Surely this will help the TSLA stock price... Tesla halts Model S and X sales in China due to tariffs These vehicles are imported from the US. https://www.engadget.com/transporta...-sales-in-china-due-to-tariffs-185752814.html
The part I totally fail to understand: the fact that there would be a public reaction not necessarily in his favor to his having aligned so closely with Trump cannot totally have eluded Musk... I mean one can think what one wants to of his recent political, quasi religious conversion, but dumb he ain't, so the very real dangers potentially resulting from that to his business empire musta been lurking somewhere in his consciousness... Yet he still went ahead ??? Doge ??? This kinda way off stuff ??? He didn't care ??? Wishful thinking all would end well somehow ??? Megalomania, thinking he was untouchable ??? I really don't get it.
Have you ever read in the news about some "influencer", tiktoker, etc. getting themselves killed when taking a selfie? (falling over a cliff, etc.) Lots of billionaires have aligned with Trump, this is something else (drugs, mental health, etc.) The richer he is, the worse he gets.
Haha yep thats true. Doing quite a bit of ketamine isn't he. Didn't he hear about Mathew Perry ? Or maybe thinks with him its gonna be different ?? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...n-6-8-shots-day-55k-month-ketamine-rcna166806
ego. Narcissism Proximity to power. And he probably figured it would be good for Tesla, spacex, and twitter if Trump provided favorable legislation.
Definitely the legislation, but I will also say that I do believe that what he saw happening at Twitter under the Biden leadership made him realize that free speech was slipping away. Don't get me wrong, I don't believe that Elon isn't somewhat hypocritical in this regard, but I think he is allowing way more free speech than before he bought it. The entire Covid hoax reality was suppressed, and worse, people couldn't even talk about it. There have been countless users that were welcomed back under Elon's ownership, and this was moving the needle in the right direction. The Biden Admin went full on totalitarian with their control of what could be said. I've seen many podcasts with legit doctors who were cancelled and proven treatments to help you recover from Covid were demonized. This was scary, and Twitter having all this control was not a good thing. So I think Elon saw that Trump was willing to go against this, and this I applaud him for. But of course, Elon isn't getting any Nobel Prize because firing all of the regulators is just corruption in a different way. I think deep down inside, he believes that Tesla is above the law because he is doing great things with it and this his goal, should be the only goal, regardless of how its accomplished.
Your post is funny because when read with a slightly different intonation it admits all the lies of the maga movement. Elon isn’t pro free speech. He’s pro alt right speech. He’s banned a lot of accounts. Whereas twitter before walked a line of trying to discern the objective truth, musk is just promoting far right propaganda and censoring those who criticize it. why wouldn’t musk think he’s above the law? The US government has given him 10s of billions of dollars and no punishment when he’s commited actual securities fraud. Funny how doge didn’t kill any Tesla subsidies. In the meanwhile, musks cutting of usaid the way he did will literally kill 10,000s of kids in Africa. But you can’t say that on twitter now. You’ll get banned.
I used to have a Libertarian bent until I came to the realization that unfortunately I don't live in a perfect world. In this world even with very little real restraint we got the current clown show - which IMO is far more dangerous than any previous admin including the last one. No comp at all. As for Covid I've moved on from that, "no sense crying over spilled milk".
Since we both appear to want to be about free speech, why don't we just say anything should be allowed? If you move over to Nostr, you find out that its a truly decentralized platform where anything can post anything. Then its just a matter of who you choose to follow. I agree with you on Elon, but you never addresses anything I was saying about the huge Covid coverup where legitimate doctors were silenced. But I know we won't agree on everything, so why not just let all speech be free? I realize though that the Dems truly don't want that. They want to control all speech, for my safety of course. The Reps likely want to also control speech, for their gain as well. So the only solution is for nobody to be able to have any control over speech. And before you bring up examples of threats, that is a legitimate case that the laws already cover. If you threaten someone credibly, that is something which can already be investigated and prosecuted. But if you call someone any name under the sun, feel free to do so. The issue isn't what is said, but who is listening. The only reason some party appears to be against hate speech is only because this person has too many viewers. Nobody cares about an account that nobody follows. If someone doesn't like something that is being said, stop following this account. It really is that simple.