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Watch how Tesla goes bankrupt because of one CEO's idiocy and greed and then blame unions for it. Tale as old as time.
If we could stop giving him tax breaks and government money, that would be good.
Reminds me of another grifter who built a real estate portfolio with tax breaks.
Fun fact about that:
Tesla has won $17 million to build a total of 41 charging stations. The next-biggest winner of grants, Oklahoma-based Francis Energy, was awarded much more money — almost $30.4 million — to build just 37 stations. (source
If anyone else in the industry could step up to make them less relevant, that would be awesome.
It's because they need to use pure gold for the cables it's the only thing that can deliver the 1.21 jiggawatts the cars need.
why does elon think people will agree with him that unions are bad? Arent super rich the only ones who agree with that opinion?
You'd be shocked how much anti union hate is alive and well in impoverished Republican areas. The propaganda succeeded.
this right here, I live in a predominantly blue district and the amount of people that believe that unions are the worst thing that can happen to a worker is insane. I have to give it to the anti-union propaganda, it was efficient and it worked.
If it wasn't so vile, it's downright impressive. Even my mother is anti-union. Women's rights, immigrant protections, universal healthcare, wealth taxes, etc.
But she will argue against me until I'm gasping for air that unions are bad for workers.
I grew up in a blue collar area and the normal lines that get repeated over and over is that unions prevent hard workers from standing out and excelling. They reward and promote laziness. They make the labour so expensive the business cant survive. And on and on.
I'm all for unions even though I was fucked over by Pepsi's union. Just make sure your union leaders aren't company men or women.
Sounds like nom union corporate software development.
Shhh...he's campaigning for Harris in the rust belt at this point and doesn't know it 😉 #galaxybrain
I would also like to see Tesla either unionized or dead.
Thanks, Elon. You've convinced me. I won't vote for Joe Biden in November.
Look at all this Republican propaganda working! First I refused to vote for Hunter Biden for President in November, and now I'm not even voting for Joe Biden in November. I'll go even further, there is not a single man on the Democratic or Republican tickets I'm planning to vote for for President in November.
I agree. I have yet to find a man worth voting for. I guess we'll have to wait until the DNC. The Democrats might nominate the man I'll vote for, but I doubt it.
I'm not gonna vote for a woman either. Not until us Europeans are allowed to vote in US elections.
Damn and they just talked me out of voting for Hunter.
I was also ready to vote for Obama a third time until they convinced me he wasn't born in the United States.
OH NO! But if Tesla shuts down then the only source for quality electric cars would be Ford, Toyota, Lexus, BMW, Volkswagen, Porsche, Honda, Audi, Chrysler, Subaru, Mercedes, Fiat, GMC, Hyundai, Cadillac, Genesis, Rivian, Nissan, Volvo, and Kia.
Tesla and Musk owe sooooo much of their success to huge federal and state level EV tax bonuses and rebates. The government essentially subsidized his company for decades. He decided to dump all that money into an ego boost instead of R&D, and let other manufacturers catch and even surpass Tesla in technology and features. He's done. Tesla is done.
"he would rather tesla be dead then not unionized"
Uhhh.. Okay, sure. That sounds great. Either or.
‘No Business Which Depends for Existence on Paying Less Than Living Wages to Its Workers Has Any Right to Continue in This Country’
Fortunately at this point it no longer matters if Tesla is dead or not. All car manufacturers caught up. Genius Musk singlehandedly destroyed the biggest Tesla fan base and opportunity to capitalize on being first.
Just yesterday, on Twitter, I saw a guy selling his Tesla because of Elon’s anti-trans moves. Actively asking for other EV recommendations, and getting a ton.
yes, he already got his bonus, but he will never let a good catastrophe go to waste and use it to discredit unions.
Still not sure why the idiot shareholders approved the pay package...
If I was a large institutional investor with a significant amount of cash tied up in Tesla stock I would be concerned about Musk selling off his shares en mass and tanking the share price. Musk has shown nothing but how petty he can be even if it hurts himself when he doesn't get what he wants
He axed the supercharger department.
You know, the one thing Tesla had over all other EVs, the robust chargers that were everywhere.
I’d have cut and run then.
That's funny.
So Musk rather wants Tesla dead than unionized
Translation: Biden is utterly controlled by those dirty little working class people and would rather they have benefits and a safe work place over me and my rich friends making more money.
How does Biden become controlled by an auto worker union? 
(Trump vowing to crush electric vehicles)
Musk: Why is Kamala planning on ruining Tesla?
While bankrolling him. Maybe it's ma$o¢hism
For those just joining us, Elmo has driven the car company Tesla into a smoking hole in the ground. Stand by for further incorrect statements and wild assertions of blame.
I'm really not sure his play. Like even he should realize that directly supporting the guy that has stated multiple times that any transportation outside of big oil is bad, alienating himself from the side that would most likely actually buy his technology due to the "green" aspect of it is insane.
This tool can't accept he is the cause of the poor sales. He alienated his customers with his right wing rhetoric.
Yes, it was Biden and the Unions that made your stupid ass build that pedestrian death trap with sharp edges that breaks down when you wash the car without putting it in a certain mode and dozens of other stupid specific to that one vehicle rules.
Wouldn't every business be better dead than ununionized? I would rather Elon was dead personally, maybe Tesla isn't that bad but we hate him so much we can't see it? I dunno enough about them as a company, but I do want gas cars to only be in museums, so I'm hoping there's something there to salvage.
Oh, is that stupid fuck gonna do something fucking stupid? Ha! Fuck you, Lonnie, you fucking piece of shit. I would have bought one of your vehicles if it wouldn't have put money in your pocket. Your dumbass truck looks like ass.
