🚨 Kimbal Musk: Fake Farmer
Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal wants to build an image of himself as an urban farming innovator.
He went on national TV to say that his startup invented container farming, and “built 10 of these farms literally in old, used shipping containers”. #Fraud 1/5
The media naturally lapped it up wholesale.
Kimbal’s website further reinforces his narrative with claims about "our farms", "our hydroponic system", "our latest farm design", & "our modular farm-tech platform". As if Kimbal holds proprietary trade secrets. 2/5
Now consider a company called @FreightFarms. See anything familiar? Purple LEDs? Vertical growing panels & hydroponics? Propping up container farms to encourage urban farming & as educational tools?
What Kimbal Musk & Square Roots wants to hide is... 3/5
Square Roots simply bought their container farms from Freight Farms, and slapped a Square Roots logo on it.
That’s it.
That’s Kimbal Musk’s great innovation. The one he says will deliver “real food” to astronauts on Mars. #Bitcoin $BTC #SpaceX $TSLA $TSLAQ 4/5
Of course, you will not find any mention of Freight Farms on Square Roots's website.
Kimbal Musk didn’t invent anything. He didn’t build anything.
Kimbal Musk’s greatest innovation is switching out logos. An innovation as real as Kimbal’s cowboy hat persona. 5/5
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Elon Musk Faking "Aspergers":
Musk claimed on SNL last night that he had "Aspergers" to explain away his frauds and various evils.
In his nearly 50 years of life, Musk has never mentioned "Aspergers" once. Nor have his several biographers, his mother, his father... 1/5
...his brother, his sister, his cousins, his current girlfriend, his ex-girlfriends, his ex-wives, his current and past business partners, his officers, his directors, his employees, or even his lawyers ever mentioned anything about an ASD/Asperger's diagnosis. 2/5
What we do know is that the @NTSB report about the TX driverless #Tesla crash will be imminently released. That there is Congressional scrutiny over "Autopilot" and "Full Self Driving". That Chinese regulators are clamping down on Tesla's defects and hurting sales. 3/5
Musk on SNL, Live Thread for $TSLAQ: Miley Cyrus sings a Mother's Day song while wearing a... breast shirt. A bunch of unfunny Mother's Day tributes by cast. Musk comes out, stiff as a board, smirking and steepling. Does the neck twitch thing. He's definitely on uppers. 1/5
Makes fun of his speech pattern and then says he's the "first person with Aspergers to host SNL". Jokes about it. Then tries to sell genius visionary bullshit about colonizing other planets. Jokes about abusing Twitter. 2/5
Says he's not a "chill normal dude" because he "reinvented" electric cars and "sends people to Mars". Jokes about smoking weed on Joe Rogan. Makes OJ joke about "killing it" on SNL. Jokes about his son's name being indecipherable. Super jumpy and twitchy now. 3/5
The latest car from Tesla has a deadly defect. If its battery dies, rear-seat passengers are trapped: there is NO MANUAL RELEASE for the rear doors.
This information is ONLY in the Emergency Responder Guide... $TSLA $TSLAQ 1/5
...and NOT in #Tesla's regular Owner's Manual, which misleadingly says to use the "manual door release", without specifying that there is NO SUCH RELEASE for a Model Y's REAR doors. Additionally, passengers unfamiliar with this defect face a higher risk of death if trapped. 2/5
This fatal defect exists in the #Tesla Model 3, which was introduced back in 2016. It has now carried over to the Model Y. Its deadliness is compounded with the 3rd row being stuffed into the back, and Musk marketing the car as seating 7 adults.
h/t @laque_tess@sbalatan 3/5
This is a poorly researched article from @WSJ, which fails to account for: 1/ BATTERY DISPOSAL. What are the costs of disposal, and the disposal's environmental impact at both the battery's & the vehicle's end of life? #Tesla $TSLA $TSLAQ
2/ EV BATTERIES DEGRADE. By 60k mi., a #Tesla's battery can lose 15% ~ 25% of its capacity. What's the environmental impact replacing the battery every 100k mi.? ICE vehicles don't lose range, and even a new engine is cheaper than replacing a battery. electrek.co/2020/06/06/tes…
3/ FAKE RANGE. Tesla has been proven by many different organizations to overestimate their range. What is the time value of needing to charge more often? Of being stranded on the side of the road because Tesla lied about the remaining range? edmunds.com/car-news/testi…
Near-Term Spin for $TSLA:
It's been a few very negative days, but it may be worth keeping in mind the following tailwinds that may help bouy the stonk narrative in Q2 ~ Q3:
- Expansion/addition to FIT EV credit
- Possible additional subsidies from Green New Deal
$TSLAQ 1/4
- Temporary pent-up demand for refreshed Model S/X (none made for >4 mos now)
- Beginning of fake "production" in Austin
- Additional pumps (fake FSD, 4860 "breakthroughs", additional product "hints/reveals" - e.g. "$25 K" model, more Semi orders, etc.)
2/4
Likely $TSLA headwinds include:
- China forces recall for brake failures/Autopilot, cuffs Grace Tao
- Musk bombs SNL appearance
- @NTSB prelim. TX crash report concludes #Autopilot involved, victims' families sue
- Additional regulatory scrutiny/regulation of Autopilot/FSD
3/4
🚨 The Chinese Government is Furious With #Tesla: Thread
State-controlled media in China is abuzz with slamming Tesla's dangerous "Autopilot". Less than 2 months ago, Tesla was summoned by 5 regulators over quality problems. $TSLA $TSLAQ 1/9 asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Elec…
CCTV, China's premier state-owned national TV channel, opens with this headine on a Tesla blowing a red light and hitting motorcyclists on 3/23: