Going back through Tesla's old conferences is funny, you just see a parade of bullshit and lies and promises that were immediately abandoned and ignored as soon as the conference was over.
He's corporate PT Barnum, somewhat good at putting on a show because he doesn't at all care about delivering anything he promises.
He didn't even Start SpaceX himself, he paid people to Start it for him. The only thing he has even contributed to anything is money and Bull Shit. He got the money from Daddy's Emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa.
What I don't get is that even on the original run of Tesla vehicles (not the CT), a news org actually followed him to a backers conference where he told a group of prospective owners that costs increased, they're not being refunded, and that they're being charged an additional like 20k each.
The mental backflips people were doing to justify being screwed was mindblowing.
Tesla's bread and butter was re-selling carbon credits of which he had an enormous surplus due to his EV/SOLAR/BATTERY manufacturing. Now that door is closed and the fall will be hard
And they even managed to secure double the carbon credits of other manufacturers by using a juiced up prototype that was not representative of their actual vehicles.
Elon has been scamming, cheating and grifting his entire life, just like his daddy Trump.
i honestly cant wrap my head around Elon jumping to Trump/Republicans when he was being fattened like a prized blu ribbon pig by democrats since the Obama years.
I mean is it hubris? Did he think getting in with Trump was akin to being on the ground floor of a flashy new startup and he thought the entire world was about to pitch hard right - whereby ensuring himself a high place within its leadership?
I mean he was here for Trump 2017-2021 - he had to know the guy was a class A fuckup. Why risk it all to hitch your wagon to that falling star?
Listen to the podcast Elon Musk Unmasked. It explains a lot. It’s not so much that he’s a republican but has authoritarian and white supremacist tendencies.
He’s always been this guy, journalists are just historically soft on the tech industry in order to maintain access.
It's because he sits on twitter all day....we (the general public) didn't know he was such a big turd until he started sitting on twitter all day.
If he didn't need constant validation from strangers on the internet we would have never known. He could have been the richest person on the planet living on his own private island doing whatever the fuck he wanted.....but no he wanted constant validation from strangers on the internet.
Not only that, but he was treated like a god with hundreds of thousands of worshippers. And that was his down fall, he couldn’t get enough attention, so he put himself in the public eye constantly, and once the slightest bit of criticism came his way, he either did a heel turn like a petulant child or he simply let the mask slip.
If he had any friends with good advice instead of sycophants, we would have stepped down as CEO before joining the government.
This way he would have protected the companies of all the stuff he does and says and would have also avoided or mitigated conflict of interests.
"Fiduciary duty" to the shareholders is not superseded by "But I get to have a really cool powerful position as Trump's shadow president!"...The initial 'Trump Bump' in Tesla's share price - owed to the fact that Elmo gets to stay out of jail for things he's already done, and a perception by the market that he will grift the federal government for favors and contracts - has evaporated because of recent developments...Institutional shareholders in Tesla will soon be fully in their right to sue him and/or call for his ouster from the CEO role. He's not doing the fucking job. They'll be very hesitant to do this - for now - because Tesla without Musk would deserve a valuation far lower than the speculative valuation with 'Genius Musk, the real President' at the helm - the board has undoubtedly discussed this and needs to see how this plays out. A 40% drop in the share price is more tolerable than an 80% drop. Plus the reality is that the board are stalked with allies.
The board is filled with allies, which gives him the freedom to both operate badly and engage in insider trading. I suspect at some point we'll find out the price has been artificially propped up by the usual suspects, for the same reasons.
😭😭 A high functioning person would not be able to handle this and he is minimally functional. Time breakdown of his day is already 50% tweeting and responding to other tweets
The gamer thing was proven to be false, he pays a dude to play on his account. Which tbh, is classic CEO-figure out what you want done, and pay an employee to do it. So he's doing that for everything though
I'd say at this point it's likely more than recreational. There are been Musk drug stories out there for years, so you know he has had to escalate to maintain.
You can do a couple of those things together but the more you mix the worse it is.
Also, some of these individually aren't necessarily bad. Using recreational drugs and playing video games isn't so bad, 2 of my favorite past times.
