Yeah well, the Chinese govt doesn't accept complaints. So what's he supposed to do about that? Devise and install a better Chinese government? In the US complaining is a fundamental freedom, so he availed himself of it. All this couldn't be simpler.

​ @dixonpinfold2582 Stop with your Elon worship, Jesus. How about he be consistent? If he doesn't have the balls to bash the CCP then stop taking advantage of the rights afforded to him by the US to bash its government? Thats what he could do, smartguy

Which factories are these?

@None, the Chinese government never shut down Tesla. They halted the expansion of his factory for a short time because the were worried about the militarization of Starlink.

@The ones in Shanghai, during the 2 month lockdown

Ask Elon, he knows her...

Star Wars character had a name that rhymes kinda..🎉

A has-been tech journalist who thinks she is still relevant. Also a very bad (and badly prepared) interviewer with weird body language. Elon had to waste a lot of his time on interviews with people like her back in the early days. Now he doesn't need people like her anymore.

She is interviewer who doesn't "kara" about her subject.

Musk Cult can't handle Kara's truth.

Asperger's, psychopathic, and probably bipolar disorder. The guy is a genius, but with a high degree of psychopathy. The worst kind of idol, particularly for young people.

He does appear autistic, and manic.

it probably is.

Yeah almost like the owner of the Washington Post is in some kind of competition with Musk.

It's political for Kara. which makes it personal for her. Elon needs to stay out politics as well and be neutral.

LOLZ. Perhaps if your hero would stop shit talking the country that loaned him $500 million to start his company he wouldn't be thought of as an A-hole.

Calm down with the fanboy-ism. And her comment was paraphrasing what the overall message was... it wasn't an exact quote

@@valetudo1569 Perhaps have more respect for the facts and less for the hyperbole of someone like Kara Swisher.

@@valetudo1569 So expecting accurate quotes from a journalist is now "fanboy-ism"?

@@regolith1350 No, your willful misinterpretation of what she said is fanboyism. She never said it was a direct quote

Muck's cars suck and the entire battery fiasco of the EV industry is a boondoggle at best. We've just traded slave labor for lithium to slave labor for cobalt. He violates environmental and labor laws indiscriminately and at will, yet has 180 Million fanbois who are mostly clueless about the issues being discussed here and in general, about him.

where is yours?

@@wurzelausc Its in Rocket City, Tx! Where is this womans ?

no - you have been dumb from birth on and not learned a thing - where do u live ??? kentucky, tennesee, lousiana, alabama, mississippi .................

I think it's intentional on his part. IDK why though. Musk released Tweets where he foretold the future, around the time he was planning his Texas move-out from California -- way before COVID, warning his fans essentially that he would be a lot less popular amongst certain groups soon. Planning what seemed like a shift to the "Right".

And flamethrower

And Starlink. lowering Tesla 3 pricing which is unlike any other CEO.

@@portcrap Lol, she's basically accusing him of having a sense of humour and not bending the knee to the pc crowd. Sje seems to be in Ludicrous mode.

She actually didn't say that at all. She said she was impressed with all of his ventures. She criticized him when he started getting paranoid and following conspiracy theories and became an anti-Covid vaxxer. Then he went down the rabbit hole with Twitter and never came back out.

@@flipadavis Wow theres still mindless sheep that think being an anti-vaxer is a bad thing?.. even AFTER all the evidence from professionals? smh

@@cryptoflipdoe7141 "professionals"

@@flipadavis Twitter/X is a business and it's his. I believe she said something derogatory about his management of it. (But I can't be bothered going back to quote it.) In a way that's "telling him what he should've done in business" if you ask me.

@@cryptoflipdoe7141 The 2 antivaxer acquaintances I’ve had are now dead from Covid complications.

Elon should focus on being neutral and fixing Twitter; Kara should focus on journalism instead of political causes.

She was disappointed in Elon because of his behavior more so than his politics. A lot of people including Kara have noticed his change. He's become more unhinged and divisive as his wealth has grown. He literally spreads hate every day on Twitter and barely talks about his companies anymore. Money and power ultimately doesn't change who you are but it reveals who you are.

