Nonilex
Following #Trump’s shameful #Tesla advert on the WH lawn last week, US #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick used a TV appearance to urge Americans to buy stock in #ElonMusk's company.
Cabinet secretaries *don't typically* [NEVER] recommend individual stocks, much less those linked to the president's closest adviser.
#kleptocracy #oligarchy #broligarchy
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick
thepoliticalcat
@Remittancegirl @SuneAuken @emory @Nonilex I used to read a great deal on the psychology of fucked-up people. People like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, et al. I really wanted to KNOW how people become evil.
I no longer care. I'm just hurt and furious that they keep hurting other people who have done nothing to deserve it.
Madeleine Morris
The thing is… Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are legitimate puzzles.
But Musk and Trump are not puzzles. They are so fucking banal. Arendt was spot on when talking about the banality of evil. These fuckers are so deeply banal.
thepoliticalcat
@Remittancegirl @SuneAuken @emory @Nonilex Consider his upbringing. A narcissistic, delusional psychopath for a father, an equally narcissistic lunatic for a mother. He trusts no one. He doesn't even believe his girlfriend Grimes is a real person. Of COURSE he ends up using drugs to self-medicate. Bet he abuses alcohol, too.
Madeleine Morris
You know, I have always been passionately and deeply interested in the psychological details of complicated, dodgy people. But recently, I’ve completely lost interest in it. I don’t give a fuck why he is the asshole he is. Much like Trump. I won’t give them the dignity of being interested in why they are the shits they are.
Madeleine Morris
@SuneAuken
It baffles me that, being as rich as he is, he wouldn’t have at least a couple of advisers who would game it out for him.
thepoliticalcat
@emory @Nonilex Yes. He's a delusional bumblefuck who bought all these shiny toys other people made, and tried to profit from them. Now he's broken Twitter and Tesla, and SpaceX and his stupid Starlink project that he's using as a weapon against other nations are not going too well. What else will he destroy?
Sune Auken
@thepoliticalcat @emory @Nonilex
The starlink-thing has me baffled. Who did he think would trust the thing once it was clear that starlink will be used for blackmail?
Yes, I know the answer is "because he is a fascist oligarch with no actual business sense who cannot predict obvious reactions from others due to his crippling lack of empathy", but somehow it still baffles me.
Emory
@thepoliticalcat @Nonilex this is only further making me confident about his imminent pivot from cars to robots and AI and installing one to run a federal agency by 2027.
thepoliticalcat
@Nonilex Right now, his P/E are so bad that you would be risking a wipeout. The value of Tesla CANNOT rise again as a stock because Tesla has NO resale value. Nobody wants a Swasticar. Tesla CANNOT come back after this, and investing in him would be throwing good money after bad.
Nonilex
"I think, if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy #Tesla," US #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick said on FauxNews Wed evening. "It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again."
"I mean, who wouldn't invest in #ElonMusk? You gotta be kidding me."
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