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Excellent, please do, Elon. Arguably he has never been in politics, he just bought off Trump to get a job.
Bullying works.
In all honesty, if he left politics and stayed out of it I wouldn't my just leaving him to his harem and 40k.
America's democracy is in dire enough straits that we don't need to be stuck fighting the world's richest man on top of the whole mechanism of government. If he'll get and stay gone, I say leave him to it.
On the other hand, he's rich enough that he can jump back in at any time and go back to fucking our democracy and he's proven to be impulsive and mercurial, willing to throw his lot in with fascists because he got trolled on Twitter over how skin deep his progressive credentials are.
If he leaves that means the autocrats are ready to complete their coup. Then our only chance will be the military.
Damage done. It's not even good news at this point.
Like that will save him. He has always been a dickbag and will always be one. Just took a lot of people way too long to realize it.
Maybe get back to Tesla, I hear it’s stock is tanking.
Is this the same fatigue that Trump feels when fact checkers are present? He's always annoyed because the fact checkers frequently pipe up to correct him, but apparently it hasn't occurred to him they would be silent if he told the truth.
Please leave your billions too, or the attacks will continue
He already gave himself backdoor access to everything. Don't believe he's really gone.
He's gonna come back like a ransomware hacker, threatening to delete whole systems unless he gets what he wants.
Still hope your businesses all get destroyed.
Until Trump and friends give him inside trading advice, they will. (Allegedly)
They already did de facto insider trading advice when the Mango Mussolini posted "this is a great time to buy" on Truth Social hours before pausing his stupid tariffs.
That cesspit is TECHNICALLY publicly available, but apart from a few journalists with the shittiest assignment ever, the only people likely to be there at 9:37am are members of his cult and adjacent sickos.
Besides, even if it's not insider trading, it's one of the most blatant examples of deliberate market manipulation ever, which is also illegal.
Insider traders are picking the bones of the 401K folks. Best move you money into an IRA where you can go with the flow, as in buy in low the sell on the manipulated highs.
Plus there's the possible benefit of Northern Ireland getting to rejoin the EU 😉
I wish.
He’s running because Trump is getting tired of him and he achieved his strategic goals of removing business regulation hurdles.
Blaming attacks from the left makes him look like a victim and play up the “evil leftists” angle so they can attack them more, while giving him a “safe” out.
We aren't letting up. Musk is hated, like every Nazi.
Lots of people would like to "leave politics", as they find themselves under "vicious and unethical attacks" by politicians. However, those people's political existence was forced upon them, they didn't want to be a "political" object, especially not in the current landscape.
Musk instead took up his political role consciously, and used it to further attack and harm many who would prefer to be left in peace. He had the luxury to activate himself, commit far worse violence upon the people than he has been subjected to by the people, and when he realises he doesn't really like it, even though the issues he's facing are probably comparatively trivial, he (believes he) has the luxury to return to a more secluded, safe position.
It's really quite disgusting. And I fear he'll get away with it. But I am at least satisfied that his story (a supposed tech guru with his marketing bullshit and his comically immature behaviour) has damaged much of the aura of the modern technocapitalist elite.
"The left is attacking me."
[Gives Nazi salute.]
"Why are people attacking me? They must hate efficiency."
What a pussy.
Call yourself Dark Maga. Cry and run when the heat gets hot.
Pussy.
Wait, when did he enter into politics? All I see is him buying power?
I'm almost certain that he has been ordered by his board of directors to get back to work, or be removed as CEO of Tesla.
There is almost certainly a shareholder class-action suit brewing over his reckless and irresponsible behavior over the last several months, which has directly caused severe, and possibly irreparable, damage to the company's brand image AND it's sales around the world, as well as tanking the stock price, an unforgiveable sin in the investing world. Now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. As future earnings reports are released, and sales continue to slide, the stock will continue to decline, and the cycle will continue until bankruptcy. And it is all traceable to Skum's self-indulgent, egotistical behavior.
The only question is will Skum be the only defendant, or will the lawsuit also name the individual members of the board, for not reigning him in, or firing him. They don't want to be sued alongside him, so they are forcing him to get back to work saving Tesla, thus letting them off the hook for legal liability.
Its doubtful Skum will be able to save Tesla at this point, its almost certainly too late. It is also probably too late to avoid a shareholder lawsuit. Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum's outrageous behavior, which, as CEO, he should have realized would damage his company and its investors significantly.
And arguing that he didn't recognize the danger in advance is no excuse at all for a CEO, who should have been able to predict the response to his self-indulgent ego bender.
Shareholders have lost many millions, and they won't just let that go with an "Oh well." He's likely going to get sued, and the board is just making sure they don't go down with him.
You hear that guys? It's working; keep it up.
He's not leaving politics, he's at most changing vector. From being visible, to working more in the shadows.
Oh, he won't leave. I don't believe it for a second. There's too much money and power. He is going to milk the insider connections for as long as he can. But he might adjust his position to try to get the pressure shifted to others.
the "mythical left" that he and the right wingers keeps fantasizing about think it exists in the us.
If they're participating in direct action that hurts the world's richest man, then I'd count them as leftist in that moment.
Somebody call the wambulamce.
Seize his assets and deport.
That's an act of war against South Africa.
Until I see it realistically happen, he's staying. It is all theater.
Yeah, boo hoo, fuck off forever you egomaniacal nepo-baby.
