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Elon Musk 'Close to Tears' in Interview, Says He's Running Businesses 'With Great Difficulty' as Tesla Sees Worst Stock Drop in Years

www.tvfandomlounge.com Elon Musk 'Close to Tears' in Interview, Says He's Running Businesses 'With Great Difficulty' as Tesla Sees Worst Stock Drop in Years

While Elon indulges in political theater and self-aggrandizing quips, Tesla is experiencing an unprecedented slump in both sales and stock value.

Elon Musk 'Close to Tears' in Interview, Says He's Running Businesses 'With Great Difficulty' as Tesla Sees Worst Stock Drop in Years

While Elon indulges in political theater and self-aggrandizing quips, Tesla is experiencing an unprecedented slump in both sales and stock value.

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Tesla Stock Plunges: Russian Sympathizer Elon ‘Close to Tears’ in Interview, Says He’s Running Businesses ‘With Great Difficulty’ While Blaming Ukraine for Cyberattacks

www.tvfandomlounge.com /elon-chainsaw-antics-cant-cut-tesla-declining-sales/

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Lol get fucked you dumb cunt.

"I am close to tears. That is a human reaction, right?"
- It is. Which is why I doubt its true.
- crocodile tears, of a Felon.

Cry harder, little bitch. Hope you get fired the same way you fired thousands of federal workers.

If he really cared maybe he should stop stretching himself thin, get out of DOGE, and stick to selling shitty cars
- The earlier Tesla's weren't so shitty. Not more than your average Kia/Hyundai EV anyhow in terms of being a car. The self-driving shit is another story.
  Cybertruck has been a dumpster fire since inception though.
  Yeah, if Elon could drop the politics, hand off X, and go back to just being a major investor in tech companies that actually have some pretty cool ideas, that's be great.
  
  Don't you want justice or revenge?
- I think the damage is done even if he were to backtrack. People will just assume he's backtracking because of money and that's it. Not because of his actual ideals
- He needs to retire back to SAfrica.

Not close enough. I want to see tears of blood after what I've seen him put our country through. Fuck this neo-Nazi chucklefuck.
- I've been calling him the 'knob job nazi' after hearing about his fucked up wang

Karma, he made so many people cry and bankrupt by firing them through DOGE.

Oh no. Let me cry for the richest person in the world who also happens to be a fascist and spent the last few months posting on Twitter and running around the US president instead of doing his job as a CEO of a company. Total crocodile tears for this guy.
You reap what you sow.

Oh I see, suddenly when it's your income getting shitcanned we're all supposed to care.
Nah, fuck off you twat, no one cares about you.

Boo hoo hoo poor wittle musky
- Damn, did they up the size of his sympathy violin again?!?
- Holy shit, that little thing is playing a cello !

So… stop? You have more money than anyone could ever spend. Just fuck off already. Stop being so fucking evil.
- He can't. He's all in for fascism. There's no going back to the shadows for him, he'll always be known as a Nazi oligarch. He said he would be going to jail if Trump didn't win. We know he's got ties with Putin so he might be being blackmailed into being the bad guy [not that he was good before, but at least he l wasn't toppling democracies before].
  
  He supported the coup in Bolivia
  
  He can't. He's all in for fascism
  Nah. He has no interest in fascism. Fascism would hurt his bottom line immensely. He just tries to use his government position to give his companies, and by extent himself, more money.
  The dude is motivated by money, not morals or his political compass.

Just die already

How does this thread have so many comments and upvotes without a single critique of the source? "TV Fandom Lounge" sounds like some weird AI blog site, and the headline claiming Musk was "close to tears" (in quotation marks, so apparently someone said this...?) has nothing to do with the rest of the text. Nowhere does it clarify who said this about the interview, nor does it even mention crying or tears once outside of the clickbait title. And if you actually bother to watch the interview where he is supposedly "close to tears", he looks completely normal (by his standards). Media literacy is completely dead it seems, people are happy to mindlessly circulate complete garbage as long as it fits whatever political narrative they are trying to push.
- There are multiple "reputable" news sites that reported the same using similar headline:
  https://futurism.com/elon-musk-trying-not-cry-tesla
  https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/motoring-news/teslas-1200-billion-loss-as-takedown-gathers-speed/news-story/3ff40f11990aaf181146cc7ef3837271
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/elon-musk-close-to-tears-in-interview-about-tesla-struggles/ar-AA1AGiFn
  Eyeballs grabbing, and probative headlines are not exclusive to "weird AI sounding blog site[s]".
  P.S. I have nothing to do with the site.
- If I had five cents for every time I've seen a comment talk about 'weird AI' and I've read it as 'Weird Al', I would have ten cents.
  
