Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%

This is so weird, did he miscalculate how intense the backlash would be? or he truly doesn't care?

Man has bigger ambitions. Teslas were just a stepping stone to whatever he's unleashing on the world now from the White House.

Or he's completely deranged and the drugs have irreversibly damaged his mind. Both scenarios, or some intersection therein, are plausible.

He has 3 years left to convince the administration to allow non-US-born lizard people to run for president.

Or, more likely, to institute some kind of perpetual monarchy passed down through his 14 kids.

I'm not sure he understands that he will always be the Crassus to someone else's Caesar. Things don't go well for the money man.

Yeah, he reminds me of Berezovsky.

Garry Kasparov recently made the same connection in this piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/pu...

> Berezovsky, who elevated Putin to power from behind the scenes, was soon exiled and replaced with more compliant oligarchs. He also met a grisly end—found hanged at his Berkshire mansion at 67—a precedent that might give pause to anyone thinking of risking his business empire to play that gray-cardinal role for the likes of Trump and J. D. Vance.

The mistake here is equating Putin to Trump. One is a mastermind and the other is a puppet.

I did not understand it that way. Putin is probably smarter than Trump (though he does not deserve to be regarded as a mastermind IMHO). The parallel I find interesting is that both are authoritarians who were helped to power by billionaires who thought it would serve their interests. We know the fate Russian “oligarchs” later met.