Ken

Tesla Owner & TSLA since 2013
2013-Feb-22: Took Delivery of Model S
2013-Mar-12: Purchased first shares of $TSLA at $38.9699 (1,140 shares @$2.60 post-splits)

[Ken @kenkenken830]

Reserved my first @Tesla on October 1, 2012. Looking back exactly a dozen years later, this is still, by far, the best purchase decision I've ever made. @Elon, @woodhaus2, and the entire Tesla team delivered an exceptional vehicle.

[Barry J Collins @I_Am_BJC]

@WesternLensman Not one of these socialist morons has ever responded to the question “how come you haven’t fixed anything with the $7 trillion dollars you take in from the American people every year?”

[david friedberg @friedberg]

I would like to see you make a voluntary contribution of 5% of your family’s $200M net worth to the government for important healthcare, childcare, and jobs. Don’t worry, it’s just one-time. Your $10M contribution will provide free childcare for over 1,000 California kids for a year! Once you’ve made your personal contribution to a more just and equitable society, I’ll support all your other asset seizure ideas. But you gotta go first…

[Ken @kenkenken830]

@Russ__ATX @SawyerMerritt While it's true we can't just take anyone's word at face value without supporting evidence, at the end of the day, Autopilot and FSD (supervised) are driver assistant features and the driver is fully responsible at all times.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Shame on every media outlets that inaccurately portrayed this as Tesla’s fault, misleading the public and damaging the company’s reputation in the process.

[Ken @kenkenken830]

@MobofJoggers Just tap it. No need to pull it down. I think everyone already knows this. It was added around 2015.

[Tesla Japan @teslajapan]

Welcome to Tesla Family!⚡️
全国のデリバリーセンターに加え、ホームデリバリーにご協力いただきありがとうございます。

[Tesla Charging @TeslaCharging]

Largest Tesla Supercharger in Canada now open ahead of Canada Day travel 🇨🇦: Ajax, ON (44 stalls)
https://t.co/I5QZP0BNM0

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Peter Thiel: Europe will never have massive tech companies because they fear success.

"In Silicon Valley, there's this pornography of failure. You talk about all your failures, and this somehow means you're going to succeed."

"In the social democratic European societies, it's acceptable to be moderately successful, it's not acceptable to be wildly successful. If you have a successful company that's starting to grow, it will get short-circuited, and you'll sell the company. You'll never get to an enormous company if you sell it along the way."

"The single most important decision in the history of Facebook— summer of 2006. It was two years into the company. We got an acquisition offer for $1B from Yahoo to buy the company. There were three of us on the board— Mark Zuckerberg, myself, and another VC. We had a meeting to decide if we should take the $1B."

"The two of us thought it was a lot of money, we should maybe take it. Mark started the board meeting— 'this is a pro forma thing, we're just going to talk about this for 10 minutes. Obviously we're not taking it.'"

"Any super big tech company is one where you've been offered multiple times for people to buy it, and you've chosen never to sell it. You're not that afraid of success."

"In Europe, the answer is to check out sooner rather than later and go back to the decade-long vacation that people are on in Europe."

[Connecting The Dots (...To Disruptions) @ConnectingODots]

“Because Elon Musk is so rich, it should be mandated that the government pays SpaceX 10% less than the nearest competitor!”

I’m sure @elonmusk haters would agree -- only that would mean the government pays 33%–825% more than it currently does.

FYI:
• SpaceX charges roughly $2,700 to $3,000 per kilogram to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
• Its primary heavy-lift competitors, such as United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Arianespace, typically charge $4,000 to $9,000 per kg
• And dedicated small-lift providers like Rocket Lab charge up to $25,000 per kg.

In 2026 alone, SpaceX’s U.S. government launch contracts amount to $2.41B . Estimated cost via competition is $3.23B, so that’s an $820M difference. The government got 25% off.

Even more telling are military satellite construction contracts, which cost $6.45B via SpaceX. Via competition, this should have cost around $11.30B, so the savings are $4.85B -- that’s 43% off. (All numbers from Google's Gemini, BTW, just so the haters won't say Grok messed with the numbers. It does not.)

Going over the top and banning SpaceX means that in 2026 alone, U.S. taxpayers would’ve paid an extra $5.67B .

But in truth, much more -- because SpaceX is keeping other companies’ prices down.

And that’s ignoring the missions competitors may not have been able to pull off at all. Remember @Butch_Wilmore and @Astro_Suni?

For @SpaceX, this would mean little. The Anthropic deal alone is around $15B/year, and the Google deal is another $11B/year -- just for letting the two companies run stuff on SpaceX’s computers. And trust me: neither company would’ve done it if they didn’t think that for THEM it's a Win.

Going one step further - SpaceX alone saved the government around $40b to date. Tesla and SpaceX's entire non-contract government support, loans, and regulatory subsidies are an estimated $6B to $7B combined. With 471% ROI, if you're not happy they were awarded these, something's wrong with you. Remember to take your meds - or better - leave them and your phone behind, stop being brainwashed and go get some sun.

So to all the sad Elon haters out there: Chill! Elon’s not living on your buck. In fact, he's the one you should be thanking -- he's saving you money.

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

"X-BAT, the first autonomous combat aircraft in the world."

Hmm...

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

The great lie is that society is divided between rich and poor.
The great truth, as David Friedberg puts it, is makers vs takers.

Makers build, create, and deliver real value: houses, software, art, businesses, and everything that moves civilization forward.

Takers watch, criticize, analyze, and politic. They push the lie that the rich hoard unfairly so the poor must seize it… all while positioning themselves to rule the chaos.

As @friedberg tells his kids: “At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement. That is a great day.”

Takers thrive on division. Makers drive progress.

Time to choose your side.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AdamLowisz @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Yeah, makes no sense.

Tesla has over $40B in cash, no debt and is consistently profitable!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Tesla’s credit rating is ridiculously low tbh

[Tesla Australia & New Zealand @TeslaAUNZ]

FSD Supervised v14 now rolling out in Australia 🇦🇺 & New Zealand 🇳🇿

[Kent Lee @Yorerights]

Elon Musk has created more than 5000 millionaires. Over 400 that have a net worth of over 100 million. He did so by offering services and products, and by E A R N I N G.

The US government only creates millionaires out of Congressmen. They do so by TA X I N G you'

It's not Elon's money that we need to claw back...

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

Como pez en el agua ...

FSD Supervised testing in Madrid, Spain

Pending regulatory approval

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

Teslas in government fleets reduce costs for taxpayers

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

10,000 Teslas are now registered in Iceland 🇮🇸

Kærar þakkir to all of our owners!

[Tesla Australia & New Zealand @TeslaAUNZ]

Celebrating our 1,000th Supercharger post in Australia with the opening of Byron Bay

This marks 10,000 km of major AU corridors accessible by the Supercharger network

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to seize 50% of any AI startup that crosses $200M in revenue.

The same anti-prosperity bloc spent the year trying to ban startup acquisitions, blocking the only exit 85% of founders ever get.

This is a war on building startups in America.