Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration’s money.
Imagine taking your most strategic asset, and an industry leading product, then doing this to it.
Musk is this generation’s Howard Hughes. He was always eccentric and weird, but he’s aggressively sliding into his compulsions like Hughes did.
Hughes ended up locked away, in a dark penthouse, getting yearly fingernail cuts, with a collection of urine filled bottles.
So you’re saying there’s a chance he’s just gonna disappear one day. DON’T YOU TOY WITH MY EMOTIONS IF YOU DON’T REALLY MEAN IT!!
He’s another Trump. Musk may have money but he has no idea how to spend it.
Just like trumps ventures they all failed because he’s a shmuck with zero business clue.
Inherited mommy and daddy’s money but pisses it all away on shit ideas and terrible execution.
Soon we’ll hear musk is broke because he spent it all on shit he can’t handle.
He seems to have gotten a lot worse lately, obviously he’s always been a jackass and narcissistic. But up until recently most of his business decisions have been mostly rational. From the accounts I’ve read he has gotten rid of most of if not all of his competent advisors and has been doing a lot more drugs. I think what we are seeing here is an extended manic state, brought on by a lack of stability/stress, some underlying psychological issues, and a whole bunch of drugs.
Oh and just in case people think I’m defending him. I hate that fucker. I just think it is much more complicated than simple incompetency.
I hope his drug addictions bring him a lot of pain and anguish.
Fuck that clown.
He is broke. He spent his money on a website, immediately crash and burned it, and interestingly wants the purchase value back as pay from Tesla’s board.
This shit don’t pay for itself
I said somewhere that I believe Tesla as a csr manufacturer is fucked but they light pivot into being a charging company and battery provider, it seems big brain musket is hellbent on ruining the good parts of his company too
Dude could’ve owned America’s next generation energy infrastructure if he played his cards right.
Provided to him on a silver fucking platter… I mean, it’s astonishing how incompetent he is/was/or is becoming. Holy shit.
Nah, Musk is an incompetent idiot who got incredibly lucky and managed to fail upwards. He’s not eccentric, he’s just an asshole
This is why I fucking hate government grants to corporations. These assholes never put in safeguards to actually force these jackass companies to actually use it as intended.
Infrastructure should be public anyways, so instead of giving grants to private for profit companies, it would instead use that money to just fund the infrastructure.
Oh I think it’s all going how it was intended. Just not going according to the public justification.
Incredibly speculative, but this could also be Elon’s Saudi investors’ plan to blow up the EV market in America. If the charging infrastructure becomes unreliable, it kills the entire market.
The “Boring Company” killed light rail in several cities with empty promises. The Saudis bailed out his purchase of Twitter once.
Again speculative, but Elon and the Saudis working together checks a lot of boxes.
He’s not working for the Saudis. Bonesaw showed up and told him what to do. Or else.
The wrestler guy from the Tobey Maguire version of Spiderman?
…sure yeah let’s go with that
I assume you are joking, but in case you are not, the bonesaw they are talking about is the crown prince of Saudi Arabia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi
Obviously I’m joking
Maybe the Fed should take the money back
Such a “clever businessman.” Embezelling $17 million in taxpayer dollars to enrich himself.
Which, even if it went directly into his pocket, doesn’t even move the needle for him.
Like another poster said, his goals are more likely politically aligned. He wants EV infrastructure to fail to show libtards are squandering tax money. Self fulfilling prophecy and all that.
Why the tesla board hasn’t sent him packing yet is beyond me. There must be some golden parachute clause that would be very expensive, but he’s doing massive harm to their brand that it must be worth it to cut him loose at this point.
Edit - I also think this ego maniac is sabotaging his own charging infrastructure simply because the government passed a bill (IIRC) that requires the charging stations be accessible to any EV. Not that it needs to provide the connectors on-site - other EV drivers will need to bring their own adapters. Simply that the payment system allows non-tesla owners to use it.
Why the tesla board hasn’t sent him packing yet is beyond me. There must be some golden parachute clause that would be very expensive, but he’s doing massive harm to their brand that it must be worth it to cut him loose at this point.
He’s stacked the board with his friends and family. They’re not going to raise the chance of it themselves.
Our only chance is/was actions by activist investors. I suppose I would have been considered one of those until yesterday when I sold.
Why the tesla board hasn’t sent him packing yet is beyond me.
His board is full of friends, family, and other sycophants.
Shareholders won’t vote Elon out because he is sadly the one reason its so highly valued, and if he goes, the stock price does with it. They won’t do anything until the company is on fire, and its not yet.
Given that yesterday’s layoff news did nothing to the stock price, we’re getting there.
It is clever until he faces some consequences.
If* he faces consequences. FTFY
Rumor has it that this is a temper tantrum after a competitor unveiled 10 minute charging technology.
Seriously… If that’s true this may be the dumbest temper tantrum Elon has had yet and there are a lot of competing temper tantrums.
sounds like D’Elon the Musketeer
Such a genius move. Us ordinary minds cannot comprehend this.
Trickle down economics should result in more jobs. In this case it didn’t. The lesson is that not enough subsidy was given because people were fired instead of hired. Suggest they give Musk more money, that should get the desired result! /s
The solution is always more tax cuts for the rich!
Had a friend turn down 4 internships when they got one at Tesla, and now, just as the summers coming up, they recinded a bunch of internship offers.
But they’re crazy, after all that’s gone down w Elon they just bought a Model 3
Why can’t we seize this cunt’s assets? He plays states, the Fed… wtf?
We can. It’s just that the cunts who have the ability to do so are butt buddies with him.
No executive deserves the kind of money and power he is demanding. The workers deserve it. Executive positions must become democratically elected from within the workforce, exclusively, modestly compensated, with checks and balances, for limited terms representing the company workforce.
This is our world he’s fucking with.
I haven’t seen anyone actually describe what this “team” is.
Tesla’s PR teams said that they’re still expanding the network, but at a slower pace. If that’s the case, I assume this mostly guts the product and program management folks, and the goal is to consolidate this department with a related department.
Does anyone actually have details about the full scope of layoffs and the scope of who remains?
To the surprise of literally no one.
There are two things Tesla and Elon has done well. Making EVs mainstream and cool. And the super charger network. Everything else. Bleh
Who cares it’s boring stop posting it
There’s other headlines you can read
