I think when he called one of the scuba divers trying to rescue the Thai teenagers trapped in the cave a pedophile for no reason was the turning point for many. It exposed his craziness and general sh*ttiness to a lot of people.
That was my first exposure to him outside of “rich car and space dude.”
There was a reason, he was butthurt because they said his submersible idea wasn’t viable.
Yes this exactly. It was a really clean cut case of him using his influence to attack someone with baseless claims.
When did he call those scuba divers ‘pedophiles’ who were rescuing the kids trapped in that Thailand cave? I think it was 2018.
That’s when he lost me.
He was already on a bit of a decline with his Twitter comments being overly edgelord meme-y, at first it felt like he was just trying to be “cool and hip” with the younger crowd but it turned out he really was just not the man people thought he was…
Then he goes and calls the dude a pedophile because they didn’t think his mini submarine idea would work
I remember 8 years ago when the internet loved Elon Musk and Conservatives hated him with a passion. How the turn tables…
Once upon a time, he did an interview about how no engineer would sign on to be his head engineer for SpaceX.
Said all of the good ones wouldn’t take the job and no sense in hiring a bad one.
I’m a mechanical engineer. No person in the field turns down that job unless Elon was that insufferable.
He started becoming a little cringey when he went on Joe Rogan’s show and weirdly smoked that joint.
What confirmed it was the Thai teens stuck in the cave saga.
From my perspective, it feels like he had an excellent marketing team for many years who were able to push the narrative that he was a cool genius making robots and rockets. He was supposedly a real life Tony Stark.
But then he started to speak for himself more and more, and we all got to see what type of person he really is.
The best example is like others have already pointed out, when he got in that weird one-sided argument with the diver saving those trapped kids. He acted like a petulant child wanting petty revenge, just because the diver said he didn’t want or need Elon’s help.
Plus I think more people are aware now that he’s not some humble self-made man. He inherited a ludicrous amount of money from his parents owning an emerald mine.
His energy went from producing cleaner vehicles that reduce traffic accidents to being very concerned with people not being able to freely use slurs and deny the holocaust
Yes, this! He got to thinking he’s essential and he’s not.
The anti-Jew thing. Also f*cking w the war in Ukraine via starlink.
He was obviously a complete bag of sh*t fraud all along. As somebody that spent so long trying to get people to realise that a number of years ago, I can confirm that my job became much much easier around the time he called that rescue bloke in Thailand a pedophile. By the time he bought Twitter everyone that was going to think he was awful already did.
If anyone is wondering, the first HUGE red flag was that he consistently took credit for things he paid other people to do. He revelled in the ‘genius inventor’ brand the internet assigned him in a really tacky thick pop star kind of way actively trying to conceal the truth. He hadn’t invented anything yet consistently deceived people and leant into the brand. He also spoke in a way that mimicked a thick persons idea of a genius (knowing he could manipulate that demographic). He was acting and trying not to get caught out.
In reality he is just a deeply mediocre psychopath spoilt brat and I never saw any evidence to discount that diagnosis.
he consistently took credit for things he paid other people to do
For real. It annoys me so much when people defend him by saying “He is a literal rocket scientist”, and the rest. No, he’s not. He pays rocket scientists to make him look less like an idiot.
Buying Twitter somehow broke him or at least made it more public. Turned into a pro-Russian and pro-MAGA apologist.
When he started being more outspoken about being a terrible human being and a massive hypocrite.
I was a big Elon Musk fan, probably pre-COVID. Mostly because of SpaceX and him wanting to create a Starfleet Star Trek type future.
Then COVID hit and he became an anti-vaxx guy which surprised me. He seemed like he started to a change at that point.
Then he buys Twitter and soon after his Reich-winger attitude came out and he became a full on Trump-tard.
So pre-COVID he seemed like a real life Tony Stark ( Ironman ) type. Then COVID came and he got weird. And then buys Twitter and becomes a super racist, biggot, xenophobe.
Now he’s a real life Janes Bond villain.
Don’t take this as a personal insult, but he has always been a Bond villain, you and many others were just blinded by his success to see it.
When he started using his fame to promote dog crypto.
“Twitter should be open to all speech” proceeds to forward complete bullsh*t tweets about Pelosi’s husband and hires don lemon but then doesn’t like what he said and bans the interview. The guy is a total hypocrite and asswipe. He badly overpaid for twitter and only closed it because he legally bound himself. Anti-vax, anti-Semitic.. Cybertruck ..replacement theory..you name it. ..he’s had an impressive douche streak the last few years
He stopped supporting Ukraine, and gives some support to Russia. Also, his free speach doesn’t seem to cover leftists, so seems kind of hypocritical.
I, for one, NEVER liked musk rat. Ever. My friends were mystified as to why. Now they agree.
Same, I never understood the hype
When he hyped his hyperloop proposal which was only meant to kill consideration of high-speed rail in CA.
I realized that he was South African but hadn’t lived in the country since around 1995 which as a white South African man is very suspicious
When he came out republican.
He literally bought Twitter because they didn’t make him an exception to the rules.
I started hating him when he called that diver a pedophile that saved those kids in the cave. All because the dude said his idea won’t work. Musk is quite stupid. He lucked into wealth and pays people to do the heavy thinking for him.
When people realized he wasn’t smart or a genius at all he was just rich from being born rich and hiring the smart and genius people He’s an idiot like huge one too
When he opened his mouth and went from a person who runs a few impressive tech companies to a white supremacist, replacement theory supporting, thin-skinned “free speech absolutist” asshole.
The “Pedo Guy” incident is generally considered the turning point where he first revealed his true douche-noodle self to a wide audience.
Well, he is an egotistical asshat. Oops, there goes my X account.
The twitter files then he got busted for taking down stuff for Modi
He turned republican is why
He only turned republican because allegations were coming out that he sexually harassed an employee then tried to buy her off with a horse.
When he uncloaked as a nazi-loving racist bigoted drug addict.
For me, it was definitely calling the rescuer in the Thai cave a pedophile. It was just a WTF moment that sort of made me look skeptically at him from then on.
But the Twitter thing has just absolutely cemented that he is a monumental piece of sh*t. Him going full out anti-trans because of his daughter, giving a platform to literal Nazis, racists, and antisemites. There’s just no recovering from all of this.
Wonders how nobody is remembering that his fortune is from mining in slave conditions and that he admitedly supported a coup against Bolivia because of the lithium
When he stopped being a liberal. Reddit is a hard-left website and anyone that doesn’t follow the same political ideology is talked about negatively here.
He leans right politically. That’s a serious offense to a large subset of modern society. Any other answer is a bit disingenuous IMO.
When he fired the marketing company that constantly pumped out the image he was a cool guy with cool gadgets. (“Real Life Iron Man”)
Dumb bastard.
Now he’s just known for what he is; A spoiled, entitled, diluted, arrogant, fragile, white supremacist, dipsh*t.
Some time in that ballpark when he started expressing conservative viewpoints.
When he showed his dick to the flight attendant. That did it for me.
I think the Thai cave was the first question mark, the stuff happening around covid (forcing workers in the factory) was confirmation he was not right in the head.
Redditors only like people who agree with their views. When Musk was creating an EV, he was a God to the left. Then they realized he disagreed with everything they believed in and is very vocal about it. Instant hate.
This occurs with anyone who disagrees with their views. They call any black person who disagrees with their views on racism an uncle Tom.
Reddit is mostly an echo chamber.
When he started advocating for “free speech”. Keep in mind, reddit, its moderators and its admin team are probably the most anti-free speech people in the social media market.
Having a competitor to reddit that actually advocates for what reddit used to stand for is not a good look for the people that are currently running this website to the ground.
It was when he showed conservative leanings. It’s cool to hate conservatives for no reason other than that currently.
The fact they keep voting for a rapist pedo is a pretty good reason.
When he went Fascist probably
He is a terrible person with no morals who exists only to farm the attention of nazis and people to stupid to understand tech. He’s not a very likable person.
In an actual answer, it’s because he was initially seen as “funny tech and space dude”. He was the owner of Tesla, the richest man in the world, and acted like a child, and that was funny. He was seen as ultimately harmless, and pretty funny, so he was almost universally liked.
Then, around the time of the 2020 American election, he made a series of tweets in support of Trump. Naturally, not many people like Trump, and so about half of his audience didn’t like him anymore.
Since then, he has been making increasingly extreme and offensive “memes” regarding the LGBTQ+ community, black people, and women. A large portion of the republican/conservative fanbase has turned away from him, and those that remain do not think he is far enough to the right of the political spectrum.
He has fans from across the political spectrum, of course, because of those original points and people not understanding how stupid Musk truly is. Those that dislike him think that he is too stupid to own companies – if you look at their performance, they may be right.
Then there was the acquisition of Twitter. It was an extremely stupid business decision, and it was a humiliation on a grand scale; he was essentially forced to buy it after mocking the company and saying it would “Never make a comeback”. After that, he tried to be actively “on” all of his companies’ PR teams. In SpaceX, he’s just not smart enough to pretend to be a rocket scientist. Tesla is a failing company. “Boring Company” hasn’t put out a product in ages. X (formerly Twitter) is dying and full of nazis.
Overall, a lot of people view him as a complete man-child. The very things that made him popular pre-2020 make him such an unlikable person now for anyone with an ounce of sense.
This comes from someone who used to be a huge fan of Elon Musk. Pre-2020, I saw him as a relatable and cool guy with cool gadgets. I defended him to people as best I could. I supported his companies in any way I could – though that didn’t amount to monitary value. I was everything that I now hate about his supporters.
Then, when he supported Trump, it took me a while to fully comprehend how a person I looked up to so much made such a dumbass stupid decision; I mean, come on – he had everything he could ever want.
I think, in a way, the massive loss of support post-2020 absolutely destroyed Musk himself. He doesn’t know how to adapt, and so his best way forward was to pander to his new far-right fanbase in any way he could. Walking back his views would make him seem weak, and could have impacted his finances.
So he continued to trend right, until he got to the point now; ranting, arguable racist, definitely hom*ophobic, and the worst example of a “populist” you can find because he’s trapped himself in an echo chamber of extremist dialogue.
I hope this has helped. It is truly sad to see what’s happened to him, and it is disturbing to see someone fall so far.
Personally it was when he became a “free speech advocate”. He shouldn’t even be concerned with this minutia. He should be concerned with the crazy cool inventions and ideas that made us adore him.
When he became a pro-ruzzian peacenick shill.
When it became clear that he’s a racist, bigot, and lacks compassion for common people. He’s literally the rich villain from the comic books.
When he bought Twitter and stopped banning people for speaking out.
Never liked him. He has always been lord douche. He is a misogynist, his money is from apartheid emeralds, constantly says unhinged things that come from extreme privilege, and has a God complex
The moment it became apparent he was a jackass. Though specifically the cave pedophile thing
When he started showing who he was.
Cool tech space guy Elon was cool, because be could be whoever I wanted.
Then he exposed dickhe*d transphobe, paedo-calling, twitter-owning Elon and ruined the idea.
I think he was always douchey, but now that he can’t stop talking, he’s Trumpc*nt level Douchery
When he started talking about buying twitter. The Party marked him as an unperson, and started directing the Two Minutes’ Hate at him. All the high esteem in which he was previously held vanished in an instant. We have always been at war with Eurasia, and we have always hated Elon Musk.
If you don’t get those references, read George Orwell’s 1984.
Easy, he proved that he wasn’t actually a leftist like people thought he was. He didn’t change.
I think when he bought twitter and used it as a massive engine to really drive in the fact that he was always a stupid asshole was kind of the final nail. anyone who supported him after that is so far gone that nothing you say is going to change their minds that emerald boy isn’t their messiah.
When he stopped letting his PR firm spin his whole persona for him and started actually engaging with the world more himself.
People started thinking “this guys actually pretty weird and kind of dumb.” But brushed it off cause eccentric, whatever. Then the whole scuba incident, and it was “oh, he’s actually just a total asshole.” Then it continued to steeply plummet from there as he doubled down and continued to directly show who he really is to everyone and anyone that cared.
Bigger issue is that the guy has an absurd amount of money and influence. Otherwise, he’d be written off like any self-absorbed immature grifter you find on 4chan. Now if you frequent news sites you’ll be forced to see articles repeatedly and consistently how he denies the Holocaust or believes the vaccines caused disease or whatever dumb sh*t of the day.
When he was all about Space, EVs and basically “sciency” stuff he was alright. Then suddenly turned fascisty with the purchase of twitter.
Considering “Rät” by Penelope Scott came out in 2020 I’d say it started a a little while before that or around that time.
I think he was actively and secretly pump and dump pimping with the reddit apes and it just escalated his mental decline when he started reading the coments about his wierd thailand pedo submarine butthurt type of stuff.
When all the news of him being a complete c*nt of a boss came out.
When he showed support for conservative values. That’s the main reason.
He decided to start doing insane stupid sh*t. He started to get involved in politics more, he bought twitter and ran into the ground. He accused a person of being a pedophile because he didn’t get his way. As time went on it became clear he isn’t some genius he is just another rich asshole.
The first time a lot of people saw the truth was when those people got stuck in that cave and Musk called the dude trying to help a pedophile for no reason
He was always an asshole, but Reddit didn’t turn on him until he started firing wokesters at Twitter.
The moment he sided with Putin……
lie for long enough and eventually you’ll get found out
Elon Musk is for free speech and Reddit is literally abunch of armchair Communist. They love to censor people who diverge from the hivemind collection for agenda purposes. Users use downvotes, mod use permanent bans. You can’t have free thought because of the political dissent truth brings. So when Elon bought Twitter for the purpose of free speech at a financial lose for himself; they foamed from the mouth and now Elon lives rent free in their mentally ill heads.
It really does seem that way. I’ve been having a read through the comments and so many are hyperbolic and then you read more and it’s, oh he doesn’t agree with my heavy political leanings so he is absolute scum. I love the complete intolerance and to hate someone because they aren’t just like you.
The far left are a very authoritarian bunch.
As much as I admire what he’s achieved, I wish he’d stayed off Twitter and let the results do the talking. Probably many people feel the same.
My circle of friends has hated him from the start, but I think the cultural shift started towards like 2018-2019 and was fully swinging against him by 2020.
He’s a billionaire with an endless supply of drugs and money… Nothing changes either way…
I think it was when he crossed a line and became too full of himself. I predict he is going to go full Howard Hughes sooner or later. It’s a natural byproduct of being successful and suddenly surrounded by people who call you a genius.
His narcissistic qualities started becoming more prevalent, mixed in with his arrogance. He really only cares about himself.
when people found out he had a savior complex, but only he was allowed to be the savior
Hmm, I never liked him ever since paypal. He just gave me weird vibes. Something about him I didn’t like. My friends loved him til recently, but always gave me sh*t for not liking him. Guess I’m better at reading people lol
When he stopped trying to change the world in a positive way focusing on EVs and space and is now just your average internet troll. He could be halfway done with a Mars project by now BUT NOOOOOOO he has to “save free speach” ????????????????????????????????
I’ve seen this question a few times. Most people thought he was interesting. That’s it. There was never a big movement that turned negative against him. He just opened his mouth and awful sh*t and lies came out. Now he’s just more publicly a f*cked up troll with a f*cked up grasp on reality, but that’s always been the case.
On the surface he’s doing a lot of cool things. Tesla really helped push the electric car into the mainstream again. It’s actually really cool that the boosters on his rockets can be reused. All cool stuff.
But a slow burn of him revealing who he actually was–intentionally launching the boring company and the fraudulent hyperloop to stop high speed rail from competing with cars in California, tweeting right wing and racist screeds–have left most reasonable people who know anything other than the Walter Isaacson hagiography with a bad taste in their mouth.
He shared a picture of 2B and cried when people told him to credit the artist
he used to be egomaniac, and then, he became openly nazi
Calling the cave rescuer a pedophile out of the blue and having a bit of a public fit about it. Made me realize how many of the things he does are unapologetically erratic and often distasteful and thoughtless.
Because Elon went from being an eccentric electric car company CEO to being a prominent voice in the alt-right section of American politics who bought a social media platform and happens to run Tesla and SpaceX.
Elon was always a quirky manchild but that was considered way more tolerable when the tradeoff was founding a car company that made electric vehicles commonplace.
Because for a giant section of people who grew up in the 80s and 90s, the idea of an electric car always felt right around the corner. The success of Tesla felt like we were finally stepping into that future.
Then add on the success of SpaceX and the potential of space travel being a thing again. Now the idea that we get to back to a time where new inventions and new discoveries that we lived through in the 60s, is suddenly palpable.
Elon became a symbol for all that and slowly, as we learned more about what the actual man believed in, it became clear that Elon falls very short of the image he had cultivated.
It started with the Thai scuba divers’ scandal, but his reputation really took a huge dive when he bought Twitter and we found out that he really is the nazi piece of sh*t we got a glimpse of during the PR debacle with the cave divers.
Before that, he had an amazing PR team that kept all of that a secret, but he thought he didn’t need them. Surprise!
He had a PR team who were successfully crafting his public image to make him seem great. He fired them and started communicating with the world unfiltered and wrecked his reputation by showing he’s just another jerk nepo baby.
