i knew tesla was going to be a juggernaut in 2018 based on 2 things;

1) the highest net worth person i knew drove one and was buying another for her husband for his birthday.

2) if you flew a drone over google campus parking lot, it was a literal sea of teslas.

the people buying them were educated, affluent, coastal, concerned with the environment.

2 other circles in the venn diagram, smaller but significant;

1) i had friends who were basically NYC yoga hippies who bought tsla around $180-200 a share. pre-split.

2) those cars were fucking mind blowingly gorgeous, the interiors were like something out of a sci fi movie.

and everyone loved them. i never even heard of a tesla owner who didnt fucking love their car.

i started longing tesla because i thought solar hadnt been priced in. personally, that was the edge i saw.

and then everything started to get real shitty, real fast. quality control started to plummet, tesla shut down its solar plant in buffalo, and then insult to injury they cancelled their insurance guarantee against defect basically. and its been downhill ever since.

but the people who basically made tesla a household name? coastal elites, software programmers / engineers, all of whom skewed towards democrat/left concerns re social safety net issues, ecology, so on. high emotional intelligence.

and for years, elon took their money. they made his car a thing in the popular lexicon and he took their money, as one does, and kept his mouth shut and focused on planting the human genome on mars. again, as one does.

and then, in july of 2018, elon insisted a cave diver let him fabricate what was essentially an aluminum coffin to transport kids trapped in a cave to freedom. problem was, the coffin was too fucking long, it would never fit around the curves in the cave. the diver told elon to fuck off and let professionals do their job. elon called him a pedophile.

and since that fucking exchange, elon has morphed from a champion of the ecowarriors to a literal kleptocrat, hes an american oligarch. and because he literally doesnt understand what free speech is, in the legal sense, he does what all the other rubes do who dont understand it; they insist theirs is being criminally suppressed by 'the left'.

plus trump slashed his tax exposure. and he liked that a lot.

if he had kept his fucking mouth shut, kept working on solar, kept improving spacex tech, and stayed off the mother fucking stage, i promise you id ride his dick like a jockey to this day, regardless of his personal affinity towards trump.

also, pet peeve; i cant fucking stand foreigners who decide one day they understand Exactly Whats Wrong With America after making their fortunes here, its galling. and thats so his brand.

hes going to have his finger on the political scales in this country a bit harder every day until richard spencer and milo yianoppolaus are warming up the crowd for president marjorie taylor greene at press junkets and our public schools are turned into christian madrases.

fucking book it.