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      He can bring Donald and several other Congress and his Admins with him too. We can create a GoFundMe.

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      Guillotines are out, shoot them to Mars in the near future. One way ticket. The technicalities of return can be figured out later. I hear big brain Elon can do this.

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    He was always a net negative to operations, but he’s substantially declined in his drug abuse and mental health since his foray into politics. He’s going to wreck anything he touches with his hubris.

    Of course it could take a long time for his faithful to come to terms with that.

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      Maybe they hope they can tuck him away and go back to “managing” him. Maybe they can patch his image a bit if they can keep him away from anything important enough to piss people off.

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    Even if the boarding directors fired Musk and did everything they could to disentangle his diseased legacy from the company, Teslas would still be overpriced shitboxes with serious quality control issues.

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    Ah yes, the mastermind behind the cybertruck is what the company needs more of. Elon “Funding Secured” Musk is good at milking the government teat and pulling tricks (some of which are outright illegal) to boost the stock price. That’s great for bringing money into Tesla, but what is Tesla doing with that money? With Musk’s direction, that money is being flushed down the toilet. They actually lost money last quarter, but thanks to carbon credits (government teat coming to the rescue yet again), they managed to turn a profit. Eventually the runway runs out.

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      That would be true for a company with any connection to reality, but Tesla is so far detached from reality that his departure would tank the stock price. Supposedly the stock price increased from the abysmal earnings report because during the earnings call he claimed he’d be spending less time with doge and more with the company.

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    He got it all the companies that can regulate him. He did the job that he intended to do.

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    I love the assumption that somehow the problem was that he wasn’t spending enough time at Tesla, as if the Cybertruck wasn’t 100% his baby through and through. Clearly, with more genius ideas like that the company would be doing so much better.

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      I believe he only owns 10%ish of the company now. And most of his investments are in spacex. So I’m honestly not sure what hes going to do.

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      I think the assumption is stated to placate his ego, to attract him away from continuing to tank his image. It’s not that they want him with Tesla so much as they want him away from government.