Elon Muskās polarizing political actions since acquiring Twitter, later rebranded X, in 2022 dramatically hurt the automakerās U.S. sales, underscoring how deeply its fortunes are intertwined with the billionaireās persona.
The findings quantify for the first time how the political actions of the worldās wealthiest person ā including his role in U.S. President Donald Trumpās administration ā may have cost Tesla billions in lost vehicle sales while benefiting rival electric carmakers.
Teslaās U.S. sales would have been between 67% and 83% higher, or about 1 million to 1.26 million additional vehicles, from October 2022 to April 2025, had it not been for what researchers call the āMusk partisan effect,ā according to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research by Yale University economists.
I meanā¦ I donāt know shit about any other car manufacturers. If I were in the market for an EV, and the specs on a specific car sound best for my needs, and you tell me "Did you know the CEO of that car company, has a terrible personality, face, vibe and auraā¦ Iād probably still buy the car.
If you tell me the CEO of that company did a sig heil, created a group to slash pediatric cancer research, helped get the orange cheeto elected, supports the US republican party and the far right german party, constantly tweets and agrees with great replacement theory postsā¦
Then yeah Iām not buying that car.
CEOs are generally terrible. Anyone who wants to be in charge should on no account be allowed to be.
especially one on DRUGS. that switches between ketamine, cocaine, shrooms, and alcohol.
I feel like it shouldnāt have to be repeated so often but if youāre going to do drugs: DO NOT MIX THEM. That includes alcohol and whatever else you want to do, even fucking weed. Just donāt mix shit.
Musk is a piece of shit nazi whose public opinions are actively harming his companies, but letās not get all puritanical about the use of drugs. Plenty of people use the drugs youāve listed (and many more) and arenāt hateful fuckwads.