.”

I'm guessing most people, even a lot of people here, did not get that reference.

That's because it's a reference from a vice presidential debate in 1992.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Stockdale-Stanford-vice-president-debate-1992-15427467.php

I don't even know why I remember that.

What a dipshit.

grue@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1w3FgB0Ohc

Not gonna lie, that humility/candor would've made me more likely to vote for Perot/Stockdale.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y (3 replies)

The problem with Perot/Stockdale wasn't Stockdale, it was Perot. He was nuts. He would have been almost as bad as Trump. His understanding of the economy wasn't much better either.

wjrii@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Perot did have a stronger charts and graphs game than mister Sharpie, though.

Also, as bad as a Perot presidency might have been, he wasn't openly hateful like Trump, nor as obsessed with breaking the system if the results didn't go his way. It was kind of a Diet Populism.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It just shows you how far we've fallen.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Trump manages to be worse than Goldwater in a variety of areas. Goldwater was supposed to be our low point (post Lindbergh)

CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y

He proved he was a dipshit when he accused a cave diver risking his life saving children of being a pedophile.

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y

Dipshits gonna dip shit

MehBlah@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 1y

Every time Walz opens his mouth I like him more. Every time musk brainfarts I like him less.

jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de · 67 pts · 1y (8 replies)

What kind of sheltered people get offended by "dipshit" to the level they have to censor it?

GetOffMyLan@programming.dev · 23 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Some people just don't like swearing. Nothing wrong with that. The publisher's goal is to get readers so it's an easy way to not reduce numbers.

Steve@communick.news · 15 pts · 1y

Nothing wrong, just puritanical and immature.

riskable@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y

Some people just don't like swearing.

To those people I say, "What the fuck‽"

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 1y

This wasnt censored in the lemmy post, but in the original headline.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What kind of person is offended by masking swears in an article?

Steve@communick.news · 7 pts · 1y

The kind who's disappointed in people for believing in magic words.

MehBlah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

For many its still one of seven dirty words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

EleventhHour@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

The same guy who bought Twitter just to shut up his critics

Naich@lemmings.world · 45 pts · 1y

Sorry, thin-skinned dipshit.

PugJesus@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1y

Sounds like a typical dipshit move from Musk.

TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y

Elon Musk is a dipshit, though.

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Musk is just butthurt a good father is insulting him.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Hey, it might also be because Walz can keep a wife

kokesh@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y (4 replies)

It makes me said that muskshit doesn't want to fly to Mars himself. We should have gotten rid of that cunt once and for all.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I say send all the billionaires on a one way trip to Mars. All these billionaires think that civilization needs them, well go build a new civilization. We'll all sit back and watch them fuck up.

hardcoreufo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Can you imagine if one of them had to screw in a light bulb.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 5 pts · 1y

They would give some sort of motivational speech about how back in the day; they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and screwed the lightbulb in themself.

Meanwhile completely omitting the fact that they were born into generational wealth.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Like a reverse Golgafrincham situation.

MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

Typical dipshit response.

RedditReject@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y

It hurts him because he knows it is true

disconnectikacio@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Muskovite

Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y

Lol, get mad.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y

Well, that’s the gamer vote lost for the Dems…