[davidjay]

Musk might be the richest man in the world but he's still only one Presidential edict from his entire empire imploding. If Trump banned Twitter or put a 100% tariff on electric vehicles that $500 million would soon shrink.

[Crabcakes]

This is what I don’t quite get. Musk isn’t like Bezos or Cuban - his wealth is quite precarious because there is no solid product behind it and no company is going to voluntarily take him on as a ceo now. Twitter makes no money. Tesla is not actually his, and is one cybertruck lawsuit away from shareholders suddenly going cold on him. Space X cut corners, and could easily lose astronauts or simply be overtaken by a competitor and rapidly become unviable.

As soon as Trump finds a less annoying cash cow, he’d be out. Or as soon as his wealth dissipates, he’d be out. And he’s not Murdoch - if his heart explodes from the high BP caused by ketamine abuse, he has no heirs.

Trump 2.0 is built on Musk’s house of cards.

[Abernathy]

I thought Musk was like Boris Johnson and had about a score of various offspring ?

[Youngian]

12 kids apparently and has a natalist obsession about depopulation especially among white people. Musk's equally vile father has a few kids from shagging his step daughter.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is what I don’t quite get. Musk isn’t like Bezos or Cuban - his wealth is quite precarious because there is no solid product behind it and no company is going to voluntarily take him on as a ceo now. Twitter makes no money. Tesla is not actually his, and is one cybertruck lawsuit away from shareholders suddenly going cold on him. Space X cut corners, and could easily lose astronauts or simply be overtaken by a competitor and rapidly become unviable.

As soon as Trump finds a less annoying cash cow, he’d be out. Or as soon as his wealth dissipates, he’d be out. And he’s not Murdoch - if his heart explodes from the high BP caused by ketamine abuse, he has no heirs.

Trump 2.0 is built on Musk’s house of cards.

He's got (per Forbes) 12% of Tesla stock, and half of that is pledged as collateral on loans. Even if they all go bad, he's still incredibly rich, with enormous power through Twitter (for now at least). That'll be more than enough to keep doing what he's doing now on politics. CBS reported that he spent $277m backing Trump in this election.

[Crabcakes]

I thought Musk was like Boris Johnson and had about a score of various offspring ?

Lots of kids, but no Mini-Musk groomed up to take Daddy’s place.

[Bones McCoy]

On the habits of the press - treating every Musk brainfart as a story.

[Samanfur]

Jonathan Pie has returned from his Christmas break. Very NSFW, of course:

[mattomac]

I thought Musk was like Boris Johnson and had about a score of various offspring ?

Lots of kids, but no Mini-Musk groomed up to take Daddy’s place.

I believe at least two slag him off on social media.

[RedSparrows]

Jonathan Pie has returned from his Christmas break. Very NSFW, of course:

The old lady walking slowly across the scene behind him was the best bit.

[Oboogie]

Yes I enjoyed her too, I was hoping for an intervention.

[Bones McCoy]

A very thorough summary of the last week's grooming drama.

Musk, Robinson, Farage, Lowe, Badenoch.
Also a slew of washed up client journalists I hopes had retired.

20 minutes, but jam packed with facts.

[davidjay]

I thought Musk was like Boris Johnson and had about a score of various offspring ?

Lots of kids, but no Mini-Musk groomed up to take Daddy’s place.

I believe at least two slag him off on social media.

Are they allowed on X?

[Killer Whale]

Staff at a refugee charity say colleagues have had "their lives threatened" after Elon Musk shared a post which suggested videos of girls were being used to "entice" migrants to the UK.

The Welsh Refugee Council (WRC) said staff and volunteers had been harassed online after a video, from 2023, was shared on the billionaire entrepreneur's social media site, X.

WRC said the video was made as a school project and shows a group of girls explaining why Wales is a welcoming country for refugees.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78xdxzyxm2o

[davidjay]

It's always the people at the sharp end who suffer. Someone is going to get killed before long.

[Bones McCoy]

Elon Musk, he was a nazi,
Oh I knew it for a fact.
First I heard it, then I read it,
In the MAGA Tesla pact.

[Abernathy]

Undoubtedly an overt fascist salute. However he tries to spin it.

[Crabcakes]

I genuinely think he’s pushing his luck now. Someone is going to take him out - either for being openly Nazi, or for being a liability.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah, as I always say, he was only supposed to blow the bleeding doors off. Stick it to the trannies and Muslims. Not do Nazi salutes on live television. His spending cuts stuff is likely to go down pretty badly if goes beyond the UKIP 'diversity officers" stuff.

[Bones McCoy]

Here's Brendan the contrarian forehead.
He's gaslighting us from the Spectator, saying Muskolini didn't make a Hitler salute.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no- ... st-salute/