He’s was always being heralded as this billionaire inventor with huge visionary ideas to bring those 50s and 60s ideas of the future a reality.
Then it turns out he’s just a moron who buys future tech companies, ups the stock price which then feeds his ego enough that he over promises the R&D or ruins the flow of research and points it in a new stupid direction.
For me personally, it was when I realized he was a white supremacist..
It started going wrong when he started talking and telling everyone what he really thought. As a former software engineer, I could tell he was hamming it up big time whenever he talked about coding or engineering. Then he started throwing around accusations and sponsoring some really dumb viewpoints and all the mystique just evaporated really.
When he bought Twitter and exposed the corruption, Corporate media went after him and lots of the people of lesser minds bought it all.
When they realized he wasn’t an extreme leftist.
I don’t think he was ever considered “cool” by any significant majority. He was a curiosity, because tech media kept pushing him as a thing, and he had a little cult following of people who think like Marvel superhero fans and thought he would propel humanity to futuristic heights. But that was back when his opinions and perspectives were still a bit of a mystery, and mystery builds interest. Then he started opening his mouth all the time.
When he bought twitter with the stated intent to make it a free speech platform again.
Musk is like the tech version of Rudy Giuliani. Rudy was adored by NYC and the nation because of his response to 9/11 and helping to clean up the crime in NYC. Then he turned into a MAGA clown. If he would’ve stuck to his original image he would still be considered a hero by many.
I had goosebumps watching a half drunk Musk get emotional when talking about the perils of climate change on Rogan’s show. Now he’d probably say climate change is woke and part of a mind virus.
Calling the diver a peado was the turning point for me.
When the ideas around the Boring Company came out. Maybe 2017? Prior to the cave and the flamethrower, showing he was pursuing dumb ideas like tunnels for self driving cars, instead of trains, showed he had bad motivations.
He started posting too much and people got tired of him. That and not posting the groupthink of the moment definitely undermined his popularity.
I’m waiting for the day he says that his political transition to batsh*t crazy MAGA was just a ploy to get conservatives to buy electric cars. But I’m starting to think it’s for real
It was the moment he said he supported conservatives and said that they would start attacking him.
Somewhere around the Dogecoin Saturday night live fiasco.
I always thought he was lame
Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. And when inch by inch he further revealed his megalomania.
When the Comical Nonsense Network nudged them to.
I disliked him when he basically pushed Martin Eberhard out of Tesla. Then I thought maybe he just had a great vision for Tesla and maybe that was important enough to kick out Eberhard. Then I realized my first instinct was correct after all.
When he opened his mouth.
when he bought twitter and the left wing media turned on him. everyone who blindly imports their beliefs from what’s zeitgeisty soon followed suit.
For me, before 2018 I greatly admired what he was doing and invested quite a bit of money in Tesla. My opinion started to turn with the Thai cave thing. Then I saw shades of his erratic and impulsive behavior come out in other ways. He briefly implied that the SpaceX pad rocket explosion may have been sabotage without any evidence of it. He started throwing his weight behind far-out ideas like The Boring Company and the hyperloop. Both sounded great on paper but hard to believe they would bring the kind of near term benefits he implied. He even suggested the California High Speed Rail project should pivot and implement something more high tech (like Hyperloop, which in the best case needs decades to mature).
He also made a lot of promises that either turned out late and below the bar he set, or are still not met and are uncertain. Examples include full self driving (which he has charged a lot of money for and it’s still far from hands-off), the Vegas Loop, which should have been automated by now but is still using human drivers which is quite embarrassing, the Cybertruck (I don’t need to repeat all the disappointing aspects of that here), the robotaxi (by now a lot of people that bought a Tesla should be able to send it out to earn money for them, but at this point that’s never going to happen IMO). I could go on.
He also got weird about COVID, suggesting pretty dangerous things, and moved to the far right politically.
I stayed invested in TSLA until early this year but pulled out a couple months ago after losing confidence in the future direction of the company. Quality problems are mounting, the Cybertruck is crap, China sales are falling, his big mouth is turning off consumers, the design of his cars is aging badly, vehicle range has not improved, true FSD is still very far off, and he’s distracted with Twitter/X and all kinds of other things.
The only one of his companies that I still believe strongly in is SpaceX, because he lets Shotwell run it and they are delivering on promises. But I can’t invest in SpaceX.
I used to badly want a Tesla car. Today, I want nothing to do with it, and I’m not even confident Tesla will survive as a company.
When he started opening his mouth. He was an illusive genius before that, now he’s a bigoted moron who never invented anything – just had the money to buy until he succeeded.
When he went against the Democrats. They do not like defectors.
When he moved to Texas, he showed the world that he wasn’t progressive, he was SELLING progressive.
When he started pointing fingers at radical left but not radical right.
When he started talking in public about his personal views of society, politics and work environment or any other topic where you can easily show how much an ausholen you are.
I’ve always not liked him.
When he started espousing Conservative ideas, that can’t be had on Reddit.
When he showed himself to be a far right racist neo-fascist with no loyalty to america whatsoever.
When liberal media decided they didn’t like him the sheep followed
When he started loudly proclaiming what a piece of sh*t he was with no moral compass was about the time most people were like “well, f*ck this douchenozzle.”
When he became radicalised into a white supremacist wielding his power to attack diversity with his racist views that only white men are competent – while exposing he is an incompetent fraud.
I’ve always thought he was an idiot. My opinion of him has never changed. He is still freakishly stupid and a complete narcissist.
I’ve been saying it for many years. I’m glad the internet is finally catching up to me.
The open Nazism doesn’t help.
Probably when it became clear that he’s a fascist.
He was always an idiot. He’s not a genius. He’s made his money so now he can be who he always was. Just like the Dilbert guy.
He was never “relatable.” Why does everyone think any c*nt can just put on a t-shirt and jeans and suddenly become “relatable.” He’s a trust fund narcissist, and now he thinks Democrats are making him pay more taxes, so now he’s pretending to be conservative. He’s just like every other plutocrat. Twitter is a dumpster fire…..he hit a goldmine with all the paranoid, racist, hom*ophobic, scientifically illiterate Abrahamic fanatics.
Only one answer: the Bitcoin crash. People used to love him here until he started posting Bitcoin memes and crashed the price, liquidating lots and lots of people and starting a bear run
When he exposed himself as a facist pig.
I feel like you’re trolling…
When Trump got elected, Elon decided to join his advisory board. That was the first moment he put his values on display, and it’s only continued since then, not some one-off event.
TL;DR – People started reading/hearing what was on his mind. Before that his mouth was largely shut in the public eye.
Longer version:
When Elon started exposing his thoughts to the internet people finally understood how vapid, often stupid and absolutely terrible he was as a visionary and as a billionaire.
Compare it to someone like Steve Jobs. He had problems, he likely stole a lot of his ideas for the designs he had Apple make for him, but he was undeniably a charismatic visionary that could make people work for him while knowing where his weaknesses and strengths lie.
Not Elon. Elon believes he can do it all and has basically no understanding of the things he wants to be project being good at.
His thoughts are rarely fully formed when shared and often wants to be 13-year-old-on-the-internet edgy or “#deep” to his followers.
He showed himself to be the incompetent far-right idiot loser he has always been
When he coddled fascists, white supremacists, and lied about the so-called “Twitter Files” in an attempt to aid Trump’s reelection.
We didn’t really know Elon that well in 2018-2020. I also thought he was the nice guy with money. Turns out, he a just a regular jerk like the rest of us with his own f*cked up views. And he still has money.
I was one of those that thought he was kind of cool mostly because of Space X and he was pretty funny, didn’t seem like he took things too seriously. But then we went from commenting on lighthearted topics to serious ones: US politics, Russia/Ukraine War, etc. and increasingly has come off as unhinged and full of himself. As if his every word should be followed on every subject because of who he is.
he opened his mouth and started having more of an unfiltered public persona rather than just scripted ted talks and showed who he was
When he changed his political views.
It was funny, everyone was like, he’s really refreshing being a billionaire who’s an actual person and not an old penny pincher. Now everyone’s like, why can’t he be like every other billionaire he’s so annoying.
I think he just obviously became Republican and that’s why. ????
The more Elon talked (or tweeted) the less I could stand him, especially after that soccer team cave rescue thing? Remember that? Elon just seems like a dim douche tbh
The COVID denial made me think he was not science savvy that I believe he was.
I don’t think I ever liked the guy. I thought he was kinda dopey, and then he decided to lean into being an asshole, and THEN he started leaning into being a nazi.
Elon has always been a combination of a visionary with plans to reinvent whole industries and an asshole to work for or to know socially. But when someone has an admirable side and an abominable side, opinions are likely to swing. His reputation is negative right now, but people might go back to ignoring what a jerk he is with the next time he creates something Gosh-Wow Cool.
A lot of public figures swing up and down in the estimation of the general public.
His politics are to the right of Hilary Clinton and therefore not allowed on this platform
I never liked him, but I didn’t dislike hime either,until he started spreading misinformation and weighing in on things he knows nothing about. His ability to lead a company doesn’t make him an expert in any other feild.
He’s free to say what he wants, but I tend to loathe willful ignorance.
When people realized that he was a conservative.
Actually I wasn’t a fan of his back in 2018-2019 but I kinda enjoyed people memeing about him in a positive way. Once I talked to my classmates and I shared that I like memes with him, they replied then that he isn’t such a great guy bc of working conditions at his Tesla factories. This event turned my perception of him slightly negative. But after he bought Twitter and started to pull out his true self thats when I started to dislike him.
Hes been reposting nazi talking points with the caption ‘interesting’ for like 5 years, and more people have learned how his humble genius backstory is essentially a sham and hes always been a flailing brat. Dude refuses to go to therapy and has made it the world’s problem.
People weren’t aware of his background before. Who he really was didn’t start to shine in the light until recently.
lmao controversial comments is just people saying the answer is musk is conservative
When he started criticizing the left.
Probably around the time he fired his assistant. I think that’s when his life just went down the toilet tbh.
It seemed like it peaked when he was buying twitter.
Elon Musk’s reputation among Redditors has fluctuated over time, influenced by various factors such as his actions, statements, and controversies. While he was initially celebrated for his innovative ideas, entrepreneurial spirit, and charismatic personality, his reputation began to face more scrutiny and criticism in certain circles as his public behavior and business decisions came under greater scrutiny.
Some key events that contributed to a shift in sentiment among some Redditors include:
- Tesla’s Production Issues: As Tesla faced production challenges with its Model 3 and other vehicles, Musk’s leadership came under scrutiny. Delays and quality control issues led to some disillusionment among fans and investors.
- Social Media Behavior: Musk’s activity on social media platforms like Twitter has been controversial at times, with tweets ranging from market-moving statements about Tesla’s stock to personal attacks on critics. Some Redditors criticized him for his online behavior, viewing it as unprofessional or erratic.
- COVID-19 Pandemic: Musk’s skepticism and criticism of COVID-19 lockdown measures and public health recommendations drew backlash from some Redditors, particularly those who viewed his stance as irresponsible or dismissive of public health concerns.
- Labor Practices: Concerns about labor practices and workplace conditions at Tesla’s factories have been raised by labor rights advocates and workers themselves, leading to criticism of Musk’s management style and priorities.
- Cryptocurrency: Musk’s tweets and public statements about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin have been both influential and polarizing, with some Redditors questioning his motives and the potential impact of his remarks on market volatility.
These are just a few examples, and opinions about Musk remain diverse among Redditors. While some continue to admire him for his vision and accomplishments, others have become more skeptical or critical of his actions and public persona. Overall, the shift in sentiment toward Musk reflects the complexity of his public image and the evolving dynamics of social media discourse.
When he responded to Bernie Sanders with Oh I thought you were dead already
Well at some point he was just the head of two very exciting, tech driven companies (Tesla and SpaceX). It’s hard not to respect that accomplishment (and despite what a lot of people say around here, it was and still is a tremendous accomplishment).
Then he started tweeting… It didn’t bother me so much at first, but it got progressively more annoying. My interest in, say, owning a Tesla just slowly degraded over time…
Recently, he has gone full right-wing culture-war shill. It seems to be his primary focus now. I’ve always hated Twitter (long before he bought it) but now Twitter seems to be his defining feature and trait. I’ve gone from respectful admirer and hopeful Tesla owner, to completely and utterly turned off of the company and anything he is involved with.
Probably when the mask dropped and he started being more visibly a complete c*nt.
Prime example – he wants a $56B bonus for the work his employees do while canning 15,000 of those employees and fighting unionization.
When he began opening his mouth and revealing he’s just a hateful nepo baby
But honestly it’s kind of a good thing overall that he’s basically come out and shown he’s a narcissistic asshole who has very little true “talent” because it has absolutely opened a lot of people’s eyes about the concept of billionaires. Most people with that money are content to hide in the shadows so there’s this mystique around them and people assume they must simply be brilliant or really talented to make that kind of money
But the truth is becoming that rich involves ruining hundreds of thousands of lives and a whole lot of luck, plus a pretty good bit of wealth to begin with. Musk didn’t build an empire because of his true “talent” he did it by swindling and being in the right place at the right time
And him calling that diver a pedophile simply because the diver said Musk’s toy won’t help save trapped people opened the floodgates. Then he bought Twitter all while screaming “FREE SPEECH!!!” and then promptly started censoring the things he didn’t like. And now all while Tesla is laying off employees in huge numbers and losing revenue across the board he’s demanding a $52 billion pay package. Why would a business that is having worse performances year after year reward it’s CEO with that kind of pay package? It’s just all very eye opening
Lastly I implore anyone reading this to please get off Twitter. I finally managed to do it and it’s been great since. There are plenty of other options out there, and I know it’s hard to abandon a decent follower count, especially if you’re like me and need to promote content, but in the end it’s worth it to not support the guy
I never liked him that much but I didn’t have a huge dislike for him either. He gave me weird vibes and it was concerning how many markets he was trying to corner, but that didn’t set him apart from any other billionaire.
I always felt he was overpromising the teslas and when the SEC went after him for his $420 stock joke I realized he was another idiot with a ton of money. It’s been down hill since then.
I never liked him, but i didnt hate him untill he halted LA infrastructure projects with the promise of hyperloop or whatever else and then very predictably never built anything of worth. All to keep car sales high
It’s a “what have I done for you lately”moment for Elon.
He just kept opening his mouth and dumb things kept coming out.
When he became the richest & Mr Twitter fingers.
I feel indifferent about him myself
Free Speech is guaranteed, that does not means it comes with a guarantee. Musk was better as a strong, silent type. Once he started talking he lost everyone.
Most of these comments and even the upvotes feel like bots to me.
I don’t get how “allowing free speech on Twitter” isn’t at the top.
When he became a Trump humper
Familiarity breeds contempt. I love his companies (or, what they have done), but when it gets personal…meh.
i never liked him, but I’m looking for the elden ring build comment lmao
Elon Musk is a stupid mans idea of a smart man
When he started showing his true colors
At his time at/after Paypal. Most already knew that he is a huge idiot.
I think it was when he decided that he just had to involve himself with social, political and cultural issues instead of just building rockets, cars and satellite internet.
Back in mid-to-late 2017 Trump asked Musk to be on an advisory council and people got mad Musk was going to accept. Liberals got mad the green energy guy was going to help Trump and f*cked themselves out of somebody who could have helped with green initiatives.
Guess he talked too much and revealed who he really was
He likes free speech and “they” don’t agree.
He started opening his mouth on twitter
I’ve always thought he was a bit shallow and immature, and I’ve thought his plan to colonize Mars was stupid and bound to fail…but, if it got us a cheap way to orbit and the ability to mine the moon and develop an industrial foothold there…I was okay with that.
It turned for me when he bought Twitter. I’ve been on Twitter since 2008 and it was fine. He’s pretty much wrecked it and made it a playground for crypto-scammers. He’s become involved in politics and that alone could result in everything he’s worked for at SpaceX being destroyed by a government he’s pissed off or by some loon who takes him out. Oh, and he took TweetDeck behind a paywall. I have two personal accounts and three business accounts and I would have TweetDeck running on multiple machines in the office on all the accounts and had a near-constant waterfall of data flowing. I tested it on one account and it’s been nerfed. Not worth a tenth of the subscription.
He made some bad comments about liberals and they turned on him
He’s always been a scumbag. People just find out at different times.
I think it was when people realized he wasn’t Tony Stark
It is the thing you know nothing about which is perfect.
People liked Elon Musk because we didn’t know anything about him, and we filled in the gaps with general coolness and goodwill and being smart and awesome. Then he started becoming more of a public figures, revealing lots of things which aren’t very nice.
It’s the same thing as “love at first sight” with the beautiful person across the room: they’re perfect, because you don’t know anything. You fill in the gaps: they share your political and religious views and like all the same books and movies and tv shows and weird sex things that you like. Then you actually meet in person and talk for while and find out that their religion is lunatic nonsense (while your religion is perfectly sensible) and their politics are evil and they have terrible taste in books and movies and tv shows.
He was a cool guy with cool gadgets. But then he started caring more about being famous than about the work. And when he showed the world that his personality sucks, people got the ick
He keeps opening his mouth
He showed his true color.
TL;DR – Don’t meet your heroes
He started posting his opinions online
when he became the richest man alive. people tend to dislike rich people nowadays..
