Elon Musk Calls Elizabeth Warren An “Angry Mom” And “Governor Karen” In A Twitter Fight Over Taxes

Yesterday, Time announced Elon Musk as its Person of the Year, and I would think that after realizing Time referred to him as just a “Person,”  Elon would shit on them for not referring to him as a Higher Intergalactic Being Who’s On An Intellectual Level That Humanity Hasn’t Even Dreamed Of Reaching Yet. That probably didn’t fit on the cover. But Elon Musk did put his throbbing tweetin’ fingers of rage to good use by role-playing as a snotty billionaire brat who throws a little tantrum after his mom tells him to eat his vegetables pay his taxes. After Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Twitter that Time’s current Person of the Year is freeloading off everyone else, Elon pushed the sexual harassment lawsuits against Tesla from six women to the side, and called Senator Warren “Governor Karen.”

After Elon joined Hitler (1938), Stalin (1939 and 1942), THE QUEEN (1952), The Computer (1982), Jeff Bezos (1999) Mark Zuckerberg (2010), Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (2020), and YOU (2006) as Time’s Person of the Year, several politicians slammed the decision. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio tweeted that a “billionaire who has been found guilty of illegal union-busting“ should not be named POTY. Rep. Parmila Jayapal of Washington also spat at Time in a statement, calling Elon the  “richest person in the world and yet he avoids paying his taxes while working families struggle to put food on the table and pay rent.” And Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted this:

Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else. https://t.co/jqQxL9Run6

— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) December 13, 2021

Elon decided that Elizabeth Warren would be the politician he responds to, and after tweeting, “Stop projecting,” at her, he said she was like a friend’s angry mom who just yells for no reason. Elon’s ass WOULD refer to “paying taxes” as “no reason.”

Please don’t call the manager on me, Senator Karen 🙏

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2021

And Elon then patted himself on the chode for paying taxes this year:

Don’t spend it all at once … oh wait you did already

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2021

CNN Business says that when it comes to paying taxes, Elon Musk is right…. about the year 2021. In June, ProPublica reported that Elon, whose current net worth is reportedly $297 billion, paid $68,000 in federal income taxes in 2015, $65,000 in 2017, and $0 in 2018. But CNN Business reports that Elon will pay at least $7.6 billion in federal taxes this year after selling a bunch of Tesla shit. Last month, Elon took a poll on Twitter and asked his followers if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock so he has to pay taxes. 58% went with “yes,” but he’d probably sell the stock even if the majority went with “no.” Because in 2012, Elon took Tesla options as part of a compensation plan, and if he doesn’t exercise those options by August (Yes, I just pictured Elon screaming, “spin, bitch, spin” at his stocks as they exercise on a spin bike), he’ll lose them. via CNN Business:

That’s because once he does exercise those options, the value of the shares he acquired, less the very nominal exercise price of $6.24 a share, counts as income. And his bill on those shares will be at the top federal income tax rate of 37%, plus another 3.8% net investment tax on top of that, along with some undetermined level of state income tax.

Musk could have waited until next year to exercise these options. But if Democrats are able to pass the Build Back Better bill, it could raise his federal tax bill significantly. Although passage of the bill is by no means certain, it would raise the tax bite on the kind of trades Musk made — perhaps by 8 percentage points above what he now pays. That’s probably why he has been exercising the options earlier than he needed to.

Elizabeth Warren hasn’t responded to this but she should go full “angry mom” and tell Elon to go to his room…. on Mars… and never come back out. But then again, maybe Elon’s “bootleg Kim Jong-un starring as a cyber villain in a low-budget direct-to-DVD movie from the late-90s” look is punishment enough for now.

Pic: Twitter/WSJ