THE RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY OF ELON MUSK
Elon Musk is the only billionaire who could launch the most powerful rocket in history, watch it detonate like a Fourth of July grand finale, and still have the audacity to call it a success. Today, yet again, SpaceX’s Starship self-destructed midair, scattering flaming wreckage across the Caribbean while Musk no doubt grinned, dusted off the ashes, and declared it a “valuable learning experience.”
It’s the same delusional confidence that led him to buy Twitter for $44 billion, rename it “X” like a thirteen-year-old trying too hard, and then systematically destroy it in the name of “free speech”—which, in Musk’s world, just means letting neo-Nazis scream slurs at Applebee’s on a dying social media site.
If failure was a currency, Musk would be the richest man on Mars—which is convenient, because at this rate, that’s the only place left where people might still believe he’s a genius.
FROM TECH GOD TO INTERNET CLOWN
Once upon a time, Musk convinced the world he was a visionary. Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink—he sold the idea that he wasn’t just building companies, he was shaping the future. But then people started paying attention, and the mask began to slip. It turns out the emperor of Silicon Valley wasn’t a genius—he was just a guy who figured out how to talk like one while his engineers did the actual work.
The signs were always there. There was the Thai cave rescue incident, where he called a hero diver a pedophile because the guy didn’t want his useless mini-submarine. There was his public spiral over COVID, where he threw tantrums about “freedom” and fought tooth and nail to keep his factories open while employees got sick. There was his weird obsession with “woke mind virus”, which conveniently became his go-to response for any failure, criticism, or moment of personal insecurity.
And then there was Twitter/X—his magnum opus of self-sabotage.
THE $44 BILLION MID-LIFE CRISIS
Buying Twitter wasn’t a business decision—it was a cry for help.
Musk wanted a playground where he could be worshiped. Instead, he turned it into a dumpster fire of right-wing lunatics, crypto scammers, and the last remaining Musk fanboys desperately pretending it’s still a valuable platform.
He fired half the staff. The engineers who actually knew how to keep things running? Gone. Advertisers bailed in droves. Revenue collapsed. And the blue check verification system became a full-blown identity theft service, with fake accounts tanking major brands overnight.
He rebranded it as “X”, because nothing says success like naming your platform after the thing people click when they want to leave.
Now, Musk spends his days in the wreckage, tweeting at far-right conspiracy theorists, banning anyone who hurts his feelings, and whining about how people don’t respect him anymore. Twitter/X is circling the drain, but like everything else in Musk’s life, he’ll go down swinging—insisting it’s all part of a brilliant plan even as the walls cave in.
A MAN ADDICTED TO FAILURE
Musk is the king of rapid unscheduled disassemblies—whether it’s rockets, companies, or his own public image. He fails upwards so hard that even his catastrophes come with a fan club. Every time he torches another venture, humiliates himself online, or gets sued for being a reckless idiot, there’s always a small army of terminally online weirdos ready to call it “4D chess.”
But the illusion is breaking.
Tesla is losing market share to actual car companies that don’t burst into flames in parking lots. SpaceX can’t seem to get a Starship off the ground without it becoming an impromptu fireworks display. And X? Well, X is just the saddest trainwreck on the internet.
Musk built his empire on hype, arrogance, and the ability to surround himself with people too afraid to tell him he’s an idiot. Now, the hype is wearing off, and the cracks are turning into craters.
He won’t go quietly. There will be more explosions, more Twitter meltdowns, more desperate attempts to cling to relevance. But the truth is clear: Elon Musk is no longer the man of the future. He’s just another tech bro in free fall, screaming about wokeness while the ground rushes up to meet him.
I love everything about this, but perhaps this line most of all: “He rebranded it as “X”, because nothing says success like naming your platform after the thing people click when they want to leave.”
My father-in-law was a Lead NASA engineer, my husband was fired by Trump during his first term. I 💙 this for El0n, we are going backwards in Space exploration…. What a loser.