If you are unable to learn anything from interviews, then that's a skill issue bro. Either that or you're watching shitty interviews and listening to the whole thing when you could just skip to the parts that are of value to you. Kara Swisher in particular brought interest into tech that wasn't there before. She started interviewing people in tech back in the 90s, before people paid any attention to people like Jobs, Gates and Zuckerberg. She's as important to the tech world as Rebecca Quick is to the financial world. I argue that lack of scrutiny into tech and finance led to the Dotcom bubble and the 2009 financial recession.

@@CadetPolovitz I have seen the entirety of many interviews with quality interviewers,she does not talk like a professional.

@@phattz03 Well it sounds to me like you might be guilty of, "Too many folks [watching] interview these days and not producing anything."

Really? Why is that?

she's terrible, she got her job with the WSJ because she's a woman.

She is as stupid as this video, no mystery. I do not know her work but here no talent, no info, no insight. Guess reporters are worse than I thought. Nothing to agree about as she just ran through musks history, then OVER.

Go watch them. My words can't convince you. Only you can do that yourself.@@Wonderwall36

THANK you.

I disagree, I think she makes predictions about these guys that come true. I just find it fascinating the number of people who will bow down and defend billionaires no matter the immoral or horrible things they do. It's like you guys like dictator like figures with no moral compass and want to be ruled by them. It's very weird, subservient, and beta.

​@@Jin125Does Bill Gates do horrible things?

No.

1) There is no climate catastrophe 2) EVs are NOT environmentally friendly 3) conversion to EVs - even if there were the environmental panacea you make them to be which they are not - is simply not attainable, unsustainable, and the current drive is foolish and can't continue for much longer

@@marcustulliuscicero2676 Pollution is real. EVs are environmentally friendly. STFU.

“Climate Catastrophe” 😂 I’ve been hearing about Climate Catastrophe since high school back in the early 90’s . Since then , global militaries have spent TRILLIONS and killed tens of MILLIONS - and likely polluted the environment as much as any institution Yet no one talks seriously about ending wars 😂 But “CLIMATE CATASTROPHE” bad , huh ?😂 Gimme a break

to be fair China EVs only exist because IP theft and know how from Tesla. It's the same for their cell phone businesses, only reason they're successful is because they stole technology from iPhone and Android.

she's talked about his dad ad nauseum and mentioned he shuold go to a therapist many times.

Poor little fanboy 😂😂😂

No, but she’s really good at watching other people do actual work and point out their flaws 😂

So what, she can’t have an opinion? Have you or I done those things Elon has done? No. She’s probably more accomplished we are. You don’t have to be a musical genius like Kanye West to critique his bad behavior.

Next time you get a bad steak at a restaurant you better shut your mouth and keep eating because who are you to tell a chef his steak tastes bad.

? Nobody is getting FSD done. And the car industry is doomed for simply needing to much space. Its not a well though thought transportation concept.. and thus doomed due to inefficiency and hidden costs in the long run.

@@Canonfudder A surprise is coming

we've been hearing FSD is coming since 2017 and it still isnt here almost a decade later. Elon Musk is a con man.

Few have gotten more subsidies and giveaways from the US government while touting themselves a rugged individualist than Muskrat

@@Canonfudder The biggest hidden cost is government fines. I hope they don't invent a fine associated with riding in a self driving car.

What does that mean ?

@@squireson Fig. [for someone] to do or say something sooner than it ought to be done so that the proper explanation or preparations have not been made.

Oh look a right wing chump is trying out new words for him.

The Wall Street Journal spoke to numerous sources who said that Musk does drugs not once, but on a regular basis, and much of the time the drugs are much harder than pot. I think your point about a chemical imbalance due to drugs is reasonable… I’m just pointing out that it appears to be from a lot of drug abuse including hard drugs, and not just one time smoking weed. A friend of mine hung out with Musk once a few years ago, and he said they stayed up late getting hammered doing shots of hard liquor. Many people don’t consider that to be a drug, but it is kind of similar… And it is very similar if a person is getting wasted off of it. And it indicates that he has a problem with substance abuse.

Elon took one toke and didn't even inhale. Go drink tea.

All of the "far right conspiracies" have turned out to be true. You need to unplug from the matrix.

@@DailySource I thought Elon & his SpaceX staff were being regularly checked for drugs by NASA because of that very appearance on the Joe Rogan show. So how is he not caught with drugs in his system if he is taking them?

2024 is not done yet, so 50,000 is still possible. This number being the most built shows the industry needs a jolt, Tesla might just do that.

