Will Musk be the next Trump?

[Brian Peacock]

Surely not?

[Sean Hayden]

Look, you either let our betters do what they deem necessary, or you’ll be sorry. That’s all I know.

[Tero]

The SpaceX part may continue, but Musk may indeed be worried his Tesla part is a bubble.
Google AI
Global market share
As of October 2024, Tesla's market share of all EVs globally was 17%. However, Tesla's share has been dropping, from 19% in the previous year to 17% in the first five months of 2024.

US market share
As of October 2024, Tesla's market share of EVs in the US was 49%. Tesla's market share in the US peaked in January 2023 at around 5.03%.
Competition
Tesla faces competition from other manufacturers, including BYD, Volkswagen, Geely-Volvo, and SAIC. BYD's market share has increased by 9 percentage points since 2021.
(BYD is still blocked from US)

Tesla and BYD Claim a Third of the Global BEV Market
In the second quarter of 2024, Tesla's gross margin dropped to a new low after declining every quarter since Q1 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Auto
BYD announced its entry to Europe in May 2020, starting with Norway. The first batch of 100 BYD Tang EVs equipped with the Blade battery were sent to Norway in June 2021.

In 2022, BYD Auto began selling its passenger vehicles in more European countries, such as Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Belgium.
In a February 2024 interview with Yahoo! Finance, Stella Li, the executive vice president of BYD and CEO of BYD Americas iterated that BYD is "not planning to come to the US" to sell electric passenger cars, despite planning a manufacturing plant in Mexico, citing politically motivated trade barriers against Chinese companies and the slowing rate of growth for electric car adoption in the US.[183] BYD is one of the top electric bus manufacturer in North America, and has been primarily adopted by the metro transit authorities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

https://www.statista.com/chart/27733/ba ... facturers/

[Tero]

Musk: F you retard, to Finn on X.
https://bsky.app/profile/joniaskola.bsk ... 2pqq6sls2m

[Brian Peacock]

Poor old Nigel has been shilling so hard for Elon these past 6 months since the general election, and what does he get for it?

Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform

Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader hours after Farage described the billionaire businessman as “a hero”, in what is likely to be a preview of how a chaotic Donald Trump presidency could affect British politics.

Farage, who is also the de facto owner of Reform, “doesn’t have what it takes”, Musk said on Twitter (currently X), the social media platform he owns, less than three weeks after the pair held seemingly warm talks at Trump’s Florida home. “The Reform party needs a new leader,” he wrote.

Musk, 53, who has sent a mass of largely misleading posts in recent days about a series of aspects of UK politics, appeared to endorse Rupert Lowe, the Great Yarmouth MP, as a possible replacement, saying statements he had read from Lowe “make a lot of sense”.

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The sudden change of heart from Musk is highly embarrassing for Farage, who had just spent much of a TV interview earlier on Sunday refusing to condemn the businessman for inflammatory comments about Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips, including calling the latter a “rape genocide apologist”.

Farage, 60, indicated Musk’s statement could be connected to a disagreement about Tommy Robinson, the jailed far-right anti-Islam agitator whom Musk has characterised as a political prisoner, but whom Farage condemns.

“Well, this is a surprise!” Farage wrote on Twitter (currently X) after Musk’s tweet..

[JimC]

"I'm absurdly rich, so I can meddle in the politics of any country I want to..."

[Tyrannical]

"I'm absurdly rich, so I can meddle in the politics of any country I want to..."

"I'm absurdly rich and BFF with Trump, so I can meddle in the politics of any country that annoys him..."

These next four years will be very entertaining

[pErvinalia]

I'm looking forward to the fall out.

[JimC]

As long as it's not radioactive...

[pErvinalia]

Yeah. That should have been 'the falling out'.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Predatory pile of shit claims he's the 'unofficial' prime minister of UK, thinks he should be actual PM of 'Britan' and the clueless jackass supports him.

'Musk’s Campaign Against Sex Trafficking Culminates in Him Backing Alleged Sex Trafficker'

Elon Musk’s moral crusade concerning U.K. rape gangs has taken a strange turn, as he appears to have offered his backing to a misogynist former kickboxer accused of sex trafficking who wants to be the country’s next Prime Minister.

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Musk has expressed apprehension at the ruling Labour party leader’s failure to carry out an inquest into child grooming gangs across England, despite the fact that there has already been a national inquiry.

And now, he has taken to X to agree that Andrew Tate’s entry into British politics is the answer. Musk replied to a post that said what Tate is doing “will be studied for many years. Even if he doesn’t win and become Prime Minister, his involvement will transform British politics & create an army of men demanding change.”

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Musk appeared to offer support to the man who, alongside his brother, faces criminal allegations in Romania of rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women. After those legal proceedings are complete, the pair are set to be extradited to the U.K. where they face additional allegations of rape and human trafficking. They deny all charges.

[Brian Peacock]

From the same source...

Elon Musk’s dad has some advice for Brits who are taking issue with the world’s richest man trying to insert himself into their politics through social media fiat.
“Just don’t listen to him, that’s all,” Errol Musk said in an interview with LBC radio Monday. “I’d say don’t worry about it. Tell him to get lost.” ...

https://archive.is/WmJFA

[Sean Hayden]

[Tero]

perfectunion
2h2 hours ago
Elon Musk is almost done building a lithium refinery that will need up to 8 million gallons of water per day. And it's twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, which is so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games.
https://www.threads.net/@perfectunion/p ... s8CuhT9-gg

[Brian Peacock]

He's going capture a comet and land it in the desert.