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Nonilex

Looks Desperate

How to lose $148B in less than 2 months

By Charlie Warzel

For years, ’s critics have accused him of behaving like a crooked used-car salesman. Tues afternoon, he did it for real on the WH South Lawn.

Squinting in the sun w/Elon , Trump stood next to 5 vehicles, holding a piece of paper w/handwritten notes about their features & costs. Trump said he would purchase a car himself at full price.


theatlantic.com/technology/arc

The Atlantic · Elon Musk Looks DesperateBy Charlie Warzel
Mar 14, 2025, 05:07 PM·Public·Mastodon for iOS
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Nonilex

Then & got into one of the cars. Musk explained that the electric vehicle was “like a golf cart that goes really fast.” Trump offered his own praise to the camera: “Wow. That’s beautiful. This is a different panel than I’ve—everything’s computer!”

This was a stilted, corrupt attempt to juice a friend’s stock, & certainly beneath the office of the presidency. But you ought not to overlook just how the spectacle was for Musk.

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Nonilex

The subtext of the event—during which also declared that the White House would label any acts of violence against dealerships as domestic terrorism—was the ongoing countrywide protests against , due to ’s role in the Trump admin.

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))

@Nonilex

Looking forward to going to this weekend's #TeslaTakedown. Let's push those stocks down even further.

#ACartheid
#Swasticar

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Kirsty

@CindyWeinstein @Nonilex
Someone had posted about Tesla’s federal tax bills (minuscule to non-existent), which led me down one of those filings rabbit holes,

Do we know why Elon’s brother is again selling off shares this month?

Ref: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/13

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Finnhits

@Nonilex The rest of us (here in Europe) are probably foreign terrorists.

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That Nonproductive Guy

@Nonilex Plot twist: The car actually runs on the power of their combined egos, not electricity.

Two mentally handicapped people sitting in the front seats of a red car. The person on the left, wearing a black cap and sunglasses, appears happy to have his left hand up the ass of the other man. The person on the right, wearing a dark blue suit and red tie, appears to be enjoying being fisted by his con-pilot.
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Paul Chernoff

@Nonilex @JonChevreau Reminds me of Bush 1 and supermarket scanners.

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