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Elon Musk Responds To Media’s Latest Twitter-Related Attack: “We Have Only Just Begun”
Gateway Pundit ^ | December 28, 2022 at 9:20am | Staff

Posted on 12/28/2022 8:23:31 AM PST by Red Badger

The media is trying to stop Elon Musk.

Their newest attack is claiming that his reputation is suffering because of what he is done on Twitter.

Why aren’t they happy he has exposed the truth?

The Washington Post ran an article titled “Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth.”

The Washington Post reported:

That crisis accelerated as Tesla stock prices plunged nearly 20 percent this week to $123 per share on Friday, largely due to concerns about Musk. Also this week, roughly 58 percent of 17 million Twitter accounts that responded to an unscientific poll from Musk said he should step down as Twitter CEO, after helping create, then reverse new policies that proved controversial last weekend.

“Historically he’s been a pendulum between genius and reckless,” said Gene Munster, managing partner at Loup Ventures. “He’s on reckless right now. He’s way over recklessness.”

Munster added, “It leaves people to view him … as slightly less of a genius.”

Musk is repeatedly described as a man obsessed with Twitter in all the wrong ways, who is failing both at protecting his new investment and his previous ones, according to interviews with a half-dozen former Twitter employees and people in Musk’s orbit, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution or because they were not authorized to speak publicly about company matters.

The Washington Post used anonymous Twitter sources to try and further hurt his reputation.

Newsbusters reported:

Once Elon Musk took over Twitter and started mocking the liberal media, the liberal media was bound and determined to portray him as ruining his reputation. On Christmas morning, the headline on the front page of The Washington Post was “Musk’s Twitter drama depletes his stature: Erratic leadership spurs a crisis of confidence across tech empire.”

Online, it was “Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth.” This hit piece by tech reporter Faiz Siddiqui was loaded with bitter anonymous sources.

The story began with an unnamed Twitter employee challenging Musk when he said Twitter’s code needed a complete rewrite: “One of the participants asked what he meant — pushing for him to explain it from top to bottom.” Musk then apparently said “Amazing, wow…You’re a jackass…what a moron.” Then Siddiqui added: “The incident highlights the new reality facing Musk, who also runs Tesla and SpaceX: a crisis of confidence in his once-unquestioned brilliance.”

This is what people should hate about recreated conversations from anonymous employees. We don’t have an actual quote challenging Musk, so we can judge just how hostile it was. But it’s created a “crisis of confidence.” His reputation for brilliance is “unraveling.”

Musk responded to this by warning the media to worry about its own reputation and that “we have only just begun.”

Since taking over as Twitter CEO Musk has confirmed just how corrupt Twitter was.

The democrats and mainstream media are trying to stop Musk because he is exposing the truth.


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To: usconservative

I’ll wait til TSLA drops to $50/ share. They’re not done giving him the Trump treatment yet.


21 posted on 12/28/2022 9:01:39 AM PST by pingman ("I ain't in no ways tarred.." of WINNING!)
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To: Red Badger

The Propaganda Media is a collection of criminal entities whose purpose is for powerful korporations to give illegal political in-kind contributions to further their globalist causes.


22 posted on 12/28/2022 9:02:22 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Tesla stock prices plunged nearly 20 percent.

Big deal Meta has dropped 46%

All of them are taking a hit that type of businesses have peaked yoyo stocks time for them.


23 posted on 12/28/2022 9:04:46 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Red Badger
The headline caused my mind to veer over to other big hits:

The Carpenters - Top Of The World

24 posted on 12/28/2022 9:09:31 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8


25 posted on 12/28/2022 9:11:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

When you open your phone every news feed scrolling across your phone is an attack on Elon musk from the media constantly just like they did Trump they act in such a uniform fashion the old Soviets had nothing on our state of affairs in info dissemination today
It’s ridiculous it’s so blatant
They loved Elon same as they once did Trump


26 posted on 12/28/2022 9:13:23 AM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of liars)
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To: usconservative

A perfect storm’: It’s anyone’s guess when Tesla stock will stop tanking

Brian Sozzi·Anchor, Editor-at-Large
Wed, December 28, 2022 at 5:59 AM EST·3 min read
In this article:

TSLA
+0.81%
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-1.88%
GM
-1.73%

At this point, it may be easier to change a tire on a Model S in under 10 minutes than to try to call a bottom in Tesla’s (TSLA) battered stock.

Shares of the EV maker tanked 11.4% on Tuesday’s session on reports the company would run at reduced capacity at its key Shanghai plant through January, which raised fresh doubts on the current pace of consumer demand. Tesla’s ticker page was among the top three visited on Yahoo Finance, underscoring the ongoing angst on the always volatile stock.
[Stay ahead of the market]

Shares shed as much as 4% in premarket trading Wednesday before rebounding.