  Weird Al always deserves a shoutout!

Then just fucking die already. Bitch ass.

I love watching Nazis cry.

That’s just a reaction his body makes on its own. He is incapable of human emotions.

He's not running the buisnesses he spends most of his time high on ketamine shitposting on twitter.
- Nah, he’s definitely running them. Straight into the ground.

- Still too big, but I appreciate the visual.
  
  I used to have a picture of a tardigrade playing a violin but couldn't find it, so this was the alternative.

How the fuck is this moron in the position that he is?
- People with inherited wealth are treated like they are smart, capable, and credible when billionaire nepo babies are really the worst at everything except sucking and dying.
  
  how good they are at dying is TBD, but we should find out ASAP. you know, so we know how safe to keep them.
  
  Its because, if you are handed inherited wealth and all the privilege in the world, there really isn't an excuse to NOT be better than everyone. Yet... they never are. At least nobles back in the day actually tried to be better than everyone else. Nobles these days don't even try.
- because virtue and ability are not what get you elevated in society.
  we live with a kind of socially affected dualism, and there are three things that elevate you in society: validating the fantasy world, having money, and doing violence against reality on behalf of the fantasy.
  some degree of the fantasy(/ies) is unavoidable; it's necessary for communication and collaboration at scale, maybe even complex thoughts. we build out waaaaaay extra to enable and justify horrible things, alienate the fantasy ever farther from reality to justify toxic power structures and appease the crowds with ever wilder delusion, ever less justifiable as scientists engineers and some public intellectuals create new models that edge ever closer to how reality works.
  musk is the ultimate beneficiary of all this nonsense. he lives in a parasitic fantasy world, one that leeches upon all of our minds. some more than others, because the distribution of resources are determined by the logic of that fantasy, rather than any reasoning based in, or at least nearby to, material reality.
- How the fuck does he not know why Tesla is in the state that its in??
- He hired people to do the work for him.

Still worth billions but whining. Go sit in a corner, Nazi.

I hope elon musk dies alone and unloved in tremendous pain. When he dies I will be throwing a party. Him and Trump.
- And afraid. They should be full of fear, pain, and loneliness when they go into the dark.
  
  While wearing uncomfortable underwear!
  
  I mean, this is how everyone goes so at least we got that going for us.
  Unfortunately, this is how everyone goes.

Should I play something on the world's smallest violin ?

I hope his panic attacks have panic attacks. I hope he goes to bed and never rises for fear of the mess he's made. I hope he stumbles in his fear, and fucks with someone with little enough left to lose they do something about it.
Fuck you F'Elon Ballstink, if your dreams come true I will personally stowaway on a rocket to Mars after your death to shit on your grave.

I hope he gets so sad he just ends it for us

Cry more.
- Stupid shit like this does more damage to conservative shitheads than any amount of "intellectual dismantling" of their ideology. This is their level of petty attacks on appearances, this is all they really know.
  The left needs to get a lot stupider and a lot more superficial a lot faster if we hope to beat them.
  
  The problem is, being petty is against lefty values. Take King Charles and his fat fingers. When lefty's were making of him, there were probably a few fat fingered innocents out there with the same condition who felt self conscious. And that's unfair. Making fun of appearances is untargeted and hurts those in the crossfire. But the problem is IT'S SO EFFECTIVE FOR OPTICS AND MORALE.
  So either we give up that effective campaign for ethical reasons, or we just collectively let some people take the L for the advancement of leftist morale and publicity. It's a doozy!

Go fash, lose cash!

He should list five things he's done for TSLA this week.
Absentee CEO.
- Damage the brand by association.
  ???
  
  Get the president to advertise the brand
  ???

I know this makes people happy and all that, but I won't be happy until his black heart stops beating and his cold, lifeless, Nazi remains are shot into the fucking sun. Fuck Elon Musk.
- He would like that idea too much.
  Throw his remains in the middle of the ocean or just flush his ashes down the nearest toilet. Let every molecule that contributed to wannabe spaceman’s existence be forever bound to this planet he liked to fuck with.
- shot into the fucking sun
  That's a lot of delta-v to waste on a billionaire.
  
  As I've said before, sometimes you go the extra mile (or extra Δv in this case) to send a message.
- after he dies we should send his corpse to Mars and crucify it as a warning
  
  Warning to who?
  
