New rule: We all stop talking about this asshole and giving him the attention he clearly craves
Negativity isn’t the attention he craves. Dude needs to be worshiped. Just like his buddy Trump. Ignoring these assholes won’t make them go away. Shaming them is all we can do since we’re stuck with them.
“I mean I don’t subscribe to the cult of anyone else’s personality.”
he ‘doesn’t subscribe to cult of personality’
More broadly, this is fucking hilarious to watch
I have a feeling he’s still donating the money, but realized he was doing it too loudly and attracting attention to the oligopoly.
Nah I think this is just another example of Elon Musk being impulsive and not thinking through the consequences of his statements.
He can’t actually afford $45m a month. His wealth is in Tesla shares (which are difficult to draw done further both while he continues to try to fleece the company with an absurd pay package and also can’t risk destabilising the share price - its something of a house of cards with its value largely based on the future possibility of a flawed self drive tech) and Twitter (which took $20bn of his actual liquid assets and then debt and which he is running into the ground).
Also he may be realising the PR mistake of backing trump when he runs an electric car company that is losing market share and valued speculatively rather than actual financials.
His focus is really gettingnas much out of Tesla as hebcan before the markets turn on it.
That bit you said about realizing his PR mistake, I’ve got an interesting bit on that.
I have a friend who is pretty conservative, we live in one of the most conservative areas in the US (Trump got close to 90% of the vote here). He went all in on Tesla stocks early on and then later he bought two of the Model S. One for him, one for his wife. Everywhere he went he had to defend that decision. “Huht huht, Jim’s done turned into a socialist and got himself a liberal car!” Dumb shit like that. For years the car was so rare around here that he got attention like he was cruising around in an old Model T Ford, only it was always negative attention.
His was the only Tesla I ever seen in person for years.
After Musk made his personality very public though, I see them everywhere. I’m in rural VA. These people have to charge them at home. I’ve never seen a charge station anywhere. He no longer gets attention for his car. I pass about 5 of them on the way to work every day.
I know this information is mostly useless, but maybe his batshit insane interactions with the public have actually been good for electric cars, as silly as that might sound. To a lot of people out here in redneck land, the electric car is no longer a California pussy liberal car if it’s a Tesla. It’s a status symbol. “Look at me fellers, I’m doing putty good fer myself!”
so he created a trump super pac but what is he denying exactly?
oh fuck off. you literally volunteered that information without anyone asking and now that you’re getting massively clowned on it and the Brandon switch looking bad for your bet, you’re backing down like the big pussy you’ve always been you absolute weasel.
will any of these manly men LARPers ever “man up”?
Coming from a dude who only ever was a cult of personality.
Why just yesterday I was suggesting to a coworker that the Musk pledge was probably bullshit. They’re both dudes who like to promise big and then completely fail to deliver, why would this be any different?
Why is he moving his entire business to Texas then? Texas politics are a cult. It’s not even legal for pregnant women to drive on the highway in Texas on the grounds that they might be trying to flee the state and get an abortion. I think twice before buying anything from a Texas based company. I don’t want to accidently support any part of their broken politics.
I would actually never drive through Texas, but I can find no evidence for your claim.
It’s not even legal for pregnant women to drive on the highway in Texas on the grounds that they might be trying to flee the state and get an abortion.
I see some reporting from later last year about a possible law asking those lines, but nothing actual.
Can you point me in the right direction?
European market open
Yeah Tesla is in a death spiral
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Uh and what has changed for the muskrat to suddenly grow a smidge of conscious? That trump may loose and he won’t be reimbursed by the orange president?
Not Trump may lose. is going to lose.
This is going to be seen as the political equivalent of the 2017 patriots 28-3 come from behind win against the Falcons. Momentum has shifted, women now have an actual woman to vote for, and whoever the VP pick is, will seal the deal.
Border issue:
Republicans killed a bill that would have fixed it
Abortion and IVF:
Republicans are against both things which 80% of America are for.
Honest to goodness Nazi playbook in Project 2025:
Who the fuck would vote for that shit if the democrats actively show the public what’s in it?
Old as dirt candidate:
That’s the Orange Shit-Stain on the right.
damn, I am really not into that sport or anything, but that asswhippin that the falcons toted around after that was rough on anyone in the metro area.
As an Atlantan, ouch. Great analogy but ouch.
Sorry 'bout that, lol. I felt for you guys. As a Packer fan in the northeast, I was pulling for them.
NFC for life, son.
Except the Bears. They can fuck right off.
Man, don’t get complacent
Anything could happen. 2 states could get their votes overruled by the Republican state legislatures. People could see that it’s close and start attacking poll workers. The machines could cheat. Fuckin anything could happen. The time when the rat is cornered is 1,000% the most dangerous time.
Vote. Anything could happen. Treat it like a fuckin emergency, because it is.
The machines could be legally rigged by Biden and he could simply claim immunity when caught and so long as he earnestly believes it to be for the good of the nation no one can do anything.
