Yesterday evening, Tesla reported first-quarter earnings for 2025, and they were abysmal: Profits dropped 71% from the same time last year.
Musk sounded bitter on the call with investors that followed, blaming the company’s misfortune on protesters who have raged at Tesla dealerships around the world over his role running DOGE and his ardent support of far-right politicians.
“The protests that you’ll see out there, they’re very organized. They’re paid for,” he said, without evidence.
Looks like revenue this quarter was $19.34B. That’s slightly less than the 2024 Q1 result of $21.3B. Looks like Q1 is usually lower, let’s make this trend continue to following quarters.
These are numbers for all of Q1 too, and people didn’t really start the protests until a few weeks to a month in. So in theory last quarter had a few more good weeks than next quarter will.
Good. Hope it gets even worse.
They would have lost hundreds of milliions if it weren’t for carbon credits, which have now been removed.
Maybe he should spearhead a supertruck or an xcar project to save the company. Wow those xonsumers with a jetson car theme or something. Cheaply built but somehow luxury segment. It’s Idiot proof!
Made in China, no doubt.
Maybe he should make a submarine and go see the Titanic
I’ve been calling the cybertruck the Homer since it’s release. So apt.
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Where do I submit my paid protester invoice?
I’m still waiting for my doge check.
Every accusation is a confession.
Submit expense reports here:
Where do I get my member card?
it’s the same as being a Discordian Pope
I read your comment too fast and envisioned this
Nobody’s got to pay me to convince me Musk is a nazi piece of shit, he did that all on his own.
he did the salute twice to emphasize his support;.
Free market go brrr
do none of the investors just go “shut the fuck up you sig heiling cunt”?
The same investors who were fine with Musk peddling himself as real-life Tony Stark?
One is remarkably worse than the other
tech investors are fucking idiots who chase after shiny objects in hopes of the next big thing. it’s one thing for these morons to be impressed by a wannabe Tony Stark, and another to be ok with open nazism.
They have always been okay with open nazism
If you were a left wing investor, why would you invest in a company fronted by a right wing person?
If you weren’t bothered by that, why would you invest in an over valued, over hyped, badly managed company?
not about being left wing. the right wing came up with “alt-right” for a reason. they knew the nazi shit is toxic. there’s no doubt that his sig heil played a major role in regular or otherwise indifferent people to really feel icky about him. the shit he did with doge didn’t help of course.
investors care about money. it’s easy to see the sig heil was the beginning of the freefall. even if you’re a nazi you should know that’s not a thing to do. so this is not about the political views of the investors at all.
Ok. It would have been better to say if you were bothered by his views, his actions at Twitter, and DOGE. I just tried to put it simply.
I also wasn’t meaning to take away from what you said in any way.
I mean I can’t imagine being in an investor call where this guy is just crying about organized protests and making excuses and not thinking “yeah even if this is all paid, it all started because you sig heiled twice on national television you fucking idiot”… but I guess people are willing to hold their tongue when the dumbest, most unlikeable person alive is also the richest.
It’s equally possible that all these people are as dumb as he is.
I read a comment a couple of week back by someone who heavily bought into Musk being a genius and Tesla being amazing, I could imagine that being my first introduction to Musk and maybe thinking “hey I should give this guy all my money”, but fortunately I’m not that daft.
Nah, they are either true believers or the “420.69 lol” crowd
This bubble does not just need to be popped, it needs to evaporate.
I want to see it implode!
It is a mistake to lead off with “here’s the thing about Elon Musk,” because there’s LOADS of things with Musk, but in particular. Let’s set aside how ludicrous it is to claim that the protesters are being funded by some outside source, because sure that’s worked in the past, and of course it’s the Democrats, those notably cash-positive people, who are doing it.
Elon Musk is THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD. If anyone could beat a theoretical money-backed protest against him, it would be him. Just offer to beat the offer of anyone funding the protesters. That’s it! If they’re only in it for the money then the protest would fold immediately.
More than that, Musk has literally paid people to vote in his favor in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race! The levels of hypocrisy are so staggeringly great that it risks materializing actual hippopotamuses on his properties.
Profits dropped by 71% compared to the same quarter last year, but the stock price went up 68% in the same time frame. Because that makes sense. Who are the idiots still buying TSLA at these prices?
Can I get more pictures of Elmo crying? They make me fell all warm and fuzzy.
Look them up yourself, gross pervert.
“They’re paid for”
Bro, if people hate you and you company enough to employ and pay others to protest, then you and your company must be an all new level of shitty. I’m not quite sure the claim/excuse you’re making is the defensive shield you think it is. It sounds much more like an admission of total failure…
And yet the board still thinks it’s a good idea to retain you? I guess it’s heartwarming they’re more loyal to you than they are to the company.
If they were being paid and he knew they were being paid and by whom, they’d have some easy lawsuits to recoup damages and end the protests.
Funny how that’s not happening.
Because then it’s one evil actor instead of you know the of thousands.
But it’s just projection anyway. Every accusation is a confession.
Bro, if people hate you and you company enough to employ and pay others to protest, then you and your company must be an all new level of shitty.
His people—conservatives—don’t follow logic. They have a victim complex and see anything that negatively affects them as someone else’s fault and not the consequences of their own actions. If there isn’t an obvious perpetrator, they scapegoat one into existence.
I’ve debated some of these people and it’s hopeless trying to get them to connect the dots. You can keep presenting them with logic and evidence, and they keep shifting the goalposts and changing the topic to justify their beliefs. A summary of one of my attempts to convince someone that Trump isn’t universally beloved by average Americans went roughly like this:
- “Trump has improved the average citizen’s quality of life”
- “Then why are there 5 million protesters coming out every month?”
- “I haven’t heard of any large protests”
- (links to 50501 Wikipedia page)
- “They’re ‘protesters’ funded by the left”
- “All 5 million of them? That would be extremely expensive, even if it’s just $100 a person. Nobody could afford that.”
- “Remember, all the billionaires are Democrats” (Thiel? Musk?)
- “That’s not even their playbook. It’s cheaper and more effective for them to lobby for changes that benefit themselves.”
- “But they can’t do that anymore because Trump is in charge, so now paid protesters are their preferred choice”
- “Suppose they are paid. With 5 million people, there’s absolutely no way that they’re being paid will remain secret.”
- “OK fine, maybe it’s only a couple hundred thousand being paid.”
I don’t doubt that some tiny handful of people would be paid to protest for some reason or another, but I highly doubt it’s anywhere close to what MAGA conservatives think. IMO, it’s more likely that protesters would be paid by the other side to make the protest violent so they could crack down on them.
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