Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[Innula Zenovka]

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"Elon Musk, a celebrity" -- love it!

From the comments on the FT article

 

[Dancien]

I no longer feel bad for my last google search

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

"Their every accusation a confession".

-Elon should be locked up in rehab.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Josh Spero (@joshspero.ft.com)

"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected" on.ft.com/3DmkoIz https://on.ft.com/3DmkoIz

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Elon Musk Searching for Mysterious Billionaire Who’s Making Everyone Hate Tesla

The world's richest man is blaming a shady cabal of Democratic billionaires for Tesla's plummeting sales and reputation

futurism.com

Along with Soros, Musk also named multiple other ActBlue "funders," including LinkedIn cofounder and PayPal mafia member Reid Hoffman, progressive oil money heiress Leah Hunt-Hendrix, ProPublica financier Herbert Sandler, and Brennan Center patron Patricia Bauman — the latter two of whom, strikingly, are both dead.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Josh Spero (@joshspero.ft.com)

"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected" on.ft.com/3DmkoIz https://on.ft.com/3DmkoIz

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Old Don’s been a self-admitted germaphobe forever. Point about Elon’s social awareness stands. Bro hasn’t had any major social consequences for clueless blunders and the way his mom shelters him on social media shows what might be part of the problem. “Who’s mommy’s SPECIAL boy who can do no wrong?”

 

[Dancien]

I was watching the news with my partner last night and she out of nowhere said "I bet you money Elon can't fight." Been pondering that all morning

 

[Noodles]

I was watching the news with my partner last night and she out of nowhere said "I bet you money Elon can't fight." Been pondering that all morning

Musk did back down from that boxing match with Zuckerberg.

And from what little I have seen of Zuck, he seems like he has had actual proper fitness training and probably CAN fight.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Joy of Schadenfreude

In the age of Trump and Musk consolations must be found even when they are expensive pleasures too.

alexmassie.substack.com

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Elon Musk Searching for Mysterious Billionaire Who’s Making Everyone Hate Tesla
The world's richest man is blaming a shady cabal of Democratic billionaires for Tesla's plummeting sales and reputation
futurism.com

"The call is coming from inside the house!!"

Apparently a complete and total absence of empathy also results in near total blindness when it comes to self-awareness.


Kind of like bad drivers on the freeway... speeders seem to just stop using their mirrors almost entirely. And because they're driving fast, other people accelerate and follow because the rabbit out front will get chased by the speed trap cop. It'd all be fine, except there's fog and ice on the road and that many people speeding is gonna end in catastrophe. Thanks to the lead idiot and the "If he can get away with it, so can I!" types that latch on. I think that mentality is what got us into this political quagmire.

 

[Free]

Not sure where to post this - the streams are infinitely crossed and there's nothing we can do about it.

Musk Plans to Give Trump Groups $100 Million After Tesla Ad at the White House

The billionaire oligarch effectively controls the federal government right now.

gizmodo.com

Elon Musk is planning to give $100 million to two political groups associated with President Donald Trump, according to a report from the New York Times. The move is unprecedented in American politics for many reasons, including the fact that federal “employees” like Musk typically don’t give millions of dollars to their “boss.” But it’s also notable because Trump just hosted a wildly unethical promotional event for Tesla at the White House on Tuesday.

Musk plans to donate a combined $100 million to the super PAC known as Make America Great Again Inc. and a political nonprofit group Securing American Greatness, according to the report from the Times. One thing that makes these donations so odd is that Musk already has his own group, known as America PAC, which was instrumental in running disinformation campaigns to help Trump win the election in November.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

You know something fishy is going on when the CEO of JPMorganChase is openly calling Musk "our Einstein."

