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1 minute ago, ultimaton said:

He'll back out at the 11th hour

Yep.  The one common thread among Elon and fanbois is that they are sniveling cowards.  They will only step into an adversarial situation if they completely control the narrative, and/or the opponent is 100 orders of magnitude weaker, so they can strut around proclaiming themselves as badasses because they just kicked the ass of a one-legged cricket.

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2 hours ago, Parliament said:

So he’ll start dripping out unrealistic demands as the date comes close and the Daily Show will inevitably hafta cancel.

Maybe he has cooked his brain enough to convince himself this is a good idea and people will like him even more.

 

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19 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Because he's ceded power to a billionaire megalomaniac.

Gonna try to tell us Biden ceded power to Soros?

If Biden was having joint interviews with Soros where Soros did all the talking, certain people's heads would explode.

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2 hours ago, Born to Run said:

Maybe he has cooked his brain enough to convince himself this is a good idea and people will like him even more.

He always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, so it’s possible he thinks he will destroy Stewart, and his followers will tell him that he will.

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2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

He always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, so it’s possible he thinks he will destroy Stewart, and his followers will tell him that he will.

And then he will claim that he did, and his followers will agree, spread the word, and congratulate him. 

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SIAP I don't recall seeing this article before (but it's been a looong week)

 

 

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Tesla Feels the Wrath of Anti-Elon Musk Backlash

Sales are plunging in some of the world’s biggest EV markets, and protesters and vandals are targeting the company’s stores.
 
 
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM UTC
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Tae Helton, a car aficionado who lives minutes from Tesla Inc.’s flagship California factory, bought one Tesla for the family fleet and nearly purchased a second one last year.
After Elon Musk made gestures resembling a Nazi salute at an inauguration event for President Donald Trump last month, he wants nothing to do with the brand.
“The pride and the good feeling I had driving in it is gone for me,” Helton said of the Model 3 he’s driven only around 2,500 miles. The politically moderate 49-year-old plans to pay off his car loan early and trade in the sedan before year-end.
Helton has company among Tesla customers and consumers. The EV maker’s sales fell 45% across Europe in January, following its first annual decline in global deliveries in over a decade. The company is showing particular signs of strain in places where its chief executive officer is inserting himself in politics in ways that run counter to Tesla’s stated mission and values.
 
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Tae Helton with the Tesla Model 3 he plans to trade in after Musk made gestures resembling a Nazi salute.Photographer: Mike Kai Chen/Bloomberg
In California, Tesla sales fell 12% last year as Musk attacked leaders of a state that played a pivotal role in the carmaker surviving its tumultuous early years and becoming one of the world’s most valuable companies.
In Germany — where registrations plummeted 41% last year and 59% in January — the billionaire emphatically supports a far-right party that denies the harm of carbon dioxide emissions. And in the UK — now Europe’s biggest electric-vehicle market — Musk has aligned with politicians who want net zero targets scrapped and have cast policies aimed at boosting EV adoption as a “war on drivers.”
“Tesla’s biggest challenge in 2025 isn’t technology — it’s perception,” says Jacob Falkencrone, global head of investment strategy at Saxo, the Danish bank with more than €105 billion in client assets. “Elon Musk’s political baggage is now weighing on sales, brand loyalty and investor confidence.”

Elon Musk’s Unpopularity in Germany

Survey found negative response to billionaire’s political interventions
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Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Elon Musk?
 
 
Has the way Musk has tried to influence German politics been acceptable or unacceptable?
 
 
 
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Source: YouGov
Note: Survey of 2,241 adults in Germany taken Jan. 10-14.
Musk’s polarizing behavior is nothing new, nor are indications that many of his customers have soured on him. In 2023, Bloomberg News surveyed more than 5,000 Tesla owners, and sentiment on the CEO took the biggest plunge among all the topics consumers had been asked about four years earlier.
But the backlash against Musk has gone to another level early this year.
At Tesla’s factory outside Berlin, activists projected footage of Musk’s gesture onto the façade of the building in a stunt viewed millions of times on X, his platform formerly known as Twitter. Tesla showrooms have been vandalized in the Netherlands, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Weekend protests have been staged at dozens of the company’s stores across the US.
 
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Tom Price at the protest in Berkeley, California, on Feb 15.Photographer: Dana Hull
“I don’t know if there’s ever been a greater destruction of brand equity in this short amount of time,” said Tom Price, a resident of Berkeley, California, who showed up to a demonstration in the city with a Don’t Drive DOGE sign. “Tesla has become a four-wheel billboard for the immolation of our democracy.”
Musk is polling poorly among Brits, Germans and Swedes, with a survey in the latter country also finding increasingly negative attitudes toward Tesla. Model Y registrations in Sweden fell 48% last month, while Model 3 sales dropped 31%.
Pew Research found a majority of Americans view Musk unfavorably, while Quinnipiac University says a preponderance of voters think he has too much power to make decisions affecting the US. A Republican strategist advocating for bipartisan EV adoption in the country found Musk is now more popular with people who drive gas cars than he is with those driving electric.
“I used to be adored by the left,” Musk said during a joint interview with Trump by Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired last week. “Less so these days.”
 
