You’re Trump’s scapegoat, Elon. That spotlight is not going away for a long time. The worst is yet to come.

Ah, no. The real tariffs come when the EU starts to charge them through the nose for using EU customer data. This is on the agenda for when some real retaliation is needed.

I guess it’s not that different from permanently living in a fallout shelter.

I’m surprised there aren’t any geriatric Luigi yet.

Why connect to the Internet with it then

To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course

Ukraine can surrender to Russia without USA’s help. Trump deal is the same as surrendering, but where USA also gets a cut.

Most CEOs do try to stay out of the spotlight. Those that are more in the spotlight at least try to do some positive PR and not rock the boat too much. Security through obscurity if you will.

Of course Musk and Zuckerberg are some of the few that dance with the devil in the spotlight and have made their company/ies their whole personality. They paint their faces larger than life on the company and then act surprised when people take it personally.

He does the Nazi salute on the big stage and it shocked when he gets a collective middle finger salute back.

On the other hand, he went with Trump. Everybody going that way gets burned, used up, and thrown away. That things wouldn’t work out was expected. It’s also suspected that Musk would be used as the wrecking ball to crush institutions and when the inevitable problems arise, Musk would be blamed and tossed aside to keep the rest of the regime in the clear.

That’s the Joker.

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In the long term, the domestic industry may grow to the point that it displaces the imports

That’s there idea, but the on-again-off-again tariffs policy creates such an uncertainty and lack of customer demand nobody wants to invest.

Just because some things are intangible doesn’t mean they’re not real.

Too late to make it great again. Maybe it can go up to halfway decent if the damage he does before leaving is not too big.

You own the kitchen, or the mice own it and you just have a timeshare.

Also the belief the future will be better and more abundant. People need that as possible parents being scared of the future are not having (more) children.

And the society we live in tells us money, expensive status symbols and varying experiences you can brag about are the most important things. Having many children stands in the way of that

He’s the hero in his own mind, in the sense of: “I’m burning down society to the ground to rebuild it better for all! Can’t people see that?! Don’t they realize what I’m trying to do for them!!!” Of course he doesn’t have enough awareness to realize people can’t see that through the smoke and flames of everything burning around them.

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“He used his insider connections to get a map of all locations and is now denying using a map, even though there is footage of a gardener giving him directions to a particularly difficult spot while pointing at the map. He said his great sense of direction and instincts for the hunt never fail him.”