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    Who are the puppet masters, Elon? Some shadowy cabal of oligarchs with even more money than you? Are they in the room with us right now?

    I’m sure they pay those protesters quite well 🙄

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      That’s the thing I don’t get from Fox News and other conservative outlets.

      Who is paying these protestors? Why is this never a follow-up question? Why isn’t anyone from Fox or any other “journalistic” org investigating this? Or at least pretending to?

      Let’s assume that these protestors are paid. The most conservative estimate of the number of protestors is 2 million. Let’s halve that because, you know, conservatives want to downplay this whole thing.

      Assuming everyone was there for no more than two hours, and assuming minimum wage, we’re talking $7,250,000 for everyone. Let’s assume half were paid and half “followed along”.

      $3,625,000 just for paying the protestors. Ignoring web site domains, salaries for organizers, etc.

      Let’s call it an even $3 mill.

      Who the fuck is paying that?! This isn’t chump change. This is “journalism 101 follow the money trail” kind of money.

      I mean, I know, and you know, why they aren’t investigating. They just need a boogyman.

      But damn even the most cursory look at this excuse falls apart.

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        Who is paying these protestors? Why is this never a follow-up question? Why isn’t anyone from Fox or any other “journalistic” org investigating this? Or at least pretending to?

        Because they know it’s bullshit. It’s not journalism. It’s state media propaganda. It all makes more sense when you’re not expecting them to be journalists, much less, investigative journalists.

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    Yeah, he’s got all those tens of millions of other ‘puppets’ pulling his strings, yet simultaneously following his instructions. Meanwhile I can literally see Putin’s hand up Musks ass when he’s talking

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    aren’t you supposed to be keeling off into a cup for your next fatherless child?

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    I love how a billionaire “puppet master” can think so low of everyone, like nobody is intelligent to think for themselves, instead, relying on some unnamed “puppet master.” Yet he cannot name any alleged puppet master leading the over 1000 protests. What a freaking Muppet. Sorry - I don’t mean to insult the Muppets.

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    A “puppet master” organizing millions of people across an entire nation…

    Kind of sounds like a real politician unlike his unelected ass.

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    He’s just salty because he knows that every single person in that massive crowd would cheer as the blade came down on his neck. In fact, they’d cheer louder for him, than almost any other person…except for one.

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    Tech billionaire Elon Musk dismissed the wave of “Hands Off!” protests held across the U.S. on Sunday, accusing demonstrators of being manipulated by unseen political operatives.

    “The problem is the puppet masters, not the puppets, as the latter have no idea why they are even there,” Musk posted

    Elon’s projecting on more screens than a Marvel movie.

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    The richest man in the world is bitching about “unseen elites”. Is he imagining himself to be the man of the people now?

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      Lol, how is that even an insult from a guy who literally tried to bribe voters. Hell, id love to pay protestors. I have to work and raise kids, but I’ll gladly pay to have people go to Washington to express my opinion on my behalf. Hell, I can donate other worthwhile tools that may help them with their protests