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==Controversies==

==Controversies==

In August 2018, reporters at [[leftist]] rags like ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other publications received word Elon Musk was relying on [[Jeffrey Epstein]] to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive.  Editors at the ''Times'' sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein.  "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review. Stewart wrote that Epstein said, "[[Pedophilia|criminalizing sex with [barely] teenage girls]] was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable."<ref name="nytimes.com">https://nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html</ref><ref name="google.com">https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/08/12/epstein-called-criminalizing-sex-with-teen-girls-a-cultural-aberration/amp/</ref> However, not only the victims he was talking about, when they weren't prepuscent children,<ref>https://inews.com.uk/news/world/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-jeffrey-epstein-decorated-home-photos-prepubescent-girls-1333780</ref> were barely teenagers pretty under the average age of consent in US and North America, but accuser Virginia Robert Giuffre revealed that Epstein kept her and other girls on extreme diets to keep them looking still "prebubescent" so to abuse them.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="google.com"/><ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/publisheditor/2019/07/15/741965493/women-girls-children-reporting-on-epstein-kelly-charges</ref><ref>https://nypost.com/2019/07/08/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-i-was-14-years-old-and-still-in-braces-when-abuse-began/</ref><ref>https://newzandar.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-kept-girls-on-extreme-diets-to-keep-them-looking-prepubescent-accuser/</ref>

In August 2018, reporters at [[leftist]] rags like ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other publications received word Elon Musk was relying on [[Jeffrey Epstein]] to advise him on whom to consider hiring as board chair or chief executive.  Editors at the ''Times'' sent business columnist James Stewart to talk to Epstein.  "I wondered why would Musk, if this is true, be using a registered sex offender to recruit new members to the board," Stewart told The Kicker, a podcast from the Columbia Journalism Review. Stewart wrote that Epstein said, "[[Pedophilia|criminalizing sex with [barely] teenage girls]] was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable."<ref name="nytimes.com">https://nytimes.com/2019/08/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-interview.html</ref><ref name="google.com">https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/08/12/epstein-called-criminalizing-sex-with-teen-girls-a-cultural-aberration/amp/</ref> However, not only the victims he was talking about, when they weren't prepuscent children,<ref>https://inews.com.uk/news/world/ghislaine-maxwell-trial-jeffrey-epstein-decorated-home-photos-prepubescent-girls-1333780</ref> were barely teenagers pretty under the average age of consent in US and North America, but accuser Virginia Robert Giuffre revealed that Epstein kept her and other girls on extreme diets to keep them looking still "prebubescent" so to abuse them.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="google.com"/><ref>https://www.npr.org/sections/publisheditor/2019/07/15/741965493/women-girls-children-reporting-on-epstein-kelly-charges</ref><ref>https://nypost.com/2019/07/08/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-i-was-14-years-old-and-still-in-braces-when-abuse-began/</ref><ref>https://newzandar.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-kept-girls-on-extreme-diets-to-keep-them-looking-prepubescent-accuser/</ref>

During California's [[Covid-19 pandemic]] lockdown, according to ''The Verge'' Musk said,

During California's [[Covid-19 pandemic]] lockdown, according to ''The Verge'' Musk said,

{{quotebox|If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is [[fascist]]. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their g*****n freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science</ref>}}

{{quotebox-float|If somebody wants to stay in the house that’s great. They should be allowed to stay in the house and they should not be compelled to leave. But to say that they cannot leave their house and they will be arrested if they do… this is [[fascist]]. This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give people back their g*****n freedom … Everything people have worked for all their lives is being destroyed in real time. I think the people are going to be very angry about this and are very angry.<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21242102/elon-musk-coronavirus-fascist-shelter-in-place-tesla-covid-19-safety-science</ref>}}

In 2021, he mocked far-left Senator [[Elizabeth Warren]] and called her "Senator Karen."<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/elon-musk-calls-elizabeth-warren-senator-karen-in-spat-over-taxes/</ref>  

In 2021, he mocked far-left Senator [[Elizabeth Warren]] and called her "Senator Karen."<ref>https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/elon-musk-calls-elizabeth-warren-senator-karen-in-spat-over-taxes/</ref>