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!”
You know what? If it gets them driving electric, fuck it, I’ll take it.
It was Elon’s plan all along. He really is a genius!
…/s
Oh I definitely don’t think that. Dude is clearly a moron, it just happened that way.
I don’t know if he’s a moron or not really, if he just got lucky being born into money or whatever. I know he has some moron takes though, like nonstop.
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.
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.
I agree, but…
Did you mean IDF or IVF?
IVF lol.
was watching the news at the time and the Gaza war was on.
Sadly, the average American are pretty supportive of the IDF
damn, I am really not into that sport or anything, but that asswhippin that the falcons toted around after that was rough on anyone in the metro area.
As an Atlantan, ouch. Great analogy but ouch.
Sorry 'bout that, lol. I felt for you guys. As a Packer fan in the northeast, I was pulling for them.
NFC for life, son.
Except the Bears. They can fuck right off.
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.
Coming from a dude who only ever was a cult of personality.
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”?
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.
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?
“I mean I don’t subscribe to the cult of anyone else’s personality.”
So was he just overcome with emotion at the thought of losing Dear Leader?
