Kara Swisher brags about lobbying the Biden administration on Musk's behalf, saying that they should have invited him to the White House EV summit, saying that Musk would never forgive them. She says she ran into her Biden contact more recently, who said Swisher was right. THAT IS NOT THE LESSON!!! - ThreadSky

niedermeyer.online • 19 days ago

Kara Swisher brags about lobbying the Biden administration on Musk's behalf, saying that they should have invited him to the White House EV summit, saying that Musk would never forgive them. She says she ran into her Biden contact more recently, who said Swisher was right. THAT IS NOT THE LESSON!!!

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realuniqlo.bsky.social•18 days ago

to be fair she seems like the type of person who takes the lesson “I am right” away from a lot

niedermeyer.online•19 days ago

The lesson is not that if Biden had caved to Kara Swisher's lobbying on Musk's behalf, he would have gone back to being one of her nice, sweet tech boys. The lesson is that Swisher was continuing to be part of the problem by insisting that nobody should ever tell Elon "no." That is the pathology!

lawcreep.bsky.social•19 days ago

Ezra: What a weird failure of the relational politics the Biden folks are good at to prioritize auto unions over one weird billionaire sensitive boy

niedermeyer.online•19 days ago

That the self-appointed toughest journalist in Silicon Valley would rather lobby the White House rather than explain to Elon that violating labor law and trying to destroy the NRLB (not to mention ongoing securities, Autopilot, and environmental investigations) has consequences is the ENTIRE problem

themaltesemama.bsky.social•19 days ago

this is the problem with all access journalists.

andreashopf.bsky.social•19 days ago

Once a bullshitress. Always a bullshitress.

normal-form.bsky.social•19 days ago

She is one of the worst “journalists”. First it was when she covered Steve Jobs, now it’s Musk.

rismith.bsky.social•19 days ago

The tough part is maintaining access.

lorak.bsky.social•19 days ago

pundit/media personality/business owner?

niedermeyer.online•19 days ago

if you work backward from her actions here, the appropriate term would be "Elon Musk lobbyist"

lorak.bsky.social•19 days ago

headmititdotgif

m00psy.bsky.social•19 days ago

seriously. (surprised she hasn’t blocked me yet)

m00psy.bsky.social•19 days ago

jk she blocked me

alwaysflacko.bsky.social•19 days ago

Elon Musk Lobbyist who occasionally says things like “can you believe this guy?” to maintain plausible deniability

agraham999.bsky.social•19 days ago

Is this the same Swisher who I called out for running crypto retirement ads and then name checked me on her podcast as “attacking” her?

lorak.bsky.social•19 days ago

criticize = attack to many people but i missed all that so don’t know what you are referencing

agraham999.bsky.social•19 days ago

@amycastor.bsky.social https://amycastor.com/2022/05/23/kara-swisher-promotes-cryptos-for-your-retirement-compares-it-to-early-internet/

rrtrent892.bsky.social•19 days ago

She is...not great.

smtuffy.bsky.social•19 days ago

It’s fun that she’s also running PR interference for AI Sam too, why stop at helping to create one monster

kevinleecaster.bsky.social•19 days ago

Can I ask you to stop spreading the Republican propaganda lie that Joe Biden did not invite ELoon to a White House meeting on EVs please.

Tesla was not invited to a summit on reducing tailpipe emissions from vehicles automakers are manufacturing.

EVs do not have tailpipe emissions!

cookedmillennial.bsky.social•19 days ago

Thanks, I didn’t know that

kevinleecaster.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yes, our opponents are quite good at using propaganda and political technology to pollute the discourse around climate so their lies tend to become what most people believe sadly.

