Summary

Elon Musk lashed out online Monday as Tesla stock plunged over 15%, wiping out its post-election rally and shedding 50% of its value since December.

Investors worried about market declines, recession fears, and Tesla’s growing controversy after Musk’s far-right rhetoric and mass government layoffs.

Musk falsely claimed Democratic donors funded anti-Tesla protests and linked critics to Jeffrey Epstein. He amplified conspiracy theories blaming arson attacks on Democrats.

Despite his efforts, Tesla’s collapse cost Musk $23 billion in a single day.

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      “There’s an investigation under way to find those responsible for my lost profits!”

      $20 he’ll demand arrest warrets or deportation of anyone not thinking about buying a tesla

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    JFC I’d actually appreciate the maga version of the Democrats.

    These fictional Democrats are organized, well funded, cohesive and seem to have a great long term strategy for ruining republicans. With an organization like that you’d think that they would be in control of the government?

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      Remember the democrats that have futuristic weather machines? The MAGA Democrats have more powers than the whole MCU.

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    God damn is he stupid. TF did he think was gonna happen when he pissed off the kind of people that buy EV’s

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      He thought he was smarter and that it would be over in a week. He thought no one would keep listening to the bad and they are the type of leaders that only listen to themselves within their own echo chamber.

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    musk melts down

    ah, I was hoping it was literal. maybe one day, fingers crossed.

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    He also circulated a video taken by a customer in their new Cybertruck, writing, “Heartfelt thanks to everyone supporting @Tesla, despite many attacks against our stores and offices.”

    that’s the meltdown.

    It’s RollingStone, btw, whom Yahoo is reposting. This is the Nü “May be collapsing” headline the corporate news sewers need to push. They’re desperate for someone or something to go down so they can claim victory.

    Musk is going to walk away with billions stolen from taxpayers, and he’s not ‘melting down’ for shit, he just Xitted something before dosing himself and it sounds vaguely like something a regular person might have said so they jumped on it.

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      Did you read the whole thing? He also accused wealthy liberals of financing Tesla protests including two that are dead, one for about 5 years. When one of those people told him he was full of it, he replied with:

      Musk replied, “Describe your favorite island vacation,” baselessly implying that Hoffman had visited the Caribbean private island of the late sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

      I don’t know if I would all this a melt down, but it’s not that far short of it.

      Btw, Musk should be cautious with this kind of accusation these days considering that his buddy Donnie was a very good friend of Epstein.

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        “Describe your favorite island vacation,”

        You know that island they exiled Napoleon to? Is it still suitable to leave a certain billionaire there for an indefinite amount of time, or is it a major tourist destination now? Asking for a friend.

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    Let me know when the meltdown reaches the point that we seal him in concrete and bury the container in a cave in the deep desert for the next thousand years.

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      Fun fact: The Nuclear Energy Commission has several ideas on what to do with nuclear waste. Well before The Elder Scrolls: Arena came out, they floated an idea to bury the waste in remote locales, but they couldn’t figure out how to mark it in such a way that would transcend language, since the waste will still be deadly several hundred times longer than any human civilization has managed to last. One of the many ideas they came up with was to cover the sites with what appear to be Daedric Ruins from Morrowind. AFAIA none were ever built, sadly.

      Make America Build Daedric Ruins!

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    Wow, the president is really scared, he even had to call trump for a photo op in front of a Tesla

    trump had to stop golfing after the president called him for promoting sales of Tesla

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      Y’know, if this gets conservatives to actually start being interested in EVs maybe that’s not as bad of a result as it could’ve been

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    I received 0 money from any Democratic donor. They don’t have to pay me to enjoy watching your downfall.

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    This is the true face of Musk, who is stuck perpetually in the mindset of a melodramatic 15 y/o.