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'Problem for Tesla': Dems flee automaker over Musk’s Trump endorsement (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 6 months ago by dragontamer to c/realtesla
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But Musk later changed his mind, reportedly donating $45 million a month of his money to the pro-Trump political action committee American PAC.

`Nuff said. CEOs are often Republican, but to be this outspokenly political is normally a bad thing for CEOs like Musk. Media company heads (and Twitter/X is a media company) are supposed to at least pretend to be neutral.

And catering to the far-right seems like a bad idea if your company makes EVs. But what do I know?

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[–] MushuChupacabra 97 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Tesla is synonymous with Musk, which disqualifies it for consideration when purchasing an EV.

[–] Anticorp 64 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Around 9 years ago I very much wanted a Tesla and thought Musk was a genius. All he had to do to keep everyone thinking that was shut up.

[–] rockSlayer 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

[–] psmgx 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lots of stims plus ketemene make that hard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

As well as taking loss after loss since his pedophile accusation against that seasoned, professional cave diver made fun of his idea to rescue those kids from a cave. He just keeps trying to save face and making it worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Takes one to know one.

[–] rockSlayer 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know I'm a fool, it's why I don't attach my name to my social media

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I was simply going along with what is also a Simpsons quote

[–] stoly 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The problem is that it is his narcissism that drives him to want to be adored by everyone. As such, he can't actually stop talking.

[–] PseudorandomNoise 24 points 6 months ago

Literally the exact same problem Trump had during COVID. Fauci was giving press briefings every day and we all loved him for it. Problem was we loved him more than Trump and that's when Trump just had to have the spotlight once again.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 5 points 6 months ago

Also the drugs

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Yeah. Tesla was a status symbol, and Musk has put in long hard extra hours of work to convert it into a shitty status symbol.

For folks out there that Musk hasn't personally offended, I suspect they've got to be at least mildly aware that it's more a matter of "when" than "if", at this point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Tesla will go bankcrupt in five years, unless they toss Musk out. He will do some stupid shit that will crash the whole company, like endorsing a political candidate who is talking of making EV's illegal.