In the wake of the latest drop, the startling stats on Tesla’s stock price (and anything tied to it) became that much more jaw-dropping:

One-month: -41%

Three-month: -60%

Six-month: -55%

Year-to-date: -70% (S&P 500 -19%)

Market cap lost year-to-date: $241 billion

Elon Musk net worth lost year-to-date: -$141 billion

Analysts contend the bottom is not yet in sight for the stock despite the bruising sell-off into 2023.

“Musk set off this five-alarm fire on Tesla’s stock and he is the only one that can extinguish it. It’s a perfect storm between the Musk Twitter fiasco and now demand cracking,” Wedbush analyst and vocal Musk critic Dan Ives told Yahoo Finance.
Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)
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NasdaqGS - Nasdaq Real Time Price (USD)
109.98+0.88(+0.81%)
As of 12:39PM EST.Market open.

In large part, the fact no one on the Street is trying to make a bottom call on Tesla’s stock reflects the mounting bad news swirling around the company.

First are the negative optics on demand both in the U.S. and China.

Tesla said on its website last week it will offer $7,500 discounts on Model 3 and Model Y vehicles delivered in the U.S. in December. That coincides with analysts slashing fourth-quarter delivery estimates ahead of them being reported in early January.

Then the elephant in the room remains — Musk’s continued chaotic running of Twitter and how it may impact the operations of Tesla.

The prospect of Musk selling more shares to fuel his turnaround at Twitter have also weighed on the stock. Musk said in a new Twitter spaces chat a week ago he wouldn’t sell anymore Tesla shares until 2024 at the earliest. He has this year made similar proclamations only to subsequently sell more stock.


27 posted on 12/28/2022 9:40:34 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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28 posted on 12/28/2022 9:42:09 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Red Badger

He should claim they are racist for the organized attacks on an African American.


29 posted on 12/28/2022 10:11:56 AM PST by Cowman
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To: Red Badger

Musk responded to this by warning the media to worry about its own reputation and that “we have only just begun.”

Nice.

Musk has repeatedly said Tesla stock is overpriced right now. The media keeps attacking him for Tesla stock prices dipping. I think most investors are betting on Musk long-term. He believes that Tesla has the only real self-driving tech and that this will make tesla cars 5 times more valuable than competitors. (This will probably take some form of ride-sharing profit into consideration.) He believes Tesla’s robotics will be more profitable than their cars and trucks, including semis.


30 posted on 12/28/2022 10:36:29 AM PST by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022. )
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To: Red Badger

its marshall applewaite

predicted end of world

when it didnt happen

was visibly upset

its like globull warmists

when there are signs globe is not warming

they lie about it

rather than celebrating


31 posted on 12/28/2022 10:36:55 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: joshua c

When your livelihood depends on Glowbull Warming, you are gonna make damn sure you neve run out of it!...............


32 posted on 12/28/2022 10:39:44 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Vaduz

they are all in the advertising business

isnt advertising a leading indicator?


33 posted on 12/28/2022 10:40:01 AM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Red Badger

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34 posted on 12/28/2022 12:10:33 PM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Red Badger

““We Have Only Just Begun”

I hope that scares the Hell pout of them.


35 posted on 12/28/2022 12:29:44 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: joshua c

isn’t advertising a leading indicator?

Depends on the product the most advertised usually is the least sold.


36 posted on 12/28/2022 2:03:03 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Red Badger

Yeah but he is one of the richest guys on the planet. You can’t begin to conceive how much he doesn’t care about anyone else’s opinion of anything he does.

I like him.


37 posted on 12/28/2022 2:05:49 PM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: usconservative

In addition to producing cars, Tesla also builds the electric motors that position the rocket engines and steering fins on the SpaceX Falcon, Starship and Super Heavy launchers as well as designing and building the Optimus robots. They are more than j


38 posted on 12/28/2022 5:16:12 PM PST by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: delchiante

A billionaire ‘declassifying’ sacred Twitter docs is a thing to behold.

There are still a lot of questions that need to be asked and answered. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t.

A few of them being:

Who in the FBI authorized the $3million? What are the names of the government folks that were meeting with Twitter? The FBI is a thing, not a person. A thing doesn’t make decisions.

Who in DHS was making these decisions? There are emails, etc concerning all of this, who wrote those emails?

So many more. One leads to another one.

But a blanket….FBI Bad….doesn’t cut it, IMHO


39 posted on 12/28/2022 7:55:21 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Red Badger
That crisis accelerated as Tesla stock prices plunged nearly 20 percent this week to $123 per share on Friday, largely due to concerns about Musk.

Horse hockey. The stock prices of almost everything are falling because WaPo's beloved senile old fool of a President is destroying the U.S. economy.

40 posted on 12/28/2022 7:58:59 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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