It's been that way for a long time and it is so hard for the few of us to care to try cleaning up the infosphere.

cookedmillennial.bsky.social•19 days ago

It is incredible how everyone is so affected by all their straight up lies and there are too many to keep up with. Appreciate your efforts.

nowhere.bsky.social•19 days ago

Could that have been a different event than the one he had a tantrum about?

nowhere.bsky.social•19 days ago

Bad res, here's original link
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/05/white-house-answers-why-tesla-wasnt-invited-to-united-auto-workers-ev-event/amp/

lakesidefl.bsky.social•19 days ago

You don’t think excluding the leading EV manufacturer from a summit on electric vehicles was performative and petty? I am not a fan boy of Musk but it was silly to exclude Tesla.

niedermeyer.online•19 days ago

The Biden administration wasn't being "petty," it was standing on a principle: technological progress shouldn't come at the cost of basic labor rights. Elon Musk is currently destroying the NLRB in a way that it may never come back from, which suggests this was hardly a "petty" principle to stand on

mysticlawyer.bsky.social•19 days ago

Musk is an emotionally stunted, broken man who is good at manipulating the govt/people. That said, it looks like _not_ inviting him didn't stop him from destroying the NLRB, no? So what would have been worse if Musk had been invited? It's all hypotheticals, but maybe he wouldn't have swung to Trump?

neuroid99.bsky.social•18 days ago

Fealty.

extramedium666.bsky.social•19 days ago

I wonder what advice Kara would give to @thevivllainous.bsky.social

nilswrote.bsky.social•19 days ago

It made no sense to exclude Elon musk from an electric car summit. Come on.

mrcunn02.bsky.social•18 days ago

Makes sense if you're pro-labor.

https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online/post/3lhlz3npkic2s

nilswrote.bsky.social•17 days ago

It certainly led to an explosion of unions.

gretared.bsky.social•19 days ago

economymedicine.bsky.social•19 days ago

Also crazy unethical for a journalist to be promoting Musk to the administration

jaygarcia.bsky.social•19 days ago

policyg.bsky.social•19 days ago

Ezra Klein is an idiot, but that's not what Swisher is saying. She hates Musk, but her point was completely valid.

silverknyaz.bsky.social•17 days ago

i appreciate swisher's perspective and reporting but she is so totally wrong on this lmao

mrsdoubtwater.bsky.social•19 days ago

Great minds https://bsky.app/profile/mrsdoubtwater.bsky.social/post/3lhlvlvyck22w

shadowatbluesky.bsky.social•18 days ago

Keeping the TOP ev seller in the country out of EV summit as your administration spends four years pushing electric vehicles is ridiculously stupid

extramedium666.bsky.social•19 days ago

Oh sure, if you rolled out the red carpet for him and gave him the adulation he so desperately needs, he never would have gone Nazi and started hating his transgender kid

nostikvvvibes.bsky.social•19 days ago

Elon Musk should be tearing apart the federal government for meme reasons for The Left. What a great idea.

ptstone.bsky.social•19 days ago

He’s a megalomaniac.

realbrucy.bsky.social•19 days ago

"I am right" is pretty much every lesson from her

thehellcurve.bsky.social•19 days ago

Hate this talking point/faux explanation because he’d already been giving to Republicans years before Biden was president. Hell he blocked me on Twitter at the time for asking him about it.

ptstone.bsky.social•19 days ago

Badge of honor

thehellcurve.bsky.social•19 days ago

I wasn’t even mean to him I asked if climate change was so important to him why half his political donations were going to the climate change denial party.

thenoteheleft.bsky.social•19 days ago

Swisher is a crank.

mars-blackmon.bsky.social•19 days ago

Kara is incapable of making a salient point that isn't littered with name-dropping. Her takes are almost always a flex about how many people she knows.

eugenehetzel.bsky.social•19 days ago

Does she not understand how much they actively hate her? Just for she is?

jimray.bsky.social•19 days ago

The way I yelled into my windshield this entire interview.

bnews.bsky.social•19 days ago

Maybe that's not the lesson but it was still a huge strategic blunder.

bnews.bsky.social•19 days ago

Like it or not, we wouldn't have EVs without Tesla

nowhere.bsky.social•19 days ago

That's just silliness. They were invented in the late 1800s, with several attempts since, we just didn't have the necessary energy density until recently. Hybrids were a temporary solution, and were/are very popular to overcome range limitations.

maraleia.bsky.social•19 days ago

That's a fucking lie.

maraleia.bsky.social•19 days ago

Fuck Kara Swisher to hell. She is a goddamn grifting chaos agent.

fullykrausened.bsky.social•19 days ago

He was already a white supremacist Trump donor!

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