Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’
Elon Musk backs down from $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn’t ‘subscribe to cult of personality’
But, Trump demonstrated “great courage” after being shot on July 13, the CEO added.
lol
I wish I had something more to say, but this is fucking hilarious in so many ways...
That was my only thought. Just LOL. My brain broke from reading that line.
Yeah I had too many hilarious thoughts all trying to squeeze out of my brain at once and it was a traffic jam.
Is Musk out of money? That's hilarious. Did Trump just suffer a huge stinging loss in both money and PR? Yes. Are these hits coming faster than Trump can field them? Obviously! They haven't even managed to deal with Kamala yet and now this.
Trump is off balance and against the ropes right now just as the Dems had a massive infusion of money and energy and this is the best I've felt in months. It won't last. They'll find their messaging and start punching back, and the excitement of Kamala stepping up will be hard to sustain until November. But right now we are on top, Trump is scared and angry, and it feels great.
It’s not even true. He still has a superPAC for trump, and he didn’t actually deny the figure. He just said the original story wasn’t accurate that he’s donating it to trump. But to the superPAC. So the story hasn’t changed. This is all spin. And they just printed it.
I have a feeling he's still donating the money, but realized he was doing it too loudly and attracting attention to the oligopoly.
Nah I think this is just another example of Elon Musk being impulsive and not thinking through the consequences of his statements.
He can't actually afford $45m a month. His wealth is in Tesla shares (which are difficult to draw done further both while he continues to try to fleece the company with an absurd pay package and also can't risk destabilising the share price - its something of a house of cards with its value largely based on the future possibility of a flawed self drive tech) and Twitter (which took $20bn of his actual liquid assets and then debt and which he is running into the ground).
Also he may be realising the PR mistake of backing trump when he runs an electric car company that is losing market share and valued speculatively rather than actual financials.
His focus is really gettingnas much out of Tesla as hebcan before the markets turn on it.
That bit you said about realizing his PR mistake, I’ve got an interesting bit on that.
I have a friend who is pretty conservative, we live in one of the most conservative areas in the US (Trump got close to 90% of the vote here). He went all in on Tesla stocks early on and then later he bought two of the Model S. One for him, one for his wife. Everywhere he went he had to defend that decision. “Huht huht, Jim’s done turned into a socialist and got himself a liberal car!” Dumb shit like that. For years the car was so rare around here that he got attention like he was cruising around in an old Model T Ford, only it was always negative attention.
His was the only Tesla I ever seen in person for years.
After Musk made his personality very public though, I see them everywhere. I’m in rural VA. These people have to charge them at home. I’ve never seen a charge station anywhere. He no longer gets attention for his car. I pass about 5 of them on the way to work every day.
I know this information is mostly useless, but maybe his batshit insane interactions with the public have actually been good for electric cars, as silly as that might sound. To a lot of people out here in redneck land, the electric car is no longer a California pussy liberal car if it’s a Tesla. It’s a status symbol. “Look at me fellers, I’m doing putty good fer myself!”
And I guess per our infallible supreme court he can donate in complete secrecy if he wants to.
Thought the same thing.
It's all totally fake news! He only donated 44 million!
Could be. I was wondering it it was a Twitter type thing were he didn't have the cash.
Absolutely. This guy's a complete pussy in every possible direction.
Man, don’t get complacent
Anything could happen. 2 states could get their votes overruled by the Republican state legislatures. People could see that it’s close and start attacking poll workers. The machines could cheat. Fuckin anything could happen. The time when the rat is cornered is 1,000% the most dangerous time.
Vote. Anything could happen. Treat it like a fuckin emergency, because it is.
While quite dangerous, the cornered rat may get a shovel to the head. Put on your rat kicking boots!
When Peterson pressed Musk for why he was switching to Trump, after long voting Democratic, Musk said that Democrats had become the party of censorship.
That's super ironic...
"Free speech is when I can say whatever I want and you listen to me and shut up." - Pretty much all free speech absolutists
"Oh, can I do the same and you have to listen to me?"
It's like a song called "Ironic" that contains no irony.
The levels of irony here are off the fucking charts.
He doesn't subscribe to a cult of personality *that's not his own.
He literally sells subscriptions to his cult of personality
Narcissists, like vampires, are not natural allies
Uh and what has changed for the muskrat to suddenly grow a smidge of conscious? That trump may loose and he won't be reimbursed by the orange president?
Trump? Reimburse?
Wait….. what?
