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Maria Jette's avatar

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.”

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Tahlia Newland's avatar

Yeah. That was brilliant

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Jane's avatar

It cannot happen fast enough but I’ll grab some popcorn and settle in for his debacle

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Leonardo Del Toro's avatar

that was perfect, I re-stacked it...

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WomanofNoImportance's avatar

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.

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Helen Robinson's avatar

Never a truer word said.

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Susan R Stange's avatar

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." 😭😭😭

Do you teach Gonzo writing techniques cuz this is the hottest writing Ive found anywhere that hews to facts in such hyperbolic and delicious ways!

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Avril Orloff's avatar

As my mother used to say: “From your mouth to God’s ear”!

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Michelle Cloutier's avatar

Love your scathing analysis! Great (and fast) writing!

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Albin Trein's avatar

Send Elmo up in his next rocket! America will save billions and billions!

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Not On My Watch.'s avatar

I really don't know how many failures this african immigrant has bestowed on the American people, but when r we gonna curtail government contracts for somebody who really is giving us nothing.

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Suzette's avatar

I am glad that I stumbled across your sub-stack. Please keep up the great columns.

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Dave Barker's avatar

Yes, and Tesla is now on its way down, even though it may be a great technical success

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Jude's avatar

All very true and interesting but nowhere does it mention his 14 children and the lawsuits he is having with their 4 different mothers. I feel so sorry for Musk's offspring and the embarrassment of being the progeny of such a self-centred narcissistic A-hole. At least one of his daughters has changed her name and won't have anything to do with him. What does that tell you about him as a human being?

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Leonardo Del Toro's avatar

Too bad because if he was a good person, imagine the good he could do to the world.

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Gary Wilson's avatar

We would all be Billionaires if the US government dished out $38 bn to us as well. It’s just downright wrong.

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Harry Barker's avatar

Without sarcasm...the rapid planned destruction of the worlds leading Democratic Republic by stupid sycophants of putin

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ML Yaeger's avatar

I thought he bought Twitter as a propaganda tool to assist in his political coup.

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Amy meeker's avatar

There is one good thing about Musk. He brought us you!

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