Elon Musk thread 🧵, part 4.
In which Elon leaves government (as if) and goes back to sleeping on his factory floor because that's all he's good for.
Also, In which employees are annoyed Musk is back to the job site and disrupting their work.
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Part 1 https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/110687620064016032
Part 2 https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/111655979095126124
Part 3 https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/113438252884671201
Elon has used this tired "I'm sleeping on the floor" nonsense forever. It's just silly propaganda. In fact we all know he plays video games all night.
Here's Vanity Fair on Musk's sleeping on the floor and his other ridiculous behavior:
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/elon-musk-sleeping-in-his-office-white-house
How anybody thinks this man has two brain cells to rub together is beyond me. He's a con man that's it.
"Elon showed up to a press conference with Trump on Friday with a black eye, claiming that this was due to his son "punching him in the face" because he told him to."
I don't even know what's going on any more.
The WSJ reported last October that Musk had been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022 and also that his contacts with foreign nationals led SpaceX lawyers to advise him against seeking a higher security clearance over fears that he might have to explain the relationships or have his clearance revoked entirely.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/elon-musks-frequent-meetings-foreign-35370606
Elon's own "maximally truth seeking" AI thinks Elon is the person most deserving of a desth sentence. 🤷
I got nothing. This show is crazy.
IS IT OR IS IT NOT FULL SELF-DRIVING LOL
https://electrek.co/2025/06/16/tesla-on-self-driving-stuck-train-track-hit-train/
So what foreign workers does Elon have driving his fake "self-driving" robo taxi con act?
Has there been a story? Are they being driven by remote? Because he doesn't have full self-driving worth a damn.
Looks like Tesla's Robotaxis hit the road (only a few of them) and already there's video of it losing its mind and crossing double yellow lines.
7:10 for the car losing its mind
20:40 for blinker but no turn
Musk: "... if it is the last thing I do on this Earth."
Me: IS HE FINALLY GOING TO MARS??? 👐🙏
"The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing"
Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?
"Tesla released a statement to the press saying the company was “deeply saddened” by the incident, adding, “We are working to gather all the facts in this case and are fully cooperating with local authorities.”
To this day, Meier still doesn’t know why her husband died."
Doesn't sound like full co-operation to me.
Tesla lies and hides everything.
_Tesla must pay $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says_
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/tesla-must-pay-329-million-in-damages-in-fatal-autopilot-case.html
Ketamine Karen rolled out a pornographic AI anime companion and also landed grifting defence contracts because hey it's 2025 and humanity had a good run.
_Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Department of Defense Contract_
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/grok-pornographic-anime-companion-department-of-defense-1235385034/
So if Tesla hits a market cap of 8 trillion dollars, Elon Musk will receive a pay package that will make him worth a trillion dollars.
If anyone is still oblivious that this is a con, nothing will save them. 😄
If this guy could be a bigger dirt bag, I don't know how.
Where's moral hazard when Elon Musk (con man and idiot) gets himself voted a one trillion dollar pay package.
Oh and racist. I forgot the racism.
So the man who showed up to the White House with a black eye and claimed that he asked his son to punch him in the face is now going to manufacture computer chips. 🤡
"Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, to build the "largest chip manufacturing facility ever." In his usual grandiose fashion, Musk claims Terafab is the next step towards harnessing the power of the sun and creating a "galactic civilization."
Is anyone even listening to this racist nutter any more?
You couldn't pay me to take one of his cars.
Exclusive details: ‘It has been a struggle for [our client] to even talk about it enough for us to be able to file this lawsuit on her behalf,’ attorney Quinton Seay told The Independent
Tesla makes large profits in the United States. It then pays huge costs to a partnership domiciled in the Netherlands which isn't real. So Tesla pays zero United States tax.
It also pays little tax in the Netherlands, too. Tax data is confidential there, so we won't know how that works.
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However, note that even if Tesla had to pay taxes in the United States on this $18 billion of profits it would have paid $400 million of taxes. (Ref https://economictimes.com/news/international/business/elon-musk-scorned-shady-loopholes-yet-offshore-tax-tricks-likely-saved-tesla-hundreds-of-millions/articleshow/130389082.cms. By the way, I have no idea how it would be such a small number!)
If an individual made $18 billion of income they would have to pay roughly half of it - $9 billion - as taxes.
So there's something else gravely wrong with this situation.
Tesla has reportedly saved over 400 million dollars on US taxes. This was achieved through a financial maneuver involving its units in the Netherlands and Singapore. These units posted 18 billion dollars in profits that were not taxed in those countries. This practice allowed Tesla to reduce its tax bill in the United States.
Finally, all these tax shenanigans are just straight up making Elon Musk rich. That's it. It's just more con man bullshit because all of these savings pump the stock price which goes straight in his pocket for the most part.
He's just a boy-faced con man. And a racist Nazi of course.
And at the same time that Tesla makes record profits by not paying any taxes, it also makes absolutely trash automobiles.
_It’s Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto_
https://fuelarc.com/news-and-features/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data […]
Unsurprisingly Uber does the same thing and avoids taxes using dozens of shell companies.
Any rational actor would take full advantage of these tax loopholes, unfortunately.
the rich live in parallel universes to our own. the biggest one is finance and applicable tax law. a good rule to remember is - anytime you find out about some weird niche tax law exists? that's because it only applies to rich people and its written to make sure they don't have to pay
And they have the money to delay fixing any of the loopholes by lobbying, which they do, or also sometimes simply by fighting the tax authorities. Tax authorities will go after regular people because they can't fight back. Seen the huge consulting firms get away with all kinds of things because they can threaten to go to trial. The government then has to consider budget issues. Regular people can't threaten to go to trial.
Tax discrepancies across jurisdictions are a big problem. Ireland created one with its low tax rate and it boosted their economy at the expense of a lot of tax revenue to many other countries. People didn't seem to have a problem with it. They lauded Ireland without really understanding what was going on.
the one that still gets me wound up are the tax laws concerning large stadium projects write offs using a law to encourage small business' in low income areas
John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out that boards of trustees tend to be the CEO's friends, and they all trade favors, to the point where a CEO's pay is not so much market rates as "a warm personal gesture from the individual to himself".
Running endless "fundraising rounds" and then funnelling almost all those funds to himself makes Tesla look like straight-up stock fraud.
@jmcrookston India, iirc. And there's the one in the passenger seat. Two drivers and a computer "driver", all ready to blame one another for less than 5 bucks a ride.
This is going to fail super hard. It was a grift for a trillion dollars that he can close and file bankruptcy about.
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