I’d just like to know why I had never heard of the guy before 2013-2015 but he is now all over the place.
Honestly probably sometime between 2010 and 2015 for most people. By that time nobody thought he was cool except a very few real weirdos whoade him their personality. But after 2015 the general population went from indifferent to he’s got problems and by 2018 it was full on “this dude is a serious problem for all of society and ruins everything he touches.”
The day he threw a tesla towards Mars for sh*ts and giggles i decided the guy was a twat. I never understood how he got an appreciable percentage of our f*cking space program in his his grasp until I found out that he just bribed the nasa administrator in charge of that sh*t. f*ck that guy, I hope that not too many astronauts die because of him.
People thought he was a liberal, then found out he wasn’t.
When he started saying stupid and ridiculous sh*t. Previously, when he said dumb sh*t it was about his own companies and we all got used to Elon time and Elon vision. If he said we will have this in a year, and it will do this, then, it probably took 2 years, and maybe it did the thing, or, maybe it only did most of the thing.
But then he started saying dumb sh*t about other things. Like calling cave rescuers pedophiles. Or buying Twitter and reinstating Nazis and banning people who complain about the nazis. Not a good look.
When he came out in favor of free speech- You dont slave to the current narrative you get canceled.
He stated he might vote for a Republican and all the NPCs switched from “all hail electric car inventor” to “Nazi White supremacist South African slave mine owner!” literally overnight.
Note how here that’s been completely memory holed. It’s so 1984 that they’re all claiming he was always a fascist.
The pedo boy comments. Classy.
Around when he banned the word “Cis” from Twitter because he PERSONALLY feels it’s derogatory, completely ignoring the dictionary definition of the word.
I don’t know anything about the man but I know reddit and have to assume he did or said something that a cluster of redditors didn’t like and most redditro
Because he’s had more time in the spotlight and thus more time for his abhorrent behavior to be noticeable. It’s really that simple.
His reputation is still awesome, some people were just upset that he wasn’t a loyal democrat and started leaning right on some issues. Boo hoo feelings basically.
he didn’t start leaning right on anything, he bought into the maga movement because he’s a popularity obsessed man child. Like literally everyone else in the maga movement.
For me its when he dissed bitcoin and dropped its price. You dont mrss with my money
My first glimpse was when he publicly changed political parties to Republican. Weeks before a scandal.
Before that, he was mostly “huh” to me. (“Musk announces…” “Huh…”)
When it became obvious he was a dim witted man child with fascistic tendencies.
It wasn’t the start but it escalated when he gave co*ckroach bigots a voice by paying for it. Also there’s that creep that profited posting CP on twitter which he pardoned and verified.
People actually think opinions of redditors carry any weight.
Because people started asking him questions and his opinions and he told the truth
When did redditors started disliking Elon Musk? Back in maybe 2018 to 2020, meme subreddits were very fond of him, thinking he was relatable and a cool guy with cool gadgets. When did his reputation turn negative?
What you meant: Hey blue team, remember why we hate this guy?!? Hur hur hur.
He stopped doing work.
He’s now just another management MBA that does nothing.
He’s work is in fund raising for risky projects. He hasn’t done that recently.
I have a lot of stock in the company. I’ve always found him brilliant but annoying. I don’t think he has hurt the stock as the downturn in automotive is industry wide and the cars themselves and his new products in battery storage and software are great. But he does invite lightning through his money, power and his inability to control himself… particularly his mouth. Buying X showcased his darker side as he has no one really to report to. Ketamine seems to exacerbate his flaws.
If you seriously don’t think his antics and decisions at Tesla have hurt the stock price, you deserve what ever you get
When he bought Twitter and said it was important to keep free speech. Many liked that Twitter was shutting down some that were controversial or were espousing views they didn’t agree with.
Mmm… When he showed his true colors?!
It’s not “when redditors started to dislike him”, it’s “when did he openly showed his true personality”.
I don’t know if there was a moment, more of a death by a million paper cut. He started doing sketchy stuff to pump and dump stocks/crypto, we got to know mode of her personality, he called that guy a pedophile, started getting really loud with dumb ideas, a bunch of things he said would happen didn’t, it came out that he never actually created anything and is just a rich kid who bought his way in, found out his family made that money with slave labor, we found out he has a bunch of kids he abandoned, it just kept/keeps coming
For me it was the obvious stock manipulations. as Tesla grew more successful he became anti-union. And there were obvious signs of corner cutting and financial mismanagement.
Then the family stuff and his Twitter comments about the Thai cave rescue.
buying twitter for the sole purpose of destroying it from the inside out
I can’t blame people that bought Teslas before he went insane. But how can any with ethics and principles buy a Tesla today?
He killed Twitter by opening it up to and amplifying right wing hate. And began espousing his own right wing hate.
He’s a racist, narcissistic xenophobe, and only bought twitter so he could spread more of his racist bullsh*t.
No Tesla for me, and I immediately closed my twitter account when he bought the platform.
And he’s a f*cking weirdo.
It was when he bought Twitter. The left wing really didn’t like having its social media monopoly threatened like that.
How does the “left” have a social media monopoly? Who are the entities that control these platforms and please explain how you’ve determined they’re leftists. Do you even know what a “leftist” is? Because it’s becoming painfully obvious that every last one of the people posting a slight variation of your comment a.) doesn’t know what a leftist is and b.) has absolutely no idea how capitalism and the big tech arm of it works.
they started hating him when he bought Twitter and took it out of the hands of the left wing fascists who were controlling it
When people realized that someone can be a genius (very debatable), autistic, and an asshole all at the same time. They wanted Tony Stark and got Barney the Dinosaur with daddy’s blood emerald money.
When he went insane. Used to really like him but these days I can’t even hear about SpaceX, or something that I used to be really excited about, without just becoming sad. Like, he is smart. What happened? My theory is his aspergers plus hangs with the wrong people.
He isnt smart. Hes an idiot who happened to be born lucky
He is a classical liberal/libertarian, woke culture hates those people. He just started being vocal about it around that time.
He is also an autistic sh*t poster on social media, your worst comments define you in our culture. He has twitter post to trigger all sides of the political spectrum.
Yes that’s why he is hated. You’ve really done your research.
When he stopped speaking to the talking points of the left.
It’s so perplexing too, the man leads the effort in some the left’s biggest priorities
When he started criticizing Democrats ????♀️
Mainstream media went against him when he openly started criticizing liberals. Mainstream media shape what most people think, so he went from a savior to a villain overnight.
Last I was aware the MSM dont control his twitter account.
When he started to get political. You can’t criticize the left without getting brutalized in both legacy and social media.
As soon as the media told people they should hate him.
Hes anti-left which means reddit has to hate him.
When the media programmed the weak to hate him
Oh the irony of comments like this one.
ELON MUSK AND TESLA MOTORS FRAUD, STOCK RIGGING, BRIBERY AND SAFETY INVESTIGATIONS
Elon Musk’s toxic battery fires, spaceship exhaust, private jet vapors, toxic battery factories and battery chemical mines have caused over 1000 times more environmental damage than all of the minimal “green” values he has hyped, combined.
The CIA, FBI, FTC, EU and other agencies have been studying Elon Musk and the effects his strange government windfall financing has had on world economic and geopolitical events.
While some news outlets portray Musk as a man “…raised by a racist escort mother, that Musk desired sexually, and a hateful father who killed a number of black’s in South Africa and impregnated his own daughter…”; the psychological profile of Elon Musk is more complex and severe.
Musk has been diagnosed with a buffet of psychological defects. Musk is predominantly driven by a desire to impress his mother and to show his abusive father that he is as good as Musk says he is.
Musk is a consummate liar who will rationalize every lie, when caught, with a “what I really meant was this” tactic.
ELON MUSK SPENDS BILLIONS ON HYPE PR TO COVER UP THESE FAILURES OF HIS:
Elon Musk’s Biggest Tech Failures That No One Talks About
Elon Musk, at times the world’s richest man, is certainly one of its most discussed. After making a name for himself at PayPal, he would go on to buy his way into the already-established Tesla Motors company, becoming an industry leader in electric vehicles. Unable to be constrained by Earth or its gravity, his next venture was SpaceX, and Musk became a leader in private space exploration.
For years, Musk was hailed as a “visionary” (A term Musk pays reporters to say about him) who would help end the era of fossil fuels and might even propel humanity to other planets. He was even a partial inspiration for the character of Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to whom he has often been compared.
But with wild success comes wild failure, and Musk’s past is riddled with it. From being forced out of his own company to costly business mismanagement, and even seeing his creations crash or explode, here are Elon Musk’s biggest tech failures that no one talks about. Musk will change his politics at the drop of a hat, depending on which party he can get the most cash from.
He was fired from PayPal
One of Elon Musk’s earliest successes came with the financial services website X.com, which he founded by investing the money he’d made from his first company, Zip2, after it was purchased by Compaq. Musk founded X.com in 1999, and the company merged with tech vampire Peter Thiel’s Confinity, which offered a money-transfer service called PayPal, but the combined venture retained the name X.com (via The Verge).
But there were stormy seas ahead for Musk. In September 2000, while Musk was on honeymoon with his first wife, Justine, a collection of employees at PayPal, dissatisfied with Musk’s leadership, threatened to resign if Musk didn’t step down as CEO. Executives delivered a vote of no confidence to the board of X.com, forcing Musk out and replacing him with Thiel. After Musk’s departure, the company was renamed PayPal, and Thiel would later go on to sell it to eBay for $1.5 billion (via The New Yorker).
It was a rough early blow for the entrepreneur, but in the coming years, it would barely be remembered as a speed bump on his road to riches.
He waged war against Tesla whistleblowers
One of the least discussed but most revealing chapters in Musk’s history came in 2018 when a Tesla assembly worker named Martin Tripp noticed some concerning things at Tesla’s Gigafactory in California. Tripp identified a number of wasteful practices in production, so he brought his concerns to Musk, who proved unreceptive.
Tripp next brought internal Tesla documents to Business Insider, but in response, Musk waged war against the leaker, as detailed in a bizarre and harrowing Bloomberg investigation. He fired Tripp, then sued him for $167 million. He hired private investigators who tailed him in person and hacked his phone to see his texts in real-time. And, on his alleged orders, Tesla’s security team passed along a “tip” to police claiming that Tripp was planning to commit a mass shooting at the factory. The SWAT team deployed to Tripp’s house found him unarmed and sobbing.
Aside from being, to put it mildly, a bit of an overreaction, Musk’s enraged response to Tripp’s whistleblowing is a major failure for a tech CEO overseeing his own factory. As noted by CNBC, companies that are responsive to whistleblower concerns are ultimately more profitable in the long run. And, as we shall see, this would not be the last time Musk paid a price for ignoring the concerns of his workers. Musk has hired Nick Denton’s tabloid empire of Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, etc. to attack and destroy Musk’s competitors and disfavored politicians.
Under his management, Tesla covered up safety violations, workplace injuries, and racism
In 2019, Forbes found that Tesla had been investigated by California OSHA 24 times between 2014 and 2018 and was fined for 54 violations. One worker lost a finger after his glove was caught in a torque gun. There were eight investigations at Tesla’s Tennessee factory with five violations found, and the one in Kentucky was investigated 13 times with four violations issued. In 2020, the Los Angeles Times reported that Tesla had covered up hundreds of factory-related injuries since 2015.
Then, a judge ruled in April 2022 that Tesla must pay out $15 million to a Black contract worker who was systematically discriminated against inside the company (via NPR). And in July of that year, fifteen Black employees, both former and current, filed a lawsuit alleging they were racially harassed with slurs, compared to chattel slaves, and assigned to the most physically exhaustive labor while being passed over for promotions (via Al Jazeera).
Given Elon Musk’s iron grip over his companies, noted by outlets like The Guardian, the buck stops with him. When factories are this chaotic, is it really surprising we have yet to see deliveries of the Tesla Roadster or Cybertruck?
Under his management, a shocking number of SpaceX rockets have exploded
After Tesla’s success in the years after Elon Musk bought his way into the company, the billionaire’s next venture left the road behind in favor of the stars. SpaceX, the private, Musk-controlled spacecraft and satellite manufacturer has become one of the leaders in space technology and was even the first private company to develop a liquid-propellant rocket that achieved Earth orbit when it launched the Falcon 1 in 2008 (via NASA). But despite its successes, a surprising number of SpaceX rockets have gone down in flames — according to the New York Post,at least 10 rockets have combusted between 2014 and 2021.
Indeed, many of SpaceX’s rockets have become nothing more than incredibly expensive fireworks, such as a Falcon 9 that exploded over the Atlantic Ocean in 2015, costing the company an estimated $112 million according to Futurism. As reported byReuters, another Falcon 9 carrying cargo bound for the International Space Station combusted two minutes after liftoff that same year. And among the most spectacular failures was a Falcon 9 rocket that exploded on the launch pad, a failure so mind-boggling to Musk that he — according toThe Washington Post — investigated it as a case of sabotage.
At times, these technological failures can even present a threat to those of us who are terrestrially bound. According to The Guardian, in August 2022, two Australian farmers found debris from a SpaceX crash on their respective properties.
He got in trouble with the FCC over rigging Tesla stock prices
Elon Musk has always considered himself a bit of a troll, and nothing tickles his posting syndrome more than a weed joke. But in 2018, Musk’s stoner antics backfired when he made what may just be the world’s costliest 420 joke. On Twitter, the billionaire posted, “considering taking Tesla private at $420 a share.” Laughs were had. Yuks were yukked. And then the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) got involved.
Musk’s proposed share price may have been intended in jest, but he seemed serious about taking Tesla private, and his announcement, which suggested a valuation 11% higher than the current trading price at that time, caused a sudden spike in Tesla’s stock prices and trading was halted by Nasdaq (via CNBC). The SEC charged him with civil securities fraud. Investors sued, and a judge ruled that Musk had made intentionally false statements; he had been lying, to begin with (via CNBC). It wouldn’t even be the last time he messed with Tesla stock.
In 2019, Musk settled with the SEC, landing on an arrangement that included personally paying $20 million — pocket change for a man like Musk — and agreeing to have any tweets about Tesla vetted by the company’s legal counsel before posting them, as reported by Reuters. Though it was regarded as a slap on the wrist by experts, Musk filed to kill the SEC deal in 2022, accusing the regulating body of violating his free speech (via Reuters).
Clearly, Musk is still chafing against the consent decree, but if there’s one thing American businesspeople know, it’s that regulators never take kindly to defrauding investors.
Under Musk’s management, over 270 Tesla vehicles crashed on Autopilot in one year
While many of Elon Musk’s technological failures represent setbacks for his companies or for himself, personally, others have had much more dire consequences. Nothing is more representative of that fact than the staggering number of Tesla cars that have been involved in crashes while in Autopilot mode. Between June 2021 and June 2022, a staggering 273 Teslas were involved in crashes while in Autopilot mode, accounting for almost 70% of crashes that involved driver-assistance systems according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Tesla’s Autopilot is, despite what its name suggests, not meant to drive the car fully autonomously. Rather, it is a suite of driver-assistance features that help the vehicle maintain speed, make safe lane switches, and the like. Although a beta of “Full Self Driving” mode is available on some models, it is not reliable enough to allow drivers to divert their attention from the road. But that doesn’t stop some Tesla drivers from doing so anyway, perhaps trusting Musk’s exaggerated promises about the technology (via The Verge). When that technology fails, the results can be deadly, which is probably why other auto manufacturers avoid such hyperbole about their own vehicles’ self-driving capabilities.
He brought Tesla and SpaceX to the verge of bankruptcy
As the head of two companies that manufacture, respectively, automobiles and rockets, tech issues can be costly. And as the head of both Tesla and SpaceX, both companies came dangerously close to the precipice of bankruptcy under Elon Musk’s leadership.
In the case of Tesla, the issues came while the company was in the production of its Model 3 electric sedan. As reported by CNBC, Musk shared on Twitter that, from mid-2017 to mid-2019, Tesla was within a month of bankruptcy as production on their vehicles stalled. The CEO named “production and logistics hell” as the culprit.
Then, in 2021, SpaceX nearly exploded into financial flames like a failed rocket launch. The problem was, similarly, production issues with its Raptor rockets. In a companywide email obtained by CNBC, Musk warned his employees at the space technology firm, “The Raptor production crisis is much worse than it seemed a few weeks ago. We face genuine risk of bankruptcy if we cannot achieve a Starship flight rate of at least once every two weeks next year.”
Ultimately, both companies overcame their technological difficulties, and their respective near bankruptcies became another in a long list of Musk’s least publicized failures.
His Starlink satellites became Russian and Chinese military targets
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dominated the 2022 news cycle, and Elon Musk plays a surprisingly key role in the ongoing conflict. Starlink satellites provided by SpaceX formed the backbone of Ukraine’s communications network, helping its armed forces and civilians as Russia pummeled the country’s ground infrastructure. The satellites were subsidized by the United States, though asThe Washington Postsuggests,SpaceX representatives have framed it as a charity operation.
Aside from their invaluable role in Ukraine’s communications, the besieged nation uses the satellites provided by Musk’s company to photograph Russian military deployments, review damage done to its enemy’s air bases, and even provide grim evidence of mass graves in Russian-occupied territory (via Axios).
