Elon Musk should understand that the priority here is that no more Teslas get burned, and that he should not have provoked aggressive lunatics in the first place. He should be told by GM and Toyota, who are brokering a truce, to surrender his ownership stake immediately.
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and have criminals dictating who can buy and own shares in a public company.
The criminals should be punished as they have broken the law whilst Musk has not. May take a while but we can’t have them winning.
@Lord T, I don’t know Tim Newman all that well, but I think he was joking.
Surrender Ukraine so no more Ukrainians get killed is perhaps something like what Elon or Trump said.
I would personally like all aggressive foreign nations and all Tesla burning / keying / crushing criminals dealt with punitively, but perhaps I am biased.
We should start by reducing our energy consumption so there is plenty to go round without Russia. There is no point paying for enemy weapons.
I do know Tim Newman well and yes, he was joking. But of course many a true word was spoken in jest.
Indeed.
A better analogy would be his resigning as CEO.
— What i don’t understand is why Trump allows Musk, Hegseth, and others to speak out of turn.
To the best of my knowledge, Trump has said nothing in public about Ukraine being unable to keep fighting for long, or about the impossibility of recovering the Crimea, or about Ukraine not being let into NATO or allowed to develop nuclear weapons. Why does Trump allow his subordinates to undermine his negotiating position?
When i drove my VW Golf to a repair shop, to sell it for parts, I did not tell the dealer that the best previous offer was $50 (in the late 1980s). I did warn him that the car had no brakes (pedal or manual), but did not tell him that the insurance was expired and i’d hate to have to drive it back. When he offered $150, i did not show my glee, in fact i did my best to look pretty sad.
And i did not write The Art of the Deal.
I read the post part about musk surrendering his Tesla stock and prepared myself to start writing angrily about how, no, people should buy his stock if they want him gone. Then I saw that it was from Mr Newman, and so I chuckled and relaxed.
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By the way and off topic: Perry, the “You can use these HTML tags” link under the comment box seems to have developed reflexivity.
This is a cryptic British style post – which presents itself as one being about one subject, but is really about something else, in this case Ukraine?
Although born and raised in the United Kingdom I am not fond of this style of writing (or speaking) – but each to their own way of expressing themselves.
From what I know about the late Steve Jobs he was an utter git. I am forever wrecking Macs – NOT.
No shit Sherlock 😀
@Bobby b
I read the post part about musk surrendering his Tesla stock and prepared myself to start writing angrily about how, no, people should buy his stock if they want him gone.
FWIW, not that anyone should accept investing advice from some random dude on the internet.. TSLA looks like a great stock to be thinking about buying right now. All this irrational outrage will die down eventually, and then Tesla will start releasing their AI enabled robots that will dramatically change everything. They are at the front of the queue on this huge market opportunity, and if anyone can make it happen it is Elon. Ten years from now most middle class families are going to have an android to help around the house, and every business will have one to help around the office. And I think most likely, most of them will have the Tesla brand slapped on their butts.
It is up 4% today, so not today, but I’ll most likely be buying on the dip.
But if you buy and it tanks, don’t blame me 😊. I’m just some random dude on the internet.
FO: Tesla stock sort of worries me right now.
It is so dependent upon Musk’s amazing abilities, and he has really put himself out there as Assassination Target #1.
bobby b
It is so dependent upon Musk’s amazing abilities, and he has really put himself out there as Assassination Target #1.
That is a very good point.
bobby b,
Maybe that’s the case. What I definitely think is he’s spread himself too thin.
Musk is a target not because of what he has done but because of the breakdown of civil society caused by the Left seeing their shiny progressive project unexpectedly crash and burn.
I’d actually like Musk to sell all his Tesla shares and concentrate on SpaceX except that Tesla is part of the plan.
Electric vehicles, tunnel boring, solar energy, robotics. All required as the human race expands its range.
Ukraine can burn in Hell for all I care. Its leadership seems to be trying for that.
In what sense has the Left “seen their shiny progressive project unexpectedly crash and burn”??
@Eyrie
I’d actually like Musk to sell all his Tesla shares and concentrate on SpaceX except that Tesla is part of the plan.
I know there isn’t a lot of love for electric cars around here, though I actually think they are kind of great (baring their insanely high cost.) But the real thing to watch with Tesla is their robot program. This, along with AI, is going to be the next big technology thing over the next ten to twenty years. And Tesla really is at the bleeding edge, and have the capability to actually deliver a consumer product (unlike many of the other companies in this space.)
Ten years from now androids will be everywhere, and a lot of them will be Tesla androids.
The recent preening declaration by Senator Mark Kelly that he had traded in his planet-saving Tesla for a gas guzzling Chevy Tahoe (what a deplorable!) shows how seriously the establishment takes Net Zero.
