• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Trump threatening to take away Musk’s government contracts is pretty serious for a smokescreen. Even the threat of doing this could destroy the companies, even if he never intended to follow through.

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      14 hours ago

      You’re forgetting how often Rump says all sorts of things he never follows up on. This is why I keep saying we need a better news media. One that can recognize when something is genuinely news worthy. None of the details of this feud matter. Only maybe a single story about them having a feud would be needed. And if it were TV news it would be the last story. A funny fluff piece that doesn’t actually matter.

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        13 hours ago

        I’m not forgetting that he’s a shit talker, but you aren’t getting it - simply by saying this shit he has already harmed the companies by undermining investor confidence.

        Trump directly attacked Musk’s companies and their investors, whether he follows through on the threat or not.

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          12 hours ago

          Which is why the news needs to ignore his shit talking rather than broadcasting it.

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            12 hours ago

            No, actually, I quite like that the media circus might cause Musk’s companies to fail. It’s good when his investors are hurt.

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      12 hours ago

      It may have destroyed a normal company. But musks empire is so out of normal market rules that the thread won’t do much harm I would think

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        13 hours ago

        Unless Tesla gets bailed out I don’t expect it to survive much longer, consumers already don’t want his badly built and overpriced swastikars anymore, and this is yet another blow to the company. Musk leaving the government won’t save Tesla from itself.

        It needs government money or it’s done.

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          4 hours ago

          Elon has recieved about 38 Billion from government funding so far so he probably knows how to keep milking the cow