He basically ousted the guys who actually MADE the shit that matters and wanted to actually DO EV shit you praise. The companies would've BEEN huge without his dumb fraudulent ass and that's what pisses people off. He's a glorified fucking frontman who fucks over the people who do the REAL work for these companies and people praise him because they're too fucking braindead and retarded to notice the fuckery that he's only in the way. Shit it was what, a few dozen pages someone from here posted an anecdotes of him being a fucking manbaby with daddy issues who wants to feel big?
I honestly don't know what you're so angry about or personally lashing out at me for. I think he has made a lot of technological progress that is a net-benefit. That's it. If you think some of that is unearned or he's personally a douchebag with some kind of spectrum disorder, then okay. I don't know him personally and never will, so I don't really care if he acts petulant.
If Twitter really was just some bullshit social media site the Saudis and Russians wouldn't have lent him $44b to take control of it.
That's the issue, he hasn't done ANY of that shit except be tangentially involved because of money. Hell the stuff that got rich with Paypal was in spite of him as well(enough digging around reveals his degree is made up bullshit he bought). Currently Tesla is dealing with numerous clusterfucks and a growing dissatisfaction from customers moving away from the brand because of his toxic influence, the cybertruck was a massive failure, and all of his companies have to waste time and resources keeping his dumbass distracted and out of the way to get anything done whilst reaping the benefits of their work. The guy thinks he's Tony Stark when he's actually a combination of the Hammer guy from Iron Man 2 and the bad guy from Fifth Element. Pretty much everything he's "accomplished" would've likely gotten done and bother better and faster without him. The rest is him pledging to end world hunger if the UN gives him a quote and how the money will be used and allocated and when they do, he just donates it to his own foundation essentially giving himself the $6 bil, the whole Thailand cave thing and throwing a bitch tantrum when his sub plan is turned down and accusing the hero diver of being a pedophile, and generally being a deranged creeping asshole who spreads dangerous propaganda.
Based on... what? A lot of brilliant ideas never go anywhere because the people conceiving them don't have the capital, experience or understanding to navigate their market. None of the people you are referring to came up with the ideas of electric cars or satellites. Steve Jobs didn't think up the graphical user interface or the idea of a mouse either, he stole them from Xerox. But now everyone has a computer with both. Would Xerox have done it anyway? Maybe. No way to know. What we do know is Xerox has a market cap of $1.3 Billion while Apple has a market cap of $3.3 Trillion. Dismissing contributions as just writing a check is silly.
Anyone else thinking the half point rate cut is the fed's way of saying "I'm staying out of it?" Also, the Teamsters not endorsing Harris is....interesting.
Can somebody explain what the rate thing means? Like what is the rate they’re talking about, what does it specifically affect? And how does that end up affecting rates of things that actually have to do with me, like mortgage and credit cards?
Rate cuts = lower cost of borrowing money. Federal-guaranteed loans are cheaper and banks/creditors also lower their rates.
The interest rate from the federal government sets a baseline for a lot of the loan activity in the US. If federal rates go down, it means banks can more cheaply borrow money, which means they in turn lower the interest rates for their loans (mortgages and credit cards) to remain competitive. When money is cheaper to borrow, more of it gets spent. This is a balancing act - cheap money is good for stimulating the economy because everyone spends more. If money is too cheap for too long, though, it can cause inflation to go up because there is more money circulating to buy the same set of goods. We saw a small example of this in the housing market - the incredibly low COVID interest rates helped stave off a recession, but people could afford a lot more house for their dollar and bid up a lot of housing markets. So money was cheaper to borrow, but you needed more of it. To combat that, you can raise interest rates. Less money gets spent because it's more expensive to borrow, which slows down the economy.
So Mark Robinson is currently going down in flames, and ballots in NC are going out tomorrow. Republicans are pressuring him to drop out, but he has thus far refused. It's prob already too late to withdraw, but if it isn't, it'll definitely be too late by midnight. He's going to be an anchor up and down the ballot in a 50-50 state that Trump must win. Should be fun. Also the memes are excellent.