March 12, 2025

SHOT: At This Point, Elon Musk Will Have to Give Up Tesla.

Chaser:

I don’t think Musk is giving up anything.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A reader writes:

One of the things I admire most about Elon Musk, I mean aside from his chainsaw and dynamite operations within our bloated, corrupt federal bureaucracy, is how he turned the most expensive rolling lefty virtue signal out there …. the Tesla … into a object of revulsion. Facking hilarious.

And the lefties can’t get rid of them. Nobody wants electric vehicles anymore.

So they have to put Musk hate stickers on them. And ever time they get into their stupid $70,000 lefty virtue signal mobile, they must be thinking “I really hate Musk a lot.” They must have to constantly tell people that.

Seriously, it’s like Musk is some kind of evil genius who figured out how to separate lefties from billions of their dollars by appealing to their idiotic climate religion … and then made them despise themselves for doing it.

He should get a Nobel Prize for that.

He’s going to deserve several Nobels before he’s done. But Teslas are excellent electric vehicles, it’s just that electric vehicles are niche vehicles, and will remain so until the technology makes them as useful as internal combustion vehicles. Meanwhile, the vandalism campaign is just luring a lot of lefty activists — and their funders — into a place where they can be prosecuted and sued into oblivion. They’re falling for it because they’ve gotten used to operating with impunity. No more.

Meanwhile, Tesla’s chief function was to give Elon enough resources to launch SpaceX, which he has done. Like an expendable first stage booster, if it tumbles away it’s still done its job. I’m sure Elon would rather it be a reusable booster, and serve as a long term cash cow and incubator of engineering talent. But if not, well, its chief task is done.

Posted at 10:09 am by Stephen Green