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Living in the South West of Western Australia. Heavy long term TSLA investor and FUD fighter.

[Long Downunder @Emboothoo]

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Let’s talk about Elon Musk and the bad media you may have read.

Remembering that I have basically studied Elon intensely for many hours each day for about the last 4-5 years.

I’ve watched and or listened to nearly every interview he has ever given and the resulting fall out from both sides of the “argument”. I’ve watched many dozens of long form interviews with heaps of them being 1-3 hours long.

[ΛRMIN @Arminn_Ai]

Jensen Huang in the Matrix, learning how Chinese spies work

Wait till the end 👀

[Take America Back (TAB) @JoinTAB_USA]

A memory card full of votes sat uncounted in Georgia.

When someone found it, the race flipped from blue to red.

You didn't hear about it because only 3% of journalists are conservative.

https://t.co/Fo0zFxd5U0

11 November 2026

#election2026 #leadwhereyoulive #tab #vote

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@ImMeme0 Millions of rapes!?

[Long Downunder @Emboothoo]

@NewsNation @KatiePavlich These idiots are so desperate.

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@MarioNawfal He’s shit scared of Hegseth.
Keep up the great work Pete.

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Stop activists hijacking the Australian War Memorial. It's sacred ground, not a soapbox. Sign this today: https://t.co/WXYibqzN2y

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I’m so gutted that I’ll never have one. Super sad.

[Sean McLellan @Oceanswave]

📐 Cybertruck Memories

[Long Downunder @Emboothoo]

@AIDRIVR Gutted that I won’t have one here in Australia.

[Chansoo Byeon @Chansoo]

Former Tesla president Jon McNeill on how you actually impress Elon: walk the Model X line until you find the real problem.

The Falcon Wing doors had to be bolted on blind. "Have you ever thought about a jig so that they could just follow a pattern?" They built it overnight.

The operating rules were just as blunt. "Do you think we could try to run the organization on three-sentence emails?" Here's my problem, here's what I think the solution is, here's my next step and what I need. And: "Give me bad news as fast as you know about it. Because bad news only gets worse with time."

As Elon tells it, Steve Jobs "blew him off a ton," then one night at a sushi place in Menlo Park gave him the whole design philosophy in one line: "If the product is perfect, it will sell itself." That's how Tesla doubled every six to eight months with a marketing budget of precisely zero.

And he doesn't sit on ideas. After asking how fast you type with your thumbs versus a keyboard, he had chief of staff Sam Teller pull the top brain-computer papers for the flight home. "By the next week he's meeting with some of the top minds in the world on this topic, and he doesn't let go until he starts Neuralink."

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$TSLA @elonmusk

[Nick @Tenn_MAGA2]

Here we go folks! Abdul El Sayed can’t legally be sworn in and or have classified information! Boom!

[Zillaionaire @Zillaionaire]

@thejefflutz @PalmerLuckey @carlhancock I wonder what creative things people will do with all the city buses once they no longer make sense to operate.

[Captain Eli @TheCaptainEli]

In February 2004 Elon Musk wrote the check that put Tesla Motors on the road: $6.5 million of a $7.5 million Series A, plus the chairman's seat.

He led the next round in February 2005. He co-led the $40 million round in May 2006 that brought in Larry Page and Sergey Brin. That August he published The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan on the company blog, a sports car to pay for an affordable car, and so on down to the mass market. He pushed for the Roadster's carbon fiber body. By January 2009, Bloomberg reported, he had put $70 million of his own money into the company.

CNBC still wrote this on September 10, 2018: "Though Musk didn't found Tesla, his DNA is very much a part of the company."

Read the very next sentence of the same article: "He was one of its original investors and chairman of the board in 2004 before becoming CEO in 2008."

Original investor. Chairman in 2004. CNBC typed both facts and still filed him under "didn't found."

That question had been settled nine years earlier, in court and in writing. In 2009 Martin Eberhard sued, and one of the things he asked a San Mateo County judge for was a declaration that he and Marc Tarpenning were the only two founders. In July the judge struck that request. In September the case was settled and Tesla named five co-founders: Eberhard, Tarpenning, Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright.

Eberhard's own statement that day: "As a co-founder of the company, Elon's contributions to Tesla have been extraordinary."

The man who went to court over the title called Elon Musk a co-founder in his own words. A business network still decided it knew better.

Elon Musk has told his side too. In April 2022 he wrote that the Tesla he walked into was "a shell corp" with "literally nothing but a biz plan to commercialize AC Propulsion's Tzero car, which was introduced to me by JB Straubel, *not* Eberhard." Then: "If filing a shell corp constitutes 'founding a company', then I'd be the only founder of PayPal, since I filed the original incorporation docs for https://t.co/l4ZN3b77mC (later renamed PayPal), but that's not what founding means."

And the line that says the most: "I put in all I had, whereas Eberhard, who was worth over $10M at the time, refused to invest a penny to help Tesla."

So why slip a false founder line into a 2018 piece? Look at the headline it sat under: "Musk's defiant, rebel CEO persona is putting his company and its investors at risk, say management experts." The article argued Tesla needed "someone to help keep Musk in line." Shrink his role at the birth of the company and it gets much easier to argue he is replaceable at the top of it. Legacy media has been running that play on Elon Musk for years.

Tesla closed at $19.03 a share, split-adjusted, the day that story ran. On November 9, 2026 it closed at $378.05. The investors CNBC's experts were so worried about made nearly twenty times their money by keeping him exactly where he was.

[Jill Marinelli @JillMarinelli1]

Keep sharing ..

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

I just have no words for how good this is.

[Long Downunder @Emboothoo]

@TruthFairy131 Thanks for the speech now can you answer the question?

[BitcoinKeith @Bitcoin_Keith]

@Briankeating @profgalloway Galloway described how he defecated in his own vehicle due to deranged anger over politics. And you’re letting him patronize you.

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@jamesdouma @battleangelviv Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah Nah!

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@phibetakitten @jamesdouma @cybertruck I feel his pain.
All we have had here in Australia is our pre order, knowing that I had one secured had me sleeping soundly.
Now I have nightmares. 🫣

[Vitt Lejon @vittlejon]

This video will make the liberal-leftist NPC software completely glitch out and crash.

[Long Downunder @Emboothoo]

@vandeewine @wordsdematthew How did Hillary work out for you?

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