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Well said, central_va. Yet Musk is certainly not the Intellectual-Yet-Idiot that Nassim Taleb talks about.
At least Musk has his own skin-in-the-game going up against Twitter.
Yet Trump's absolutely right: Musk slings the bull all the time. And by calling Musk's bluff, Trump has reaffirmed that he's in charge. Brilliant!
Musk's glitzy Tesla PR game has collided with a certain STEAM LOCOMOTIVE that can't be stopped. He can no longer hide behind quick tweets and doing techie Q&A with pot-smoking Rogish Inquisitors.
Are Musk's public relations pyrotechnics sputtering out? Has his rocket reached its zenith? Now that he's forced to state his opinions on public policy and the politicians he likes, his game is exposed.
Or is Musk cultivating the GOPe and being buddy-buddy with Mitch McConnell? Tell me it ain't so, Elon!
5 Times Elon Musk Proved Himself to Be the ‘Bullshit Artist’ Donald Trump Described
The man is nothing but a venture capitalist that came from money and, in reality, is nothing more than a snake oil salesman.
Everywhere that government has taken away the tax breaks for electric cars, sales plummet. The industry itself seems to be on the downhill slide. And China, with its own EV company, just overtook Tesla as the #1 EV producer on the planet and they control over 80% of the minerals and mines needed to make the monstrosities.
Anwywho...Musk, like every other billionaire, has enough money to completely insulate himself from all the bad in the world. Bad that is created by guys like him with their control over the worlds politicians.
When the Twitter thing started, comments on here went on for a long time about how he was going to save ‘free speech’. I guess that’s exactly how snake oil salesman sell their snake oil.
As for Twitter, not sure what they’re thinking. Maybe the BOD wants to cash out, but, if they file a lawsuit to try and force him to buy, then Discovery is going to be a bitch. Twitter will have to provide all the information that he says he has wanted all along. And perhaps, its collusion with governments. When this started and they delayed and ignored, the only thing that came to mind was an article on Conservative Treehouse...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/04/17/jacks-magic-coffee-shop/
It makes a lot of sense to me.
And because he got called out by Pres Trump, he’s throwing a bit of a temper tantrum. You see, people aren’t allowed to talk bad about the uber rich like Musk, Bezos, Gates, et al. We’re all peasants in their eyes. As for him cozying up to the GOPe, he’s just looking for friends to help him fight.