Elon Musk

Based on the agreement Elon Musk signed to help fund his Twitter purchase, he has experienced his first margin call because of Tesla's stock-price declines. https://t.co/TUjt6sQ7GH

— Barron's (@barronsonline) December 29, 2022

Sorry, can’t breathe pic.twitter.com/uivzA1ni68

— jingle 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗔🎄 (@agirlcalledlina) December 29, 2022

i know this is a boring opinion but i just cant bear him

ugh omg go home nobody wants to play with you

69D Chess

NiceD

to be clear, there is not. he just did not take out a tesla margin loan to buy twitter - thought about it, did not do it. (that said, he had previously pledged shares to secure personal indebtedness, who knows what's up with that.)

— Matt Levine (@matt_levine) December 29, 2022

lol yeah i kind of knew that i still wanted to post it though the fake news of our desires

maybe we can do a citizens margin call

look this is America, people like Elon will never cease to be indefensibly rich. if Trump taught us one thing it's that with the right combination of luck and rich parents you can be in a spot where you cannot fail no matter how much you fuck up. you can even steal national security secrets and plot to overthrow the government and nothing will happen. the only time in your life you could ever possibly face a consequence is by defrauding someone even richer than you. that said none of this really matters because Elon is so clearly a miserable sod who so desperately wants to be funny and well-liked but he just doesn't have the ability to. decades of being spoiled and rich has left him utterly unable to form a single original thought and it drives him crazy. I mean this dude could be doing literally anything he wants to and instead he's just namesearching himself on Twitter and replying "So true!" to guys who couldn't even hack it in Trump's White House. he's the most cringe human being that's ever existed.

Pretty solid Musking™️ from Tesla here. Choking on inventory, slash the price $7,500, collect cash from buyers (juice the Dec 31 cash balance), then delay delivery, revoke the cash and SC mile incentives (might as well get the margins back up while we’re at it) and send a bill. pic.twitter.com/po5uONIXzI

— Keubiko (@Keubiko) December 30, 2022

lol owned

The margin loan issue is interesting. If he did, he’d might, surprisingly, be in a better spot since there’d be some finality. The worst thing he can do is let Twitter slowly drain Tesla.

I’ve been asking everyone I know who might know something whether Musk has been shopping Twitter. Nobody has heard anything. That’s so insane to me. I’m positive there’s a deal somewhere. Most people think the lack of any discussion is because of the FTC (and the European regulatory body whose name I forgot) and/or a belief that we’re about to enter the worst recession of our lives (see that billionaire bomb shelter article from a few months back).

Or, the woke mind virus is not yet defeated.

kind of wondered when the $7500 was contingent on taking delivery by December 31st if they actually had any cars ready to deliver. seems like an insane bait and switch

there oughta be a law o wait

They only announced the deal on 12/22 knowing snowstorms were imminent.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-offers-7500-discount-on-cars-delivered-before-2023

that also assumes that the cars exist and are shippable

can’t delay the shipment of a nonexistent car due to snow, but you can say you did

thats some real scumbag shit wow

I’ve been asking everyone I know who might know something whether Musk has been shopping Twitter. Nobody has heard anything. That’s so insane to me. I’m positive there’s a deal somewhere.

― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, January 1, 2023 10:08 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

how much do you think he could get for it tho a quarter of what he paid, an eighth

tbh I assumed they had a handful of cars to clear out and knew they’d be oversold/underdelivered

Seems most likely

We are living in The Purge, but for consumer crime.

this things got to have a longer wheel base than any actual vehicle

For the first time in 100 years, the competition is coming for legacy auto

Welcome to the year of the Cybertruckpic.twitter.com/tE7QBqPfDm

— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) January 1, 2023

shouldve thought about four wheel steering if youre gonna make it like that

of course not close to being street legal as pictured, tiny bumpers weird sharp corners prob no crumple zones

always wanted something in stainless steel

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Delorean_DMC-12_side.jpg/640px-Delorean_DMC-12_side.jpg

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlbBJ1UXkAA7e15?format=jpg&name=medium

Ryan @Ryanadambarrett
Replying to @WholeMarsBlog
How soon will it be before we see you in it Omar?

Whole Mars Catalog @WholeMarsBlog
Replying to @Ryanadambarrett
2 weeks

steef (here for the 🛞🔥) @steefenstein
Replying to @WholeMarsBlog and @Ryanadambarrett
You're gonna save so much money on condoms

Catturd2 OTM

the CyberTruck will have a special rolling coal mode that belches particulate matter for the lulz

in true Tesla fashion it will come out the AC vents though

In ten years we'll all have tanks and the road will be open warfare

Wish they were allowed to build it without side mirrors pic.twitter.com/oNLLY8Nbiu

— Tesla and Doge (@TeslaAndDoge) January 1, 2023

They’re required by law, but designed to be easy to remove by owners

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2021

Fucking dum-dums.

what the shit

...the tyranny of safety

Or basically this dumb thread

People who look over their shoulder to check their blind spot when changing lanes on a motorway, classic or fucking terrifying?

Huh, wonder if (CA) regulators can point to a screenshot of a tweet about evading regulations to keep them off the street?

In the event any of them do ever make it to the road it's going to be a moral imperative to fuck them up at every opportunity.

teslas have the side cameras don't they? so that's probably why all the tesla stans think they don't need side mirrors.

This truck is never coming out.

yeah

So I guess the appeal of these is that fanboys think it looks like some Robocop military vehicle? Is that the deal, like a next-gen Hummer kind of thing? Because they're so objectively ugly and awkward that it's just hard for me to imagine anyone wanting one.

yeah i dont think theyd sell too many of them but theyre good for pr purposes

it's a nerd car for nerds imo, total niche thing, truck guys won't want anything to do with it (especially with the inevitable build quality problems)

Truck guys have already paid for every F150 lightning coming off the line for the next 18 months or whatever

jeez that blind spot thread

it seemed slightly annoying the first time I was in a car that had the little light up "there's a car next to you, dude" indicator on the side mirrors but it makes sense after looking at what people think

obviously a Tesla with side cameras would just say "it's cool it's just a child, merge on"

My car has sensors that beep if I signal or start to pull into a lane that someone's in. I still check my blind spots, but it's a handy failsafe.