He has done a massive amount of damage but will be the scape goat for everything else Trump has planned.
Midas in reverse.
I also wonder, given the way they “approached things” whether an element of this was just a huge information smash and grab, and he now has the data he wants.
A lovely message - ‘Don’t buy one or you’ll be stuck with a lemon’. Perhaps that and the flamey potential will extinguish more buyers.
In other news:
Reports indicate that X has lost nearly one-fifth of its daily active users in the U.S. and a third in the U.K. between May 2023 and September 2024.
X’s own data, required under the Digital Services Act (DSA) in the EU, shows a decline in monthly users, falling from 111.4 million in the six months leading up to January 2024 to 106 million in the six months leading up to July.
I trust it’s gone down from there.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5237811-elon-musk-slams-navarro-tariffs/
Couldn’t generate a preview so here’s an image instead:
Pinched.
In case you weren’t horrified enough.
More depressed than horrified TBH…
Looking from a historical perspective, it’s likely one of his legion will kill him.
USA/DOGE related…
That is scary stuff.
I read stuff like that and am no longer able to figure it it’s true or not. The ‘fact’ stasi have done a great job
Reuters is paywalled. I remember reading about a way to access a free version - anyone know how it’s done?
That one opens OK for me, I do not have a subscription
Strange. It’s asking me to subscribe to continue reading.