He's only 50/50 if you look at his track record historically. There are 5-10 years' worth of tweets available showing his embrace of radical right wing ideas and talking points. He should be a Democrat for all the help his company, Tesla, received in loans from the Obama administration. $460M, I think it was, that saved Tesla from bankruptcy during the Obama administration, led by, that's right, Joe Biden.
Elon’s a gambler who made a few good bets that paid off enormously. He was kicked out of PayPal and the remaining execs there are the ones who produced the value that made him rich. Sure, Tesla was a good bet, but, let's be frank, the Republicans have very little interest in EVs, they're all-in on the oil and gas industry. Regarding Tesla, he was never the founder of that company, either. He just sued the founders and/or paid them off to claim that title — money can do a lot of things in this world, but how pathetic is a person who doesn’t found a company but forces people to accept him as one of the founders? Talk about an ego run amuck. The double stupidity of what he’s done at Twitter is he’s filled the platform with right wing loons who are the antithesis of Tesla drivers so he’s hurt two of his companies at once with his embrace of radical right-wing lunacy — which is what a lot of it is. He’s platforming literal Nazis on that platform. How horrendous is that?
Is turning a $40B company into a $10B dollar company because he's embracing right-wing lunacy that clever? The EU just claimed the site is the worst of all social sites when it comes to fake news. That might seem like not a big deal but it could cause some regulatory issues down the line.
There’s not a man in the history of the world who’s got more government largess than Elon. Is it brilliant to get the government to fund you, yes, but it doesn’t make you the genius you want everyone to think you are.
Sure, he's had some hits, but he's had a lot of failures as well -- The Boring Company, Hyperloop, full self-driving technology. The first two were so stupid it's surprising anyone gave him money to fund them. Hyperloop technology failed 50 years ago and there’s nothing that’s happened with technology or material science that would make it work today. Especially in a place like California, which has earthquakes, which will crack a tube that has a vehicle traveling inside at 500 miles+ per hour, then kill everyone onboard. Then get shut down. So smart. You really have to suspend disbelief to believe much of what this guy says. Have you seen the joke his Boring company produced in Las Vegas, which was supposed to be a people mover and turned into a bunch of Teslas driving in an underground tunnel?
FSD is still failing and probably won't ever work with the AI tech he's running it on. He’s chosen the wrong AI technology many say. His brilliance is his self-promotion and it works because the US has a fawning press desperate to find these movers and shakers who are radically revolutionizing the world, even though they try to sell us on technology that failed decades ago. The tech world is so flush with cash it can throw money at pie-in-the-Elon-sky projects that would get any other entrepreneur laughed out of a VC office. Honestly, if people looked under the Elon hood a little more, they’d find a lot of his ideas are nothing but snake oil. And his politics are highly misguided. He calls for Taiwan to be returned to China because he doesn’t want the CCP to take his Tesla plants in Shanghai. He pushed Putin’s propaganda for who knows what reason. He spreads right-wing lies under the guise of free speech yet it’s nothing but hate speech when you get right down to it. And he’s anything but clever, just a soulless fool who had some big bets come in and an ego that is completely out of control.
