As near as I can tell, his fortune is entirely based on vibes and those vibes are *already* collapsing, I don't see how his days aren't numbered one way or the other.
Ten years ago you could plausibly argue that Tesla was a real business, now it's pretty clearly a meme stock sustained by weird internet bullying directed by the CEO.
Indeed, one can see his current position as Trump's Evil Vizier as a by-product of said vibes collapsing and an attempt to consolidate into some kind of hard-power oligarch position. I fully expect the Trump admin to involve attempts to make owning non-Tesla electrics punitive.
What's more likely is that they throw him some juicy pork for charger contracts and force federal agencies to buy Tesla vehicles. Fuckery would come from Tesla degrading charger service for non-Tesla vehicles, probably.
It'll probably be called something like the "Protect Our Nations Great Cars Act" and be sold as attacking those evil Foreign Car Manufacturers but effectively will just raise the prices and taxes on non-Tesla cars by 40%.
Anyways, the eagerness to bury knives in each other and shut down the government over literally nothing should inform you a bit of what the direction of this administration will be- stupid unstable bullshit and jockeying for power internally.
("Serious but not catastrophic" doesn't mean "nobody will suffer", it means "outcomes where this is remembered as a dark period in the Republic but we still have a Republic in our lifetimes")
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