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An anti-Elon Musk sticker at a Tesla store in San Francisco.Photographer: Mike Kai Chen/Bloomberg
Tesla management told investors last month to expect its vehicle business to return to growth this year, though they avoided offering specific figures. Three months earlier, Musk said he saw potential for a 20% to 30% sales jump.
 
There are reasons to be optimistic Tesla can sell more cars this year, despite the slow start. Some of its early-year sales weakness is tied to changing over production lines for its most popular vehicle, the Model Y, which has been redesigned. Updating all four of the factories assembling the sport utility vehicle will result in several weeks of lost output this quarter, Chief Financial Officer Vaibhav Taneja said last month.
Tesla also has told investors that more affordable models are on track to go into production starting in the first half of this year, though they’ve offered little detail about the vehicles. While the carmaker’s shares have fallen 37% from a record high reached in mid-December, they’re still up 20% since the Nov. 5 election.

What a GOP Strategist’s Poll on Musk Found

Tesla CEO rates higher with gas-car drivers than with EV owners
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Source: EV Politics Project
Note: Poll of 600 registered voters was taken shortly after the November US elections.
Some consumers won’t be giving Tesla’s new models a look. Eric Thurber, a San Francisco Bay area resident who bought a Model 3 in 2021, expected to keep his car for at least five or six years. After Inauguration Day, he decided to sell at a steep loss.
“I couldn’t handle what Elon Musk was doing anymore,” the 58-year-old said. Thurber had checked on the resale value of his car months earlier and was getting periodic updates indicating that it was depreciating precipitously. While he still owed about $27,000 on the Model 3, he wanted out when Carvana estimated it was worth roughly $22,000. He traded the car in for a BMW i4 electric sedan.
 
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Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California. The carmaker’s vehicles sales in the state fell 12% last year.Photographer: Mike Kai Chen/Bloomberg
Micah Barber, a college professor in Austin, where Musk moved Tesla’s headquarters to in late 2021, currently drives a gas-burning Chevrolet Equinox SUV and plans to make the family’s next vehicle an EV. While he’s admired how much innovation Tesla brought to the auto industry, he’s ruled out buying one of the company’s cars because of Musk.
“He’s become one of the most dangerous people in our country,” Barber, 43, said of Musk at a protest staged this month at Tesla’s showroom in the Texas capital.
The brands accumulating market share at Tesla’s expense have varied by market. In California, Honda and Hyundai gained the most share of the state’s EV market last year. In Germany, Volkswagen AG’s VW, Seat and Skoda, and BMW AG’s namesake brand registered the biggest increases in January sales.

Tesla’s Stranglehold on US EV Sales Loosens

Carmaker likely lost its majority share of market last year
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Source: BloombergNEF, MarkLines
Note: 4Q sales not yet final and could change slightly.
The majority of Lucid Group Inc. customers historically have owned Teslas, and the maker of the $69,900 Air sedan has seen increasing interest in the last several quarters, the company said in an emailed statement. The CEO of Polestar, the EV maker spun off from Volvo Car AB, told Bloomberg News last month that he’d directed salespeople to target disgruntled Tesla owners.
“Three or four years ago, you could that it was kind of a one-horse race,” BJ Birtwell, the CEO of Electrify Expo, which hosts EV festivals for consumers across the US, said of the market dynamics. “Now, it’s so hyper-competitive that most auto manufacturers have really strong offerings that are creating the type of competition for Tesla that they’ve never seen.”
 
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Helton with his Hyundai Ioniq 5 that he purchased instead of another Tesla.Photographer: Mike Kai Chen/Bloomberg

 

Helton, the Model 3 owner who was keen to buy cars built near his home in the Bay area — including by friends working at Tesla’s factory — made tentative plans to purchase another one of company’s vehicles from the first test drive his family took last year. While he’d observed some “red flags” about Musk when he ordered the sedan in May, he wasn’t inclined to hold it against the whole company.
After Musk ratcheted up his political activities, the human resources professional grew reluctant to double-up on the Tesla brand. His family decided to lease a Hyundai Ioniq 5 instead.
“I always felt like if my vote didn’t impact what I was wanting, the other way I can vote is through the vote of my wallet, whether it’s Tesla or anything else,” Helton said. “I’ve been voting with my wallet lately.”
 
— With assistance from Dana Hull, Marilen Martin, William Wilkes, and Wilfried Eckl-Dorna
 
 
 
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23 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

It is pretty much down to this.  The nut-cutting time will be when the US military is ordered to take military action against one of our historical allies -- Canada, France, the UK.  The odds of that happening are skyrocketing.  Then, our troops will have to decide whether they can and should shoot to kill men and women they trained and fought with side-by-side just months ago.  Or, will they act to protect and defend the Constitution, and take action against the foreign state actor in the White House.

We're getting there.  We're getting there faster than even I suspected.

You mean Brisketexan underestimated how bad things would be?  

