r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • Mar 06 '25

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Suddenly Doesn’t Want Credit for Disastrous DOGE Cuts - Musk is warning Republicans to stop blaming DOGE for the cuts.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192415/elon-musk-warns-republicans-doge-job-cuts
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u/GR1ZZLYBEARZ Mar 06 '25

Should accelerate after earnings. Sales down 50% in Europe, 76% in Germany, 50% in China, 72% in Australia, already down “12%” in the United States. Currently there are protests at all stores, defacement of people’s teslas in parking lots, vandalism to supercharging and charging stations. No good news coming for them.

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u/QueenOfNZ Mar 06 '25

The only difference between Musk and the Nazis is the Nazis actually made decent cars.

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u/GrandmasShavedBeaver Mar 06 '25

But Musk had the genius level of vision to turn his vehicles into ovens for incinerating the occupants.

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u/BiggestFlower Mar 06 '25

I bet the original Nazis wish their incineration ovens had wheels. So cool, and convenient.

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u/insane_contin Mar 06 '25

You know who else has mobile incinerators? Russia. Wonder how long before Musk gets a contract for those.

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u/EmotionalJoystick Mar 07 '25

Actually the first mass killings done by the Nazis were done via mobile units.

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u/BluePizzaPill Foreign Mar 07 '25

holocaust by bullets => experimentation with gas trucks => camps w. gas chambers

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u/DallasTrekGeek Mar 07 '25

I got u.... selbstfahrendkonzentrationslager

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u/Be-A-Voice Mar 07 '25

Sik, but funny

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u/BoxingHare Mar 06 '25

Makes me wonder how comfortable the Las Vegas PD and their SWAT team are going to be rolling around in those things. Is getting flambéed by their own equipment covered by their insurance?

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u/QueenOfNZ Mar 07 '25

If Krasnov is putting in death penalty for anyone who kills cops, and the Tesla kills a cop, does the Tesla get put to death?

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u/SmokeyDBear I voted Mar 07 '25

Poor Nikola

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u/2021sammysammy Mar 06 '25

true efficiency

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u/MovieTrawler Mar 06 '25

They also didn't dress like a bunch of mall ninja edgelords.

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u/tsgarner Mar 06 '25

The Nazis wore designer suits from Hugo Boss, Elon wears your-design-here t-shirts from the Internet.

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon Mar 06 '25

Musk's shirts probably cost $3,000. He's already proven he doesn't have any idea how effectively to save money.

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u/The_BeardedClam Mar 06 '25

Don't forget the Hugo Boss uniforms too, never has evil looked so good.

The Twitter guy and the apprentice host on the other hand, not so much.

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u/YouJabroni44 Colorado Mar 07 '25

The Nazis at least knew how to make door handles. Not that I care much for those assholes.

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u/allanbc Mar 06 '25

I have a Model S that I've had for nine years. It still runs great. I never would have bought it if I could go back, but I can't. That's only to say, Tesla did make decent cars, although I heard the more recent models are much worse, seemingly due to cutting a bunch of corners in order to make them cheaper.

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u/fillemagique Mar 07 '25

I see that a bunch of people in the same position and changing the decals on their Teslas to other brands!

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u/QueenOfNZ Mar 06 '25

I do think it’s a shame that Tesla the company have been tarred with the same brush as Musk. By all accounts they were great till they got all Musked up.

And yeah no judgement at all to Tesla drivers, I’m all for boycotting brands but it’s pretty hard for most people to just up and sell a car because the owner of the company is a douche.

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u/allanbc Mar 07 '25

I figured that if I sell my car, someone else will just be driving it anyway. I don't see how that hurts Musk or Tesla at all.

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u/FreeWinter15 27d ago

I'm not criticizing your choice - but there's definitely something symbolic about trading it in at a dealer, where it faces the opportunity to spend the rest of its life fading under the sun in a parking lot, ignored. Poor car.

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u/Junior-Credit2685 Mar 07 '25

This is the most underrated comment of the day!!!!

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u/trdtacomapro 26d ago

Nazis made dogshit like they still do today.

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u/11Kram Mar 07 '25

But the Nazis didn't give a single VW Beetle to all those who saved up for them in the official scheme.

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u/CliffBoothVSBruceLee Mar 07 '25

The VW "Thing"? Hahaha

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u/notfulofshit Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

That and Elon is a good father who gets lots of sex. I don't know if the Nazi got a lot of sex.

It's a joke. Of course I don't like the twitter guy

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u/Balancing_Loop Mar 06 '25

sadly they were all in vitro fertilized as a botched penis enlargement surgery left musky's dangler lookin like one of those japanese hotdog octopuses

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u/unctuous_homunculus Mar 07 '25

I wouldn't say using your kid as a human shield against snipers is exactly being a good father, but he has probably had sex a lot. At least 8 times that we can be reasonably sure about.

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u/SapperTed Mar 06 '25

I know right. Him building all those concentration camps. The mass military might parades, the anti Jewish propaganda (oops that’s your deal now! Go Palestine and terrorist!!), the confiscation of businesses and property owned by Jews, the recruitment of the Palestinians to be another force against the Jews (damn, I’m sorry I keep mixing you up with the Nazis), the creation of a socialist society whereas government owns the businesses (shit. I keep mixing this stuff up. That’s what Bernie and Warren want) and the military invasion of neighbouring countries.

