Elon deserves his own thread


Pretty impressive , some classic comments


Wonder why they don't just use one of those old style1960,s rockets that "got" astronauts to the moon and back with no problems....


Trump has said we’re going to Mars.
I guess the US taxpayer will be funding that with Musk being the recipient.
Musk has already received $80b from the taxpayer…will be interesting to see if Trump is onboard with Musk.


Or on the other hand…Musk looks to be gone soon. Trump might cut him adrift..or he might not. Interesting times.


Americans have really lost the plot on both sides.


Jackasses


Great news about the fact the astronauts stuck on the Space Station will hopefully be coming back safely soon. But as a reality check to the Thunderbirds fanboy schtick above, they have been up there for an extended period due to equipment failure on the Boeing built craft and budget considerations. The current mission is referred to as a normal crew rotation one.
“ NASA officials have said the two astronauts have had to remain on the ISS to maintain adequate staffing levels, and that it did not have the budget or the operational need to send a dedicated rescue spacecraft.”
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-spacex-try-again-launch-ro...
Can’t see these budget considerations improving under DOGE oversight, unless of course the beneficiary of any funding largesse is the chief Doge himself. Good luck to them all.


Mars by 2026 , he’s not dragging the chain on getting there .


Yup, cept they keep blowin' up.


mikehunt207 wrote:Wonder why they don't just use one of those old style1960,s rockets that "got" astronauts to the moon and back with no problems....
Actors strike? ;-)




One thing I think is a pretty weak act is people vandalising privately owned Teslas.
I don't like Elon, or Teslas that much for that matter, but I hope that shit isn't happening here.


Love the gravity free hair . These two would be pretty stoked and look to be in fairly good shape .


& from the mothership playlist
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A poetic way with words
But was it ever thus? Did it just take the unalloyed unpleasantness of Elon Musk to make us see ourselves as we always were, toilet paper people fluttering on the whims of wealthy men’s media outlets, 8 billion dogshit golems, Frankingsteins made of farts?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/if-youre-reading-t...


GuySmiley wrote:A poetic way with words
But was it ever thus? Did it just take the unalloyed unpleasantness of Elon Musk to make us see ourselves as we always were, toilet paper people fluttering on the whims of wealthy men’s media outlets, 8 billion dogshit golems, Frankingsteins made of farts?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/if-youre-reading-t...
"And so digital media surges right towards the money and JD Vance calls it freedom of speech, as if a barely sentient tapeworm reaching towards a clump of rotten offal was acting with some kind of moral imperative."
Oh, Stewart. Magic as always.


southernraw wrote:mikehunt207 wrote:Wonder why they don't just use one of those old style1960,s rockets that "got" astronauts to the moon and back with no problems....
Actors strike? ;-)
Thanks Southern, glad someone got it


Hiccups wrote:GuySmiley wrote:A poetic way with words
But was it ever thus? Did it just take the unalloyed unpleasantness of Elon Musk to make us see ourselves as we always were, toilet paper people fluttering on the whims of wealthy men’s media outlets, 8 billion dogshit golems, Frankingsteins made of farts?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/if-youre-reading-t...
"And so digital media surges right towards the money and JD Vance calls it freedom of speech, as if a barely sentient tapeworm reaching towards a clump of rotten offal was acting with some kind of moral imperative."
Oh, Stewart. Magic as always.
Indeed @hiccups, the FRNJ fuckstains love talking about their freedoms yet always forget that those “rights” come with responsibilities


...and who could forget Elon and Cheeto making up some nice lies about this spacey situation, calling someone the R word in the process. Imagine having this turbo-gronk as your hero.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/elon-musk-andreas-mogensen-sunita-...
What a guy.


The Dropkick Murphys have had their twitter account suspended after talking shit on Elon on stage. I thought Muskrat bought that thing and then bigly tanked it's value so he could restore free speech. Well I never!


Hiccups wrote:The Dropkick Murphys have had their twitter account suspended after talking shit on Elon on stage. I thought Muskrat bought that thing and then bigly tanked it's value so he could restore free speech. Well I never!
'Free speech absolutist' was his term.




JP Morgan forecasts Tesla at $120 per share. So another 50% drop.
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/03/16/jp-morgan-slashes-tesla-sales-forec...


There’s no where to hide “ … As for Trump’s genius henchmogul Elon Musk, Tesla’s share price has halved over the past three months, with the FT reporting today that hedge fund short sellers have made $16.2bn betting against it. Last week a JP Morgan note attempted to contextualise their grimly downgraded outlook for the firm: “We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly.” Listen, I’ll take their expert word for it. But I feel like even I can think of something similar in the history of the social media industry. Last year the entrepreneur and professor Scott Galloway observed of X since Musk’s purchase of it: “No company over $1bn in revenue has ever lost 60% of its revenues in a 12 month period in a non-war period. I don’t think that’s ever happened. Twitter is literally the worst-performing business in history since a change in ownership.”
Admittedly, as is now clear, X was a political project for Musk, so perhaps that was a strategic haemorrhaging of value. It certainly bought him a keyboard army, albeit one that doesn’t appear to have a whole lot better to do all day than suck anonymously up to him. Indeed, for having the temerity to post this article on X, I expect a number of rape and death threats from Maga folk who are now, like some cowboy-booted modern take on the poor East Germans, being told to buy one type of car. Even worse, it’s one of the electric type, that until very recently they were formally required to dismiss as soyboymobiles. So look, I understand: mandated ideological 180s are very upsetting. And in any case, I always threaten to rape and kill people when I’m winning an argument...”.
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