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I would not be 100% surprised if Australia pulls out of the AUKUS deal and approaches the French again about their subs.  Why on Earth would a nation so firmly tie its self defense to a country with a Trump presidency?  His mercurial nature and his Russian slant is a toxic soup of uncertainty and risk that no sane nation should rely on.  The stakes are too high.

The United States has become the Twitter of countries.  Anyone looking for their BlueSky countries?

5 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Meanwhile, another child was born today (#14 now) that won't ever know their father

 

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Meanwhile at the Musk daycare facility...

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3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

He always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room, so it’s possible he thinks he will destroy Stewart, and his followers will tell him that he will.

Well let's get some fucking popcorn before it's $57 a lb

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39 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

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Tiny broken penis that requires IVF for his non alpha seed to even take purchase. Prove me wrong fat boy.  And man boob's. And effeminate features for a tough guy?

Can't dance; can't fuck as the hot women will tell you 

And a fat gut and high BMI.

And I bet he can't bench 100lb (not that it's a useful metric but bros know bros)

And he is running his companies in the ground despite being shielded by the US government.

Has Elon ever pleasured a female?

Has Elon brought any joy to the planet excepting his helping EVs gain critical mass; something I did a project on in 5th grade nerd summer school in the 80s that concluded it was the way once batteries got there. I mean I'm a dumb mofo but I knew that Evs were beating dragsters way back in the day. My electric RC car ripped off the line back in the 80s. I was a Tesla ( the man)  nerd before Tesla the band got pissed about excess signage.

Can Elon run anything anymore?

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A cousin and her husband are based out of D.C. and work for the same company (well she is on maternity leave).  Her hubby was a big fan of Musk and of a certain political persuasion, and they were happy last November.  Last year, according to their stupid fucking yearly newsletter they send out to family members at the end of December, he got a promotion, they had a baby, their oldest was identified as gifted and talented and they bought a fairly fancy house back in August. She bragged about how it could be their forever home and had posted several photos in the newsletter. Just barely two months ago.

A few hours ago, she posted on FB asking if anybody in the Dallas area had any leads for “well-paying” tech writing jobs (her job) or “network consultants” (his job) and that she was homesick and had convinced hubby to consider a move to Dallas.

Now it’s possible that with the birth of her youngest, she is homesick (they’ve been out there since the mid-2000s).

But they also both work for Booz Allen Hamilton.

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I did not make it to the anti-Musk protest here in NYC (there was one in the Meatpacking Tesla dealership), but just wanted to say Fuck Elon Musk.

Fuck Elon Musk for going on Joe Rogan and calling Social Security a ponzi scheme.

Elon Musk should be run out of the United States on a rail. 

Elon Musk is dismantling any agency that is investigating his companies. 

Fuck Elon Musk.  I am rooting for Ketamine.

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2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

well shit. That ends it. All good here.

In other news he is going to be intereviewed by Tate on the traits of the modern American man. They are opening a clothing line. All the rage in the tech industry. Will have this new design where two sides stick together to keep pockets closed. Added feature are inserts so you look like you have leg muscles so you can spend more time playing games and getting fucked up on ketamine. No one has time for snaps or zippers or leg day. Will look like this.

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In other news. He is announcing he is having kid #16. Here is the mom.

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“Musk said to Joe Rogan that you can't be called a Nazi if you're not actively committing genocide.”
”Not actively.”  Like if I’m not the one literally pulling the trigger? 

This is actually the argument that all of the fascists and their enablers have been making.
Until the camps are ACTIVELY murdering and burning people, we’re being ridiculous.
The stage where they demonize the other? Nope.
The stage where the construct the camps? Nope.
The stage where they cram the “undesirables” into the camps? Nope.
The stage where they set up the actual machinery of mass extermination? Nope.
You ONLY get to say “hey, these guys are Nazis/fascists” AFTER they flip the switch and start the machinery of murder. In other words…after it’s too late.
Their argument is “it’s wrong of you to oppose me while I’m on my WAY to create horrors….its only fair to criticize me and try to stop me after I’ve already done all the bad stuff and it’s too late.”
Fuck that. The time to shoot Nazis in the face is: all the time. Every second of every day. Now, yesterday, one minute from now, all the times.
And Elon is a fucking Nazi. He literally demonizes Jews and any non-white group he can think of, and blames them for the world’s ills, and would like to see them removed. Those are his actual, publicly stated sentiments.

He’s the most evil, dangerous man alive. Come on, ketamine.
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1 hour ago, Parliament said:

“Musk said to Joe Rogan that you can't be called a Nazi if you're not actively committing genocide.”

I know Rogan is too stupid to understand this, but the origins of the German Nazi party trace back to 1920.  The genocide of Jews and other ethnicities didn't start until the late 1930s.  Musk's assertion is simply wrong, but here we are.

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I will be ridiculed and called a lil bitch by the manly men for posting this but I enjoyed the article

 

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After watching clips of JD Vance skiing over the weekend and looking like a 90 year old grandmother, he's going to be even more of asshole than he was on Friday.

 

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