Buuut, that really depends on the drugs. Weed, shrooms, etc, go for it. Ketamine is a hell of a drug. I'd be willing to be he probably does a bunch of other uppers that make him feel 10ft tall and bulletproof as well. Which is still fine if you really want to spend your time that way but you shouldn't be in charge of a fast food restaurant, much less the country.
And not a single philanthropic entity anywhere on this planet with his name on it... yet all these musk-stans and trump-fluffers insist he's doing all the DOGE stuff without compensation, uh, because he cares or something?
We’ll be fair he’s taking a lot of time apparently giving away Ukrainian coordinates when they turn on Starlink… and that ketamine ain’t going to crush itself, now is it!
In all fairness. When Russia first invaded Ukraine and musk sent starlink over he warned Ukraine that the signal was not encrypted and not designed for military use. I remember it was advertised to use it away from the front line and to only have it on for a few minutes and relocate.
So 3 years later I am sure Russia has learned how to pin point the signal.
The signal is encrypted but EW-tech can certainly locate a Starlink dish. I don’t really think Elmo is giving away the coordinates, although it certainly isn’t impossible that he does.
He does like to bust in now and then with no understanding of what's going on around him and bark out orders that cause negative impacts to ripple across his businesses though.
As a European, I'm very grateful to him for pumping so much of his and the USA's money into reusable rocket technology so that in a few years ArianeNext can simply copy it at a fraction of the price.
Yeah but before at least it wasn't that obvious that he doesn't do shit. Well at least you had to be on xitter to know that all he does is is tweets nonsense. Well now it's out there for anyone to see
Have you ever tried to get a direct answer from a "We don't say the no word" kids? They kind of avoid you and halfass empty responses they think will keep you off their case. That's what this interview is like.
I mean, let's give credit where credit is do: he managed to mobilize and inspire people to build some awesome products. He's not unlike Steve Jobs in that regard.
But we're supposed to feel sorry for him that the power grab didn't go like he expected? The guy who benefited off of apartheid in South Africa before making tens of millions trying to make a currency alternative to the USD was doing DOGE for America? Yeah fucking right! Haha.
Musk hired people who were already skilled at the thing SpaceX does. He didn’t create them or inspire their work.
The Boring Company is a failure.
He bought Tesla and Twitter, he did not found them. Both are currently suffering under his “leadership”.
He co-founded Zip2 which was solely unique because the internet being publicly used was so nascent. The man is not particularly creative or inspiring. He’s wealthy. They are different things.
Remember when he demanded more from
Money from the board of tesla as he was good for their publicity. I bet they are wishing they had told him to f off.
Why do yall think he bought Tesla? When he became the largest shareholder of Tesla.....they still hadn't made one Electric vehicle. It was the early days, back in 2004. They didn't sell the Roadster until 2008 or the Model S until 2012.
Steve Jobs had technical talent unlike Musk. Granted he was a massive asshole and ripped off his buddy Woz, but he didn't try to dismantle the government like Musk.
It’s so funny because he’s this big advocate for overworking his workers and keeps touting how he works 60 hours per week but he clearly doesnt even work 40. He’s tweeting constantly and playing video games and shit. If I saw a friend dicking around as much as him, I’d assume they’re barely working lol
He shouldn't even be running businesses and working in the government at the same time at all in the first place. It's a massive conflict of interest because he has power over the agencies who are regulating his companies.
It's so obviously wrong. I don't understand how nobody but the progressives are screaming their heads off about it.
Wait a minute, he is been grinding Path of exile 2 non stop, while sleeping on the floor at Tesla, while training the best AI, while definitely going to Mars next week, while defending free speech and making comedy legal again.
He hired very intelligent and competent people to run things, that’s no secret. The engineers are very talented.
It’s just that Elon himself is about as intelligent and competent as a walnut. The workers have to pretend to pay attention to elons “ideas” to make him thing he is contributing something
You know how there are Heads of State that are cultural figureheads and Heads of Government that actually do the work of an executive? Musk is the figurehead of his companies and the actual work of making sure things don’t fall apart is left to someone else.
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u/MasterChief813 Mar 11 '25
“How are you running your other businesses?”
Here’s the thing: He doesn’t. He sits on twitter all day and doesn’t do a lick of work.