I am watching the Hollywood Hills burn. Not far from my home. And I am overcome with rage and contempt that our President-elect is berating our mayor and governor rather than showing some solidarity with the citizens of this country he claims to love.
If you're going to stand beside this man, then stand beside him. Defend this. Mount an ethical defense of this behavior. Explain to those of us confused TDS sufferers what we get wrong when we are revolted by this vulgarity, by a man who is to be our standard bearer.
Say what you want about @elonmusk, but between @Tesla and @SpaceX, it's hard for me to think of another person alive today that is bending the trajectory of humanity towards a more positive future at the scale he is. Our political leaders certainly aren't these days.
Elon Musk is a epically successful entrepreneur. It has made him the richest man in the world. That's his reward. His reward is not the right to conduct rogue shadow diplomacy with Vladimir Putin, and do favors for Xi Jinping over Taiwan. That just makes you a treasonous fuck.
The White House leaving Tesla out of the EV announcement to appease the UAW is a bit off, considering that, without Tesla, it's highly unlikely we'd be this far along in electrification. And they are a success story in American innovation. That's a miss.
I think there's an argument to be made that the anti-nuclear power movement, has done more to contribute to climate change, by removing the most viable alternative to fossil fuels, than the coal, gas and oil lobby combined.
I mean, I can understand why @elonmusk is so angry at progressives villianizing him. Here's a guy who literally put it all on the line to bail out his companies, and nearly lost everything several times to do things no other company was doing.
Elon Musk is not Caesar. He is not Galileo. He is not even Howard Hughes. He is merely a plutocrat with delusions of grandeur, and he should be made to understand, in no uncertain terms, that the republic that we all cherish was designed not to enthrone men like him, but to