In September 2022, the Russian delegation to the U.N. General Assembly released a statement promising that “quasi-civilian infrastructure” could be a “legitimate target” if Ukraine continues to use them, almost certainly referring to SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites, according toFuturism.
But as dire as the situation was, it was about to escalate due to Musk’s own actions.
He threatened Ukraine but was forced to back down
In October 2022, as the Russo-Ukrainian war waged on, Musk abruptly threatened to cease funding the use of Starlink satellites by Ukraine, as reported by The Washington Post. Given the nation’s heavy reliance on those satellites for its war efforts, such a move would have crippled Ukraine’s defenses and provided a major tactical advantage to Russia.
Even more shockingly, the threat seemed to be a response to a Ukrainian ambassador who insulted him on Twitter. After Musk ran a Twitter poll suggesting the conflict be ended via a UN-supervised vote, and that the contested Crimea region remain part of Russia, Andrij Melnyk, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, told Musk, “F— off is my very diplomatic reply to you.” Shortly after threatening to cut Ukraine off from the Starlink network, Musk tweeted, “We’re just following his recommendation.”
But only a day later, Musk rescinded his threat, promising to continue funding with a bitter tweet that read, “The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free” (via The New York Times). The Times speculated that Musk’s about-face was in response to international rebuke for his threat, and noted that SpaceX had only donated 3,000 satellites to the Ukrainian effort, while the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland footed the bill for almost 17,000.
The incident was a bizarre instance of a tech company becoming mired in international geopolitics, and the world may never know how close Musk came to handing Russia its desired annexation of Ukraine.
His management of Twitter is predicted to result in the loss of 32M users
While Twitter wasn’t exactly in peak shape before Elon Musk took the reigns of the social media platform, his management since then has been chaotic to say the least, and market analysis now suggests those mistakes may be costly.
As SlashGear recently reported, market research firm Insider Intelligence is predicting a loss of 32 million Twitter users by 2024 due to Musk’s layoffs at the company and a declining public perception of Musk himself. According to the report, Twitter’s vastly reduced workforce will likely struggle to address technical issues, leading to user frustration and, ultimately, attrition.
Additionally, the report cites a proliferation of hateful content and a personal distaste of Musk as another reason users may choose to abandon the platform, a concern raised by other tech experts. As Nilay Patel at The Verge pointed out in an opinion column shortly after Musk marched into Twitter HQ with his sink in tow, social media may contain inbuilt mechanisms that help to proliferate extreme content, but users generally like their experiences to be pleasant.
As of this writing, Musk is in the process of suspending notable journalists from the platform, ostensibly for violating a new policy by posting the publicly available flight data of his private jet, which Musk claims is a personal safety risk. But while it’s not clear how many of those journalists did so, many appear to have been critical of the “chief Twit” (via CNBC). In the immediate aftermath, many more media figures have declared their intention to leave Twitter for good. According to The Washington Post, Musk may also face sanctions from the European Union.
While the dire long-term projections are not the subject of widespread discussion, the decline of Twitter would be Musk’s most visible tech failure yet.
Any homeless person could have done everything that Elon Musk has done if they too were handed billions of taxpayer dollars, tax free perks, thousands of investment bankers and outside engineers and the exclusive favors of The White House. Musk has never built a car or a rocket. He has invented nothing and has only taken the innovations of others. His cars and rockets blow up; he tortured huge numbers of animals for his ‘brain chip’ experiments; his hole making company is ridiculous’ his father is a pedo, blood mineral exploiter and incest violator; his mother was an escort, and his brother is a scammer. He is part of Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Jurvetson’s sex ring. He is a mobster. His whole family is a pack of racist, perverted, privileged assholes.
All of the ‘glowing’ news articles about him that ignore his lies were paid for by Musk’s PR staff. Feinstein and Pelosi own Musk assets and rig Congress on his behalf for their own profits. SpaceX is never going to Mars, that is just a smoke-screen tale to hide the fact that all SpaceX does is satellites that spy on people. Musk gets so many girls pregnant because he subscribes to the Deep Breeder scheme of Jeffrey Epstein. Musk is a narcissistic, drug abusing, sociopath that hires In-Q-Tel and Black Cube to attack others. His Tesla Cars have more safety defects than any car in the world. Obama shut down part of NASA, fired NASA staff and then gave that same part to Musk as political quid pro quo. His controlled news articles only talk about the few things that have worked and ignore the thousands of Musk things that have failed horrifically. Google and Musk are partners in stock market rigging and information manipulation.
Corrupt political families conspire to give government funds, contracts, tax waivers, buildings, stock market profits and other insider perks to themselves and their friends. They also conspire to blockade, harm, sabotage and black-list those who compete with them and their friends. These corrupt politicians are never prosecuted for their crimes, and can laugh in the face of those who point out their crimes, because they control the prosecution system. Their Quid Pro Quo criminal corruption is the single largest cause of the taxpayer hatred of Congress.
Musk TWITTER Bid Leans on Financier Linked to Russian Tycoon…
Feds advance probe of TESLAS running into emergency vehicles…
Musk Has Become Villain Liberals Always Imagined Him to Be…
Only men seem to start car companies. Most psychologists say that this is because men see cars as dick insecurity emblems.
Elon Musk is known to be a wildly insecure narcissist who feels that he must get every woman, that he can find, pregnant in order to prove his manhood to his abusive father, who got his sister pregnant.
Musk embodies the ultimate expression of ‘car-as-dick’ thinking because Musk was not only molded by his purse-swinging, kept-woman, mother, abusive father and crooked brother but also by the Silicon Valley frat boy rape-culture.
Silicon Valley is, of course, the Eden of modern misogyny and tech-bro douche-baggery.
Musk dragged all of the biggest assholes from Silicon Valley, The DNC and Goldman Sachs into his Tech Cartel. Together they created a temporary monopoly in the electric car industry by exchanging stock market payola with Senators and White House staff who, in exchange, locked off the electric car and space industries just for Musk.
But that scheme was not sustainable. It was amazingly crooked and lucrative but, it could not last. It was Big Tech’s Roman Empire and it was doomed to fail spectacularly.
Musk counted on Obama and Biden to stick with his original quid-pro-quo deal to trade government cash for election rigging via his boyfriends at Google and Facebook. Tesla was the money conduit for a bunch of political scammery.
Biden and his cheerleader actress front girl: Jennifer Granholm, bounced into office with a Wizard of Oz promise to give everybody electric cars. They were so wrong about the pitfalls of their plan and they hired so many idiot sex freaks and unicorn fart unaware fools that their scheme blew up…instantly and literally.
Shoshana Zuboff’s, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Why Twitter, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Alphabet are the SAME Thing, The SAME SICKO tech elites and the same kinds of social privacy RAPE against citizens!
https://www.contagious.com/news-and-views/shoshana-zuboff-on-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism
Many investigative journalists have written about the scheming world of Elon Musk. Here are a small set of these clippings from investigations and analysis of his covert operations:
“His corrupt cobalt mines promote genocide in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising”
“His corrupt cobalt mines promote mass rape in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising”
“His corrupt cobalt mines promote child slave labor in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising”
“He tries to bury his ill-gotten money from the taxpayers in gobs of real estate acquisitions and houses and his notorious purchase of the DeGuigne Court mansion at 891 Crystal Springs Road, in Burlingame, California is staged for his kinky sex parties and Illuminati-like cartel get-togethers…”
“His is not faithful to his girlfriends”
“The workers that build his batteries die or sicken from toxic poisoning”
“Tesla bribes U.S. Senators with cash and stock in order to get free taxpayer funds”
“He is addicted to drugs and booze”
“He has sociopath mental issues and he is a narcissist…”
“Tesla has had more recalls for safety defects, per volume, than any other car maker. Musk refuses to allow the use of the word RECALL but the facts are the facts.”
“It is so easy to hack any Tesla and crash it, break into it or give it bad braking orders that it is criminally negligent to allow Tesla’s on the street. Even the Chinese have hacked Tesla’s from the other side of the world! Tesla’s have been hacked and remotely crashed, the drivers killed and Tesla covers this up…”
“His partner: Steve Jurvetson, has been charged with sex and corruption issues”
“He arranged government kick-backs with the White House”
“He is the world’s biggest government mooch”
“He is a member of the Palo Alto Mafia”
“Google (who is a major Tesla investor) hides all negative Musk/Tesla news and hypes TSLA stock in order to profiteer with TSLA stock. This is a violation of federal SEC laws”
“More drivers have been caught driving drunk, in Tesla’s, than any other car Per Capita produced”
“Larry Page is Musk’s ‘bromance’ boyfriend buddy and he uses Google to cover-up Musk’s scandals”
“His so-called ‘foundation” is just a payola and tax evasion scam for his family”
“His batteries are the most dangerous use of lithium ion storage ever conceived”
“His partner: Panasonic has been charged with multiple corruption, dumping, price rigging and manipulation crimes around the globe”
“Almost all of the internet ‘Tesla Fanboys’ are Russian troll farms and hired bloggers that Musk pays vast amounts of money to in order to hype up a fake image for him”
“The drug and murder-for-hire website: Silk Road, was built at drug-enthusiast Musk’s company SpaceX by Musk’s programmer and Musk hires many people from a group called: In-Q-Tel, who were caught with tons of cocaine on their airplanes in a DEA raid”
“His SpaceX is nothing more than a domestic spy satellite company”
“Musk’s brain chip company tortures small animals in bad science experiments”
“His father screwed his daughter and got her pregnant”
“Dianne Feinstein and her family covertly own many Musk interests and arranged for him to get his funds from the taxpayers”
“You can’t put out the fires when his batteries explode”
“The fumes from his thermal battery vapors give you cancer, lung and brain damage”
etc……
You may have run across Musk’s self promoting, narcissistic, multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype but here is the other side of his hype-coin. Here is who Elon Musk really is:
We know these facts from personal interaction with Musk, his companies and his politicians. Everything in this report can be proven in a jury trial, Congressional hearings or live TV debates.
Musk will do anything to keep this information from getting out but… it is too late for him!
While Musk’s dirty deeds sound like a bad Hollywood movie script. It all really happened and there is now massive hard copy evidence to prove it.
Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources from the Department of Energy and the California political tax pool. This is proven when you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony payola kick-backs. The payola between Musk, his scummy cronies and the politicians included:
Billions of dollars of Google (Where Musk’s boy buddy Larry Page works), Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix and Sony Pictures stock and stock warrants which is never reported to the FEC; Billions of dollars of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix and Sony Pictures search engine rigging and shadow-banning which is never reported to the FEC; Free rent; Male and female prostitutes; Cars; Dinners; Party Financing; Sports Event Tickets; Political campaign printing and mailing services “Donations”; Secret PAC Financing; Jobs in Corporations in Silicon Valley For The Family Members of Those Who Take Bribes And Those Who Take Bribes; “Consulting” contracts from McKinsey as fronted pay-off gigs; Overpriced “Speaking Engagements” which are really just pay-offs conduited for donors; Private jet rides and use of Government fuel depots (ie: Google handed out NASA jet fuel to staff); Real Estate; Fake mortgages; The use of Cayman, Boca Des Tores, Swiss and related money-laundering accounts; The use of HSBC, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Deustche Bank money laundering accounts and covert stock accounts; Free spam and bulk mailing services owned by Silicon Valley corporations; Use of high tech law firms such as Perkins Coie, Wilson Sonsini, MoFo, Covington & Burling, etc. to conduit bribes to officials; and other means now documented by us, The FBI, the FTC, The SEC, The FEC and journalists.
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INSIDE THE MUSK CORRUPTION OPERATION
The U.S. Energy Dept (DOE) has been covering-up organized political crime activities in which government funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off political campaign financiers and to pay for CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors.
Political campaign financiers and government agency staff share stock market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts.
The Musk scam-deal was: “Obama funds Tesla, Musk conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of insider Musk stocks…”
Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag, woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader. We can put this in writing because all of those identifications regarding Musk can be proven in court and are documented in existing lawsuits and news stories.
Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about himself. Musk thinks he is the ‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley and he will do anything to make the public think so. Musk is insecure because his father was abusive and his “trophy wife” Mother is overbearing so he developed sociopath-like mental issues. Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist. He public stated on an investor call that he uses drugs and alcohol to get through the night. We have the tapes.
Musk relies on Google and the DNC Main Stream News (MSN) to hide bad news about him. Fake News manipulator Google is run by Larry Page. Larry is Musk’s investor and bromance ‘Butt buddy’. They share an apartment. Musk uses massive numbers of shell companies and trust funds to self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market insider trading. His brother ran Solar City and is now under federal investigation for securities fraud.
A huge number of Tesla drivers have been killed; pedestrians and oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk covers it up.
Extremist politicians and their controlled news outlets refuse to allow any articles about Musk’s crimes to be printed because they benefit from Musk’s crimes.
Investor oligarch’s Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are so fanatical about not being embarrassed from a Tesla bankruptcy that they will pump the TSLA stock and threaten anybody who might disclose the Musk misdeeds.
Peter Thiel, a Musk ‘boyfriend” also protects Musk. Musk, and his cronies, use Palantir, Google and related software to scan the entire internet every few minutes for any occurrence of the words: “Musk”, “Tesla” or “Tesla Fire”. They send trolls and fake bloggers (Many of them Russian) to put pro-Musk comments on the comments section of any blogs or articles discussing those topics and try to flood out the truth about Musk.
In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’, at least 1/3 of the comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid shills. There are no “Tesla Fan Boys”. All of the fanatic Tesla comments on the internet are Musk’s, Thiel’s, Jurvetson’s and Draper’s fake fanboy trolls. Musk, himself, stays up late at night pretending to be a ‘Tesla Fan Boy’on blogs.
The ‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al; threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their political candidates.
Musk holds the record for getting sued for fraud by his investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders. Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
Musk never founded his companies. He took Tesla away from the founder: Marty, in a hostile take-over!
Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy and political manipulation tools – never get your internet from one. SpaceX is entirely a spy satellite operation.
The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from cell phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla.
Musk can’t fix a car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical skills.
If you pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and cross reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you will find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is THE WORST of any car maker in history!
Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to rig the stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18 men who rig stocks and valuation bumps for Musk.
Over 1000 witnesses can prove every one of those claims in any live televised Congressional hearing! Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies. That is why they criminally help cover-up investigations of Tesla! All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia Rich and David Johnson at the FBI.
Why aren’t all of those parties in prison if it is so easy to prove the crime? Think back to recent history: the heads of the Department of Energy, the FBI, The DOJ and the U.S. Attorney General were kicked out of their jobs for corruption. THIS was the corruption they were doing. They all knew about this crime but they were covering it up.
Musk took over Tesla Motors in a hostile take-over in order to exploit lithium, cobalt and other mining corruption deals for his business partners. Let’s take a look at the ‘lithium’ in Musk’s horrifically miss-engineered lithium ion batteries:
His batteries cause wars in the Congo, Afghanistan and Bolivia from the corrupt mining deals involved with mining lithium and cobalt. Lithium ion batteries are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA boss Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu. Lithium ion batteries excrete chemicals that mutate fetuses when they burn; destroy your brain, lungs and nervous system when they burn; kill the factory workers who make them; cause Panasonic to be one of the most corrupt companies in the world; poison the Earth when disposed of; can’t be extinguished by firemen; poison firemen when they burn; are based on criminally corrupt mining schemes like URANIUM ONE; Have over 61 toxic chemicals in them; come from an industry that spends billions on internet shills and trolls used to nay say all other forms of energy; and are insider-trading owned by corrupt U.S. Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their dangers.
Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding and setting people on fire. Over time the chemical dendrites, or deposits, inside each battery grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they age – LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE AS TIME GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE. This is not a theory. This is a scientific fact. That is why you hear about more and more lithium batteries catching fire and blowing up. Additionally, scientists also speculate that the increasing presence of low energy nuclear background energy and wifi energy in the environment is making lithium ion batteries explode more often lately. This theory is upheld by the increasing number of FAA reports about commercial airline cabins suddenly “filling up with toxic smoke” as some lithium ion battery explodes in someones overhead luggage. As commercial jets go higher they lose the protection of the atmosphere and are subjected to more gamma (and other) radiation from overhead. This makes the already unstable lithium ion batteries on board blow up.
“Bad Guys” have figured out how to make them explode remotely in devices by making the device electrnics cause the batteries to overload. The dangers of lithium ion batteries are hidden by CNN and Main Stream News (MSN) because pretty much only the DNC people profit from them and the DNC folks control CNN and the MSN.
The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs the market monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel cells in exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging; United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT & NHTSA from outlawing them.
Tom Steyer is a notorious DNC financier. His partner, Margaret Sullivan ran, the federal USAID agency, USAID sent all of the DNC campaign financiers in Silicon Valley a federal ‘report’ from USAID that said there was “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM IN AFGHANISTAN” and promised to give those lithium mines, EXCLUSIVELY, to the Silicon Valley venture capitalists if they funded and web search manipulated the election for Obama to take over the White House. We have the documents proving this. In other words, a re-up of the Afghan War was caused by Elon Musk and it killed American soldiers so that Musk could buy more mansions and trophy wives.