This diamond-encrusted example of their complete hypocrisy must be brought up repeatedly and never allowed to be forgotten.
Tesla is a distributed power / R&D lab masquerading as a car company. Much like X is a generative AI company masquerading as a social media platform. Most of Musk’s companies are like this. Their purpose for existing is never the “headline” product.
Teslas fill an EV niche that actually makes a sort of sense: Sporty toys for the well-off.
As everyday drivers for ordinary folk, EVs suck – and the reason the usual suspects push them is not to put everyone into ‘new, clean, green cars,’ but as a decoy to distract from their plans to enserf the revolting peasants and force them into public transport and 15-minute cities.
Fraser Orr: “Ten years from now androids will be everywhere, and a lot of them will be Tesla androids.”
One does hope that their developers will at some point have sat down and taken the time to read Jack Williamson’s novella ‘With Folded Hands’…
you have to wonder which hedge funds are short TESLA and also only by coincidence supporting grass roots liberal protest movements.
I hope everyone realises the original post isn’t really about Tesla.
@BlindIo
Tesla is a distributed power / R&D lab masquerading as a car company. Much like X is a generative AI company masquerading as a social media platform. Most of Musk’s companies are like this. Their purpose for existing is never the “headline” product.
If Tesla isn’t a car company how come I see their cars all over the place, and if X isn’t a SM platform how come so many people are posting cat videos there? I mean they do other things too, but they are clearly primarily a car company and SM company.
@Deep Lurker
Teslas fill an EV niche that actually makes a sort of sense: Sporty toys for the well-off.
I understand that nobody will agree with me but I don’t agree AT ALL. EVs are too expensive right now, but most new technology starts out that way, and Teslas have dramatically come down in price so that their smaller cars are among the best selling new cars in America. And I think they are extremely useful. It’d work for me. I rarely go all that far from home just zipping around, and then plug them in at night. I’ll probably buy one as my next car, but I’m one of those dudes who keeps his car for fifteen years and buys a new one when the doors fall off, so it’ll be a while.
And Teslas are great not because they are electric but because they are a rethink of the whole idea of the car. As a for example, one day we will be able to punch in our destination and then read a book while it takes us there. I think that is awesome. They are simple to operate, quiet, safe and spacious. There is just a lot to like about them.
@Zerren Yeoville
One does hope that their developers will at some point have sat down and taken the time to read Jack Williamson’s novella ‘With Folded Hands’…
Haven’t read it, but I can imagine. But I can see a lot of great uses for androids around the home and office. It’ll take a while for them to get really good, but before long they will be as ubiquitous as Alexa and its cousins. (FWIW, I do not have Alexa or anything like that. I’m a bit weirded out that the whole of the world seems perfectly ok with having huge corporations put a microphone in their home and listen to everything they say and do. Reminds me of this cartoon.)
FO at 4:01am, “…put a microphone in their home…”
Or in their pocket, along with an accurate GPS tracker and a very good camera.
Like Musk’s tech companies all fitting into a large plan (maybe?), Alexa et al. were needed because bozos who ALWAYS have their phone in their hand or at least on their person actually set the stupid things down at home (I hope?). But now Alexa has that front covered.
But not in my house! He said while typing this with his phone just 2 meters away, watching and listening. Glad it doesn’t have hands and feet…yet.
@GregWA
But not in my house! He said while typing this with his phone just 2 meters away, watching and listening. Glad it doesn’t have hands and feet…yet.
FWIW, my phone is usually turned off since I like to get work done, and my GPS is turned off all the time except when I am doing nav. So the CIA probably knows where I am when I am in the can playing Doodle Jump or driving down to get a kebab from an awesome restaurant here, but I’m ok with that, especially now that Tulsi is in charge.
But if you think Musk and Bezos are in a big conspiracy together (does the cabal include Gates, Zuck, Brinn and Cook too?), I have this article on the moon landing hoax I’d like you to read… These guys, as a general rule, hate each other.
“…one day we will be able to punch in our destination and then read a book while it takes us there. I think that is awesome. They are simple to operate, quiet, safe and spacious. There is just a lot to like about them.”
When that day arrives you will be able to do this, only if the people who actually own the vehicles deign to let you do it. And they will be either government bureaucrats or agents of the government.
I just did that. Uber is great! 😉
There is no doubt in my mind that the Tesla-bothered vandals also consider themselves good environmentalists, Net Zero numpties, and proponents of electrified transport in general.
So the hypocrisy’s on two levels, really. Trying to destroy the only successful e-car brand due to some foggy political disagreement with its owner? Not exactly doing our Precious Planet much good, eh?
More pertitently, there seems a strange lack of animus against Chinese e-rides, even though they’re produced in/by a brutal dictatorship, likely with the use of slave labour and — hilariously — with high-energy, pollutant-spewing, carbon-intense processes.