 

[Dancien]

Albert Einstein was objectively a horrible person.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I know that people like this guy don't know anything whatsoever about Einstein or what he knew or did or specialized in, they just know of him on a surface pop-culture level as "that one famous smart person", and I don't really blame him for that ignorance. But Musk isn't a genius-level anything. He's just a nepo-baby businessman. He doesn't know anything about engineering or science. His only science degree is a BA. Even his economics degree is just a bachelor's. He has built a reputation by wantonly lying about his expertise, and people like this JPM exec drank the Stupid-flavor kool-aid.

Well shoot. I've known for a little while now that I need to leave Chase and go to a local credit union instead, my lazy procrastinating arse just needed an impetus. Looks like that will have to do.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel.bsky.social)

It's probably premature to suggest Musk is cooked but I wrote about the dangerous game he's playing. how the protests are working, how people are mad, and how you can really see the contours of how the whole thing could collapse for him...

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Evernote link to Atlantic article

 

[Free]

Albert Einstein was objectively a horrible person.

But he was also, objectively, one of the linchpins of modern physics and a true scientific genius, and was dedicated to peace and a single, unified world government. But none of that describes Musk, so if Elon is our Einstein, we are truly and seriously fucked.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yeah it's way too early to say that Musk is finished, or even Tesla.

But the protests ARE working. Even the protests against X were working. If he's throwing major public tantrums, you know things are getting under his skin.

Right now he can use his government position to effectively force the government to use X accounts exclusively for announcements. Don't let that convince you that you now HAVE to go back on X even if just to get important government information. Anything you need to know will be forwarded by the news and people who care.

 

[Soen Eber]

I know that people like this guy don't know anything whatsoever about Einstein or what he knew or did or specialized in, they just know of him on a surface pop-culture level as "that one famous smart person", and I don't really blame him for that ignorance. But Musk isn't a genius-level anything. He's just a nepo-baby businessman. He doesn't know anything about engineering or science. His only science degree is a BA. Even his economics degree is just a bachelor's. He has built a reputation by wantonly lying about his expertise, and people like this JPM exec drank the Stupid-flavor kool-aid.

Well shoot. I've known for a little while now that I need to leave Chase and go to a local credit union instead, my lazy procrastinating arse just needed an impetus. Looks like that will have to do.

I avoided Chase like the plague ever since their first credit card commercials came out. Any company that "punches down" to a stero-typical lower-middle-class level, trying to boost people's self-esteem, is ultimately on the make to fleece them with hidden fees and tricks like running the highest credit charge first to maximize the possibility for overdraft charges for everything that follows.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

You know something fishy is going on when the CEO of JPMorganChase is openly calling Musk "our Einstein."

Hasn't JP Morgan also based Tesla stock for lacking fundamentals? I suspect Dimon know show silly his words are but wanted to curry favor.... Einstein did mostly theoretical work and never built giant companies. No matter what you think of either of them, the comparison is bizarre. Musk is the most successful con man in history. Followed by Trump. Einstein was many things, but not a con man. His success is heavily dependent on courting investment with a big "Emperor has no cloths" situation.

I think it's mostly finance and business types that seem to really like Musk. Most engineers I know are very suspicious of him.

But he was also, objectively, one of the linchpins of modern physics and a true scientific genius, and was dedicated to peace and a single, unified world government. But none of that describes Musk, so if Elon is our Einstein, we are truly and seriously fucked.

I guess one thing they have in common is being shitty fathers and husbands/partners.

Yeah it's way too early to say that Musk is finished, or even Tesla.

But the protests ARE working. Even the protests against X were working. If he's throwing major public tantrums, you know things are getting under his skin.

Right now he can use his government position to effectively force the government to use X accounts exclusively for announcements. Don't let that convince you that you now HAVE to go back on X even if just to get important government information. Anything you need to know will be forwarded by the news and people who care.

Yes. The protests are working because Musk's reputation is a house of cards. Without the overvalued stock, Tesla is a pretty shitty car company with shitty quality.

 

[Free]

I guess one thing they have in common is being shitty fathers and husbands/partners.

Not exactly the reason one would probably like to be referred to as the modern day Einstein.