Alkaline, NiCAD and hundreds of other battery chemistries DO NOT have all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a monopoly because of politician insider trading ownerships.
Tesla Motors has caused far more deaths and injuries than the world generally knows about. A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA, burned the driver alive and killed him. In Florida two kids died in a Tesla, burned alive, screaming in agony. A man died in agony in a Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon on fire. A young woman, at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned alive in their crashed Tesla. There are many more deaths and crashes than you have seen in the Main Stream News (MSN) The deaths and the cover-ups are endless.
Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies and they cover-up and halt investigations and laws designed to save the public. They, and their crony’s, spend over $1B a year to shill and troll hype about lithium ion batteries and cover-up the dangers. Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery fires. Experts say that their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter fires that release toxic fumes and are more difficult to put out. Lithium ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes so long and requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an electric fire, after all) to smother the flames. Tesla employee Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these dangers in 2008 and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by Musk. Three top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices in San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers.
The DNC bosses, Congress people and federal executives own the stock in lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets (Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk) to finance the DNC.
The DNC bosses and Musk use character assassination as their main political tool against any member of the public who speaks out against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like scandals. The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they have teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives.
They use Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media, Gizmodo Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times, Google servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling and a host of “media assassins”.
Gawker and Gizmodo Media set-up the attack stories and, in paid partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links around the globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks the attack articles of its enemies on the front top search results of Google search results forever, on purpose! Google and Musk are partners-in-crime. Larry Page steals technology for Google and Musk meets with Larry Page to advise him on which technologies to steal and how to bypass FEC laws. Musk has exceeded FEC campaign finance limits by billions of dollars via “in-kind” services.
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SEE MORE AT:
https://www.propublica.org
https://www.transparency.org
https://www.icij.org
http://www.google-is-a-mobster.com
https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com
MUSK’S SPACEX COMPANY Will have all of it’s satellites destroyed in moments as soon as China gets pissed off: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/12/asia-pacific/chinas-space-debris-cleanup-may-cover-story-arms-u-s-satellites-pentagon/
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-24/tesla-slams-tree-florida-bursting-flames-and-killing-driver
- PROOF – Elon Musk is a total fraud – nypost.com
- PROOF – Elon Musk is a total fraud: Truth about Tesla billionaire exposed
- PROOF – Elon Musk Passes the Hat Again on Capitol Hill… And in China
- PROOF – About Elon Musk – A WASHINGTON DC ORGANIZED CRIME
- PROOF – Mark Spiegel: Elon Musk is ‘a pathological liar’
- PROOF – Tesla’s Elon Musk is a liar, he will do anything to keep
- PROOF – https://nationalnewsnetwork.net/
- PROOF – http://www.videonet111.com
- AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF OTHER THIRD PARTY REPORTS COVERED UP BY THOSE WHO PROFIT FROM THE MUSK EMPIRE OF CORRUPTION
WE HAVE ASKED THE FBI, DOJ, OSC, SEC, FTC, GAO, U.S. CONGRESS, AND OTHERS, TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE MUSK AND HIS CRONY OPERATION!
ELON MUSK’S PAID-FOR MEDIA SHILLS. THEY COVER UP HIS CORRUPTION AND PUSH PUFF-STORIES ABOUT MUSK. NEVER TRUST THEM TO BE ANYTHING BUT BIASED PROPAGANDA OUTLETS. MANY OF THEM OWN TESLA STOCK: Electrek, Google, Facebook, CNN, Huffington Post, Dianne Feinstein’s PR office, Nancy Pelosi, Steven Chu, MSNBC, PayPal, KPIX-TV, San Jose Mercury News, Any Hearst owned entity, The SF Chronicle, Motley Fool, Green Car Congress, The executive staff of the DNC, The NY Times, etc.
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ELON MUSK AND HIS CRONY STOCK MARKET SLUSH-FUND PAYOLA
– Why We Know That Elon Musk Is A Criminal
By Susan T. and Andrew H.
We saw Elon Musk commit crimes and we saw the Obama White House cover-up those crimes.
We, and our associates, worked for Bright Automotive, Zap Electric, Aptera, Eco Motors, XPV, The United States Department of Energy and the federal Office of Management and Budget and Tesla Motors itself.
Americans have an expectation that their tax dollars will be used in a fair and legal manner and not to pay off crony campaign financiers like Elon Musk. Americans have an expectation that fair market competition will decide which companies get to live or die and that no campaign financiers gets to order the White House to produce the death or success decision about any American business. Elon Musk’s operation exists entirely because of criminal corruption and all of his companies must be shut down by federal law enforcement.
For nearly a decade, the U.S. Department of Energy has refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for copies of Tesla Motors entire D.O.E. funding application documents. Former D.O.E. employees have shredded copies of those documents in order to keep them from being exposed to the public and the media. Why would they do that? Because those documents reveal felony criminal fraud by Tesla Motors, federal violations of the Section 136 law requirements and manipulations of the “hard-wiring” of the entire D.O.E. program. Those documents, which we have seen (and some Senate staff have private copies of) prove that, in a side-by-side comparison with all other applicants, the Tesla application was manipulation, rigged, false-reviewed and crony-advanced in order to pay-off certain campaign financiers and damage their competitors. Tell the U.S. Congress to demand that the U.S. Department of Energy stop breaking the law and comply with the FOIA requests to stop hiding the incriminating evidence in the Tesla files. Demand that the public be shown the original paper and not the later, “doctored” versions.
We saw Elon Musk operate an entirely illegal and unethical program based on State and Federal corruption. We told this, in writing and in person to the U.S. Attorney General: Eric Holder, who then quit his job after we reported these facts to him.
We reported that Elon Musk lied about vast number of dangers of the lithium ion chemistry he was using. Nothing was done.
We reported that our associates at the Department of Energy were having their safety reports on lithium ion danger suppressed. Nothing was done.
We reported that Elon Musk’s credit rating and financial records were fraudulent and amounted to “cooking the books”. Nothing was done.
We reported bribes paid by Musk’s lobbyists and associated to government officials in order to grease the skids for his crony payola. Nothing was done.
We reported that Goldman Sachs and Tesla Motors were operating a stock fraud pump-and-dump scam to manipulate Elon Musk’s stock holdings. Nothing was done.
We reported over a hundred illegal and corrupt actions by Elon Musk and his mob of Silicon Valley gangsters. Nothing was done.
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TESLA MOTORS: CREATED BY CORRUPTION, BRIBES AND LIES!
– DEMAND THAT A FEDERAL SPECIAL PROSECUTOR REVIEW ALL OF THESE CHARGES IN A PUBLIC HEARING!
** If you have an ounce of morality, then you will not want to help Musk & Tesla profit from the crony political corruption that created them. Musk exists because he bribes politicians & acts as an illegal campaign financing conduit.
** DOT/NHTSA has covered up years of reports about an acceleration surge issue that can suddenly crash your Tesla into walls and drive it off cliffs. It is either a known hacking attack or the effect of WiFi on Tesla electronics. Either can kill you.
** Musk & Tesla are pure evil & exist because of hyper-corruption. You don’t want to contribute to their evil or be part of it in any way. You are funding evil & supporting criminal corruption by buying a Tesla or any Elon Musk owned product like Solar City, Tesla, Space X, Hyperloop, etc.!
** Elon Musk spent more money, than any other car company in history, to do the exact same things that any other car has done, or could do, for 20 times less money. Musk’s Tesla was $100,000.00 over budget, per car, at the time that Musk was handed his crony Dept. of Energy froms by Steven Chu. Musk has no clue how to operate a car company.
** In one lawsuit it is noted that: “…Plaintiff and Tesla both applied for funds at the same time, in the same funding cycle in the same program. Tesla had the historically epic number of horrific issues listed below, which were known to DOE at the time of application, and Plaintiffs had NONE of these issues. How can any court, or rational person, believe that Plaintiffs were not intentionally bypassed, targeted and damaged for political reasons while Tesla was simultaneously approved for political reasons, when the comparative metrics between the two applicants prove the largest merit disparity in the entire recorded history of the U.S. Department of Energy….the singular, and only, review criteria used by Department of Energy officials was: WHICH ONE BRIBED THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE GROUP FOR BARACK OBAMA?!”; Thus proving that Tesla exists because of organized-crime level political corruption.
** Elon Musk’s self-driving “autopilot” feature, which keeps crashing and failing, is his attempt to scam taxpayer cash from Dept. of Transportation and Dept. of Energy public funds. He is only trying to do it to get more free federal cash.
** The inventor of lithium ion batteries has confessed that lithium ion batteries blow up eventually. He says that deadly dendrites plague lithium-ion battery technology. The dendrites accumulate as part of the standard charging and recharging cycle and eventually cause a short circuit that often results in a smoldering or burning battery. These dendrites are destined to eventually blow up most Tesla cars and many electronic devices using lithium ion!
** The CIA’s software designed to take over any Tesla on Earth and kill the driver, passengers and bystanders has been released in the wild and every hacker on Earth can now easily get a copy of it and kill you in your Tesla!
** Ex-employees have leaked faked financial records, evidence of massive click-farm fake social media manipulation and evidence of unreported deaths and accidents. They say that most Tesla’s have one kind of defect or another.
** If you read about the dirty deeds and cocaine dealings with the In-Q-Tel airplanes called “Cocaine 1” & “Cocaine 2”, & the corruption behind the company called In-Q-Tel & Musk’s software programmer who ran “The Silk Road” drug & murder service then you must be concerned that many In-Q-Tel people work for Musk. Why does Musk need dirty druggies & spies on his payroll unless he is running covert drug and business spying activities?
** Ex-employees, Gawker writers and gay lawyers from Covington & Burling have leaked stories that Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Larry Page are “butt buddies”.
** Musk is anti-American and Anti-Worker Rights and has been caught flying in H1-B cheap offshore labor and exploiting immigrants for his deadly profits. Musk hates unions and worker rights efforts.
** Elon Musk gets the Cobalt chemical to make his lithium ion batteries from slave trade and blood-money corruption in the Congo!
** The lithium ion batteries that Musk uses also blow up when they naturally encounter Low Energy Nuclear (LENR) effects in the ambient environment. Millions of chemicals don’t blow up from LENR’d but lithium ion does!
** If you are a Democrat then know that Elon Musk cost you the Hillary Clinton campaign because of his payola schemes. If you are a Republican, know that Elon Musk is the epitome of the worst form of DNC crony corruption you ever saw!
** Musk bribed California politicians to give him hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars & resources he never earned or worked for. He only got those crony payola perks handed to him because he operated as an illicit front for corrupt campaign financing for Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown, Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
** Multiple parties have filed “Demands For The Arrest of Elon Musk” with the FBI, DOJ, AG, FTC, SEC and other law enforcement agencies. It is not likely that Musk, or his companies will survive a full investigation.
** Tesla and Solyndra sit on the same land in Fremont, CA. Solyndra was raided by the FBI for corruption. Tesla SHOULD be raided by the FBI for corruption. Both companies had kick-back crony payola schemes with Senator Dianne Feinstein. She owned the land, lease, HR, construction company and supplier interests and stock for both companies in one of the most massive conflict-of-interest crony financing schemes in U.S. history. Elon Musk and the Feinsteins are corruption partners.
** People who see you in a Tesla think of you as a “Tone Deaf Douchebag”, “Tesla Tool!”, “Arrogant Prick”, “Ostentatious Obama Oaf”, “Sheep”, “Mindless Yuppie Scum”, “Misogynistic Silicon Valley Clone”, “Self-promoting Elitist Douche”, “Fake News Reading Main Stream Boob”, “Naive Idiot” or other bad things.
** Elon Musk is one of the main financiers behind Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton, both of whom have been charged with corruption. Musk endlessly tweets lies & “…No I didn’t do those bad things” BS but nobody else supports him.
** Tesla financial records are “cooked” in a fraudulent manner to make the stock market valuation of Tesla a falsely manipulated factor. Musk uses “pre-orders”, by his own investors, to fake sales and wrote emails to customers asking them to put small deposits down so he could book them as fully paid sales in one of a large number of stock and loan valuation frauds. Musk and his investors practice stock market skims, pump-and-dumps and Flash Boy manipulations.
** Lithium ion batteries are blowing up, starting fires &, generally, destroying people’s homes, cars, electronics & physical health. Boeing was ordered to stop flying the 787 Dreamliner because it’s Lithium ion batteries are catching fire spontaneously. A group of silicon valley venture capitalists forced/leveraged the government to buy & pay for these specific batteries, that they have stock in, in order to benefit their profit margins. Other batteries don’t have these problems. They knew about the dangers from day one, but put greed ahead of safety. There are thousands & thousands of reports of spontaneous lithium ion fires but the VC’s who back lithium ion pay to keep this information hushed up. Millions of these batteries have been recalled for fire risk. The VC’s tried to push as many as they could before they got caught. Now they are caught. These VC’s & the Senators they bribed own stock in lithium mining companies too. HERE IS THE PROOF: HTTP://LITHIUMBATTERYCOVERUP.COM
** Tesla Motors has filed a patent which states the following , THESE ARE TESLA MOTORS WORDS warning about a crisis, the level of which they never disclosed to the consumer: “Thermal runaway is of major concern since a single incident can lead to significant property damage &, in some circ*mstances, bodily harm or loss of life. When a battery undergoes thermal runaway, it typically emits a large quantity of smoke, jets of flaming liquid electrolyte, & sufficient heat to lead to the combustion & destruction of materials in close proximity to the cell. If the cell undergoing thermal runaway is surrounded by one or more additional cells as is typical in a battery pack, then a single thermal runaway event can quickly lead to the thermal runaway of multiple cells which, in turn, can lead to much more extensive collateral damage. Regardless of whether a single cell or multiple cells are undergoing this phenomenon, if the initial fire is not extinguished immediately, subsequent fires may be caused that dramatically expand the degree of property damage. For example, the thermal runaway of a battery within an unattended laptop will likely result in not only the destruction of the laptop, but also at least partial destruction of its surroundings, e.g., home, office, car, laboratory, etc. If the laptop is on-board an aircraft, for example within the cargo hold or a luggage compartment, the ensuing smoke & fire may lead to an emergency landing or, under more dire conditions, a crash landing. Similarly, the thermal runaway of one or more batteries within the battery pack of a hybrid or electric vehicle may destroy not only the car, but may lead to a car wreck if the car is being driven or the destruction of its surroundings if the car is parked”. See http://whoiselonmusk.com for more…
** Tesla’s own staff, & every fire department, have now admitted that once a lithium ion fire gets started in a Tesla, that it is impossible to extinguish burning lithium ion material. This is Telsa’s own words in THEIR patent filing, (You can look it up online) saying that the risk is monumental. Tesla has 6800 lithium ion batteries, any one of which can “go thermal”, start a chain reaction and blow up all of the rest of the 6800+ deadly batteries! Tesla drivers have been burned alive in thermal globs of flaming lithium ion, plastics & metal. Bystanders have heard their horrific screams of unutterable pain & terror as they were burned alive! Tesla fires can’t be extinguished & the bodies are burned into “unrecognizable lumps of charred flesh”, according to fireman.
** Lithium Ion batteries “go thermal” in peoples pockets, in your notebook, especially in a Tesla & Fisker car. There are tens of thousands of articles documenting this & there is a cover-up by the VC’s that fund these things to keep this fact out-of-sight. Making Lithium Ion batteries poisons the workers who make them. It is a dangerous product that is covered-up by the Obama Administration. Panasonic knows that these batteries are deadly.
** Tesla only exists to exploit Elon Musk’s briberies. The lithium ion batteries blow up when they get: wet, hot, bumped, over-charged, struck by energy fields, exposed to air or squashed. Lithium ion batteries poison the Earth & that they poison & kill the workers that make them. Lithium ion batteries come from war profiteering in Afghan & Bolivian corruption.
** Panasonic is Elon Musk’s partner. Panasonic is one of the most corrupt companies in the world. Panasonic has been charged, on multiple continents with: Product dumping, bribery, collusion, price fixing, anti-trust law violations, racketeering, worker abuse, toxic poisoning of workers, & other crimes. It is no wonder that Elon Musk & Panasonic are partners. Tata Motors executive Karl Slym was killed for exposing this fact.
** Your tax dollars were stolen in order to make Tesla Motors, as part of a political financing kick-back scam. In other words, part of your paycheck was taken away from you in order to buy hookers, rent-boys & private jets for Musk & company.
** Tesla’s are forged in criminal corruption, so anybody who drives a Tesla must be either ignorant, a weasel or one of the corrupt. The whole world now knows all of the facts in this list so you can never plead ignorance to these crimes.
** Telsa’s have a huge amount of highly documented defects. The defects are so extensive that Tesla made buyers sign confidentiality agreements to try to hide how messed up their cars are.
** Tesla’s have killed more people than the main-stream news has reported. The full Tesla death-list is covered up.
** Musk lied about why he wanted to make electric cars, when, in fact, he actually poisons the environment because Tesla investors wanted to exploit toxic minerals & materials which can’t be recycled in a clean manner
** No other electric car has been so mundane, & yet had so many problems with it, since the electric car was first sold in the 1800’s. There is nothing “novel” or “amazing” about the Tesla aside from dime store parlor tricks for PR hype.
