Musk was obsessed with Brazil for a while. Lula loudly told him to go f***k himself, banned Twitter for a week and Musk folded. He gave in almost immediately.
The UK should do the same but won’t.
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Didn’t someone win $100m + on a lottery recently? must be small change nowadays 
When Musk criticised Farage as the leader of Reform, was he in fact suggesting that Reform won’t get that $100m unless Farage stepped down? Our Nige is out of his depth here.
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Will repost this link from 5 Dec.
Elon Musk denies reports he will donate £80m to Nigel Farage’s Reform | ITV News
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A facebook friend brought to my attention that suddenly there have been a wave of anti Elon Ads across London. A go-fund me financed group called “Everyone hates Elon” has posted these on bus stops and train stations. There’s the “0 to 1939 in 3 seconds” showing Musk doing his salute in a Tesla, there’s another poster simply saying he’s a bellend, then there’s “don’t buy a swasticar”.
As well as this people in the US and Europe have been attacking Tesla car dealerships and charging points.
On sunday 8 cars were torched at a French dealership
Meanwhile Tesla charging stations in Massachusets in the US have been set on fire. A woman in Colorado tried to set fire to a dealership. Production was disrupted at a German plant following a suspected arson attack
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One cannot condone damage to private property.
But I cannot condone the dangerous and nasty Musk.
It is a nice balance.
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The arson attacks are shocking. I can understand attacks in the US but surprising that it has happened in France and Germany though.
But I guess given his love of free speech he can’t complain about the posters. They even do a T shirt with the bellend comment.
Harris lost when her running mate gave the Nazi salute. Americans didn’t want fascist in control any longer. Elon should not copy from the Harris’s DNC
Again thank you for admitting the conduct of peace loving haters.
Or is it
–A dozen Teslas were torched in France-- from your reference. Someone is lying.
Called it for what they are peace loving hater.
That is the funny part, those cars just got paid for.
It has been reported a French soldier was spotted in foreign country. When the British police stopped him and his group, it was reported, he was on vacation with his family.
one rule for some another for others
A senior White House correspondent raised the possible double standard five days after Zelensky arrived for peace negotiations in a long-sleeve black polo shirt with three buttons and the Ukrainian trident, and black pants.
‘We know some officials here were mad that Zelensky showed up last week without a suit for his meeting in the Oval Office,’ Fox News journalist Peter Doocy told Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday. ‘But Elon Musk never wears a suit.’
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It was maga-fan reporter Brian Glenn who aggressively challenged Zelensky about not wearing a suit to an Oval Office meeting with Trump and Vance. Of course, its also something that Vance has banged on about - with him getting confused about gratitude and respect. But then Vance is so thick he probably needs to get someone to tie his tie in the morning. So Glenn went on the offensive pretending to be offended. He ignored that he somehow wasn’t offended by Musk not dressing with respect just days earlier. But the right wing like to go all snowflake when it suits them. They are after all just children in their behaviour.
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Or was it
Or implying a
Some Tesla dealership protesters were claiming that the fight had just begun and that “Luigi Mangione just fired the first shot.” Things are going to get real interesting real soon.
There’s a big Tesla protest scheduled for around noon this coming Saturday. I’d go, but that’s my nap-time. 
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People should protest about all electric cars.
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We don’t have a Tesla dealer around here so I’m heading to the GM, Ford. Chev dealerships to bad mouth there electric cars.
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So it seems as part of doge, Musk has sacked most of the safety checking team for self drive cars at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agency. Which is funny because he is leading the push for launching self drive cars…
In February, Elon’s Musketeers at President Trump’s cost-trimming DOGE operation turned up at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which regulates the kinds of self-driving cars the billionaire wants to build.
DOGE promptly culled four percent of the federal watchdog’s staff.
The transport safety agency, NHTSA, issued no fewer than 50 recall notices for the Tesla tycoon’s cars between 2021 and 2024. Some described simple issues Tesla could fix with an over-the-air software update. Others, such as bodywork falling off Cybertrucks, required a physical recall.
NHTSA and Tesla have also beefed over the automaker’s "full self-driving " mode for its vehicles, which critics say is nothing of the sort.
It’s now been reported that the sackings at NHTSA disproportionately targeted staff whose jobs involved regulating self-driving cars, and even some senior Tesla staff think that was a bad idea.
“Letting DOGE fire those in the autonomous division is sheer madness — we should be lobbying to add people to NHTSA,” one manager at Tesla told the Financial Times.
The watchdog proposed at the end of last year a national framework for testing and overseeing the safety and abilities of autonomous vehicles, like the ones Tesla wants to make and sell and even operate as Waymo-style fleets of driver-less robo-taxis.
The quoted manager said the regulator needs to finish up and publish that framework, giving manufacturers a clear view of the regulatory hurdles they need to clear in the autonomous space, or Tesla “doesn’t have a prayer” for scaling up its self-driving ambitions. Layoffs at NHTSA could set back or water down that framework.
Musk is betting heavily on driver-less cars and taxis: In October 2024 he unveiled a mock-up of a Cybercab, and promised it would be on the road by 2027. Now the world’s richest man, who oversees the White House’s DOGE unit that has been pushing cut-backs across the federal government, has the whip hand over the agency that can grant permission for his robo-cabs to hit the road.
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Recalls 2024
Ford — 1,515 recalls.
1,668 total recalls is General Motors
Mercedes-Benz — 470 recalls.
Volkswagen — 558 recalls
BMW: 36 recalls
Chrysler — 1,427 recalls.
Nissan — 425 recalls.
Tesla 50 over a 4 year period
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High Recall Count:
Zutobi reports that Toyota, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz have issued a high number of recalls in the UK.
Recent Recalls:
In 2024, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Kia, and Audi were among the car brands with the most recalls
The luxury cars produced in the UK do not fall into either list. Manufacture needs to produce more than 10,000 vehicles. Aston Martin, Bentley and Rolls Royce all have recalls.
The point was that he is sacking those in the team that checks the safety of his driverless cars. Total conflict of interest. Also not in the public interest.