"Everything is blowing up in Elon Musk’s face"...
...from the attached article...a reminder that everyone who touches Trump, ends up losing.
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In short: Voters, customers, investors and the MAGA elite say the Elon Musk show has lost the plot.
Musk has shed more than a quarter of his total net worth since January as Tesla shares have tanked. He remains the world’s richest person by a country mile with $323 billion — second-placer Jeff Bezos is still more than $100 billion behind.
Because Musk is both the public face of Tesla and its biggest individual shareholder, when one suffers, the other suffers in kind. Musk’s alliance with the far right has torched Tesla’s brand in the eyes of what used to be the carmaker’s base: upwardly mobile eco-conscious lefties from the coasts.
It was never clear how Musk planned to replace those customers with folks from red states who have long resisted EV adoption. So far, various attempts to stem the bleeding have only made things worse.
A live Tesla sales pitch with Trump on the South Lawn reeked of desperation. The Commerce secretary’s urging of regular Americans to buy Tesla shares, similarly, fell flat. And the FBI threatening to prosecute Tesla vandals as domestic terrorists — a wild re-imagination of the meaning of “terrorism,” according to legal experts — only reinforced the sense of desperation around the brand.
But the ultimate rebuke came from voters. Musk tried to use his virtually infinite money to influence the Wisconsin race, and even showed up in a giant cheese hat at a rally in Green Bay, during which he handed out two $1 million checks to voters in a stunt that faced an immediate legal challenge.
His effort backfired, and the state court retained its 4-3 liberal majority.
Bottom line: Money can buy a lot of things, but not all things. And with Tesla’s continued sales drop, Musk is getting a harsh reminder that he’s not the only one who can wield a pocketbook to send a message.
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Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/business/elon-musk-tesla-sales-nightcap/index.html
Replies to: "Everything is blowing up in Elon Musk’s face"...
Aww really? Too bad.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. - Albert Einstein
When MAGA gets a great spirit you let us know
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That's deep, Checkers, really deep.
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So, so deep.
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Mediocre mind.
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LOL…Elon is in the process of shedding his “Greatness”…or haven’t you noticed?
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Nonsense. It's merely you losers trying to spin propaganda.
You are a fraction of the average U.S. male, and even less so of Elon Musk. Cry more.
It's gotten so bad...i.e. Elon's mindless, crass and insensitive DOGE cuts...that GOP leadership has
advised members to stop holding Town Hall meetings with their constituents...and it isn't just Dems who are complaining...in most every TH meeting, the entire audience is standing up against the GOP lawmaker.
Take off your blinders and ear plugs...Elon is failing. Also, keep in mind that he's an admitted user of drugs like Ketamine to control his on-going depression issues...while at the same time dealing with a Father he hates, and a son...now daughter...that hates him. These are not the qualities I expect to see in a Great Person.
I know, I know....you like all the waste and are devastated to see it cut.
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I have extolled Clinton's economic strategy of working with Congress to cut spending, and...
increase revenue from corporations and the wealthiest Americans, with the end result of a Budget Surplus Unfortunately, we no longer have enough rational Republicans who are willing to cooperate...in essence, the GOP has caved to the Plutocrats and given up on Democracy...which requires that cooperation.
Face it...You are going to suffer just as much as the rest of America.
Public opinion and stock price don't equal greatness.
Socrates was put to death for corrupting the Athens youth, you think he wasn't great?
There are 'rumors' from the WH that Elon has overstayed his welcome...perhaps the high decibel
levels at GOP Town Halls has something to do with it. There's no "Genius" involved when tens of thousands of supposedly inefficient federal workers need to be re-hired, and those institutions end up doing more work, just to get back to where they were.
Let's just say that Elon Musk has "Clay Feet" ;-).
Those would be the mediocre minds, keep cheering.
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Not sure that a "Great Mind" would shoot himself in the foot like this...where's the Great Payoff?
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The great payoff is saving the country, we're on a train to a debt spiral.
You're completely missing the second part of the Einstein quote as you bow blindly to conventional prejudices.
We've seen a different strategy produce a Budget Surplus and Debt Reduction...i.e. Clinton's
strategy of working with Congress to achieve significant spending cuts, while at the same time increasing revenue from corporations and the wealthiest Americans...it produced a Budget Surplus and Debt Reduction...worked just fine. Why not just repeat it? Democrats are more than willing to join with like minded Republicans.
See where the real problem is yet?
Kamala should have ran on the Gore Commission, she might have won.
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She absolutely did…I.e. Biden’s Economic Plan which called for Congressional Action
that would achieve what the Gore Commission did…through Negotiations for tax reform as well as spending cuts.
This isn’t that hard a concept, Cheeks…the problem is that the GOP is unbending in its dogmatic approach to national finances…No Taxes…even on wealthy billionaires who pay 8%, or Corporations that pay Nothing.
You’ll Never balance the nation’s budget that way… but you can with Clinton’s Gore Commission approach that Kamala ran on.
You just never paid any attention to it…just like all the other non-thinking MAGAs.
I already proposed a method for a budget surplus, 2019 budget.
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Really...must have missed that. What was it about the 2019 Budget that attracted you?
btw...note that 2019 Revenues barely cover Mandatory and Net Interest Expenses...you'd have to cut a fair amount of Discretionary Expenses to achieve a Surplus...especially if Defense is off the table.
Link: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324
Tyrone would have thrown the first stone.
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He is a Pharisee.
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LOL...now that's a term I've been meaning to apply to the "Practicing Catholics" on this Forum...
...it fits their Pontificating/Hypocritical posts time and time again.