That's because hundreds of eunuch Musk-stans have disliked the piece

@@billyconnelly3568 LOL ok Billy boy

@@billyconnelly3568 Just for you here's an update: 633/808

@@MrVara411 Glad you agree. Musk fans are truly some of the most pathetic people you'll encounter anywhere.

Well, she is saying Mush is a bit unhinged. Nothing really new there except that it surprises her how unhinged he is. And no, she isn't saying he is completely unhinged,.

Keeping epidemics in check is one of the necessary roles of government force.

Nobody has made you do anything personally. If you have a company it of course is regulated. That is how capitalism avoids implosion. Don’t like it? Tough shit

Neither was COVID a small thing. The govt paid you to stay home. Of course mistakes are made. That is why democracy works.

@@TheDavidlloydjones Then why didn't they use that "necessary government force" to break up giant gatherings of thousands of people, in direct violation of covid lockdowns, in multiple cities across the country, who were NOT social distancing, not observing any medical protocols, many not wearing masks, yelling and screaming right into cops' faces at point blank range, with spittle flying all over the place? Where was the "necessary" government force then? Especially when the same government was preventing people from operating their businesses, going to church or a wedding, or saying goodbye to a dying family member? The answer is because government force is arbitrary, always has been arbitrary, and always will be arbitrary. Be very, very careful about so casually excusing and justifying government power and overreach, because that power WILL be used in ways you DON'T approve of by people you don't approve of, guaranteed. It is only a question of when, not if. The "for your own protection" rationale has been used by EVERY authoritarian, dictatorial, totalitarian government to silence dissent, toss people into jail, and much worse.

The citizenry using their government to keep corporations in check is a critical part of democracy.

Or, hear me out, you may be the wrong ones for bending the knee and giving away all your liberties to the government for “safety” from a common cold but slightly worse.

@@markislivingdeliberately over a million Americans have died from this "common cold but slightly worse". all our liberties, really? overreact much?

Those come to Jesus moments aren't going to happen with Muck. His ego ate him a long time ago, back when they were robbing everyone via the Paypal Mafia. Peter Thiel is just like him, and they were partners in Paypal.

I agree with most of the original post. Good points.

@@LahvTM excellent reply. besides the massive number of deaths, a really high number of people are badly suffering from long Covid, which has either partially or heavily harmed their quality of life. And minor amounts of liberty were temporarily given up for 18 months until vaccines could be made to very significantly reduce the harm the virus was doing. Much of the far right was and still is in a delusional fantasy bubble that it was similar to a common cold and all liberties were given up for it. Thanks for your efforts of trying to provide good information.

Same immature persona she's talking about. When people use the words "butt hurt", I know they've not grown out of adolescence yet.

She isn't but her boss is cuz the rocket he built looked like a giant flying dong.

Yes Kara sounds butt hurt. I agree.

@@cmgweb6951 Instead of butt hurt, how about "defensive", "bitter", "resentful"??? She sounds like a 1st grader on the playground talking about someone she simply doesn't like. Sorry Kara (aka KAREN), very few people care about what you have to say. Yes really.

@@johnbarrett5229 Please! Muskalonge Jones sends 💩💩 emoji's when asked serious questions. He's demented and power hungry. He already has his hands far too deep into the Pentagon!

" . . he's playing the character "they' demand of him". What drivel. Elon has always refused the unfair demands of others, period.

And become a fascist? And also happen to have more money than God? Nothing wrong with having money if you want to help humanity, which was the old Elon. When you start losing touch with factuality, spreading conspiracy theories, spouting Kremlin talking points, then it's a problem.

You mean when the left left them.

either way.@@dkchen

Never impressed.

You were impressed?

EV's are dangerous as all these batteries can burn up/explode and kill people after they have a collision. The extraction of cobalt in African mines ia tragic for the kids who do it for money. It is also a long term issue for the environment, so ? He needs to stop building EV's and go for hydrogen. Plenty of that.......I keep putting that reminder in my posts. Like...he reads them....Ha...ha...who is delusional now ? ..

@@linanicolia1363 👆 Pe'troll.

@@linanicolia1363Please get informed so you can direct your righteous outrage better.

how did he bribe his way into tesla, when he put up 98% of the seed round funding to start the company? He then led the other 3 funding rounds . He was the largest shareholder, which makes a hostile takeover impossible😂

He was looking to build an electric car company and Tesla was a shortcut. Out of all of the founders, he kept only one member. They were technical people, tinkerers. Not the kind of people who can run and scale a company. @@island97

About $10-15 million. Anything more than that and they see themselves as royals. And there is only one way to deal with royalty….. Think France 1789. E Pluribus Unum

Elon doesn’t live like his rich peers

@@logicboard7746 Uh huh rrrright sucker. He lives like a full blown friggin junkie. And about as smart as one.

I’d agree with this but I died of a blood clot. Oh no I haven’t.

This is a remarkably dumb comment. Millions of people have died from covid and millions more likely will die or live with long covid for years to come. Just because you don't want to admit reality doesn't mean it's not there.

A GROWN MAN who INTENTIONALLY is doing what he's doing didn't "Change". That's just who he's always been.

@@ClaxtonBay123Yeah, he's autistic.

He changed for the better.

He'll be remembered for the sociopathic con-man that he is. Completely irrelevant.

Poor little musketeer 😂😂😂🤣

Except it wasn't a Muslim ban. Fact check.

I would say power corrupts the brain and kills empathy, but since Elon has autism... kinda hard to tell what's what

once you throw autism in to the mix it becomes a souffle@@LahvTM

@@LahvTM A lot of stress and a lot of drug abuse are two more things we can throw in the mix.

@@incognitotorpedo42You have no proof he is doing drugs. It's all hearsay.

Well, money and some good PR ? Using the name Tesla is suspicious. Donald Trump had an uncle who knew Tesla and when he died, the CIA took all of his stuff.....Where is that free energy ? still hidden from the masses. I wonder why ? O yeah...the same reason Edison did not want it ; they could not put a meter on it. Both Elon and DT are into money. It is their "GOD"......A huge thing to have in common and maybe good looking women ? That is it. Elon is ADD while Trump is just a boot licker for billionaires. He is not one. He wants to be one but he is a fraud. Elon is a little kid in the candy store., having fun playing his chess game......

Absolutely!

Or say she's "disappointed" in Sam too, if she doesn't like his politics. Both Elon & Kara need to stay out of politics.

He had to suffer lots of bad journalists in the early days.

This. We all think “well if I were Elon musk I’d never do anything untoward ever and would be perfect in every way.” Imagine if everything you did or said made NYT headlines. We should all be so lucky to have the worst headline “he’s got a juvenile sense of humor because he thinks boobs can be funny.”

Elon is clearly neurodivergent. He has some talents that go beyond the average person in understanding quite a bit across various disciplines that are objective like engineering and business. But like many neurodivergents that are on the spectrum toward being a savant, they can be severely lacking in other areas. He clearly is confused and gets easily off in the weeds on more abstract topics like sociology. Other than being really committed to work and his businesses there is a reason he has been married so many times. He doesn't understand people and how to relate to them. So the problem for him is that because of his wild success in most of his ventures he doesn't realize his own shortcomings or accept criticism in these areas he struggles with and instead is certain he is a genius in everything. So once he gets going there is no turning that ship. And he is personally heading straight toward the reef at full steam. So far his shortcomings that are obvious to everyone else, haven't harmed his success in these other areas he does have talent in so it doesn't register. Only when he falls hard from those shortcomings will he maybe realize he was wrong. Or he will take a victim mentality and place the blame on his imaginary enemies that succeeded in taking him down at no fault of his own.

@@flipadavis_"He doesn't understand people and how to relate to them."_ Likewise, people don't understand him and how to relate to him. From what I gather he understands them far better than they understand him.

@@flipadavisThey don't appear to be imaginary. People really don't like him and I think it's envy, among other things. It doesn't matter if he's a model social ape. It just isn't relevant. I think highly social people value that too much for its own sake. You can't help it, but the typical person is gossipy, anxiety-prone, and ignorant. We're born ready to fight. Then we look for pretext. We're born unhappy in our abstract environment by nature's design. Then we are supposed to look around and find something or someone to blame it on. The targets people pick reveal their own nature.

@@markislivingdeliberately I think some of the worst things are that he is responsible for deaths that wouldn’t have happened if he’d been transparent about how far his engineers were from a successful self-driving car. He is an autocrat who tries to bust unions. He lies routinely to gain advantage, then lies again when he is found out. He’s a transphobic, misogynistic, egomaniac who had a wealthy family to cushion his inevitable failures, so he has no empathy for others, since he thinks he’s self-made.