.@JaredEMoskowitz: In November, polls showed that 47% of Republicans wanted Elon Musk very involved with the government. Today that number is 26% pic.twitter.com/Lf24wrSW0v
— FactPost (@factpostnews) February 6, 2025
This is a result of both Elon’s demands for infinity H-1B visas, and his claims that white people are inferior to Indians and are simply not smart enough to work in tech.
It is also a result of the Fraud Gamer scandal, which proved that Elon Musk is a total fraud, and cannot be trusted to be honest about anything at all, given that he is willing to lie so brazenly about something as irrelevant as video game achievements.
You would have to have never heard of either of these scandals in order to still be a supporter of Elon Musk. I can imagine that 26% of Republicans didn’t hear of these scandals, meaning that if the media had done a better job reporting these things, Musk’s support would be at 0% among Republicans.
A new poll suggests Republican support for Elon Musk’s upending of US government systems has been shaken, even as the world’s richest man aims a wrecking ball at even more federal agencies including the labor department.
The number of Republicans who want Musk and his self-styled “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to have “a lot” of influence in the Trump administration has fallen significantly to 26%, according to the Economist/YouGov poll conducted this week, reported by the Hill.
The same poll taken in the days immediately following Trump’s November election win revealed that enthusiasm among Republicans for Musk’s role stood at 47%.
The disquiet also appears to have spread to a number of Republican senators, who have begun voicing alarm at Musk’s tightening grip. The billionaire has moved to shutter the US Agency for International Development (USAid), and accessed payment systems and workers’ personal data at the US Treasury, prompting a lawsuit and an order from justice department lawyers to back off, at least temporarily.
One out of two supporters no longer supports him. Since November.
That is a popularity slump like nothing we’ve ever seen, especially given that the Trump administration as a whole is still in the “honeymoon” phase, and is actually doing a serious amount of work to deliver on promises with all these executive orders.
This is a “free fall.”
I used to love zoomer slang when it was all “fr fr on God no cap” and “vibe check on the drip,” but then when it got into this “take the L” and “who’s gonna tell her” language, I began to despise them and seek their total annihilation.
Exhibit A:
AOC: Elon Musk is one of the most unintelligent billionaires I’ve ever met or seen.
Who’s gonna tell her?pic.twitter.com/3CaghmNQpA
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) February 4, 2025
She may be a dumb bitch, but she’s right about Elon Musk, and she’s probably actually smarter than he is. Maybe by definition she is smarter than he is, as she has done gaming streams and did not try to pretend to be one of the best gamers on earth.
And further:
It presumably requires some intelligence to keep your supporters happy, no?
Elon Musk very easily could have just not said that H-1B thing, not organized a gaming fraud that exposed his entire life as a fraud. But he decided to go ahead and do those things, because he’s stupid.
JD Vance is defending him. You don’t hear much from this guy, because Trump hates him, but he comes out to try to rescue Elon.
“No one voted for Elon Musk.” (They did however vote for Donald Trump who promised repeatedly to have Elon Musk root out wasteful spending in our government.)
— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 5, 2025
Vance should remember that the last person who defended Musk was the ratty Indian Vivek Ramaswamy, who got rewarded with being kicked out of the administration and is likely to be deported.
Vance might not be able to be kicked out of the administration, per se, but his wife and kids can and should be deported, and he should be forced by Trump into an arranged marriage with that fishface chick from “The Witch.”
Trump will say: “You like barn wenches, Vance? Well, we’ve got you a real beauty this time, now that I had to deport your wife back to her shithole. She’s got one eye on you at all times, and I’m making signals to her in her other eye.”
And then Vance will be like: “Mr. President, I hoped you would be considering the true beauty, Zendaya, as my betrothed.”
And Trump will say: “Pfft,” and walk out of the room, leaving Vance with his Lovecraftian fish-woman.
Meanwhile, Trump just vastly restricted the powers of Musk’s meme organization.
RT:
Lawyers with the US Justice Department have agreed to a proposed order that would temporarily restrict the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive financial data at the Treasury Department.
The move by the administration of US President Donald Trump late on Wednesday comes in response to a lawsuit by a group of union members and retirees accusing the Treasury of engaging in “unlawful action” by providing information on payments and private data to DOGE.
“The Defendants will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained by or within the Bureau of the Fiscal Service,” the proposed order read.
You might say “oh, well, there was a lawsuit.” But Trump always fights these lawsuits. He just went along with this one, because of Musk’s drastically dropping popularity.
Elon is headed towards zero support. He not only did those two big scandals, but he managed them horribly, using censorship on Twitter to try to mitigate the damage of both scandals, making the situations much worse, and proving that his “free speech” claims were a complete scam, nothing but a branding exercise.
He also made a very bad choice by banning yours truly, as I am the most influential commentator on the right-wing. You can believe that or not, but it doesn’t matter what you believe, because it’s true. While I may only have a few million monthly readers (which is not nothing), everything I say here trickles down and gets ripped off by everyone. If this website did not exist, the entire narrative would be completely different, and if Musk had not banned me from Twitter, my narrative about him would have been completely different.
Do you know that not only am I banned, but sharing links to Daily Stormer is banned sitewide on Twitter? I didn’t even remember that until someone brought it up the other day, but anyone with a Twitter account can go try it.
I’m also told that if you try to post “dailystormer[DOT]in” and tell people to replace the [DOT] with a dot, you can be banned for that.
Crossing me will go down as the worst mistake Elon Musk ever made. I offered my support, all the way back in 2022, and he rejected it. Now, he is reaping the whirlwind.