Meanwhile we have Republicans telling us the country’s infrastructure can’t support everyone moving to EVs. At the same time they reject any attempts to spend money on electrical or EV infrastructure as “unnecessary” because people don’t want EVs...

Sooooo..... you got yours and fuck everyone else? Very boomer of you. 

The goal of this legislation was to bring battery production to the US, not necessarily to make cars cheaper. If making cars cheaper was the sole goal we would have reduced the barriers to entry, not made them harder. This was more about protecting jobs and fighting a geo-political struggle with China than making…

Yeah and we shouldn’t subsidize oil, corn, eggs, etc. etc.

Yes, as others have confirmed, he was aging it.

I suspect the lack of residuals is because a lot of these shows were filmed in the now defunct Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, which was set up primarily to get around the unions and labor laws in L.A. Nickelodeon eventually moved its television production back to L.A., but anyone carried over from the Orlando era was…

Really?!? You can be sympathetic to the guy who was used, abused, and molested as a child? That’s some sociopathic thinking.

Right? That’s blowing my mind. I’m not in the industry, but I just assumed residuals were always a thing. Are Nick shows not union or something?

Wait, is it still that way under the current contract? Workers under the age of 18 aren’t entitled to residuals?!

*EDIT*: I re-read that. Nick doesn’t have to pay them residuals? I thought residuals were a requirement if you were not a certain class of guest star, etc?

I’m saying he’s absolutely manipulating the numbers, yeah.

I don’t have any experience watching Lemon, but this was just journalism 101 considering Elon’s statements were all 100% public...and on the platform he owns so double newsworthy.  Lemon wasn’t being some hardcore journalist, Elon is jjust a snowflake.  Good lord. 

I’m not going to defend anything Lemon has said or done outside of this interview, but the interview itself was pretty good. Lemon directly pressed Musk on several topics and Musk comes off looking completely unprepared to defend the indefensible shit he’s said and stances he’s taken, overly sensitive, and…

Let’s not forget why he was forced to buy Twitter in the first place...

Don Lemon Shocked Elon Musk Acted Like Elon Musk -- Musk Put Out by Don Lemon Acting Like Don Lemon

A New York Post article claimed that it was because Lemon made too many demands, “including a free Tesla Cybertruck, a $5 million upfront payment on top of an $8 million salary, an equity stake in the multibillion-dollar company, and the right to approve any changes in X policy as it relates to news content.”

In this interview, Elon claims over and over again his platform only takes down posts that break the law, yet the site has been blocking accounts simply for tweeting the real name of a Nazi cartoonist. I’m sure his argument would be that he’s stopping doxxing, but doxxing in itself isn’t illegal, and once the person’s…

There are so many stupid fucking Musk quotes to choose from, but one of the first is great: “I don’t have to answer questions from reporters. Don, the only reason I’m doing this interview is because you’re on the X platform and you asked for it. Otherwise, I would not do this interview.”

Don Lemon is not Walter Cronkite or even a particularly good person, but it sure sounds like he committed the cardinal sin of actually doing the job of a journalist and that kind of thing would NEVER be welcome in Elon’s world.

we get a recap of an interview between two people no one likes but can’t get recaps of shows popular with your primary readership.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU HIRE HIM AGAIN ON A KIDS SHOW AFTER HE GETS OUT OF PRISON?!?!