If you're calling SpaceX what produce as an average product, then well I guess there isn't much to discuss. One of us is completely blind to our ideals and I'll leave it at that.

Yeah, watching Musk forget his lines and implode on opening night gives me more respect for the former president… that guy took the ball and ran with it… the Jimi Hendrix of Twitter and mafia family grifting.

Edit: maybe being the avatar of a meme stock had something to do with it…. Trump was just Trump the brand but Musk is associated with a fake stock that can get real valued by the real market. Either that or people are tired of sexual assault stories but liked them back in 2016.

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This forum loves liberal politicians. Anyone that doesn't bend the knee to woke liberal politicians is an enemy. They love it and cheer if a liberal politician "owns" someone with a statement, but go crazy if anyone says anything negative about their liberal heros. If Musk bashed conservatives and spouted their liberal talking points he would be their hero and anyone bashing him would be swarmed on and shut down. You new around here or something?

Homemade saying:

"You have to tailor your bullsh#t to your target market of suckers."

Most proponents of Tesla - premium, electric powered, suburban sprawl:

1) Don't want their wives, and girlfriends to know that they idolize a "very douchy guy."

2) Don't necessarily want to believe ESG funds are suddenly a "scam" (because Musk's says so).

3) Don't want to support Trump and the GOP (because it's now convenient for Musk).


Honestly- I think Musk is totally screwed.

Maybe- the Tesla board can just oust him???

They might be able to prevent Musk from taking Tesla down with him.

You’re proving my point… the COO of SpaceX keeps Elon Musk a thousand miles away from the company, because she’s smart.

Let’s try it this way…. Amazon prints money. Apple prints money. Tesla and SpaceX are just OK, as businesses.

Now the *story* of SpaceX is amazing…. they landed an MFing rocket on its tail on a moving barge in the middle of the ocean.

(OTOH, now that i think about it, that was done with government subsidies and government IP and tech from the 1960s IIRC)

One last try: Bezos mouthed off on Twitter this week too… what happened to Amazon stock?

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Yup, Elon Musk has nothing to do with SpaceX and is kept far away from it. Uhuh. Well researched. I applaud you.

Oh look, another billionaire making useful products who also likes fascism and insurrection.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/...election-challenges/

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No, not really. Signed up in 2015 but was on the Tri forum 100% until we moved off-the-grid to a very rural place right before the pandemic in 2020. Races canceled so more time to venture over to the LR.

I like to call myself a left leaning person on social issues, more moderate about some fiscal policies and libertarian about other issues. We have friends on both sides of the aisle and we all get along.

Are there any politicians you admire right now? maybe a good topic for another thread.

Yes many people lean left on ST but there are plenty who lean right. I do like hearing from both sides of the aisle but prefer when we are all more civil to each other. I think at the end of the day, we all want the same things right? Safe country, good economy, peace, future for the country's children, etc etc. We just don't always agree on the path to get there.

Same with me. Bend the knee? AYFKM? Based on my posts I don't bend the knee to anyone and I've been very clear about my feelings re: "the new Daddy" ever since I asked myself the question "who or what the f*ck is an Elon Musk?".

As to my OP, I think that although while MattBK is the prototypical archetype of post/poster/cult follower that I was predicting, my core thesis is already probably wrong.

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Other than that hairline. Not Paypal, not Tesla, ... Buying a company with family wealth then later declaring yourself the founder does not mean you actually started the company or invented anything.

Twitter is apparently the reality of record, and if reality is true Tesla’s stock price will continue to drop as low-talent Musk tries to replicate the Twitter genius of the former President. Tesla is a canary in the coal mine so to speak.

he's been hired to play the role that Trump played in 2015

If you truly believe this then you should short Tesla. Are you?

Prototype? You ate your own prototype, spewing crazy conspiracy theories with some interesting stuff mixed in. You make a bunch of crazy shit up because you don't like him. I'm not any persons fanboy, but I laugh at how much your types get their panties in a bunch over someone who doesn't bend the knee to the woke. Your rant sounded like spurned ex girlfriend. Reminds me of the below exchange from Private Parts about Stern listeners. How much time do you spend hate reading about Musk?

Researcher : The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes.

Pig Vomit : How can that be?

Researcher : Answer most commonly given? "I want to see what he'll say next."

Pig Vomit : Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?

Researcher : Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.

Pig Vomit : But... if they hate him, why do they listen?

Researcher : Most common answer? "I want to see what he'll say next."

I have no interest in Elon Matt… just you.

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by whom, and compensated how?

As the great Hunter S. said, “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro”. Things are going to get weird (or even weirder) over the next weeks and months.

Elon Musk, whose Twitter followers are 80% fake and who uses cult science techniques to manipulate his real ones, is a chaos muppet troll who has been hired to fill the role of Donald Trump in the ongoing organized crime well-funded oligarchy project to turn disaffected citizens towards Fascism and Authoritarianism and overthrow the American government. He won’t care, because he’s just a highly suggestible sociopath who wants to get to Mars at all costs. It’s “The Mission”. Expect other true believer suggestible billionaires to follow, ie. Bezos. The part of Ross Perot still needs to be cast.

For some reason, several of the extreme right factions have decided that the reality bending (or focusing, depending on your tuning skills) app Twitter is the center of gravity (COG) in the Information Space, just as Ukraine is a proxy COG for Democracy around the world tactically in this fight. Tangentially, Tesla Stock will face a reckoning, *if* the market and the SEC allow it. Twitter is apparently the reality of record, and if reality is true Tesla’s stock price will continue to drop as low-talent Musk tries to replicate the Twitter genius of the former President. Tesla is a canary in the coal mine so to speak.

Meanwhile, the 5th Circuit conducted a supporting operation bigger than even the captured Supreme Court Roe decision in hamstringing the SEC, and the FEC has been jacked since December 2020, the two agencies that could investigate and unfuck this stuff. Add to those the insane social media moderation law Texas created. These are tells as to what the COGs are and what the possible ways ahead are. Given the depth of possible options for overturning the election, I expect that I’m missing several other lines of effort and operation (LOE, LOO).

Gen Flynn is crushing this. Deny the information space that the J6 committee and DOJ need to communicate and make an impact with voters. Deny the ability of the Executive Branch to enforce rules and investigate crimes that are targeted at undermining our currency and markets in a supporting effort to both deny the information space and undermine currency. Deny the will of the voters by owning all the Secretaries of State and Governors in swing states who would count votes or certify electors or allow people to vote in the first place. Deny the Legislative Branch the ability to address fake scandals by deadlocking the Senate.

Inflation, gas prices, J6 live hearings, repeal of Roe and follow-on protests and violence, Trucker Convoy (tm), tactical nukes from Russia, crypto Ponzi schemes imploding and people losing everything, and food shortages are all going to converge in June. People will also be clutching pearls over nonexistent crime and border crises. This will boil July, August, September and into Election Day in November.

June 2022. Everything everywhere all at once. Extremely loud and incredibly close.

How will the forum handle it? Will we lose 4 years to cultish fanboy worship like last time?

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And here we go again, half the front page is full of you bumping your own threads. Just can't control yourself can you.

I'm amazed you get this much leeway to continue your bullshit.

Yeah, it's getting old. Even spamming the community college thread.

And here we go again, half the front page is full of you bumping your own threads. Just can't control yourself can you.

I'm amazed you get this much leeway to continue your bullshit.