** More drunks have crashed Tesla’s, than any other per capita car in the world, per volume of cars made
** Elon Musk’s co-founders, investors, partners, wives, investors, suppliers & employees have sued him for being a fraud &, essentially, called him an “asshole” in court records.
** Elon Musk lied on this Department of Energy funding application and the Obama Administration refuses to allow any federal employees or witnesses to testify to these facts in public due to the devastating potential results of these facts.
** More owners of Tesla’s have been found to cheat on their taxes, & be involved in abuse-based divorces, than almost any other car brand owner. Tesla owners are bad people who rationalize their poor life choices. Owning a Tesla is a red-flag for a tax audit!
** Elon Musk will lie, cheat & steal in order to self-aggrandize & glorify his egotistical mania. Musk has been documented engaging in over 100 lies which were later proven to be false. He has spent tens of millions of dollars to buy fake news about himself on Twitter, Facebook & Google because he is such a mentally disturbed ego-maniac.
** None of Elon Musk’s companies would exist if not for taxpayer funded handouts given to him by corrupt politicians in exchange for illegal campaign finance deals with him & his investors.
** Google, & Tesla, who are financial & political partners, have both been caught spying on consumers & manipulating Internet data in order to cover-up their complicity in huge political corruption & kick-back deals
** Musk took U.S. taxpayer dollars from the government & then hired cheap off-shore labor & fired U.S. Union workers & domestic workers. He lied to & screwed the NUMMI workers that were working at the Fremont plant.
** Musk has put over 18 surveillance devices in the Tesla. Anybody can hack those devices & monitor you. WORSE YET, foreign agents have hacked the Tesla & taken over the controls & driven Tesla’s into bystanders & over cliffs.
** When Erick Strickland was head of the NHTSA he was confronted about DOT safety cover-ups of the Tesla to protect Obama. He quit 48 hours later. The DOT safety cover-ups to protect the Obama campaign finance payola scheme continue to this day. Obama’s Gibbs, Emanual, Plouffe, Axelrod and Carney quit within a week of being threatened with exposure.
** Tesla’s have had a large number of recalls but Elon Musk refuses to call them “recalls”. Tesla’s have had multiple recalls for SEVERE safety dangers. DOT has been told this, in writing, for years, but wont take action in order to protect Obama.
** Elon Musk is a bullsh*t artist who has no original ideas & wears black-turtle neck shirts (like Elizabeth Homes) to try to create a “cult” around himself & convince the world that he is a “Jesus-like” figure when, in fact, he is a clinical sociopath.
** Tesla is a severe public safety hazard that has been systematically covered up by corrupt politicians.
** Large numbers of Ex-CIA staff and In-Q-Tel spy staff work for Musk. Why does he need spies to build cars?
** Tesla Motors batteries were promoted by those who wished to exploit the Afghanistan War for personal profit by controlling the Afghan lithium mining fields. Kleiner Perkins and Draper Fisher hyped the “…trillions of $ of lithium in Afganistan.”
** Tesla Motors batteries blow up on their own.
** Tesla Motors batteries blow up when they get wet.
** Tesla Motors batteries fires cannot be put out by any common fire-fighting resources.
** Tesla Motors batteries set themselves on fire.
** Per Federal MSDS disclosure documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit cancer-causing vapors when they burn.
** Tesla Motors Vehicles toxicity poison bystanders, nearby vehicular passengers, airline passengers in planes carrying said batteries in their holds, & environments where such incidents occur.
** Tesla Motors batteries blow up when bumped by the same level of car incident that would, otherwise, only dent a normal car bumper.
** In an accident, when a Tesla rolls over, molten metal & plastic can drip on & burn the occupants alive.
** Tesla has multiple sexual harassment and unsafe work-place lawsuits against the company.
** Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit brain damaging chemicals when they burn.
** Tesla is a stock pumping scam to profiteering on stock market peak manipulation at the expense of taxpayers.
** Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals, burning, or not, that can damage an unborn fetus.
** Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals that can cause lung damage.
** Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals that can cause liver damage.
** Per published lawsuits & news reports, the factories that make Tesla Motors batteries have been charged with the deaths, & potentially fatal illness, of over 1000 workers & the poisoning of nearby towns.
** Tesla Motors batteries become even more dangerous over time, particularly when tasked by electric transportation systems like Hover-boards & Tesla’s. The chemistry in a lithium ion battery changes to become more unstable over time.
** Tesla Motors batteries were never designed to be used in automobiles. Tesla used non-automotive batteries in one of the most dangerous configurations possible.
** Tesla Motors occupants experience higher EMF radiation exposure than gasoline vehicle occupants.
** Elon Musk’s Space X vehicles & Tesla Motors vehicles have both had a higher-than-average number of explosions. This has caused outside experts to doubt Musk’s ability to place safety considerations over his need for hyped-up PR.
** Leaked Sandia National Labs & FAA research videos dramatically demonstrate the unstoppable, horrific, “re-percussive accelerating domino-effect” explosive fire effect of the Tesla Motors batteries.
** Tesla’s own “Superchargers” & home 3-prong chargers have set Tesla’s, homes & businesses on fire.
** Consumer rights groups contacted Erick Strickland, the head of the NHTSA, & charged him with a cover-up. He quit days later. The NHTSA then issued a safety investigation request to Tesla Motors, which would have more publicly exposed these dangers, but the safety investigation was never under-taken due to White House requests & lobbyist bribes, from Tesla, which got the investigation shut down.
** NEPA regulations for the Tesla NUMMI factory in California & the Nevada Tesla “Gigafactory” have been violated relative to environmental safety standards. See http://xyzcase.xyz for details.
** Tesla Motors vehicles are not “Factory Built” “like Ford” builds cars, as Tesla professes. They are hand built in small volumes & subjected to numerous defects. Blogs have documented hundreds of defects, as listed by Tesla owners. Tesla has lost at least one LEMON CAR LAWSUIT for defective manufacturing.
** Tesla’s “showrooms” are often “pop-up” retail storefronts that are in tight-proximity retail centers, putting it’s neighbors at risk of total loss from fire damage.
** Tesla Motors vehicles have been hacked & taken over. Their doors, steering, listening devices & navigation have been taken over by outside parties. Multiple Tesla have suddenly swerved off the road, over cliffs & into other vehicles, killing bystanders & Tesla drivers.
** Three Tesla top engineers & two competing senior executives, all of whom had whistle-blown on Tesla, who were in perfect health one day, suddenly died mysteriously the next day.
** Multiple employees, founders, investors, marital partners, suppliers & others have sued Tesla Motors, &/or it’s senior executives for fraud. Musk had nothing to do with creating Tesla. He ran a hostile take-over of Tesla from the founders.
** In addition to suing him, many of his former staff & partners have described Musk as an “Arrogant Prick”.
** Main-Stream Media (MSM) have agreed not to provide news coverage of the deadly defects of the Tesla because the MSM are owned by the same politicians who own Tesla Motors. It is now legal to sue The New York Times for hiding these deadly defects, though, particularly if your family member was injured or killed because they covered-up the danger for political reasons.
** If you think the above bullet-points are bad there are over a 1000 more. Find the book “Is Elon Musk A Fraud” online or visit https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com/ or thousands of other sites that expose the truth about Musk & Tesla!
BANKRUPT MUSK – NO CASH FOR CRONY CORRUPTION. Print this out & freely re-post it on blogs & social media. Post this on bulletin boards. Put this on the windshield of every Tesla you find. Print this out & hand these out in front of every Tesla dealership: Nobody can stop you from handing these out, it is your U.S. Constitutional First Amendment Right! Pass the word! We are prepared to back up every single fact on here at any public meeting with the FBI, Congress, FTC, GAO, SEC or before a Federal Special Prosecutor.
The crash of a Tesla Model X through the home of South Korean singer and actor Ji Chang Son. The crash ended with the nose of the vehicle in Ji Chang Son’s living room after the Tesla malfunctioned. Hundreds of such Tesla crashes have occurred, resulting in the deaths and injuries of Tesla owners, passengers, bystanders, oncoming drivers and others.
Following accusations by a Korean celebrity that a Tesla car spontaneously drove through a wall, the carmaker has replied that the crash was “entirely due to the man’s horrible driving” in an ongoing effort, by Tesla, to steer the blame away from Tesla faulty engineering
Actor and singer Son Ji-chang (identified as Ji Chang Son in court documents) claimed he was parking his Tesla Model X SUV when the vehicle suddenly lurched forward into his living room.
In a lawsuit filed last week in California, Son claimed that the crash was due to “sudden unintended acceleration” and sought class-action status with other Model X owners.
In a nod to the car’s ability to sense and avoid crashes, thelawsuit also hinted that the Model X should not be allowed take actions that the car “knows will result in the collision with a fixed object.”
But Tesla contends itsModel X was only dutifully following Son’s instructions to plough through his house.
“The evidence, including data from the car, conclusively shows that the crash was the result of Mr. Son pressing the accelerator pedal all the way to 100 per cent,” said Tesla in a statement to Reuters.
Although most new cars are equipped with “black box” technology to record driver actions in the event of a crash, Tesla is unique for amassing vehicle data as detailed as whether a driver’s hands are on the steering wheel.
The data is collected to aid in research and design, but Tesla user agreements also reserve the carmaker’s right to use it to defend itselfin court.
The term “sudden unintended acceleration” has a checkered recent history. Most famously, between 2009 and 2011 Toyota recalled more than eight million vehicles following widespread allegations that the vehicles were subject to unexpected ac celeration.
But a subsequent investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation found that most of the reported cases of “sudden unintended acceleration” were simply drivers stepping on the gas instead of the brake — with only a handful of incidents being due to pedals getting stuck on floormats.
In June, another California-based Model X owner, Puzant Ozbag, similarly claimed that his Model X spontaneously accelerated through a parking lot and into a wall.In that case, too, Tesla reviewed vehicle records and reported that the actual culprit was Ozbag jamming his foot down on the accelerator. A special prosecutor is needed to investigate Tesla due to the huge number of cover-ups, by Tesla and the Obama Administration, to protect camapign financier Elon Musk. Jeff Sessions needs to hire a lawyer from outside the government appointed by Sessions as attorney general or, in the United States, by Congress to investigate a government official for misconduct while in office. A reasoning for such an appointment is that the governmental branch or agency may have political connections to those it might be asked to investigate. Inherently, this creates a conflict of interest and a solution is to have someone from outside the department lead the investigation. The term “special prosecutor” may have a variety of meanings from one country to the next, from one government branch to the next within the same country, and within different agencies within each government branch. Critics of the use of special prosecutors argue that these investigators act as a “fourth branch” to the government because they are not subject to limitations in spending, nor do they have deadlines to meet.
Attorneys carrying out special prosecutor functions in either federal or state courts of the United States are typically appointed ad hoc with representation limited to one case or a delineated series of cases that implicate compelling governmental interests, such as: Fraud (SEC, Complex, Cybercrime, Mortgages), Public Corruption, Money Laundering & Asset Forfeiture, Civil Rights, Racketeering Across State lines, Environmental Protection, National Security, Tax & Bankruptcy, Organized Crime, or International cases where the US is a party).[1] Special prosecutors in courts of the United States may either be appointed formally by one of the three branches of government in a criminal proceeding, or when dictated by federal law or regulation, or informally in civil proceedings, and also by one of the three branches of government, or by a non-governmental entity to prosecute alleged unlawful conduct by government agents. When appointed by the judicial branch to investigate and, if justified, seek indictments in a particular judicial branch case, the attorney is called special prosecutor.[2] When appointed/hired particularly by a governmental branch or agency to investigate alleged misconduct within that branch or agency, the attorney is called independent counsel.[3] When appointed/hired by the state or political subdivision to assist in a particular judicial branch case when the public interest so requires, the attorney is called special counsel.[3] When appointed/hired by an organization, corporation, person or other non-governmental entity to investigate and, if justified, seek indictments against one or more government officials for acts committed under color of law, the attorney may be called special counsel or special prosecutor, but not independent counsel.[3]
On January 3, 1983, the United States federal government substituted the term independent counsel for special prosecutor.[4] Archibald Cox was one of the most notable special prosecutors. However, special prosecutor Archibald Cox today would be called independent counsel Archibald Cox in the United States.
The term is sometimes used as a synonym for independent counsel, but under the former law authorizing the independent counsel, the appointment was made by a special panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Ethics in Government Act expired in 1999, and was effectively replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600, under which Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to look into the Plame affair. The Tesla Motors and Elon Musk Case requires a Special Prosecutor.
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THE CORRUPTION, FRAUD AND BRIBERY CHARGES AGAINST ELON MUSK AND TESLA MOTORS
Update 2.7
The following, culled from a variety of news articles, lawsuits and investigative reports, demonstrates the profound number of illicit actions charged against Elon Musk and his Silicon Valley cartel insiders. While any given, unbiased, expose on Musk covers some of these issues, it is important to examine the width and breadth of Musk’s culture of corruption. Expert witnesses, former employees and investigators are able to fully detail and confirm, with extended evidence, the following charges, in court, or Congressional public hearings:
A.) ELON MUSK AND TESLA FACE CRIMINAL FRAUD CHARGES BY FEDS! MUSK FINALLY EXPOSED!
B.) SEC subpoenas TESLA over Musk tweets…
C. Whistleblower posts ‘flawed cars’ details…
D.) Elon Musk’s Incredible Smoke And Mirrors Dance. Elon Musk’s untraceable money laundering and political bribery scam has now been exposed. It is called an “Invisible Bridge”. It is the way that covert funds move through a secret conduit of close associates and family members. Elon Musk is at the head of the conduit and his mother, brother and associates Tim Draper, Steve Jurvetson, and George Soros round out the other tentacles. With operational links through Wells Fargo Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Goldman Sachs, the scheme is perfected corruption. The “bridge” uses a combination of fake tax evasion charities and business assets, passes through Senator’s pockets and is never visible to the FBI, the FEC and the SEC unless they have very good agents assigned to the matter.
E.) NTSB, DOJ, SEC and FEC have been blocked from action by DNC lobbyists.
F.) The overt and arrogant Musk misdeeds have now become “obvious and RICO-violating…”
G.) He is protected by Senators Reid, Harris, Pelosi and Feinstein. They are beneficiaries of the scam. Musk’s self promoting, narcissistic, multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype. Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources from the Department of Energy and the California political tax pool. This is proven when you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony payola kick-backs.
H.) He is protected by the Clinton and Obama organizations along with most of the DNC. He finances these politicians via this scheme.
I.) The U.S. Dept of Energy (DOE) has been covering-up organized crime activities at DOE in which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off DNC campaign financiers and to pay for Fusion-GPS attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors.
J.) DNC campaign financiers and DOE staff share stock market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts. The deal was: Obama funds Tesla, Musk conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of insider Musk stocks.
K.) Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag, woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader.
L.) Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
K.) Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about himself. Musk thinks he is the ‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley and he will do anything to make the public think so. Musk is insecure because his father was abusive and his “trophy wife” Mother is overbearing so he developed sociopath-like mental issues.
M.) Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist.
N.) Musk has publicly stated on an investor call that he uses drugs and alcohol to get through the night. We have the tapes.
O.) Musk relies on Google and the DNC Main Stream News (MSN) to hide bad news about him. Fake News manipulator Google is run by Larry Page. Larry is Musk’s investor and bromance buddy. They share an apartment.
P.) Musk uses shell companies and trust funds to self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market insider trading. His brother ran Solar City and is now under federal investigation for securities fraud.
Q.) A huge number of Tesla drivers, per capita, have been killed; pedestrians and oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk covers it up.
R.) The DNC and the MSM refuse to allow any articles about Musk’s crimes to be printed because they benefit from Musk’s crimes.
S.) VC’s Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are so fanatical about not being embarrassed from a Tesla bankruptcy that they will pump the TSLA stock and threaten anybody who might disclose the Musk misdeeds.
T.) Peter Thiel, a Musk ‘boyfriend” also protects Musk. Musk, and his cronies, use Palantir, Google and related software to scan the entire internet every few minutes for any occurrence of the words: “Musk”, “Tesla” or “Tesla Fire”. They send trolls and fake bloggers (Many of them Russian) to put pro-Musk comments on the comments section of any blogs or articles discussing those topics and try to flood out the truth about Musk. In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’, at least 1/3 of the comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid shills.
U.) There are no “Tesla Fan Boys”. All of the fanatic Tesla comments on the internet are Musk’s, Thiel’s, Jurvetson’s and Draper’s fake fanboy trolls. Musk, himself, stays up late at night pretending to be a ‘Tesla Fan Boy’on blogs.
V.) Main Stream DNC-biased News organizations who refuse to cover the story reveal themselves as shills for Musk.
W.) The Silicon Valley Mafia promotes Musk as a “Tech God” leader but, in reality Musk is the same kind of “Leader” as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Swami Rajneesh and Al Capone.
X.) His own people have sued him for fraud and lies once they realized that Musk-ism and Scientology had so much in common.
Y.) The ‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al; threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their political candidates.
Z.) Musk holds the Silicon Valley record for getting sued for fraud by his investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders.
