P.T. Barnum once said, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity,” which is almost as good as Oscar Wilde’s version, who put it like this: “There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

https://mikerowe.com/2021/04/p-t-barnum-once-said-theres-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity/#:~:text=April%2010%2C%202021,%2C%20if%20you're%20interested.

After all, the increased MAGA business should more than make up for it.

Right? Right?

is delicious.

Now he's yelping like a beat dog. Bummer

Target acquisition made. Not what I would espouse but others reach out differently.

...and Trump are the true enemies to democracy in the US. To the extent that this deflects the spotlight from Musk and Trump (the felon and insurrectionist), it is not worth caring about beyond the fact that this guy apologized.

In four years, Musk's companies (e.g., Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, etc.) and any of their subsidiaries should have no remaining US government contracts, no remaining US government subsidies, no further permission to launch from Starbase or any other launch facility, and no permission to run full self-driving software on any public or toll roadways within the Continental US, Hawaii, or on any territory of the US: zero all of that out completely -- just as Musk has done to government employees across the entire federal government.

he wouldn't have said it, whether drunk or not, if he didn't think like that.
You know that old saying, "Instant asshole, just add alcohol.

He is obviously insincere and his apology is BS. HE SOUNDS LIKE A ROBOT which is how Musk sounds too. An apology that is obviously made in the Tesla factory and now it's included in all the new Tesla trucks as a special feature at no additional cost.

It couldn't have been more insincere, it was pretty obvious he was reading from a script, there was no emotion whatsoever.

If it looks like a robot and sounds like a robot it is a robot. Anyone with a double digit IQ can see this insincere ass's "apology" is BS.

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all I did was say that, AFAIC, he's a liar, nothing more, nothing less.

...actually is (and you may be quite right that his is a purely economic-consequences apology or a blatant lie told to mitigate the self-inflicted damage he caused himself) is only a distraction in the larger picture which is best kept focused on Musk (Tesla) and Trump.

Is their capacity to influence and mobilize “minor league” street-level terrorism.

he fits right in...with US Nazis.