Washington DC 23 April 2025
From Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks, by Patrick George in The Atlantic.
“Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71 percent 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.” (emphasis added)
Brief Comment
Elon cannot for the life of him understand that there might be a connection between his conduct over the past 6 months and the total collapse of his reputation. Instead, his only explanation for his plummeting stocks (economic and social) is a mysterious unseen force that is deliberately undermining all his good works. This is the textbook definition of conspiracy theory thinking.
Imagine being so detached from reality you can't connect even the most basic cause and effect. Tesla is where it is not just because the cars are garbage, but because Elon is a clueless fascist prick who is hated by even die-hard maggots. Think about that. The most spiteful pricks in the known universe think Elon is just a bit extra.
Little Elon jumping up and down making the X with his body at rallies impressed no one but him. Behaving like a total tool did not win hearts and minds. Imagine how stunned he was to discover that his passionate Hitler salute - repeated so it could not be mistaken for anything else - turned people off.
Soros
If George Soros stood in the Oval Office in a T-shirt bloviating while Biden passively looked on…. Fox Pravda would have burned the country to the ground. Had Soros then raided the Treasury and IRS computers unsupervised, stealing everyone’s social security numbers and other personal data, they would have sent SEAL TEAM VI to shoot him on sight.
Pravda
If you want to know when the country is well run, just look at how hard Fox Pravda has to work to make a president look like a terrorist over trivial bullshit.
Listen, America cannot survive a Cat 10 bullshit hurricane only from one side all the time. Yes it's uniquely a right wing activity. Because they don't have ideas, quality candidates, or any concern for anything other than taking (illegally if necessary) and holding power. Left wing media does not make mountains out of molehills. They don't need to - the GOP gives them a constant stream of real crises - lies about WMDs in Iraq or a game show host crashing a perfectly good economy for no reason.
Blond Bimbo Baghdad Barbie is taken seriously by the press. Elon accuses Soros for being what Elon actually is - a billionaire baddie trying to take over the world. Weekend talkshow Pete endangers lives. Moscow Tulsi passes secrets to her vladdy. The homeland security tzar, can't keep control of a f*cking handbag in a restaurant in the capital of the homeland, surrounded by secret service agents with Uzi’s. Hillbilly Hitler drives a thriving economy into a great depression… and Pravda Fox cleans up the mess. Millions of trusting proles obey and have no clue what's actually happening. How can we have a functional democracy under these conditions?
Counter-Propaganda
The Daily Show is by far the best counter-propaganda response to Pravda Fox. Here they are exposed for taking any stupid irrelevant detail and turning it into a “crisis” during one of the best-run, scandal-free, decency-laden, and professional presidencies this country has seen since FDR.
Satire is the best response to fascism. Dictators have no sense of humor. They only delight in ‘winning’ zero sum games - in other words - when others suffer. The current regime is evil incarnate. Some think their incompetence is the only thing that might save us. It might also be the thing that sinks us. Being sincere, industrious, stupid and incompetent, is not a good mix when nuclear weapons and global financial markets are the things given to the angry children fighting on the island of broken toys.
Propaganda cant cover up a crashing market or a mushroom cloud. Our only hope is the oft-reported but rarely confessed “scared” GOP decide on impeachment before it’s too late.
Laughing at authoritarians is the best weapon of all, but it’s a sad day when comedians are the only ones pulling the load and pointing the accusing finger.
Where the fuck is the Democratic Party? What are Chuck, Nancy et al waiting for? Hate to tell you Americans, but it’s not going to happen - it has happened.
Wake Up!
Great polemic! Is there a creeping military coup happening within the Pentagon? Hegseth seems increasingly isolated, his aides getting their marching orders from who knows who. It is actually a bad thing for the USA if its military top brass decide who rules, kind of breaking their oath to protect the Constitution. After all, the civil arm calls the shots, unless I'm mistaken. I can see turmoil in the ranks of both the armed forces and MAGA militias ahead.