Montana Skeptic
@montanaskeptic.bsky.social
Unloved by Elon (who once tried to get me fired), disgusted at "conservatives" who turned out to be Trump cultists, hoping Democrats will get healthier, and wishing Congress would do its damned job. I write at montanaskeptic.substack.com
in 2016 Elon Musk said he would build a fully automated factory in Fremont, California for the upcoming Model 3 and he then spent on the order of $2 billion on production lines that didn't work, forcing Tesla to assemble cars by hand in a tent but sure, now he's gonna do it on the moon
@wsj.com's Heard on the Street column makes the obvious point about how Starship is crucial to SpaceX's success. It does not, alas, mention the lingering questions around payload and heat tiles. But, still.... www.wsj.com/finance/spac...
SpaceX Needs to Make Its Bigger Rockets Work
None of the company’s most ambitious plans are possible without the success of its Starship rockets.
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Musk at SpaceX: same as Musk at Tesla. cc: @niedermeyer.online techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...
Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX's first earnings call | TechCrunch
Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.
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Translating from Elonspeak to English: "hope it will be solved someday." But at least he's consistent.
Elon said a few minutes ago that the heat shield problem is "solved." Hmmm.
CoverDrive@coverdrive12.bsky.social · 5d agoGreat detective work by Raging Spirit. Read the alt text comments.
Many are the chronicles of the victims of Elon Musk's determination to shut down his critics. Few are as entertaining as that of indomitable & irreverent Aussie, "Keef Wivaneff" (Keith Leech): medium.com/@keithleech9...
TESLA Tried to Have Me Arrested — A Federal Court Judge Called It “Draconian” (Part 3 of 3)
This is Part 3 of a series. Part 1 covers my 2016 Tesla NHTSA complaints and the “fraud” label that followed. Part 2 is the SunCube story —…
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With the first public $SPCX "earnings" call only hours away, I am go to repost something I scratched out on Saturday. This is a story about how pride goeth before a fall. montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Elon Musk's Hubris May Doom any Tesla-SpaceX Merger
With Tesla shrinking fast, a bailout merger would fit the Musk pattern. But there are some key impediments to consider.
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Something tasty for your evening. Hard to imagine there will finally be accountability for something, but we can dream. thestandarddispatchandmail.substack.com/p/trumps-all...
Trump's Alleged Money Laundering
In the end, it would be sweet justice if it's Trump's beef with the banks that brings him down
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So, compared with Tesla's adventures with FSD and robotaxis, SpaceX is right on schedule.
@jogybl.bsky.social · 2d agoFound this little graph on the web
OG $TSLA bear Mark Spiegel has warnings for everyone jumping into a $SPCX short. He thinks it best to wait until it's all unlocked. Mark has been around the block a few times, and been burned on seemingly obvious short candidates. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tke14...
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"The world is walking a path toward a world war, and no one — including the president of the United States — seems to be in command of events." Important piece from David French. Once again, Donald Trump is proving that character is destiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.
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1/ I've long been convinced that Starship cannot possibly do what Artemis IV (formerly Artemis III) requires of it. This post from Will Lockett seals the deal. WTF was Jared Isaacman thinking? (Oh, wait, our NASA administrator is a SpaceX investor.) www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-l...
Starship Launch 13 Exposed Its Fatal Achilles Heel
Delays are more than an annoyance - they are potentially mission-ending.
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With the Aug 4 earnings call and Aug 6 stock unlock on the horizon, I have some thoughts about SpaceX and Tesla. montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
Elon Musk's Hubris May Doom any Tesla-SpaceX Merger
With Tesla shrinking fast, a bailout merger would fit the Musk pattern. But there are some key impediments to consider.
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1/ This one is for all you Zohran Mamdani & DSA fans. It's superb work from Phil Bak. Trigger warning: There are details about how free markets work about which a sociology student such as Darializa Avila Chevalier is completely clueless. philbak.substack.com/p/i-banana
I, Banana
The elegant efficiency of free market economics
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Why would Elon Musk think of shedding the only profitable part of $TSLA? Easy answer. He hopes that would enable him to do a reverse merger with $SPCX and then cram all the pumped-up garbage stock down the throat of investors in the massive S&P 500 index funds. www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Exclusive | Tesla Weighs Sale of China Business to Pave Way for Potential SpaceX Merger
The U.S. automaker could sell or spin off the business in its second-largest market over geopolitical concerns.
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Musk has no choice but to pay a continuing subjugation tax to Trump's GOP. Past payments have bought him all manner of protection and favoritism. He knows all that changes if the GOP no longer rules the roost. And, in fairness, many Trump policies line up nicely with his own racism & xenophobia.
CoverDrive@coverdrive12.bsky.social · 6d agoMusk spent $25M on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election and returned home with only a cheese head. Is he expecting different results this time?
We now know with certainty that Kevin Warsh wants, above all, to please Trump. But we also know the bond markets aren't buying it.
It's a good thing that Tesla doesn't have to refund customers for features never delivered. It would bankrupt them.
Electrek@electrek.co · last wk.Volvo drops lidar for good on EX90 and ES90, pays owner compensation
We learn more details about Tesla's FSD fraud each time Musk mistreats an employee: electrek.co/2026/07/28/t...
Tesla self-driving manager describes scary conditions in robotaxi testing
A former Tesla manager says his understaffed Houston 'Full Self-Driving' test fleet became 'rolling hazards on public streets' in a new lawsuit.
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If I hear one more person saying that we're going to build orbital data centers in space because "the cooling is free" I'm doing to literally explode You ever use a Thermos? It keeps your coffee very hot! Because... vacuum lined walls. Space... is vacuum. Like building a data center in a thermos!
who could imagine a more stable and trustworthy steward for your hard-earned cash than elon musk
The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.X Money is launching in the US starting today
One of the most maligned $TSLA critics ever? Keith Leech, aka Keef Wivaneff. Leech has been assiduous in collecting NHTSA complaint data that, by my lights, vindicates him and indicts Elon Musk. medium.com/@keithleech9...
In 2016, Elon Musk publicly called me and others fraudulent on Twitter for filing NHTSA complaints…
I wasn’t a US owner. I flagged a pattern I noticed in salvage auction listings — full 360-degree photo sets of wrecked and written-off…
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it gets less attention than a lot of other stuff, for good reasons, but you can absolutely put corporate governance on the pile of stuff that Elon Musk has broken on his path to filthy lucre
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · last wk.The ongoing Musk nazi tweets just have me wondering if corporate boards are even a thing anymore
