The Best of Reason: The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk

Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?

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The Best of Reason: The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk

This week's featured article is "The Improbable Rise of MAGA-Musk" by Brian Doherty.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

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[MasterThief]

Still a dumb article. Still fails to understand people's priorities.

[RogerBarris]

"The Securities and Exchange Commission famously fined Musk in 2018 when he made jokey tweets about taking Tesla private at a cost of $420 per share....."

"Jokey"?

He claimed to have a "funding secured" (which is a key phrase in the securities markets) from the Saudis. The "joke" caused the stock price to move materially, costs billions of dollars to certain market participants.

This was no joke, but rather a sign of one of two things: either Musk is a total imbecile or he has a total disregard for the rules of the market. Or maybe both.