Selzer still has no explanation for her 15 point miss, though she claimed to be retiring before the 2024 election. The article says she also overstated the Democratic nominee by 7 points in 2008 and 6 points in 2004.
As many of you know my first Tesla Model S was from April 2016 - June 2019 and we have had the 2019 Model S since Aug. 2019. As it has the rare combination of fast charging rate and free supercharging we are likely to keep it for a long time.
As for the politics, I don't particularly believe in mixing politics and personal economic decisions. And there is really no amount of Elon behavior that can offset the enormous positive contributions to society of Tesla and SpaceX. I believe that with X/Twitter Elon moved outside his circle of competence.
I had the Walter Isaacson bio of Elon on my Africa trip. There are a few quotes in there about Trump. Recall in 2017 that Musk was part of an advisory roundtable of top CEOs even though he had contributed to the Obama and Hillary campaigns.
Today's L.A. Times has a feature article "It's Going to Be a Golden Era for Musk with Trump." The obvious example is with SpaceX government contracts. The article also cites ChrisC's point:
The big picture IMHO is that Elon really hates government regulation and that ire has become a major focus since the COVID era in California. Autonomous driving is Elon's top current priority with Tesla, and there's an adversarial relationship with government on that subject in recent years.
I do wonder how long this bromance will last. Elon does not suffer fools and surely Trump eventually will do something to piss him off. I would presume another Paris withdrawal is coming. Either Elon thinks he can head that off, or more likely views it as window dressing that's less important than having his companies advance unfettered by annoying regulations.
As many of you know my first Tesla Model S was from April 2016 - June 2019 and we have had the 2019 Model S since Aug. 2019. As it has the rare combination of fast charging rate and free supercharging we are likely to keep it for a long time.
spinbackwards was one of my Tesla referrals in 2018. The big issue in winter was the OEM wheels and tires. He got rid of the low profile wheels and put on some good snow tires and the problems were solved.
As for the politics, I don't particularly believe in mixing politics and personal economic decisions. And there is really no amount of Elon behavior that can offset the enormous positive contributions to society of Tesla and SpaceX. I believe that with X/Twitter Elon moved outside his circle of competence.
I had the Walter Isaacson bio of Elon on my Africa trip. There are a few quotes in there about Trump. Recall in 2017 that Musk was part of an advisory roundtable of top CEOs even though he had contributed to the Obama and Hillary campaigns.
On the subject of reinstating Trump to X, Musk was conflicted:
Then Musk decided to let a free-for-all online poll make the decision. On Nov. 18, 2022 more than 15 million user voted 51.8% to 48.2% to reinstate Trump. Isaacson asked if Elon guessed how the poll would go [No] and if if he would have kept Trump banned if it had gone the other way.
But as noted before Elon hates Biden for promoting green energy but snubbing Tesla. And then there's Elon's estranged trans child and the "woke mind virus."
Today's L.A. Times has a feature article "It's Going to Be a Golden Era for Musk with Trump." The obvious example is with SpaceX government contracts. The article also cites ChrisC's point:
That is at odds with Tesla's early mission statement that the objective is to disrupt legacy ICE auto and eventually have EVs dominate the market.
The big picture IMHO is that Elon really hates government regulation and that ire has become a major focus since the COVID era in California. Autonomous driving is Elon's top current priority with Tesla, and there's an adversarial relationship with government on that subject in recent years.
I do wonder how long this bromance will last. Elon does not suffer fools and surely Trump eventually will do something to piss him off. I would presume another Paris withdrawal is coming. Either Elon thinks he can head that off, or more likely views it as window dressing that's less important than having his companies advance unfettered by annoying regulations.
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