{"id":176637,"date":"2020-04-29T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/29\/he-is-turning-into-a-bond-villain\/"},"modified":"2020-04-29T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:34:00","slug":"he-is-turning-into-a-bond-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/29\/he-is-turning-into-a-bond-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"He Is Turning into a Bond Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s increasingly clear that Elon Musk is a few bricks short of a load.<\/p>\n

Between smoking weed on camera, tweeting out false buyout rumors, the whole submarine pedo libel thing, it’s clear that a guy who made his money by skirting a bank regulations it’s clear that he’s not what one would call a “Very Stable Genius.”<\/p>\n

In the latest case Elon Musk launched into a diatribe against Covid-19 isolation measures at an Earnings Call<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

This guy has been surrounded by toadies reassuring him of his special genius for years:<\/p>\n

Elon Musk unleashed a diatribe against shelter-in-place orders, describing the public health measures intended to stem the spread of coronavirus as \u201cfascist\u201d, during an earnings call on Wednesday.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cThis is not democratic,\u201d he said of the orders, which he falsely characterized as stipulating that anyone who leaves home would be arrested. \u201cThis is not freedom \u2013 give people back their goddamn freedom.\u201d<\/span>

<\/span>Musk\u2019s rant came despite a relatively good earnings report for Tesla, in which the company beat analysts\u2019 estimates for first-quarter revenue on Wednesday. It posted its third straight quarterly profit after recording a solid number of deliveries during the period, despite disruptions due to the pandemic.<\/span>

<\/span>Earlier on the call, Musk specifically cited the Bay Area\u2019s shelter-in-place order, which has prevented his factory in Fremont, California, from opening, as a concern.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He thinks that he’s a genius because he got rich through connections and luck.<\/p>\n

This guy is a nut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s increasingly clear that Elon Musk is a few bricks short of a load. Between smoking weed on camera, tweeting out false buyout rumors, the whole submarine pedo libel thing, it’s clear that a guy who made his money by skirting a bank regulations it’s clear that he’s not what one would call a “Very …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[572,414,406,403],"class_list":["post-176637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pandemic","tag-psychology","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}