Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71% from the same time last year.
Musk sounded bitter on the call with investors that followed, blaming the company’s misfortune on protesters who have raged at Tesla dealerships around the world over his role running DOGE and his ardent support of far-right politicians.
“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.
“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.
No. When you do a double seig-heil on national television we protest for free.
You have a typo in your Nazigruß. I’m not going to correct it because I don’t want to write out those dirty words.
Germans mostly call it Hitlergruß.
Fuck, I’ll pay to protest at this point. I’m livid at this assface.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Fuck that, take my ideas.
I’ll donate $50 to the legal defense of anyone who rids us of this turbulent billionaire, and I’m not the only one who would
I interpreted what you wrote as paying the government for the right to protest.
I wholly supported crowd funding the fixing of legislation and ending billionaires and preventing billionaire influence in our political, economic, social, and environmental systems.
This is an important part of protesting, if you don’t want to protest yourself you can always do things like this!
The ones I’ve been to have been the least organized protests I’ve seen. There was no announcement on www.mobilize.us, people just showed up on Saturdays at 12. I couldn’t actually find any organizers, there weren’t anyone with mega phones or anything. I wanted to thank them, but it looks like it was largly just people having the same idea.
You can bullshit the American people that they are paid protestors, but if any of his investors buy that line of bullshit, they deserve to lose all their money.
TSLA is around 1.5% of broad market index funds, like S&P 500, so if you’ve taken the general advice to put your 401k or other savings into index funds, you own TSLA.
People with $3500 of TSLA aren’t really who I’m talking about here. You have a technical point, but it’s not really what I was getting at.
Not if you moved to foreign indexes.
I haven’t checked yet but I spent my evening last night completely rebalancing my 401k and IRA to international stocks and municipal bonds.
If all goes well, my 401k should be executed by now. My IRA I have to do myself but that should be done tomorrow.
Bruh, don’t do shit that causes protests then.
This guy was a liberal environmentalist sweetheart and then he decided he was going to say fuck you to his main customer base and throw his ilk in with Trump. This is all on you Musky-boy.
Surprisingly, being a dick pays for itself in miriad ways. Like having throngs of people actively work against your every interest, for free, because you are such a gigantic dick to everyone around you and to everything in your purview. Weird concept I know?! Maybe try being less of a huge gigantic dick to make up for your lack of having a functioning one? You could also try not laughing at the misfortune of others? Maybe they won’t all pile onto laughing about yours?! Just a thought.
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At most companies, it’d be long past time to show the CEO the door. But Tesla’s stock price is inextricably linked to Musk and his onetime image as Silicon Valley’s greatest living genius.
BWaHAAHAhaahaha. Ahhh what a fuckin’ idiot Elmo is.
He is also Tesla’s largest single shareholder, and has a hand-picked board. It would take a lot to get him to leave involuntarily.
Oh yeah, it’s not happening. I just thought the part about his image as the greatest genius was well-played as sarcastic AF and also laughable in hindsight
The picture makes him look like a Dollar Store, Kathy Bates.
You shouldn’t insult Kathy Bates or Dollar Stores like that.
Dollar stores deserve the hate
“They’re paid for”
Bro, if people hate you and you company enough to employ and pay others to protest, then you and your company must be an all new level of shitty. I’m not quite sure the claim/excuse you’re making is the defensive shield you think it is. It sounds much more like an admission of total failure…
And yet the board still thinks it’s a good idea to retain you? I guess it’s heartwarming they’re more loyal to you than they are to the company.
If they were being paid and he knew they were being paid and by whom, they’d have some easy lawsuits to recoup damages and end the protests.
Funny how that’s not happening.
Because then it’s one evil actor instead of you know the of thousands.
But it’s just projection anyway. Every accusation is a confession.
Bro, if people hate you and you company enough to employ and pay others to protest, then you and your company must be an all new level of shitty.
His people—conservatives—don’t follow logic. They have a victim complex and see anything that negatively affects them as someone else’s fault and not the consequences of their own actions. If there isn’t an obvious perpetrator, they scapegoat one into existence.
I’ve debated some of these people and it’s hopeless trying to get them to connect the dots. You can keep presenting them with logic and evidence, and they keep shifting the goalposts and changing the topic to justify their beliefs. A summary of one of my attempts to convince someone that Trump isn’t universally beloved by average Americans went roughly like this:
- “Trump has improved the average citizen’s quality of life”
- “Then why are there 5 million protesters coming out every month?”
- “I haven’t heard of any large protests”
- (links to 50501 Wikipedia page)
- “They’re ‘protesters’ funded by the left”
- “All 5 million of them? That would be extremely expensive, even if it’s just $100 a person. Nobody could afford that.”
- “Remember, all the billionaires are Democrats” (Thiel? Musk?)
- “That’s not even their playbook. It’s cheaper and more effective for them to lobby for changes that benefit themselves.”
- “But they can’t do that anymore because Trump is in charge, so now paid protesters are their preferred choice”
- “Suppose they are paid. With 5 million people, there’s absolutely no way that they’re being paid will remain secret.”
- “OK fine, maybe it’s only a couple hundred thousand being paid.”
I don’t doubt that some tiny handful of people would be paid to protest for some reason or another, but I highly doubt it’s anywhere close to what MAGA conservatives think. IMO, it’s more likely that protesters would be paid by the other side to make the protest violent so they could crack down on them.
I really want one of these paid protester jobs.
Nothing on indeed or LinkedIn. Any tips on where to find them?
Basements of pizza restaurants.
i’d kinda like to see a movie about some sales guys at tesla trying to sell their way around this, maybe dane cook/jeremy piven… and have their discussions with management, and their cooling off after hours. and michael sara just stumbles around with no sense of context and accidently being top rep.
Nobody’s got to pay me to convince me Musk is a nazi piece of shit, he did that all on his own.
he did the salute twice to emphasize his support;.
Free market go brrr
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I’m still waiting for my doge check.
Every accusation is a confession.
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Where do I get my member card?
it’s the same as being a Discordian Pope
I read your comment too fast and envisioned this