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u/KeyserSoze311 Mar 06 '25

Just so we’re clear, you’re saying that Musk is responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews?

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u/empiricalreddit Mar 06 '25

Excellent. Keep the pressure. Also some governments are cancelling starlink contracts .

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u/bortle_kombat California Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Yup, the stock is already down 45% from its alltime high 10 weeks ago, and it's got much further to fall. Tesla announced it's entering India and building another Texas megafactory, but neither has stopped the share price from continuing to tank. Baird just gave a bearish rating and lowered the price target again, directly citing Elon's toxicity to the company brand.

India currently tariffs American cars hard, so naturally Elon's government flunkies are whining about how that's unfair and India shouldn't tariff America. I'm sure India appreciates the irony, but it's well established that they don't give a shit what the US federal government wants from them. Even if India dropped tariffs, Tesla has already proven it can't compete with established Chinese electric car brands on value. I believe Tesla opening showrooms there is 99% for show: they did it for the headline, knowing they can't actually compete there.

Elon's running out of levers to pull. He used to be able to juice stock price by making announcements that mainlined hopium into his fanboys' veins, but that hasn't been working in 2025. He can claim theyre going to have self-driving taxis in Austin this year, but so what? The Waymo / Uber partnership beat them to the punch. They're already in operation there, and their self-drive actually works unlike Tesla's (because Tesla refuses to use lidar).

Once he promises full self-driving "sometime next year" and it fails to juice the stock, that's when I'll believe he's truly fucked. He's promised it every year since 2014, but never got punished for failing to deliver as long as sales were going up. Now he's gotta justify maintaining 160 P/E on falling sales, and that's just to keep the stock from spiraling harder.

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u/45and47-big_mistake Mar 07 '25

My neighbor was going to buy a Tesla, but he's afraid of the backlash. He found a very cool electric KIA.

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u/GR1ZZLYBEARZ Mar 07 '25

Sad thing is, all the coolest electric cars are Chinese and the United States won’t let them in.

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u/HowDenKing Europe Mar 06 '25

76% in Germany

I hate that this somewhat tracks w/ the nazi party getting ~20%...

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u/GR1ZZLYBEARZ Mar 06 '25

lol I didn’t see that. It does kind of suck. In all fairness the cyber truck does look like a modern space Nazi panzerwagen though. The Nazi aesthetic is certainly there.

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u/TheMartian2k14 Mar 06 '25

I support taking down this man at any cost, except for damaging the property of innocent Tesla drivers.

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u/GR1ZZLYBEARZ Mar 06 '25

Agreed, destroying people’s property doesn’t do anything. Protest at stores, stop buying Tesla stuff, sell the stock. Don’t destroy anyone’s ride, you might be stopping someone from getting to work, an important appointment etc. we’re all in this together.

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u/fillemagique Mar 07 '25

Cybertrucks are also banned on the roads in the UK, because they have sharp edges.

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u/GR1ZZLYBEARZ Mar 07 '25

That’s why they hurt my eyes so much…

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u/satiricalned Mar 07 '25

We had a 2021 model 3 for three and a half years. The first 6 weeks of fuckwit pseudo president musk, we found a replacement for the EV sedan, and sold it at break even, as the used prices are dropping even more.

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u/SeaToTheBass Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Hey please don’t forget about us Canadians, our Ontario premier just cancelled a $100 million contract with starlink

My bad I originally said tesla but still fuck Elon and the felon

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u/GR1ZZLYBEARZ 29d ago

Thank you for your help northern friends. Us common folk love you and your country. Thanks for being our neighbor.

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u/FargeenBastiges Mar 07 '25

He also bungled $22 billion in potential earnings for Starlink in Mexico. He literally got in a feud with the single guy in Mexico he needed to pull off the deal.

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u/riding_writer 29d ago

Don't forget the Cyber trucks that got booed and had beads lobbed at them at a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. One cyber truck got its windshield cracked before they were escorted off of the parade route.

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u/trevbal6 Mar 07 '25

Down to zero in Canada, I would have thought.

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u/LURKER21D I voted Mar 07 '25

I'm not sure how concerned he is with those losses, although i agree more are coming. He's pretty set for the next 1000 lives and spaceX and Starlink might be more than making up for the tesla losses. I think he might actually be getting scared that someone's gonna take a shot at him. The hatred he's brought upon himself is red hot. you know how the story goes FAFO

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u/Boomer-angerer Mar 07 '25

This will probably just incentivize the right to start buying Teslas. There are so many upper class Republicans with money to spare. So so many.

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u/Perfect_Day_8669 29d ago

Funny story. Friend who bought Tesla before all this has two anti M—k bumper stickers. Some guy walked up to the car, stopped, looked around, went to the back twice and took pictures of each bumper sticker and left the car unmolested. He knows this because the car has cameras that record people around the car.

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u/chrisk9 Mar 06 '25

Good thing Tesla is no longer a car company

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u/GR1ZZLYBEARZ Mar 06 '25

They make $82B off cars and $10B off solar and batteries. Their solar and battery business is worth a 900b market cap? lol