A1.) Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
A2.) Musk and his culture are being sued for abuse to women and blacks and the Unions hate him for lying to them.
A3.) https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com reveals even more Musk lies.
A4.) Musk never founded his companies. He took Tesla away from the founder: Marty, in a hostile take-over!
A5.) Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy and political manipulation tools – never get your internet from anything SpaceX has launched. SpaceX is entirely a domestic spy operation.
A6.) Musk’s “Mars” scheme is just a PR distraction.
A7.) The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from cell phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla.
A8.) Musk can’t fix a car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical skills.
A9.) If you pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and cross reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you will find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is THE WORST of any car maker in history! Musk’s lobbyists have bribed DOT and NHTSA to stall safety inspections.
A10.) NO COMPLETE UNCOMPROMISING SAFETY REPORT ON TESLA CARS HAS EVER BEEN PUBLISHED but we have a copy of a hushed up report that would put Tesla out of business.
A11.) Musk’s ‘Autopilot’ system is a scam to get government cash BUT IT NEVER WORKS. The Tesla ‘Autopilot’ has crashed into police cars, pedestrians, swamps and driven owners over cliffs.
A12.) Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to rig the stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18 men who rig stocks and valuation bumps for Musk.
A13.) The “Silk Road” Cocaine and Murder-For-Hire website was created at Musk’s SpaceX
A14.) Musk’s In-Q-Tel staff ran two transport planes filled with drugs; listed as “Cocaine 1” on FAA records.
A15.) Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies. That is why they criminally help cover-up investigations of Tesla!
A16.) All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia Rich and David Johnson at the FBI.
A17.) Tesla and Solyndra sit on the same land and share staff, contracts and lobbying. California politicians own parts of both companies.
A18.) Musk took over Tesla Motors in a hostile take-over in order to exploit lithium, cobalt and other mining corruption deals for his business partners.
A19.) The ‘lithium’ in Musk’s horrifically miss-engineered lithium ion batteries cause wars in the Congo over mining corruption.
A20.) Afghanistan and Bolivian mobsters benefit from the corrupt mining deals involved with mining lithium and cobalt for Elon Musk’s batteries.
A21.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA boss Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu and they engaged in extreme conflict-of-interest to help Musk.
A22.)Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries excrete chemicals that mutate fetuses when they burn.
A23.)Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries destroy your brain, lungs and nervous system when they burn.
A24.)Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries kill the factory workers who make them.
A25.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries cause Panasonic to be one of the most corrupt companies in the world.
A26.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries poison the Earth when disposed of.
A27.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries can’t be extinguished by firemen because water makes them explode even more and then explode again hours later.
A28.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries have chemical dendrites and deposition massing issues (revealed by X-Ray analysis) which makes them more and more likely to explode as they age.
A29.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries poison firemen when they burn.
A30.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are based on criminally corrupt mining schemes like URANIUM ONE.
A31.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries have over 61 toxic chemicals in them.
A32.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries come from an industry that spends billions on internet shills and trolls that they hire to nay say all other forms of energy
A33.) Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are insider-trading owned by corrupt U.S. Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their dangers.
A34.) Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding and setting people on fire.
A35.) Over time the chemical dendrites, or deposits, inside each battery grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they age – LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE AS TIME GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE. This is not a theory. This is a scientific fact. That is why you hear about more and more lithium batteries catching fire and blowing up. Additionally, scientists also speculate that the increasing presence of low energy nuclear background energy and wifi energy in the environment is making lithium ion batteries explode more often lately. This is upheld by the increasing number of FAA reports about commercial airline cabins suddenly “filling up with toxic smoke” as some lithium ion battery explodes in someones overhead luggage. As commercial jets go higher they lose the protection of the atmosphere and are subjected to more gamma (and other) radiation from overhead. This makes the already unstable lithium ion batteries on board blow up.
A36.) Tesla owner’s had had more DUI’s, abuse filings in divorce proceedings and crashes than any other car maker PER VOLUME. This makes Tesla the #1 car for douche bags and scummy people.
A37.) Tesla’s own federal patent filing records confirm that Tesla batteries are as dangerous as this document reports.
A38.) “Bad Guys” have figured out how to makeElon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries explode remotely in devices by making the device electronics cause the batteries to overload.
A39.) The dangers ofElon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries batteries are hidden by CNN and Main Stream News (MSN) because pretty much only the DNC people profit from them and the DNC folks control CNN and the MSN.
A40.) George Soros owns part of Tesla Motors so that Soros can help conduit DNC cash.
A41.) The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs the market monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel cells in exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging.
A42.) United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT & NHTSA from outlawing them.
A43.) There have been thousands of defect reports filed on Tesla cars.
A44.) Tom Steyer is a notorious DNC financier. His partner, Margaret Sullivan ran, the federal USAID agency, USAID sent all of the DNC campaign financiers in Silicon Valley a federal ‘report’ from USAID that said there was “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM IN AFGHANISTAN” and promised to give those lithium mines, EXCLUSIVELY, to the Silicon Valley venture capitalists if they funded and web search manipulated the election for Obama to take over the White House. We have the documents proving this. In other words, a re-up of the Afghan War was caused by Elon Musk and it killed American soldiers so that Musk could buy more mansions and trophy wives.
A45.) If a Tesla battery gets wet it will explode and cause all of the other batteries to explode in a “cascade of explosions”.
A46.) Water makes Tesla batteries explode.
A47.) In an accident, when a Tesla rolls over, molten metal & plastic can drip on & burn the occupants alive and seal them in molten metal.
A48.) Alkaline, NiCAD and hundreds of other battery chemistries DO NOT have all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a monopoly because of politician insider trading owner-ships.
A49.) Tesla Motors has caused far more deaths and injuries than the world generally knows about.
A50.) A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA, burned the driver alive and killed him.
A51.) In Florida two kids died in a Tesla, burned alive, screaming in agony.
A52.) A man died in agony in a Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon on fire.
A53.) A young woman, at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned alive in their crashed Tesla.
A54.) There are many more deaths and crashes than you have seen in the Main Stream News (MSN) The deaths and the cover-ups are endless.
A55.) Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies and they cover-up and halt investigations and laws designed to save the public.
A56.)Elon Musk’s Lithium ion battery partners spend over $1B a year to shill and troll hype about lithium ion batteries and cover-up the dangers.
A57.) Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery fires.
A58.) Experts say that their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter fires that release toxic fumes and are more difficult to put out. Lithium ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes so long and requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an electric fire, after all) to smother the flames.
A59.) Tesla employee Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these dangers in 2008 and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by Musk.
A60.) Three top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices in San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers. Another whistle-blower has suggested they were killed in a “Boston Brakes” hit-job.
A61.) The DNC bosses, Congress people and federal executives own the stock in lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets (Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk) to finance the DNC.
A62.) The DNC bosses and Musk use character assassination as their main political tool against any member of the public who speaks out against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like scandals. The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they have teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives.
A63.) They use Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media, Gizmodo Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times, Google servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling and a host of “media assassins”.
A65.) Musk buddies: Gawker and Gizmodo Media set-up the attack stories and, in paid partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links around the globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks the attack articles of its enemies on the front top search results of Google search results forever, on purpose! Google and Musk are partners-in-crime.
A66.) Larry Page steals technology for Google and Musk meets with Larry Page to advise him on which technologies to steal and how to bypass FEC laws.
A67.) Musk has exceeded FEC campaign finance limits by billions of dollars via “in-kind” services.
A68.) Had the full scope of these facts been acted on during the Obama Administration, Barack Obama would have become the first modern sitting President to have been arrested in the White House. Barack Obama was fully aware of these schemes, crony payola deals and corruption crimes and discussed the implementation of these crimes, daily, with Rahm Emanuel, David Plouffe, Steven Rattner, Robert Gibbs, John Podesta, David Axelrod, Eric Holder and Jay Carney in the Oval Office.
A69.) THIS corruption involves TRILLIONS of dollars of corrupt mining deals, automotive and energy monopolies!
A70.) THIS is why the federal budget analysis reports are showing TRILLIONS of dollars of ‘untraceable’ losses from the United States Treasury from 2006 up to today!
A71.) THIS is why a large number of reporters, whistle-blowers and prosecutors suddenly, and mysteriously turned up dead!
A72.) The company that Elon Musk built to usher in the electric-car future might not have enough cash to make it through the calendar year.
A73.) Tesla again fell far short of its own production targets for the mass-market Model 3 sedan
A74.) Another person died in a crash involving its assisted-driving feature.
A75.) Musk entered into a public dispute with federal safety regulators.
A76.) Tesla’s once high-flying stock, buffeted by a downgrade from credit analysts, has dropped 24 percent from its peak in September.
A77.) No one has raised or spent money the way Elon Musk has; Nor has any other chief executive officer of a public company made a bankruptcy joke on Twitter at a time when so much seemed to be unraveling.
A78.) Tesla is going through money so fast that, without additional financing, there is now a genuine risk that the 15-year-old company could run out of cash in 2018. The company burns through more than $6,500 every minute, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Free cash flow—the amount of cash a company generates after accounting for capital expenditures—has been negative for five consecutive quarters. That will be a key figure to watch when Tesla reports earnings May 2. Read the full story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
A79.) In years to come, we will all look back and wonder how so many people were taken in by this shyster, who makes Enron look honest.
A80.) One of Tesla’s greatest strengths is its ability to monetize the patience and goodwill of its customers and loyal fans. The company is sitting on a staggering $854 million in customer deposits as of the end of 2017.
A81.) Since Tesla sells its products direct to consumers, without relying on a dealer network, customer deposits are cash payments that essentially serve as interest-free loans—and these loans can stretch on for years. If Tesla were to go bankrupt, those deposit holders would likely be wiped out.
A82.) Tesla is holding customer deposits for two vehicles that aren’t even in production yet: an electric Tesla Semi ($20,000 deposit) and a next-generation Roadster (either $50,000 down or the $250,000 retail price paid up front to reserve a limited edition). Even customers interested in installing an array of solar roof panels or the company’s Powerwall home battery must hand over $1,000 to place an order.
A83.) Tesla doesn’t break out deposit numbers by car, but the vast majority comes from $1,000 reservations for the Model 3. When Musk first introduced the lower-priced sedan in March 2016, fans stood in long lines at Tesla stores. Two years later, the slower-than-expected pace of production means that most of the more than 400,000 reservation holders are still waiting. And new people appear to be joining the queue: As of April, the company reported “net Model 3 reservations remained stable.”
A84.) There’s an additional source of free money from loyal believers: An unknown number of customers have paid up for vehicle features—$3,000 for “Full Self Driving” capability, for example—that Tesla thus far hasn’t figured out or released to anyone.
A85.) Elon Musk cooked the books by emailing interested sales prospects and asked them to put a deposit down before each quarter ended so he could book their tiny deposits as fully transacted $60K+ “sales” before each quarter closed.
A86.) Elon Musk and SpaceX are being sued by multiple employees for “lying about safety standards, safety records” and deadly safety defects.
A87.) The Elon Musk Tesla Money Laundering Board Of Directors is as full of fraud and corruption as Musk. Birds of a feather stick together and the Jurvetson, Draper, Musk, et al; clan of corruption runs deep. The Board of Directors can’t operate their scam without the whole pack of thieves and liars in place. An outsider will break theirs swamp of tax evasion, Dark Money political bribes, off-shore cash, self-dealing, book-cooking, real estate fraud, expense padding and other nefarious deeds.
A88.) Dianne Feinstein’s family member: Herb Newman of Sausalito, California’s HR firm: Newman Search (415 332-8425) has a company as of 1972 with the sole purpose of setting up investment bank deals with the People’s Republic of China. Feinstein arranged for Newman to provide the staffing for Tesla and Solyndra. Dianne Fenstein has been under investigation for spy activities with China and her senior aide was arrested as a Chinese top spy. In 1973 Mr. Newman arrived in Canton at the invitation of the Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade. (CCPIT). He and his company MVTC were one of fifty businesses to be invited to the Canton Trade Fair held in Kwangchow China. In 1978 Mr. Newman founded China Investments and in partnership with California Trade Delegations both companies as members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce began taking US Corporations to China. Mr. Newman along with one of his associates at the time Mr. Darryl Schoon helped organize Senator Dianne Feinstein’s first trip to China in conjunction with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Herb Newman, Mart Bailey and Feinstein’s Husband; Dick Blum are on intelligence agency watch-lists, and under electronic surveillance, for potentially corrupt deals with China, Tesla and Solyndra.
A89.) Dianne Feinstein’s husband owns CBRE which owns the real estate contracts for both Tesla and Solyndra.
A90.) Dianne Feinstein’s family owns interests in the construction companies hired by both Tesla and Solyndra.
A91.) Dianne Feinstein had her staff warn other California businesses away from using the NUMMI car factory in order to protect the real estate deal for both Tesla ans CBRE, which is owned by her husband.
A92.) Tesla began real estate deals in multiple states and then cancelled them at the last minute, which got them sued for fraud and charged with “lying” to different communities. They started, and then pulled out of these different building (San Jose, Southern California, New Mexico, Etc.) deals, because CBRE and Feinstein were trying to leverage real estate profit exploitation using taxpayer funding.
A93.) Panasonic and Tesla have known for decades that the Panasonic 18650 batteries used in the Tesla suffer from multiple chemistry degradation defects which will almost always make them eventually explode or “go thermal”. The defects include: 1.) LENR activation, 2.) Dendrite lengthening, 3.) Particle congealing, 4.) Chemistry evolution and other defects. The Tesla projects is, essentially, a failed product product dumping effort of a failed and dangerous battery product.
A94.) Elon Musk has demanded that his employees sign “loyalty pledges”, “vows” and engage in Omerta’s in order to keep the corruption details of Tesla from being exposed to the public.
A95.) Tesla insider Antonio Gracias is the mob boss insider at Tesla who arranges media hit-jobs on those who displease Musk.
A96.) The NHTSB has issued requests to Tesla for safety tests and data that Tesla never complied with. Instead, Tesla paid bribes, which were referred to as “fees” to avoid having to complete those tests. An independent group of outside investigators issued a damning safety report to the NHTSB demanding that Tesla be compelled to produce the safety tests in 2010 but Obama appointed NHTSB executives buried the report and protected Tesla in order to keep the connection between Obama’s funding and Tesla protected. NHTSB boss: Strickland, an Obama insider, was confronted with this in Washington, DC and resigned from his job 48 hours later. NHTSB has still not acted on the severe Tesla safety defects that have been reported since 2009.
A97.) An SEC investigation of Musk uncovered horrific evidence of Musk corruption but the SEC could not report or act on it because Obama congressional bosses and lobbyists got the SEC investigation “limited” to only examine a single Twitter “Tweet” from Musk.
A98.) Elon Musk is protected by top DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FEC and other Obama left-over staff as well as 45 U.S. Senators and top Federal Reserve members and Goldman Sachs, who live in terror that exposure of the entire Elon Musk financial food-chain will topple the entire DNC Dark Money payola scam. This is the reason that Tesla can get away with so much obvious and overt corruption and still continue operations. Tesla Motors book-cooking, financial frauds and political payola conduits, if fully revealed, would change the course of political influence in America.
A99.) Elon Musk has been sued by a man that Musk called a “Pedo”, yet Musk’s own father has been accused of child sex abuse, racism and, indeed, got his own daughter pregnant!
A100.) Elon Musk’s mother has been accused of being a “self-indulgent trophy wife” who Musk was trained by to be an arrogant elitist. Her hatred of black people was imbued on Musk who has been sued by black people at his company for “running a racist culture”.
A101.) Elon Musk divorced the same woman twice because she knew his dirty little secret and threatened to out him if he did not keep the deal going. She was hired to “act” as his wife.
A102.) Musical artist Iggy Azalea was at a Musk Party, with other friends, who captured Elon Musk on video on drugs and in weird sex acts. Musk had Iggy’s camera stolen at the party to hie the evidence but he did not get the other cameras and did not realize that some of those cameras placed their images and videos directly on the Cloud, where hackers acquired them.
A103.) With cover-up help from Eric Holder, Steven Chu, Obama, Valarie Jarret, DNC FBI agents, Perkins Coie, Covington and Burling, Wilson Sonsini, etc; sociopath Musk actually believes he is “untouchable” and that he can get away with anything. His downfall will be the same downfall of every narcissist sociopath oligarch throughout all of recorded history.
A104.) Elon Musk is a drug addict. A simple urine and blood test proves it. Musk’s downfall and the downfall of John DeLorean are seeming to align.
Who is violating the law protecting Tesla by withholding investigations and prosecutions?
Why are they allowing American citizens to continue to die from the 1.) “sudden acceleration electronics defect”; 2.) “The failed Auto-pilot electronics defect”3.) “The deteriorating and deadly lithium ion batteries” and 4.) numerous other defects widely documented in the news media and filed lawsuits?
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Why Elon Musk is a really bad guy and why his business operation is a corruption scam
By Former Tesla Staff
You may have run across Musk’s self promoting, narcissistic, multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype but here is the other side of the coin. We know these facts from personal interaction with Musk, his companies and his politicians. Everything in this letter can be proven in a jury trial, Congressional hearings or live TV debates. Musk will do anything to keep this information from getting out but… it is too late for him! While this may sound like a bad Hollywood movie script. It all really happened and there is now massive hard copy evidence to prove it.
Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources from the Department of Energy and the California political tax pool. This is proven when you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony payola kick-backs.
The Energy Dept (DOE) has been covering-up organized crime activities at DOE in which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off DNC campaign financiers and to pay for CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors. DNC campaign financiers and DOE staff share stock market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts. The deal was: Obama funds Tesla, Musk conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of insider Musk stocks.
Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag, woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader. We can put this in writing because all of those identifications regarding Musk can be proven in court and are documented in existing lawsuits and news stories.
Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about himself. Musk thinks he is the ‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley and he will do anything to make the public think so. Musk is insecure because his father was abusive and his “trophy wife” Mother is overbearing so he developed sociopath-like mental issues. Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist. He publicly stated on an investor call that he uses drugs and alcohol to get through the night. We have the tapes.
Musk relies on Google and the DNC Main Stream News (MSN) to hide bad news about him. Fake News manipulator Google is run by Larry Page. Larry is Musk’s investor and bromance ‘Butt buddy’. They share an apartment. Musk uses massive numbers of shell companies and trust funds to self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market insider trading. His brother ran Solar City and is now under federal investigation for securities fraud.
A huge number of Tesla drivers have been killed; pedestrians and oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk covers it up.
The DNC and the MSM refuse to allow any articles about Musk’s crimes to be printed because they benefit from Musk’s crimes. VC’s Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are so fanatical about not being embarrassed from a Tesla bankruptcy that they will pump the TSLA stock and threaten anybody who might disclose the Musk misdeeds. Peter Thiel, a Musk ‘boyfriend” also protects Musk. Musk, and his cronies, use Palantir, Google and related software to scan the entire internet every few minutes for any occurrence of the words: “Musk”, “Tesla” or “Tesla Fire”. They send trolls and fake bloggers (Many of them Russian) to put pro-Musk comments on the comments section of any blogs or articles discussing those topics and try to flood out the truth about Musk. In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’, at least 1/3 of the comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid shills. There are no “Tesla Fan Boys”. All of the fanatic Tesla comments on the internet are Musk’s, Thiel’s, Jurvetson’s and Draper’s fake fanboy trolls. Musk, himself, stays up late at night pretending to be a ‘Tesla Fan Boy’on blogs. Main Stream News organizations who refuse to cover the story reveal themselves as shills and are then targeted for bankruptcy (ie: Time, Gawker, etc.) because they serve no public service.
The Silicon Valley Mafia promotes Musk as a “Tech God” leader but, in reality Musk is the same kind of “Leader” as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Swami Rajneesh and Al Capone. His own people have sued him for fraud and lies once they realized that Musk-ism and Scientology had so much in common.
The ‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al; threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their political candidates.
Musk holds the record for getting sued for fraud by his investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders. Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
Musk and his culture are being sued for abuse to women and blacks and the Unions hate him for lying to them. https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com reveals even more Musk lies.
Musk never founded his companies. He took Tesla away from the founder: Marty, in a hostile take-over!
Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy and political manipulation tools – never get your internet from anything SpaceX has launched. SpaceX is entirely a domestic spy operation. Musk’s “Mars” scheme is just a PR distraction.
The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from cell phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla.
Musk can’t fix a car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical skills.
If you pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and cross reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you will find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is THE WORST of any car maker in history! Musk’s lobbyists have bribed DOT and NHTSA to stall safety inspections. NO COMPLETE UNCOMPROMISING SAFETY REPORT ON TESLA CARS HAS EVER BEEN PUBLISHED but we have a copy of a hushed up report that would put Tesla out of business. Musk’s ‘Autopilot’ system is a scam to get government cash BUT IT NEVER WORKS. The Tesla ‘Autopilot’ has crashed into police cars, pedestrians, swamps and driven owners over cliffs.
Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to rig the stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18 men who rig stocks and valuation bumps for Musk.The “Silk Road” Cocaine and Murder-For-Hire website was created at Musk’s SpaceX and Musk’s In-Q-Tel staff ran two transport planes filled with drugs; listed as “Cocaine 1” on FAA records.
Over 1000 witnesses can prove every one of those claims in any live televised Congressional hearing! Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies. That is why they criminally help cover-up investigations of Tesla! All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia Rich and David Johnson at the FBI. Tesla and Solyndra sit on the same land and share staff, contracts and lobbying. California politicians own parts of both.
Why aren’t all of those parties in prison if it is so easy to prove the crime? Think back to recent history: the heads of the Department of Energy, the FBI, The DOJ and the U.S. Attorney General were kicked out of their jobs for corruption. THIS was the corruption they were doing. They all knew about this crime but they were covering it up.
Musk took over Tesla Motors in a hostile take-over in order to exploit lithium, cobalt and other mining corruption deals for his business partners. Let’s take a look at the ‘lithium’ in Musk’s horrifically miss-engineered lithium ion batteries:
His batteries cause wars in the Congo, Afghanistan and Bolivia from the corrupt mining deals involved with mining lithium and cobalt. Lithium ion batteries are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA boss Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu. Lithium ion batteries excrete chemicals that mutate fetuses when they burn; destroy your brain, lungs and nervous system when they burn; kill the factory workers who make them; cause Panasonic to be one of the most corrupt companies in the world; poison the Earth when disposed of; can’t be extinguished by firemen; poison firemen when they burn; are based on criminally corrupt mining schemes like URANIUM ONE; Have over 61 toxic chemicals in them; come from an industry that spends billions on internet shills and trolls used to nay say all other forms of energy; and are insider-trading owned by corrupt U.S. Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their dangers.
Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding and setting people on fire. Over time the chemical dendrites, or deposits, inside each battery grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they age – LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE AS TIME GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE. This is not a theory. This is a scientific fact. That is why you hear about more and more lithium batteries catching fire and blowing up. Additionally, scientists also speculate that the increasing presence of low energy nuclear background energy and wifi energy in the environment is making lithium ion batteries explode more often lately. This theory is upheld by the increasing number of FAA reports about commercial airline cabins suddenly “filling up with toxic smoke” as some lithium ion battery explodes in someones overhead luggage. As commercial jets go higher they lose the protection of the atmosphere and are subjected to more gamma (and other) radiation from overhead. This makes the already unstable lithium ion batteries on board blow up.
Tesla owner’s had had more DUI’s, abuse filings in divorce proceedings and crashes than any other car maker PER VOLUME. This makes Tesla the #1 car for douche bags and scummy people.
Tesla’s own federal patent filing records confirm that Tesla batteries are as dangerous as this document reports.
“Bad Guys” have figured out how to make them explode remotely in devices by making the device electronics cause the batteries to overload. The dangers of lithium ion batteries are hidden by CNN and Main Stream News (MSN) because pretty much only the DNC people profit from them and the DNC folks control CNN and the MSN. George Soros owns part of Tesla Motors so that Soros can help conduit DNC cash.
The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs the market monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel cells in exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging; United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT & NHTSA from outlawing them. There have been thousands of defect reports filed on Tesla cars.
Tom Steyer is a notorious DNC financier. His partner, Margaret Sullivan ran, the federal USAID agency, USAID sent all of the DNC campaign financiers in Silicon Valley a federal ‘report’ from USAID that said there was “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM IN AFGHANISTAN” and promised to give those lithium mines, EXCLUSIVELY, to the Silicon Valley venture capitalists if they funded and web search manipulated the election for Obama to take over the White House. We have the documents proving this. In other words, a re-up of the Afghan War was caused by Elon Musk and it killed American soldiers so that Musk could buy more mansions and trophy wives.
If a Tesla battery gets wet it will explode and cause all of the other batteries to explode in a “cascade of explosions”. Water makes Tesla batteries explode. In an accident, when a Tesla rolls over, molten metal & plastic can drip on & burn the occupants alive and seal them in molten metal.
Alkaline, NiCAD and hundreds of other battery chemistries DO NOT have all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a monopoly because of politician insider trading owner-ships.
Tesla Motors has caused far more deaths and injuries than the world generally knows about. A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA, burned the driver alive and killed him. In Florida two kids died in a Tesla, burned alive, screaming in agony. A man died in agony in a Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon on fire. A young woman, at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned alive in their crashed Tesla. There are many more deaths and crashes than you have seen in the Main Stream News (MSN) The deaths and the cover-ups are endless.
Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies and they cover-up and halt investigations and laws designed to save the public. They, and their crony’s, spend over $1B a year to shill and troll hype about lithium ion batteries and cover-up the dangers. Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery fires. Experts say that their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter fires that release toxic fumes and are more difficult to put out. Lithium ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes so long and requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an electric fire, after all) to smother the flames. Tesla employee Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these dangers in 2008 and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by Musk. Three top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices in San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers.
The DNC bosses, Congress people and federal executives own the stock in lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets (Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk) to finance the DNC.
The DNC bosses and Musk use character assassination as their main political tool against any member of the public who speaks out against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like scandals. The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they have teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives.
They use Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media, Gizmodo Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times, Google servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling and a host of “media assassins”.
Gawker and Gizmodo Media set-up the attack stories and, in paid partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links around the globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks the attack articles of its enemies on the front top search results of Google search results forever, on purpose! Google and Musk are partners-in-crime. Larry Page steals technology for Google and Musk meets with Larry Page to advise him on which technologies to steal and how to bypass FEC laws. Musk has exceeded FEC campaign finance limits by billions of dollars via “in-kind” services.
Had the full scope of these facts been acted on during the Obama Administration, Barack Obama would have become the first modern sitting President to have been arrested in the White House. Barack Obama was fully aware of these schemes, crony payola deals and corruption crimes and discussed the implementation of these crimes, daily, with Rahm Emanuel, David Plouffe, Steven Rattner, Robert Gibbs, John Podesta, David Axelrod, Eric Holder and Jay Carney in the Oval Office.
THIS corruption is what all of the big political scandals are about today!
THIS corruption involves TRILLIONS of dollars of corrupt mining deals, automotive and energy monopolies!
THIS is why the federal budget analysis reports are showing TRILLIONS of dollars of ‘untraceable’ losses from the United States Treasury from 2006 up to today!
THIS is why a large number of reporters, whistle-blowers and prosecutors suddenly, and mysteriously turned up dead!
THIS can all be proven in jury trial and in live televised Congressional hearings!
There is so much more to reveal but you get the picture.
This is all being covered up because top State and Federal officials are in on it, own the stock in it and are so deeply involved in it that they could go to Federal prison when this all comes out.
This is Part 1. There is more to be released. Show this document to the United States Senate and see what they say about all this…”
A complete guide to how Elon Musk has raised, and then spent, billions of dollars, mostly from your tax money and pension funds.
The company that Elon Musk built to usher in the electric-car future might not have enough cash to make it through the calendar year.
The anxieties that lurk beneath the tremendous ambition of Tesla Inc. moved into the forefront in recent weeks. The company againfell far shortof its own production targets for the mass-market Model 3 sedan, another persondied in a crashinvolving its assisted-driving feature and Musk entered intoa public disputewith federal safety regulators. Tesla’s once high-flying stock, buffeted by a downgrade from credit analysts, has dropped 24 percent from its peak in September.
There’s a good reason to worry: No one has raised or spent money the way Elon Musk has. Nor has any other chief executive officer of a public company made abankruptcy jokeon Twitter at a time when so much seemed to be unraveling.
Tesla is going through money so fast that, without additional financing, there is now a genuine risk that the 15-year-old company could run out of cash in 2018. The company burns through more than $6,500 every minute, according todata compiled by Bloomberg. Free cash flow—the amount of cash a company generates after accounting for capital expenditures—has been negative for five consecutive quarters. That will be a key figure to watch when Tesla reports earnings May 2.
Read the full story here:
In years to come, we will all look back and wonder how so many people were taken in by this shyster, who makes Enron look honest.
A lot of Musk’s money has been extracted from suckers, who think he is God’s gift, as Bloomberg report:
One of Tesla’s greatest strengths is its ability to monetize the patience and goodwill of its customers and loyal fans. The company is sitting on a staggering $854 million in customer deposits as of the end of 2017.
Since Tesla sells its products direct to consumers, without relying on a dealer network, customer deposits are cash payments that essentially serve as interest-free loans—and these loans can stretch on for years. If Tesla were to go bankrupt, those deposit holders would likely be wiped out.
Tesla is holding customer deposits for two vehicles that aren’t even in production yet: an electric Tesla Semi ($20,000 deposit) and a next-generation Roadster (either $50,000 down or the $250,000 retail price paid up front to reserve a limited edition). Even customers interested in installing an array of solar roof panels or the company’s Powerwall home battery must hand over $1,000 to place an order.
Tesla doesn’t break out deposit numbers by car, but the vast majority comes from $1,000 reservations for the Model 3. When Musk first introduced the lower-priced sedan in March 2016, fans stood in long lines at Tesla stores. Two years later, theslower-than-expected pace of productionmeans that most of the more than 400,000 reservation holders are still waiting. And new people appear to be joining the queue: As of April, the company reported “net Model 3 reservations remained stable.”
There’s an additional source of free money from loyal believers: An unknown number of customers have paid up for vehicle features—$3,000 for “Full Self Driving” capability, for example—that Tesla thus far hasn’t figured out or released to anyone.
The consumer psychology that sees hundreds of thousands of people essentially extending an interest-free loan to a public company is unusual, to say the least. Consider the devotion of Bruce Sidlinger, a 60-year-old aerospace engineer who lives in Flagstaff, Arizona:
“The morning after the Roadster was announced, I put a deposit down. Putting down $50,000 for a Roadster that won’t be out for a few years is kind of like buying a bond that returns zero. Elon Musk is one of our planet’s great hopes. I would offer a kidney to him if he needed it.”
Keep in mind that Sidlinger already owns both a Model S and a Model X. He drove across the country to Florida earlier this year in a car made by one Musk company so he could watch a rocket made by another Musk company take flight for the first time.
I think the phrase “more money than sense” rather sums it up
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Dell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC
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A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones, laptops and electric cars, the Guardian can reveal. Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington DC by human rights firm International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 parents and children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The lawsuit accuses the companies of aiding and abetting in the death and serious injury of children who they claim were working in cobalt mines in their supply chain. The families and injured children are seeking damages for forced labour and further compensation for unjust enrichment, negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress. It is the first time that any of the tech companies have faced such a legal challenge. Cobalt is essential to power the rechargeable lithium batteries used in millions of products sold by Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla every year. The insatiable demand for cobalt, driven by desire for cheap handheld technology, has tripled in the past five years and is expected to double again by the end of 2020. More than 60% of cobalt originates in DRC, one of the poorest and most unstable countries in the world. Aerial view of the Kasulo neighborhood of Kolwezi. In the first picture, taken May 2016, there are just residential houses. By May 2019, Congo DongFang International Mining (a subsidiary of chinese company Huayou Cobalt) have built a mining site, with a walled perimeter and processing buildings (in blue). The pink tarps cover tunnels used for mining. The extraction of cobalt from DRC has been linked to human rights abuses, corruption, environmental destruction and child labour. The lawsuit argues that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla all aided and abetted the mining companies that profited from the labour of children who were forced to work in dangerous conditions – conditions that ultimately led to death and serious injury. The families argue in the claim that their children were working illegally at mines owned by UK mining company Glencore. The court papers allege that cobalt from the Glencore-owned mines is sold to Umicore, a Brussels-based metal and mining trader, which then sells battery-grade cobalt to Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and Dell.Other plaintiffs in the court documents say they worked at mines owned by Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, a major Chinese cobalt firm, which the lawsuit claims supplies Apple, Dell, and Microsoft and is likely to supply the other defendants.
In the court documents, the Congolese families describe how their children were driven by extreme poverty to seek work in large mining sites, where they claim they were paid as little as $2 (£1.50) a day for backbreaking and dangerous work digging for cobalt rocks with primitive tools in dark, underground tunnels.
The families claim that some of the children were killed in tunnel collapses while others were paralysed or suffered life-changing injuries from accidents.
I saw the unbearable grief inflicted on families by cobalt mining. I pray for change
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Another child, referred to as John Doe 1, says that he started working in the mines when he was nine. The lawsuit claims that earlier this year, he was working as a human mule for Kamoto Copper Company, carrying bags of cobalt rocks for $0.75 a day, when he fell into a tunnel. After he was dragged out of the tunnel by fellow workers, he says he was left alone on the ground at the mining site until his parents heard about the accident and arrived to help him. He is now paralysed from the chest down and will never walk again.
Other families included in the claim say that their children were killed in tunnel collapses or suffered serious injuries such as smashed limbs and broken spines while crawling through tunnels or carrying heavy loads. The families say that none were paid any compensation for the deaths and injuries.
One of the central allegations in the lawsuit is that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla were aware and had “specific knowledge” that the cobalt they use in their products is linked to child labour performed in hazardous conditions, and were complicit in the forced labour of the children.
The families argue in the court papers that all companies named as defendants entered into commercial “ventures” with the mining companies operating in DRC, and all gained significant financial advantages from the widespread illegal mining of cobalt by children, which continues to enter global supply chains.