Comment by mmooss
1 day ago
> DOGE is a complete clusterfuck.
It depends what the objectives are. My impression is that they have been very successful pursuing their actual objectives, while providing a cover story of a 'clusterfuck'.
1 day ago
> DOGE is a complete clusterfuck.
It depends what the objectives are. My impression is that they have been very successful pursuing their actual objectives, while providing a cover story of a 'clusterfuck'.
And conveniently gutting agencies that are or were soon to be thorns in Elon's side. FAA and EPA were annoying him around SpaceX's Starship test launches, CFPB would be annoying for his future everything app plans for Twitter, etc.
Maybe. But none of those make him as much money as Tesla which is in the dumps with all the shenanigans. From a motivation perspective it seems more like rank stupidity than Machiavellian.
It doesn't seem rational but he's not exactly been acting that way for a while, he's made a pretty hard right turn that was always going to damage Tesla's main market.
Also if Twitter/X became a payment and banking platform that's a huge revenue source that could dwarf Tesla.
Their aim seems to be power, and many wealthy people in the US have jumped on the bandwagon of supporting the seizure of power while sacrificing some money. Musk will have a roof over his head regardless.
> But none of those make him as much money as Tesla which is in the dumps with all the shenanigans.
Give Musk a year or two out of DOGE and it won't matter - Tesla will be back up after Musk isn't in the government spotlight. The voters in the US (who by and large are good little consumers) have the memory of a goldfish for things like this.
You can't even get progressives to not eat at Chick-fil-A despite their founders blantent homophobia. This incident is not going to keep people from buying Tesla in the long run.
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