Elon Musk. It’s okay to admit it. Who wouldn’t want to be this guy? Let me just say that for a little while.
Musk has more FU money than God, is a maverick, a tad eccentric, lives life on his own terms, and among his greatest loves is sticking it to the left — It is hard — at every opportunity. He is currently concentrating his efforts on the acquisition of 9.2 per cent of Twitter stock. This has propelled him to the board members of left-wing Big Tech and driven the Twittersphere mad. It was a pleasure that Elon Musk couldn’t enjoy more.
In typical Musk fashion, as reported by Fox Business, he made a grand entrance to “Cyber Rodeo,” an event to kick off the opening of Tesla’s new Gigafactory and global headquarters in Austin, Texas, on Thursday evening, driving onto the stage in a black roadster, decked out in a cowboy hat and sunglasses, before giving an in-your-face speech that was capped off by a fireworks show. This is Musk-style meets Texas style.
Elon Musk’s spectacular entrance to the cyber rodeo party.🤠 pic.twitter.com/rR9ERiLwqX
— Blockworks (@Blockworks_) April 8, 2022
It was huge. Fox pointed out that the event was attended by approximately 15,000 people from across the globe. The new headquarters cost nearly $1 billion to construct and took around two years. “It wasn’t easy building this incredible asset, this humongous building, and getting all this equipment here,” Musk said. “We went through a deep freeze, rain, quicksand. Amazingly fast construction. It was very difficult but it’s done.”
Musk went all-metal Musk straight out of the chute. Rodeo pun intended.
I’m not going to spill all the beans right now, but what I can say, what I can say is we’re going to move to just truly massive scale that no company has ever achieved in the history of humanity.
And how massive is massive, in Musk’s mind? CNBC
“In trailing twelve months, we’ve delivered over a million cars worldwide,” Musk said. “There’s still a long way to go.”
AutoForecast Solutions found that Tesla electric vehicles account for over 75% of the total number of fully electric automobiles sold in America today. Fully electric cars make up approximately 4% of domestic vehicle sales.
So why Austin? Fox has transcribed it:
What is Austin all about? Well actually, I asked the Tesla team, because California is great, and we’re continuing to expand in California, but we ran out of room. We need a place where we can be really big and there’s no place like Texas.”
Texas is a great place. And as I suggested at the top, there’s also no place like Twitter for Elon Musk.
As reported by The New York Post, in addition to tweaking the crap out of the liberal-ass Twittersphere, Musk will also attempt to calm anxious Twitter staffers at an “ask me anything”-style town hall — just days after his appointment to the company’s board caused an internal meltdown.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal revealed the unusual plan in a companywide email to employees just days after Musk became the company’s largest individual shareholder with a 9% stake.
Musk’s investment drew sharp criticism from some Twitter employees who have questioned whether the Tesla CEO’s brash persona will hurt the company’s culture or affect their day-to-day jobs.
Agrawal — no doubt incensed by Musk’s massive acquisition, making him Twitter’s largest shareholder, said in a tweet, as transcribed by The Post:
We say that Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. Often, we [at] Twitter are what’s happening and what people are talking about. This has been evident this week.
Many of you had questions regarding Elon Musk after our announcement and we welcome your questions.
Man, I’d do pay-per-view in a heartbeat to watch These festivities and I’d buy the popcorn for one and all.
Let’s get to the bottom of it:
While Elon Musk is hardly a conservative —he “would prefer to stay out of politics,” he has told his legions of followers — he’s been all over the political spectrum, routinely criticizing Biden, including over Mumbles Joe’s staunch support for organized labor, has backed both Democrat and Republican candidates, and — the cardinal sin of cardinal sins — has also criticized Donald Trump.
In a September 2021 tweet to CNBC, Musk said: “In general, I believe government should rarely impose its will upon the people, and, when doing so, should aspire to maximize their cumulative happiness.”
Having said all of the above, Elon Musk not only makes waves when he believes waves should be made; he also his money where his mouth is — a bunch of it — a damn good thing for public discourse in these crazy-train times. Unlike the Democrat Party, which preaches “tolerance” and inclusion” yet practices anything but, it seems to me it behooves conservatives to embrace the newest cowboy in Texas.
Here’s Musk’s full 25-minute speech, delivered to a raucous crowd from the outset.