Maybe the wrong word. I mean in the sense that Elon thought of getting something more out of his 45 mil a month to trump once the latter became again president.
The aid money for Ukraine. Or from selling government secrets.
Not Trump may lose. is going to lose.
This is going to be seen as the political equivalent of the 2017 patriots 28-3 come from behind win against the Falcons. Momentum has shifted, women now have an actual woman to vote for, and whoever the VP pick is, will seal the deal.
Border issue:
Republicans killed a bill that would have fixed it
Abortion and IVF:
Republicans are against both things which 80% of America are for.
Honest to goodness Nazi playbook in Project 2025:
Who the fuck would vote for that shit if the democrats actively show the public what's in it?
Old as dirt candidate:
That's the Orange Shit-Stain on the right.
Tesla profits are way down. He might simply be unable to afford it. Simplest explanations and all.
I don’t know if this is the actual reason, but it’s damn pleasant to think about.
Maybe the Tesla board finally explained to him that Trump voters don’t buy their products.
Uh and what has changed for the muskrat to suddenly grow a smidge of conscious?
It's best to really doubt what Musk says. Likely he's still giving money but using weasel words to pretend he's not because of the fallout.
There's no smidge of conscience, this is merely self preservation after he became aware that he was drawing too much attention to it.
oh fuck off. you literally volunteered that information without anyone asking and now that you're getting massively clowned on it and the Brandon switch looking bad for your bet, you're backing down like the big pussy you've always been you absolute weasel.
will any of these manly men LARPers ever "man up"?
Coming from a dude who only ever was a cult of personality.
he ‘doesn’t subscribe to cult of personality’
More broadly, this is fucking hilarious to watch
"...doesn't subscribe to a cult of personality" not the onion!!??!!
European market open
Yeah Tesla is in a death spiral
Ya love to see it
Not donating money to Trump, but donating it to a Trump Super PAC which is the same thing.
"I mean I don't subscribe to the cult of anyone else's personality."
So everyone against Trump hates him for... well lots of reasons, but most recent the blatant Trump support. He's not going to win back anyone from that group, even with this backpedaling.
And now everyone in the MAGA camp hates him because he has betrayed Dear Leader.
So does this mean that everyone hates him now, or does he just have to rely on the support of apolitical middle-ground both-parties-are-the-same sorts?
So was he just overcome with emotion at the thought of losing Dear Leader?
Why just yesterday I was suggesting to a coworker that the Musk pledge was probably bullshit. They’re both dudes who like to promise big and then completely fail to deliver, why would this be any different?
Musk suddenly realized he'd rather have good time American dollars than wartime bonds from the new new Republic of Texas
so he created a trump super pac but what is he denying exactly?
He needs to fuck off and die.
lmao what a massive douche.
He doesn't, he just wants everyone else to.
Can’t blame him; I churn my subscriptions too…
New rule: We all stop talking about this asshole and giving him the attention he clearly craves
Negativity isn’t the attention he craves. Dude needs to be worshiped. Just like his buddy Trump. Ignoring these assholes won’t make them go away. Shaming them is all we can do since we’re stuck with them.
His entire life is built upon and fueled by cult of personality. It's the reason he owns that shitty website.
He is lying or realizing Tesla stock would tank under Trump
Is this not the onion?
Someone should trick Trump into saying he plans to nationalize spacex when elected.
Trump already said he'd ban EVs.
I guess drumpf didn’t swallow
Archive link: https://archive.is/VVGRC
Fuckin called it.
They’re all nothing if not predictable.
I wish he'd just shut the fuck up and go away already...
Why is he moving his entire business to Texas then? Texas politics are a cult. It's not even legal for pregnant women to drive on the highway in Texas on the grounds that they might be trying to flee the state and get an abortion. I think twice before buying anything from a Texas based company. I don't want to accidently support any part of their broken politics.
I would actually never drive through Texas, but I can find no evidence for your claim.
It's not even legal for pregnant women to drive on the highway in Texas on the grounds that they might be trying to flee the state and get an abortion.
I see some reporting from later last year about a possible law asking those lines, but nothing actual.
Can you point me in the right direction?
Rats and sinking ships
Was this just a troll? Like he's just fucking with Trump like he fucks with everyone or was it the call for a investigation about him preventing some from followimg Harris on Twitter.
Pot, meet Kettle?
Hes just being a pissbaby because the pissbaby whose cock he's been sucking said mean things about EVs.
lolz