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Shermann

(7,413 posts)
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:36 PM Dec 2022

Musk should stay on as CEO of Twitter

...and step down as CEO of Tesla.

Put a left-leaning no-nonsense CEO at the helm who can take a longer view and remain focused on it. Taking the company private now that the stock price is down would help with that.

There's something seriously wrong when Democrats are cheering at the misfortunes of the world's largest electric vehicle company which just happens to be an American company with over 100,000 employees. Musk is proof that liberals can sometimes be mesmerized by shiny objects as well.

He can run Twitter into the ground for all I care. Tesla is strategically important to the green energy movement and can be saved.

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ColinC

(8,291 posts)
2. Which is the problem with assholes like him. They know they're failure rests
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:46 PM
Dec 2022

On bringing possibly millions down with them. The question is: is it better to risk their malevolent and catastrophic incompetence for the sake of their industries and the livelihoods they effect, or accept the chaos, tumult and destruction that comes with their ultimate self destruction?

At the end of the day they are responsible for all of it and we should be happy if they finally see their end.

Demsrule86

(68,556 posts)
11. Tesla is a very small company and is pretty much meaningless...with the chip factories in
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:08 PM
Dec 2022

Ohio and elsewhere-plenty of jobs.

ColinC

(8,291 posts)
14. There is no denying they are the number one producer of electric cars
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:36 PM
Dec 2022

All of which are made in America. One hopes their culture can change so it doesn’t self destruct, or that the rest of the car companies can pull their weight.

patricia92243

(12,595 posts)
3. You are absolutely right! I had not thought of it like that. Common sense prevails (but I
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:50 PM
Dec 2022

do not always have it.)

StoolPigeon

(139 posts)
4. Musk doesn't own Tesla
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:50 PM
Dec 2022

It is a publicly traded company. It's up to the Board of Directors to fire his ass if he doesn't resign. Hopefully, the company's reputation can be saved.

emulatorloo

(44,119 posts)
9. His tweet last night were morose. I don't mind that he's miserable either.
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:01 PM
Dec 2022

One was that no CEO who could actually turn twitter around would be willing to take the job. Another was fairly straight talk to a user about how close to bankruptcy twitter is.

I think he’s depressed as hell, hope his family can get him some help. In a place very very far from twitter.




CarlitosMMT

(53 posts)
7. Tesla is likely an accounting control fraud
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:57 PM
Dec 2022

My friend Tesla ain’t so friendly and not so green.
It’s a premium brand and while their cars can do some amazing things they don’t hold up long term and kill people all the time.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
8. Bullshit. Imagine that. Some people don't suffer flaming assholes well.
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 08:59 PM
Dec 2022

The board of Tesla should oust him as CEO and appoint someone stable enough to run the company.

Demsrule86

(68,556 posts)
10. First of all Tesla makes shitty cars...worst quality of any car. Secondly, the Ford, GM, and
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:04 PM
Dec 2022

others are making better electric cars. We do not need to enrich a f'ing racist thug like Musk...Tesla had an opportunity unlike any other but Musk being Musk blew it...it is too late for Tesla now. And I say good riddance. We don't need any manufacturer who calls various manufacturing lines the 'plantation' or the 'slave ship. Fuck Musk and Tesla.

Mr.Bill

(24,283 posts)
19. If Tesla goes under
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 10:43 PM
Dec 2022

maybe GM can take over the plant in Fremont. Things will have come full circle then, since that building was originally a GM assembly plant. And the employees can stay on and join the UAW.

lefthandedskyhook

(964 posts)
12. Good fantasy
Mon Dec 19, 2022, 09:28 PM
Dec 2022

Unfortunately this idiot Musk is the world's problem now. He must fail in other ways... and he is

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