Trump Admin (US Gov) to Help Elon Musk

So you’re trying to compare a full year of 2023 to 3 quarters of 2024?
Am I understanding that right?
in that case sure a full year compared to 3/4 of a year is gonna give you less numbers, that’s true for almost every company on Earth.

 

FWiW I thought it was stupid…

 

Sigh. Of course I'm not trying to compare 3/4 of 2024 to a full year of 2023. Tesla produced and sold more cars in the first 3 quarters of 2023 than it did in the first 3 quarters of 2024.

 

Never said it was a big drop off. Never even implied it was a big drop off. Simply said Tesla produced and delivered more cars in the first 3 quarters of 2023 than it did in the first 3 quarters of 2024.

What is a very big drop off however is the growth of sales and production for Tesla. Using your numbers in post 47, Tesla production grew by 47% in 2022 and 35% in 2023. It's going to be around 0% in 2024, depending on Q4 production. That is a huge drop off in growth.

 

OK

 

Are you OK with Tesla getting special privileges in Florida?

Elon Musk's Tesla EVs exempted from Florida ban on direct car sales

 

No I'm not. See, I'm not partisan. I call it like it is. Maybe you can learn that at some point...

 

Or until he started downplaying slavery

 

Not all that surprising considering he's a White South African who came of age under an Apartheid government.

 

Do you mean the interview where he noted that almost everyone has some ancestors who were slaves(if you go back far enough)?

 

Absolutely! It's a way to justify Western slavery by using the "both sides did it " argument and is disgusting

 

In that case I want my reparations

 

“Western slavery” which was imported from Europe and made some in England very wealthy.

 

close NASA, give all the money to Elon..ezpz

im sure this is at or near the top of the doge list

Trump may cancel NASA's powerful SLS Moon rocket—what that would mean for Elon Musk and the future of space travel

Since Donald Trump's recent electoral victory, rumors and speculation have circulated that Nasa's giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), could be under threat. The rocket is one of several key elements needed for the US space agency's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.
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But could another rocket easily take the place of the SLS? This question goes to the heart of what America wants to achieve amid an emerging 21st-century space race. China has pledged to send its astronauts to the lunar surface by 2030. Unlike the US, China is usually conservative in its estimates, so we can assume deadline slippage is unlikely. Meanwhile, several elements of Artemis are holding up the schedule.

No official announcements have been made. However, such a move could be in line with previous speculation that the Trump administration could gut Nasa, forcing it to contract out much of its work to the private companies. One of these delayed elements is Musk's Starship, which acts as the lander on Artemis III. It still needs to demonstrate key milestones, including refueling in space and performing a landing on the moon without a crew. Some in the space community believe that if China were to get to the moon first this century, it would deal a significant blow to US ambitions in space.

Musk has been brought into the incoming administration as one of two chief cost cutters, aiming to make reductions of up to US$2 trillion (£1.57 trillion) from the federal budget. Some observers have been alarmed by Elon Musk's closeness to Trump and by comments by the president-elect about shifting focus towards a crewed Mars mission.

 

If someone can do the job safely and less expensive then no reason to have NASA do it

 

Sole source everything to the shadow president for profit company. Makes logical sense

 

so which judge will he get appointed to this case to change it?

Elon Musk says the latest rejection of his mega Tesla payday is 'totally crazy'

In posts on X, his social media platform, the world's richest person said the ruling by Court of Chancery Judge Kathleen St. J. McCormick was "totally crazy" and "absolute corruption." Musk also described her as an "activist posing as a judge."

The compensation plan was introduced in 2018 and was worth $56 billion when McCormick struck it down in January.

A surge in Tesla stock in recent weeks means the package would now be worth about $100 billion. Shares dipped in premarket trading but have jumped 47% in the past month, valuing the EV maker at about $1.1 trillion.

The judge initially ruled that Tesla gave little reason for how it decided on the package and that Musk had undue influence over the board. In June Tesla put the compensation plan to a shareholder vote in June and investors voted to approve it.

However, McCormick upheld her earlier finding on Monday. "The large and talented group of defense firms got creative with the ratification argument, but their unprecedented theories go against multiple strains of settled law," she wrote.

 

This is a last-ditch play by China, and one with as much if not more geopolitical tones than economic. They're not entering our market - at least not at levels that make a difference - and this will end up being a giant waste of government largesse.

 

Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes, etc. . . . all made right here in the USA!

 

Way to be a man of the people Ronnie!

The dealer network - especially in this day and age - is such a scam. But, we're scared of the consequences of putting them all out of business. Rightly so, I guess. But it's still so wasteful.