  Way too cool of an ending for him. Flush the ashes.
  
  Best SpaceX can do it blow it to pieces over the ocean m.
- David cross?
- That takes a lot of resources that he isn't worth. Just dump him in a ditch.
- Why wait until he is dead?
  
  Good point.

He wasn't close to tears, he just needed time to think of something to say that won't tank his wealth.
- Has he tried saying nothing? That would probably work.
  
  Little lte for that now, yeah? It definitely would've worked if he started 10-15 years ago.
- Maybe he was. Maybe Thiel had a conversation with him about drawing more of the wrong kind of attention.
- Yah everyone is reading way too much into this man, he's just a mentally unwell incel who figured out how to get money from people. His emotional state is probably a mess but it doesn't mean he's about to cave in. He has more money than God and he isn't going to crash out so easily.
  Hot tip: it's a LOT easier to secure huge amounts of funding than you think, it certainly doesn't take intelligence, just good connections and a complete lack of self-awareness, I know from unfortunate experience that you can secure millions in financing simply by sounding sure of yourself and talking in ways that are too convoluted for everyone to understand... I have literally seen million-dollar checks handed over because everyone in the room didn't want to feel stupid.

Dressed in sunglasses, a gold chain, and a t-shirt proclaiming, “I’m not procrastinating, I’m doing side quests,” he paraded on stage.
What's the side quest for Elon; being on stage for the republicans or trying to get to Mars?
- Each of his children is a side quest to him.
- Mars.

Coming down from your nazi ketamine meth binge must be a hell of thing...

The ketamine ran out and reality rushed in

Behaving like a shithead has consequences. Hanging out with corrupt shitheads has consequences.
Welcome to the real world Elon. Now cry me a river and get the fuck over it.

Never would have happened if he'd stayed the fuck out of politics. Hope he has panic attacks every day.
- The dumbest part is, he absolutely could have gotten involved in politics and still been fine. Zuckerberg and Bezos have both publicly supported fascism and not seen nearly as much backlash. All Musk had to avoid was making two brazen Nazi salutes on national television and then becoming the face of the most moronic, questionably legal, regularly reversed (by both the courts and DOGE itself) funding cuts in the history of our nation.
  But billionaires are actually narcissistic and lucky, not smart and hardworking, so here we are. The richest man in the world, probably high most of the time, crying on TV. If someone had written a novel with this plot 20 years ago I would've dismissed it as too stupid.
  
  becoming the face of the most
  Exactly why he's doing it. The details matters less to him than beating other billionaires you mentioned at something, even if that something is abhorrent.

I hope he feels worse soon
- Well I wouldn't mind if he felt nothing at all

This is all an act.

Oh no, maybe he should've tried minding his own business instead of trying to destroy democracy in multiple countries at once!
- Men will literally do anything instead of going to therapy
- Oh no! Fantasy business failing just like those fired engineers with safety concerns said it would!
  Too bad the rare resources are already wasted!
  Let me... finish writing out... this reality check for... 0 fucks.
  Liquidate that shit into individual gardening grants and public train money.

Awww widdle Nazi is all sad! :(
Maybe follow Daddy-Hitler's example and eat a bullet - then you won't be sad at all!!
Piece of shit.

Crocodile tears 🙄

Such a shame the gov't of California made him go crazy during COVID. Without Elon's companies, we might not have transportation without relying on gasoline imports. EV's may have never taken off the way they have. We would still be relying on Russia to get to space without SpaceX. He has done some amazing things, but why did he have to turn out to be such a little bitch?
- Haw Haw ^16
  Edit: This was supposed to be a reply to the post, but I'm lazy so I'm not changing it.

- That poor, poor man .... give him more paper money to wipe his tears

America doesn't exist.
- America has been a brand for the last century or so. A trademark, a copyright.
  Nationalists are some of the dimmest people in the world. That said, we really need to take back our flag and our mottos and our dim, stupid, tribal traditions and markers, because most of the world is dim and primitive and despite hating it, we have to play the tribe game to survive. We can work on dissolving borders and all those lofty ideals quietly in the background, but we HAVE to not just squash fascism, we also have to manage the nation full of hateful idiots afterwards, and to do that, we have to appease their need to feel special and good because of where they were born.
  There is a fine line you can walk to manage and maintain all of this while making real social progress, but we're nowhere NEAR that line. We keep falling for the same tricks so we don't unify into anything resembling a coalition for real progress.