It wasn’t a good look that he forgot that Crimea is, well, Crimea.

$1.5 Billion from China. $3.5 million from the Russians.

You can’t be serious on this one, right?

“It’s not the message. It’s who is delivering the message..”

Oh, I think it’s a terrible proof point for what you’re trying to prove. Ditto that Dickhead In Kenosha.

It’s funny how completely different that segment comes across if you watch THE FULL CLIP versus just the out-of-context 5 words these people like to quote.

Thank you.

<Raises hand sheepishly> “Yeah, guilty”.

If you’re paying over $10K a year in property taxes, you’re either “not middle class” or “living in the wrong state”... ie you must live in IL, NY or CA.

Exactly. They say “roll back all the Trump tax changes”... and Apple goes back to parking 90% of their worldwide profits in an Irish tax haven so they don’t have to subject themselves to the outlier-high US corporate tax rates.

It doesn’t work when we send most of the Value Creation Jobs overseas...

Sweden’s also got a very flat tax rate of 32% on everyone...

You’ve hit the nail on the head— Tesla gets to create billions out of thin air for doing something that doesn’t really help with the planet’s issues much.

Embedded in this is The Economist’s POV that there were much, much better ways to deploy all this capital if “saving carbon, saving the earth” were actually the objective.

Oh, I’m still hung up on how “Totally Not Sustainable” it is to put 8000 very-dirty laptop batteries into “a car”. This business completely doesn’t scale at all. The fact that they can be at a 600,000 unit a year run rate and not make money building the cars? That’s surreal.

No, no it’s not.

Nah, just another in the book losing money in their core business...

ah, there’s 450 billion ways it’s worse.

Well, it’s the reality-- and often described such.

I’d encourage you to reference any semi-technical article of the last 15 months where Torch hasn’t been 100% wrong...