politics

Does he need help packing his shit?

BYEEEEEE!

I can't wait to check TSLA stock tomorrow morning

We should totally all agree that we will leave Musk alone and start treating him nicely if he leaves politics wink wink nudge nudge

He is the richest man in the world. He has every resource available to him. He constantly punches down. He doesn't deserve any sympathy.

This is just posturing to make people feel like we're not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes

I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.

He's just avoiding an audit.

They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn't want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.

He's probably going to 'officially' bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.

You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.

Must be nice just dropping (what he claims is) important work on the ground when you need a nap.

He's really demonstrating his famous work ethic. Maybe that sleeping on the factory floor legend was not about work ethic but about spontaneous napping when he feels a tantrum coming on.

And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.

As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.

He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.

I don't think he will. I think he's trying to get people to sympathize with him.

Not going to change my mind. He’s for Donald.. I’m against him.

He should just focus on making rockets fly and cars self-drive.

Alternate title:
"Scumbag musk has got all the info he needs from all the government servers. Now he's going to distance himself from everything then use that info as blackmail, or sell to Russia etc etc."

Too late buddy, you will never extricate yourself from what you've done here and it will haunt you for the rest of your miserable life.

Bullying works.

This better not be like the time he said he was gonna step down from running Twitter and then he didnt. He better follow through on his promise. And take his tech bros trying to shut everything down with him.

In all honesty, if he left politics and stayed out of it I wouldn't my just leaving him to his harem and 40k.

America's democracy is in dire enough straits that we don't need to be stuck fighting the world's richest man on top of the whole mechanism of government. If he'll get and stay gone, I say leave him to it.

On the other hand, he's rich enough that he can jump back in at any time and go back to fucking our democracy and he's proven to be impulsive and mercurial, willing to throw his lot in with fascists because he got trolled on Twitter over how skin deep his progressive credentials are.

He already gave himself backdoor access to everything. Don't believe he's really gone.

He's gonna come back like a ransomware hacker, threatening to delete whole systems unless he gets what he wants.

Consequences? Me? But I'm rich and cool!

Such a delicate little snowflake. I say fuck his feelings.

We aren't letting up. Musk is hated, like every Nazi.

Facts don't care about your feelings.

Still hope your businesses all get destroyed.

He wants out now before the consequences catch up with him.

I'm almost certain that he has been ordered by his board of directors to get back to work, or be removed as CEO of Tesla.

There is almost certainly a shareholder class-action suit brewing over his reckless and irresponsible behavior over the last several months, which has directly caused severe, and possibly irreparable, damage to the company's brand image AND it's sales around the world, as well as tanking the stock price, an unforgiveable sin in the investing world. Now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. As future earnings reports are released, and sales continue to slide, the stock will continue to decline, and the cycle will continue until bankruptcy. And it is all traceable to Skum's self-indulgent, egotistical behavior.

The only question is will Skum be the only defendant, or will the lawsuit also name the individual members of the board, for not reigning him in, or firing him. They don't want to be sued alongside him, so they are forcing him to get back to work saving Tesla, thus letting them off the hook for legal liability.

Its doubtful Skum will be able to save Tesla at this point, its almost certainly too late. It is also probably too late to avoid a shareholder lawsuit. Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum's outrageous behavior, which, as CEO, he should have realized would damage his company and its investors significantly.

And arguing that he didn't recognize the danger in advance is no excuse at all for a CEO, who should have been able to predict the response to his self-indulgent ego bender.

Shareholders have lost many millions, and they won't just let that go with an "Oh well." He's likely going to get sued, and the board is just making sure they don't go down with him.

Alternative title. One of the richest men in history can't find happiness and shifts blame away from his terrible decisions, stolen valor video game clout, fascism, and fucking over poor people. Decides to radically change the modern world because supposedly it wasn't working out for him, then cries that people don't like him.

Wait, when did he enter into politics? All I see is him buying power?

Even the hat in that picture is looking to escape that douce.

Politics is a form of negotiation with other elements of leadership to make a nation's major policy decisions.

Musk, you never DID get involved in politics. You hired a private army and got involved in criminal intimidation.

Lots of people would like to "leave politics", as they find themselves under "vicious and unethical attacks" by politicians. However, those people's political existence was forced upon them, they didn't want to be a "political" object, especially not in the current landscape.

Musk instead took up his political role consciously, and used it to further attack and harm many who would prefer to be left in peace. He had the luxury to activate himself, commit far worse violence upon the people than he has been subjected to by the people, and when he realises he doesn't really like it, even though the issues he's facing are probably comparatively trivial, he (believes he) has the luxury to return to a more secluded, safe position.

It's really quite disgusting. And I fear he'll get away with it. But I am at least satisfied that his story (a supposed tech guru with his marketing bullshit and his comically immature behaviour) has damaged much of the aura of the modern technocapitalist elite.

Somebody call the wambulamce.

You hear that guys? It's working; keep it up.

Keep up the bullying, it's working.

If he leaves that means the autocrats are ready to complete their coup. Then our only chance will be the military.

I wish.

He’s running because Trump is getting tired of him and he achieved his strategic goals of removing business regulation hurdles.

Blaming attacks from the left makes him look like a victim and play up the “evil leftists” angle so they can attack them more, while giving him a “safe” out.